User:Northernhenge
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Northernhenge is mainly a WikiGnome and thinks he's been here for quite a while. His main interest is how the value of the information contained in Wikipedia – features that make it better than other encyclopaedias – can be maintained. He believes that this is supported by wikilinks and categories. He is probably guilty of overlinking, may tend to be an inclusionist regarding categories, and was disappointed when date linking was dropped. He certainly needs to know more about Wikidata and should use Citation bot.
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Policies
(He's putting Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Layout here so he can easily find it.)
When he was a more actively creative editor Northernhenge made an effort to take policies and guidelines into account though this is not his natural inclination. He might have sometimes referred to Biographies of living persons, Neutral point of view, No original research, Verifiability or What Wikipedia is not. He always intended to leave edit summaries but didn't always do so. He was particularly negligent with minor edits and talkpage edits. He probably still imagines that editors read their own talkpages in any case and that minor edits are self-explanatory but that's not really an excuse. Concerning NOR and literature review...
You can, but I believe in any case that a real encyclopaedic work consists of reproducing an existing synthesis of these analyses made by a good source, not trying to do it yourself by fishing for positive and negative criticism and choosing yourself quotes that are considered emblematic.
— Sherwood6 on French wikipedia discussion
What's not to like?
- In two-or-three words, drive-by tagging. If you have time to tag “Cleanup bare URLs”, you have time to clean them up. Don’t demand that other editors do things you can’t be bothered to do yourself. Also, they’re a problem for new editors. Someone sees a drive-by tag and feels good about applying what they think is a quick and effective fix, for example deleting text that could have been rephrased, or adding a reference to a YouTube video or Facebook page. They now also think they’re helping by adding their own drive-by tags in similar situations across Wikipedia. Drive-by tags take up other people’s time and mislead new editors. (See also the Tagging pages for problems essay.)
- Ownership of articles is a tricky one. We need enthusiasts but editing an "owned" article can be frustrating and drive editors away from the page and maybe Wikipedia itself. But how many articles would not exist if it wasn't for their !owners? To use some very old examples (he should move on really!), CLANNAD and Yodeling have probably illustrated both sides of the argument at one time or another.
- Don't get Northernhenge started on the whole Wiki Loves Monuments fiasco from quite a few years ago now. Essentially a mass-destruction of numerous editors’ hard work, just to standardise a load of pages to (wait for it…) enter a competition.
What's to like? (Current favourite page.)
- Heimskringla
- And his favourite redlinks are... Sylvie Facon; Constance Pittard
- Mapping from geographic categories using kml template (and also should do more links to these maps).
Activites
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- Northernhenge isn't quite sure what an edit count actually measures. (See also Editcountitis, AfD statistics and his edits in the wikipedia namespace.)
When – despite this – he looks at his total number of edits, he includes his Commons edits (mainly working on categorisation) on purpose, and other namespaces because he’s too lazy to think about which should be be included.
- Results from an API query
- He was seen for a while at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion and could have got hooked on Wikipedia:Categories for discussion or even Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links until WP:BUSYLIFE took over. Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Women looks important, given the gender imbalance here.
- Another place to while away the hours (articles with leads that are too short)
- He rarely creates articles.
- He's a pending changes reviewer and new pages reviewer who therefore visits Special:PendingChanges and Special:NewPagesFeed
- Recently discovered Category:Articles using duplicate arguments in template calls
- Other...
- Lua looks interesting.
- So does User:Nardog/RefRenamer
- And Magic Words
- And User:Certes/Reports
- Oh, ok then... Category:All articles lacking sources
Cataloguing fairy tales
- Search for "Aarne-Thompson Grouping" (mainly found in infoboxes)
- Search for articles in ATU categories
- Categories which use the "Fairtytale_collector_category_lede"
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Folklore/To do/ATU fairytale notability
- The must be a LOT more to say about Bowie and Faithfull
Obvious punctuation errors
ALL CAPS
- Try to Title Case
Extra symbols
For example, searching for
insource:/[,;][;,]\<ref/
found 544 articles in May 2024. There's work to be done!
London Underground
Northernhenge wonders if articles such as these could be brought together more clearly. It’s a shame that category pages can’t be used as articles on this wiki. Maybe a family tree would work.
Map
Articles
- Underground Electric Railways Company of London
- Baker Street and Waterloo Railway
- Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway, a.k.a. Hampstead Tube Railway
- Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway
- Central London Railway
- City and South London Railway
- District Railway
- Metropolitan Railway
- Great Northern & City Railway
Related articles
Related lines
Categories
Search tools
An idea on-hold for a long time
One of Northernhenge’s early efforts (June 2010) was recreating the Whitland and Cardigan Railway using edits like this one, either to the railway station articles or the towns if they had no article. The town links were a bit controversial, though most of them survive as of August 2022. Since 2010, someone has created all the remaining station articles and added their own versions of the “rail line” links to the new pages, so Northernhenge’s original edits are redundant really. The original idea was to do the same thing elsewhere to recreate other vanished railway lines but, to avoid controversy, every former station would need its own article and it would be hard to demonstrate notability in many cases. Maybe navboxes would have worked better than “rail line” links.
Other wikis
Tip of the day etc.
- Useful citation tool
- Don't forget Wikipedia:Database download
- Explore Category:Lists based on Wikidata
- Tips...
Use
{{#section-h:Wikipedia:WikiProject Folklore|Monitoring}} to embed on a user page
Did you know
- 16 Aug 2026 – Epic of Samba Gueladio (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Vigilantcosmicpenguin (t · c); see discussion
Articles for deletion
- 26 Aug 2026 – Gabriel Nebunu (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Biruitorul (t · c) was closed as delete by ComplexRational (t · c) on 02 Sep 2026; see discussion (8 participants)
Proposed deletions
- 27 Aug 2026 – Afa (Igbo divination) (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Kowal2701 (t · c) and endorsed by Bearian (t · c) on 27 Aug 2026 was deproded by Mbataw (t · c) on 01 Sep 2026
Categories for discussion
- 20 Jul 2026 – Category:Supernatural legends (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Zxcvbnm (t · c); see discussion
- 20 Jul 2026 – Category:Revenants (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Zxcvbnm (t · c); see discussion
- 08 Jul 2026 – Category:Animal spirits (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Zxcvbnm (t · c); see discussion
- 08 Jul 2026 – Category:Fiction about therianthropy (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Zxcvbnm (t · c); see discussion
Redirects for discussion
- 23 Aug 2026 – Silkies (talk · edit · hist) →Brownie (folklore) was RfDed by Randomologist2000 (t · c); see discussion
- 12 Aug 2026 – Jõuluvana (talk · edit · hist) →Santa Claus was RfDed by Consarn (t · c); see discussion
Good article nominees
- 24 Aug 2026 – Granny's Wonderful Chair (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by DrThneed (t · c); start discussion
Articles to be split
- 11 Jun 2026 – Invented tradition (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Altenmann (t · c); see discussion
- 23 Feb 2026 – Zombie (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Fgnievinski (t · c); see discussion
Articles for creation
- 01 Sep 2026 – Draft:Amautalik (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Prof. Cricket (t · c)
- 29 Aug 2026 – Draft:Cake divination (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Yvessam (t · c) was declined
- 11 Aug 2026 – Draft:Cheshire soul-caking play (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Chiserc (t · c) was accepted to Cheshire soul-caking play (talk · edit · hist) by Absurdum4242 (t · c) on 30 Aug 2026
- Watchlist
- The following articles are subject to problematic edits and require constant attention. You can help monitor their recent changes by adding them to your watchlist:
- More articles on the folklore watchlist (related changes).
- Assessment
- Assessment changes to articles monitored by this project: