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I work as an editor and writer for a number of publications, notably ECigIntelligence.com. Although inevitably the subject matter of my work intersects with that of my Wikipedia editing, all opinions expressed here are my own and are not necessarily the same as my employers' and clients'. I do not hold shares or investments of any kind in any business, nor do I receive any income from any source other than the customers who pay me for journalistic work. Barnabypage ( talk) 08:16, 16 December 2014 (UTC)
Infoboxes from the mists of time
One day I will get these into some kind of rational order...
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| ; | This user is addicted to semicolons; they use them frequently. |
| ANAL 5 | This user is incredibly stringent with professional grammar. |
| Mix | This user has been influenced by too many dialects of English to use one orthography, vocabulary and grammar consistently. |
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coffee, not cream / sugar / hazelnut / what have you. |
| 21 | This user thinks that 21 units of alcohol a week is not enough. |
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| This user is interested in their local history. |
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Criminology. |
| up Clue dn | This user is interested in Crosswords. |
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| Er... | This user is ( cont. page 94) |
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| Kubrick | This user thinks that Stanley Kubrick is the greatest director of all time. |
 | This user thinks 2001: A Space Odyssey is the best science fiction film ever made. |
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 | This user is interested in contributing to articles on panic attacks and related disorders. |
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Regional newspaper circulations still to do
NB everything before Jersey Evening Post - need to change dates to Jan-June 2011
Northampton Chronicle & Echo 16,414 -6.1pc Bournemouth Echo 26,818 -6.2pc Swindon Advertiser 18,059 -6.2pc Wigan Evening Post 7,092 -6.3pc Exeter, Express & Echo 16,586 -6.5pc The Northern Echo 41,181 -6.5pc The Herald, Plymouth 29,709 -6.6pc The Journal, Newcastle 26,280 -6.9pc Sunderland Echo & Football Echo 32,771 -6.9pc The Citizen 19,917 -7pc Bradford Telegraph & Argus 26,766 -7.2pc Edinburgh Evening News 39,947 -7.2pc Gloucestershire Echo 15,895 -7.3pc Oxford Mail 19,062 -7.4pc Express & Star 113,174 -7.4pc South Wales Echo 32,754 -7.4pc Western Morning News 31,058 -7.5pc Southern Daily Echo 31,964 -7.5pc Bristol Evening Post 38,344 -7.6pc Lincolnshire Echo 17,151 -7.6pc Derby Telegraph 32,356 -7.8pc Glasgow Evening Times 52,400 -7.8pc Coventry Telegraph 34,359 -7.9pc Newcastle Evening Chronicle 52,486 -8.1pc Birmingham Mail 47,217 -8.1pc Hull Daily Mail 43,523 -8.2pc The News, Portsmouth 41,442 -8.3pc Halifax Courier 15,759 -8.3pc North West Evening Mail 14,132 -8.4pc Lancashire Telegraph 23,260 -8.5pc Leicester Mercury 51,150 -8.6pc Shropshire Star 55,606 -8.7pc The Gazette, Blackpool 22,074 -8.9pc Sheffield Star & Green ‘Un 37,255 -8.9pc The Western Mail 26,931 -8.9pc Scunthorpe Telegraph (Now weekly) 15,678 -9.1pc The Bolton News 21,940 -9.2pc Grimsby Telegraph 25,974 -9.7pc Oldham Evening Chronicle 14,451 -9.9pc Carlisle News and Star (West) 4,938 -10.1pc Carlisle News and Star (East) 12,290 -10.5pc Colchester Evening Gazette 16,165 -10.6pc Western Daily Press 28,322 -11pc Belfast Telegraph 59,319 -11.9pc Lancashire Evening Post 23,183 -12.5pc The Leader (Wrexham, Flintshire & Chester) 16,131 -12.5pc Doncaster Star 2,327 -14.1pc Sunday Life 55,067 -14.1pc Yorkshire Evening Post 36,512 -14.6pc Nottingham Post 35,361 -16.9pc Sunday Mercury 41,851 Bedfordshire on Sunday 79,064 Luton on Sunday 76,176 Newcastle-Upon-Tyne Sunday Sun 49,998 Wales on Sunday 27,227
|circulation = 23,332 (December 2010-June 2011)<ref name="circ">{{cite news | url=http://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/2011/news/norwich-daily-tops-regional-circulation-league| title= ABC figures: How the regional dailies performed |work=HoldTheFrontPage |location=UK | accessdate=25 September 2011 | date=31 August 2011}} </ref>
In the period December 2010-June 2011, it had an average daily circulation of 24,949.<ref name="circ">{{cite news | url=http://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/2011/news/norwich-daily-tops-regional-circulation-league| title= ABC figures: How the regional dailies performed |work=HoldTheFrontPage |location=UK | accessdate=25 September 2011 | date=31 August 2011}} </ref>
WikiProject Organ
Would you be interested in joining/starting an Organ project? I have found a Pipe organ/refactor project but it doesn't seem to do a lot. There seems to be lots of work that needs doing, not just to the instrument pages, but also to composers/works etc. Best, Mdcollins1984 12:48, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
- Sure. I am better on repertoire and individual historic organs than on detailed mechanics. Barnabypage 14:17, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
Useful
Some stuff on the history of magazine fact-checking at http://www.rrj.ca/m8608/
Articles for copy-edit soon
- Retail media needs links tidying
- Pipe organ - done!
