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About me

I am Andrew West in real life.

Articles I have created or significantly expanded

Biographies of modern people

	Image	Article	Category	Created	Notes	Stats
		Li Fanwen	Tangutologist	2009-04-05	Did you know that Li Fanwen got the opportunity to complete the first draft of his dictionary of the extinct Tangut language when Premier Zhou Enlai was told that only a few old scholars were able to read the complex Tangut script?	700 views
		Paul Thompson (1931–2007)	Sinologist	2009-04-15
		Choijinzhab (1931–2022)	Mongolist	2010-04-29
		Junast (1934–2010)	'Phags-pa expert	2010-04-30
		Stephen Wootton Bushell (1844–1908)	Orientalist Numismatist Tangutologist	2010-05-01	Did you know that in 1896, Stephen Wootton Bushell became the first person to decipher some of the characters of the extinct Tangut script?	1,300 views
		Marc Hideo Miyake	linguist Tangutologist	2010-05-08
		Guillaume Jacques	linguist Tangutologist	2010-05-09
		Eric Grinstead (1921–2008)	Tangutologist	2010-06-10
		Peter Hayes Sawyer (1928–2018)	medievalist	2010-08-19
		Daniel Henry Haigh (1819–1879)	Runologist	2010-08-20
		Raymond Ian Page (1924–2012)	Runologist	2010-08-20
		Ralph Warren Victor Elliott (1921–2012)	Runologist	2010-08-23
		Susan Whitfield	Sinologist	2011-01-18
		Sam van Schaik	Tibetologist	2011-03-06
		Katherine Forsyth	Oghamologist	2011-07-04
		Aisin-Gioro Ulhicun	Jurchenologist Khitanologist Manchurologist	2011-09-09	Did you know that Jin Guangping, Jin Qizong and Aisin-Gioro Ulhicun, three generations of the same family who all studied the extinct Jurchen language and script, are direct descendants of the Qianlong Emperor?	647 views
		Jin Qizong (1918–2004)	Jurchenologist Manchurologist Mongolist	2011-09-09		371 views
		Jin Guangping (1899–1966)	Jurchenologist Khitanologist Manchurologist	2011-09-10		585 views
		Aleksei Ivanovich Ivanov (1878–1937)	Tangutologist	2011-11-06
		Ksenia Kepping (1937–2002)	Tangutologist	2011-12-05
		Hugh McBirney Stimson (1931–2011)	Sinologist	2012-06-27
		Philip de Jersey	Numismatist Archaeologist	2012-06-30
		Jerry Norman (1936–2012)	Sinologist Manchurologist	2012-07-15
		Stuart R. Schram (1924–2012)	Sinologist	2012-07-28	Did you know that Stuart R. Schram, biographer of Chairman Mao, started his career as a nuclear physicist working on the Manhattan Project?	969 views
		Shi Jinbo	Tangutologist	2012-09-04
		Luc Kwanten (1944–2021)	Sinologist Tangutologist	2012-10-10
		Arakawa Shintarō	Tangutologist	2012-10-23
		Imre Galambos	Sinologist Tangutologist	2012-11-14
		Mary C. Wright (1917–1970)	Historian	2013-01-09	Did you know that in 1964 historian Mary C. Wright became the first woman to be named as a full professor in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Yale University?	879 views
		Andrew Fleming West (1853–1943)	Classicist	2015-01-19
		Charles Otto Blagden (1864–1949)	Linguist and Orientalist	2015-07-06
		Wu Gan, known as the "Super Vulgar Butcher"	human rights activist	2017-12-26
		Wushour Silamu	Computer scientist	2018-10-01
		Evangeline Edwards (1888–1957)	Sinologist	2018-11-15
		Wang Quanzhang	Chinese human rights lawyer	2018-12-26
		Gabriel Devéria (1844–1899)	Tangutologist	2019-04-01
		Adrian Bradshaw	Photographer	2019-08-09
		Cyril Birch (1925–2023)	Sinologist	2023-06-19

Biographies of historical figures

	Image	Article	Category	Created	Notes	Stats
		Wansong Xingxiu (1166–1246)	Buddhist monk	2015-06-25

