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Chriswiki
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— Wikipedian ♂ —
Name	Chris
Born	UK
Current location	Surrey
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About My Contributions

See also: Full list of my contributions

Stubs, Articles, Categories and Templates I've started

No individual editor owns articles on Wikipedia, but these are a few I have made a start on (listed in alphabetical order), other editors may (hopefully) have continued this work..........

Boxgrove Primary School • Bushy Hill Junior School • Churt • Template:Educational Establishments in Guildford‎ • Freman College‎ • Guildford College‎ • Guildford Grove School‎ • GuilFest line-ups • Holy Trinity Junior School, Guildford • Little Munden Primary School‎ • Category:Parks and commons in Surrey • Ralph Sadleir Middle School‎ • Sandfield Primary School‎ • St. Peter's School, Guildford‎ • St Thomas of Canterbury Catholic Primary School, Guildford‎ • Surrey Research Park • Weyfield Primary School • Worplesdon Primary School

Referencing

Some of my wikitime is spent finding references for statements made by others in articles^{[citation needed]}.

Cleanup

I also spend some time hunting round cleaning up errors in articles- most commonly those left by Valdalis Deliberatis and Skoolkiddius Bordious. Sometimes they can be quite amusing, other times it's just worrying how everything always boils down to "This Sucks".

You wouldn't get that in the Encyclopædia Britannica

Aside from finding amusing edits, Wikipedia is home to some truly bizarre stuff. Here's just some I've found on my travels.
This list is incomplete.

A whole category devoted to Fictional Aardvarks
A list of Recurring jokes in SpongeBob SquarePants
An article on Deities in Sonic the Hedgehog

Controversy

It appears that a page hosted on wikipedia wouldn't be complete without a section titled Controversy. For those editors who insist on putting one of these in to every-single-article-they-edit, the world isn't out to get you and <Insert Subject Here> is not necessarily about an argument.

Wiktionary describes a controversy as a debate, or discussion of opposing opinions. Let's take that and apply it to a situation:

"A pint of beer cost five pounds."

This is not a controversy. This is a statement on the price of beer.

"The Daily Newspaper commented that a pint of beer cost five pounds and this was extortionate"

This is not a controversy. This is a comment by someone that they did not like the price of beer, there is still no debate, discussion, or opposing opinions here.

"A survey by The Daily Newspaper of 10,000 people about the price of beer came back with a unanimous opinion that the price was extortionate."

Ten thousand people may have said the beer was too expensive, but as no-one offered an opposing opinion, this is still not a controversy.

"The Daily Newspaper commented that a pint of beer cost five pounds and this was extortionate, however the landlord insisted that the price was quite reasonable."

Hurrah, now we have an opposing opinion! This could now be considered to be a controversy.

The incorrect labelling of "something the editor doesn't" like as a controversy seems to be a major occurrence on Wikipedia, perhaps something like the following warning box is required:

This section/article contains a controversy section, which may be incorrectly labelled. Please ensure there is actually a controversy present.