User:Rodw

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Userboxes 24,000+ This user has made over 24,000 contributions to Wikipedia. This user helped promote the article Chew Valley Lake to featured article status. This user helped promote the article Chew Valley to featured article status. This user helped promote the article Mendip Hills to featured article status. This user helped promote the article Buildings and architecture of Bristol to featured article status. This user helped promote the article Chew Stoke to featured article status. This user helped promote the article Exmoor to featured article status. This user helped promote the article Somerset to featured article status. This user helped promote the article Bath, Somerset to featured article status. This user helped promote List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Somerset to featured list status. This user helped promote Locks on the Kennet and Avon Canal to featured list status. This user helped promote Grade I listed buildings in Bristol to featured list status. This user has significantly contributed to 18 Good Articles on Wikipedia. This user has been a major contributor to 40 articles featured in the Did you know... section on the Main Page. This user is currently working on WikiProject Somerset and WikiProject Bristol . User is a member of the Somerset WikiProject - You can help! User is a member of the Museums WikiProject - You can help! This user is a member of WikiProject UK geography 3 This Wikipedian joined Wikipedia 3 years, 7 months, and 15 days ago as of June 14, 2008. BSc This user has a Bachelor of Science degree. MA This user has a Master of Arts degree. This user works at the University of the West of England This user reads The Guardian. en This user is a native speaker of English. This user lives in England. This user comes from KENT: The Garden of England This user is a nurse. This user is an academic. This user has been helping to make the Internet not suck since 1992. This user drinks beer.

[edit] About Me

I was born in Ramsgate & brought up in Margate went to the University of Surrey and then trained as a nurse at Frimley Park Hospital before undertaking various courses and jobs in Accident and Emergency in the National Health Service. Qualifications from Bournemouth University and London South Bank University followed along with jobs for the NHS and University of Sheffield.

I am now living in the Chew Valley, south of Bristol I work for the University of the West of England Faculty of Health And Social Care specialising in Health Informatics and E-learning. I'm also a member of the British Computer Society, Royal College of Nursing, Higher Education Academy and various other bodies.

I have 4 kids with very varied ages and interests, who are starting to use Wikipedia for homework! Hobbies include juggling, Real ale and travel.

Find out more at RodSpace & my Informaticopia Blog

[edit] Subject matter you might find me writing about

Not a complete list - but varied

The Chew Valley & surrounding area including; Chew Valley Lake, Chew Stoke, Chew Magna, Blagdon Lake, Compton Martin, East Harptree, Bishop Sutton, River Chew, Combe Down, Pensford, Stanton Drew & various other local villages particularly in the Mendip Hills, SSSIs, listed buildings etc I'm also part of the Wikipedia:WikiProject Bristol

Health Informatics & elearning related stuff including; IMIA, Health Informatics, Virtual Learning Environment, National Programme for IT, but I feel a bit nervous about writing about topics too closely related to my work.

I'm an A&E nurse by trade and therefore do odd bits on nursing related pages including; Nurse, Nursing, District Nurse, Health Visitor, Royal College of Nursing, Florence Nightingale, Cicely Saunders, Ethel Bedford-Fenwick, Sarah Mullally, Christine Beasley, Betty Kershaw, June Clark & most of the people listed on Category:British nurses etc I'm also part of the Wikipedia:WikiProject National Health Service which is trying to improve the coverage of the NHS and related issues on Wikipedia.

Miscellaneous People - for various reasons eg; Edward Heath, Ralph Allen, Philip Rahtz, Haggis and Charlie, Charlie Dancey, Haggis McLeod, Howard Newby, Nigel Crisp, Ian Carruthers, etc

Others (mostly minor bits): University of the West of England, Glenside, Glastonbury Festival, Air Training Corps, Burton on the Wolds, Locks on the Kennet and Avon Canal but I'll edit almost anything as I come across it.

[edit] Current & future stuff

My main current areas of activity are;

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Somerset

Here are some tasks you can do: Requests: Bridgwater Without, Burnham Without, Burton Pynsent, Earnshill and Hambridge, Hurlestone point, Midelney, Minehead Without, Northend, Norton Hill School, Porlock Bay, River Pitt, Scouting in Somerset, Thorney, Transport in Somerset, Wellington Without, Withypool and Hawkridge, Yeovil College, Yeovil Without. Add photos to Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Somerset Wikify: Bridgwater College, Verify: Bear Flat, Churchill Community School, Duke of Somerset, Glastonbury Abbey, Hinkley Point A nuclear power station, West Country dialects, Weston, Bath Cleanup: Redhill, Richard Huish College, Taunton, Taunton flower show, Wadham Community School, Wells Cathedral School, Expand: Culture of Somerset, Economy of Somerset, Geology of Somerset, Norton Radstock College Stubs: Improve Stub-Class articles including Category:Somerset geography stubs & Category:Somerset building and structure stubs Infobox: ? add Template:Infobox Settlement to Bath and North East Somerset, North Somerset, Mendip, Sedgemoor, South Somerset, Taunton Deane, West Somerset Other: Move images in Somerset articles across to Wikimedia Commons. See Wikipedia:Moving images to the Commons for guidance. Remove any spam links you find in the "External links" section of articles you edit. Consider replacement of external links by pointing to DMOZ. See Template:dmoz for more info. Check external links & refs using Wikimedia link checker. There are some pages in Category:List-Class Somerset articles that should be renamed 'list of..'. See Wikipedia:Lists and Help:Moving a page

