User:Sabrebd

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Wikithings	"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" - Author This user is one of the 2000 most active English Wikipedians of all time. This editor is an Illustrious Looshpah and is entitled to display this Book of All Knowledge. 60,000+ This user has made over 60,000 contributions to Wikipedia A long time ago, briefly and no more, this user was User:SABRE12. This user has rollback rights on the English Wikipedia. (verify) pending changes reviewer rights on the English Wikipedia. (verify ) This user has autopatrolled rights on the English Wikipedia. (verify) Q This user used to have access to The Wikipedia Library . This user has reviewed 10 Good Article nominations on Wikipedia. This user has helped promote 70 good articles on Wikipedia. This user has been a major contributor to 15 articles featured in the Did you know... section on the Main Page.
Me	This user is male. en This user is a native speaker of the English language. PhD This user has a Doctor of Philosophy degree in History.
Ancestry & Location	The United Kingdom This user lives in England. This user is proud to be Celtic.
Philosophy	<sum>:1 This user believes that every edit should have a summary. <ref> This user would like to see everyone using inline citations. Please... edit war . This user respects copyright, but sometimes it can be a major pain.
Patrols	This user is a recent changes patroller. This user is a member of the WikiProject Unreferenced articles.
Projects	This user is a participant in WikiProject Music genres task force. This user is a participant in WikiProject Roots Music. This user is a participant in WikiProject Songs. This user is a participant of Wikipedia:WikiProject Music of the United Kingdom. This user is a participant in WikiProject Rock music. This user is a member of the WikiProject R&B and Soul Music. This user is a participant in WikiProject Electronic Music. This user is a participant in WikiProject Death. This user is a member of the Medieval Scotland WikiProject. This user is a participant in WikiProject Scotland. This user is a participant in WikiProject Higher education. This user is a member of WikiProject Military history. This user is a member of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms task force of WikiProject Military history. This user is a member of Wikiproject Led Zeppelin.
Interests	Blue This user enjoys The Blues. This user enjoys folk music. Americana . This user enjoys British folk rock music. This user enjoys rock music. This user is a sabre fencer. gtr-3 This user is an advanced guitarist. mnd-1 This user is a novice mandolinist. This user enjoys films. 4 This user thinks BBC Radio 4 is worth the licence fee alone. "There's another saying, Senator: Don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining" - John Vernon (Fletcher) , The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)

About me

My main areas of interest on Wikipedia are historical (my job) and musical (my hobby). I am mainly interested in social and military history. In music my tastes are broad, but music of the British Isles and north America, including classical, rock and particularly folk or roots are the main areas of interest.

Articles of belief

My Wikipedia principles

1. Wikipedia is as good as it is because it is a collaborative project.
2. Editors who correct my typos and add references are doing a great job.
3. There is no point in editing articles whose editors cannot accept other contributions.

On the 'British Problem'

1. I believe the British Isles includes all of Ireland.
2. I am not dumb enough to believe that Ireland has been part of Britain or the United Kingdom since 1922.
3. I believe Ireland is a geographical area that includes Northern Ireland.
4. I believe that the Republic of Ireland is a really cool place that does not include Northern Ireland.

On punctuation

1. I am going to remove all the blanket italics from quotations on Wikipedia even if it kills me. Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Italics

These articles are the major ones on which I have worked

• Created:

Baa Baa Black Sheep • Ring a Ring o' Roses • Royal Scots Navy • Acid jazz • Brit funk • Pop rock

Template:Celtic music • Template:Albion Band • Template:Medieval music • Template:Gothic • Template:Scottish architecture • Template:Early Modern Scotland • Template:Medieval Scotland • Template:Education in the United Kingdom • Template:Scottish art • Template:Scottish religion • Template:Scottish literature • Template:Scottish education • Template:Nineteenth-century Scotland • Template:Eighteenth-century Scotland • Template:Twentieth-century Scotland • Template:Valois Burgundy

Useful policies

• WP:DATED
  – avoid timelimited terms.

Some other stuff

• My user page menu User:Sabrebd/Menu
• My scripts User:Sabrebd/vector.js
• Why bands are often plural – [[American and British English differences#Formal and notional agreement]]
• Sandwiching of text – [[MOS:SANDWICH]]
• Size forcing – [[WP:IMGSIZE]]
• The in a band name not automatically capitalised WP:THECAPS.
• Commas in music infoboxes genres – [[Template:Infobox musical artist#genre]]
• Citation template – <ref>{{Citation |author= |contribution= |date= |title= |journal= |editor= |edition= |isbn= |issn= |volume= |pages= |place= |publisher= |url= |accessdate= |authorlink= |archiveurl= |archivedate= }}.</ref>
• [[WP:CIRCULAR|Wikipedia cannot be a source for itself]]
• "Centuries are given in figures or words" [[WP:ORDINAL]]
• Date ranges to two figures, eg. 1889–91 [[WP:DATEOTHER]]
• Infobox Musical Artist guidelines Template:Infobox musical artist.

Tools

Main tool page: toolserver.org

• Reflinks – Edits bare references – adds title/dates etc. to bare references
• Checklinks – Edit and repair external links
• Dab solver – Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
• reviewer – Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.
• Altviewer – Check alternative text.