NEILHO
Neil Hocking | |
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| Born | 22 Dec 1975 Penzance, Cornwall |
| Nationality | English (Cornish) |
| Occupation | Freelance Writer |
| Known for | Writing, Learning, Singing, Football, Running, Fitness |
I'm a sporadic Wikipedia contributor with a wide range of interests. I first dabbled in Wikipedia when I updated the article on the town of Great Harwood, where I lived at the time. This has now been improved beyond recognition by subsequent editors.
Years later, in November 2008, I was watching the live surfing in Hawaii and decided to read the Wikipedia articles on the Hawaiian Triple Crown of Surfing. It soon became clear to me that a lot of the surfing content on Wikipedia was out of date and I started concentrating on adding new surfing articles and updating previous ones. I then contacted Sunny Garcia as his article was woefully biased and he kindly agreed to allow me to improve it - which I did.
Please check out my articles so far:
- Triple Crown of Surfing
- WQS - World Qualification Series (2009)
- O'Neill Sebastian Inlet Pro (Mitch Varnes, founder of the SI Pro has kindly approved my article).
- Sunny Garcia (approved by Sunny Garcia)
- Whitehaven Amateurs F.C. (co-written)
I have also worked on the following pages:
My Gill Fielding story (highlighting the good and the bad of Wikipedia)
After a heated battle, I failed a deletion debate on businesswoman and property specialist Gill Fielding. I went through the AfC process to balance any possible bias but critically failed to disclose a COI (my bad). By the time the disclosure had been made my article had been labelled as non-neutral so many times that the mud has stuck; one editor - understandably I guess - insisted I was being paid to edit and accused me of lying when I denied it! I'm convinced the final version of the rejected draft was 100% neutral and that the subject is 100% notable but I believe, from the tone of the majority (though not all) of the Wikipedia editors that the main problem was that the subject was a woman. One even claimed that Zsa Zsa Gabor didn't deserve to be treated as a notable person (her subsequent death was later the main news item on the BBC News). It was then that I realised I was up against a strong anti-female bias.