Lists

	Image	Article	Created	Notes	Stats
		List of hoards in Britain	2010-07-13	Did you know that over 1,200 hoards in Britain from the Roman period have been found, but the very few hoards in Ireland containing Roman coins and silverware were probably loot taken from Britain by Irish raiders?	3,400 views
		List of hoards in Ireland	2010-07-16		1,900 views
		List of Bronze Age hoards in Britain	2012-07-17	Split from List of hoards in Britain.
		List of Iron Age hoards in Britain	2012-07-17	Split from List of hoards in Britain.
		List of Roman hoards in Britain	2012-07-17	Split from List of hoards in Britain.
		List of hoards in the Channel Islands	2012-07-06	Did you know that that one of the archaeological hoards found in the Channel Islands comprised coins minted in Alexandria in Egypt?	1,300 views
		List of Khitan inscriptions	2010-12-25
		List of Jurchen inscriptions	2010-12-29
		List of Chinese cultural relics forbidden to be exhibited abroad	2011-09-16	Did you know that the Chinese government has published a list of sixty-four important cultural relics (one of them pictured) that are forbidden to be exhibited outside of China?	16,200 views
		List of Tangutologists	2012-10-26
		List of Tangut books	2013-04-06
		List of pagodas in Beijing	2014-12-16
		List of Khitanologists	2016-04-10
		List of hoards in the Isle of Man	2017-06-30	Split from List of hoards in Britain.
		A History of Ireland in 100 Objects	2017-06-30

Archaeological hoards

	Image	Article	Created	Notes	Stats
		Frome Hoard	2010-07-08	Did you know that the Frome Hoard was found by a metal detectorist just 35 cm (14 in) below ground in Somerset and contained 52,503 Roman coins (coin pictured)?	8,800 views
		Shrewsbury Hoard	2010-07-09	Did you know that the first find by amateur metal detectorist Nick Davies was the Shrewsbury Hoard, which contained around 10,000 bronze Roman coins?	2,200 views
		Furness Hoard	2011-07-01
		Bredon Hill Hoard	2011-10-17	Did you know that some of the nominally silver Roman coins from the Bredon Hill Hoard (pictured) only have a 1% silver content?	10,300 views
		Grouville Hoard	2012-06-27	Did you know that that a huge hoard of Iron Age and Roman coins was found in Jersey in June 2012 after two metal detectorists spent a few hours a year for 30 years searching for a suspected hoard?	10,890 views
		Middleham Hoard	2014-02-06	Article started by PatHadley and Johnbod Did you know that the Middleham Hoard from Yorkshire included seven Spanish-American reales but only two of them were real (unreal real pictured)?	6,361 views
		Lenborough Hoard	2015-01-02	Did you know that the Lenborough Hoard, found just before Christmas 2014, is believed to be one of the largest hoards of Anglo-Saxon coins ever discovered in Britain?	3,638 views

Archaeological artefacts

	Image	Article	Created	Notes	Stats
		Seax of Beagnoth	2010-08-18	Article expanded from stub by S Marshall and others, and I helped expand it to a Good Article
		Crosby Garrett Helmet	2010-09-13	Did you know that the Crosby Garrett Helmet, discovered this year, has a winged griffin on it, whereas the similar Ribchester Helmet (pictured) may have had a sphinx on top, but the Newstead Helmet only had a plume holder? In the news on 8 October 2010: A Roman parade helmet discovered by a metal detectorist in May 2010 is auctioned for £2.3 million ($3.6 million)	5,100 views
		Newstead Helmet	2010-09-14		2,400 views
		Waterloo Helmet	2010-09-15	Did you know that the Waterloo Helmet, dredged from the River Thames in 1868, is the only Iron Age helmet with horns ever to have been found in Europe?	9,500 views
		Meyrick Helmet	2010-09-16	Did you know that the Meyrick Helmet (pictured) combines the shape of a Roman auxiliary helmet with Celtic La Tène style decoration?	7,000 views
		Wandsworth Shield	2010-09-27	Did you know that the Wandsworth Shield (pictured) has a repoussée design of two large birds with outstretched wings and trailing tail feathers, and is considered to be a masterpiece of British Celtic art?	5,000 views
		Nimrud Ivories	2011-03-08	Did you know that crime writer Agatha Christie used her face cream to clean the more than 2500-year-old Nimrud Ivories (example pictured) after their excavation?	13,500 views
		Trumpington bed burial	2012-03-17	Did you know that a 7th-century grave in Cambridge discovered in 2011 held the remains of an Anglo-Saxon teenage girl who was lying on a bed, with a gold and garnet cross on her breast?	12,792 views
		Happisburgh footprints	2014-02-07	Article started by Braincricket In the news on 8 February 2014: The earliest human footprints outside of Africa are discovered in the United Kingdom.

