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[edit] Favourite wikipedian quotes

Life's not easy when you're green
Life's not easy when you're green

[edit] Boilerplates

my boilerplates | Wikipedia:Boilerplate text

[edit] Image licence stuff

  • {{NowCommonsThis}} and {{NowCommons}}
  • on commons: {{self2|GFDL|cc-by-sa-2.5,2.0,1.0}}
  • on enwikipedia: {{GFDL}} {{cc-by-sa-2.5}} {{cc-by-sa-2.0}} {{cc-by-sa-1.0}}

[edit] Personal sandboxes and other stuff

User:Finlay McWalter/sandbox | User:Finlay McWalter/sandbox2 | Finlay McWalter/Gently handling newbie autobiographies

[edit] Proposed wikipedia mottos

  • Wikipedia: where lack of people-skills is an asset, not a liability
  • Wikipedia - also known as Unemployed Ph.D Deathmatch
  • There is nothing so trivial that it will offend no one
  • Adminship is a wet blanket, not a bejeweled codpiece

[edit] Chicken soup for the troubled Wikipedian

  • If you're annoyed, or angry, or depressed by wikipedia, take a week off and chill. Exposure to real life will cure you.
  • If you're getting into frequent pointless edit and flame wars in controversial subjects like abortion and zionism, spend some time instead editing something else you care about - your home town, your favourite band, the last excellent book you read.
  • If you only want to edit controversial topics like abortion and zionism then, well, you're the architect of your own hypertension.

[edit] Brag sheet (sigh)

I very rarely author a new article (generally only when I feel it's needed to bridge a gap between articles I'm copyediting). Instead, I much prefer to polish, reorder, edit, and generally grind to dust others' work. I seem in particular to have a weakness/talent for saving potentially worthy articles from the slavering jaws of VfD. Some articles which are hopefully better for my ministrations include:

Grim Fandango | Area 51 | Hands of Victory | Lech Walesa | George Galloway | Armadillo Aerospace | Martin Sheen | Bitkeeper | Esteban De Jesus | List of US political families | Gatorade | William Gibson | Barnes & Noble | Tetra Pak | Jim Dale | Tera Patrick | Jakob Nielsen | Blood Music | Leech | HMS Enterprise | Thistledown | Antiretroviral drug | Crag and tail | Tay Rail Bridge | William Crowther | Stirling | Gonzo | Stirling Castle | Adolf Loos | Yang Liwei | University of Stirling | Dunblane Massacre | MacRobert Arts Centre | Endorheic lake | Theo de Raadt | Las Vegas 51s | Flag of Scotland | Midoru | Starbucks | Jennifer Saunders | Steve Vai | DG Bank building | 7-Zip | 7z | LZMA | Utah teapot | fjord | London | Deus Ex: Invisible War | Gutta-percha | Ghost of the Robot | Parkour | A Man Called Horse (1970) | Chainsaw | Rakhigarhi | Vanity of Duluoz | black fax | Martin O'Neill (footballer) | Rangers F.C. | James Webb Space Telescope | Caledonian MacBrayne | Città di Castello | Igor Kurchatov | Cambuskenneth Abbey | Pelagic zone | San Ysidro, California | Quorn | Yanbu' al Bahr | University of Glasgow | Circlestrafing | Aimbot | Emily Strange | Luis Guzmán | Grand Theft Auto: Vice City | Head-Up Display | Wolfgang Borchert | Ino Tadataka | Liverpool Cathedral | Skye Bridge | Robbie the Pict | Dalgety Bay | Rlogin | Peter Atkins | Curb extension | Travelocity | Durex | iPlanet | Rocket Arena | History of Scotland | Prehistoric Scotland | Point Arena, California | Brian Glover | Paul Hogan (actor) | Spybot - Search & Destroy | Ranulph Fiennes | Permalink | Waverley Station | Scott Monument | Eduardo Paolozzi | National Gallery of Scotland | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery | Taelons | Semipalatinsk Test Site | Semey | Marilyn Hall Patel | Skipp Sudduth | Barbara Cassani | EG&G | Montjuïc | The Gruffalo | More4 | Ludovic Kennedy | Devil's Beef Tub | Gulf of Corryvreckan | U.S. border preclearance | Stirling City, California | Zoloti Vorota | King William Island | James Ross Straight | Trans-Siberian Railway | Turkestan-Siberia Railway | Logical block addressing | Gjøa | Sativa | Peter Mullan | Impact winter | plat of Zion | John Steell | WinRK | Fred MacAulay | Mark Douglas-Home | Glasgow Central Mosque | St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art | Glasgow College of Nautical Studies | Rosenbaum House | Blackstar (spaceplane) | Richard Nickel | Nolo.com | Ben Rich | Otto Nordenskiöld | CMGI | Chemdex.com | Ringnes | William Edward Colby | Buckaroo (game) | FastCGI | Appledore Shipbuilders | Llewellyn Thompson | Pringle of Scotland

(and if you can see any pattern whatever in that lot, you win a prize)

But mostly I fix links, move commas around, and rearrange sentences so they don't begin with conjunctions (like this one). I sometimes unsplit infinitives (deliberately), but if I change english to american spelling or vice versa, that's just an accident (not some sinister policy).

[edit] Images and other media

[edit] Images I took/created myself

I've uploaded a few of my photos to wikipedia (mostly from around Scotland). More (non GFDL ones) can be seen in the gallery on my homepage.


