CINXE.COM

<!DOCTYPE html> <html class="client-nojs vector-feature-language-in-header-enabled vector-feature-language-in-main-page-header-disabled vector-feature-sticky-header-disabled vector-feature-page-tools-pinned-disabled vector-feature-toc-pinned-clientpref-1 vector-feature-main-menu-pinned-disabled vector-feature-limited-width-clientpref-1 vector-feature-limited-width-content-enabled vector-feature-custom-font-size-clientpref-1 vector-feature-appearance-pinned-clientpref-1 vector-feature-night-mode-enabled skin-theme-clientpref-day vector-toc-not-available" lang="en" dir="ltr"> <head> <meta charset="UTF-8"> <title>User:Solipsist - Wikipedia</title> <script>(function(){var className="client-js vector-feature-language-in-header-enabled vector-feature-language-in-main-page-header-disabled vector-feature-sticky-header-disabled vector-feature-page-tools-pinned-disabled vector-feature-toc-pinned-clientpref-1 vector-feature-main-menu-pinned-disabled vector-feature-limited-width-clientpref-1 vector-feature-limited-width-content-enabled vector-feature-custom-font-size-clientpref-1 vector-feature-appearance-pinned-clientpref-1 vector-feature-night-mode-enabled skin-theme-clientpref-day vector-toc-not-available";var cookie=document.cookie.match(/(?:^|; )enwikimwclientpreferences=([^;]+)/);if(cookie){cookie[1].split('%2C').forEach(function(pref){className=className.replace(new RegExp('(^| )'+pref.replace(/-clientpref-\w+$|[^\w-]+/g,'')+'-clientpref-\\w+( |$)'),'$1'+pref+'$2');});}document.documentElement.className=className;}());RLCONF={"wgBreakFrames":false,"wgSeparatorTransformTable":["",""],"wgDigitTransformTable":["",""],"wgDefaultDateFormat": "dmy","wgMonthNames":["","January","February","March","April","May","June","July","August","September","October","November","December"],"wgRequestId":"016a3e39-3bf1-4ba9-8434-4dbafe3f4467","wgCanonicalNamespace":"User","wgCanonicalSpecialPageName":false,"wgNamespaceNumber":2,"wgPageName":"User:Solipsist","wgTitle":"Solipsist","wgCurRevisionId":1229943072,"wgRevisionId":1229943072,"wgArticleId":515480,"wgIsArticle":true,"wgIsRedirect":false,"wgAction":"view","wgUserName":null,"wgUserGroups":["*"],"wgCategories":["Wikipedians in Cambridgeshire"],"wgPageViewLanguage":"en","wgPageContentLanguage":"en","wgPageContentModel":"wikitext","wgRelevantPageName":"User:Solipsist","wgRelevantArticleId":515480,"wgIsProbablyEditable":true,"wgRelevantPageIsProbablyEditable":true,"wgRestrictionEdit":[],"wgRestrictionMove":[],"wgRelevantUserName":"Solipsist","wgNoticeProject":"wikipedia","wgCiteReferencePreviewsActive":false,"wgFlaggedRevsParams":{"tags":{"status":{"levels":1}}},"wgMediaViewerOnClick": true,"wgMediaViewerEnabledByDefault":true,"wgPopupsFlags":0,"wgVisualEditor":{"pageLanguageCode":"en","pageLanguageDir":"ltr","pageVariantFallbacks":"en"},"wgMFDisplayWikibaseDescriptions":{"search":true,"watchlist":true,"tagline":false,"nearby":true},"wgWMESchemaEditAttemptStepOversample":false,"wgWMEPageLength":20000,"wgRelatedArticlesCompat":[],"wgCentralAuthMobileDomain":false,"wgEditSubmitButtonLabelPublish":true,"wgULSPosition":"interlanguage","wgULSisCompactLinksEnabled":false,"wgVector2022LanguageInHeader":true,"wgULSisLanguageSelectorEmpty":false,"wgCheckUserClientHintsHeadersJsApi":["architecture","bitness","brands","fullVersionList","mobile","model","platform","platformVersion"],"GEHomepageSuggestedEditsEnableTopics":true,"wgGETopicsMatchModeEnabled":false,"wgGEStructuredTaskRejectionReasonTextInputEnabled":false,"wgGELevelingUpEnabledForUser":false};RLSTATE={"ext.globalCssJs.user.styles":"ready","site.styles":"ready","user.styles":"ready","ext.globalCssJs.user":"ready", "user":"ready","user.options":"loading","skins.vector.search.codex.styles":"ready","skins.vector.styles":"ready","skins.vector.icons":"ready","ext.wikimediamessages.styles":"ready","ext.visualEditor.desktopArticleTarget.noscript":"ready","ext.uls.interlanguage":"ready","ext.wikimediaBadges":"ready"};RLPAGEMODULES=["mediawiki.page.media","site","mediawiki.page.ready","skins.vector.js","ext.centralNotice.geoIP","ext.centralNotice.startUp","ext.gadget.ReferenceTooltips","ext.gadget.switcher","ext.urlShortener.toolbar","ext.centralauth.centralautologin","mmv.bootstrap","ext.popups","ext.visualEditor.desktopArticleTarget.init","ext.visualEditor.targetLoader","ext.echo.centralauth","ext.eventLogging","ext.wikimediaEvents","ext.navigationTiming","ext.uls.interface","ext.cx.eventlogging.campaigns","ext.checkUser.clientHints"];</script> <script>(RLQ=window.RLQ||[]).push(function(){mw.loader.impl(function(){return["user.options@12s5i",function($,jQuery,require,module){mw.user.tokens.set({"patrolToken":"+\\","watchToken":"+\\","csrfToken":"+\\"}); }];});});</script> <link rel="stylesheet" href="/w/load.php?lang=en&modules=ext.uls.interlanguage%7Cext.visualEditor.desktopArticleTarget.noscript%7Cext.wikimediaBadges%7Cext.wikimediamessages.styles%7Cskins.vector.icons%2Cstyles%7Cskins.vector.search.codex.styles&only=styles&skin=vector-2022"> <script async="" src="/w/load.php?lang=en&modules=startup&only=scripts&raw=1&skin=vector-2022"></script> <meta name="ResourceLoaderDynamicStyles" content=""> <link rel="stylesheet" href="/w/load.php?lang=en&modules=site.styles&only=styles&skin=vector-2022"> <meta name="generator" content="MediaWiki 1.44.0-wmf.3"> <meta name="referrer" content="origin"> <meta name="referrer" content="origin-when-cross-origin"> <meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow,max-image-preview:standard"> <meta name="format-detection" content="telephone=no"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=1120"> <meta property="og:title" content="User:Solipsist - Wikipedia"> <meta property="og:type" content="website"> <link rel="preconnect" href="//upload.wikimedia.org"> <link rel="alternate" media="only screen and (max-width: 640px)" href="//en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Solipsist"> <link rel="alternate" type="application/x-wiki" title="Edit this page" href="/w/index.php?title=User:Solipsist&action=edit"> <link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="/static/apple-touch/wikipedia.png"> <link rel="icon" href="/static/favicon/wikipedia.ico"> <link rel="search" type="application/opensearchdescription+xml" href="/w/rest.php/v1/search" title="Wikipedia (en)"> <link rel="EditURI" type="application/rsd+xml" href="//en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=rsd"> <link rel="canonical" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Solipsist"> <link rel="license" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en"> <link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="Wikipedia Atom feed" href="/w/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&feed=atom"> <link rel="dns-prefetch" href="//meta.wikimedia.org" /> <link rel="dns-prefetch" href="//login.wikimedia.org"> </head> <body class="skin--responsive skin-vector skin-vector-search-vue mediawiki ltr sitedir-ltr mw-hide-empty-elt ns-2 ns-subject mw-editable page-User_Solipsist rootpage-User_Solipsist skin-vector-2022 action-view"><a class="mw-jump-link" href="#bodyContent">Jump to content</a> <div class="vector-header-container"> <header class="vector-header mw-header"> <div class="vector-header-start"> <nav class="vector-main-menu-landmark" aria-label="Site"> <div id="vector-main-menu-dropdown" class="vector-dropdown vector-main-menu-dropdown vector-button-flush-left vector-button-flush-right" > <input type="checkbox" id="vector-main-menu-dropdown-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-vector-main-menu-dropdown" class="vector-dropdown-checkbox " aria-label="Main menu" > <label id="vector-main-menu-dropdown-label" for="vector-main-menu-dropdown-checkbox" class="vector-dropdown-label cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only " aria-hidden="true" ><span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-menu mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-menu"></span> <span class="vector-dropdown-label-text">Main menu</span> </label> <div class="vector-dropdown-content"> <div id="vector-main-menu-unpinned-container" class="vector-unpinned-container"> <div id="vector-main-menu" class="vector-main-menu vector-pinnable-element"> <div class="vector-pinnable-header vector-main-menu-pinnable-header vector-pinnable-header-unpinned" data-feature-name="main-menu-pinned" data-pinnable-element-id="vector-main-menu" data-pinned-container-id="vector-main-menu-pinned-container" data-unpinned-container-id="vector-main-menu-unpinned-container" > <div class="vector-pinnable-header-label">Main menu</div> <button class="vector-pinnable-header-toggle-button vector-pinnable-header-pin-button" data-event-name="pinnable-header.vector-main-menu.pin">move to sidebar</button> <button class="vector-pinnable-header-toggle-button vector-pinnable-header-unpin-button" data-event-name="pinnable-header.vector-main-menu.unpin">hide</button> </div> <div id="p-navigation" class="vector-menu mw-portlet mw-portlet-navigation" > <div class="vector-menu-heading"> Navigation </div> <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li id="n-mainpage-description" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Main_Page" title="Visit the main page [z]" accesskey="z"><span>Main page</span></a></li><li id="n-contents" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Contents" title="Guides to browsing Wikipedia"><span>Contents</span></a></li><li id="n-currentevents" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Portal:Current_events" title="Articles related to current events"><span>Current events</span></a></li><li id="n-randompage" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Special:Random" title="Visit a randomly selected article [x]" accesskey="x"><span>Random article</span></a></li><li id="n-aboutsite" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:About" title="Learn about Wikipedia and how it works"><span>About Wikipedia</span></a></li><li id="n-contactpage" class="mw-list-item"><a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Contact_us" title="How to contact Wikipedia"><span>Contact us</span></a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div id="p-interaction" class="vector-menu mw-portlet mw-portlet-interaction" > <div class="vector-menu-heading"> Contribute </div> <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li id="n-help" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Help:Contents" title="Guidance on how to use and edit Wikipedia"><span>Help</span></a></li><li id="n-introduction" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Help:Introduction" title="Learn how to edit Wikipedia"><span>Learn to edit</span></a></li><li id="n-portal" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Community_portal" title="The hub for editors"><span>Community portal</span></a></li><li id="n-recentchanges" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Special:RecentChanges" title="A list of recent changes to Wikipedia [r]" accesskey="r"><span>Recent changes</span></a></li><li id="n-upload" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:File_upload_wizard" title="Add images or other media for use on Wikipedia"><span>Upload file</span></a></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </nav> <a href="/wiki/Main_Page" class="mw-logo"> <img class="mw-logo-icon" src="/static/images/icons/wikipedia.png" alt="" aria-hidden="true" height="50" width="50"> <span class="mw-logo-container skin-invert"> <img class="mw-logo-wordmark" alt="Wikipedia" src="/static/images/mobile/copyright/wikipedia-wordmark-en.svg" style="width: 7.5em; height: 1.125em;"> <img class="mw-logo-tagline" alt="The Free Encyclopedia" src="/static/images/mobile/copyright/wikipedia-tagline-en.svg" width="117" height="13" style="width: 7.3125em; height: 0.8125em;"> </span> </a> </div> <div class="vector-header-end"> <div id="p-search" role="search" class="vector-search-box-vue vector-search-box-collapses vector-search-box-show-thumbnail vector-search-box-auto-expand-width vector-search-box"> <a href="/wiki/Special:Search" class="cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only search-toggle" title="Search Wikipedia [f]" accesskey="f"><span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-search mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-search"></span> <span>Search</span> </a> <div class="vector-typeahead-search-container"> <div class="cdx-typeahead-search cdx-typeahead-search--show-thumbnail cdx-typeahead-search--auto-expand-width"> <form action="/w/index.php" id="searchform" class="cdx-search-input cdx-search-input--has-end-button"> <div id="simpleSearch" class="cdx-search-input__input-wrapper" data-search-loc="header-moved"> <div class="cdx-text-input cdx-text-input--has-start-icon"> <input class="cdx-text-input__input" type="search" name="search" placeholder="Search Wikipedia" aria-label="Search Wikipedia" autocapitalize="sentences" title="Search Wikipedia [f]" accesskey="f" id="searchInput" > <span class="cdx-text-input__icon cdx-text-input__start-icon"></span> </div> <input type="hidden" name="title" value="Special:Search"> </div> <button class="cdx-button cdx-search-input__end-button">Search</button> </form> </div> </div> </div> <nav class="vector-user-links vector-user-links-wide" aria-label="Personal tools"> <div class="vector-user-links-main"> <div id="p-vector-user-menu-preferences" class="vector-menu mw-portlet emptyPortlet" > <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> </ul> </div> </div> <div id="p-vector-user-menu-userpage" class="vector-menu mw-portlet emptyPortlet" > <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> </ul> </div> </div> <nav class="vector-appearance-landmark" aria-label="Appearance"> <div id="vector-appearance-dropdown" class="vector-dropdown " title="Change the appearance of the page's font size, width, and color" > <input type="checkbox" id="vector-appearance-dropdown-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-vector-appearance-dropdown" class="vector-dropdown-checkbox " aria-label="Appearance" > <label id="vector-appearance-dropdown-label" for="vector-appearance-dropdown-checkbox" class="vector-dropdown-label cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only " aria-hidden="true" ><span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-appearance mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-appearance"></span> <span class="vector-dropdown-label-text">Appearance</span> </label> <div class="vector-dropdown-content"> <div id="vector-appearance-unpinned-container" class="vector-unpinned-container"> </div> </div> </div> </nav> <div id="p-vector-user-menu-notifications" class="vector-menu mw-portlet emptyPortlet" > <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> </ul> </div> </div> <div id="p-vector-user-menu-overflow" class="vector-menu mw-portlet" > <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li id="pt-sitesupport-2" class="user-links-collapsible-item mw-list-item user-links-collapsible-item"><a data-mw="interface" href="https://donate.