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My areas of interest are finance, military history and public buildings.


With regard to finance, I have written new articles on all former FTSE 100 companies and all current FTSE 100 and FTSE 250 companies that did not already have articles about them. I have also updated every infobox in every article for every FTSE 100 and FTSE 250 company to show the latest financial results (initially the 2007 results, and then all successive years including, most recently, the 2022 results).


With regard to military history I have either written or substantially expanded many biographical articles about First Sea Lords, Chiefs of the General Staff and Chiefs of the Air Staff. Likewise Admirals of the Fleet, Field Marshals and Marshals of the Royal Air Force. And I have either written or substantially expanded articles about every cavalry and infantry regiment raised in the United Kingdom and their regimental depots and regimental museums.


With regard to public buildings I have either written or substantially expanded many articles about British and Irish hospitals, town halls and public buildings.




This user has earned the
100,000 Edits Award.
This user lives in the United Kingdom.
This user has been editing Wikipedia for more than 15 years.
This user is one of the 100 most active English Wikipedians of all time.
 0.059% This user has created 4,000 of the 6,776,781 articles on the English language Wikipedia.



00:36, Wednesday, January 31, 2024 (UTC)
People have very kindly given me these

The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
For a sterling effort creating the many, many, many missing articles on FTSE 250 Index companies. Take a bow! Gr1st (talk) 19:24, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
The World War Barnstar
To Dormskirk, for his hard work in creating articles on British senior officers who often served during the Second World War Skinny87 (talk) 22:44, 6 December 2009 (UTC)
The Editor's Barnstar
For your terrific work improving the Berkhamsted article, I'm not surprised you deserve this barnstar. Keep up the good work! Minimac (talk) 05:28, 26 June 2010 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar
For being smart :) Lives forever Taken (talk) 09:11, 4 August 2011 (UTC)
The Resilient Barnstar
Thanks for helping with resolving the conflict with flags in infoboxes (MOS:FLAG and WP:MILMOS)!! Bullmoosebell (talk) 00:15, 19 August 2011 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar
For a tremendous contribution, both in terms of quantity and quality, in the areas of companies and British military history. Rangoon11 (talk) 00:27, 15 November 2011 (UTC)
The Barnstar of Diligence
For continuing excellent work on biographies and other British military articles. Buckshot06 (talk) 20:53, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
 The WikiChevrons 
For bringing all 63 holders of the posts of Commander-in-Chief of the Forces and Chief of the General Staff up to 'B' class. Well done! Hawkeye7 (talk) 22:04, 19 May 2012 (UTC)
100000 Edits
Congratulations on reaching 100000 edits. You have achieved a milestone that very few editors have been able to accomplish. The Wikipedia Community thanks you for your continuing efforts. Keep up the good work!

The Barnstar of Diligence
Doing the job properly is always appreciated by those of us who care about that sort of thing! Edwardx (talk) 18:25, 15 November 2012 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar
Thank you so much for your help HayleySandford (talk) 17:41, 30 October 2013 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar
Awarded to Dormskirk, as part of AustralianRupert's 2014 New Year Honours List, in recognition of his biography work throughout 2013. Thank you and keep up the good work! AustralianRupert (talk) 21:39, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
The Editor's Barnstar
Thank you so much for your help HayleySandford (talk) 10:09, 19 June 2014 (UTC)
The Editor's Barnstar
Thank you HayleySandford (talk) 13:32, 8 May 2015 (UTC)
The Writer's Barnstar
Dear Dormskirk

I found your entry for Col.Alexander Shaw and as he was eldest brother of my 4th great grandfather Maj.General Aeneas Shaw UEL.Are you related to the Shaws'. Regards Richard Shaw UE Rjsm53 (talk) 13:39, 8 June 2015 (UTC)