- Future of newspapers - lots happening here but it could do with a once-over
- Invisibility
- Affiliate marketing
- The Times
- Indian cuisine
- Google News
- Ghostwriting
- Werewolf
Candidates for expansion
- Sunk Island
- Ewan Christian
- architecture section of Essex
Candidates for big-time overhaul
- Billboard (advertising) - in dire need of help
- Psycho (1960 film)
- Printing
- Casino
- Lawford is full of junk - think I fixed this tho?
- Norwich now needs a lot of work - particularly moving all the economy/business bits together
- Benjamin Britten is very weak compared with the Elgar article
- Newspaper is looking pretty messy now
- and News style is in dire need too
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- User en-N
- User fr-1
- User it-1
- Wikipedians interested in history
- Wikipedians interested in art history
- Wikipedians interested in World War II
- Wikipedians interested in the British Empire
- Wikipedians interested in the Victorian period
- Wikipedians interested in criminology
- Wikipedians interested in architecture
- Wikipedians interested in Stanley Kubrick films
- Wikipedians by alma mater: University of East Anglia
- Wikipedians in the European Union
- Wikipedians from Essex
- Wikipedians in Essex
- Wikipedian professional writers
The usual disclaimer
I work as an editor and writer for a number of publications, notably ECigIntelligence.com. Although inevitably the subject matter of my work intersects with that of my Wikipedia editing, all opinions expressed here are my own and are not necessarily the same as my employers' and clients'. I do not hold shares or investments of any kind in any business, nor do I receive any income from any source other than the customers who pay me for journalistic work. Barnabypage ( talk) 08:16, 16 December 2014 (UTC)
Infoboxes from the mists of time
One day I will get these into some kind of rational order...
| en | This user is a native speaker of the English language. |
| fr-1 | Cet utilisateur peut contribuer avec un niveau élémentaire de français. |
|
| This user employs a more formal style of writing in articles than in talk pages. |
| English Singulars: "The data is..." | This user recognizes that "data", "media", and "agenda" have become incorporated into English as singular nouns. |
| “,;:’ | This user is a punctuation stickler. |
| ; | This user is addicted to semicolons; they use them frequently. |
| ANAL 5 | This user is incredibly stringent with professional grammar. |
| Mix | This user has been influenced by too many dialects of English to use one orthography, vocabulary and grammar consistently. |
|
| This user loves Great Danes. |
|
| This user has a profile on MySpace as theruleoffive. |
|
| This user likes the taste of
coffee, not cream / sugar / hazelnut / what have you. |
| 21 | This user thinks that 21 units of alcohol a week is not enough. |
|
| This user is interested in history. |
|
| This user is interested in art history. |
| This user is interested in their local history. |
|
| This user is interested in World War II. |
|
| This user is interested in the British Empire. |
|
| This user is interested in the Victorian period. |
|
| This user is a bibliophile. |
|
| This user is interested in
Criminology. |
| up Clue dn | This user is interested in Crosswords. |
|
| This user likes alternative rock. |
|
| This user enjoys Classical music. |
|
| This user is interested in architecture. |
|
| This user enjoys writing. |
|
| This user is addicted to travel. |
| Er... | This user is ( cont. page 94) |
|
| This user is informed by The Wall Street Journal. |
| Kubrick | This user thinks that Stanley Kubrick is the greatest director of all time. |
|
| This user thinks 2001: A Space Odyssey is the best science fiction film ever made. |
| This user attends or attended the University of East Anglia. |
|
| This user is interested in contributing to articles on panic attacks and related disorders. |
|
| This user is from Essex |
|
| This user scored 4248 on the Wikipediholic test. |
|
| This user is a professional writer or journalist. |
Regional newspaper circulations still to do
NB everything before Jersey Evening Post - need to change dates to Jan-June 2011
