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Stewart Gordon (born 24 September 1979 in Crawley, West Sussex, England) is a research student and amateur computer geek.
As of 2005, Stewart is studying for a PhD in Mathematical Sciences at Loughborough University. His research involves computer modelling of diffusion in solid materials on the atomic scale.
Stewart's family home is now the village of Pease Pottage, near Crawley.
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Hangouts
Stewart's regular hangouts on Wikipedia have been known to include:
- List of interesting or unusual place names
- List of words having different meanings in British and American English
- List of songs whose title does not appear in the lyrics
- List of sets of unrelated songs with identical titles
Wikeeping activities
Stewart also has a few regular tendencies towards maintaining the integrity of Wikipedia's content. These include:
- Making sure dates appear in all three places where applicable (date of year page, year page, actual article it relates to).
- Making sure all dates on year pages are linkified. Although it's common to link only the first occurrence of something on a page/section, for dates it is necessary to link all of them so that they appear consistently with the user's date format setting.
- Reciprocating listings on List of twin towns and sister cities.
- Fixing links to disambiguation pages.
Disambiguation fixing
Stewart normally fixes links to disambiguation pages as and when he stumbles upon them. However, there are times when it isn't clear which path a disambiguation link should really be taking. There are also too many disambiguation links to get them all fixed simply by stumbling.
He has therefore taken a slow but sure approach looking on Disambiguation pages with links from time to time and going through fixing some of the links.
These have included:
- Denomination (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Whatlinkshere?target=Denomination), clear as of 26 April 2005.
- Cavendish (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Whatlinkshere?target=Cavendish), though unfortunately several link to the noble family name, which has a section on that page rather than a page to itself.
- Hebrew (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Whatlinkshere?target=Hebrew), which he once managed to get down to 167, but into which new links are being created too quickly to keep up.
All are invited to join in the fun cleaning them up. Possible strategies can include:
- Pick an entry on that list, and go through fixing the disambiguation links. Of course if you choose one with lots on, there's no need to fix them all in one session.
- Look at some of the highest-ranking articles on the list, and fix one or two links into each.
External links
- Stewart's Place (http://www.stewartsplace.org.uk/)