User:Sophie means wisdom

Nectar of the Gods.

Greetings, carbon-based bipeds! Totnesmartin here, AKA Martin Bizarro (which is also a stagename...) I can usually be found on Livejournal, but in so-called real life I live in lovely Totnes, Devon, but not in Lovely.

I've started Wikipedia:Wikiproject Devon, so that should keep me busy for this year. If not, just give me a nice cup of tea to wake me up.

As well as the usual creating, editing and debating, I sometimes help out with new articles (wheat/chaff sorting) and with articles listed for deletion (same, but with more discussion).

I still need to learn how to put pictures in and inline book citations.

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WikiProject Devon.

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It's that totnesmartin again!

I am also totnesmartin on:

Wikis

• French Wikipedia - useful for material about French topics, eg Dahu or Tiberio Fiorelli.
• Simple English wikipedia
• Wikipagan - Yuk! adverts!
• Ekopedia - lovely hippies.
• RationalWiki - Conservapedia's gluteus maximus on a silver plate. Conservawhat???
• user:86.140.106.39 when I'm at work and not logged in.

Blogs, etc

• Livejournal[1]
• Librarything[2]
• Photobucket: Murdoch moves in, I move out ("We fall back, and they assimilate whole worlds...")
• Myspace - you must be joking!
• Youtube - I'm there but I don't do anything with it (apart from watching old Doctor Who episodes...)

Wot I dun

Analysis of my edit history

• 28 June 2007: my 4000th edit.
• 27 August 2007: my 5000th edit not-so-coincidentally writing about Well Crucial on such a date...

Started Wikipedia:Wikiproject Devon.

Articles Created

Birds

1. Bucerotiformes - now a redirect to Hornbill
2. Coccyzidae
3. Craciformes - now a redirect to Cracidae
4. Crotophagidae
5. Eurostopodidae
6. Galbuliformes
7. Lybiidae
8. Megalaimidae

All of the above families and orders were created by Sibley and Ahlquist, a new(ish) classification which is not widely accepted. I only learned that after creating the articles...

Fossils

1. Choia
2. Dinomischus
3. Haplophrentis
4. Leanchoilia
5. Misszhouia
6. Naraoia
7. Olenoides
8. Perspicaris
9. Thaumaptilon

People

1. Charlotte Cooper (author)
2. John Prince (Totnes)
3. Laura Jury - deleted. Bugger.
4. Linda Long
5. Tiberio Fiorelli - the original Scaramouche - but could he do the Fandango?
6. Stuart Fell - non-crap recreation of someone else's deleted crap article.

Plants

1. Cynoglossum officinale - Dog's tongues!
2. Hepatica nobilis - or is it Anemone hepatica? Well, it is now, apparently...
3. Polygonum aviculare
4. Scrophularia nodosa - because you never know when King's evil may strike!

Cryptozoology

1. Morgawr (cryptid)
2. Quang khem
3. Vu Quang

Local

Towns and villages

1. Alfington
2. Ashbury, Devon
3. Bradford, Devon
4. Bramford Speke
5. Brentor
6. Brixton, Devon
7. Butterleigh
8. Colyton, Devon
9. Higher Ashton
10. Lower Ashton

Other

1. Bideford witch trial
2. Hairy hands
3. Leechwell
4. Saltern Cove
5. South Devon AONB

Music

1. Culturcide
2. Robert Graettinger
3. Hildur Gudnadóttir
4. Red Ingle
5. Peerie Willie Johnson
6. Ian Craig Marsh
7. Reinette L'Oranaise
8. Seize The Day (band)

Albums

File:Marvin Single Cover emu.jpg

"Don't talk to me about redirects."

1. The Elephant Table Album
2. London 1966/1967
3. Space is the Place
4. Sulk

Singles and EPs

1. Being Boiled
2. Ghosts
3. Marvin (now a redirect to Marvin the Paranoid Android)
4. Spiral Scratch

Biology

1. Aaadonta - not that I'm trying to have the first-named article or anything!
2. Aaadonta fuscozonata
3. Aaadonta irregularis
4. Aaadonta kinlochi
5. Aaadonta pelewana - why on earth am I writing articles about slugs?
6. Common starfish
7. Endodontidae
8. Megrim
9. Razor shell
10. Snakelocks anemone
11. Solenidae
12. Spotted goby
13. Torbay sole

Geography

1. Myojin-sho - an undersea volcano off Japan.
2. Rousies -Translated from the French.

Hoa Hakananai'a at the British Museum's Great Court.

Other

1. Hoa Hakananai'a - the friend who was stolen from us (they could try asking at the British Museum)
2. 391 (magazine)

Not so much new as split

1. Bigfoot in popular culture
2. Jean Michel Jarre discography
3. Notable people from Devon
4. Stonehenge in popular culture
5. Theories about Stonehenge

Categories

1. Category:Buzzcocks
2. Category:Humorous poets
3. Category:Maotianshan shales fossils

Selected Wikipedia edits

Music

• Barry Douglas Lamb integrated info from Barry Lamb.
• Cabaret Voltaire - added to early history up to 1983.
• I Hear a New World Joe Meek's bizarre space album.
• Metal Machine Music Lou Reed's extreme classic.
• Neil Campbell Mentioning SWANC, added discography.
• Planet Rock (song) - from shite to reasonable.
• Remain in Light - The best album ever.
• Richard Youngs additional info about his 80s work.