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FundraiserRedirector?utm_source=donate&utm_medium=sidebar&utm_campaign=C13_en.wikipedia.org&uselang=en" class=""><span>Donate</span></a> </li> <li id="pt-createaccount-2" class="user-links-collapsible-item mw-list-item user-links-collapsible-item"><a data-mw="interface" href="/w/index.php?title=Special:CreateAccount&returnto=User%3ASolipsist" title="You are encouraged to create an account and log in; however, it is not mandatory" class=""><span>Create account</span></a> </li> <li id="pt-login-2" class="user-links-collapsible-item mw-list-item user-links-collapsible-item"><a data-mw="interface" href="/w/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&returnto=User%3ASolipsist" title="You're encouraged to log in; however, it's not mandatory. [o]" accesskey="o" class=""><span>Log in</span></a> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> <div id="vector-user-links-dropdown" class="vector-dropdown vector-user-menu vector-button-flush-right vector-user-menu-logged-out" title="Log in and more options" > <input type="checkbox" id="vector-user-links-dropdown-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-vector-user-links-dropdown" class="vector-dropdown-checkbox " aria-label="Personal tools" > <label id="vector-user-links-dropdown-label" for="vector-user-links-dropdown-checkbox" class="vector-dropdown-label cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only " aria-hidden="true" ><span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-ellipsis mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-ellipsis"></span> <span class="vector-dropdown-label-text">Personal tools</span> </label> <div class="vector-dropdown-content"> <div id="p-personal" class="vector-menu mw-portlet mw-portlet-personal user-links-collapsible-item" title="User menu" > <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li id="pt-sitesupport" class="user-links-collapsible-item mw-list-item"><a href="https://donate.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FundraiserRedirector?utm_source=donate&utm_medium=sidebar&utm_campaign=C13_en.wikipedia.org&uselang=en"><span>Donate</span></a></li><li id="pt-createaccount" class="user-links-collapsible-item mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Special:CreateAccount&returnto=User%3ASolipsist" title="You are encouraged to create an account and log in; however, it is not mandatory"><span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-userAdd mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-userAdd"></span> <span>Create account</span></a></li><li id="pt-login" class="user-links-collapsible-item mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&returnto=User%3ASolipsist" title="You're encouraged to log in; however, it's not mandatory. [o]" accesskey="o"><span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-logIn mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-logIn"></span> <span>Log in</span></a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div id="p-user-menu-anon-editor" class="vector-menu mw-portlet mw-portlet-user-menu-anon-editor" > <div class="vector-menu-heading"> Pages for logged out editors <a href="/wiki/Help:Introduction" aria-label="Learn more about editing"><span>learn more</span></a> </div> <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li id="pt-anoncontribs" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Special:MyContributions" title="A list of edits made from this IP address [y]" accesskey="y"><span>Contributions</span></a></li><li id="pt-anontalk" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Special:MyTalk" title="Discussion about edits from this IP address [n]" accesskey="n"><span>Talk</span></a></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </header> </div> <div class="mw-page-container"> <div class="mw-page-container-inner"> <div class="vector-sitenotice-container"> <div id="siteNotice"></div> </div> <div class="vector-column-start"> <div class="vector-main-menu-container"> <div id="mw-navigation"> <nav id="mw-panel" class="vector-main-menu-landmark" aria-label="Site"> <div id="vector-main-menu-pinned-container" class="vector-pinned-container"> </div> </nav> </div> </div> </div> <div class="mw-content-container"> <main id="content" class="mw-body"> <header class="mw-body-header vector-page-titlebar"> <h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading mw-first-heading"><span class="mw-page-title-namespace">User</span><span class="mw-page-title-separator">:</span><span class="mw-page-title-main">Solipsist</span></h1> <div id="p-lang-btn" class="vector-dropdown mw-portlet mw-portlet-lang" > <input type="checkbox" id="p-lang-btn-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-p-lang-btn" class="vector-dropdown-checkbox mw-interlanguage-selector" aria-label="This article exist only in this language. Add the article for other languages" > <label id="p-lang-btn-label" for="p-lang-btn-checkbox" class="vector-dropdown-label cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--action-progressive mw-portlet-lang-heading-0" aria-hidden="true" ><span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-language-progressive mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-language-progressive"></span> <span class="vector-dropdown-label-text">Add languages</span> </label> <div class="vector-dropdown-content"> <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> </ul> <div class="after-portlet after-portlet-lang"><span class="uls-after-portlet-link"></span></div> </div> </div> </div> </header> <div class="vector-page-toolbar"> <div class="vector-page-toolbar-container"> <div id="left-navigation"> <nav aria-label="Namespaces"> <div id="p-associated-pages" class="vector-menu vector-menu-tabs mw-portlet mw-portlet-associated-pages" > <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li id="ca-nstab-user" class="selected vector-tab-noicon mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/User:Solipsist" title="View the user page [c]" accesskey="c"><span>User page</span></a></li><li id="ca-talk" class="vector-tab-noicon mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/User_talk:Solipsist" rel="discussion" title="Discuss improvements to the content page [t]" accesskey="t"><span>Talk</span></a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div id="vector-variants-dropdown" class="vector-dropdown emptyPortlet" > <input type="checkbox" id="vector-variants-dropdown-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-vector-variants-dropdown" class="vector-dropdown-checkbox " aria-label="Change language variant" > <label id="vector-variants-dropdown-label" for="vector-variants-dropdown-checkbox" class="vector-dropdown-label cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--weight-quiet" aria-hidden="true" ><span class="vector-dropdown-label-text">English</span> </label> <div class="vector-dropdown-content"> <div id="p-variants" class="vector-menu mw-portlet mw-portlet-variants emptyPortlet" > <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> </nav> </div> <div id="right-navigation" class="vector-collapsible"> <nav aria-label="Views"> <div id="p-views" class="vector-menu vector-menu-tabs mw-portlet mw-portlet-views" > <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li id="ca-view" class="selected vector-tab-noicon mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/User:Solipsist"><span>Read</span></a></li><li id="ca-edit" class="vector-tab-noicon mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=User:Solipsist&action=edit" title="Edit this page [e]" accesskey="e"><span>Edit</span></a></li><li id="ca-history" class="vector-tab-noicon mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=User:Solipsist&action=history" title="Past revisions of this page [h]" accesskey="h"><span>View history</span></a></li> </ul> </div> </div> </nav> <nav class="vector-page-tools-landmark" aria-label="Page tools"> <div id="vector-page-tools-dropdown" class="vector-dropdown vector-page-tools-dropdown" > <input type="checkbox" id="vector-page-tools-dropdown-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-vector-page-tools-dropdown" class="vector-dropdown-checkbox " aria-label="Tools" > <label id="vector-page-tools-dropdown-label" for="vector-page-tools-dropdown-checkbox" class="vector-dropdown-label cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--weight-quiet" aria-hidden="true" ><span class="vector-dropdown-label-text">Tools</span> </label> <div class="vector-dropdown-content"> <div