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Josh Parris

Joined 1 March 2005

Josh Parris - Personal site; Baby naming - I'm Josh_Parris on freenode and use the cloak wikipedia/JoshParris

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Current Work

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WP:New Page Patrol, remember
User:Uncle_G/Wikipedia triage and
User:The_Bipolar_Anon-IP_Gnome/John_Q._Public and
Wikipedia:Where to get feedback on your new article
Wikipedia:INCUBATE
My New Pages

If I ever start harbouring thoughts about adminship:  

Wikipedia:Articles_for_creation is a rewarding place to go.

I'm trying to figure out how copper is mined and refined. See my work in progress: User:Josh Parris/copper

And I follow the contributions of User:Adam Johnston closely - he's very knowledgable on mining. His writings are a bit on the technical side, 'tho. I'm waiting for comment from Adam on the following articles:

I'm still working on:

Analysis

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To do

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Check ISBNs And I've got to get back to the ISBNs in Category:ISBN needed using the book reference template (Wikipedia:Template messages/Sources of articles/Generic citations). Remember to search for "ISBN:" using User:Topbanana/Reports/This article may contain a badly formed ISBN reference if its ever re-run.

Oh, and check out Wikipedia:Offline reports/This is one of the most linked to disambiguation pages. Disambiguate when bored (use Wikipedia:Manual of Style (disambiguation pages):

Disasters

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Require MoS (dab) to be applied OR other work

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Lots of disambiguation to be done

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Mostly under control

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  • Hacking the remaining links are for uses for which there are not articles at this time. So, do I create stubs, redirects, or what?

Disambiguation that is Under Control

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Disambiguation that requires frequent monitoring to keep Under Control

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Other todos

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8 June 2024
 
Here are some WikiProject Melbourne articles which attract a high number of "page hits" but are only rated as Stub Class, or otherwise need additonal citations or attention:
Suburbs: Derrimut, South Wharf, Menzies Creek, Save Our State (Australia)
Landmarks: 101 Collins Street, 120 Collins Street, Bourke Place, Hamer Hall, Melbourne Mint
Events: Melbourne International Festival of Brass, Melbourne Underground Film Festival, Great Bookie Robbery, Extreme weather events in Melbourne
Transport: All of the stations on the Puffing Billy Railway need expanding or merging to the main article, especially the request stops which are just tin sheds
Sporting Clubs: Caroline Springs George Cross FC
Streets: Little Bourke Street, Hardware Lane, Hosier Lane
People: Alannah Hill, Meek (street artist), Vexta
Institutions: Eltham High School, Glen Eira Town Hall, Boxing Day Test
Venues:
Miscellaneous: Collins St., 5 pm, Yarra Valley, Coops Shot Tower, Melbourne Talk Radio, Melbourne University Publishing, The Herald and Weekly Times,
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