Lear's Fool

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This user is no longer very active on Wikipedia.

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The Basics

This user comes from Melbourne.

This user is a former administrator on the English Wikipedia. (verify)

Hi, I'm Lear's Fool. I'm from Melbourne, Australia.

I've been on Wikipedia since 2006, and I was mainly active between 2009 and 2013. I became an administrator in January 2011, but have resigned the tools. I am retired for most purposes, but I occasionally make minor contributions.

In the past I used the alternate accounts Lear's Fool (Sock) (talk · contribs) and Lear's Fool (Mobile) (talk · contribs), but I don't any more.

Some articles I've worked on

• Union Hall (Adelaide)
• Leonard Faulkner
• Andrew Killian
• Robert Spence (bishop)
• John O'Reily
• Helen Mayo
• Philip Wilson (archbishop)
• James Gleeson (bishop)
• 1896 South Australian Referendum
• Laurence Sheil
• Matthew Beovich
• William Mackinder
• Lowe Kong Meng

My stats and contributions

• My contributions
• My logged actions
• My edit count

Things to Check

Administrative Dashboard Candidates for speedy deletion Entries User requested 2 Empty articles 0 Nonsense pages 1 Spam pages 7 Importance or significance not asserted 3 Other candidates 6 User:Xenocidic/dashboard/users Immediate requests Entries Candidates for speedy deletion as attack pages 0 Wikipedians looking for help 1 Requests for unblock 170 Wikipedia semi-protected edit requests 27 Wikipedia extended-confirmed-protected edit requests 25 Wikipedia template-protected edit requests 8 Wikipedia fully protected edit requests 4 Wikipedia conflict of interest edit requests 142 Requested RD1 redactions 9 Candidates for speedy deletion as copyright violations 1 Candidates for speedy deletion 17 Open sockpuppet investigations 119 Click here to locate other admin backlogs Current RfAs and RfBs RfA candidate S O N S% Ending (UTC) Time left Dups? Report Pickersgill-Cunliffe 149 0 0 100 00:35, 15 June 2024 3 days, 1 hour no report RfB candidate S O N S% Ending (UTC) Time left Dups? Report Last updated by cyberbot ITalk to my owner:Online at 22:39, 11 June 2024 (UTC) The Wikipedia Signpost The Wikipedia Signpost The Wikipedia Signpost Volume 20, Issue 8 — 2024-06-08 News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation publishes its Form 990 for fiscal year 2022-2023 Technology report: New Page Patrol receives a much-needed software upgrade Deletion report: The lore of Kalloor In the media: National cable networks get in on the action arguing about what the first sentence of a Wikipedia article ought to say News from the WMF: Progress on the plan — how the Wikimedia Foundation advanced on its Annual Plan goals during the first half of fiscal year 2023-2024 Opinion: Public response to the editors of Settler Colonial Studies Recent research: ChatGPT did not kill Wikipedia, but might have reduced its growth Featured content: We didn't start the wiki Essay: No queerphobia Special report: RetractionBot is back to life! Traffic report: Chimps, Eurovision, and the return of the Baby Reindeer Comix: The Wikipediholic Family Humour: Wikipedia rattled by sophisticated cyberattack of schoolboy typing "balls" in infobox Concept: Palimpsestuous Centralised Discussions Some useful links Sources Trove: the National Library of Australia — Old Newspapers, pictures etc. The Catholic Encyclopedia at Newadvent — Public domain encyclopaedia The Australian Catholic Record at Informit — Australian Catholic Journal The Australian Dictionary of Biography — Biographies of Australians On-Wiki tools CorenSearchBot/manual — Check for copyvios Compare two webpages — helps with copyvio checks. Betacommand's AfD log My tools User:Lear's Fool/monobook.js User:Lear's Fool/monobook.css

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