User:Derek Andrews

After a long break, I am back on Wikipedia.

I am a somewhat eclectic editor and have started articles on a diversive range of topics, including my medieval home town, a railway designed to carry ships overland in my new home province and a nearby environmental mess.

For a quick wiki-fix, I hang out in the back streets of Wikipedia at Category:Uncategorized pages or dead-end pages. This seems to be a good place to find needy articles that have been vandalised, or need a helping hand to look something like a Wikipedia article should look, or just simply put it out of their misery. I will also assign new articles to appropriate WikiProject as I find this usually gets them some immediate attention from an editor with an interest an expertise in subject matter that I can't be bothered with.

Lately I have started working my way through Category:Communities in Nova Scotia by county (Annapolis is done!) updating broken refs, and looking for opportunities to improve these articles, most of which will never be more than a stub, but nonetheless can provide some useful information. I have also been working on a few pages related to indigenous organizations in Nova Scotia, such as Native Council of Nova Scotia and Mi'kmaw Kina'matnewey.

The rest of this page is mainly a reference to (A) Wikipedia policies, guidelines, templates etc, and (B) external reference sources that I use on a regular basis.

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Essential resources

• Search List of Title Word Abbreviations

Canadian resources

• Canadiana online
• Toporama
• Virtual museum Canada
• Canadian Architecture Archive
• Canadian Legal Information Institute
• Canadian Parliamentary Historical Resources
• Free Canadian History Publications Online (scroll down)
• The Ecological Framework of Canada
• Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Canada-related articles

 Canadian Geographical Names Data Base

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 Canadian Register of Historic Places

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See also Wikipedia:Canadian Register of Historic Places

General resources

• Google newspaper archive
• Wayback machine
• WebCite
• Article stats
• Open source academic repository
• History of Science and Technology 1728
• UN University collections
• Old Maps Online
• US Geographic names

 Location maps

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 Coordinates

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Coord documentation

Country codes

WP Geographical coordinates

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Nova Scotia

• WikiProject Nova Scotia
  • {{WikiProject Canada|ns=yes|class=|importance=}}
• NS Open Data Portal
  • traffic volumes
• NS civic address locator
• NS Electoral District Information
• Members of the NS Legislative Assembly
• NS legislation
• NS 2013 election results
• Nova Scotia archives
  • NS Historical Newspapers
• MemoryNS
• NS community museums digitized
• History NS county boundaries
• NS Interactive Maps & Apps
• protected areas map
• List of designated places in Nova Scotia
• 2016 census search
• Category:Lists of historic places in Nova Scotia
• Collections of the Nova Scotia Historical Society
  • Contents vols 1-20
  • Index Vols 1-9

 Place-Names and Places of Nova Scotia

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For an inline reference use:

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Mi'kmaq

• Ku'ku'kwes news
• INAC
• Tepi’ketuek - Mi’kmaw archives
• Mi'kmaw Place Names
• Canadian Aboriginal Law blog
• First Nation Profiles Interactive Map
• Mi’kmaw Bands in Nova Scotia (dates for establishment of reserves)

UK resources

• How to write about UK settlements
• British history online
• The Exeter Research and Institutional Content archive (ERIC)
• History of Parliament Online
• Hansard 1803-2005
• A vision of Britain
• Heritage gateway
• ScotlandsPlaces
• Historic Environment Scotland
• Scotland's Census
• Historic England
• Newspapers @ Library of Wales
• Britain from above

 British Newspaper Archive

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• BNA Wikipedia Library
• BNA blog

 Images of England

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Somerset

• The history and antiquities of the county of Somerset by Collinson, 1757?-1793 Volume 2 of 3?

My to do list

New article ideas

• Mi'kmaw Kina'matnewey
• Eastern Woodland Métis Nation Nova Scotia
• Sou'West Nova Métis Council
• Henry Ketchum
• THE GREAT CHARTULARY OF GLASTONBURY [1]
• Sir Harry Stephen Meysey-Thompson, 1st Baronet [2][3][4]
• Sir Samuel Mico see Henry Edwards (1820–1897) Richard Mico

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• Halimote court
• The coal industry of Pictou County
• Sable River Migratory Bird Sanctuary

Training

• Wikipedia:Training/doc
• Category:Wikipedia
• Criticism of Wikipedia
• Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2015-10-28/Community letter (facebook link for talk at library?)

Room for improvement

• all the FN articles for NS
• Cabot Links tidy + Cabot Cliffs
• Wells East Somerset railway station
• Wells Forum
• Wells Rural District
• Wells Theological College
• Wells by-election, 1939
• The Old Deanery, Wells
• The Bishop's Barn, Wells
• The Bishop's Eye, Wells
• St John's Priory, Wells
• Peat extraction on the Somerset Levels

Problem articles for review

• On Naval Timber and Arboriculture review 22 Sep 17

Routine maintenance

• Category:Wikipedia requested photographs - NS
• List of lakes in Nova Scotia
• Missing NS coordinates
• New Pages
• Articles for deletion
• Wikipedia:Community portal

• User:SuggestBot

Pages I have started

• Antoine Robidoux
• Atlantic Gateway
• Aquion Energy
• Besnard Lake
• Betty Mouat
• Boat Harbour, Nova Scotia - from a redirect
• Bow Fiddle Rock - from a redirect
• Bromley & Sheppard’s Colleges
• Chase the Ace (lottery)
• Chignecto Ship Railway
• The Gatehouse at Bonds Mill
• Gerry Cottle
• John Horwood
• King's Norton Stop Lock
• Korean War Memorial, Sydney
• Larsen trap
• Legging (canals)
• List of canal aqueducts in Great Britain
• List of canal locks in Great Britain
• List of public art in Halifax, Nova Scotia
• The Literary World (magazine)
• Lydney Canal
• Malthouse DYK March 17 2009
• Mass mortality event
• Meare Pool
• Mi'kmaw Kina'matnewey
• Military Memorials of National Significance in Australia
• Native Council of Nova Scotia
• Nova Scotia Magazine
• Pictou Harbour
• Pidcock's Canal
• Soulanges Canal
• Temple of Jupiter, Damascus
• Thomas Hancock Nunn
• Thunderbird Strike
• Underwood Quarry
• Vicars' Close, Wells

Pages I have expanded

• Henry Greathead
• Millom
• Ponter's Ball Dyke
• Portgordon
• Thurleigh

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