[edit] Here

(most migrating to commons, slowly:

Thomas Telford bridge in Bannockburn | Cambuskenneth Abbey | The River Forth near Stirling | The Bannockburn Memorial | Stirling University | Stirling Castle | My rendering of the famous Utah Teapot | The pool at Stirling University | The main stand of Ibrox Stadium | C.R.Mackintosh's "The Lighthouse" | Glasgow School of Art | Scotland Street school | Stansted Airport | Daily Record | Clyde Auditorium | Glasgow City Hall | Modern buildings at Glasgow Uni | Terraced buildings at Glasgow Uni | Model of old Glasgow Uni | Glasgow Underground | Glasgow Science Centre | Loch Fyne | River Clyde | River Tweed | Abbotsford House | David Stirling statue | Lewis chessmen | Guggenheim exterior | Guggenheim interior | Point Arena lighthouse | Russian River | Castro Street, Mountain View | Monument Valley | Devil Sticks | National Gallery of Scotland | Royal Scottish Academy building | Edinburgh from Arthur's Seat | Ticket hall ceiling at Waverley | Construction of the new Scottish Parliament | Holyrood Palace | Semipalatinsk test site location | Semipalatinsk test site closeup | Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art | Jencks' Landform

[edit] On commons

Barr's Irn Bru | Stirling Castle at night | Calder sculpture | Rivers Kelvin and Clyde | Kelvin Hall | Bells Bridge | Kelvingrove Museum (back) | Bells Bridge open | Kelvingrove Museum (front) | Buchanan Galleries (external) | Kelvingrove Park | Buchanan Galleries (internal) | Kingston Bridge | Buchanan Street | Millennium Bridge Glasgow | Burton | Queen Street Station (inside) | Finnieston Crane and North Rotunda | Queen Street Station glasgow (external) | Statue of Donald Dewar | Rigid Raider | Dorothy Perkins | SECC and Clyde Auditorium | Royal Concert Hall | SECC | GoMA | South Rotunda | John Lewis | St Enoch Square | Wallace Monument | Barcelona stadium | Islay | Pelagic diagram | Burrell Collection | Clyde Tunnel | Pollok Country Park | Bridge in Pollok Park | St Mary's Cathedral | Victoria Park | Pollok House | M8 motorway | Bridge to nowhere | Abbey Craig | St Judes, Glasgow | Shetland map | Barras Market | Barrowland Ballroom | CCTV van | Botanic Gardens | Glasgow Uni library | Glasgow Uni reading room | Glasgow Uni Union | People's Palace front | People's Palace back | Queen Margaret Union | St Andrews Cathedral | Tron church | Federal lands in southern Nevada | Cape Ann | University Ave, Palo Alto | Wellington Church | Duke of Wellington statue | Barras Market(1) | Barras Market(2) | Craigellachie Bridge | Calder mercury sculpture | Linlithgow railway station | Stirling station front | Stirling station platforms | Larbert railway station | Camelon railway station | Falkirk Grahamston railway station | Polmont railway station | Haymarket platforms | Scottish Institute of Sport | Central mosque front | Central mosque side | Glasgow Cathedral | Glasgow Necropolis | Glasgow Royal Infirmary | Glasgow College of Nautical Studies | Bannockburn street | Bannock Burn | Victoria Quay | Ocean Terminal

[edit] Test images

Shetland map

[edit] Images I uploaded that others took

[edit] Fair use

Gruffalo | Ludovic Kennedy | Luther Arkwright | Simon Bisley | Bill Sienkiewicz | Scottish Institute of Sport | William Fichtner | Cygwin/X | EG&G logo | Emily Strange | Nolo press logo

[edit] Here

(to move to commons)

Whisky still | Whisky kiln | Whisky malt | Whisky maturing in casks | Whisky brewing in washbacks | Kansai airport overview | Kansai airport closeup | Yanbu' al Bahr | Skara Brae | Lochgelly Band | Bute | Arran | Cowal peninsula | Socotra

[edit] On commons

Baffin Island | Extraterrestrial highway | Area 51 sign | Treasure Island | Hans Island | Islay | Firth of Forth | Jura | JANET aircraft | Forth bridges | Devil's Beef Tub | Pyramid Lake | Stirling City | King William Island | James Ross Straight | Rosenbaum House exterior | Rosenbaum House interior | Bathurst Island | Somerset Island | Vancouver Island | Prince of Wales Island | Southampton Island | Melville Island | Axel Heiberg Island | Devon Island | Banks Island | Ellesmere Island | Victoria Island | Loch Leven | Rathlin Island | Stewart Island | Antarctic Peninsula | Cape Breton Island | Cornwallis Island | Ellef Ringnes Island | Giordano Bruno crater | Graham Island, Nunavut | Lake Edward and Lake George | Lough Neagh | Prince Charles Island | Prince Patrick Island | Sverdrup Islands | Tarim Basin | Boathouse Row | Shiba inu puppy | Suisun fleet | Suisun fleet closeup | Herschell Island location | Herschell Island closeup | Sun at Agnews | Benicia bridge | Candlestick Park | Diomede islands | Mare Island | Nellis Range redactions | Kezar Stadium | Shoreline Amphitheatre | Carquinez Bridge | St.Lawrence Island | Richmond-San Rafael bridge | Twin Peaks | Ardnamurchan | Clear Lake | Honey Lake | Red Rock Island | San Luis Reservoir | Lake Almanor | Lake Berryessa | Lake Casitas | Lake Isabella | Isle of Lewis | Walker Lake | Mono Lake | Image:Wfm us embassy llewellyn thompson.jpg

[edit] Audio

Ballblazer (music) | Gruffalo (spoken)

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