User:EdwardRussell
Edward Russell | |
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Born | Ilfracombe Arts College, University of St Andrews |
A wikipedia enthusiast for many years, I am now interested in volunteering my time for editing. Particular areas of interest and knowledge are
I believe that, largely due to the low prevalence of internet access across much of the continent; high-importance articles relating to many countries of Africa are severely under-developed. There is certainly evidence to support this view: for example, The Economist reported in March 2014 that "only 2.6% of geo-tagged articles are about Africa, which accounts for 14% of the world’s population"[1]. The uneven geograpical distribution of Wikipedia articles is in fact more stark than this, as was highlighted in a University of Oxford study [2]. It is for this reason that I will focus on making contributions to articles within the Africa WikiProject, based on my ongoing research into these topics.
Major Contributions
Contributed the majority of the articles HIV/AIDS in Botswana and Education in Lesotho. Made major revisions to Ilfracombe and North Devon, as well as motorsports related articles, notably Gil de Ferran.
Articles which I intend to work on soon are:
- Brighton and Hove - I was shocked at the quality of the economy section, which desperately needs re-writing following some research. I consider this to be high priority.
- Fuel efficiency - I hope to make the article less US-centric, and update a lot of the information which is largely based on severely out of date articles, and in some cases from questionable sources, such as the Christian Science Monitor.
- List of countries by electricity consumption - The article is hard to update due to the way the table is constructed. I hope to improve this structural problem, hopefully allowing others to better maintain the article into the future.
- Formula E - The content of this article needs to be converted into prose.
Profile
This user studies or has studied at the University of St Andrews |
This user is proud to be from Devon. |
This user lives in England. |
This user is an atheist. |
Wikiprojects
This user is a participant in WikiProject Formula One. |
This user is a member of the British Motorsport WikiProject. |
This user participates in WikiProject Devon. |
This user participates in WikiProject Africa. |
This user is a member of WikiProject UK Railways. |
This user is a member of WikiProject Politics of the United Kingdom. |
This user is part of the Demographics Wikiproject |