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“ Men, actuated by the dictates of conscience, who scorn to be ranked among the ‘great pampers’ of the nation, and by sinecures and unmerited pensions to drain the resources of their country, may do much good, even though their liabilities are small. ” — Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, Marquess do Maranhão.

“ ...operations unexpected by the enemy are, when well executed, almost certain to succeed, whatever may be the odds... ” — Vice Admiral Thomas Cochrane, to Major John Miller (later Field Marshal of Peru) describing his plan for the successful Capture of Valdivia on 2nd February 1820.

“ noli nothi permiterre te terere. ” — Never let the bastards wear you down.

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Hello!!!

Some of the articles that I like to contribute to are:

The Rt. Hon. Admiral Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, 1st Marquess of Maranhão G.C.B. etc..

The Rt. Hon. Vice Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood K.B. etc..

The Rt. Hon. Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, 1st Duke of Bronté K.B. etc..

The Rt. Hon. Admiral George Elphinstone, 1st Viscount Keith G.C.B. etc..

Alan Turing O.B.E..

George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron.

General Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch G.C.B., G.C.M.G., G.C.T.E..

Mohandas K. Gandhi - 'Father of India'.

The Earl of Dundonald
Admiral The Lord Cochrane of Dundonald

The Scottish peerage The Earl of Dundonald.

Any pages on mathematics.

Economics.

Aircraft.

French.

English Literature (in particular Thomas Hardy).

All Science.

The tv series Hornblower, Sharpe, Judge John Deed, New Tricks, Blackadder, The Vicar of Dibley, Father Ted, Only Fools and Horses, Auf Wiedersehen, Pet and Taggart.

ERF, Seddon Atkinson, Austin, and Foden trucks (all British trucks!).

The engine manufacturer Cummins.

British Motorcycles (in particular Triumph and Gas Gas).

Richard Curtis.

Jim Davidson.

Peter Kay.

Clint Eastwood.

All types of trees (in particular the English Oak (Quercus robur)) and any pages to do with Arborology (the study of trees) and cacti.

I have also created and edited pages on 14 different Wikimedia sites including Wikipedia France and Wikiquote as well as being active in 20 different English Wikipedia WikiProjects and have edited 304 unique articles on English Wikipedia. I am in the usual 2 user groups with an average (mean) of 250 edits per month. 8 namespaces have been edited by me.

I control the user account 'HandyTips' that is designed to help fellow wikipedians with the 'codes' of Wikipedia.

Please contact me on my talk page.

Pages That I Hope To Start

The Brazillian peerage the 'Marquess do Maranhão'.

The High Court judge Sir Brian Langstaff Q.C..

The British truck manufacturers 'AEC' and 'Guy'.

ERF LV, M, A, B, C, E and EC series of trucks.

The English inventors Edwin Richard Foden and Edwin Foden.

The British engine maufactuers Gardner and J. A. P..

The British scientific instrument design and manufactuers 'Griffin and George' and 'Baird and Tatlock'.

The Spanish frigate the 'El Gamo' that was famous for its capture by Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald in 1801.

The biography 'Cochrane The Dauntless' by the historical author David Cordingly about Admiral Sir Thomas Cochrane.

The Sharpe series of novels by Bernard Cornwell.

The Oxford University chemist Professor W. Graham Richards' book 'Spin Outs'.

The Spanish ship the 'Esmerelda' launched in 1791 and captured by Thomas Cochrane's Chilean Navy in 1820.

The Royal Navy rank of Commander-in-Chief of the Baltic Fleet.

The Massey Ferguson TE 35 tractor and the Banana loader.

The rank of Field Marshal of Peru.

With all this planned I would be grateful for any information, help or advice from anyone.

Pages That I Need Help Expanding or Cleaning Up

The Wikiquote page for Sir Thomas Cochrane.

Arborology.

The English Wikibook page for the novel Sharpe's Devil.

Notable Royal Navy Officers of the Napoleonic Wars (in particular references!).

The naval rank of Vice Admiral of Chile - the most senior position in the Chilean Navy.

Administrator Powers

I have started a page here seeing how many people beleive that administrators are unjustly using their powers against other editors. Please cast your opinion on it's talk page.

Help

Does anyone know any 'unknown' officers of the Napoleonic Wars that were very successful? Please post any suggestions on my talk page. Also is the Marquess do Maranhão a hereditary Brazillian peerage?

Thanks.

With compliments.

DAFMM.

P. S. Please do not edit this page without permission from DAFMM.

3,920*+This user has made more than 3,920* contributions to Wikipedia.

This user has been on Wikipedia for 16 years, 2 months and 19 days.

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ANAL 5This user is incredibly stringent with professional grammar.

’sThi's user know's that not every word that end's with s need's an apostrophe and will remove misused apostrophe's from Wikipedia with extreme prejudice.

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(*)This includes edits on all 14 of the Wikimedia sites that I have edited, not just English Wikipedia. I have made 3,825+ edits on English Wikipedia. See here for more information.

DAFMM

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