User:Nick Moyes

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This user has been editing Wikipedia for at least ten years.
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Hello. I've been an active editor here for some years, and am happy to help you if you hit problems editing Wikipedia. You can find me at the

Teahouse
for help and advice. We'll get you sorted one way or another!

I am finding real world matters are seriously reducing the time I can spend on Wikipedia. So please forgive me if I do not always respond immediately to any query.

Working with Wikipedia - a Museum's Perspective
(or, how I got involved). Talk at Derby Museum GLAM-Wiki event, April 2011)
Talking about introducing QRpedia to Derby Museum in 2011
Video created for Montreal Wikimania Conference in 2017 (Women in Red presentation)

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About Me

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"Take that - Fake news!"

Hi, I'm Nick Moyes. I'm honoured that in 2020 the editing community

administrator
privileges here on Wikipedia. I see this additional role as helping our community of editors to grow and to work cooperatively and constructively, undisturbed by bad-faith actions. I'm bound to make mistakes at first, so please let me know if you have any concerns over any of my actions. If I've made a really obvious or stupid mistake, I authorise another experienced admin to revert my actions without the need to first consult me. I am not always around to respond immediately - just leave a note on my talk page if you've felt the need to reverse one of my admin actions, or want to politely express any concerns about my actions here.

I recently took early retirement, but was Senior Keeper of Natural History at Derby Museum and Art Gallery, where I worked for over 25 years. I also worked in Kirklees at Tolson Museum and Bagshaw Museum, though my first ever museum job was a student post within the European herbarium of the Natural History Museum, London. I have also worked for the CIA and the TA.

Peregrine falcon chicks on Derby Cathedral

I set up the Derby Cathedral Peregrine Project in 2006, which I still run today. (You can watch our live nest camera here). Dangling off ropes, installing nest platforms, fixing webcameras, helping to ring wild falcon chicks, meeting the public and doing tons of social media stuff has been incredibly rewarding (though not monetarily!)

It was an approach to Derby Museum in late 2010 to use QRpedia codes that led to my serious involvement with Wikipedia (see video on right), though I only really started editing in earnest from 2015 onwards.

For 20 years I collected and computerised nearly a million

BAP stuff (see here) and LNP
-related stuff).

I have interests and expertise in biological recording; species mapping; botany; herbaria; Floras and biographies of UK botanists; peregrine falcons; glow worms; ecology, biodiversity and conservation; geology; Derbyshire and, of course, museums. Other interests include alpine mountaineering, mountain biking, photography and, of course, Wikipedia. Former activities included radio comms, self-sufficiency/defence and the TA.

Mountains I've climbed over 4,000 metres (13,123 ft), by height:   Mexico: Pico de Orizaba; Iztaccihuatl; Nevado de Toluca; Alps: Mont Blanc; Dufourspitze; Nordend; Zumsteinspitze; Signalkuppe; Dom;

Liskamm
; Weisshorn; Täschhorn;
Liskamm
; Matterhorn; Mont Maudit; Parrotspitze; Dent Blanche; Ludwigshöhe; Nadelhorn; Schwarzhorn;
Combin de Grafeneire
; Dôme du Goûter; Finsteraarhorn; Mont Blanc du Tacul; Stecknadelhorn; Castor; Zinalrothorn; Hohberghorn; Vincent Pyramid; Alphubel; Rimpfischhorn; Aletschhorn; Strahlhorn;
Combin de Valsoray
; Breithorn; Bishorn; Mönch; Pollux; Ober Gabelhorn; Gran Paradiso; Aiguille de Bionnassay;
Gross Fiescherhorn
; Grünhorn; Dürrenhorn; Allalinhorn;
Hinter Fiescherhorn
; Weissmies; Dôme de Rochefort; Dent du Géant; Lagginhorn; Aiguille de Rochefort.

I am always keen to share my knowledge and experience, and to learn from others - whatever their age or gender. If you still feel the need for a

WP:COI
, please see below. I'm using the rest of this and other sub-pages as a notepad to help me manage or plan future editing. I variously edit via a desktop, a tablet, an iPhone and a laptop, catching whatever sleep I can in between!

My Contributions

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Wikipedia Editathon 2017 - relax, enjoy, or even listen to the live sound of everyone contributing here.

All my contributions:

Nick Moyes (talk · contribs · logs · block log · page moves · count · edit summaries · non-automated edits · articles created · BLP edits · AfD votes · XfD votes · admin score (beta) · CSD log · PROD log · previous RfAs)

New Pages: Mouseover for symbol meaning: unassessed stub class start class C class B class A class GA class FA class list class Did you know (DYK)

Significant Input to:

Wikipedia Events:

Adoptees:

Tools & Useful Pages

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Social distancing / video learning /events


Administrator Info and Tools

Sockpuppet Investigation work
  • Admin help needed at SPI

Are you a bored administrator looking for a new area to pick up? Consider helping out at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations! We have a pretty large volume of cases and could use additional help. As long as you are an administrator, you do not need any special permissions or clerkships to perform many of the functions of SPI. As an administrator, you can (among other things):

