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Hastings Line

Thelnetham Windmill Henry Allingham Charles Fryatt Hawkhurst Branch Line SS Irish Oak (1919) BOAC Flight 712 Somerhill House Penshurst Airfield Lympne Airport RMS Magdalena (1948) St Lawrence's Church, Mereworth SS Empire Endurance Saint-Inglevert Airfield Hastings Line SS Fort Stikine 2015 Wootton Bassett SPAD incident 2016 Croydon tram derailment
2009 Viareggio train derailment Aria Air Flight 1525 2009 Great Britain and Ireland floods MV Danny F II ROKS Cheonan (PCC-772) 2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash 2010 Merano train derailment MV Moscow University Afriqiyah Airways Flight 771 Pamir Airways Flight 112 2010 Var floods 2010 Yanga train derailment‎ 2010 Castelldefels accident‎ Petarukan train collision‎ Aero Caribbean Flight 883 Aung San Suu Kyi United Nations Bombardier CRJ-100 crash Costa Concordia UTair Flight 120 Bhoja Air Flight 213 Sloterdijk train collision Mount Salak Sukhoi Superjet 100 crash Lao Airlines Flight 301 Ukrainian Air Force Ilyushin Il-76 shoot-down 2014 Virgin Galactic crash MS Norman Atlantic TransAsia Airways Flight 235 Villa Castelli helicopter crash Bad Aibling rail accident Hillsborough disaster Emirates Flight 521 Hybrid Air Vehicles HAV 304 Airlander 10 2016 Croydon tram derailment Hitrino train derailment 2017 Dutch–Turkish diplomatic incident Comac C919 2017 Myanmar Air Force Shaanxi Y-8 crash Grenfell Tower fire 2017 eruption of Mount Agung 2017 Washington train derailment 2018 Kroonstad train crash MV Sanchi Saratov Airlines Flight 703 2018 Ju-Air Junkers Ju 52 crash Soyuz MS-10 Ankara train collision 2019 Saha Airlines Boeing 707 crash André Previn Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 Scaled Composites Stratolaunch Aeroflot Flight 1492 Ural Airlines Flight 178 2019 British prorogation controversy 2019 Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress crash 2019 Pakistan train fire
Eric Brown (pilot) RDNancy Reagan RDRonnie Corbett RDVivean Gray RDGreg Lake RDDesmond Carrington RDBrian Cant RDDavid Shepherd (artist) RDJana Novotná RDHeinz Wolff RDKatie Boyle RDMichael Goolaerts RDGlynn Edwards RDFenella Fielding RDAndré Previn RDHer's RDJohn McCririck RDDerek Fowlds RDMichel Roux RDWillie Thorne RDNobby Stiles RDSean Lock RDJethro RDLester Piggott RDSycamore Gap Tree RD
Great Mill, SheernessFriston WindmillDe Olifant, Burdaard1929 Luft Hansa Junkers G 31 crash

About me

...and this banhammer.

I live in Hadlow, Kent, where I'm chief butler to a Manx cat. My hobbies and interests include molinology, deltiology, civil aircraft, railways and Dutch. I own a classic car, a 1953 Austin A40 Somerset. I have been researching the windmills, millers and millwrights of Norwich for a number of years. The results of my research can be found on the Norfolk Mills website. I have been an admin on Wikipedia since 26 September 2009, and am apparently an "old guard admin", whatever that means. I have an alternate account for use when away from my own computer and not in need of admin's tools - Mjroots2.

I am (distantly) related to a number of Wikinotable people, including Jane Austen,[1] Frank Merrick,[2] William Rootes,[3] Flora Twort,[2] Frederick Twort,[2] Henry Vane,[4] and William Vousden VC.[5]

See here for
Useful admin-related stuff My userboxes. My Did You Know's
and In The News's
Sandboxes:-
General, Mills, Ships, List
Barnstars I've been awarded. Articles I've created
or worked upon.
As of 1 October 2024, this user has started 1,222 new articles and 1,458 new lists, on the English Wikipedia, 2 new articles on the Dutch Wikipedia and 9 new lists on the German Wikipedia.

