User:Antiquary

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I registered at Wikipedia in November 2007, though I'd been making minor edits for about a year previously. I write about the various literatures of the British Isles here, with detours into French literature, Celtic legend and folklore, medieval manuscripts, 11th-century English history, classical music, stained-glass artists, and the geography of north-west England. Some of the articles I've created are:

Beves of Hamtoun
The Stanzaic Morte Arthur
The Squire of Low Degree
John Dryden The Hind and the Panther
Thomas Gray The Bard
Oliver Goldsmith The Traveller
William Cowper The Task
Edward Gibbon Memoirs of My Life and Writings
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Poems on Various Subjects
William Wordsworth The White Doe of Rylstone
William Wordsworth The Yarrow poems
William Wordsworth Peter Bell
Lord Byron's Memoirs
Lord Byron Marino Faliero
Lord Byron Sardanapalus
Lord Byron The Vision of Judgment
The letters of Lord Byron
Walter Scott The Journal
The letters of Charles Lamb
Alfred Tennyson Poems (1842)
Thomas Babington Macaulay Critical and Historical Essays
George Borrow Lavengro
Matthew Arnold "The Scholar Gipsy"
William Makepeace Thackeray The Virginians
Thomas Carlyle Reminiscences
Benjamin Disraeli Lothair
The letters of Charles Dickens
George Meredith The Adventures of Harry Richmond
William Morris The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs
Oscar Wilde The Sphinx
James Branch Cabell Figures of Earth
Thomas Hardy The Famous Tragedy of the Queen of Cornwall
Robert Graves Sergeant Lamb of the Ninth and Proceed, Sergeant Lamb
George Orwell Critical Essays
François Pétis de la Croix Les Mille et un jours
Algernon Charles Swinburne La Soeur de la reine
The letters of Gustave Flaubert
The Goncourt Journal
Pa gur
Gerald of Wales Descriptio Cambriae
Hildina
Christis Kirk on the Green
George Ellis (poet)
Air ship of Clonmacnoise
Crook o' Lune
Heysham hogback
Stock Ghyll
St Peter's Church, Henfield
Ralph Vaughan Williams Five Tudor Portraits
Yuri Shaporin The Decembrists
Pearl Manuscript
House of Godwin
Northumbrian Revolt of 1065
Danish attacks on Norman England

The complete list is here.

I also entirely rewrote these articles from the ground up:

Walter Scott Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border
Thomas Love Peacock The Misfortunes of Elphin
Wace Roman de Brut
Geoffrey of Monmouth Vita Merlini
Jonathan Oldbuck

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This user has been on Wikipedia for 16 years, 11 months and 24 days.	This user has been on Wikimedia for 18 years, 2 months and 22 days.
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This user is one of the 4000 most active English Wikipedians of all time.	0.0033% This user has created 231 of the 6,908,464 articles on the English language Wikipedia.
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Je contribue sur la Wikipédia francophone.	Ich schreibe Beiträge für die deutschsprachige Wikipedia.
Piszę artykuły dla polskiej Wikipedii.	Contribuisco alla Wikipedia in lingua italiana.
Contribuyo en la Wikipedia en español.	Eu contribuo para a Wikipédia portuguesa.
enThis user is a native speaker of the English language.	UKThis user uses British English.
This user's favourite classic novel is The Antiquary by Walter Scott.	This user's favourite modern novel is number9dream by David Mitchell.
This user is currently reading Lincoln by Gore Vidal.	This user is currently reading Selected Poems by Robert Graves.
This user enjoys World cinema.	This week this user recommends Angel Heart.
This user has published peer-reviewed articles in academic journals.	hThis user has an h-index of 4.
This user remembers using a rotary dial telephone.	This user owns a motorcycle.
This user would likely die without eating the occasional curry.	This user makes homemade Jam and/or Marmalade
This user's favourite opera is Kitezh by Rimsky-Korsakov.	LOTR This user loves the BBC Lord of the Rings radio series but NOT the films.
This user has climbed Scafell Pike in the Lake District National Park.	This user has climbed Yr Wyddfa (Snowdon) in Parc Cenedlaethol Eryri in Wales.
This user is interested in the Middle Ages	This user is an atheist.
This user identifies as a Democratic Socialist.	This user is a Guardian-reader, but only in a philosophical sense.
This user was born in Lancashire.	This user lives in West Sussex
Wey-aye! This user has Geordie ancestors.	This user has ancestors from Yorkshire, tha knows.
This user is male.	This user is a mammal.

I think that tells you everything you might want to know about me, doesn't it?

No need to be sarcastic.