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Aussie Article Writer

Joined 3 October 2020
This Wikipedian remembers
SlimVirgin.
This user makes women green.
This user has reviewed 14 Good Article nominations on Wikipedia.

I am here to quietly create articles relating to Australia. I collect interesting facts. I edited under User:Chris.sherlock, User:Letsbefiends, User:Ta bu shi da yu and User:Tbsdy lives in the past.

I also try to give words of encouragement to those I see making significant contributions to Wikipedia.

My philosophy around reviewing GA nominations: in the vast majority of cases, the editor has worked hard at improving or expanding the article. What they really need is some pointers to improve the article to get it up to standard, and I will go out of my way towards collaborating with them to improve the article. In fact, I have been known to purchase the odd book to help improve or clarify references, and I don't fear going in and helping with a copyedit every now and again. Basically, I am on the side of any editor who shows they want to improve an article in good faith.


I'm currently taking a wikibreak... well sort of a wikibreak, but doing some wikignoming. I'm fixing references:

  • pass 1: go through the A articles, find any false positives, remove them - done
  • pass 2: go through the A articles, find any articles with only one problem reference, fix them - up to AG
  • pass 3: go through any short A articles, fix them
  • pass 4: go through the A articles, find ones with only a few references with issues
  • pass 5: find all the massive A articles, fix them
The process
  1. Find the orphaned ref
  2. check to see if citation template is correct
  3. check if Harvard short cite template is correct
  4. check early history to see if the source can be recovered
  5. often times, this is not possible. In this case, do binary search for when it was added. When located, if no source:
    1. hide ref, add {{citation needed}} next to it
    2. note action on talk page
    3. ask editor who added short ref if they know the source
    4. in some cases, it may be possible to use Google to figure out the source, in that case just manually add it


Books I want to read

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Articles written for WiR

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Articles under research

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Articles to help with

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  • none currently

DYK articles for WiR

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Reviewed GAN

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Former articles I wrote or majorly contributed to (that I think worthwhile highlighting)

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Articles I started

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Things I started

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