User:SurreyJohn
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Nationality | British | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Current location | Weybridge, Surrey | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Occupation | Analyst | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Employer | (retired) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
High school | Wirral Grammar | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
College | RCS, London | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
University | London | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Hobbies | Ancestry, Birds, Classical music, Travel, Video, Wildlife Photography | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Joined | 23 April 2012 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
First edit | 26 July 2014 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Edit count | Edit count for SurreyJohn | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Signature | SurreyJohn (Talk) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Mission: | To visit a different country every year. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Edit Summary: | General Statistics |
I am John, an early-retired Analytical chemist and scientist, born in Merseyside, now living in Surrey and was making good use of my time by addicting extra and hopefully useful information to Wikipedia. For the last 15 years of my working life I was an IT analyst, working for a global pharmaceutical company.
Being analytical and an IT professional in a highly regulated industry I am well suited to the provision of detailed factual information, validation, and compliance so I expect my contributions will be somewhat based on analysis of information form different sources, or addition of some detailed natural photos, since travel, nature and photography are my key hobbies and pastimes. Although a fan of Wikipedia for many years, I only started contributing in July 2014.
Recently I have become despondent with Wikipedia. Factually correct articles have been deleted because someone decided they are not important. Some of my own images removed on copyright grounds, and I and generally fed up with some very difficult and argumentative people. Information which is clearly correct and verifiable from the internet, should not require independent references but it seems too many people (or robot bots) are only too willing to delete hard work done by others. I am therefore taking a back seat and do not intend to write any new articles. Do not be surprised if I do not reply to messages.
Help for Me
[edit]Some of the useful Wikipedia help topics are listed here:
- Help:Wiki markup - how to use the markup
- Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners - how to include references
- Wikipedia:Article development – how to develop your article
- Wikipedia:Writing better articles – how to improve your article
- Wikipedia:Sources – make sure your article includes reliable third-party sources
- List of infoboxes (typically used in top-right of a page)
- Use of userboxes. See also List of userboxes (shared by a special UBX dummy account))
- FileInfo - Commons File uploader (for Flickr, Picasa, etc)
More information will follow!
Pages I've Created
[edit]Page creations and significant revisions:
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Birds
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UserBox Templates (User:UBX NameSpace)
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Madagascar's Parks
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UserBox Templates (Template NameSpace)
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Iguana and Reptiles (of Madagascar) | My ToDo List
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Technology | Other Wildlife |
Classical Music | Animated GIF Files
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(*) = Revision
My Photos
[edit]This is a very small selection of the many holiday photos I have taken over the years. I have only added photos where I think they may be useful (or better) than ones already present. I avoid removing other people’s photos, instead adding mine to sit alongside, or as part of a gallery section. If you need a picture, video clip or GIF (mainly of wildlife), just ask and you may be given.
British Birds
[edit]Various photos of British birds (2010 - date)
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Rook at the cafe, Marwell Zoo
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Rook at the cafe, Marwell Zoo
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Rook
Madagascar Lemurs
[edit]I have been to Madagascar twice; once in 2003 and again in 2014. Most of the photos (and video) concentrate on the lemurs I saw, although there's inevitably a large number of photos of the birds and other wildlife. I have only uploaded photos here used on other WikipediA pages.
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Male Black lemur at Nosy Komba
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Male Black lemur at Nosy Komba
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Male Black lemur at Nosy Komba
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Diademed sifaka and baby at Périnet
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Diademed sifaka and baby at Périnet
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Red-fronted brown lemur at Lemur Island, Vakona Forest Lodge
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Red-fronted brown lemur (deep in thought) as Isalo National Park
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Red-fronted brown lemur (showing teeth) at Isalo National Park
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Rufus (or Red or Brown) Mouse Lemur at Lemurs' Park
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Verreaux's sifaka hopping at Berenty Reserve
Madagascar Birds
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Benson's rock thrush (male)
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Benson's rock thrush (female)
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Crested drongo holding a frog
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Grey Emutail (or Feather-tailed warbler)
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Madagascan harrier-hawk near Mahaboboka
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Madagascan harrier-hawk near Mahaboboka
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Madagascan harrier-hawk near Mahaboboka
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Madagascan harrier-hawk near Mahaboboka
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Madagascan harrier-hawk near Mahaboboka
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Red-tailed tropicbird (young)
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Red-tailed tropicbird (nesting)
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Sakalava Weaver (f)
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Sakalava Weaver (f)
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White-fronted Plover at Nosy Ve
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White-browed hawk-owl at Berenty Reserve (2003)
Insects
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Malagasy Lantern Bug Nymph (Zanna madagascariensis)
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Elephant Head Caterpiller (Deilephila elpenor) showing size
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Elephant Head Caterpiller (Deilephila elpenor) showing head and spine
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Elephant Head Caterpiller (Deilephila elpenor) showing body segments and 8 feet
Madagascan Reptiles
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Chameleons tongue striking at food at Peyrieras Reptile Reserve
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Madagascar Spiny Tailed or Collared Iguana at Peyrieras Reptile Reserve
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Madagascar Day Gecko at Peyrieras Reptile Reserve
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Panther Chameleon showing tongue at Peyrieras Reptile Reserve
Other Birds
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Himalayan Monal (male) at Birdworld, Farnham
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Himalayan Monal (female) at Birdworld, Farnham