User:Gronk Oz

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I am now retired from the workforce after a career in the computer software field.
My interests include astronomy, critical thinking, martial arts and home renovation.
Human behaviour fascinates, confuses and scares me in pretty much equal degrees.

I made my first Wikipedia edit in March 2014, and one day I hope to be good at it.

My Wikipedia presence

This user is one of the 3,000 most active Wikipedians of all time.

This user has been editing Wikipedia for more than ten years (10 years, 8 months, and 2 days).

This user has written or expanded 14 articles featured in the Did You Know section on the Main Page.

This user maintains Wikipedia with the help of Twinkle!

This editor uses AutoWikiBrowser to automate tedious repetitive tasks.

This user uses reFill to expand bare references.

This user participates in
WikiProject Astronomy.

This user participates in
WikiProject Australia.

This user is a participant in
WikiProject Sydney.

This user is a participant in WikiProject Skepticism.

This user is a participant in WikiProject Paranormal.

This user is a participant in WikiProject Medicine.

This user is a participant in WikiProject Short descriptions.

This user has extended confirmed rights on the English Wikipedia. (verify)

This editor is a WikiGnome.

This user is a member of the not so Secret Cabal.

Unified login: Gronk Oz is the unique unified login of this user for all public Wikimedia projects.

About me

enThis user is a native speaker of the English language.

This user is an Australian.
G'day, mate!

This user has a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science.

This user has a Master's degree in Mathematics.

This user has a Doctorate in Astronomy.

This user knows by heart the first 71 digits in the decimal representation of pi.

This user enjoys photography.

xkcdThis user cannot go to bed when someone is wrong on the Internet.

Disclosure of interests

I strive to make improving Wikipedia my highest priority, and my contributions are my own. I have only used one account and I have not used a customised signature. I edited as an IP a few times before I registered as a user and, since then, very occasionally by accident. I have never been paid to edit Wikipedia and I have never edited on a topic in which I have a financial interest. I offer the following information for transparency:

• I am a past employee of Honeywell, IBM, Logica, the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Macquarie University, EDS and Hewlett-Packard. I no longer have any connection with any of these fine companies other than sometimes as a retail customer.
• I have studied at the University of Sydney, Macquarie University, University of New South Wales, and the University of Technology, Sydney. I have been a member of the Macquarie University Sport and Aquatic Centre since 1986.
• I have been a member of the Astronomical Society of New South Wales since the mid-1990s, although I have never been an employee.
• I have been a member of Guerrilla Skeptics on Wikipedia ("GSoW") since 2014.

Requests for Adminship etc.

Requests for adminship and bureaucratship update

No current discussions. Recent RfAs, recent RfBs: (successful, unsuccessful)

Projects

Stuff I am working on

• User:Gronk Oz/Peter Botten

To do tomorrow

• Check List of companions of the Order of Australia
• Cecil Cook (physician)
• Panacea (medicine)
• Michael Ashley (astronomer)
• Travis McHenry
• Category:Australian_astronomers

Learning

• Superannuation in Australia
• Wikipedia:Good article criteria
• Better Articles: A Systematic Approach
• Wikipedia:Unusual articles
• Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser
• Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/User manual
• User:Yunshui/Article creation for beginners
• Wikipedia:Twinkle
• Counter-Vandalism Unit

Watchlists

• Skeptical stubs
• uses 2006 Census template
• Nearby
• Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions
• Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Sydney
• Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in New South Wales
• Wikipedia:Community_portal
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Astronomy
• A list of Wikipedia articles with bare URLs
• Search for incategory:"New South Wales State Heritage Register" deepcat:"Ku-ring-gai Council" (etc.)
• Commonly_misspelled_English_words
• Uses template {{R with possibilities}}

Useful links 'n stuff

• My user sub-pages

Getting Started The five pillars of Wikipedia • Tutorial • Your first article How to: edit a page • upload an image • Help:Wiki markup Getting started • Introduction to Wikipedia • Everything you need to know Getting Help Frequently Asked Questions • Wikipedia:Teahouse New contributors' help page Where to: ask questions • make requests Request administrator attention • Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents Policies and Guidelines Neutral point of view • Reliable sources Verifiability • Citing sources • No original research What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons Ignore all rules • Three-revert rule Copyrights • Policy for non-free content • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism • Sock puppetry Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability • AfD common outcomes Statements of principles made by ArbCom Manual of Style, etc. Manual of Style • Simplified Manual of Style Wikipedia:Writing better articles • Wikipedia:Copyright problems Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners • User:Yunshui/References for beginners Wikipedia:Citing sources • Help:Footnotes • Perennial RS Words with disputed usage • Commonly misused words User:Yunshui/Images for beginners Wikipedia:Cheatsheet • Help:Wiki markup Order of article elements • Biographies How to edit a page and How to develop articles How to create your first article Discover what's going on in the Wikimedia community User:Maproom/cropping • WIR Primer MOS:LISTSOFWORKS • Works or publications Reference sources Dictionary of Australasian Biography (1855–1892) (use with {{cite Australasia}} template) List of cabals Free English newspaper sources - FENS Free image resources

The Community Community Portal • Adopt-a-user program Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • Resolving disputes Build consensus • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Things to do Be bold in editing • Help develop an article Maintenance • Peer review • Requested articles Join a WikiProject • List of Wikiprojects • Translating articles Cleaning up: General • Spam • Vandalism Miscellaneous Categories • Disambiguity • Stubs • Glossary User pages • Talk pages • Special:SpecialPages Useful templates • Tools • User scripts Logs (e.g. deletions, thanks) • Editor's index to Wikipedia • Tips Research resources • Finding images tutorial Reliable sources/Perennial sources • Regex cheat sheet Tools Main tool page: toolserver.org Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser User:Zhaofeng Li/reFill - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references Checklinks - Edit and repair external links Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links. Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles. CatScan V2.0β – powerful tool for searching categories Wikipedia citation tool for Google Books User:Anomie/linkclassifier - Classify wikilinks Free Image Search Tool Wikimedia Tool Labs Twinkle WebCite Prose Size User:Rjanag/Quick_DYK_2 Copy and Paste Excel-to-Wiki Converter Visual Editor User guide Earwig's Copyvio Detector Find Link - for de-orphaning) Petscan - search by category combinations) Shortdesc helper AutoEd AfD stats by user Xtools - feeding your data hunger IP Location Finder Interaction Timeline history for two users Wikipedia:Library - Search link Find links (esp. for orphans)