User:Lopifalko

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This user participates in WikiProject Photography.

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History of Photography.

This user participates in WikiProject Visual arts.

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WikiProject Biography.

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Me

I am Pete Boyd. I write Wikipedia articles about photographers and photography, and try to keep any photography-related articles in some semblance of order. I also write and work on various biographies, articles about art, music, current affairs, tech, etc. I also review draft articles that are submitted through the Articles for Creation process, perform New Page Patrol of new directly-created articles, and take part in the Articles for Deletion process assessing whether or not to delete.

My contributions, described in someone else's words: "...now the page is clearly stronger because of your encouragement/edits. I really appreciate it! It's lovely to have folks like you making so many wikipedia pages for photographers and photography-related folks" – 18 July 2018

(In the past I occasionally used the account Pete.M.Boyd, to upload photographs to Wikimedia Commons so they were attributed to a real name for establishing ownership. I will only use that account on occasion in future for the sake of security as per WP:SOCKLEGIT.)

Wikipedia articles I started / wrote

Photographers and photography related people

Photography organisations, publishers, galleries, festivals, collectives, etc

Photography books, films and exhibitions

Photography Awards

Photography technology incl. cameras

Musicians and bands

Albums

Record labels

Visual art

Writers, journalists

Books, newspapers, magazines

Filmmakers and actors

Films, TV, and YouTube channels

Theatre

Activists, campaigners

Science and scientists

Charities, campaigns, movements

Places / geographic things

Companies, Web sites, government, etc

Technology

Lawmaking

Climate and Ecological Emergency Bill (now Climate and Nature Bill)
Environment Bill (now Environment Act 2021)
Coronavirus Bill 2019–21 (now Coronavirus Act 2020)
Public Order Bill (now Public Order Act 2023)
EU–US Data Privacy Framework

COVID-19

Other

Wikipedia articles I expanded significantly from stubs

Jason Eskenazi

Draft articles I'm working on

Disambiguation pages created

26A (disambiguation)