id="vector-page-tools-unpinned-container" class="vector-unpinned-container"> <div id="vector-page-tools" class="vector-page-tools vector-pinnable-element"> <div class="vector-pinnable-header vector-page-tools-pinnable-header vector-pinnable-header-unpinned" data-feature-name="page-tools-pinned" data-pinnable-element-id="vector-page-tools" data-pinned-container-id="vector-page-tools-pinned-container" data-unpinned-container-id="vector-page-tools-unpinned-container" > <div class="vector-pinnable-header-label">Tools</div> <button class="vector-pinnable-header-toggle-button vector-pinnable-header-pin-button" data-event-name="pinnable-header.vector-page-tools.pin">move to sidebar</button> <button class="vector-pinnable-header-toggle-button vector-pinnable-header-unpin-button" data-event-name="pinnable-header.vector-page-tools.unpin">hide</button> </div> <div id="p-cactions" class="vector-menu mw-portlet mw-portlet-cactions emptyPortlet vector-has-collapsible-items" title="More options" > <div class="vector-menu-heading"> Actions </div> <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li id="ca-more-view" class="selected vector-more-collapsible-item mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/User:Solipsist"><span>Read</span></a></li><li id="ca-more-edit" class="vector-more-collapsible-item mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=User:Solipsist&action=edit" title="Edit this page [e]" accesskey="e"><span>Edit</span></a></li><li id="ca-more-history" class="vector-more-collapsible-item mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=User:Solipsist&action=history"><span>View history</span></a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div id="p-tb" class="vector-menu mw-portlet mw-portlet-tb" > <div class="vector-menu-heading"> General </div> <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li id="t-whatlinkshere" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/User:Solipsist" title="List of all English Wikipedia pages containing links to this page [j]" accesskey="j"><span>What links here</span></a></li><li id="t-recentchangeslinked" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Special:RecentChangesLinked/User:Solipsist" rel="nofollow" title="Recent changes in pages linked from this page [k]" accesskey="k"><span>Related changes</span></a></li><li id="t-contributions" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/Solipsist" title="A list of contributions by this user"><span>User contributions</span></a></li><li id="t-log" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Special:Log/Solipsist" title="A list of logged actions by this user"><span>User logs</span></a></li><li id="t-userrights" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Special:UserRights/Solipsist"><span>View user groups</span></a></li><li id="t-upload" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:File_Upload_Wizard" title="Upload files [u]" accesskey="u"><span>Upload file</span></a></li><li id="t-specialpages" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/wiki/Special:SpecialPages" title="A list of all special pages [q]" accesskey="q"><span>Special pages</span></a></li><li id="t-permalink" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=User:Solipsist&oldid=1229943072" title="Permanent link to this revision of this page"><span>Permanent link</span></a></li><li id="t-info" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=User:Solipsist&action=info" title="More information about this page"><span>Page information</span></a></li><li id="t-urlshortener" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Special:UrlShortener&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FUser%3ASolipsist"><span>Get shortened URL</span></a></li><li id="t-urlshortener-qrcode" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Special:QrCode&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FUser%3ASolipsist"><span>Download QR code</span></a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div id="p-coll-print_export" class="vector-menu mw-portlet mw-portlet-coll-print_export" > <div class="vector-menu-heading"> Print/export </div> <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> <li id="coll-download-as-rl" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Special:DownloadAsPdf&page=User%3ASolipsist&action=show-download-screen" title="Download this page as a PDF file"><span>Download as PDF</span></a></li><li id="t-print" class="mw-list-item"><a href="/w/index.php?title=User:Solipsist&printable=yes" title="Printable version of this page [p]" accesskey="p"><span>Printable version</span></a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div id="p-wikibase-otherprojects" class="vector-menu mw-portlet mw-portlet-wikibase-otherprojects emptyPortlet" > <div class="vector-menu-heading"> In other projects </div> <div class="vector-menu-content"> <ul class="vector-menu-content-list"> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> </div> <div class="vector-column-end"> <div class="vector-sticky-pinned-container"> <nav class="vector-page-tools-landmark" aria-label="Page tools"> <div id="vector-page-tools-pinned-container" class="vector-pinned-container"> </div> </nav> <nav class="vector-appearance-landmark" aria-label="Appearance"> <div id="vector-appearance-pinned-container" class="vector-pinned-container"> <div id="vector-appearance" class="vector-appearance vector-pinnable-element"> <div class="vector-pinnable-header vector-appearance-pinnable-header vector-pinnable-header-pinned" data-feature-name="appearance-pinned" data-pinnable-element-id="vector-appearance" data-pinned-container-id="vector-appearance-pinned-container" data-unpinned-container-id="vector-appearance-unpinned-container" > <div class="vector-pinnable-header-label">Appearance</div> <button class="vector-pinnable-header-toggle-button vector-pinnable-header-pin-button" data-event-name="pinnable-header.vector-appearance.pin">move to sidebar</button> <button class="vector-pinnable-header-toggle-button vector-pinnable-header-unpin-button" data-event-name="pinnable-header.vector-appearance.unpin">hide</button> </div> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> <div id="bodyContent" class="vector-body" aria-labelledby="firstHeading" data-mw-ve-target-container> <div class="vector-body-before-content"> <div class="mw-indicators"> </div> <div id="siteSub" class="noprint">From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</div> </div> <div id="contentSub"><div id="mw-content-subtitle"></div></div> <div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><table cellpadding="1" width="100%" cellspacing="0" style="background:#f8f8f8;padding-right:5px;"> <tbody><tr> <td align="right" style="border-bottom:1px solid;border-color:#e0e0e0;font-size:.9em"> <p><i>Other pages:</i> <a class="mw-selflink selflink">main</a> - <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Solipsist" title="User talk:Solipsist">talk</a> - <a href="/wiki/User:Solipsist/images" title="User:Solipsist/images">images</a> - <a href="/wiki/User:Solipsist/contrib" title="User:Solipsist/contrib">contrib</a> - <a href="/wiki/User:Solipsist/notes" title="User:Solipsist/notes">notes</a> </p> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Temple_Bar,_Paternoster_Square_London.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Temple_Bar%2C_Paternoster_Square_London.jpg/220px-Temple_Bar%2C_Paternoster_Square_London.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="332" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Temple_Bar%2C_Paternoster_Square_London.jpg/330px-Temple_Bar%2C_Paternoster_Square_London.