User:Loganberry

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Please do not edit this page except to revert obvious vandalism.

You are most welcome to post to my talk page if you have anything to say to me.

General waffle

Um... hello; Loganberry here. (Yes, spelt as in the fruit.) Currently I am spending the great majority of my editing time on cricket-related articles, as a member of WikiProject Cricket. We could certainly do with some more members, so please consider joining us if you can!

A little about me follows, for those who for some reason are interested in these things. I am:

• British;
• A lapine fur (furry code FLR5aw/LR4r A C-> D>+ H+ M P++ R+ T+++ W>+++$ Z Sm# (http://www.vulpine.pp.se/cgi-bin/furcode?D=FLR5aw%2FLR4r+A+C-%3E+D%3E%2B+H%2B+M+P%2B%2B+R%2B+T%2B%2B%2B+W%3E%2B%2B%2B%24+Z+Sm%23));
• An atheist;
• Liberal;
• A great fan of hillclimbing;
• A cricket lover and member of WikiProject Cricket;
• Into retrocomputing, especially with the BBC Micro;
• and so on and so forth.

Multilicensing

I agree to multi-license all my text contributions to the main, main talk and template namespaces, as described below. Contributions in other namespaces, such as user pages, are excluded. This agreement remains in effect so long as the following notice remains on my page.

Licensing rights granted to Wikimedia Foundation I grant non-exclusive permission for the Wikimedia Foundation Inc. to relicense my text contributions under any copyleft license that it chooses, provided it maintains the free and open spirit of the GFDL. This permission acknowledges that future licensing needs of the Wikimedia projects may need adapting in unforeseen fashions to facilitate other uses, formats, and locations. It is given for as long as this banner remains.

Articles written or significantly expanded

Motorsport

• British Hill Climb Championship, Hillclimbing
  • Mark Colton, Adam Fleetwood, David Grace, Roy Lane, Tony Marsh, Andy Priaulx, Graeme Wight Jr
• Derek Warwick
• Grand Prix Legends

Cricket

• Worcestershire County Cricket Club
  • Graham Dilley, Norman Gifford, Graeme Hick, Richard Illingworth, Kabir Ali, Phil Newport, Steve Rhodes, Neal Radford, Fred Root, Vikram Solanki
• Ian Austin, Ian Bell, Dominic Cork, David Denton, John Ferris, Angus Fraser, Warren Hegg, Devon Malcolm, Dermot Reeve, David Shepherd
• Hedley Verity (as user 81.156.162.144)

Places

• Bewdley, Bunny, Nottinghamshire, Titterstone Clee Hill, Watership Down (place)

Other

• Amstrad NC100, Furry lifestyler, Kidderminster Shuttle, Tales from Watership Down

"Milestone edits"

Since lots of other people seem to enjoy doing this, I'm now going to be totally unoriginal and stick in a record of those "milestone edits". I have no idea whether the done thing with these lists is to include minor edits, changes to userpages etc, but I'm going to do so anyway since it makes the numbers look bigger. =:P Here we go, then:

• 1st edit: User:Loganberry, 1st July 2004
• 50th edit: Alden (town), New York, 5th July 2004
• 100th edit: Blue Peter, 15th July 2004
• 250th edit: British Hillclimb Championship, 29th October 2004
• 500th edit: British Hillclimb Championship (again!), 16th November 2004
• 750th edit: Metro Toronto Council, 14th May 2005
• 1000th edit: Wikipedia:WikiProject Cricket/List of cricketers/full articles, 25th May 2005

Moans and whinges

Geographical articles

Please, folks, when you write an article about your favourite small town somewhere, include the country it's in and not just the state or nearby cities. You know that Idaho is in the United States; I know it is too... but some readers may not, and it's only polite to make the fact clear, as an international encyclopedia should.

Signatures

Here's something slightly controversial to wake you up: I do find it slightly irritating when people customise their signatures so that they include colours, symbols and graphics. When I was new to Wikipedia I found that confusing, and to some extent I still do. I'd like to see sigs standardised to something like Loganberry (Talk) - with Loganberry linked in the usual way, of course. After all, we all have our User pages for messing around with exciting design - or not, in my case!

Singular they

I seem to be in a bit of a minority here. Not just because I use it at all, since more and more people are now doing that, even in print, but because I think it is by far the best way to go, and should be used even in formal writing. I saw a sign on a bus a few years ago that said "Do not speak to the driver or distract their attention while the bus is moving", and I thought that was perfectly fine. Of course, it could have been rewritten as "Do not speak to, or distract the attention of, the driver..." but I don't think that was necessary.

Dashes

Categories: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 1.0 Dual License | Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Dual License | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Dual License | Wikimedia text licensing permissions