  • Analyze the evidence presented in a case, commenting in the "Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments" section of each case
  • Block suspected sockpuppets if you are convinced by the evidence, adding sockpuppet tags like {{sockpuppet}} at your discretion
  • Request CheckUser attention on cases by switching {{SPI case status}} to {{SPI case status|curequest}} and leaving a comment explaining why
  • Mark cases as closed by switching {{SPI case status}} to {{SPI case status|close}}

A few tips to help you out:

  • You can find instructions and useful scripts at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/SPI/Administrators instructions.
  • The "easier" cases tend to be the more recently filed ones under the "Open" category. The SPI case table is organized chronologically within each status category.
  • If you are not convinced by the evidence presented, you can state why then mark the case as closed without action. All cases that are marked as closed are sanity-checked by a clerk or checkuser before they are archived, so it is always a team effort.
  • Usually every September, the Arbitration Committee issues a
    call for CU/OS applications
    . Consider applying for CheckUser access after gaining experience as an SPI administrator.

Thanks for listening to me. Cheers, Mz7

Request posted at

WP:AN
, 30 May 2021.

Helping other editors

  • Wikipedians needing help - Live list of editors seeking assistance on their Talk Pages
  • Wikipedia Teahouse
    - links straight to latest questions at bottom of page. Aimed mostly at newcomers
  • Help Desk - links to latest questions. (Often more technical).
  • Editor Assistance
    Requests page for editors seeking help
  • Selection of Welcome Templates No Pics: {{subst:W-cust}}; Tea Pic:{{subst:Welcome-t}} Lots of Links: {{subst:Welcomemenu}}
  • Teahouse invite: {{subst:Wikipedia:Teahouse/Invitation|sign=~~~~}}
  • User:Nick Moyes/Easier Referencing for Beginners
  • new line
  • Template:HD - a selection of pre-written Help desk responses

Adopt-a-user

Keeping informed

  • Wikipedia:Dashboard - summary of all the latest noticeboard messages
  • Wikimedia Space new in 2019 an off-wiki communication platform for news and conversations. (Comment: Why off wiki??)

Welcome Committee and Related Research'

Vandalism and spelling

Editor activity

  • IP checking tool - to help determine if a given IP is an open proxy/VPN/webhost/compromised host.
    • paid-en-wp@wikipedia.org has been set up to receive private evidence related to abusive
      paid editing
      .
    • checkuser-en-wp@wikipedia.org has been set up to receive private requests for CheckUser. For instance, requests for IP block exemption for anonymous proxy editing should now be sent to this address instead of the functionaries-en list.

New page tools

Checks within pages


References and Improving pages

Taxobox issues to fix

Images-related


Video and file-editing tools


Chrome Extensions

  • Useful twitter list
  • Paperpile - Extension works with Paperpile, a clean and simple reference and citation manager. Sign up for Paperpile at https://paperpile.com
  • Scribe make screen recordings. Game-changer for teaching & collaborating, especially remotely. Records your screen and generates an automatic step-by-step of everything you did with screenshots.
  • Swiftread - Works on any web page. Shows you 1 word at a time at a speed you choose.
  • Toby - Tab Manager. Organise tabs into collections, save workspaces and searches.
  • OneTab - Whenever you have too many tabs open, click the OneTab icon to convert them all into a list. Save up to 95% memory and reduce tab clutter.
  • Speechify - Listen to any text on the web. Makes writing & editing easier. Natural-sounding speech (huge plus).
  • Forest - Focus timer. The more you focus, the more your trees grow. Bunch of stats to show you how you’ve been doing. Helps curb procrastination.
  • Wordtune - AI-powered writing companion that understands what you’re trying to say, and suggests ways to make your writing more clear, compelling and authentic.
  • Small PDF - Compresses PDFs without any huge, noticeable quality reductions.
  • Mendeley Web Importer - Fast, convenient import of references and PDFs to your Mendeley Reference Manager library.
  • Save to Google Drive - Save web content or screen capture directly to Google Drive.
  • Google Scholar Button - Lookup scholarly articles as you browse the web.
  • Unpaywall - Legally get full text of scholarly articles as you browse. points you to legal, author-posted manuscripts hosted on university and government web servers.
  • Print Friendly & PDF - removes ads, navigation and junk before you print. Pages are optimized for clear printing.
  • HelperBird Dyslexia & accessibility support. Over 32 accessibility & productivity features to support every kind of reader, learner and writer.
  • Quillbot - Save time and instantly improve your writing with our cutting-edge grammar checker, paraphrasing tool, and summarizing tool.
  • StayFocusd - helps you stay focused on work by restricting the amount of time you can spend on time-wasting websites. Once your allotted time has been used up, the sites you've blocked will be inaccessible for the rest of the day.
  • LeechBlock - productivity tool designed to block those time-wasting sites
  • Power Thesaurus - find synonyms by button in toolbar, right-click or by word selection on any page.


