It seems sensible to put info about me and about what I'm doing / hoping to do on wikipedia here. If you want to add praise / criticism / comment, could you do it on User talk:SGBailey please.

Info about me can be found on my personal website http://www.stocton.org and, since I may well go through long periods when I don't do anything here - even visit - I can be contacted by email on <SGBailey@iee.org>.

I suspect that my main contribution to wikipedia will be fixing others' spelling mistakes!

My interests include Go (board game), Fairport Convention, Jethro Tull, Folk music, Mathematical games, Maps, UK places .

-- Steve Bailey.

Pages I've created:

Go proverb, engineering and science contrasted, On Numbers and Games, Flexography, Anilox, Sue Townsend, Kit Williams, Eddie Stobart, Cornish pasty, David Coulthard, List of international call prefixes, Seahenge, Flag fen, Edward German, Zola Budd, digital sum, optical tweezers, car games etc, Bowood House, FizzBuzz, Scissors (game), University of the Third Age, Palfrey, barn dance, kaylee, kayleigh, kayley, CE mark, Josie Dew, Folk club, Yvonne Arnaud, Image:Oxford shark.jpg, Coutts bank

Pages (/topics) I've substantially altered:

Surrey, Guildford, Nim, Electronic color code, List of motorways in the United Kingdom, Dots and Boxes, List of 'years in music', Phutball, Go (board game), Karlstad, Sunne, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Jeremy Taylor, James Stirling, Square root, Peg solitaire, List of people by name Fixing duplicates etc, Two-letter English word, Conway chained arrow, Dot product, Trigonometric identity, List of numbers, Laxey Wheel, Isle of Man, Electromagnetic shielding

Pages I want to visit often (aka Favorites - how I hate that spelling in MSIE for Britain!):

• Special:Lonelypages
• Wikipedia:Village pump
• Wikipedia:Links_to_disambiguating_pages
• Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion
• My edits and those of 217.24.129.50
• Wikipedia:Offline reports
• Category:Wikipedia maintenance Note the leading colon in the link URL.

Useful stuff that I've learnt about wikpedia recapped:

• <nowiki>...</nowiki> can be useful
• ~~~~ signs username and date/time
• '' is italic
• ''' is bold
• External link title should use ==
• County town lists use ''' even though strictly incorrect.
• You can include HTML comments in the page, they are hidden from searches and only work at the start of a newline which breaks lists etc. There is one between the horizontal rule and "Useful" above.
• #REDIRECT [[Article name]]
• Adopted orphan redirects for searching: [[Redirect article name]]
• Pre-canned Wikipedia:MediaWiki custom messages: {{stub}} {{vfd}} {{NPOV}} {{disambig}} {{spoiler}} {{delete}}

I agree to multi-license all my contributions to any U.S. state, county, or city article as described below: