There are quite a few people in the world with the same name as myself so, to avoid my editing bringing any of them into disrepute, I'll say a bit about myself. I am English, though have lived most of my life in Scotland, and because I was born just after World War II I live in a nuclear family, as expected. Less predictable is that both my sons are young enough to still be at school – oh, but life moves on, and now they are both at university. I am retired from a career in IT (it was called Computing when I started). I have never owned a cat.
I have used one account (unified over projects) for editing and a second one, User:Thincat (alt), solely for technical testing. I have not used a customised signature. I edited as an IP in early 2004 and, since then, very occasionally by mistake. I've never been paid to edit Wikipedia and no one has ever offered to pay me. Nor, so far as I can recall, have I ever edited on a topic in which I have a financial interest. However, I was employed by BP between 1966 and 1970 and I see I edited their article ten times between 2005 and 2010.[1] ThinCats is a UK business loan firm founded in 2011 – there is absolutely no connection at all between us.Some articles created[edit]
The list below is of some of the more significant articles I have created – the date shown is when the page became an article in main space. A complete list is accessible via XTools which gives the date when each page was first edited.
Biographies[edit]
- 2017-08-08: Thomas Abernethy (explorer) (1803–1860, polar explorer)
- 2017-09-19: Aline Charigot (1859–1915, wife of Auguste Renoir)
- 2017-09-16: Blonde Bather (1881 & 1882 paintings of Aline Charigot by Auguste Renoir)
- 2016-08-15: Vera Danchakoff (1879-1950, Russian scientist: stem cells)
- 2019-02-28: Caroline Fitzgerald (1865–1911, expatriate American poet and supposed Isabel Archer clone)
- 2014-06-03: Norman Heathcote (1863-1946, writer about St Kilda)
- 2014-02-10: Mary McMurtrie (1902-2003, botanical painter)
- 2019-10-14: Ellis Martin (illustrator) 1881–1977, Ordnance Survey map cover illustrator
- 2014-08-31: Jane Sissmore (1898–1982, MI5 and MI6, married name Jane Archer)
Lists[edit]
- 2011-08-19: Bayeux Tapestry tituli (embroidered text describing the scenes)
- 2017-08-17: List of iconic photographs (list of articles about iconic photos)
- 2017-04-04: List of Mountain Bothies Association bothies (mostly in Scotland)
- 2016-05-17: List of hill passes of the Lake District (England)
Expeditions[edit]
- 2015-03-16: Bailey–Morshead exploration of Tsangpo Gorge (China, 1913)
- 2014-08-15: Henry Morshead (Tsangpo Gorge, 1882–1931)
- 2014-06-14: 1921 British Mount Everest reconnaissance expedition
- 2015-05-18: Affair of the Dancing Lamas (1925 aftermath of 1924 British Mount Everest expedition)
- 2015-12-12: Shipton–Tilman Nanda Devi expeditions (Himalayan mountain in India, 1934–1936)
- 2015-02-20: 1935 British Mount Everest reconnaissance expedition
- 2015-03-19: 1936 British Mount Everest expedition
- 2015-06-04: 1938 British Mount Everest expedition
- 2019-03-02: 1938 American Karakoram expedition to K2
- 2018-10-28: 1939 American Karakoram expedition to K2
- 2018-10-30: Dudley Wolfe (1896–1939, died on K2 expedition)
- 2018-04-07: 1950 French Annapurna expedition (Himalayan mountain in Nepal)
- 2016-01-06: Mount Everest reconnaissance from Nepal (1950–1952)
- 2016-01-08: 1951 British Mount Everest reconnaissance expedition
- 2019-02-02: 1954 Italian Karakoram expedition to K2
- 2019-02-11: 1954 Italian Karakoram expedition controversy (50-year argument)
- 2014-09-10: 1975 British Mount Everest Southwest Face expedition
Others[edit]
- 2014-05-05: MV Alam Pintar and FV Etoile des Ondes collision (in 2009)
- 2017-04-07: Animals Drawn from Nature and Engraved in Aqua-tinta (1788 book, by Charles Catton the younger)
- 2013-06-28: Big-game tunny fishing off Scarborough (mostly 1930s in Britain)
- 2016-04-08: Cairngorm Plateau Disaster (deaths on 1971 school expedition in Scotland)
- 2014-06-10: Corrour Lodge (remote lodge(s) in Scotland)
- 2014-04-23: Curse of Scotland (drivel about nine of diamonds playing card)
- 2019-01-11: Dunnicaer (sea stack off Aberdeenshire with hill fort and Pictish stones)
- 2014-04-26: R. Durtnell & Sons (1591 English building firm run under one family until 2019)
- 2016-12-20: Dyce Work Camp (1916 Scottish camp for conscientious objectors in World War I)
- 2017-09-11: Glas-allt-Shiel (Queen Victoria's "widow's house" rebuilt 1868)
- 2016-04-10: Lairig an Laoigh (mountain pass in Scotland)
- 2009-10-25: TS Leda (1952–2002 passenger ship)
- 2019-08-14: London to Brighton in Four Minutes (1953 BBC fast motion film)
- 2013-06-25: John Rocque's Map of London, 1746
- 2018-08-27: Triple Kirks (1843 Aberdeen churches: three in one and one in three)
Substantial contributions[edit]
The dates are of my first contribution to articles created by other people.
- 2004-11-05: Bayeux Tapestry
- 2013-06-17: Dog and Duck, St George's Fields (tavern in 17th & 18th-century London)
- 2013-04-01: North British, Arbroath and Montrose Railway (opened 1881)
- 2013-07-01: Edward Peel (big-game fisherman) (1884–1961)
- 2013-04-06: Race to the North (late 19th-century railway races in Britain)
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