User:Thincat

I have eventually come to the conclusion that I should say that my name is Roger Stansfîeld, though why anyone should want to know that is still obscure to me. An opinion piece in the Guardian discusses the matter and suggests that perhaps giving my name will make my editing more responsible. Well, well.

There are quite a few people in the world with the same name as myself so, to avoid my editing bringing any of them into disrepute, I'll say a bit about myself. I am English, born just after World War II, and I have lived in northeast Scotland since 1980. I am retired from a career in IT (it was called Computing when I started). I am no longer thin and I have never owned a cat.

I have used one account (unified over projects) for editing and a second one, User:Thincat (alt), solely for technical testing. I have not used a customised signature. I edited as an IP in early 2004 and, since then, very occasionally by mistake. I've never been paid to edit Wikipedia and no one has ever offered to pay me. Nor, so far as I can recall, have I ever edited on a topic in which I have a financial interest. However, I was employed by BP between 1966 and 1970 and I see I edited their article ten times between 2005 and 2010.[1] ThinCats is a UK business loan firm founded in 2011 – there is absolutely no connection at all between us.

Some articles created

The list below is of some of the more significant articles I have created – the date shown is when the page became an article in main space. A complete list is accessible via XTools which gives the date when each page was first edited.

Biographies

2017-08-08: Thomas Abernethy (explorer) (1803–1860, polar explorer) DYK
2019-02-28: Caroline Fitzgerald (1865–1911, expatriate American poet and supposed Isabel Archer clone)
2014-06-03: Norman Heathcote (1863–1946, writer about St Kilda) – DYK
2019-10-14: Ellis Martin (1881–1977, Ordnance Survey map cover illustrator)
2023-02-20: Christabel Russell (1895–1976, dress shop entrepreneur and dress designer; notorious ultimate divorcée)
2014-08-31: Jane Sissmore (1898–1982, MI5 and MI6, married name Jane Archer)

Lists

2011-08-19: Bayeux Tapestry tituli (embroidered text describing the scenes)
2020-02-03: Game pieces of the Lewis chessmen hoard (list to accompany Lewis Chessmen)
2017-04-04: List of Mountain Bothies Association bothies (mostly in Scotland) DYK
2016-05-17: List of hill passes of the Lake District (England)

Expeditions

2015-03-16, 2014-08-15: Bailey–Morshead exploration of Tsangpo Gorge and Henry Morshead (China, 1913)
2014-06-14: 1921 British Mount Everest reconnaissance expedition
2015-05-18: Affair of the Dancing Lamas (1925 aftermath of 1924 British Mount Everest expedition) DYK
2015-12-12: Shipton–Tilman Nanda Devi expeditions, 1934–1936 (Himalayan mountain in India)
2015-02-20 – 2015-06-04: British Mount Everest expeditions: 1935 reconnaissance, 1936 and 1938
2018-10-30 – 2019-03-02: American Karakoram expeditions to K2: 1938, 1939 DYK and Dudley Wolfe
2018-04-07: 1950 French Annapurna expedition (Himalayan mountain in Nepal)
2016-01-06: Mount Everest reconnaissance from Nepal and 1951 expedition
2021-02-16: 1953 German–Austrian Nanga Parbat expedition
2019-02-02, 2019-02-11: 1954 Italian expedition to K2 DYK and controversy
2021-03-04: 1955 French Makalu expedition
2021-01-09: 1955 British Kangchenjunga expedition DYK
2020-01-18: 1970 British Annapurna South Face expedition
2014-09-10: 1975 British Mount Everest Southwest Face expedition

Stone circles

2020-02-29: Axial stone circle (type of megalithic stone circle found in counties Cork and Kerry)
2020-02-29: List of axial multiple-stone circles and List of axial five-stone circles
2020-03-18: List of recumbent stone circles (found in Aberdeenshire)
2020-03-13 and 2020-10-21: Tomnaverie and Loanhead of Daviot recumbent stone circles

Others

2017-04-07: Animals Drawn from Nature and Engraved in Aqua-tinta (1788 book, by Charles Catton the younger)
2013-06-28: Big-game tunny fishing off Scarborough (mostly 1930s in Britain)
2016-04-08: Cairngorm Plateau disaster (deaths on 1971 school expedition in Scotland) DYK
2019-01-11: Dunnicaer (sea stack off Aberdeenshire with hill fort and Pictish stones)
2016-12-20: Dyce Work Camp (1916 Scottish camp for conscientious objectors in World War I)
2021-06-11, 2021-06-25: Fuller calculator (advanced cylindrical slide rule) and Slide rule scale
2017-09-11: Glas-allt-Shiel (Queen Victoria's "widow's house" rebuilt 1868)
2021-07-23: Granny (sea anemone) (long-lived beadlet specimen kept in Edinburgh) DYK
2022-03-15: Highlands controversy of Northwest Scotland (19th-century geological disputes)
2016-04-10: Lairig an Laoigh (mountain pass in Scotland)
2019-08-14: London to Brighton in Four Minutes (1953 BBC fast motion film) DYK
2013-06-25: John Rocque's Map of London, 1746 DYK
2022-03-01: March Stones of Aberdeen (boundary stones around Aberdeen's Freedom Lands)
2018-08-27: Triple Kirks (1843 Aberdeen churches: three in one and one in three)
2023-08-18: Vespers (poem) (1923 poem by A.A. Milne about his son, who grew to hate its inaccuracy)

Pageviews of articles listed above

Pageviews of all pages created by Thincat

Substantial contributions

The dates are of my first contribution to articles created by other people.

2004-11-05: Bayeux Tapestry
2013-06-17: Dog and Duck, St George's Fields (tavern in 17th & 18th-century London) DYK
2013-04-01: North British, Arbroath and Montrose Railway (opened 1881) DYK
2013-07-01: Edward Peel (big-game fisherman) (1884–1961)
2013-04-06: Race to the North (late 19th-century railway races in Britain)