User:DuncanHill
Some people just want to spoil it for everyone else. They are succeeding.
Pages I've created
People
Places
Things
Any help in expanding these would be very much appreciated!
Odds & sods
Category:Cornwall building and structure stubs
Category:Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
Category:Combined Universities 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: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
Category:1866 disestablishments in England
Category:1871 disestablishments in England
Notes and Queries
The Generosity of Others
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)
WP:Cornwall over many years. Andy F (talk) 21:13, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
The deserved first recipient of this award! Zangar (talk) 16:34, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
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!
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)
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)
DYK
Some small triumphs
Removing decade-old vandalism, which has been reproduced widely across the internet.
Removing a "quotation" which was in fact from a satirical work
Correcting a FOURTEEN YEAR OLD error
Another decade-or-more-old error
Error caused by relying on a "Reliable Source"
Quotation incorrectly sourced for six years
Queen Victoria's Coronation mis-dated for 5 years
Nine year-old error, widely reproduced
One historian copies another historian's howler
Reference says OPPOSITE of what it is being used to support
Complete falsehood, over ten years old
Twelve year old mis-attribution
Four year old bollocks, sourced to a trade union publication
The posthumous Bishop of Penrith
Two and a half year old vandalism
Wrong son, nearly two years old
Fixing an sfn/harv reference error that was nearly 7 years old
An eleven year old error, claiming a man wrote a book 21 years after his death
Six year old error caused by someone fixing what they thought was a spelling mistake
Ten year old misattribution of a quotation
References undefined for over TEN YEARS.
The right man in the right job!
Democrat? Republican? Does anyone care?
A Bishop in the House of Commons?
Sixteen years, wrong name of Act, and wrong date of expiry
Lloyd George resources
I am gradually compiling a list of resources relating to David Lloyd George, including my own library. It can be found here.
Service award
Vanguard Editor
and is entitled to display this
Unobtainium Editor Star with
the Neutronium Superstar hologram.