User:Charivari
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Hello, folks. These are some of the things I care about:
[edit] Standards of written English
I'm keen to see higher standards of written English everywhere, including here on Wikipedia. Most of my edits so far have been copy-editing for spelling, grammar, punctuation and layout, and I expect that this will continue to be the main focus of my contributions. However, I hope to contribute more substantial material as opportunities arise.
I'm not sure if I'm a WikiFairy or a WikiGnome; possibly a bit of both.
[edit] International Standard date format
ISO 8601 defines a date format that has several advantages over national formats, and I think it deserves to be used more widely. The basic format is yyyy-mm-dd.
Here are some examples of date formats in wikipedia, mainly for my benefit in trying to understand how wikipedia customises the format:
[[31 December]] [[1991]] 31 December 1991
[[December 31]], [[1991]] December 31, 1991
[edit] Other Interests
Many and varied, so this is just a start:
- The Pre-Raphaelite Movement (not just the PRB)
- Marie Spartali Stillman - article created
- Women artists - minor additions
- Cemeteries (art, sculpture, famous graves)
- Arnos Vale Cemetery - stub created
- List of cemeteries - add Arnos Vale; corrections and additions to Highgate Cemetery
- Taxonomy
- DELTA (taxonomy) - stub article created
- Retrocomputing
- Science fiction
- Telzey Amberdon, Trigger Argee - minor additions
- Genealogy
- Morris dance (watching, not taking part!)
- List of morris dance sides - major expansion
- Kirtlington - article created, mainly for the Lamb Ale morris dance festival
- Family Planning Association - stub article created
- Tilusha Ghelani (BBC radio producer of Just a Minute et al) - stub article created
- Teresa, el cuerpo de Cristo (film about Teresa of Ávila) - stub article created