Helpful pages for editing

General

Article wizard/Ready for submission – create a new article
Draft:MAKE_A_DRAFT_ARTICLE
Wikipedia:How to make a redirect
Pageviews Analysis
Cheatsheet
WP:N – Notability
- Template:Notability
- WP:BIO – Notability (people) — WP:NBASIC, WP:ANYBIO
  - WP:ARTIST – Additional criteria: Creative professionals
  - WP:NPROF / WP:NACADEMIC – Additional criteria: Academics
  - [[WP:BLP1E]] – Subjects notable only for one event
- WP:ORG – Notability (organizations and companies)
- WP:GNG – Notability – General notability guideline
Vandalism
Citation / sourcing
- Wikipedia:CITE#HOW – Wikipedia:Citing sources – What information to include
- Identifying reliable sources: [[WP:RELIABLE]]
- Citation templates, Template:Cite_web, Template:Cite_book
- WP:ABOUTSELF – "Self-published or questionable sources as sources on themselves"
- Help:Citation tools
- Independent sources
- WikiProject Albums/Sources
  - [[WP:RSMUSIC]] – Reliable sources
  - [[WP:NOTRSMUSIC]] – Unreliable sources
- Reliable sources/Perennial sources: [[WP:RSP]]
- [[WP:AFFILIATE]] – Vendor and e-commerce sources: "inline citations may be allowed to e-commerce pages such as that of a book on a bookseller's page or an album on its streaming-music page, in order to verify such things as titles and running times. Journalistic and academic sources are preferable, however, and e-commerce links should be replaced with reliable non-commercial sources if available."
Wikipedia:WikiProject Discographies/style
- Template:Discography list
Manual of Style
- Manual of Style/Biographies incl. [[MOS:SURNAME]]
  - [[MOS:BIRTHPLACE]] – Birth & death places can be in lead if relevant to person's notability, but should not be mentioned in opening brackets of lead sentence alongside birth & death dates.
  - [[MOS:CHRONOLOGICAL]] / [[MOS:BLPCHRONO]] – "In general, present a biography in chronological order, from birth to death, except where there is good reason to do otherwise. Within a single section, events should almost always be in chronological order."
- Manual of Style/Layout – [[WP:SECTIONORDER]]
  - - See also section – [[WP:SEEALSO]] – incl. "As a general rule, the "See also" section should not repeat links that appear in the article's body or its navigation boxes."
    - Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Lead section – [[MOS:LEAD]]
    - Further reading
    - External links – [[WP:EL]]
      - Links normally to be avoided – [[WP:LINKSTOAVOID]]
      - Minimize the number of links – [[WP:ELMINOFFICIAL]]
      - Non-English-language content – [[WP:NONENGEL]]
      - Template:Discogs artist
    - Help:Footnotes
- Manual of Style/Lists of works ([[WP:WORKS]] and [[WP:BIBLIOGRAPHY]] – incl. chronological order) and [[WP:BIB]]
- Manual of Style/Trivia sections
- Manual of Style/Words to watch: [[WP:VAGUE]]
- Manual of Style/Titles / [[MOS:TITLE]] – capitalization and italics versus quotation marks
- Manual of Style/Section headings / [[MOS:HEADINGS]] / [[MOS:HEADCAPS]] – sentence case (only the first word and all proper names are capitalized); "Headings should normally not contain links, especially where only part of a heading is linked."; "Citations should not be placed within, or on the same line as, section headings."; "Before changing a section heading, consider whether you might be breaking existing links to that section"
- Manual of Style/Capital letters – Section headings / [[MOS:SECTIONCAPS]] and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Trademarks / [[WP:TMRULES]]
- [[MOS:BOLD]] – "Avoid using boldface for emphasis in article text. Instead, use italic wikimarkup"
- [[MOS:CREDITS]] – Unless relevant to the subject, do not credit the image author or copyright holder in the article. It is assumed that this is not necessary to fulfill attribution requirements ... If the artist or photographer is independently notable, though, then a wikilink to the artist's biography may be appropriate, but image credits in the infobox image are discouraged, even if the artist is notable"
- Manual of Style/Embedded lists – [[WP:USEPROSE]]
- Manual of Style/Visual arts – [[WP:VAMOS]]
- Manual of Style/Music – [[MOS:POPMUSIC]] – "In popular music, album, mixtape and EP titles should be italicized and song and single titles should be in quotes"
Wikipuffery / [[WP:PUFF]] / [[WP:PEACOCK]] / [[WP:WEASEL]]
[[Wikipedia:ISNOT]]
[[WP:NOCRIT]] – "In most cases separate sections devoted to criticism, controversies, or the like should be avoided"
Category:Inline cleanup templates – Vague / Clarify / Which / Peacock term / Update inline / Better source, etc
[[WP:LONGQUOTE]] – "Do not insert any number of quotations in a stand-alone quote section" and on overusing quotations. (But note Proposed revision: links within quotes.)
[[MOS:DOCTOR]] / [[MOS:HONOURIFIC]] / [[WP:CREDENTIAL]]
[[MOS:ALLCAPS]]
[[MOS:EMDASH]] / [[MOS:ENDASH]]
[[WP:MISSION]] – Mission statements rarely tell us much and should generally not be transcribed in full in Wikipedia articles.
[[WP:SUPERCAT]] - Remove supercategory of existing category
[[MOS:CATORDER]] - "Normally the most essential, significant categories appear first."
Date format by country
Deletion process
- Articles for Deletion (AfD) in 3 steps
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Photography
WikiProject Musicians
- WikiProject Musicians/Article guidelines
- WikiProject Albums/Album article style guide
- Template:Infobox musical artist / Template:Infobox musical artist#associated acts / Template:Infobox_musical_artist#label
List of infoboxes / Category:Arts and culture infobox templates
- Template:Infobox person / Template:Infobox museum / Template:Infobox organisation / Template:Infobox publisher / Template:Infobox award
- Template:Infobox camera, Template:Infobox camera mount, Template:Infobox lens design, Template:Infobox movie camera, Template:Infobox photographic film, Template:Infobox photographic lens
Template messages/Cleanup
Manual of Style/Linking – Overlinking and underlinking – [[MOS:OVERLINK]] / [[MOS:REPEATLINK]] / [[WP:LINKSTYLE]]
- Overlink crisis
Spam
- [[WP:LINKSPAM]] – Adding external links to an article or user page for the purpose of promoting a website or a product is not allowed, and is considered to be spam.
- [[WP:REFSPAM]] – Citation spamming is the illegitimate or improper use of citations, footnotes or references.
FAQ/Organizations
Special:RecentChanges
Category:Wikipedia_backlog
Stub and Stub types
Recent changes patrol
Criteria for speedy deletion
Administrator intervention against vandalism – [[WP:AIV]]
What Wikipedia is not
Why Wikipedia is not so great
Conflict of interest, Plain and simple conflict of interest guide, Template:COI, Template:Connected contributor
TenPoundHammer's Law
The answer to life, the universe, and everything
Users
- Usernames implying shared use: [[WP:ISU]]
- Sock puppetry#Role accounts: [[WP:ROLE]]
- Usernames for administrator attention
Merging
{{Expand list|date={{DATE}}}}
Non-free content
Template:Grading_scheme
Photography categories: Photography, Photography in the United Kingdom, Photography awards, Photography academics, Photography museums and galleries in the United Kingdom, Photography museums and galleries, Photography companies of the United Kingdom, Visual arts publishing companies, Publishing companies established in 1994, Book publishing companies of England, Book publishing companies based in London, Awards established in 2008, Writers on photographic techniques, Photography curators, Photography critics, American curators, British photographers, English photographers, British photojournalists, English photojournalists, Street photographers, Category:Photographs of the United States, Magnum photographers, Category:Leica Camera, British photography organisations, English photography organisations, Photographs, Photographic collections and books, Books about photography, Books of photographs, Photo archives, Photography websites
Lists of newspapers by country
WikiProjects
- WikiProject Photography
- WikiProject Biography

