Hi, I'm Mark Booth. I am an astrophysicist specialising in debris disks. I received my PhD from the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge. I now work at the Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics and the University of Victoria.

I've been using Wikipedia since 2003 and editing it since August 2007. My current activities on Wikipedia mostly involve correcting spelling, punctuation, grammar and factual errors. At some point I hope to find the time to actually expand articles as well.

Work in progress

Useful Stuff:

Contributions edit

I'm not obsessed with edit counting but...

WikiChecker - Summarises wiki-editing habits in pretty plots.

Userboxes edit

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This user can contribute at a professional level of British English.
LE-0This individual still maintains a shred of dignity in this insane world by adhering to correct spelling, grammar, punctuation and capitalisation.
C-1This user is a beginning C programmer.
LaTeXThis user can typeset using LaTeX.
IDL-2This user is an intermediate IDL programmer.
forThis user can program in Fortran.
 This user is NOT known for taking themself too seriously.
ps-3This user is really good at Adobe Photoshop.
VThis user is a vegetarian.


 This user drinks so much milk, their bones can cut diamonds.
 This user doesn't drink, and has a healthy liver to show for it.
 This user is interested in
ancient civilizations.
 
This user supports protection of the environment.
98This user is supportive of the new definition of planet.
 This user is an archer.
  This user supports the
use of green energy.
 
  This user supports the use of nuclear energy.  
XXXThis user is Straight Edge.
MPhysThis user has a Master of Physics degree in Astrophysics.


PhDThis user has a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Astrophysics.
 This user comes from KENT:
The Garden of England
This user is a NINJA!

What Ninja? I don't see a...
*SCHHING!* AAH!
  This user sees nothing wrong with the human form and doesn't view it as something that needs to be hidden.
  This user advocates pacifism.
 This user is interested in religion.
agn This user is agnostic.
 This user realizes that people from the Middle Ages already thought that the Earth was spherical.
 This user is a British Citizen.
 This user needs more userboxes. MORE, I tell you, more!!! Muhahaha!
 This user was up all night finding userboxes and is now very drowsy.
 This user prefers using userboxes to fill up their user page instead of actually writing something useful.
 According to the political compass this user is Economic Left (-5.63) and Social Libertarian (-2.41).
 This user would be a member of the AAW if they could be arsed about it.
  This user enjoys contributing to Wikipedia without wearing clothes.
  This user has been on Wikipedia for 16 years, 8 months and 10 days.
INTJThis user has an INTJ personality
per the Myers–Briggs typing system.
DJ-2This user is an intermediate DJ.
 This user is an astronomer. Not an astrologer. 


 This user is a WikiSloth.
 This user scored 1431 on the Wikipediholic test (revision 257974879).
 This user has published peer-reviewed articles in academic journals.

Note to self: must format this page properly at some point. See User:ArielGold for an excellent example of a user page.