User:Roundtheworld
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Starting by working on pages about the area around my birthplace, Hertford, UK, and my then adopted home, Rome, researching Waterford, Hertfordshire got me interested in stained glass and in particular in the stained glass artists of the Arts and Crafts Movement. I then contributed a few pages on British pacifism. I tried to improve the coverage of the works of the Brazilian writer Jorge Amado and the Portuguese writer José Maria de Eça de Queirós. In 2017 I moved to Cascais and worked on new articles about Portugal, including several on lighthouses, forts and neolithic sites, as well as on museums and other buildings in Cascais, neighbouring Lisbon and wherever my travels took me. In 2020 I joined Wikipedia:Women in Red and have since spent much of my time working on articles about women, mainly those with a connection to Portugal, Brazil and Oceania. This alerted me to major gaps in the coverage of Papua New Guinea, where I had lived from 1978 to 1981, which I tried to address in 2022-24.
I prefer starting new pages rather than spending a lot of time on existing ones, although if I spot spelling or grammatical errors I will normally attack them. My particular obsession is putting text into the past tense. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a newspaper. I began by hoping that the pages I created would be rapidly improved by others but in the absence of such a response have now given up bothering, so I guess that makes me a WikiSloth. However, sometimes there is a nice surprise with proof that little acorns can grow on Wikipedia. I started the article on Mary Lowndes with 2,900 bytes. It is now over 14,000.
My main contributions have been:
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| 0.014% | This user has created 937 of the 6,928,476 articles on the English language Wikipedia. |
 | This user is a past or present student at the University of Leicester. |
| ISU | This user attends or attended Illinois State University |
 | This user is a WikiSloth. |
 | This user is in Portugal. |
 | This user is a participant in WikiProject Portugal. |
 | This user is a shining member of WikiProject Lighthouses. |
 | This user scored 176 on the Wikipediholic test (revision 966414566). |
 | This user has autopatrolled rights on the English Wikipedia. (verify) |
 | This user is a participant in WikiProject Women in Red (redlinks→blue) |
 | 1st Place: Women in Europe: WiR Women in Europe contest, 2021 |
 | 1st Place: Women in Oceania: WiR Women in Oceania contest, 2021 |
 116 | This user has visited 116 of the 205 countries in the world. |
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This user supports the European Union. |
 | This user is a participant in WikiProject Papua New Guinea. |
 | Translation Contest: Most Languages Translated: WiR Translation Contest, 2022 |