User:DuncanHill

Semi-retired

This user is no longer very active on Wikipedia.

Please sign Wikipedia:Wiki Workers United solidarity

When starting a thread at ANI about someone you MUST inform them on their talk page. The use of ping or the notification system is not sufficient for this purpose. "The rules are very clear".

Useful things

Category:Administrative backlog
Good articles with no-target errors 139 on 16th February 2026, 143 on 4th May 2026, 99 on 18th May 2026
Good articles with unsourced statements 2774 on 16th February 2026, 2775 on 4th May 2026
Featured articles with unsourced statements 137 on 16th February 2026, 127 on 4th May 2026

Cornish Dictionary
Henwyn tyller place names

Land Explorer

A fix for certain intractable duplicate source errors here.
How the Liberal National/National Liberal problem was fixed.
Fixing Refnames in excerpts, you find the refnames in the original, and copy them over like this.

User:DuncanHill/IP Block problem

Some important diffs

Pages I've created

People

Charles Foster Barham

Joyce M. Bennett

Thomas Bond (topographer)

Elizabeth Catherine Thomas Carne

Richard Quiller Couch

Edwin Dunkin

Richard Edmonds (scientist)

Trevor Elliott (geoscientist)

Adolph Ferdinand Gehlen

Moira Gibb

Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert

William Hals

John Hawkins (geologist)

Roger Hosen

James Jago

Thomas Brown Jordan

William Jordan (writer)

Charles Moore (geologist)

William Oliver (physician, 1695–1764)

Walter Hawken Tregellas

Sir George Trevelyan, 4th Baronet

David Tyacke

George Waters (MP)

Places

Things

Royal Geological Society of Cornwall

Russellite

Victorella pavida

Any help in expanding these would be very much appreciated!

Odds & sods

Category:Cornwall stubs

Category:Cornwall building and structure stubs

Caradon navigation box

Category:Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry

Category:Combined Universities in Cornwall

Category:Cornish folklore

Category:Geology of Cornwall

Template:Policing in Cornwall

Category:Roger Taylor (Queen drummer)

Category:Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Penryn and Falmouth

Category:Politicians from Falmouth, Cornwall

Category:Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Camborne

Category:Penaeidae

Category:Clergy from Somerset

Category:Dorset Regiment

Category:People from Delaware County, Iowa

Category:Welsh academic biography stubs

Category:Wollaston Medal winners

Category:Fellows of the Royal Television Society

Category:WikiProject Sussex participants

Template:Noble

Template:2009 Davis Cup

Category:1866 disestablishments in England

Category:1871 disestablishments in England

Template:David Lloyd George

Notes and Queries

The Generosity of Others

The Original Barnstar

for all your recent hard work Reedgunner 14:52, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

A Barnstar!

The Working Man's Barnstar

I, Dweller, award you the working man's barnstar for your tireless contributions to the project since you joined. Wikipedia is stronger for the contributions of people like you. We're glad to have you on board. --Dweller 14:06, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar

You truly showed the spirit of Wikipedia in helping our friend the sitting duck. Your kindness is not unnoticed! Love,Neranei (talk) 01:35, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar

For making a difference. Sluzzelin talk 00:54, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

The Minor Barnstar

For the fine photo of Poldice. It may be a small thing, but it made my day. Bretonbanquet (talk) 21:14, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

The Categorisation Barnstar

For all the nice categorization work on James Ranald Martin and several other pages. Keep going! Prashanthns (talk) 14:29, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

The da Vinci Barnstar

For an awesome level of work in resolving the AN/I Derailment! LaughingVulcan 15:22, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

The Barnstar of Diligence

For diligent work on WP:Cornwall over the years Andy F (talk) 19:56, 24 February 2010 (UTC)

The Tireless Contributor Barnstar

Thanks for your ongoing contributions - much appreciated. Stalwart111 (talk) 00:09, 12 March 2010 (UTC)

The WikiProject Barnstar

To DuncanHill for diligently and constructively contributing to
WP:Cornwall over many years. Andy F (talk) 21:13, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

The WikiProject Cornwall Barnstar

For all your excellent work maintaining and contributing to WikiProject Cornwall over the years.

The deserved first recipient of this award! Zangar (talk) 16:34, 18 July 2010 (UTC)

The Disambiguator's Barnstar

Thanks for all your hard work on disambiguation pages, it's appreciated. Best wishes, Boleyn (talk) 20:31, 12 February 2011 (UTC)

historic English persons

Thank you for quality articles such as Jonathan Couch, Henry Augustus Smyth, William Oliver (physician) and Royal Geological Society of Cornwall, for adding categories, - Duncan, repeating (10 April 2009 and 1 February 2010): you are an awesome Wikipedian!

