User:Nick carson/Contributions

Most often, I edit, write and copyedit articles. I enjoy tackling bigger tasks like creating articles where they don't yet exist or expanding articles that are very small or of obscure subject matter. I contribute my own original research to wikipedia all the time and do so with the utmost importance placed on information of truth, sometimes such information is not easily verifiable which is where we come to another policy that requires amendment to allow direct observation and obscure sources to be verified.

I use literally everything I can get my hands on for sources of information, published or unpublished, like; books, zines, websites, historical societies, booklets, other encyclopedias, street directories, maps, everything. Much of the stuff I contribute information to tends not to attract too many views let alone discussion. Through 2006-2007 I forget to sign in as myself 90% of the time, and in 2007 I stopped editing WP a fair bit as I was living away from home to study at uni. Since September 2008, I've been more organised and ramped up my contributions on WP.

I expand alot of river and creek articles, for some reason they don't get as much attention by WP editors as even the bridges that cross them! Or the cities that rely on them! I was the first Wikipedia editor to add reference to the 250 individual nations that occupied Australia prior to European settlement in the leads of the Australia, victoria and Melbourne articles, as well as the articles for many suburbs in Melbourne, unfortunately this didn't happen until 2008! Yes! There was no mention of them in those intros before I added it.

I'm also an advocate of using Indigenous Australian names in preference over European names as they are more descriptive in their respective languages and were the original names used. Most European names don't actually apply to their subjects, many try to emulate locations or places in Europe, such as the name of the town known as Cowes, Victoria.

I come across a general lack of information regarding the need for Public transport and Transit oriented development in almost every transport-related article I read, so I end up spending a fair bit of time adding this too.