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Temple_Bar%2C_Paternoster_Square_London.jpg/440px-Temple_Bar%2C_Paternoster_Square_London.jpg 2x" data-file-width="678" data-file-height="1024" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Temple_Bar,_London" title="Temple Bar, London">Temple Bar</a>, one of the original gates to the <a href="/wiki/City_of_London" title="City of London">City of London</a>, now standing to the north of <a href="/wiki/St_Paul%27s_Cathedral" title="St Paul's Cathedral">St Paul's Cathedral</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p><br /> </p> <table cellpadding="5" width="300px" cellspacing="0" style="background:#eeeeff;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="background:#ddddff;" align="right"><i>Name:</i> </td> <td><b>Solipsist</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background:#ddddff;" align="right"><i>Location:</i> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Cambridge" title="Cambridge">Cambridge</a>, <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background:#ddddff;" align="right"><i>Age:</i> </td> <td>Middle </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background:#ddddff;" align="right"><i>Gender:</i> </td> <td>Male </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background:#ddddff;" align="right"><i>On wikipedia since:</i> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/March" title="March">March</a> <a href="/wiki/2004" title="2004">2004</a> </td></tr> <tr valign="top"> <td style="background:#ddddff;" align="right"><i>Interests: </i> </td> <td>Editor of the gaps and illustrating articles. </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background:#ddddff;" align="right"><i>Also available at:</i> </td> <td><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Solipsist" class="extiw" title="commons:User:Solipsist">commons:User:Solipsist</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> </div> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <p><br /> </p><p>I previously had a list of subject areas in which I might have some knowledge, but I've noticed that although I have a science/engineering/computing background I haven't actually edited many articles in the technical domain. This is largely because those areas are already well served by many other Wikipedians. Instead I've ended up finding gaps in coverage and writing articles to fill them. Typically this seems to be in the areas of art, architecture, and biography. Quite often, if I've found a good free image that needs a home, I might end up writing a short article to give it somewhere to go. At the tail end, I might be tempted to expand or rewrite an article that I happen on using the <a href="/wiki/Special:Random" title="Special:Random">Random Page</a> link. </p> <div style="background:#f8f8f8; width:200px; float:right; margin:0 0 1em 1em; padding:0 1em; border:1px solid #aaa;"> <p><b>Declaration of POV</b> </p> <ul><li>I'm an <a href="/wiki/Rationalism" title="Rationalism">rationalist</a>, but sometimes find religions interesting</li> <li>I'm a <a href="/wiki/Skepticism" title="Skepticism">skeptic</a> and oppose <a href="/wiki/Pseudoscience" title="Pseudoscience">pseudoscience</a>.</li> <li>I'm a liberal, but somewhat jaded towards politics</li> <li>I'm a mild deletionist</li> <li>I'll add other biases as I think of them</li></ul> <p><small>Everyone has his/her own biases, and in general it is as well to be aware of them in yourself, so you can balance them out.</small> </p> </div> <p>To an extent, I use writing Wikipedia articles as an aid to researching and learning about new things. At the moment this covers articles on 20C British artists and architecture. I'm no expert, but these are areas that I've been casually studying over the last 5 – 6 years. </p><p><br /> </p> <hr /> <p><br /> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Wikipedia_doesn't_work_anymore"><span id="Wikipedia_doesn.27t_work_anymore"></span>Wikipedia doesn't work anymore</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=User:Solipsist&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Wikipedia doesn't work anymore"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>It used to be said that Wikipedia worked because, although it was vandalised all the time, that vandalism was quickly reverted. This no long seems to be true, or at least there are no longer enough good editors to balance out the bad editors. I expect that Wikipedia is still growing, but many existing articles are slowly deteriorating. I'll track some examples here as I come across them. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Mandatory_labelling"><a href="/wiki/Mandatory_labelling" title="Mandatory labelling">Mandatory labelling</a></h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=User:Solipsist&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Mandatory labelling"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>It rather looks like user Jytdog was inserting their own bias, and using misleading edit summaries to hide it, in this edit from 2012 <a class="external free" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mandatory_labelling&diff=516549075&oldid=515476694">https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mandatory_labelling&diff=516549075&oldid=515476694</a> No one has ever corrected it, even though this edit introduced a simple grammatical error - the paragraph should start 'The development _of_ genetically modified food'. If you check the page history, you can also find anon users adding references that are probably spam links to their book. Overall a thoroughly neglected article. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Monosodium_Glutamate"><a href="/wiki/Monosodium_Glutamate" class="mw-redirect" title="Monosodium Glutamate">Monosodium Glutamate</a></h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=User:Solipsist&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Monosodium Glutamate"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>As of Feb 2007, the article fails to mention the discoveror of MSG, Professor <a href="/wiki/Kikunae_Ikeda" title="Kikunae Ikeda">Kikunae Ikeda</a>, and also fails to mention its connection to one of the biggest US food scares of all time, <a href="/wiki/Chinese_Restaurant_Syndrome" class="mw-redirect" title="Chinese Restaurant Syndrome">Chinese Restaurant Syndrome</a>. Both facts have been in the article a year ago, but have been missing for ages. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Palace_of_Westminster"><a href="/wiki/Palace_of_Westminster" title="Palace of Westminster">Palace of Westminster</a></h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=User:Solipsist&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Palace of Westminster"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In Feb 2007, someone decided to remove one of two lead images on the <a href="/wiki/Palace_of_Westminster" title="Palace of Westminster">Palace of Westminster</a> article saying that they were both rather similar. Now the Palace of Westminster article is a featured article, so you would think were some good editors watching it. Also apart from being taken at night/dusk the two photos weren't that similar, but in anycase they chose to remove the <a href="/wiki/File:Palace_of_Westminster,_London_-_Feb_2007.jpg" title="File:Palace of Westminster, London - Feb 2007.jpg">much higher quality image</a> that was a <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_Pictures" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Featured Pictures">featured picture</a>. No one noticed, no one complained, no one reverted. The same day, the second picture got deleted for being an SXC sourced image with insufficient checks on license status, then a third editor moved another lower quality image up to fill the hole at the top of the article. Did anyone check to see whether the article was in better shape in the past? .... no. Well, not until I happened to read the article yesterday and let Diliff know that his FP had disappeared from the