Weird stuff

• List of Bermuda Triangle incidents - looking up all those ships
• Kasai Rex - a T-rex living in Africa? Yeah, right.
• Kongamato sub standard, made better.
• Loch Ness Monster gets my tupennyworth as well.
• Mbielu-Mbielu-Mbielu major edit of crap stub.
• Morag (loch monster) additional stuff about photographs.
• Mothman - various bits, such as wading through list of Aqua Teen Hunger Force episodes to check if Mothmonsterman was based on Mothman. The things I do.
• The Mad Gasser of Mattoon - a real-life Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town?
• The Devil's Footprints from back when it used to snow.
• Owlman additional stuff and refs.
• Unexplained disappearances - I may be some time on this one.
• Vile vortices and Devil's Sea- refutation of Bermuda Triangle-type bollocks.

er...

This from the Yeti in popular culture deletion debate - recognition of my awesome genius! (or something) The Yetties, one Britain's longest running folk bands, are sadly not named after the abominable snowman, but after their home village, Yetminster in Dorset. That's the funniest line I've read in an In popular culture for a while, just for its total lack of connection with Yetis, other than sounding the same. Saikokira 03:24, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

Other bits

• 118 118 (UK) - corrected mysterious absence of "Pizza Hut" scandal.
• Dahu - Yahoo! It's a dahu! A who?
• Likouala Region - big expansion of where the wild things are.
• Orthrozanclus - another Burgess thing. Why does "Burgess" always remind me of Richard James Burgess from Landscape?
• Relate and Traditional Mongolian medicine - were slated for deletion until I rescued them (bow).
• Adding folklore sections to articles about plants, eg here.
• Pain Teens-->The Pain Teens- my first redirect (as opposed to a move). I'm slowly getting the hang of things...
• North Sea - added lots of stuff (mainly Norwegian islands!), and nominated for peer review.
• Starbucks - after that website blew their gaff!

And loads of minor edits all over the shop.

Talk pages

Lots of comments at Loch Ness Monster (especially here), Owlman (i like this one), Unexplained disappearances and probably some other places too (like this "anon" comment...)

Potential future projects

Create

• Stewart Keith (interesting, but notable? And he's my brother as well, so it may well be biased...),
• Well Crucial. This postal band (we never all met up at once) contained Neil Campbell, Richard Youngs and Simon Goddard. And it's coming back back back!
• The Strolling Ones (sheer vanity - my old band never really did that much).
• The British tape scene of the late seventies and early eighties, unless of course, someone else does it for me... looks like they have!
• Damh the Bard
• Alice Molland
• Peiste
• Igopogo
• The Unexplained (magazine)
• South Hams WWII evacuation
• Little Titch

Expand

• Charlotte Cooper
• Living Dinosaurs
• Pillows & Prayers
• Sangha Region
• South Hams
• The Outsider (Colin Wilson)
• Totnes#History

Tools

• Category scanner
• Category Watcher
• Paranormal
• Cryptids
• Wikiproject Paranormal talk pages
• editor counter

Sandbox

User:Totnesmartin/sandbox

Lameness

I really hope this never happens to me: having to scan in pages from a book to prove it's genuine, and still not being believed. Unstickingbelievable.

See also lame edit wars.

Edit comments

I sometimes use the edit comments box to express humour or annoyance. Here are a few:

• LGP-30: Edward Lorenz creates the met office's best excuse ever... [3]
• Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five (hip hop group): more links than you can shake a booty at! (or something) [4]
• Talk:Loch Ness Monster: read the book, seen the film (t-shirt pending) [5]
• List of cryptids: Fixed ridiculously long punctuation-free intro sentence that would be impossible to say all in one breath [6]
• Talk:Bonnie Langford: Added Dr Who project tag (suppose I must)[7]
• Bubble wrap: somehow managed to tear myself away from virtual popping to put up the company's URL [8]
• Talk:Being Boiled: Sir no sir! [9]
• Devonian: Her'm splelt wid a captle C, zur! [10]
• Talk:Conservapedia: - Two blogs don't make a cite [11]
• User talk:Carajou - Carajou, where are you, come back and do, what you used to [12]
• References to polycephaly in popular culture - The Two of Verath (yes I am sad for remembering this) [13]
• Talk:Fornication - Typo (although "Extra-martial sex" does sound intriguing) [14]
• Speaking in Tongues (album) - inescapable --> frequently broadcast (unless people were coming up to you in the street and showing it to you... [15]
• Talk:Nordic aliens - Take me to your editor [16]
• Aaadonta - new article about slugs. Needs lettuce to grow. [17]
• Adamites - Made picture larger to a)remove blank pace and b)see what's in it without having to rub my nose on the monitor [18]
• Hoax - Removed, like, totally unencyclopedic language, dude - [19]
• Nandi Bear - I say hyaena, you say hyena [20]