User:Asa Winstanley
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| - | Hello I am Asa. I live in [[London]], [[United Kingdom|UK]]. I discovered Wikipedia when it was listed on [[Slashdot]] in July 2001. I then started tinkering with various bits. I continue to do so when I have a bit of time. | ||
| - | Here on Wikiepedia, I sign myself: [[User:Asa Winstanley|aw]] or [[User:Asa Winstanley|AW]]. My user name used to be just [[Asa]], but that was needed for an article (should have thought more before i used that user name really!). Software changes now mean I could have the user Asa again, but this one is fine :) | ||
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| - | Only just noticed that some cheeky so-and-so edited my page to make it look as if I LIKE The Matrix. Of course the fact that he/she did this over a year ago leaves me with substantial amounts of egg on my face... | ||
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| - | = Some articles I have contributed to = | ||
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| - | == Computers == | ||
| - | *[[The GIMP]] ''one of the first things I did on Wikipedia!'' | ||
| - | *[[GNOME]] ''gave birth to'' | ||
| - | *[[GNU/Linux]] ''uh oh. gave birth to'' | ||
| - | *[[Famous Programmers]] | ||
| - | *[[Programmer]] | ||
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| - | == Arts == | ||
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| - | *[[Poets]] ''just listed R. S. Thomas'' | ||
| - | *[[Little Nemo]] | ||
| - | *[[Comic books and strips]] ''started'' | ||
| - | *[[Comic book]] ''someone else split this off from the above. good job too'' | ||
| - | *[[Film history/China]] ''was disgusted at the lack of Hong Kong people. Needs loads of work!'' | ||
| - | *[[Martial arts film]] | ||
| - | *[[Miyazaki Hayao]] ''A good start. cheers for the unicode and Romaji!'' | ||
| - | *[[The Matrix]] ''stupid overated rip-off film which spawned a new era of stupid rips-offs'' | ||
| - | *[[Princess Mononoke]] ''love this film'' | ||
| - | *[[My Neighbor Totoro]] ''mmm... CatBus'' | ||
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| - | == Religion == | ||
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| - | *[[Biblical canon]] | ||
| - | *[[Allah]] ''I brought up the moon god origins stuff'' | ||
| - | *[[Yahweh]] ''this has developed quite nicely. The first versions were just plain wrong. Now its pretty acurate'' | ||
| - | *[[Jehovah]] ''still doesn't feel right. perhaps merge with Yahweh?'' | ||
| - | *[[Pope Damasus I]] ''very happy with this. 99% was my work at one point'' | ||
| - | *[[John Chrysostom]] ''under development, but largely done'' | ||
| - | *[[History of Christianity]] ''...gaining momentum... could be good...'' | ||
| - | *[[Theodosius I]] ''"Catholic" -> "catholic"'' | ||
| - | *[[Saint]] ''original meaning'' | ||
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| - | == History and Politics == | ||
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| - | *[[Cultural imperialism]] ''sigh... i give up'' | ||
| - | *[[Rupert Murdoch]] ''corperate censorship!'' | ||
| - | *[[History of Malaysia]] ''just a few tweaks'' | ||
| - | *[[Bloody Sunday (Northern Ireland 1972)]] ''started'' | ||
| - | *[[Derry]] | ||
| - | *[[The Troubles]] | ||
| - | *[[War on Terrorism]] | ||
| - | *[[Suez Crisis]] | ||
| - | *[[Propaganda model]] | ||
| - | *[[L. Frank Baum]] - did you know that the author of the Wizard of Oz was an [[Wounded Knee Massacre|advocate of genocide]]? Neither did I till recently. | ||
| - | *[[Fred Hampton]] - [[Black Panther Party]] activist in the late 60s who was assinated by the Chicago Police with the active help of the FBI | ||
| - | *[[Noam Chomsky]] | ||
| - | *[[Ahmed Chalabi]] - former US favourite to run Iraq. I added the survey results about his complete lack of popular support. [[Ayad Allawi]] did not fair much better. | ||
| - | * [[Weathermen]] - Crazy US Marxists | ||
| - | * [[History of East Timor]] | ||
| - | * [[Christopher Columbus]] - mass murderer | ||
| - | * [[Scipio Aemilianus Africanus]] - he orchastrated the genocide of the Carthaginians. I added the picture and caption | ||
| - | * [[Contra]] - [[Reagan]]'s favourite terrorists | ||
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| - | == Misc == | ||
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| - | *[[European languages]] ''just listed Welsh'' | ||
| - | *[[Welsh language]] ''gave birth to. but needs significant work by a Welsh scholar'' | ||
| - | *[[Wales]] ''need to say more about my own country!'' | ||
| - | *[[Wade-Giles]] ''started'' | ||
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| - | [[User:Asa_Winstanley/Asa Winstanley Todo|Todo]] - stuff I have (vaugely) lined up to do at some point<br> | ||
| - | [[User_talk:Asa_Winstanley|Talk]] - if you want to talk to me, put it on this page | ||
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| - | My [http://meta.wikipedia.com/wiki.phtml?title=User:Asa_Winstanley page] on meta.wikipedia.com. | ||
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| - | Here is [http://www.winstanleys.org my web site]. | ||
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| - | == Musings and Projects == | ||
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| - | *Early September 2001: searched for "Linux" and modified most references to "Linux" the OS to read <nowiki>"GNU/Linux"</nowiki>. Exceptions: personal opinion (Wikipedian's personal pages, <nowiki>/Talk</nowiki> pages and general reporting of opinion), quotes (book and essay names) and titles (e.g Mandrake Linux). | ||
| - | : So someone put the Linuxs back annonymously after a bit of a row in the Talk on [[GNU/Linux]]. It was certainly an interesting experiment anyway :) | ||
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| - | *5th Dec. 2001 - Searched for all instances of [[Papacy]] and made sure they were linked to the article i started. :) I was seeking distraction, ok?! | ||