article. -- <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Solipsist</a> 09:20, 22 April 2007 (UTC) </p><p><br /> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Rainbows_(charity)"><span id="Rainbows_.28charity.29"></span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rainbows_(charity)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Rainbows (charity) (page does not exist)">Rainbows (charity)</a></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=User:Solipsist&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Rainbows (charity)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Misguided or nonsense editing by Monir32 on 6 October 2007 left in place for a good 6 months now, although several editors have added a number of Wiki housekeeping tags. Not a particularly mainstream article, but clearly nobody has any interest in maintaining it. -- <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Solipsist</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Solipsist" title="User talk:Solipsist">talk</a>) 19:11, 27 April 2008 (UTC) </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Lunar_Laser_Ranging_Experiment"><a href="/wiki/Lunar_Laser_Ranging_Experiment" class="mw-redirect" title="Lunar Laser Ranging Experiment">Lunar Laser Ranging Experiment</a></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=User:Solipsist&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Lunar Laser Ranging Experiment"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>This distance to the moon added by <a href="/wiki/User:TechnoFaye" title="User:TechnoFaye">TechnoFaye</a> on <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lunar_Laser_Ranging_Experiment&diff=prev&oldid=202844468">2nd April 2008</a> appears to be wrong. Or at the very least, insufficiently defined as to which measure for the distance to the moon is intended. A more commonly accepted figure is between 384,399 kilometers and 384,403 kilometers for the mean distance between the centre of the <a href="/wiki/Earth" title="Earth">Earth</a> and the centre of the <a href="/wiki/Moon" title="Moon">Moon</a>. -- <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Solipsist</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Solipsist" title="User talk:Solipsist">talk</a>) 09:39, 5 August 2008 (UTC) </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Ted_Bundy"><a href="/wiki/Ted_Bundy" title="Ted Bundy">Ted Bundy</a></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=User:Solipsist&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Ted Bundy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The first paragraph of the Early Life section of the <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ted_Bundy&oldid=234125974">current version</a> of the article, fails to clearly mention who Ted Bundy's mother was. It reads as if some sentences are missing. Sure enough, a version from <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ted_Bundy&oldid=112672870">two years ago</a> does identify his mother as <i>Eleanor Louise Cowell, was a young department store clerk</i>. Both versions seem a little confused about what the mystery concerning Bundy's father was - I think the suggestion is that Bundy's mother was being abused by her father and became pregnant. </p><p>There have been a couple of thousand edits between these two version with rewrites and vandalism affecting many of the sentences in this section. The date, the town and the mention of Elizabeth Lund Home come and go, but for over two years nobody appears to have noticed that the first mention of Bundy's mother had been deleted. -- <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Solipsist</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Solipsist" title="User talk:Solipsist">talk</a>) 14:18, 26 August 2008 (UTC) </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Calisthenics"><a href="/wiki/Calisthenics" title="Calisthenics">Calisthenics</a></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=User:Solipsist&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Calisthenics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The article's lead section was deleted by an anon on <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Calisthenics&diff=272460140&oldid=272421260">22 Feb 2009</a>. A month later its not been reverted and several more edits have occurred since. -- <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Solipsist</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Solipsist" title="User talk:Solipsist">talk</a>) 09:32, 19 March 2009 (UTC) </p> <dl><dd>Eventually got fixed in June 2009 in <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Calisthenics&diff=next&oldid=293218111">this edit</a>. But Bullzeye appears to have written a new lead section themselves <a class="external autonumber" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Calisthenics&action=historysubmit&diff=293902536&oldid=272421260">[1]</a>. I guess they didn't notice that there used to be a perfectly good lead section 4 months earlier, and anyone who contributed to that earlier text was wasting their time. -- <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Solipsist</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Solipsist" title="User talk:Solipsist">talk</a>) 11:41, 23 October 2009 (UTC)</dd></dl> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="English_Channel"><a href="/wiki/English_Channel" title="English Channel">English Channel</a></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=User:Solipsist&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: English Channel"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A glaring omission in the <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=English_Channel&oldid=321283673">English Channel</a> article is that it fails to mention the impact of the last ice age. Of crucial significance to the flora and fauna of Britain, was the land bridge that joined Britain to Europe as the ice retreated at the end of the last ice age. </p><p>I had to go back to a <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=English_Channel&oldid=116742297">version from two years ago</a> before I found the section on formation that had been deleted. -- <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Solipsist</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Solipsist" title="User talk:Solipsist">talk</a>) 09:18, 23 October 2009 (UTC) </p> <dl><dd>Not so bad - got fixed in <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=English_Channel&diff=321754669&oldid=321563159">this edit</a> about a day after I raised it on the article's talk page, although no further comment made on the talk page itself. -- <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Solipsist</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Solipsist" title="User talk:Solipsist">talk</a>) 15:45, 31 October 2009 (UTC)</dd></dl> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Gap_analysis"><a href="/wiki/Gap_analysis" title="Gap analysis">Gap analysis</a></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=User:Solipsist&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Gap analysis"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Only a paragraph this time. I was going to correct the ill-formatted link to the <a href="/wiki/Office_of_Government_Commerce" title="Office of Government Commerce">Office of Government Commerce</a> that was added by an anon recently, when I began to wonder why the sentence about the connection to Prince2 was relevant at all (it probably isn't). On checking the history, I noticed that the article lost a different, perfectly good paragraph <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gap_analysis&diff=332462703&oldid=323218059">last November</a> in an edit by another anon. It looks like this is another article that is going