Awesome Wikipedian

DYK Medal

The 200 DYK Medal  
The D.Y.K. Project thanks you for your tireless contributions. The Interior (Talk) 17:48, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

Milestones

31 August 2005 - Edited 1st article
31 August 2005 - Created 1st new article
23 November 2007 - My 1st DYK*
31 March 2008 - Created 100th new article
7 April 2008 - 1st deletion of created article
27 April 2008 - My 25th DYK
22 July 2008 - Created 200th new article
15 October 2008 - My 50th DYK
6 December 2008 - Created 100th new list
20 May 2009 - Created 300th new article
1 June 2009 - My 1st Good Article
30 June 2009 - My 1st ITN article
25 July 2009 - My 2nd ITN article
23 August 2009 - My 2nd Good Article
19 September 2009 - My 100th DYK
26 September 2009 - I became an Admin
29 October 2009 - Created 400th new article
21 November 2009 - My 3rd ITN article
18 December 2009 - My 4th ITN article
19 December 2009 - My 3rd Good Article
20 February 2010 - Created 500th new article
12 March 2010 - My 4th Good Article
24 March 2010 - My 5th Good Article
28 March 2010 - My 5th ITN article
10 April 2010 - My 6th ITN article
12 April 2010 - My 7th ITN article
30 April 2010 - My 6th Good Article
6 May 2010 - My 8th ITN article
12 May 2010 - My 9th ITN article
21 May 2010 - My 10th ITN article
27 May 2010 - Created 600th new article
17 June 2010 My 11th ITN article
23 June 2010 My 12th ITN article
25 June 2010 My 13th ITN article
31 August 2010 - 2nd deletion of created article
2 October 2010 - My 14th ITN article
3 October 2010 - Created 200th new list
5 November 2010 - My 15th ITN article
13 November 2010 - My 16th ITN article
28 December 2010 - My 7th Good Article
20 January 2011 - My 8th Good Article
21 January 2011 - Created 700th new article
26 February 2011 - My 200th DYK and
My 9th Good Article
13 March 2011 - 6 April 2011 - My 17th ITN article
27 May 2011 - My most viewed DYK, 16,200 views
16 June 2011 - My 10th Good Article
25 June 2011 - Created 1,000th new article or list
24 July 2011 - Created 800th new article
19 September 2011 - My 11th Good Article
30 December 2011 - Created 300th new list
11 January 2012 - 3rd deletion of created article
14 January 2012 - My 18th ITN article
29 January 2012 - 4th deletion of created article
21 March 2012 - My 12th Good Article
2 April 2012 - My 19th ITN article
7 April 2012 - My 13th Good Article
20 April 2012 - My 20th ITN article
23 April 2012 - My 21st ITN article
10 May 2012 - My 22nd ITN article
11 March 2013 - Created 400th new list
30 June 2013 - 5th deletion of created article
17 October 2013 - My 23rd ITN article
12 December 2013 - 6th deletion of created article
15 June 2014 - My 24th ITN article
4 September 2014 - Created 900th new article
23 September 2014 - My 14th Good Article
23 October 2014 - My 15th Good Article
31 October 2014 - My 25th ITN article
30 December 2014 - My 26th ITN article
4 February 2015 - My 27th ITN article
10 March 2015 - My 28th ITN article
16 June 2015 - Created 1,000th new article
3 September 2015 - My 1st Featured article
9 February 2016 - My 29th ITN article
24 February 2016 - My 1st RD article
6 March 2016 - My 2nd RD article
31 March 2016 - My 3rd RD article
26 April 2016 - My 30th ITN article
29 July 2016 - My 4th RD article
3 August 2016 - My 31st ITN article
19 August 2016 - My 32nd ITN article
9 November 2016 - My 33rd ITN article
9 December 2016 - My 5th RD article
11 December 2016 - My 34th ITN article
27 January 2017 - My 16th Good Article
2 February 2017 - My 6th RD article
14 March 2017 - My 35th ITN article
6 May 2017 - My 36th ITN article
8 June 2017 - My 37th ITN article
14 June 2017 - My 38th ITN article
23 June 2017 - My 7th RD article
20 September 2017 - My 8th RD article
21 November 2017 - My 9th RD article
28 November 2017 - My 39th ITN article
17 December 2017 - My 10th RD article
19 December 2017 - My 40th ITN article
3 January 2018 - Created 500th new list
4 January 2018 - My 41st ITN article
13 January 2018 - My 42nd ITN article
11 February 2018 - My 43rd ITN article
5 March 2018 - Created 600th new list
21 March 2018 - My 11th RD article
9 April 2018 - My 12th RD article
8 June 2018 - My 13th RD article
18 June 2018 - Created 700th new list
7 August 2018 - My 44th ITN article
13 September 2018 - My 14th RD article
12 October 2018 - My 45th ITN article
15 December 2018 - My 46th ITN article
6 January 2019 - Created 800th new list
14 January 2019 - My 47th ITN article
6 February 2019 - Created 900th new list
28 February 2019 - My 15th RD article
1 March 2019 - My 48th ITN article
10 March 2019 - My 49th ITN article
29 March 2019 - My 16th RD article
16 April 2019 - My 50th ITN article
6 May 2019 - My 51st ITN article
7 July 2019 - My 17th RD article
17 August 2019 My 52nd ITN article
19 August 2019 - My 17th Good Article
24 September 2019 - My 53rd ITN article
4 October 2019 - My 54th ITN article
23 October 2019 - Created 1,000th new list
31 October 2019 - My 55th ITN article
21 January 2020 - My 18th RD article
3 February 2020 - My 56th ITN article
12 March 2020 - My 19th RD article
31 March 2020 - My 57th ITN article
12 May 2020 - My 58th ITN article
21 May 2020 - Created 1,100th new article
17 June 2020 - My 20th RD article
30 October 2020 - My 21st RD article
26 November 2020 - My 59th ITN article
18 April 2021 - My 60th ITN article
17 May 2021 - My 18th Good Article
23 May 2021 - My 61st ITN article
2 June 2021 - My 62nd ITN article
7 July 2021 - My 63rd ITN article
18 August 2021 - My 22nd RD article
12 December 2021 - My 64th ITN article
16 December 2021 - My 23rd RD article
21 March 2022 - My 65th ITN article
20 June 2022 - My 24th RD article
9 December 2022 - My 66th ITN article
8 March 2023 - My 19th Good Article
4 April 2023 - Created 1,200th new article
6 May 2023 - My 67th ITN article
28 September 2023 - My 25th RD article
26 March 2024 - My 68th ITN article

