User:Derek Andrews

Some Wikipedians are receiving emails claiming to be from Derek Andrews, Senior Wikipedia Consultant, Global Wiki Experts and linking to my profile. These emails are not coming from me and are some kind of spam or scam.

I am a somewhat eclectic editor and have started articles on a diversive range of topics, including my medieval home town, a railway designed to carry ships overland in my new home province and a nearby environmental mess.

For a quick wiki-fix, I hang out in the back streets of Wikipedia at Category:Uncategorized pages or dead-end pages. This seems to be a good place to find needy articles that have been vandalised, or need a helping hand to look something like a Wikipedia article should look, or just simply put it out of their misery. I will also assign new articles to appropriate WikiProject as I find this usually gets them some immediate attention from an editor with an interest an expertise in subject matter that I can't be bothered with.

Lately I have started working my way through Category:Communities in Nova Scotia by county (Annapolis is done!) updating broken refs, and looking for opportunities to improve these articles, most of which will never be more than a stub, but nonetheless can provide some useful information. I have also been working on a few pages related to indigenous organizations in Nova Scotia, such as Native Council of Nova Scotia and Mi'kmaw Kina'matnewey.

The rest of this page is mainly a reference to (A) Wikipedia policies, guidelines, templates etc, and (B) external reference sources that I use on a regular basis.

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Essential resources

Directories Stub types Wiki projects Search List of Title Word Abbreviations

Policies and guidelines Notability Good writing Wikipedia:Writing better articles

Canadian resources Canadiana online Toporama Virtual museum Canada Canadian Architecture Archive Canadian Legal Information Institute Canadian Parliamentary Historical Resources Free Canadian History Publications Online (scroll down) The Ecological Framework of Canada Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Canada-related articles  Canadian Geographical Names Data Base <ref name=cnbg>{{cite cgndb|id=*****|name=???????|accessdate=6 November 2025}}</ref>  Canadian Register of Historic Places <ref name=chrp>{{CRHP|ID|name|6 November 2025}}</ref> See also Wikipedia:Canadian Register of Historic Places General resources Google newspaper archive Wayback machine WebCite Article stats Open source academic repository History of Science and Technology 1728 UN University collections Old Maps Online US Geographic names  Location maps {{Location map|Canada Nova Scotia|lat=|long=-|caption=Location of {{subst:PAGENAME}} in [[Nova Scotia]]|width=220}}  Coordinates {{Coord unknown|countryname}} {{coord|♣♣♣|♣♣♣|type:landmark_region:CA-NS|display=title}} Coord documentation Country codes WP Geographical coordinates Type — Precision

Nova Scotia WikiProject Nova Scotia {{WikiProject Canada|ns=yes|class=|importance=}} NS Open Data Portal traffic volumes NS civic address locator NS Electoral District Information Members of the NS Legislative Assembly NS legislation NS 2013 election results Nova Scotia archives NS Historical Newspapers MemoryNS NS community museums digitized History NS county boundaries NS Interactive Maps & Apps protected areas map List of designated places in Nova Scotia 2016 census search Category:Lists of historic places in Nova Scotia Collections of the Nova Scotia Historical Society Contents vols 1-20 Index Vols 1-9  Place-Names and Places of Nova Scotia For use in Further reading use: *{{NSplaces|pagenumber|sectionheading|}} For an inline reference use: <ref name="NSplaces">{{NSplaces|pagenumber|sectionheading|6 November 2025}}</ref> Mi'kmaq Ku'ku'kwes news INAC Tepi’ketuek - Mi’kmaw archives Mi'kmaw Place Names Canadian Aboriginal Law blog First Nation Profiles Interactive Map Mi’kmaw Bands in Nova Scotia (dates for establishment of reserves)

UK resources How to write about UK settlements British history online The Exeter Research and Institutional Content archive (ERIC) History of Parliament Online Hansard 1803-2005 A vision of Britain Heritage gateway ScotlandsPlaces Historic Environment Scotland Scotland's Census Historic England Newspapers @ Library of Wales Britain from above  British Newspaper Archive <ref> {{cite news |title=♣♣♣♣♣ |work=♣♣♣♣♣ |date=♣♣♣♣♣ |accessdate=6 November 2025 |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/♣♣♣♣♣| via = [[British Newspaper Archive]]|subscription=yes}}</ref> BNA Wikipedia Library BNA blog  Images of England {{IoEentry|♣♣##♣♣|♣♣title♣♣}} Somerset The history and antiquities of the county of Somerset by Collinson, 1757?-1793 Volume 2 of 3?

My to do list

New article ideas Mi'kmaw Kina'matnewey Eastern Woodland Métis Nation Nova Scotia Sou'West Nova Métis Council Henry Ketchum THE GREAT CHARTULARY OF GLASTONBURY [1] Sir Harry Stephen Meysey-Thompson, 1st Baronet [2][3][4] Sir Samuel Mico see Henry Edwards (1820–1897) Richard Mico [5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14] Halimote court The coal industry of Pictou County Sable River Migratory Bird Sanctuary Training Wikipedia:Training/doc Category:Wikipedia Criticism of Wikipedia Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2015-10-28/Community letter (facebook link for talk at library?)

Room for improvement all the FN articles for NS Cabot Links tidy + Cabot Cliffs Wells East Somerset railway station Wells Forum Wells Rural District Wells Theological College Wells by-election, 1939 The Old Deanery, Wells The Bishop's Barn, Wells The Bishop's Eye, Wells St John's Priory, Wells Peat extraction on the Somerset Levels Problem articles for review On Naval Timber and Arboriculture review 22 Sep 17

Routine maintenance Category:Wikipedia requested photographs - NS List of lakes in Nova Scotia Missing NS coordinates New Pages Articles for deletion Wikipedia:Community portal User:SuggestBot

Pages I have started Antoine Robidoux Atlantic Gateway Aquion Energy Besnard Lake Betty Mouat Boat Harbour, Nova Scotia - from a redirect Bow Fiddle Rock - from a redirect Bromley & Sheppard’s Colleges Chase the Ace (lottery) Chignecto Ship Railway The Gatehouse at Bonds Mill Gerry Cottle John Horwood King's Norton Stop Lock Korean War Memorial, Sydney Larsen trap Legging (canals) List of canal aqueducts in Great Britain List of canal locks in Great Britain List of public art in Halifax, Nova Scotia The Literary World (magazine) Lydney Canal Malthouse DYK March 17 2009 Mass mortality event Meare Pool Mi'kmaw Kina'matnewey Military Memorials of National Significance in Australia Native Council of Nova Scotia Nova Scotia Magazine Pictou Harbour Pidcock's Canal Soulanges Canal Temple of Jupiter, Damascus Thomas Hancock Nunn Thunderbird Strike Underwood Quarry Vicars' Close, Wells

Pages I have expanded Henry Greathead Millom Ponter's Ball Dyke Portgordon Thurleigh

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