User:Northernhenge
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Northernhenge is mainly a WikiGnome and thinks he's been here for quite a while. His main interest is how the value of the information contained in Wikipedia – features that make it better than other encyclopaedias – can be maintained. He believes that this is supported by wikilinks and categories. He is probably guilty of overlinking, may tend to be an inclusionist regarding categories, and was disappointed when date linking was dropped. He certainly needs to know more about Wikidata and should use Citation bot.
Policies
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When he was a more active editor Northernhenge made an effort to take policies and guidelines into account though this is not his natural inclination. He might have sometimes referred to Biographies of living persons, Neutral point of view, No original research, Verifiability or What Wikipedia is not. He always intended to leave edit summaries but didn't always do so. He was particularly negligent with minor edits and talkpage edits. He probably still imagines that editors read their own talkpages in any case and that minor edits are self-explanatory but that's not really an excuse.
What's not to like?
[edit]- In two-or-three words, drive-by tagging. If you have time to tag “Cleanup bare URLs”, you have time to clean them up. Don’t demand that other editors do things you can’t be bothered to do yourself. Also, they’re a problem for new editors. Someone sees a drive-by tag and feels good about applying what they think is a quick and effective fix, for example deleting text that could have been rephrased, or adding a reference to a YouTube video or Facebook page. They now also think they’re helping by adding their own drive-by tags in similar situations across Wikipedia. Drive-by tags take up other people’s time and mislead new editors.
- Ownership of articles is a tricky one. We need enthusiasts but editing an "owned" article can be frustrating and drive editors away from the page and maybe Wikipedia itself. But how many articles would not exist if it wasn't for their !owners? To use some very old examples (he should move on really!), CLANNAD and Yodeling have probably illustrated both sides of the argument at one time or another.
- Don't get Northernhenge started on the whole Wiki Loves Monuments fiasco from quite a few years ago now. Essentially a mass-destruction of numerous editors’ hard work, just to standardise a load of pages to (wait for it…) enter a competition.
What's to like? (Current favourite page.)
[edit]- Heimskringla
- And his favourite redlinks are... Sylvie Facon; Constance Pittard
- Mapping from geographic categories using kml template (and also should do more links to these maps).
Activites
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- Northernhenge isn't quite sure what an edit count actually measures. (See also Editcountitis, AfD statistics and his edits in the wikipedia namespace.)
When – despite this – he looks at his total number of edits, he includes his Commons edits on purpose, and other namespaces because he’s too lazy to think about which should be be included.
- He got hooked for a few months on the New Pages feed, where new articles often need a bit of work. He didn't often see many he could help with, and was surprised how many article creators never returned to improve their own creations, so he spends less time there now.
- Results from an API query
- He was seen for a while at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion and could have got hooked on Wikipedia:Categories for discussion or even Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links until WP:BUSYLIFE took over. Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Women looks important, given the gender imbalance here.
- Another place to while away the hours (articles with leads that are too short)
- He rarely creates articles.
- He's a reviewer who therefore visits Special:PendingChanges.
- Recently discovered Category:Articles using duplicate arguments in template calls
- Other...
- Lua looks interesting.
- So does User:Nardog/RefRenamer
- And Magic Words
- And User:Certes/Reports
Cataloguing fairy tales
[edit]- Search for "Aarne-Thompson Grouping" (mainly found in infoboxes)
- Search for articles in ATU categories
- Categories which use the "Fairtytale_collector_category_lede"
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Folklore/To do/ATU fairytale notability
- The must be a LOT more to say about Bowie and Faithfull
Obvious punctuation errors
[edit]For example, searching for
insource:/[,;][;,]\<ref/
found 544 articles in May 2024. There's work to be done!
London Underground
[edit]Northernhenge wonders if articles such as these could be brought together more clearly. It’s a shame that category pages can’t be used as articles on this wiki. Maybe a family tree would work.
Map
Articles
- Underground Electric Railways Company of London
- Baker Street and Waterloo Railway
- Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway, a.k.a. Hampstead Tube Railway
- Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway
- Central London Railway
- City and South London Railway
- District Railway
- Metropolitan Railway
- Great Northern & City Railway
Related articles
Related lines
- London and Blackwall Railway (Docklands Light Railway)
- London, Chatham and Dover Railway
- North and South Western Junction Railway
- London and Croydon Railway
Categories
Search tools
[edit]An idea on-hold for a long time
[edit]One of Northernhenge’s early efforts (June 2010) was recreating the Whitland and Cardigan Railway using edits like this one, either to the railway station articles or the towns if they had no article. The town links were a bit controversial, though most of them survive as of August 2022. Since 2010, someone has created all the remaining station articles and added their own versions of the “rail line” links to the new pages, so Northernhenge’s original edits are redundant really. The original idea was to do the same thing elsewhere to recreate other vanished railway lines but, to avoid controversy, every former station would need its own article and it would be hard to demonstrate notability in many cases. Maybe navboxes would have worked better than “rail line” links.
Other wikis
[edit]Tip of the day etc.
[edit]- Useful citation tool
- Don't forget Wikipedia:Database download
- Explore Category:Lists based on Wikidata
- Tips...
Use
{{#section-h:Wikipedia:WikiProject Folklore|Monitoring}} to embed on a user page
Peer reviews
- 28 May 2025 – List of Greek deities (talk · edit · hist) has been put up for PR by Michael Aurel (t · c); see discussion
Requested moves
- 25 May 2025 – Crossing the Red Sea (talk · edit · hist) move request to Parting of the Red Sea by InfiniteNexus (t · c) was moved to Parting of the Red Sea (talk · edit · hist) by Vpab15 (t · c) on 05 Jun 2025; see discussion
Articles to be merged
- 09 Nov 2024 – Pseudo-mythology (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Invented tradition by Altenmann (t · c); see discussion
Articles to be split
- 06 Apr 2025 – Evil Queen (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by 94.246.147.217 (t · c); see discussion
Articles for creation
- 10 May 2025 – Draft:Devendra Sharma (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Saangit kalakar (t · c)
- 01 Jun 2025 – Draft:Seosamh Ó Dálaigh (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Gortaleen (t · c) was declined by GoldRomean (t · c) on 04 Jun 2025
- 30 May 2025 – Draft:Raghu Dakat (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by BengalMC (t · c) was declined by RangersRus (t · c) on 04 Jun 2025
- 02 Apr 2025 – Draft:Anoop Chandola (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Stefan Mitik (t · c) was declined by Yoblyblob (t · c) on 05 Jun 2025
- 19 Mar 2025 – Draft:Trooper and Maid (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Samsgirlfriend (t · c) was declined by Pegnawl (t · c) on 03 Jun 2025
- Watchlist
- The following articles are subject to problematic edits and require constant attention. You can help monitor their recent changes by adding them to your watchlist:
- More articles on the folklore watchlist (related changes).
- Assessment
- Assessment changes to articles monitored by this project:
- User TeX
- Cornish Wikipedians
- Deletionist Wikipedians
- Inclusionist Wikipedians
- Members of the Fifteen Year Society of Wikipedia editors
- Wikipedia pending changes reviewers
- Wikipedians who listen to folk music
- Wikipedians in Cumbria
- Members of the Ten Year Society of Wikipedia editors
- Wikipedians who listen to symphonic metal