User:Aussie Article Writer

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This Wikipedian remembers
SlimVirgin.

This user makes women green.

This user has reviewed 14 Good Article nominations on Wikipedia.

I am here to quietly create articles relating to Australia. I collect interesting facts. I edited under User:Chris.sherlock, User:Letsbefiends, User:Ta bu shi da yu and User:Tbsdy lives in the past.

I also try to give words of encouragement to those I see making significant contributions to Wikipedia.

My philosophy around reviewing GA nominations: in the vast majority of cases, the editor has worked hard at improving or expanding the article. What they really need is some pointers to improve the article to get it up to standard, and I will go out of my way towards collaborating with them to improve the article. In fact, I have been known to purchase the odd book to help improve or clarify references, and I don't fear going in and helping with a copyedit every now and again. Basically, I am on the side of any editor who shows they want to improve an article in good faith.

I'm currently taking a wikibreak... well sort of a wikibreak, but doing some wikignoming. I'm fixing references:

pass 1: go through the A articles, find any false positives, remove them - done
pass 2: go through the A articles, find any articles with only one problem reference, fix them - up to AG
pass 3: go through any short A articles, fix them
pass 4: go through the A articles, find ones with only a few references with issues
pass 5: find all the massive A articles, fix them

The process

Find the orphaned ref
check to see if citation template is correct
check if Harvard short cite template is correct
check early history to see if the source can be recovered
often times, this is not possible. In this case, do binary search for when it was added. When located, if no source:
1. hide ref, add {{citation needed}} next to it
2. note action on talk page
3. ask editor who added short ref if they know the source
4. in some cases, it may be possible to use Google to figure out the source, in that case just manually add it

Books I want to read

Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies by Charles Perrow
History and Achievement A portrait of the Honours Students of Professor George Arnold Wood
Three Women of Faith - finally got the book! - Aussie Article Writer (talk) 01:06, 21 July 2021 (UTC)
The Mind of God
Acting on Conscience - Fr Frank Brennan

Links

Wikipedia:WikiProject Women/Women in Green/Article alerts
User:Chris.sherlock/Australian Women In Red/Australian women
Category:Harv and Sfn no-target errors
- Note to self - if link is working, then add |ignore-err=yes
Category:Harv and Sfn multiple-target errors
Category watchlist

Articles written for WiR

Amy Hannah Adamson (1893–1963) headmistress
May Mabel Adamson (1891–1966) headmistress
Margaret Theadora Allan (1889–1968) community worker
Marion Ellen Lea Allnutt (1896–1980) welfare worker
Florence Anderson (1871-1949) trade unionist
Gail Archer, judge
Zara Aronson (1864–1944) journalist and charity worker
Mary Sophia Alston (1856 – 1932) philanthropist
Ida Nancy Ashburn (1909–1980) headmistress
Sylvia Rose Ashby (1908-1978) noted market researcher
Ellen Atkinson (1894-1965) Australian Aboriginal community leader
Charlotte Elizabeth (Lottie) Austin (1878–1933) community leader (unfinished)
Ada Winifred Weekes Baker (1866–1949) teacher of singing
Kate Baker (1861-1953) - teacher, influential figure of the mid-twentieth century Australian literary scene, and stalwart champion of Joseph Furphy