Northampton Chronicle & Echo 16,414 -6.1pc Bournemouth Echo 26,818 -6.2pc Swindon Advertiser 18,059 -6.2pc Wigan Evening Post 7,092 -6.3pc Exeter, Express & Echo 16,586 -6.5pc The Northern Echo 41,181 -6.5pc The Herald, Plymouth 29,709 -6.6pc The Journal, Newcastle 26,280 -6.9pc Sunderland Echo & Football Echo 32,771 -6.9pc The Citizen 19,917 -7pc Bradford Telegraph & Argus 26,766 -7.2pc Edinburgh Evening News 39,947 -7.2pc Gloucestershire Echo 15,895 -7.3pc Oxford Mail 19,062 -7.4pc Express & Star 113,174 -7.4pc South Wales Echo 32,754 -7.4pc Western Morning News 31,058 -7.5pc Southern Daily Echo 31,964 -7.5pc Bristol Evening Post 38,344 -7.6pc Lincolnshire Echo 17,151 -7.6pc Derby Telegraph 32,356 -7.8pc Glasgow Evening Times 52,400 -7.8pc Coventry Telegraph 34,359 -7.9pc Newcastle Evening Chronicle 52,486 -8.1pc Birmingham Mail 47,217 -8.1pc Hull Daily Mail 43,523 -8.2pc The News, Portsmouth 41,442 -8.3pc Halifax Courier 15,759 -8.3pc North West Evening Mail 14,132 -8.4pc Lancashire Telegraph 23,260 -8.5pc Leicester Mercury 51,150 -8.6pc Shropshire Star 55,606 -8.7pc The Gazette, Blackpool 22,074 -8.9pc Sheffield Star & Green ‘Un 37,255 -8.9pc The Western Mail 26,931 -8.9pc Scunthorpe Telegraph (Now weekly) 15,678 -9.1pc The Bolton News 21,940 -9.2pc Grimsby Telegraph 25,974 -9.7pc Oldham Evening Chronicle 14,451 -9.9pc Carlisle News and Star (West) 4,938 -10.1pc Carlisle News and Star (East) 12,290 -10.5pc Colchester Evening Gazette 16,165 -10.6pc Western Daily Press 28,322 -11pc Belfast Telegraph 59,319 -11.9pc Lancashire Evening Post 23,183 -12.5pc The Leader (Wrexham, Flintshire & Chester) 16,131 -12.5pc Doncaster Star 2,327 -14.1pc Sunday Life 55,067 -14.1pc Yorkshire Evening Post 36,512 -14.6pc Nottingham Post 35,361 -16.9pc Sunday Mercury 41,851 Bedfordshire on Sunday 79,064 Luton on Sunday 76,176 Newcastle-Upon-Tyne Sunday Sun 49,998 Wales on Sunday 27,227
|circulation = 23,332 (December 2010-June 2011)<ref name="circ">{{cite news | url=http://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/2011/news/norwich-daily-tops-regional-circulation-league| title= ABC figures: How the regional dailies performed |work=HoldTheFrontPage |location=UK | accessdate=25 September 2011 | date=31 August 2011}} </ref>
In the period December 2010-June 2011, it had an average daily circulation of 24,949.<ref name="circ">{{cite news | url=http://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/2011/news/norwich-daily-tops-regional-circulation-league| title= ABC figures: How the regional dailies performed |work=HoldTheFrontPage |location=UK | accessdate=25 September 2011 | date=31 August 2011}} </ref>
WikiProject Organ
Would you be interested in joining/starting an Organ project? I have found a Pipe organ/refactor project but it doesn't seem to do a lot. There seems to be lots of work that needs doing, not just to the instrument pages, but also to composers/works etc. Best, Mdcollins1984 12:48, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
- Sure. I am better on repertoire and individual historic organs than on detailed mechanics. Barnabypage 14:17, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
Useful
Some stuff on the history of magazine fact-checking at http://www.rrj.ca/m8608/
Articles for copy-edit soon
- Retail media needs links tidying
- Pipe organ - done!
- Future of newspapers - lots happening here but it could do with a once-over
- Invisibility
- Affiliate marketing
- The Times
- Indian cuisine
- Google News
- Ghostwriting
- Werewolf
Candidates for expansion
- Sunk Island
- Ewan Christian
- architecture section of Essex
Candidates for big-time overhaul
- Billboard (advertising) - in dire need of help
- Psycho (1960 film)
- Printing
- Casino
- Lawford is full of junk - think I fixed this tho?
- Norwich now needs a lot of work - particularly moving all the economy/business bits together
- Benjamin Britten is very weak compared with the Elgar article
- Newspaper is looking pretty messy now
- and News style is in dire need too
Categories:
- User en-N
- User fr-1
- User it-1
- Wikipedians interested in history
- Wikipedians interested in art history
- Wikipedians interested in World War II
- Wikipedians interested in the British Empire
- Wikipedians interested in the Victorian period
- Wikipedians interested in criminology
- Wikipedians interested in architecture
- Wikipedians interested in Stanley Kubrick films
- Wikipedians by alma mater: University of East Anglia
- Wikipedians in the European Union
- Wikipedians from Essex
- Wikipedians in Essex
- Wikipedian professional writers