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<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color: white; border: #800000 solid 2px; margin-bottom:.5em; padding: 5px; font-family: georgia, sans-serif;"><span style="color:black">My edits on other projects: [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Bodnotbod Meta (fundraising)] ~ [http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Bodnotbod Foundation Strategy]</span></div></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color: AliceBlue; border: #800000 solid 2px; margin-bottom:.5em; padding: 5px; font-family: georgia, sans-serif;"><span style="color:black">Pages to use as watchlists: [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/List_of_MPs_elected_in_the_United_Kingdom_general_election,_2010|MPs]] ~ [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/List_of_English_people|EngPeeps]] ~ [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/List_of_Scots|ScotPeeps]] ~ [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Mohandas_Karamchand_Gandhi|Gandhi]] ~ [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/BBC|BBC]] ~ [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/The_Guardian|Guardian]] ~ [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/List_of_Google_products|Google]] ~ [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/List_of_Academy_Award-winning_films|Films]] ~ [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/The_100_Most_Influential_Books_Ever_Written_(book)|Books (influential)]] ~ [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/List_of_winners_and_shortlisted_authors_of_the_Booker_Prize_for_Fiction|Books (Booker)]] ~ [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?namespace=1&target=Wikipedia:Requests+for+comment/All&tagfilter=&limit=500&title=Special:RecentChangesLinked RFC] ~ [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:1,000_core_topics|OneK]] ~ [[Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:Vital_articles/Expanded|FiveK+]]</span></div></div>

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<span style="color:black; font-size:small">'''SubPages:''' <small>[[User:Bodnotbod/Notes|Notes]] / [[User:Bodnotbod/1000|1k]] / [[User:Bodnotbod/WWI|WWI]] / [[User:Bodnotbod/Sandbox|Sandbox]] / [[User:Bodnotbod/ToDo|ToDo]] / [[User:Bodnotbod/answers|Answers]] / [[User:Bodnotbod/resources|Resources]] / [[User:Bodnotbod/Tools|Tools]] / [[User:Bodnotbod/History|Hist2Read]] / [[User:Bodnotbod/TabInfo|TabInfo]]</small></span></div>

<span style="font-size:small">[[Image:Crystal_Clear_app_sipphone.png|40px]] [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=User_talk:Bodnotbod&action=edit&section=new Talk2Me]</span>

<small>'''Wikipedia: The Crack Cocaine of Copy Editing'''</small>

''As a contributor I've done various things, but at the moment I'm concentrating on keeping up with my watchlist.''

''High point of five years of editing was when [[David Quantick]] wrote to me and now uses our Wikipedia article, substantially written by me, as his [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0702880/bio official IMDB bio].''
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<small>'''<span style="font-size:x-large">W</span>anky<span style="font-size:x-large">S</span>tats™'''</small>
<p><small>I joined on '''April 28 2004'''</small></p>
<p><small>'''1,000''' edits as of June 10 2004</small></p>
<p><small>'''2,000''' edits as of August 18 2004 </small></p>
<p><small>'''3,000''' edits as of August 2005 which means it's taken me one year to do what had previously taken me 4 months.</small></p>
<p><small>'''4,000''' edits as of October 25 2005</small></p>
<p><small>'''5,000''' edits as of July 2 2008. I have been tardy.</small></p>
<p><small>'''6,000''' edits as of November 2008.</small></p>
<p><small>'''7,000''' edits as of July 2009.</small></p>
<p><small>'''8,000''' edits as of July 2010 (although I did a ton more on the Strategy wiki this year).</small></p>
<p><small>'''9,000''' edits as of September 2010 (lots of welcoming users),(gives an average of about 1,500 contributions a year).</small></p>
<p>'''10,000''' <small>edits as of January 2010.</small></p>
<p><small>'''11,000''' edits as of September 2011 (welcomes and warnings).</small></p>
<p><small>'''12,000''' edits as of December 2016 - 50.81% in [[WP:ARTICLE|the mainspace]].</small></p>
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<p><small>As of '''August 8 2004''' I was '''#664''' in the list of main namespace editors and '''#482''' on less discriminating editing terms [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedians_by_number_of_edits]</small></p>
<p><small>As of '''August 29 2004''' I was '''#627 (up 45)''' in the list of main namespace editors and '''#453''' on less discriminating terms [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedians_by_number_of_edits]</small></p>
<p><small>As of '''July 25, 2005''' I was '''#1291''' in the list of main namespace editors and '''#973''' overall (there's 350,000 registered editors).</small></p>
<p><small>As of '''October 15''', '''2005''' I was '''#1216''' in the list of main namespace editors and '''#992''' overall. Midtable obscurity</small> </p>
<p><small>As of '''July 2, 2008''' I was '''not in the top 4000''' editors. The end of an era.</small></p>

