User:Miranda/Neil

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I am human, 28, and live in Chester. I have also lived in Wales and Birmingham. I used to work for the NHS, and now work for the government (boooo). I have a master's degree in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Birmingham, but don't ask me about anything related to the topic, as I have now forgotten it all, not having used it since graduation.^[1] Thanks to work, I have full premium access to the Encyclopedia Britannica online - if you need any references from there, let me know and I'll try and help.

I used to be known as User:Proto^[2] (and still am on the rare occasions I need to use IRC^[3]). I made my first (logged in^[4]) edit on 31 March 2005^[5]. I am one of the 1555 administrators on the English Wikipedia. Feel free to ask me any questions relating to any of my admin actions - or any other actions - either via my talk page, or email me.

I am erratically active, as I have a very busy and hectic social schedule, and only really use Wikipedia when I am bored in work. I have not died in a cricket accident.^[6][7]

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Administrative Duties
This user is an administrator on the English Wikipedia. (verify // rfa) This administrator is willing to consider reasonable requests for rollback permission. This user is a Reichstag climbing patroller.

[edit] Stuff I tend to do:

• Making articles that have been requested for a long time.
• Wikifying articles (it's very relaxing).
  • (but also check if they're evil copyvios)
• Fixing administrative backlog
• Clearing out requests to edit protected pages
• Bumble around via the awesomeness that is the random page button of wonderment
• I am a member of the Association of Wikipedians Who Dislike Making Broad Judgements About the Worthiness of a General Category of Article, and Who Are In Favor of the Deletion of Some Particularly Bad Articles, but That Doesn't Mean They are Deletionist.
• I also think Wikipedia has around a million articles more than it need have, therefore I am a founder member of the Association of Redirectionist Wikipedians.
• Speaking of redirectionism, I have recently discovered Red Link Recovery - being someone who finds creating redirects a soothing, Zen-like exercise, this is awesome.

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[edit] RFA Nominations:

People who I have nominated for requests for adminship:

N Ben

Y Henrik

Y Hersfold

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[edit] Key Wikipedia Guidelines:

These are good for newbies and oldies.

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[edit] Helpful links:

Other helpful links:

[edit] Depository of random:

Languages Spoken
en This user is a native speaker of English. fr-3 Cet utilisateur peut contribuer avec un niveau avancé de français. cy-2 Fe all y defnyddiwr 'ma gyfrannu ar lefel ganolradd y Gymraeg. es-2 Este usuario puede contribuir con un nivel intermedio de español. pl-1 Ten użytkownik posługuje się językiem polskim na poziomie podstawowym.

• User:Neil/quack - An indepth and challenging essay on the duck test and what the latest ArbCom developments portend for Wikipedia over the next 12 to 18 months
• A minor aim in life - to form a band / write a novel / create a major website or a magazine called Main Page, forcing Wikipedia to have to disambiguate its front page. Muahahaha!
• My admirable and never-followed (even by me) admin standards: User:Neil/standards
• 650th most awesome - official^[8]
• If you add up all the admin actions, I am the 105th most active admin (as of 10 January 2008). Clearly I'm not deleting and blocking enough. Must do better!^[9]

• User:Neil/road - the worst (best?) roadcruft article ever, preserved for posterity.
• User:Neil/N - pick away at this whenever really bored or struck down with writer's block.
• My first RfA - I was kindly nominated by User:Marskell.
• My second, succesful RfA. The template I used for thanks is here.
• My failed RfB. Boooooo.
• Did you know that old name was Lithuanian for 'minds'? Me neither.^[10]
• User:Neil/gc - the great big battle with gamecruft.
• The best policy ever.
• User:Neil/actors - must get back to sorting these out.
• I haven't uploaded that many photos, and would like to do more, but the ones I have are in User:Neil/images.
• The War on Drugs and the War on Terrorism pale into comparison with the War on 'had had'. All must die! (or better still, be rewritten to avoid such a technically correct but butt-ugly abuse of the English language). I identify the culprits here.
• Take a look at the most popular pages on Wikipedia this month.
• Some of the funniest user names can be found here
• The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy - it dseno't alywas mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig, huh? Yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt.^[11]
• I likes this article: The 8 Most Needlessly Detailed Wikipedia Entries
• The best article ever written about Wikipedia. Essential reading for anyone wondering how this whole crazy project to create a free encyclopaedia came into being, and what it truly represents. RIP Roy Rosenzweig.
• I don't collect my barnstars, as I am already awesome and don't need the reassurance. And I haven't had that many (sob). But you can spot them by wandering through my talk page archives.
• My favourite piece of vandalism.
• My account was created on 31 March 2005, at 10:23 and 59 seconds, UTC. It was the 224,548th account to be created.^[12]
• Mattel Inc. v. MCA Records Inc.^[13]
• Si hoc legerem scis nimium eruditionis habes.

Words to use carefully:
User:Miranda/words

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[edit] Edit milestones:

• The awesome tool for doing this is Tools:~tangotango/milestone.php.

• My 1,000th edit^[14] was on the 24 June 2005, on Baylor University Chamber of Commerce.
• My 5,000th edit^[15] was on Geni's sockpuppet's RFA, on 6 February 2006.
• My 10,000th edit^[16] was made on 4 December 2006. To Dungeon Keeper, which was an awesome game.
• My 15,000th edit^[17] was to Clacks, on 20 July 2007.
• My 20,000th edit^[18] was fixing a typo on Template:Did you know, on 2 January 2008. How boring.

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[edit] Projects:

I'm a member of the following WikiProjects:

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Piracy
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Cheshire
• Wikipedia:Article Rescue Squadron
• There may be others I've put my name down for, but I've forgotten. Feel free to add them.

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[edit] Accounts:

• I have little used accounts on:

Meta (here)

Wiktionary (here)

Wikibooks (here)

Commons (here)

The French Wikipedia (ici), which I use very rarely, but want to use more to better my French

The Dutch Wikipedia (shtop), despite not speaking Dutch. There was a good reason, I forget what it was now.

The German Wikipedia (achtung!), which I thought I may as well set up.

• Any other accounts you see with the name Neil or Proto are not me (at least, not until single sign-on is implemented and I take them all^[19])

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[edit] Self love:

Pages I have started (or completely scrapped and rewritten). Not that I'm not proud of other pages I've started (it's over 250 now^[20]), but these are special for some reason or another. No particular order.

[edit] To do:

• Brass Eye - could be an FA
• Wendy Moten - singer
• Sir William Macpherson - q.v. Stephen Lawrence
• The Bagthorpe Saga, cleanup shitty article, and articles for each of the books
• The Sheep Look Up, expand
• Sleb
• Good News from Outer Space
• Liar's Poker, expand
• Ella (novel), by Uri Geller
• Desolation Road
• All the James Herriot books need a lot of work
• The Emperor of Ocean Park
• The Cuban Brothers

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