User:Paddles

Paddles is a nickname for Tim Anderson. Tim lives in Sydney, Australia.

Paddles should not be confused with any of the several other Tim Andersons living in Sydney. Particularly, he is not the Tim Anderson who was convicted and later pardoned in the Sydney Hilton bombing case (and was the subject of a now-deleted WP article.

Similarly, Tim should not be confused with "Paddles" Anderson, a Sydney underworld enforcer who is now dead.

Paddles 11:09, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

Language and WP

en-au

This user is a native speaker of Australian English.

This user uses Commonwealth spelling.

?met?

This user prefers metric units and cannot figure out why Americans and Brits have such a hard time with them.

This user repairs links to disambiguation pages.

This user is a participant in WikiProject Disambiguation.

This user fixes double redirects.

~~vanity~~

This user supports the removal of vanity pages with extreme prejudice.

even

This editor is an eventualist.

1RR

This user prefers discussing changes on the talk page rather than engaging in an edit war.

This editor is a WikiGnome.

its & it's

This user understands the difference between its and it's. So should you.

A, B, and
A and B

This user uses the serial comma unless its inclusion is confusing.

~~mankind~~

This user supports the use of gender-neutral language.

they

This user frequently uses singular they as it is a handy gender-neutral pronoun.

ANAL 4

This user advocates good grammar usage.

“,;:’

This user is a punctuation stickler.

’s

This user realises that plural nouns should not have an apostrophe while possessive words should!

…

This user is addicted to ellipses and has been known to use them indiscriminately...

“...”!
~~US vs. UK~~

This user uses logical quotation marks. Internal punctuation leads to factual errors. It's not a style issue!

This user tries to do the right thing. If they make a mistake, please let them know.

This user is not afraid of being wrong.

UTC+10

This user's time zone is UTC+10.

AEST

This user's time zone is AEST.

This user is interested in Teeline shorthand.

This user just created the above userbox.

Paddles

This user claims no Denominational affiliation. This user is a Christian.

This user is interested in spirituality.

This user is not the Messiah! He is a very naughty boy!

This user comes from Australia.

This user supports changing the Flag of Australia.

This user is aware of how silly this huge table looks on their user page, but acknowledges that its real purpose is twofold: statistics and standardization.

INTJ

This user has an INTJ personality
per the Myers–Briggs typing system.

This user reads between the lines.

7+1

This user enjoys the Discworld series.

Big Brother is watching this user.

This user enjoys heavy reading, such as Shakespeare and other dead guys.

This user understands and appreciates Irony. ^†

SYDNEY

This user attends or attended the University of Sydney.

BSc

This user has a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science.

2:1

This user has an Upper second class honours degree in Mathematical Statistics.

According to The Political Compass this user is:
Economic Left (−6.0) and
Social Libertarian (−4.31)

This user believes that the death penalty should never be used.*

This user uses Google as a primary search engine.

This user prefers Mozilla Firefox.

WBA
GNF
ARB

This user thinks Dave Barry would be a good name for a rock band. And this user is not making that up.

This user is a Sudoku addict.

This user settled Catan.

This user is a backgammon player.

This user plays Diplomacy.

This user plays with a full deck.

e^πi+1=0

This user is a mathie.

This user knows 65 digits of pi.

This user has depression.

This user enjoys philosophy.

This user enjoys photography.

This user was up all night finding userboxes and is now very drowsy.

Current focus on WP[edit]

Articles[edit]

I'm working on User:Paddles/Gifts of the Holy Spirit to update Gifts of the Holy Spirit. Comments and suggestions are welcome. After that I'd like to create (or update, if one already exists) an article on the Fruit of the Holy Spirit.

Another editor merged the Gifts article with another (which is fine, I was making slow progress anyway) so this is no longer on my priority list. Paddles ^T_C 04:48, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

I'd also like to expand the stubs:

autobracketing - Done
filter factor - Progress made
Cokin
Film plane
Fujichrome
Lens hood
Lens mount
List of Minolta products, possibly along the lines of Olympus OM system
Looking for others in the Christianity, Photography and Australian stubs lists.

For various reasons, my involvement has been limited lately. I haven't gone away, just not working on it as much as I was. Paddles ^T_C 04:48, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

Photos[edit]

I plan to provide photos for changing bag, fairy bread and various Sydney railway stations that have requested images.

Maintenance[edit]

The quality of a reference work is defined not just by what is included, but by what is excluded. So I'm trying to participate in Articles for Deletion (AFD) votes every few days.

Besides that, I've been working on fixing Double redirects, particularly ones where running through them with a bot is not the best solution - I've created a couple of disambig pages as a result of looking at double redirects. This led me to looking at other disambig pages and fixing up the quality on a few of them. I've already looked at a couple of the two-letter disambig pages, I suspect that there are others that could use some attention.

I've also started working on repairing links to disambiguation pages (You can help!).

WP bookmarks[edit]