<p><small>[http://toolserver.org/~soxred93/count/index.php?name=bodnotbod&lang=en&wiki=wikipedia Check how Wanky I am right NOW!]</small></p>
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'''WP Stats:''' 
* English Wikipedia reached a peak of just under '''55,000''' editors making 5 edits per month or more in 2007. 
* As of 2009 that was down to around '''45,000'''. That's about the population of [[Christchurch, Dorset]].
* As of January 2010 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2010-02-22/News_and_notes]: 
** '''365 million''' unique visitors visited Wikimedia projects (all projects combined).
** Of those '''189.9 million''' visited the English Wikipedia.
** '''60.1%''' of the visitors to Wikimedia projects are estimated to come via Google searches.
** only '''0.025%''' of visitors to Wikimedia projects are editors with more than 5 edits. 
** For the English Wikipedia, only '''0.021%''' of visitors have more than 5 edits. 
** 5th in the list of most-visited websites in the world. 
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==Articles I've initiated==

*[[Attachment theory]] - ooooh!  Psychology. w00t! In November '09 this became a Featured Article! As far as I know it contains NONE of my work, but I'm absolutely fine with that and soo chuffed :o)
*[[Children of the Stones]] - a scary children's drama from the 1970s
*[[The Coach and Horses, Greek Street, Soho, London]] - [[Jeffrey Bernard]]'s haunt.
*[[comic novel]] - most surprised it wasn't there.
*[[Corporals killings]] - heavy stuff I'll always remember seeing the news footage of
*[[Diane Chambers|Chambers, Diane]] - character from Cheers
*[[Phil Cool|Cool, Phil]] - terrifying impressionist
*[[Eliza Doolittle|Doolittle, Eliza]] - I began this article about the Pygmalion character but it has now been usurped by a musician. Oh well.
*[[Sue Gerhardt|Gerhardt, Sue]] - wrote a book on babies' brain development
*[[Grimms]] - Band featuring Neil Innes and Paul McCartney's Brother
*[[Lauren Harries|Harries, Lauren]] - who I used to call the ''antiques mutant'' at school.
*[[Heckler]]
*[[Holiday camp]]
*[[Impressionist (entertainment)]]
*[[Gary Kremen|Kremen, Gary]] - the man who registered the domain ''sex.com'' only to see a fraudster get all the cash - written after seeing a documentary on Ch5.
*[[Light entertainment]] - largely bollocks, but it's a start
*[[Lyons (company)]]
*[[Media monitoring service]]
*[[Penguin Cafe Orchestra]] -  an OK, medium sized beginning
*[[Plop!]] - a 1970s DC Comic
*[[David Quantick|Quantick, David]] - a whopping great article, and no mistake
*[[Spangles]] - God help me, what have I become?
*[[Television comedy]] used to redirect to [[sitcom]].  Didn't like that.  So started an article.
*[[Gareth_Thomas_(actor)|Thomas, Gareth]] - of Children of the Stones and Blake's 7
*[[Trades Description Act]]
*[[2007 Turner Prize]]
*[[2008 Turner Prize]]
*[[2009 Turner Prize]]

