Welcome!
I am Rossenglish, and I edit Wikipedia from exactly 50.5976°N, 2.4606°W in Weymouth, in the county of Dorset, which is in the constituent country of England, part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and also of the European Union.
I use Wikipedia to enhance my knowledge of all things related to physics, geography, mathematics and the other sciences. In addition, I am interested in the European Union and United Kingdom politics, and in the history and geography of the UK, and particularly Dorset. I mostly contribute to articles on Dorset and some parts of the UK, and general corrections I may spot during my browsing, particularly articles in WikiProject politics of the United Kingdom, WikiProject European Union and WikiProject Europe. Some of my edits make me a WikiFairy; others a WikiGnome.
Contributions
This was my first major work on Wikipedia, and was a vast learning curve for me, especially with lots of help from Tutmosis. My talk page shows my contributions to this article to get it to FA. I find that none of my work is ever finished.
The second article that I contributed a lot to, to help it become FA. I again learned a lot about what is expected of an FA. Again, it will always be a work in progress; other users add things that slip one's mind, and I will no doubt discover (frankly obvious: how could I have missed them!) shortcomings in the article's breadth.
Barnstars
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The Original Barnstar |
For your persistence and hard work in getting Weymouth to featured status, I, Tutmosis, award you this for your great effort. - Tutmosis 00:44, 5 December 2006 (UTC) |
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The Half Barnstar |
I, Bennelliott, award you this half barnstar for work on colours for weather box templates. Bennelliott • Talk 14:05, 17 June 2007 (UTC) |
Userboxes etc
I have hidden all my userboxes and views away at the bottom of my page, as they aren't that important and shouldn't prejudice Wikipedia life. But they're there for interest's sake.
Userboxes and opinions
Location
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This user lives by the seaside. |
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Politics
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According to the Political Compass this user is:
Economic Left (-7.2) and
Social Libertarian (-8.1)
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This user supports higher tax on the rich to increase provision of public services and lower tax for the poor. |
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This user supports the independence of Kosovo. |
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This user supports immigration and the right to travel freely upon the planet we share. |
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Environment
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This user believes that there are so many ecological, monetary and health benefits to combating climate change, it is nonsense not to. |
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Personal
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This user is a jokester or comedian.
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Miscellaneous
SI |
This user uses the SI (metric) system of measurement. |
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As far as this user knows, Pi equals 3.14159265358979323846264338327
9502884197169399375105820974944 |
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its & it’s |
This user understands the difference between its and it’s. So should you. |
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What I do/do not support
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What I do not support
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- The United Kingdom's very strong affiliation with the USA
- The Bush Administration
- The USA's Republican Party
- Westboro Baptist Church
- Religious conversion
- Cults
- Biblical inerrancy and Fundamentalism
- Creationism being taught in science lessons, not R.E. lessons
- Rupert Murdoch's high level of influence in media
- NIMBYism
- The use of Pseudoscience in advertisements
- The confusing Imperial system of measurements
- The Metric Martyrs, the BWMA, the A.R.M. and other anti-metrication pressure groups
- Capital Punishment
- All forms of Discrimination
- Positive discrimination
- Unilateralism, except in very non-controversial cases
- Chav culture
- Extreme political parties, particularly the BNP
- Terrorism, martyrdom and murder
- Honour violence
- Guns, illegal drugs, gangs and violence
- Pessimism, mistrust and ignorance
- Rumour, lies and slander (in newspapers especially)
- And above all, Bigotry
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