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[edit] My Geography

Places I've drawn a pay-cheque:
Places I've visited for work:
Places I've slept overnight, holidayed or partied in:
	Template purloined from Trident13 who shimmied it away from Bucketsofg who plagiarized it from Grutness who lifted idea from Moriori who half-inched from Calton who nicked it from Salsb who stole it from Guettarda who borrowed it from White Cat

[edit] Miscellaneous stuff & activity

You can find statistics on my editing activity here I made my first edit on 29th Oct 2004 & as of 12th March 2006 had made 973 edits, including getting one article, Chew Valley Lake to Featured Article Status. During the next few months edits increased (am I becoming a Wikipediholic?) & by July 2006 had over 2000 edits with another article Chew Valley made it to Featured Article Status and a couple of others gaining Good article status. By October 2006 the count was over 4000 edits and two lists List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Somerset and Locks on the Kennet and Avon Canal having achieved featured status. Various edits also made it into the Did you know section. During the later part of 2006 and early 2007 my editing activity increased, particularly around the Mendip Hills, Wikipedia:WikiProject Bristol, particularly Buildings and architecture of Bristol and I also joined Wikipedia:WikiProject UK Waterways. By April 2007 I passed the 9000 edit mark, and helped make Mendip Hills a featured articles and Grade I listed buildings in Bristol a featured list.

My 10,000th edit was the start of a new article on the Bristol Byzantine architectural style & happened on 19 May 2007, and the 11,000th to update my userbox of Good Articles to 8 following the promotion of Somerset Levels on 6th July 2007. 12,000 - 15,000 went past in a hurry during August (although I was on holiday & at a conference in Brisbane where I edited Queensland Maritime Museum amongst others), Sept, Oct 2007 & were mostly related to the creation of Wikipedia:WikiProject Somerset & the initial assessment of approx 2000 articles. During Oct 2007 Buildings and architecture of Bristol became the fourth article on which I had done serious editing to become a Featured article. The start of 2008 saw Exmoor and Somerset achieving FA status & on 3rd Feb I passed 20,000 edits while creating stubs for villages on the Somerset WikiProject "to do" list. Edits around 22,000 & 23,000 were work on the new Wikipedia:WikiProject Museums particularly setting up templates & guidelines & initial assessment of thousands of articles.

My (out of date) picture gallery

[edit] Awards etc

Rodw, it gives me great pleasure to bestow this Imperial Napoleonic triple crown in thanks for your exceptional accomplishments improving this encyclopedia. You are a Napoleon among editors. DurovaCharge! 23:25, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

This editor is a Lord High Tutnum, and is entitled to display this Book of Knowledge with Coffee Cup Stain, Cigarette Burn, and Chewed Broken Pencil.

Obrigado, danke, and many other thanks for your hard work writing and submitting articles for the Did you know? section of the Main Page. While numbers are secondary to quality, 25 excellent contributions to the feature definitely deserves recognition, so I'm more than happy to present you with this richly-deserved medal. Keep or discard it as you fancy, but I hope you enjoy it. :) GeeJo (t)⁄(c) • 16:41, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

I just wanted to say that I was very proud to see a fellow Wikipedian being so helpful without being asked. A fine example we should all try and emulate. Have an ASCII barnstar! Best, Neil ☎ 15:30, 9 November 2007 (UTC) * The ASCII barnstar of awesomeness

Special edition triple crown Congratulations, Rodw is the first winner of the 2008 triple crown race! Your Fleet-fingered Majesty, thank you very much for disproving the better/cheaper/faster theory by doing superb editing work lickety-split and free licensing it. Now all of Wikipedia's readers will need to take speed reading lessons to catch up with you. ;) DurovaCharge! 23:11, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

		The Geography Barnstar
		For all your tireless and impeccable work on the geography of Chew Valley, Somerset and the United Kingdom! Keep it up, we need you! -- Jza84 · (talk) 16:16, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Achievements in the format for "Crown Awards"

• DYK: article(s): Arno's Court Triumphal Arch, Aveline's Hole, Babington, Somerset, Bilbie family, Bishop's Palace, Wells, Bristol Byzantine, Bruce Tunnel, Building of Bath Museum, Charlcombe, Council House, Bristol, Crook Peak to Shute Shelve Hill, Crowcombe, Culbone, Dundas Aqueduct, Garston Lock, Glastonbury Lake Village, Grotto at Goldney House, Hadspen House, Hestercombe House, Horseshoe Bend, Shirehampton, John Billingsley, Lilstock, Midford Castle, Observatory, Bristol, Pawlett, Somerset, Marston Bigot, Red Lodge Museum, Bristol, Royal Fort, Royal West of England Academy, Selworthy, St Andrew's Church, Chew Stoke, Sharpham, Simonsbath, Somerset Coal Canal, Somerset coalfield, Temple of Harmony, The Exchange, Bristol, Red Lodge Museum, Bristol, Royal Fort, Start Point lighthouse, Ulley Reservoir, Underfall Yard, Writhlington
• GA: article(s): Avon Gorge, Bristol Harbour, Cheddar Gorge and Caves, Chew Magna, Exmoor, Grand Western Canal, History of Somerset, History of timekeeping devices, Kennet and Avon Canal, Lundy, Quantock Hills, Roman Baths (Bath), Somerset, Somerset Coal Canal, Somerset Levels, Somerset Towers, South West Coast Path, The Exchange, Bristol
• FC: page(s)Bath, Buildings and architecture of Bristol, Chew Stoke, Chew Valley, Chew Valley Lake, Exmoor, Grade I listed buildings in Bristol, List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Somerset, Locks on the Kennet and Avon Canal, Mendip Hills, Somerset