Other

Wikipedia Guidance

Further information: Help:References and page numbers

Learning Resources


Wikidata

Training Guides

Text blocks

  • To add a 'submit for review' button to a draft article {{subst:AfC submission/draft}}.
  • To add Project Assessment Template to Talk Page add the code {{WikiProject Plants|class=stub|importance=low|needs-image=yes}}.
  • To convert sandbox article to Draft AfC
    WP:AfC
    : add the code {{subst:submit}} to top of the draft/sandbox page.
  • To mark a userpage as a Userpage draft: add the code {{user page|logo=yes|noindex=yes}}
  • To request Userpage delete: Put the code {{db-user}} at top of the page, and save; an
    administrator
    will delete the page.
  • Code for adding page number after calling a reference: <ref name=bookname />{{rp|199}}
  • To request an image of a botanist in an article, insert the code {{Image requested|date=October 2015|botanists}} in the talk page, which adds the article to Category:Wikipedia requested photographs of botanists.
  • To insert the standard author abbreviation, add the code {{botanist|J.Bloggs}}
  • To insert citation needed template with reasons/date add the code {{citation needed|reason=Your explanation here|date=October 2015}}
  • To flag a page containing no references, add the code: {{Unr}}. See Template:Unreferenced
  • To meet minimum critieria for articles on authors of plant species names, add {{Infobox scientist}}. See Template:Infobox_scientist for full details.
  • To add reference listing all taxa' named by that botanist, add the text: Bloggs has published over xxx scientific papers, and is the [[[Binomial_nomenclature#Authority|scientific authority]]] for over ??? plant taxa, predominantly in the
    Orchidaceae
     ref: "Plant Names Search". The International Plant Names Index. Retrieved DD Month Year
  • To insert a quotation {{Quote|text=quote goes here|author=K.Harold 1066}}
  • To link to a foreign language wiki page, with no English equivalent: {{illm|Achillea nana|fr|Achillée naine}} This creates a red link to en wiki, and a small link to the live, foreign language page.
  • To add WikiProject Alps banner (without gradings) use this code: {{WikiProject Mountains|class=|importance=|alps=yes|alps-importance=}}
  • To put foreign language spelling of an article into introductory sentence: The '''Argentière Hut''' ([[French language|French]]: ''Refuge d'Argentière'') is a...
  • To convert metres to feet{{convert|4000|m|ft|0}} or {{convert|46|km|mi} or {{convert|20|km|mi|0|abbr=on}}
  • Adding reference section with good column layout: ==References=={{Reflist|30em}}
  • Link to Cut/Paste my own text blocks
  • DYK assessment::* :* The article is a 5-fold expansion in last7 days: {{ok}} :* The article is long enough: {{ok}} :* The hook is interesting: {{ok}} :* The hook is referenced: {{ok}} :* The hook is below 200 characters: {{ok}} :* No (0%) copyvio found with Earwig's tool: {{ok}} :* The article follows most other important policies: {{ok}} :* QPQ: {{ok}} :* [[File:Symbol confirmed.svg|16px]] Article is good to go.
  • To bulk spellcheck using Google e.g.: find 'Portugese'"Portugese" -inurl:wiki/Template -inurl:wiki/File -inurl:wiki-User -intitle:Talk -inurl:wiki-Wikipedia -inurl:wiki-WP -"redirected-from" site:en.wikipedia.org


Manual of Style (selected)

Manual of Style - most useful pages

Botanical Resources

Taxonomic Lists

Mountain Resources

Common.js settings

In October 2019 a suite of useful scripts on my common.js page suddenly stopped working. This section is initially intended to help me determine the cause of the problem. (Once resolved, it may be retained as a list of those functioning scripts that I recommend to others. Note Skript=Script to avoid any problems on a standard userpage)
Contents of my common.js page as at 31 Oct 2019

var pagesToCollect = [ {page: 'User:Nick Moyes/tomonitor', caption: 'Follow up checks needed'}, {page: 'User:Nick Moyes/todo', caption: 'Edits needed by me'}, {page: 'User:Nick Moyes/infopages', caption: 'Useful pages'} ];

// load pageCollector script:

  • importScript('User:קיפודנחש/pageCollector.js');
//
// Edit tools for the vandal whack-a-mole game
// User:Kbh3rd/whackamole.js - please include this line
//
importSkript('User:Kbh3rd/whackamole.js');

/* Adds a toolbox link to do a copyvio check on the given page. */

mw.loader.using("mediawiki.util", function() { 

   mw.util.addPortletLink(
       "p-tb",
       "https://tools.wmflabs.org/copyvios/?lang=" + mw.config.get("wgContentLanguage") + "&project=" + mw.config.get("wgSiteName").toLowerCase() + "&title=" + encodeURIComponent(mw.config.get("wgPageName")),
       "Copyvio check",
       "t-copyvio-check",
       "Check this page for copyright violations"
   );

importSkript('User:Lourdes/PageCuration.js'); // Linkback: User:Lourdes/PageCuration.js });

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