User:Sannse

I live in a small seaside town in England which now has its very own article! I came to Wikipedia via a link on wilwheaton.net.

My interests include embroidery, especially free style embroidery, and I'm learning stumpwork and Wessex stitchery. I'm interested in religion particularly in the Bahá'í Faith although I am not religious myself.

I'm also interested in keeping fish. My aquarium seems to be going quite well and now contains six White Cloud Mountain Minnows, a young Ancistrus called Fred, six Ghost Shrimp, six Cherry Barbs, six tiny Pygmy Corydoras and four Platys.

I have suffered from depression for the last three years.

I can be contacted using Wikipedia e-mail, directly at "sannse(at)tiscali.co.uk", or on my talk page (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Sannse&action=edit&section=new)

On Wikipedia

I joined Wikipedia in December 2002 and have been active almost daily since then. I have been an admin since March 2003 and was a member of the mediation committee until the end of 2004. I have now transfered to the Arbitration Committee. I also answer email enquiries for the Wikimedia Foundation under the name Lisa Carter.

My usual activity on Wikipedia has been removing the links to disambiguation pages. I find this sort of tidying satisfying without being too much like hard work. I'm also involved in the dog breeds Wikiproject, mostly in adding tables and checking additions to the list of dog breeds. So far I have a list of over 500 breeds of dog, many not yet listed. I have worked extensively on the Grammy Award pages and we now have full listings by year and award title.

I'm in the 70s and falling on the List of Wikipedians by number of edits, I just don't do the volume of disambiguations I used to. Still, I have added some images I'm proud of...

Photos

I'm very interested in contributing images to Wikipedia. I strongly believe that homegrown images are vastly better than "fair use" or "with permission" images. I would rather we had a moderately good image taken by a Wikipedian than a perfect image under a dubious "fair use" claim. My full view gallery is at User:Sannse/photos (full view). My Yellow-rattle, Large White caterpillar and Ring-tailed Lemur images have been made featured pictures.

All my wildlife photos are identified using various books and web-sites. I've tried to be very careful, and have only uploaded images I am confident I have identified correctly (there are many others I have taken but am not sure enough about to upload). But I am an amateur and a beginner so please let me know if you feel I've made any identification mistakes.

Images needing articles

Most of these have no home yet - if anyone can place them I will be most grateful

• Image:Meadow vetchling 800.jpg
• Image:Meadow vetchling close 800.jpg
• Image:Hedge woundwort 800.jpg
• Image:Hedge woundwort close 800.jpg
• Image:Sea Spurge 800.jpg
• Image:Sea Spurge close 800.jpg
• Image:Smooth tare 800.jpg
• Image:Common mallow 600.jpg
• Image:Common mallow close 800.jpg

Links to mediation pages:

• Wikipedia:Mediation Committee
• Wikipedia:Conflict resolution
• Wikipedia:Requests for mediation
• meta:mediation
• Wikipedia:Confidentiality during mediation

Links to arbitration pages

• Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee
• User:Sannse/arbcom
• Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration
• Wikipedia:Arbitration policy

Watchlists

In an attempt to make my watchlist manageable, I'm mostly using related changes instead. The sub-pages below are my new watchlists.

• /article watch | changes (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Recentchangeslinked&target=User%3ASannse%2Farticle_watch)
• /dog watch | changes (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Recentchangeslinked&target=User%3ASannse%2Fdog_watch)
• /grammy watch | changes (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Recentchangeslinked&target=User%3ASannse%2Fgrammy_watch)
• /policy watch | changes (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Recentchangeslinked&target=User%3ASannse%2Farticle_watch)

Other links to remember

• My own little play-pen
• User:Sannse/Grammy to-do list

• /msg nickserv ghost sannse <password>

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Music standards
• List of dog topics
• Wikipedia:Extended image syntax
• m:MediaWiki User's Guide: Using tables
• http://www.bioimages.org.uk/index.htm
• /Images to check
• to do list:
  • American Staffordshire Terrier
  • Galgo Español
  • Giant Schnauzer
  • Kangal Dog
  • Phalène
  • Papillon
  • Toy Mi-Ki
  • Antonga Black Hawk
  • Breed-specific legislation - UK
  • Euro banknotes
  • Sedum - format table
  • Bouvier des Flandres, Parson Russell Terrier, Neapolitan Mastiff, Pekeapoo

• /monobook.js
• /monobook.css

• http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=129854&cid=10829845

Self-portrait in Lego
(reasonablyclever.com (http://www.reasonablyclever.com/mini/index.html))

Featured images

Large White caterpillar

Ring-tailed Lemur and twins

Yellow-rattle

You've done so much good work for the Mediation Committee that the least I can do to recognize your dedication and efforts is to award you this lovely barnstar! Peace, BCorr|Брайен 02:41, Apr 15, 2004 (UTC)

Winner of this fine tractor, for predicting the date we would reach 1 million articles (1).

Winner of the name the baby .. um.. admin candidate contest. For inventing ClockworkTroll's new name ClockworkSoul
Missing image
20000_North_Pole.jpg



Nemo of Honour for being a generally cool person -- User:Rama