User:Bilby
Wikipedia editor
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I'm an academic in Information Systems, although my undergraduate and most of my postgraduate work was in philosophy. I'm interested in Fantasy and Science Fiction, Adelaide, Philosophy, Anime and a number of computing and Information Systems subjects — especially as regards Knowledge Management, which is my main area of academic study.
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The addax (Addax nasomaculatus), also known as the white antelope, is a species of antelope in the subfamily Hippotraginae, native to the Sahara. It is adapted to some of the world's most arid environments and can survive for long periods without drinking water. The addax has a pale coat, distinctive facial markings, and long, spirally twisted horns. It lives in small herds and feeds mainly on grasses and other desert vegetation. Once widespread across North Africa, the species has declined drastically because of overhunting, drought, and habitat loss, and is classified as critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. Wild populations are now concentrated in Chad, Mauritania, and Niger. This male addax was pictured in the Safia Acclimatization Station, south of Dakhla, Western Sahara. Photograph credit: Haytem Bouchri | |||||||||
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I tend to edit widely, as often I wish to improve articles because I see them as important for Wikipedia, rather than because I'm interested in the topic (although I have rather eclectic tastes and reasonably liberal sentiments). I have access to a number of good databases thanks to academia, so I'm not bad at referencing, and I'm always willing to give it a shot when asked. Generally I'll help wherever I can, and I particularly enjoy that feeling which comes from being useful. :) I've also got one of those new digital camera things, and I enjoy taking photos.
Although she rarely edits (try as I might to convince her otherwise) my wife has been known to use her Ruth-AnneMJ account. So we may edit from the same network location.
Articles
The extent of my involvement in these articles varies — from major editing and almost complete rewrites, to simply adding references to an already excellent page or helping to establish notability. Drive-by-edits, however, where I add just a couple of references or make some small changes, don't make the list — if the article is here, I'm hoping to make some sort of significant input. I've listed them here mostly so that I can get quick access to them when required. I'm also listing the status of the articles, so that I can keep track, but this doesn't mean that I'm claiming credit for the status: it may simply be that it was already a good or featured article, but I added extra information here and there. Plus, the single coolest aspect of Wikipedia, from my perspective, is that articles are collaborative endeavors. :)
Active development
These are articles for which I'm semi-actively editing or researching. This can take a while.
- Artificial stupidity
- Australian Farmer
Belldandy- Big Lobster
- Big Orange (South Australia)
- Big Rocking Horse
- Blanche Cave
- Cleopatra 2525
- Clovelly Park, South Australia
- Club Penguin
- Euthanasia
- List of ships of the Illawarra Steam Navigation Company
- Kender
- Louis Laybourne Smith
- Map the Miner
- National War Memorial (South Australia)
- Paladine
- Quentin Bryce
- Senang Hati Foundation
- South African War Memorial (South Australia)
- Turing test
- List of Oh My Goddess episodes
- Warriparinga
Recently completed
"Recently Completed" doesn't mean "now at Featured status" so much as "I don't think I can find anything else to add at the moment". These are articles which I feel I can put aside for a bit, unless I stumble across some extra sources with which to expand them further.
Future projects
The following articles are ones which I hope to work on in the future. My general policy is that I shouldn't vote to keep an article at AfD unless I'm also willing to help develop the article, (noting that it might not need my help), so some of these are ones which need work but survived AfD, and some are just articles which I'd rather like to work on when time permits.
Useful links
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Useful code
- Book: <ref name="">{{cite book | last = | first = | year = | title = | publisher = | location = | isbn = }}</ref>
- Episode: <ref name="">{{cite episode | title = | episodelink = | series = | serieslink = | airdate = | season = | number = }}</ref>
- Journal: <ref name="">{{cite journal | last = | first = | year = | title = | journal = | volume = | issue = | pages = }}</ref>
- News: <ref name="">{{cite news | last = | first = | date = | title = | work = | location = | page = }}</ref>
- News (online): <ref name="">{{cite news | last = | first = | date = | title = | work = | location = | url = | accessdate = 13 August 2026 }}</ref>
- Web: <ref name="">{{cite web | last = | first = | date = | title = | work = | url = | accessdate = 13 August 2026 }}</ref>
- Welcome: == Welcome! ==<br />{{subst:W-basic}}
- Book (list): ''title'' (year) [[publisher]]: location [[International Standard Book Number|ISBN]] [[Special:BookSources/isbn|isbn]]
Links
Associations
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