User:Ben W Bell
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| This page has been vandalised, 59 times. Lucky old me. |
So, here I am. This is my user page. Now what do I want to put here? Hello <waves>.
Born and raised in Northern Ireland where I spent my first 19 years before moving to England to attend university. I ended up in Canterbury (hey it was the furthest university from home and still in the English speaking Europe). Once there I attended University of Kent where I obtained a BSc in Physics with Space Science and Systems. I am now employed in the role I studied for, obviously a Business/Technical Analyst and Developer for a media company, glad the degree proved vital in my everyday life.
My interests vary wildly and I can be found on pages concerning many different topics. Check my contributions to see what I've been altering lately.
I have strong interests in the fields of role-playing games, Japanese and in the neutral portrayal of the articles relating to Northern Ireland.
Of late I seem to have spent most of my time going to random articles and cleaning up anything that needs doing to them, that and removing vandalism when and where I find it. So I seem to be doing more janitorial duties than actual article editing, aw well.
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WikiProjects
Wikipedia projects I am a member of.
Current Projects
- I am currently randomly going through Wikipedia and trying to neutralise the geographical knowledge required by a reader of any of the location articles. By this I mean that an article should not presume that the reader knows, for example, that Ohio is in the United States and that it should state in the opening sentence the country in which a location is located. This allows for easier reading and understanding by Wikipedians all over the world.
- Remove ' from decades. For example, 1920's should be 1920s, it's a plural not a possessive and there are no letters missing. Unfortunately this is an extremely common mistake so this project may take quite some time.
To Do List
- Continue with putting national identifiers in any locational articles that need them.
Useful Wiki Pages
A list of pages within Wikipedia that I find useful in my editing.
- How to deal with Vandalism
- Admin's how to guide
- Admin reading list
- How to list an article for deletion
- Candidates for Speedy Deletion
- Warning templates
- Category:User_block_templates
Info pages
Appreciation
All of us on Wikipedia do what we do because we enjoy it and like to contribute to a greater community and not to gain recognition by our peers. However saying that some people do recognise others contributions and I would like to thank them for it.
Recognition I've Received
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The Red Maple Leaf Award | |
| For your exceptional contributions to Canada related articles ... - Nerguy (talk) 20:29, 17 January 2008 (UTC) |
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Recognition I've Awarded
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The Original Barnstar | |
| For dedication to your areas of expertise, your persistence in the face of vandalism and your NPOV and keeping your cool when others launch attacks on you. I think it's a long time coming. Ben W Bell talk 08:23, 31 May 2006 (UTC) |
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The Original Barnstar | |
| I award you this Barnstar for your tireless work on Wikipedia especially in the realms of organising and sustaining the development of articles relating to Northern Ireland. Ben W Bell talk 09:00, 24 January 2007 (UTC) |
Articles
Articles I've started
- Aviation related
- Geography related
- Food related
- Science Fiction
- Others
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- Ballenberg, an open air museum of traditional buildings in Switzerland.
- YO! Company, a British holding company of the YO! brand.
- John Zarnecki, space scientist and project manager involved in several high profile deep space missions.
- Thomas Andrews (shipbuilder)
Photographs I've taken and uploaded
Aviation related
 Austrian Arrows Fokker F100 taking off from Heathrow Airport |
 De Havilland Canada Beaver in Baxter Aviation livery |
 De Havilland Canada DHC-3 Otter in Harbour Air livery |
 A Her Majesty's Coastguard helicopter taken over Dorset |
 Sikorsky S-76A helicopter in HeliJet livery |
 A Russian Soyuz spacecraft in the National Space Centre, Leicester, England |
Building Related
 A rich house from the Bernese Midlands in Switzerland, now on display in Ballenberg open air museum. |
 Blickling Hall near Aylsham, Norfolk, England |
 A closeup of thatching on a roof. |
 Interior of Giger Bar in Gruyeres, Switzerland. |
 Granville Square building with Canada Place and the Burrard Inlet in the background. |
 The Shaw Tower in Vancouver |
 Interior of Vancouver Library Square showing the library on the left, retail on the right and the office tower straight ahead. |
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 The Westgate, Canterbury showing the opening and traffic. |
Canada related
 The Athabasca glacier off the Columbia Icefield |
 Peyto Lake in the Canadian Rockies |
Food and drink related
Miscellaneous
 The skeleton of an Indian python taken in the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Canada |
 A kabuto in the Glenbow Museum in Calgary |
United Kingdom related
 The village of Harbledown outside Canterbury, Kent. |