backwards. -- <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Solipsist</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Solipsist" title="User talk:Solipsist">talk</a>) 19:33, 7 January 2010 (UTC) </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Nonce_word"><a href="/wiki/Nonce_word" title="Nonce word">Nonce word</a></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=User:Solipsist&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Nonce word"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Incorrect example added by an anon and 'see also' section removed <a class="external autonumber" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nonce_word&action=historysubmit&diff=352851499&oldid=347706433">[2]</a> Namdnop whilst attempting to add another incorrect example (possibly to promote their book). Edits are less than a month old, so possibly too early to say these are examples of failures to revert -- <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Solipsist</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Solipsist" title="User talk:Solipsist">talk</a>) 06:25, 31 March 2010 (UTC) </p> <hr /> <p>-- Possible additional problem articles <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Whitelighter&diff=248549467&oldid=248155198">whitelighter</a> </p> <hr /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Digital_photography">Digital photography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=User:Solipsist&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Digital photography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Supernumerary_rainbow_03_contrast.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Supernumerary_rainbow_03_contrast.jpg/220px-Supernumerary_rainbow_03_contrast.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="185" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Supernumerary_rainbow_03_contrast.jpg/330px-Supernumerary_rainbow_03_contrast.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Supernumerary_rainbow_03_contrast.jpg/440px-Supernumerary_rainbow_03_contrast.jpg 2x" data-file-width="662" data-file-height="558" /></a><figcaption>A contrast enhanced photograph of a supernumerary <a href="/wiki/Rainbow" title="Rainbow">rainbow</a>, with additional green and purple arcs inside the primary bow.</figcaption></figure> <p>Indirectly, this photograph of a supernumerary <a href="/wiki/Rainbow" title="Rainbow">rainbow</a> is what prompted me to switch to digital photography last year. Many years ago, when I was in college, I had been fairly enthusiastic about photography and had a small SLR kit. I took some pretty good pictures, but the SLR was heavy to carry around, so I only took photographs when I was taking the time to go out and take photographs. </p><p>Some five years ago I picked up a compact camera, a μ-zoom. It was convenient to carry around and good for travelling, but really it was rubbish. It just didn't have the control to get exposures right and the the <a href="/wiki/Advanced_Photo_System" title="Advanced Photo System">APS</a> format is just too small. Pretty much every photograph I took with it was washed out and showed excessive grain. Those compact APS cameras were really just designed to take point-'n'-shoot pictures of friends and family, and that was about all they could manage. </p><p>Now being technologically minded, I had been tempted to get a digital camera for many years. The flip side being that I was also familiar with being suckered in to being an early adopter more times than I would care to confess. I was pretty convinced all the early 640x480 pixel cameras would be obsolete before you could open the box. And sure enough compact digital cameras have been racing along the technological curve as fast as anything. But last year I noticed that reviews were saying that the transition from 5 Mpixel cameras to 6 Mpixels wasn't helping the image quality much, largely because they were reaching the limits that compact lens optics could achieve. </p><p>However, what finally prompted me to buy a digital camera was seeing a supernumerary rainbow last year. Sometime around 1999, I read Greenler's <i>Rainbows, Halos and Glories</i> (<style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0521388651" title="Special:BookSources/0521388651">0521388651</a>) and shortly after saw a double rainbow with an additional set of arcs inside the main bow. Having read Greenler I knew that tripple rainbows were theoretically impossible (although I hadn't read carefully enough to understand supernumerary bows). I was on a client's site at the time, so I didn't have a camera to hand, but afterwards, what really annoyed me was that I hadn't behaved as a good scientist and made written notes of details such as the order of colours in the third bow so that I might have a chance of understanding what I'd seen. </p><p>Then last year I saw another supernumerary rainbow. I was at home; I had time to grab the μ-zoom, but I had no film. I might have just had time to go and find the SLR, but that wouldn't have had film either. At least that time, I made written notes, and thanks to help from other Wikipedians was able to work out that it was a supernumerary bow. Of course, if I had had a digital camera, film wouldn't have been a problem. </p><p>So I bought a Canon S60 compact digital camera and it turned out to be a surprisingly good choice. Most especially because it zooms out to a wide angle view that is wider than average for a compact camera, which turns out to be quite important for architectural views. It is small enough that I carry it with me more often than not. It is capable of taking well detailed, high definition pictures and has sufficient manual control to cope with most difficult lighting conditions whilst also allowing creative exposure options. Its main limitations are a lack of a real telephoto zoom range and some significant difficulty in focusing acurately for closup semi-macro shots. </p><p>Then today I was working at home when I noticed the sun break through whilst it was still raining. Figuring that a rainbow was likely, I went outside with the Canon and an umbrella and was delighted to find it was another supernumerary rainbow — not nearly as strong as the previous two I had seen, but good enough to get some pictures. The photos have needed some pretty extreme contrast adjustment to make the additional arcs more visible (they were clearer to the naked eye), but at least they show the phenomenon. Chalk one up for digital photography. </p><p>I now suspect that supernumerary rainbows are not quite as rare as generally claimed, but rather that the additional arcs are usually rather faint and indistinct. Nevertheless, if you know to look out for them, you might see them more often. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Barnyard">Barnyard</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=User:Solipsist&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Barnyard"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table> <tbody><tr> <td><figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Frame"><a href="/wiki/File:Original_Barnstar.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/27/Original_Barnstar.png" decoding="async" width="111" height="107" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="111" data-file-height="107" /></a><figcaption>Solipsist - I award you this barnstar for all the good work you do with the featured picture candidates. Keep up the good work :) <a href="/wiki/User:Raul654" title="User:Raul654">→Raul654</a> Mar 18, 2005</figcaption></figure> </td> <td><figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Frame"><a href="/wiki/File:Random_Acts_of_Kindness_Barnstar.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/19/Random_Acts_of_Kindness_Barnstar.png" decoding="async" width="111" height="107" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="111" data-file-height="107" /></a><figcaption>I, <a href="/wiki/User:Fvw" title="User:Fvw">fvw</a>, hereby award you this <a href="/wiki/File:Random_Acts_of_Kindness_Barnstar.png" title="File:Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar.png">Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar</a> for not biting the newbie even when this would have saved you lots of work.</figcaption></figure> </td> <td><figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Frame"><a href="/wiki/File:Tireless_Contributor_Barnstar.gif" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a2/Tireless_Contributor_Barnstar.gif" decoding="async" width="120" height="120" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="120" data-file-height="120" /></a><figcaption>I award you with the <b>Tireless Contributor Barnstar</b> for your superb contributions to the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_picture_candidates" title="Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates">Featured picture candidates</a>. Your work is very much appreciated! - <a href="/wiki/User:Sango123" title="User:Sango123"><span style="color:#3D9140;">Sango</span></a><a href="/wiki/User_talk:Sango123" title="User talk:Sango123"><span style="color:#215E21;">123</span></a> 19:40, Apr 25, 2005 (UTC)</figcaption></figure> </td> <td><figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Frame"><a href="/wiki/File:Barnstar-camera.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/13/Barnstar-camera.png" decoding="async" width="111" height="107" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="111" data-file-height="107" /></a><figcaption>I award you with the <b>Photographer's barnstar</b> for all your work regarding <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_picture_candidates" title="Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates">featured images</a>. — <a href="/wiki/User:Chameleon" title="User:Chameleon"><i>Chameleon</i></a> 13:02, 29 May 2005 (UTC)</figcaption></figure> </td> <td><figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Frame"><a href="/wiki/File:Barnstar-camera.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/13/Barnstar-camera.png" decoding="async" width="111" height="107" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="111" data-file-height="107" /></a><figcaption>I award you with the <b>Photographer's barnstar</b> for all your work on pics, art and other stuff. Kind Regards. <a href="/wiki/User:SeanMack" title="User:SeanMack">SeanMack</a> 00:56, 18 February 2006 (UTC)</figcaption></figure> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div>    </div><noscript><img src="https://login.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAutoLogin/start?type=1x1" alt="" width="1" height="1" style="border: none; position: absolute;"></noscript> <div class="printfooter" data-nosnippet="">Retrieved from "<a dir="ltr" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Solipsist&oldid=1229943072">https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Solipsist&oldid=1229943072</a>"</div></div> <div id="catlinks" class="catlinks" data-mw="interface"><div id="mw-normal-catlinks" class="mw-normal-catlinks"><a href="/wiki/Help:Category" title="Help:Category">Category</a>: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Wikipedians_in_Cambridgeshire" title="Category:Wikipedians in Cambridgeshire">Wikipedians in Cambridgeshire</a></li></ul></div></div> </div> </main> </div> <div class="mw-footer-container"> <footer id="footer" class="mw-footer" > <ul id="footer-info"> <li id="footer-info-lastmod"> This page was last edited on 19 June 2024, at 16:02<span class="anonymous-show"> (UTC)</span>.</li> <li id="footer-info-copyright">Text is available under the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_the_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_4.0_International_License" title="Wikipedia:Text of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License">Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License</a>; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the <a href="https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Policy:Terms_of_Use" class="extiw" title="foundation:Special:MyLanguage/Policy:Terms of Use">Terms of Use</a> and <a href="https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Policy:Privacy_policy" class="extiw" title="foundation:Special:MyLanguage/Policy:Privacy policy">Privacy Policy</a>. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://wikimediafoundation.org/">Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.</a>, a non-profit organization.</li> </ul> <ul id="footer-places"> <li id="footer-places-privacy"><a href="https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Policy:Privacy_policy">Privacy policy</a></li> <li id="footer-places-about"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:About">About Wikipedia</a></li> <li id="footer-places-disclaimers"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:General_disclaimer">Disclaimers</a></li> <li id="footer-places-contact"><a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Contact_us">Contact Wikipedia</a></li> <li id="footer-places-wm-codeofconduct"><a href="https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Policy:Universal_Code_of_Conduct">Code of Conduct</a></li> <li id="footer-places-developers"><a href="https://developer.wikimedia.org">Developers</a></li> <li id="footer-places-statslink"><a href="https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/en.wikipedia.org">Statistics</a></li> <li id="footer-places-cookiestatement"><a href="https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Policy:Cookie_statement">Cookie statement</a></li> <li id="footer-places-mobileview"><a href="//en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Solipsist&mobileaction=toggle_view_mobile" class="noprint stopMobileRedirectToggle">Mobile view</a></li> </ul> <ul id="footer-icons" class="noprint"> <li id="footer-copyrightico"><a href="https://wikimediafoundation.org/" class="cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button--enabled"><img src="/static/images/footer/wikimedia-button.svg" width="84" height="29" alt="Wikimedia Foundation" loading="lazy"></a></li> <li id="footer-poweredbyico"><a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/" class="cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button--enabled"><img src="/w/resources/assets/poweredby_mediawiki.svg" alt="Powered by MediaWiki" width="88" height="31" loading="lazy"></a></li> </ul> </footer> </div> </div> </div> <div class="vector-settings" id="p-dock-bottom"> <ul></ul> </div><script>(RLQ=window.RLQ||[]).push(function(){mw.config.set({"wgHostname":"mw-web.codfw.main-7d89b5d4c4-9jd8p","wgBackendResponseTime":144,"wgPageParseReport":{"limitreport":{"cputime":"0.091","walltime":"0.118","ppvisitednodes":{"value":307,"limit":1000000},"postexpandincludesize":{"value":674,"limit":2097152},"templateargumentsize":{"value":39,"limit":2097152},"expansiondepth":{"value":14,"limit":100},"expensivefunctioncount":{"value":0,"limit":500},"unstrip-depth":{"value":0,"limit":20},"unstrip-size":{"value":2200,"limit":5000000},"entityaccesscount":{"value":0,"limit":400},"timingprofile":["100.00% 66.940 1 -total"," 97.19% 65.059 1 Template:ISBN"," 81.42% 54.503 1 Template:Catalog_lookup_link"," 5.66% 3.786 3 Template:Yesno-no"," 3.63% 2.429 4 Template:Yesno"," 2.82% 1.889 1 Template:Yesno-yes"," 2.27% 1.516 3 Template:Clear"," 2.10% 1.403 1 Template:Main_other"]},"scribunto":{"limitreport-timeusage":{"value":"0.033","limit":"10.000"},"limitreport-memusage":{"value":633636,"limit":52428800}},"cachereport":{"origin":"mw-api-int.codfw.main-648bd44df8-g4shr","timestamp":"20241117160342","ttl":2592000,"transientcontent":false}}});});</script> </body> </html>