About me

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I started Wikipeding in April 2010 by expanding a stub related to a village in North Lincolnshire (Alkborough). This is an ongoing project. However, my main interest is in the Roman Empire, and specifically Hadrian's Wall. I'm currently involved in a little project-ette to create entries for each of the Milecastles along Hadrian's Wall. It takes much longer than you might think! First impressions of Wikipeding? There's always more that you want to do, than time you have to do it.

Sandbox pages

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Useful tools

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An example of how to make an external link to a BBC 'Listen Again'. Roman Britain on In Our Time at the BBC.

Magnus' tool - A useful tool for moving photos from Geograph to Wikimedia Commons.






Useful templates

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Tip of the moment...
 
Fix double redirects
 

A redirect is a special page that automatically causes the text of another page to be displayed in its place. A redirect that points to another redirect is called a double redirect. These pages are undesirable, because Wikipedia's MediaWiki software will not follow the second redirect, in order to prevent infinite loops. A self-redirect is an article that redirects to itself. These situations create slow, unpleasant experiences for the reader, waste server resources, and make the navigational structure of the site confusing.

To add this auto-randomizing template to your user page, use {{totd-random}}