User:Charivari/Archive

Hello, folks. These are some of the things I care about:

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.

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

[[1991-12-31]] 1991-12-31

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