Areas worth working on

Image sourcing

Wikipedia editing reflected beyond Wikipedia

General

2012 – After I'd created Wonga.com, the company Wonga began toning the article down, removing some of the claims about their unfair business practices. I did not know enough about economics to refute their persistent changes, so I did nothing and intended to learn about economics. Eventually other people noticed and The Guardian took up the story. Their revelations became big news in the media.

9 October 2013 – The articles 'Old Crow Medicine Show has the longest, strangest Wikipedia page in music' at The Daily Dot and This Band's Wikipedia Page Is Somehow Longer Than The Who's – at the Phoenix New Times blog – "Complaints from a number of Wikipedians have led to the page being flagged by administrators. A disclaimer at the top of the page says the article "may contain an excessive amount of intricate detail," employ a style that does not reflect Wikipedia's encyclopedia tone, and may "be too long to read and navigate comfortably."" I recognised the issue with this article, set an example of how it could be drastically slimmed down, and added those flags mentioned above.

Barnstars

		The Editor's Barnstar
		in recognition of the heavy lifting you're doing at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Phil America (2nd nomination)

		The Reviewer Barnstar
		Dear Lopifalko, I am grateful to you for all the constructive improvements you have applied to the article on Clive Barda. Thank you for all your contributions to our encyclopedia, and for all you do in support of your fellow editors. With kind regards; Patrick. ツ Pdebee.^(talk)^(guestbook) 23:25, 28 November 2016 (UTC)

		COVID-19 Barnstar
		Awarded for efforts in expanding and verifying articles related to COVID-19. Awarded by Cdjp1 (talk) 8 March 2022 (UTC)