Wyatt Smith "To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact." Charles Darwin This user comes from South Africa. UTC+2:00 This user's time zone is UTC+2:00. en This user is a native speaker of the English language. UK This user uses British English. af-2 Hierdie gebruiker het 'n gemiddelde begrip van Afrikaans. This user is a translator from English to Afrikaans on Wikipedia:Translate us. This user has been on Wikipedia for 5 years, 2 months and 22 days. 10,000+ This user has made more than 10,000 contributions to Wikipedia. This editor is a Tutnum and is entitled to display this Book of Knowledge.  0.00026%  This user has created 18 of the 6,808,004 articles on the English language Wikipedia. This user scored score on the Are You a Wikipediholic Test. This user proudly participates in WikiProject South Africa. This user is a participant in WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles. This user is a participant in WikiProject Women in Red (redlinks→blue) This user uses WikiBlame. SB This user lets SuggestBot recommend articles to edit once a month. Current Focus: MacTutor Archive - Mathematicians Completed Tasks: South African Scientist Stubs (DONE-ish / 3 unimproved)

Hi, I'm Wyatt. I was born 17 December 1970 (Star sign: Sagittarius - fortunately Sagittarii don't believe in Astrology) I was raised in "Darkest Africa" in the City of Joburg (spelled without an apostrophe), (formerly Johannesburg), largest city in South Africa. I have a degree in Applied Chemistry. I worked for what was then the second largest gold mining company in the world (Anglo American)^*1 as a senior chemist while trying to catch gold thieves. I spent the last 17 years as a tourist guide mostly in Johannesburg and Soweto. In 2017 my wife and I decided to retire and since then I've spent a lot of time working in our garden. I trade derivatives at night (day time for you western hemisphere people) and listen to many podcasts during the day. I'm interested in fostering scepticism because we need more of it everywhere.

My self-set target contribution of 0.004% to English Wikipedia and 0.25% to Afrikaans Wikipedia was reached after two years, and I have slowed down significantly.

Trivia item: Almost everybody in South Africa speaks at least 2 languages and some as many as 11.^[1]

Notes:

• *1. Anglo American sold its last gold holdings in South Africa in Feb 2020.^[2]

New pages on English Wikipedia in 2019

Sciences

South Africa

• Dorethea van der Merwe - first South African woman to be hanged for murder
• Karin Prinsloo - South African martial artist
• Mabel Jansen - South African writer, teacher, politician and advocate for Afrikaans education
• Nicky Newton-King - first female CEO of JSE
• Whitey Basson - ex CEO of Shoprite (South Africa)

New Pages on Afrikaans Wikipedia in 2019

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Other

• Lion & Safari Park - Afrikaans version of the Lion Park page

Afrikaans Wikipedia pages that I made a major contribution to in 2019

• Akupunktuur
• Jan H van der Merwe - South African Mathematician and Physicist
• Elektrosensitiwiteit - 'n toestand waar 'n persoon simptome ervaar wat volgens hulle veroorsaak word deur elektromagnetiese velde
• Thalassoterapie
• Genetiese manipulasie
• Gwyneth Paltrow

Pages upgraded as part of the Ontkiemingskompetisie 2019

Edited pages on English Wikipedia in 2019

(#) Indicates I translated it into Afrikaans as well, (-) indicates Afrikaans translation exists but it isn't my work.

Sciences

Other from 2019

• Barry Roux - South African lawyer who defended Oscar Pistorius (# rewrote existing)
• Lion Park (#)
• MultiChoice - Southern African satellite-tv service (# added to existing)
• Order of Mapungubwe
• Template:Order of Mapungubwe

Works in progress

• Taxation in South Africa (a never ending update)

Pages I am currently interested in following

• Cape Town International Airport
• Shepherd Bushiri - Self styled profit (no spelling error)

Pages I tried to update but failed

• Otto Brune - South African mathematician. Couldn't find additional info. Added infobox
• Nuno Pires - no additional info. Might not be notable.
• Stephan Swanson - now a tour guide. No independent sources, most sources are dead links.

Backburner

These pages have serious issues unlikely to be resolved soon or other reasons not to complete.

• Tana Joseph - New page!! Was already done and deleted in Nov 2018 - Not notable enough, 3rd party sources needed.

Waste disposal

These pages I wasted time on only to have them deleted. It seems unlikely that I will spend more time on them.

• Aaron Cohen - I edited this page extensively. It lead to a copy/edit fight with a groupie. An editor took over the fight, it went AFD and now is gone.
• Michael J. Wingfield - South African botanist and pathologist. I just spruced up this page and when the editors took another look at it, it seems that original page (not written by me) was a copyright violation. So its gone now.
• Pierre Rautenbach - no secondary refs. Not notable. Started AfD and page was deleted on 3 Oct 2019.
• Edmund February - no secondary refs. No info on him as a scientist. Started AfD and page was deleted on 25 October 2019.

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