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This is the user page for Hroðulf (or Hrothulf), a small-time pseudonymous volunteer editor of Wikipedia. You can use it to find out more about me, and in particular, some of the 'hows' and 'whys' of what I do on Wikipedia. Nothing I write here, or anywhere else, is officially sanctioned by Wikimedia (or anyone else!)

Who is Hroðulf?

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I am not User:Hrodulf who has the same name spelled slightly differently, but is a different real-life person. See: User:Hroðulf/disambiguation

I chose my username, Hroðulf (or Hrothulf), from the Anglo-Saxon or Old English language epic poem Beowulf. It was a little presumptuous of me, as the only West Germanic languages I know are modern English and modern Scots. I actually understand much less of Beowulf than I do of the modern West Frisian language, which isn't that much. Wikipedia has an article about the literary and historical character Hroðulf, which I did not write.

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What is that funny letter ð in your username?

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That is the letter Eth, used in Germanic and Celtic (Irish) alphabets. My username comes from the Old English language, where ð represents the th sound in modern English (as in the words that and the). It really is a modern West European character, listed in the ISO/IEC 8859-1 Latin-1 standard character encoding, and is used in some modern Nordic languages, so most computer applications developed in the last ten to fifteen years support it. --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 10:11, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Can you help?

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Article improvement list

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In my humble opinion, the encyclopedia would benefit if you call by one of these articles, and contribute your skills or knowledge.

Medium projects:

Small projects:

Anglican doctrine

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Magee College

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To-do list for Magee College:

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  • Add Number of students to infobox (with source)
  • Write a balanced account of recent development work (such as new buildings, departments, courses, institutes)
  • More images
(suggestions:
  • new buildings,
  • historic photos,
  • location map
  • students and staff in action)
  • Add number of faculty to infobox (with source)
  • Write new section on campus social and sporting life
  • Add a few more notable alumni and honorary degrees
  • Scour Wikipedia for pages that should be linking here.

Contributions

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Selected pages I have started

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http://tools.wikimedia.de/~escaladix/larticles/larticles.php?user=Hro%C3%B0ulf&lang=en

Contributions I am proud of

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Did you know ... ?

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Other interesting contributions

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Embarrassing self-reverts and screwups

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  • Too many to list here.
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Awards

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WP:AFC helps users who for some reason do not wish to register

My first barnstar was for some grunt work at the Articles For Creation project, helping people with material for new articles get them published.

This editor is a
Veteran Editor II
and is entitled to display this
Bronze Editor Star.
The Guidance Barnstar
For your helpful and kind words of wisdom and guidance, I'm... er... awarding both you and that other guy who lives in Canada and drinks Alexander Keith's this nice little compass thingamabob barnstar. Isn't it just pretty? QuadrivialMind (talk) 19:26, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

Scratchpad

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Useful boilerplate

  • {{speedy-image-c|[[2006-11-07]]}}<br />{{replacethisimage}} article page
  • {{subst:rfu}} image page
  • rm image that has no fair use rationale - see [[Help:Image page#Fair use rationale]] edit summary
Requests for adminship and bureaucratship update
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