==Categories I've initiated==

<small>'''''Alpha order''''': [[:category:British television comedy]] + <s>[[:category:British political scandals]]</s> (see [[:category:Political scandals in the United Kingdom]] + <s>[[:category:four letter words]]</s> (see [[:category:profanity]]) + <s>[[:category:gay icons]] + [[:category:Hanna-Barbera cartoons and characters]]</s> + [[:category:insects]] + <s>[[:category:London's West End]]</s> + <s>[[:category:Members of Saddam Hussein's family]]</s> (see [[:category:Saddam Hussein family]] + <s>[[:category:most-wanted Iraqi playing cards]]</s> (now [[Most-wanted_Iraqi_playing_cards|a list]]) + [[:category:plumbing]] + [[:category:priests]] + [[:category:Satirical television programmes]] + [[:category:transsexuals]] + [[:category:Social realism]]</small> 

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==Articles I've revised worth mentioning==

*[[Amusement Park]] - added a British section, wrote about ''[[fairground]]s'' (now an article of its own) and brief mention of Brit theme parks.
*[[Ivor Cutler]] - added discography, note on his style of delivery and content of work, external links.
*[[Angus Deayton]] - added Merton's "I stabbed him in the front" amongst other bits.
*[[Paul Merton]] - Added para about his performance style.
*[[sitcom]] - Major revisions to dilute the US-centric tone. Put out a call for more countries to contribute.
*[[Vivian Stanshall]] - Early life, brief Bonzos para, ''rehab'', valium, the ''rubber ears'' anecdote.
*[[Webcast]] - added details of NetAid webcast.
*[[comedy]] - Massive organisational revision of links so I can try and make sense of Wikis comedy pages.  'ray!
*[[Johnny Vegas]] - added a fair bit, even if the upshot was that the article is now a horrible chunky listy affair rather than graceful reading... will try and sort that out.
*[[Rachel Whiteread]] - though half of it's just stuck on the [[Talk:Rachel Whiteread]] page. I'm thoroughly sick of her and her casts now.
*[[Only Fools and Horses]] - added info about Sullivan (as script and theme song writer)
*[[John Sullivan]] - added stub for Sullivan 
*[[Arthur Mathews (writer)|Arthur Mathews]] - put up a pretty damn good article on that half of the Linehan & Mathews axis ([[Father Ted]] etc).  [[Graham Linehan]] - completes the pair
*[[Bruce Robinson]] - writer + relevant additions to [[Withnail and I]] and [[The Killing Fields]]
*[[The Information (novel)]] - added quite a lot there, including plot summary and critics.

=='Reception' pieces==
I have a strange, sad and lonely obsession with documenting what critics say about [[the arts]], so I often document the ''reception'' of a work. I have done that for:
*[[Bonekickers]]
*[[The Information (novel)]] - [[Martin Amis]]
*[[Fifteen Storeys High]]
*[[Lab Rats]]
*[[Yellow Dog (novel)]] - Amis again.
*[[The Colour of Money (TV series)]] - a rubbish [[gameshow]]

==Little edits I'm pleased with==
<small>[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Keyboard_layout&diff=4173890&oldid=4016645 UK-US Keyboards] + [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Discography&diff=4982025&oldid=4787882 Discography] + ''Gymnastics scoring'': [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Balance_beam_%28gymnastics%29&diff=0&oldid=5268792 beam], [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Floor_%28gymnastics%29&diff=0&oldid=5269639 floor], [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Uneven_bars_%28gymnastics%29&diff=5270286&oldid=5270239 asymmetric bars], [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Vault_%28gymnastics%29&diff=0&oldid=5269322 vault] + ''Shoe japes of The United Kingdom'' at [[Shoe flinging]]</small>

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|style="vertical-align: top; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | To bodnotbod, for high quality reviewing at [[WP:FAC|FAC]] [[User:Karanacs|Karanacs]] ([[User talk:Karanacs|talk]]) 20:16, 18 May 2010 (UTC) 
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