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Coldupnorth

About Me

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This user is a native speaker of the English language.

This user lives in Great Britain.

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This user has visited 60 of the 208 countries in the world.

This user has written books, novels or plays that have been published.

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15,000+

This user has made more than 15,000 contributions to Wikipedia.

This user is a WikiDragon.
...one of the last of a dying breed...

This editor won the Million Award for bringing Winston Churchill to Good Article status.

This editor won the Half Million Award for bringing Charles Edward Stuart to Good Article status.

I'm an awesome Wikipedian!

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This user has been editing Wikipedia for more than 15 years.

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This user has been a Wikipedian for 51.4% of their life.

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This user helped promote Brownsea Island Scout Camp to featured article status.

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This user has helped promote 5 good articles on Wikipedia.

This user has been a major contributor to 3 articles featured in the Did you know... section on the Main Page.

Projects

This user is a participant in
WikiProject Scotland.

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WikiProject UK geography

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WikiProject Edinburgh

This user is a member of the Maritime transport task force.

This user is a particpant in WikiProject Ships.

About me

My first visit to the encyclopedia was in December 2003, though I made my first edit in November 2004. From 2006 to early 2008, I contributed on on a frequent level and helped expand and improve several high profile articles, eventually getting Bill Clinton, University College London, Jonathon Band and Winston Churchill to Good Article status at the time. I have less time to edit nowadays, but still do a few edits each month and since 2016, I mostly contribute to maritime, geography and history subjects, with a focus on Scotland related articles. In September 2022, I helped improve Charles Edward Stuart to GA status.

I hold three academic degrees. I am Associate Fellow of the Royal Institute of Navigation and a member for the Society for Nautical Research. In 2021 I changed my username from LordHarris to Coldupnorth.

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First Sea Lords

Ships and Maritime

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GA Reviews

I have in the past done some GA reviews but stopped so I could focus on article expansion. I am however always happy to help review any article, just leave me a message. For my old GA reviews see:

Archived GA reviews

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