The Original Barnstar

Thanks for coming back quickly with a helpful reply at the Reference desk! Thanks, Thatone~~(削除) weird (削除ここまで)~~wikier Say hi 14:22, 30 December 2019 (UTC)

The Copyeditor's Barnstar

For intelligent, helpful, and in-depth copyediting of many articles, including several of mine. Your work does not go unnoticed. Thank you! Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 01:38, 29 May 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for making clarifications on Queens of Industry. Lajmmoore (talk) 09:08, 30 November 2020 (UTC)

The Barnstar of Diligence

For fixing Signal (software)! I'm happy to take over for you if you're tired of removing hyphens! AleatoryPonderings (???) (!!!) 00:19, 23 December 2020 (UTC)

The Original Barnstar

I hereby award this barnstar to editor DuncanHill for diligent efforts to improve the quality of references in our articles. FeydHuxtable (talk) 10:01, 14 August 2021 (UTC)

The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar

For your tireless work tracking and identifying User:DuncanHill/LTA - your commitment is appreciated! ~TNT (she/they • talk) 11:56, 20 September 2021 (UTC)

The Guidance Barnstar

Dear colleague,
Thank you for finding the time to offer advice and guidance to your fellow editors, especially about the existence of useful tools, as you did for my benefit, here.
With kind regards;
Patrick. ツ Pdebee. ^(talk)^{(become old-fashioned!)} 16:00, 21 August 2022 (UTC)

The Cleanup Barnstar

Awarded for your unending efforts in tidying up citations in articles. Awarded by Cdjp1 (talk) 28 February 2023

A vast mediaeval barn

I don't do barnstars, but here's a picture of a barn near where I used to live. MinorProphet (talk) 06:01, 9 June 2023 (UTC)

The Working Man's Barnstar

For suggestions made during the spinoffs from Black market in wartime France Elinruby (talk) 21:43, 2 August 2023 (UTC)

The Original Barnstar

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia (u t c m l) 🔒 ALL IN 🧿 18:46, 10 September 2023 (UTC)

The Barnstar of Diligence

I feel very embarrassed about the Harv and Sfn error I had in my recent edit. You are extremely kind to pick it up and quietly correct it. MatthewDalhousie (talk) 01:50, 17 June 2024 (UTC)

The Tireless Contributor Barnstar

Thank you for noticing and quietly repairing my many careless citation errors. I know you're sick of me. I do promise I don't leave them there just to lure you into my web, I'm just a bum who makes up author names, and confuses years when stuff happened and years when it was written about. Anyway you are an absolute mensch. Thank you. jengod (talk) 14:43, 21 March 2025 (UTC)

The Helping Hand Barnstar

Thank you so much for the help with those citation errors! You've really helped me get a grasp on how to use the source editor as a new user and improve Wikipedia. I'm still learning how to do things well, and you've immediately pitched in to help me multiple times. Thank you! User:Reverosie

"Dreaming the same Impossible Dream"

The Like-Minded Persons' Club

For displaying here common sense and uncommon good taste by agreeing with me or saying something I would have said if only I'd had the presence of mind, I hereby bestow upon you Provisional Membership of the
Like-Minded Persons' Club.

To qualify for Full Membership, simply continue to agree with me in all matters for at least the next 12 months.

(Disagreements are so vulgar, don't you think? And, as Bruce Chatwin said, Arguments are fatal. One always forgets what they are about)

The Invisible Barnstar

For helping keep Wikipedia running with behind-the-scenes fixes. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 15:10, 9 June 2026 (UTC)

The Help Desk Barnstar

I never would've figured out that ref formatting for Junius Wilson otherwise. Thanks for your assistance at the Help Desk. Happy editing! APK hi :-) (talk) 09:18, 21 June 2026 (UTC)

DuncanHill's Awesome Wikipedian day is 10th April.

I'm an awesome Wikipedian!

This user has been identified as an Awesome Wikipedian and was awarded his own day.

DYK

Updated DYK query On 27 November, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article John Mawe , which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Updated DYK query On 18 December, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article John Rogers (divine) , which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Updated DYK query On 20 December, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Jonathan Couch , which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Updated DYK query On 26 December, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article John Ralfs , which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Updated DYK query On 12 January, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Dr William Oliver , which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.