User:Northernhenge
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Northernhenge is mainly a WikiGnome and thinks he's been here for quite a while. His main interest is how the value of the information contained in Wikipedia – features that make it better than other encyclopaedias – can be maintained. He believes that this is supported by wikilinks and categories. He is probably guilty of overlinking, may tend to be an inclusionist regarding categories, and was disappointed when date linking was dropped. He certainly needs to know more about Wikidata and should use Citation bot.
Policies
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When he was a more actively creative editor Northernhenge made an effort to take policies and guidelines into account though this is not his natural inclination. He might have sometimes referred to Biographies of living persons, Neutral point of view, No original research, Verifiability or What Wikipedia is not. He always intended to leave edit summaries but didn't always do so. He was particularly negligent with minor edits and talkpage edits. He probably still imagines that editors read their own talkpages in any case and that minor edits are self-explanatory but that's not really an excuse. Concerning NOR and literature review...
You can, but I believe in any case that a real encyclopaedic work consists of reproducing an existing synthesis of these analyses made by a good source, not trying to do it yourself by fishing for positive and negative criticism and choosing yourself quotes that are considered emblematic.
— Sherwood6 on French wikipedia discussion
What's not to like?
[edit]- In two-or-three words, drive-by tagging. If you have time to tag “Cleanup bare URLs”, you have time to clean them up. Don’t demand that other editors do things you can’t be bothered to do yourself. Also, they’re a problem for new editors. Someone sees a drive-by tag and feels good about applying what they think is a quick and effective fix, for example deleting text that could have been rephrased, or adding a reference to a YouTube video or Facebook page. They now also think they’re helping by adding their own drive-by tags in similar situations across Wikipedia. Drive-by tags take up other people’s time and mislead new editors. (See also the Tagging pages for problems essay.)
- Ownership of articles is a tricky one. We need enthusiasts but editing an "owned" article can be frustrating and drive editors away from the page and maybe Wikipedia itself. But how many articles would not exist if it wasn't for their !owners? To use some very old examples (he should move on really!), CLANNAD and Yodeling have probably illustrated both sides of the argument at one time or another.
- Don't get Northernhenge started on the whole Wiki Loves Monuments fiasco from quite a few years ago now. Essentially a mass-destruction of numerous editors’ hard work, just to standardise a load of pages to (wait for it…) enter a competition.
What's to like? (Current favourite page.)
[edit]- Heimskringla
- And his favourite redlinks are... Sylvie Facon; Constance Pittard
- Mapping from geographic categories using kml template (and also should do more links to these maps).
Activites
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- Northernhenge isn't quite sure what an edit count actually measures. (See also Editcountitis, AfD statistics and his edits in the wikipedia namespace.)
When – despite this – he looks at his total number of edits, he includes his Commons edits on purpose, and other namespaces because he’s too lazy to think about which should be be included.
- Results from an API query
- He was seen for a while at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion and could have got hooked on Wikipedia:Categories for discussion or even Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links until WP:BUSYLIFE took over. Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Women looks important, given the gender imbalance here.
- Another place to while away the hours (articles with leads that are too short)
- He rarely creates articles.
- He's a pending changes reviewer and new pages reviewer who therefore visits Special:PendingChanges and Special:NewPagesFeed
- Recently discovered Category:Articles using duplicate arguments in template calls
- Other...
- Lua looks interesting.
- So does User:Nardog/RefRenamer
- And Magic Words
- And User:Certes/Reports
Cataloguing fairy tales
[edit]- Search for "Aarne-Thompson Grouping" (mainly found in infoboxes)
- Search for articles in ATU categories
- Categories which use the "Fairtytale_collector_category_lede"
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Folklore/To do/ATU fairytale notability
- The must be a LOT more to say about Bowie and Faithfull
Obvious punctuation errors
[edit]ALL CAPS
[edit]- Try to Title Case
Extra symbols
[edit]For example, searching for
insource:/[,;][;,]\<ref/
found 544 articles in May 2024. There's work to be done!
London Underground
[edit]Northernhenge wonders if articles such as these could be brought together more clearly. It’s a shame that category pages can’t be used as articles on this wiki. Maybe a family tree would work.
