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I'm Hemmers

My key areas of interest are firearms; target shooting sports, and target shooters. I've been contributing to Wikipedia on-and-off since 2008.


I'm enthusiastic about WP:Globalise/WP:BIAS, particularly because our US colleagues make so many valuable contributions when it comes to firearms, but which can sometimes result in half the citations about a French firearm being from high quality - but US-centric - publications of the NRA of America. To this end I have created a number of articles for under-represented shooting sport organisations around the world and spend a fair amount of time looking for quality local references. As of 2023, I have started spending more time on articles for female athletes as women are significantly under-represented on WP. My starting point in this is mopping up the red links in articles such as 2014 ISSF World Shooting Championships.

My approach to Wikipedia is WP:Sofixit, as eulogised below. Templates have their place, but I dislike high-volume/low-byte editing. NPP, typos and clean-up are important, but go and write some stuff periodically - it's good for the soul and reminds you how hard it is to write quality prose. I'd rather see someone write one excellent, well-sourced article that is useful to people, than add a thousand commas of dubious grammatical merit. This is why I do not have edit counters on this page. </pompous puffery> It is for this reason that I am also active on Commons, adding media to support articles here. Word to live by:

The theory that I find most credible as an explanation of the decline of the community since 2007 is the end of the "SoFixIt" culture and its replacement by the templating culture which some consider newbie biting and which has lead to hundreds of thousands of articles disfigured by garish templates calling attention to problems that somebody hopes someone else will understand and fix. By WereSpielChequers, [1].




This user lives in the United Kingdom.
This user has been editing Wikipedia for more than 15 years (16+).
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WikiProject Countering systemic bias.



03:52, Sunday, November 10, 2024 (UTC)


Below are some of the Wikipedia articles that I've significantly contributed to or started. I don't own them, but I want to make sure that they continue to be accurate and well-referenced.

Article Started Notes
National Smallbore Rifle Association - COI: NSRA[1]
National Rifle Association (United Kingdom) -
National Shooting Centre -
Shooting sports -
International Shooting Sport Federation -
United Kingdom Seonaid McIntosh 17 October 2016
United Kingdom Louise Minett 19 October 2016
United Kingdom Jennifer McIntosh -
National Rifle Association of Australia 1 April 2022
National Rifle Association of New Zealand 1 April 2022
Shooting Australia -
New Zealand Shooting Federation 20 July 2022
Target Shooting New Zealand 6 October 2022
Ashburton Shield 14 October 2022
Ukrainian Shooting Federation 1 December 2022
World Field Target Federation 6 December 2022 Started using material from the Field target article.
Sovereign's Prize 12 January 2023
Japan Rifle Shooting Sport Federation 14 April 2023
Luxembourg Shooting Federation 21 April 2023
Imperial Meeting

22 May 2023

France Camille Jedrzejewski 01 August 2023
Norway Mari Bardseng Lovseth 01 August 2023
Scottish Target Shooting 19 September 2023
English Target Shooting Federation 20 September 2023
United Kingdom Lina Jones 17 October 2023
Austria Marlene Pribitzer 24 October 2023
Switzerland Sarina Hitz 24 October 2023
Switzerland Chiara Leone 27 October 2023
Switzerland Franziska Stark (sport shooter) 1 November 2023
Norway Jenny Vatne 2 November 2023
United Kingdom Chris Watson 7 November 2023
United Kingdom Sheree Cox 16 November 2023
United Kingdom Julia Lydall 17 November 2023
South Korea Jung Jeehae 12 January 2024
Germany Katrin Quooß 12 January 2024
Hungary Adrienn Nemes 16 January 2024
France Agathe Girard 19 February 2024
United Kingdom Seren Thorne 22 February 2024
United Kingdom David Rattray 28 February 2024
China Yang Zeng 18 April 2024
Switzerland Bettina Bucher 24 April 2024
Poland Joanna Ewa Nowakowska 2 May 2024
Sweden Linda Olofsson (sport shooter) 29 May 2024
France Catherine Houlmont 17 October 2024


Conflicts of Interest

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I have edited articles on topics where I have a personal connection/interest. When doing so, my aim is to neutrally improve Wikipedia's coverage, and I use references for as many facts as possible (often not including facts that I can't find references for). I've included notes about any COIs in the table above, with more details below.

  1. ^ I am a member of the National Smallbore Rifle Association. I have never worked for them.