Books, manuscripts and paintings

	Image	Article	Created	Notes	Stats
		Admonitions Scroll	2010-08-10	Did you know that the Admonitions Scroll (detail pictured), a treasured possession of the Qianlong Emperor, was bought by the British Museum for only £25 in 1903? Failed GAR because no PD translation of the accompanying text available, so I made the translation myself.	5,500 views
		Testament of Ba	2011-01-23	Did you know that the earliest known fragment of the Testament of Ba, an account of the establishment of Buddhism in Tibet, was discovered in the British Library in 2009?	2,400 views
		Dunhuang Go Manual	2011-01-25	Did you know that the Dunhuang Go Manual is the earliest surviving manual on the strategic board game of Go?	2,500 views
		Menggu Ziyun	2011-01-29	... Menggu Ziyun is a 14th century rime dictionary of Chinese as written in the 'Phags-pa script?	950 views
		Irk Bitig	2011-02-04	Did you know that the Irk Bitig (Book of Omens) is the only known complete manuscript text written in the Old Turkic script?	1,500 views
		Auspicious Tantra of All-Reaching Union	2011-09-18	Did you know that the 12th-century Auspicious Tantra of All-Reaching Union, discovered among the rubble of the Baisigou Square Pagoda after it had been blown up, is the earliest-known book printed using wooden movable type?	2,800 views
		Nova N 176	2012-02-07	Did you know that in 2010, the only known complete manuscript written in the extinct Khitan language was identified in the collection of the Saint Petersburg Institute of Oriental Manuscripts?	1,600 views
		The General's Garden	2012-11-13
		The General's Garden (Tangut translation)	2012-11-14	Did you know that the Tangut translation of the Chinese military text The General's Garden predates the earliest surviving Chinese edition by 200 years?	1,318 views
		Bible translations into Manchu	2013-11-24
		Springmount Bog Tablets	2017-06-27

Monumental inscriptions

	Image	Article	Created	Notes	Stats
		Stele of Sulaiman	2011-10-01	Did you know that Om mani padme hum is engraved in the Lantsa, Tibetan, Uyghur, 'Phags-pa, Tangut and Chinese scripts on a 1348 stele, and in the Tibetan, Jurchen, Chinese, and Mongolian scripts on a 1413 stele?	1,600 views
		Yongning Temple Stele	2011-10-01		800 views
		Tangut dharani pillars	2013-12-23	Did you know that two dharani pillars (pictured) erected in Baoding in 1502 are inscribed with the latest known examples of the Tangut script?	4,074 views

Architecture

	Image	Article	Created	Notes	Stats
		Baisigou Square Pagoda	2011-09-17	Did you know that the 12th-century Auspicious Tantra of All-Reaching Union, discovered among the rubble of the Baisigou Square Pagoda after it had been blown up, is the earliest-known book printed using wooden movable type?	2,300 views
		Cloud Platform at Juyongguan	2012-10-27	Did you know that the 14th-century Cloud Platform at Juyongguan (pictured) in Beijing is inscribed with Buddhist texts in six different scripts: Lanydza, Tibetan, 'Phags-pa, Old Uyghur, Tangut and Chinese?	3,471 views
		Camberley Obelisk	2011-11-30	Did you know that the 18th-century Camberley Obelisk (pictured) may have been built by John Norris to communicate by heliograph with Sir Francis Dashwood at West Wycombe church, about 20 miles (32 km) away?	7,822 views
		Pagoda of Chengtian Temple	2016-09-03
		One Hundred and Eight Stupas	2016-09-04
		Hongfo Pagoda	2016-09-15

Institutions and organizations

	Image	Article	Created	Notes	Stats
		International Dunhuang Project	2011-01-18	Did you know that the International Dunhuang Project has made over a quarter of a million images of Silk Road manuscripts and other artefacts available online? Failed GAR due to overreliance on the IDP website as a source.	1,500 views
		Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences	2012-02-02	Did you know that in 2010, the only known complete manuscript written in the extinct Khitan language was identified in the collection of the Saint Petersburg Institute of Oriental Manuscripts?	400 views

