Secretlondon

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This user has been on Wikipedia for 19 years, 2 months and 25 days.

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This user has been a Wikipedian since September 2003.

This user believes that articles are useless without images.

This user lives in London.

This user attends or attended UCL

BBKThis user attends or attended Birkbeck, University of London

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This user is a member of the Russian, Soviet and CIS military history task force.

This user is a member of
WikiProject Soviet Union.

This user is a member of
WikiProject Spaceflight.

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Geographical Coordinates.

This user helped promote the article Dnestr radar to good article status.

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Hello. My first edit was on 7 September 2003, and I've been an administrator since 9 November 2003. I was a bureaucrat for a few years but I'm not any more.

2022 Update

Retraining as a healthcare assistant. Loving actual patient contact. Beware the 12 hour shifts.

I'm mostly fiddling with stuff and hanging out on WP:UAA.

2021 Update

Being told you need to edit or lose your admin bit brought me back. I'd only had it since 2003. It'd be good to get 20 years, no?

I'm burnt out from working for the NHS during the Covid pandemic. Now working part-time. I'd prefer sick pay to claps, thanks.

Currently working on In The News articles on the front page (the actual linked articles, not the In The News process).

Old

Apparently you can't do a PhD part time whilst working full-time and pay your rent in London, never mind stay sane. I'm not here very much but if I am it's to scratch itches.

I've made an account, user:secretlady for editing on public computers.

I was working on articles connected to the Russian Space Forces, for no particular reason. Never edit on your own area for your sanity.

I love data, metadata and researching start-class articles. Publicly accessible satellite photography is wonderful. Microformats are great. Breadth not depth.

Useful things that it would take a while to find otherwise

Articles I have worked on recently

Incomplete - just collected here for my ease. Not bragging.

Space workspace:Articles Actual sandbox

Referencing

I'm told that Zotero can export refs in Wikipedia format however I've not used. This is the nearest I've come to a wiki reference manager. I'm a big fan of list defined references as I hate editing articles which are full of citation data. However once you've moved the references to the end you can/should add as much metadata as you can - citation templates.

NB

Before someone deletes all my local election results work as cruft please at least transwiki it somewhere. Hours of work, and the only place on the net you can find this info.

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Did You Knows?

Ancient

Suitably licensed photos I found and uploaded, rather than took:

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  Dunay 3 radar transmitter

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  Dunay 3 radar receiver

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  Dnestr radar, Balkhash

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  Daryal radar at Pechora

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  Duga 3 radar array at Chernobyl