Map
Articles
- Underground Electric Railways Company of London
- Baker Street and Waterloo Railway
- Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway, a.k.a. Hampstead Tube Railway
- Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway
- Central London Railway
- City and South London Railway
- District Railway
- Metropolitan Railway
- Great Northern & City Railway
Related articles
Related lines
- London and Blackwall Railway (Docklands Light Railway)
- London, Chatham and Dover Railway
- North and South Western Junction Railway
- London and Croydon Railway
Categories
Search tools
[edit]An idea on-hold for a long time
[edit]One of Northernhenge’s early efforts (June 2010) was recreating the Whitland and Cardigan Railway using edits like this one, either to the railway station articles or the towns if they had no article. The town links were a bit controversial, though most of them survive as of August 2022. Since 2010, someone has created all the remaining station articles and added their own versions of the “rail line” links to the new pages, so Northernhenge’s original edits are redundant really. The original idea was to do the same thing elsewhere to recreate other vanished railway lines but, to avoid controversy, every former station would need its own article and it would be hard to demonstrate notability in many cases. Maybe navboxes would have worked better than “rail line” links.
Other wikis
[edit]Tip of the day etc.
[edit]- Useful citation tool
- Don't forget Wikipedia:Database download
- Explore Category:Lists based on Wikidata
- Tips...
Use
{{#section-h:Wikipedia:WikiProject Folklore|Monitoring}} to embed on a user page
Did you know
- 25 Oct 2025 – Granny's Wonderful Chair (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by DrThneed (t · c); see discussion
Categories for discussion
- 06 Nov 2025 – Category:Monsters (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Zxcvbnm (t · c); see discussion
- 02 Nov 2025 – Category:Legendary creatures in classical mythology (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Zxcvbnm (t · c); see discussion
- 29 Oct 2025 – Category:Cryptid footprints (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by WinstonDewey (t · c); see discussion
- 20 Oct 2025 – Category:Heroes in mythology and legend (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Zxcvbnm (t · c); see discussion
- 16 Oct 2025 – Category:Animated films about legendary creatures (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Zxcvbnm (t · c); see discussion
- 16 Oct 2025 – Category:Ogres in animated film (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Zxcvbnm (t · c); see discussion
- 16 Oct 2025 – Category:Ogres in film (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Zxcvbnm (t · c); see discussion
- 11 Oct 2025 – Category:Birds in Norse mythology (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Zxcvbnm (t · c); see discussion
- 11 Oct 2025 – Category:Birds in Chinese mythology (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Zxcvbnm (t · c); see discussion
- 11 Oct 2025 – Category:Birds in mythology (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Zxcvbnm (t · c); see discussion
- (2 more...)
Redirects for discussion
- 31 Oct 2025 – Night of darkness (talk · edit · hist) →Halloween was RfDed by Consarn (t · c); see discussion
- 31 Oct 2025 – Snap Apple Night (talk · edit · hist) →Halloween was RfDed by Consarn (t · c); see discussion
- 31 Oct 2025 – All Hallows’ Even (talk · edit · hist) →Halloween RfDed by Consarn (t · c) was closed; see discussion
- 31 Oct 2025 – Noche de las Brujas (talk · edit · hist) →Halloween RfDed by Consarn (t · c) was closed; see discussion
- 31 Oct 2025 – Dia de las Brujas (talk · edit · hist) →Halloween RfDed by Consarn (t · c) was closed; see discussion
- 31 Oct 2025 – Día de las Brujas (talk · edit · hist) →Halloween RfDed by Consarn (t · c) was closed; see discussion
- 31 Oct 2025 – Trilloween (talk · edit · hist) →Halloween RfDed by Consarn (t · c) was closed; see discussion
Good article nominees
- 12 Sep 2025 – Biringan (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by TheNuggeteer (t · c); see discussion
Good article reassessments
- 28 Aug 2025 – Folk metal (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for GA reassessment by Z1720 (t · c); see discussion
Articles to be split
- 06 Apr 2025 – Evil Queen (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by 94.246.147.217 (t · c); see discussion
Articles for creation
- 06 Nov 2025 – Draft:Esme Francis (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Moondragon21 (t · c)
- 25 Sep 2025 – Draft:Berd Dance Ensemble (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Qwerfjkl (bot) (t · c)
- 14 Sep 2025 – Draft:Cho Su-Hwang (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Vip678 (t · c)
- Watchlist
- The following articles are subject to problematic edits and require constant attention. You can help monitor their recent changes by adding them to your watchlist:
- More articles on the folklore watchlist (related changes).
- Assessment
- Assessment changes to articles monitored by this project: