User:Willthorpe

Musings about editing

Sometimes it is necessary to cull content to improve the encyclopaedia, but likewise it is sometimes necessary to substantially improve content with the addition of easily located sources and rewriting.

Wikipedia contributors are spread too thin, with there being about 54 articles for every active editor. It would be ideal to have more editors, but equally important is adhering to good editorial standards, ensuring the content we compose is well-written and appropriately sourced – and not overly time-sensitive.

This user opposes the use of generative artificial "intelligence" software on Wikipedia.

Articles written

The creation of some of these articles involved substantial amounts of copyediting.

Did You Know?

Sarah Wentworth; Statue of James Cook, Hyde Park; Hunter River Railway Company; Charles Throsby Smith; The Cenotaph, Bulawayo; Railways in Canberra; Australasia (poem); The Naulahka: A Story of West and East

Significant contributions

• Railway articles, including:
  • High-speed rail in Australia
  • Mudgee railway station
  • Railways in Sydney
  • Light rail
  • Articles related to light rail in Sydney
    • Resurrected the articles for Lilyfield and Wentworth Park light rail stations whilst attempting to better integrate light rail at heavy rail stations (see Dulwich Hill). All light rail station articles were replaced with redirects after remaining published for some months, but it is my belief that these articles will be resurrected again in future.
    • Improved the adjacent stations module for Sydney light rail services
  • Articles related to the South African railways
• Commonwealth articles, including:
  • English in the Commonwealth of Nations
  • Liberalism in South Africa
  • British influence in Pakistan
  • Articles related to South Africa, India, et cetera.
• Australian history articles, including:
  • William Wentworth, and articles related to him and his family
  • William Broughton, my fifth great-grandfather
• Articles related to my ancestral research, including:
  • Thomas Washer, my 12th great-granduncle
• Honi Soit, the student newspaper for the University of Sydney
• Articles related to the film and the novel Gone with the Wind

Some family history

Library selections

• The Pioneers, Katharine Susannah Prichard

  

• Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
• The Story of an African Farm, Olive Schreiner
• Sybil, Benjamin Disraeli

Published works

• Thorpe, W. T. (16 January 2026). Travelling Far? Take The Train! On country railways, coaches and trainspotting. Sydney. ISBN 979-8242273313.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Contributions to several newspapers

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Proud to be Australian.	This user is proud to be British.	This user loves New Zealand.
This user takes public transport.	This user drinks tea.	This user plays the Guitar.
This user is a descendant of a royal family.	An ancestor of this user reached Australia on the First Fleet.	This user is a professional journalist.
This user loves reading The Sydney Morning Herald	E This user reads The Economist.	This user is an enby.
If this user has to lie, steal, cheat or kill, as God is this user's witness, this user will never go hungry again!	M*A*S*H This user understands: "the M stands for mobile".	This user appreciates the writer Olive Schreiner.
This user enjoys the works of Rudyard Kipling.	This user enjoys the works of William Shakespeare	This user is a fan of The Easybeats
This user loves The Beatles.	This user is a fan of The Rolling Stones.	This user loves Express Passenger Trains

More information This user is interested in the United Kingdom., This user is interested in the Commonwealth of Nations. ...

This user is interested in the United Kingdom.	This user is interested in the Commonwealth of Nations.	This user is interested in the history of Australia.
This user is a railway buff	This user is interested in South Africa.	This user is interested in the British Empire.
This user is interested in the United States of America.

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