I live in Greater Manchester and my interests are geography, geneaology, politics and ethnic studies.
I have been contributing to the English language Wikipedia since December 2005 (first as an anon, then under a different username).
I mainly contributute to articles related to the WikiProjects I participate with, particularly (but by no means exclusive to) local and national geography.
An advocate of consistency across articles, my personal aims include producing outstanding articles about places and things important to me and my life, and encourage a greater ethos of teamwork at Wikipedia.
I took a break in 2011 and much of 2012. I returned to find Wikipedia and Wikipedians still struggle with WP:A!
WP:SELFREF needs to be promoted much more thoroughly ("See below" and "See link X" are utterly useless if you print the article, or have it made in to a Wikibook, or read the article on certain electronic devices - so please help the project remove this!).
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England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
The Royal Arms of England is an ancient emblem symbolising England and the English monarchs.
This user understands that no user on Wikipedia 'owns' any of its pages and welcomes the assistance of others in making this page perfect.
This user values the quality of Wikipedia articles over the quantity and thus supports the merging of related content and deletion of articles that violate policies and guidelines.