*Only articles created or 5x expanded are counted here.

Windmills - to do list

Create lists for each country:-
 Done Australia, Belgium, Canada, Channel Islands, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Ireland, Isle of Man, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Scotland, South Africa, Spain, United Kingdom, USA, Wales
 Not done Italy, Sweden, Russia, New Zealand
 Doing...
UK - create lists for each county with 20 or more windmills:-
 Done Anglesey, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Cornwall, Derbyshire, Devon, East Sussex, Essex, Hampshire, Hertfordshire, Isle of Wight, Kent, Lancashire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, London, Middlesex, Norfolk (drainage), Nottinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Shropshire, Somerset, Staffordshire, Suffolk, Surrey, Warwickshire, West Sussex, Wiltshire, Yorkshire (North, South, East and West)
create articles on surviving windmills:-
 Done Essex, Hampshire, Hertfordshire, Isle of Wight, Kent, London, Suffolk, Sussex, Surrey,
 Not done Lincolnshire, Yorkshire, Northumberland, Durham, Nottinghamshire, Lancashire, Anglesey, Somerset
 On hold Norfolk

Europe

Create articles for all surviving windmills
 Doing... Gelderland
 Done Drenthe, Friesland

Common names for windmills:- Black Mill, White Mill, Upper Mill, Lower Mill, Great Mill, Little Mill, New Mill, Old Mill, North Mill, East Mill, South Mill, West Mill, Town Mill, Union Mill.

Infobox Windmill

Useful pages

Great source of photos for British Isles and Germany articles

Geograph is a project to photograph locations in every OS grid square. This project covers the UK, Isle of Man and Ireland. Geograph Channel Isles covers the Channel Isles. Geograph Germany covers that country.

All photographs are Creative Commons 2.0-licenced, which means that they can be used on Wikipedia! They should be uploaded to Commons and this is a simple process involving downloading the image to your computer and then uploading it to Commons.

You can generate all info needed on Commons by clicking "Find out how to reuse this Image" beneath the image and then copying the generated Wiki markup from the "Wikipedia Template for image page" section into the basic upload form on Commons. All that is left then is to add categories.

  1. ^ My 6th cousin 7x removed on my father's side; also 1st cousin twice removed of my 8x great aunt on my mother's side!
  2. ^ a b c My 3rd cousin 3x removed
  3. ^ My 4th cousin 3x removed
  4. ^ My 10x great grandfather
  5. ^ My 3rd cousin 4x removed