Miscellaneous

	Image	Article	Created	Notes	Stats
		Liubo	2009-07-12	5× expansion of an existing article Did you know that when he was crown prince the future Emperor Jing of Han killed the Prince of Wu during an argument over a game of Liubo by throwing the game board at his opponent?	1,900 views
		Chairman Mao badge	2010-07-23	Did you know that the earliest known Chairman Mao badges were made from used toothpaste tubes? All Mao badge images deleted on Commons	3,900 views
		Rhinoceroses in ancient China‎	2011-09-24	Did you know that rhinoceroses in ancient China were used as models for wine vessels?	7,200 views
		Shite-hawk‎	2011-10-09	Did you know that, contrary to claims of a medieval origin for the term shite-hawk, it originated as British military slang for the Black Kite (pictured)?	12,800 views
		Bed burial‎	2012-03-19	Did you know that a 7th-century grave in Cambridge discovered in 2011 held the remains of an Anglo-Saxon teenage girl who was lying on a bed, with a gold and garnet cross on her breast?	4,690 views
		Pseudo-runes‎	2012-07-26
		Sideways I	2012-08-23
		Tangutology	2012-10-26	Did you know that Tangutology developed as an academic discipline after the Russian explorer Pyotr Kozlov discovered a hoard of Tangut documents at the lost city of Khara-Khoto in 1908?	1,864 views
		Dharani pillar	2013-12-23

Featured pictures

	Image	Description	Promoted	Featured
		Odiham Castle, Hampshire. 12 May 2012.	9 January 2013	3 June 2017

My pictures used as lead image for featured articles and lists

	Image	Article	Featured date
		Royal Gold Cup	Featured article on 2010-07-10
		List of chronometers on HMS Beagle	Featured list on 2013-06-17

Awards

		The Original Barnstar
		I, Pericles of Athens, award User:BabelStone with this barnstar in recognition of his excellent contributions to the ancient Chinese board game article on Liubo. Well done, sir! Well done indeed. Cheers.Pericles of AthensTalk 13:45, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

		The British Museum barnstar
		In thanks for your help with Hoxne, photos and most of all with Admonitions Scroll :-) Witty Lama 23:52, 27 June 2010 (UTC)

	The Special Barnstar
	For your work on Stele of Sulaiman and Yongning Temple Stele which helps direct wikipedia to an increasingly valuable resource covering time and place. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 00:03, 17 October 2011 (UTC)

	The Barnstar of Good Humor
	For making me smile and conjuring bizarre images in my head of pigeons after too many vindaloos. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:36, 21 October 2011 (UTC)

	The Writer's Barnstar
	Nice work with Happisburgh footprints - looks pretty close to GA already. Jamesx12345 20:00, 8 February 2014 (UTC)

	The Editor's Barnstar
	For your extraordinary work at the Happisburgh footprints, I hereby award you this barnstar. Your work is indispensable! Happy editing. ComputerJA (☎ • ✎) 03:36, 12 February 2014 (UTC)

	The Rosetta Barnstar
	You will be missed, Wikipedia is a wonderful editor poorer without you. Donald Trung (talk) 18:39, 29 March 2021 (UTC)

		The 25 DYK Creation and Expansion Medal
		Well you have created much more than 25. I see you are well on your way to 50. I see your DYK's and note that they are as so interesting.... and I see that the hoard articles continue to grow. I just got 3 questions right on university challenge because they were pictures of hoards. Keep up the good work. Thanks from me and the wiki. Victuallers (talk) 20:40, 24 October 2011 (UTC)

		The 50 DYK Creation and Expansion Medal
		This recognition of fifty DYKs belittles the contribution that you have made to Wikipedia. All those great articles about hoards that I believe started in the year that we collaborated with the British Museum. Lots of stuff about the History of the World in 100 objects including dozens of great photographs. Its a great pleasure to recognise this achievement and to thank you on behalf of the DYK project, myself and the wiki. Thanks. Victuallers (talk) 23:24, 12 January 2015 (UTC)

User:BabelStone has been identified as an Awesome Wikipedian, and therefore, I've officially declared today as BabelStone's day! For being such a beautiful person and great Wikipedian, enjoy being the Star of the day, dear BabelStone! Peace, Rlevse 00:03, 22 October 2010 (UTC)

Milestones

This editor is a Signator and is entitled to display this Scroll of Signatures.	1 edit	20 May 2008
This editor is a Burba and is entitled to display this First Book of Wikipedia.	200 edits	10 April 2009
This editor is a Novato and is entitled to display this Wikipedia Picture Story Book.	1,000 edits	20 May 2010
This editor is a Grognard and is entitled to display this Wikipedia Little Red Book.	2,000 edits	20 August 2010
This editor is a Grognard Extraordinaire and is entitled to display this Wikipedia Vest Pocket Edition.	4,000 edits	24 September 2011
This editor is a Grognard Mirabilaire and is entitled to display this 1937 Wikipedia First Edition.	6,000 edits	28 October 2012
This editor is a Tutnum and is entitled to display this Book of Knowledge.	8,000 edits	19 January 2014
This editor is a Grand Tutnum and is entitled to display this Book of Knowledge with Coffee Cup Stain.	12,000 edits	27 July 2017