The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
Thank you again for your help - Hayley HayleySandford (talk) 14:44, 15 June 2015 (UTC)
The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
Your long-running updates on company financial information are much appreciated. Edwardx (talk) 19:39, 25 March 2016 (UTC)
The Writer's Barnstar
Great work expanding Fulham House from a stub to a proper article. Edwardx (talk) 19:20, 20 October 2017 (UTC)
The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
Awarded to Dormskirk for continuing efforts to improve articles on military units. Awarded by Cdjp1 (talk) 12:22, 19 November 2017 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar
For your continuing hard work on History of the Royal Navy. Anytime you want to start on the Marine Nationale, I have a book to send you.. Buckshot06 (talk) 08:42, 2 January 2018 (UTC)
The Editor's Barnstar
For all your edits. BlueD954 (talk) 10:00, 22 December 2018 (UTC)
The 2018 Cure Award
In 2018 you were one of the top ~250 medical editors across any language of Wikipedia. Thank you from Wiki Project Med Foundation for helping bring free, complete, accurate, up-to-date health information to the public. We really appreciate you and the vital work you do! Wiki Project Med Foundation is a user group whose mission is to improve our health content. Consider joining here, there are no associated costs.
The Userpage Barnstar
This is for your hard work for creating a attractive and beautiful user page. Regards PATH SLOPU (TALK) 08:54, 2 April 2019 (UTC)
The Citation Barnstar The Citation Barnstar
For your work in adding citations to the Reginald Dyer page and many others. Moonraker (talk) 15:22, 17 April 2019 (UTC)
The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
For your great work on hospitals. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 15:54, 5 September 2019 (UTC).
The Editor's Barnstar
Thank you for all your hard work helping me, when I needed help so often! Arbil44 (talk) 00:43, 7 December 2019 (UTC)
The Barnstar of Diligence
For your work on military history and service personnel. BlueD954 (talk) 00:52, 25 December 2019 (UTC)
The 2019 Cure Award
In 2019 you were one of the top ~300 medical editors across any language of Wikipedia. Thank you from Wiki Project Med for helping bring free, complete, accurate, up-to-date health information to the public. We really appreciate you and the vital work you do! Wiki Project Med Foundation is a thematic organization whose mission is to improve our health content. Consider joining here, there are no associated costs.
The Special Barnstar
Thank you for your hard work on the Chatham Dockyard article,

I greatly appreciate you taking the time to re-source the whole article so thank you for doing that,
Take care, Thanks, Regards, –Davey2010Talk 17:48, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

The Original Barnstar
for your improvement of the lead at Deloitte. Doug Weller talk 11:16, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar
For showing the quality of an AfD nomination JTZegers (talk) 22:01, 12 May 2020 (UTC)
The Golden Wiki
For Good Work on creating Watford Colosseum. Presented by SilkTork (talk) 08:24, 15 July 2020 (UTC)
The Barnstar of Diplomacy
Is there a Barnstar for being kind to editors regardless of their inability to grasp basic guidelines? If not, there should be. (This barnstar was prompted but not inspired by the most recent incident; I've witnessed your Barnstar-deserving interactions for a long time.) JSFarman (talk) 17:58, 28 January 2023 (UTC)
The World War Barnstar
For the creation of so many military biographies; we'd have a lot more red links without you! Pickersgill-Cunliffe (talk) 21:45, 3 November 2023 (UTC)

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On 21 October 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Royal Naval College, Greenwich, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Queen Elizabeth II knighted Francis Chichester on the river steps of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich (pictured)? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Royal Naval College, Greenwich. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

On 30 June 2015, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article John Slessor, which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Second Lieutenant (later Marshal of the Royal Air Force) John Slessor (pictured) was lame as a result of polio and only gained his commission in 1915 with the help of family connections? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/John Slessor. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

On 25 July 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Lewes Town Hall, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Auguste Rodin's erotic sculpture The Kiss was removed from Lewes Town Hall during the First World War after a local headmistress complained? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Lewes Town Hall. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Lewes Town Hall), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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