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About Me
After finding incorrect information on a couple of pages back in 2015, I decided to create an account to fix these and to eventually add pages that were redlinks within my own areas of interest.
In 2019, I started updating deprecated templates on these to the updated ones (eg changing 'Succession templates' to 'Adjacent stations templates'). Looking at some of the relevant modules and how they can be improved.
In 2020, I started the massive task of trying to make a BSicon map of Murray River (the 3rd longest navigable river in the world). I will probably follow this up with both the Murrumbidgee River and the Darling River as they are also navigable and the second and third longest rivers in Australia. I am unsure if I will also do the Goulburn River at the moment.
From 2021, I started fixing related articles to a uniform layout style (eg all Victorian Railway carriage classes to look the same), fixing the categories those pages should be in, and adding them to the relevant WikiProjects.
Did you Know
There is apparently a total 2,978 localities and 79 LGA's in Victoria.
Both a gift and a curse...
My brain runs at a million miles a minute, never stopping, 24/7.
What is it like???
Imagine being surrounded by a giant circular whiteboard reaching from the floor to twice your height. Just behind this is another whiteboard, followed by another, Ad infinitum. The boards can be reordered to bring any one to the front. And on them...
Every TV show / movie I ever watched, and every book (which my brain turns into a movie as I read) is constantly playing.
Every thought / idea / theory is displayed.
Every song, with accompanying lyrics is there.
All your memories.
And everything has cross references, and you have the ability to recall anything at anytime...
Redoing a jigsaw puzzle can trigger memories from the last time you did it.
Watching a movie while eating lunch? Next time you see it, you can remember that meal.
Later Update Melbourne cable tramway system using: "A Story of The Melbourne Cable Tramway System" by Clement Govett & Alfred Twentyman and "Melbourne Metropolitan Tramways Board reports"
Add MTOC stock (Dummies & trailers) - still need sources for CHNPTC stock
Not sure. Sort out Category:Tributaries of the XXX River for the main rivers - Is it needed if there is a catchment category? Murray River and other interstate maybe
Not sure. also Category:XXX River - Is it needed if there is a catchment category? Maybe could be used for towns on the river?
Started Paddle boats of the Murray-Darling system - tied in with Barges & Steamboat people
DoneTemplate:River Murray paddle steamers - to the best of my knowledge this is the complete list of 361 boats (there is a lack of documentation of a definitive list on this subject)
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