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User:Josh Parris

Josh Parris - Personal site; Baby naming - I'm Josh_Parris on freenode and use the cloak wikipedia/JoshParris

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Current Work

WP:New Page Patrol, remember
User:Uncle_G/Wikipedia triage and
User:The_Bipolar_Anon-IP_Gnome/John_Q._Public and
Wikipedia:Where to get feedback on your new article
Wikipedia:INCUBATE
My New Pages

If I ever start harbouring thoughts about adminship:

Wikipedia:Articles_for_creation is a rewarding place to go.

I'm trying to figure out how copper is mined and refined. See my work in progress: User:Josh Parris/copper

And I follow the contributions of User:Adam Johnston closely - he's very knowledgable on mining. His writings are a bit on the technical side, 'tho. I'm waiting for comment from Adam on the following articles:

I'm still working on:

Analysis

To do

Check ISBNs And I've got to get back to the ISBNs in Category:ISBN needed using the book reference template (Wikipedia:Template messages/Sources of articles/Generic citations). Remember to search for "ISBN:" using User:Topbanana/Reports/This article may contain a badly formed ISBN reference if its ever re-run.

Oh, and check out Wikipedia:Offline reports/This is one of the most linked to disambiguation pages. Disambiguate when bored (use Wikipedia:Manual of Style (disambiguation pages):

Disasters

Require MoS (dab) to be applied OR other work

Lots of disambiguation to be done

  • Binary
  • Bridge
  • End of the World
  • Flash
  • Gothic
  • Post
  • Reciprocity
  • Spike
  • Work

Mostly under control

  • Hacking the remaining links are for uses for which there are not articles at this time. So, do I create stubs, redirects, or what?
  • Essendon Ettrick Exchange The Exchange Eidolon
  • Fish (disambiguation) Flagstaff Flotation Futures
  • Gauntlet GM Grampus Grinder
  • Hex Homo I can't monitor this at work
  • Independence (disambiguation)
  • John Moore JR
  • Lint
  • Mummification
  • Nama NAMA nappy
  • Private PLS Pandæmonium Prospector
  • Rod Rage Reasons Roadblock
  • script scripting segment segmentation sinker Sierra SMF staple Southbank St Kilda Stair

Disambiguation that is Under Control

  • Above the line Accolade Ark ARK Arc Arcanum Accelerator Arcus
  • Be Ballistic Beamer Bed Behind Enemy Lines Below the line Brace Bliss Bug, Bugs and Buggy Ball (baseball) Bump
  • Castlemaine Coke Crib Crèche cot copy
  • DAB Dab Denomination
  • Silver Shadow
  • The Day The Truth Tailing
  • Xavier
  • Yonge

Disambiguation that requires frequent monitoring to keep Under Control

  • CGI
  • Division
  • Dominican
  • Fraction
  • ISP IP] Independent
  • Mercury
  • Peer
  • Victoria and Victorian

Other todos

The Signpost
27 February 2025
Here are some WikiProject Melbourne articles which attract a high number of "page hits" but are only rated as Stub Class, or otherwise need additional citations or attention:
Suburbs: Derrimut, South Wharf, Menzies Creek, Save Our State (Australia)
Landmarks: 101 Collins Street, 120 Collins Street, Bourke Place, Hamer Hall, Melbourne Mint
Events: Melbourne International Festival of Brass, Melbourne Underground Film Festival, Great Bookie Robbery, Extreme weather events in Melbourne
Transport: All of the stations on the Puffing Billy Railway need expanding or merging to the main article, especially the request stops which are just tin sheds
Sporting Clubs: Caroline Springs George Cross FC
Streets: Little Bourke Street, Hardware Lane, Hosier Lane
People: Alannah Hill, Meek (street artist), Vexta
Institutions: Eltham High School, Glen Eira Town Hall, Boxing Day Test
Venues:
Miscellaneous: Collins St., 5 pm, Yarra Valley, Coops Shot Tower, Melbourne Talk Radio, Melbourne University Publishing, The Herald and Weekly Times,
or discuss this list.



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Quelle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Josh_Parris