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User:Cameron Dewe

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Veteran Editor IV
Veteran Editor IV

I am a New Zealander. I have lived in Upper Hutt for about 20 years, after coming to Wellington, from Christchurch, about 25 years ago, for employment reasons.



20,000+This user has made more than 20,000 contributions to Wikipedia.
This user has been on Wikipedia for 21 years, 9 months, and 21 days.

WikiProjects

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I have joined the following WikiProjects, where I regularly assess articles:

Note: the links shown beside each WikiProject correspond to some of the most useful pages for assessing articles in each project.

There are other WikiProjects that are relevant to assessing crime-related articles.

Selected comments

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Interests

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I am a telecommunications engineer. In my professional capacity I work for an emergency service, and I am interested in emergency telephone numbers, Call Centres, Queueing theory, Erlang, as well as things New Zealand especially my home town of Sumner as well as things Maori, (though I am pakeha).

Wikipedia interests

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Current interests

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Recent activity

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  • I have recently contributed to Queueing theory, Queueing model and related articles. In 2006 I undertook an undergraduate course in the subject and find Wikipedia is lacking the relevant material covered in the course.
  • I also contributed to Ride theory and discovered that it was not what I thought it might be, but something completely different. The lesson is that Wikipedia is not (always) correct,(or even close to the truth, sometimes).

First Impression of Wikipedia

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I found Wikipedia on 28 December 2002 (UTC) and haven't been able to stay away! It is addictive and my latest meal went cold in the oven about 4 hours ago. I think I am a Wikipediaholic already! - noted 13:14 Dec 30, 2002 (UTC)

Early Wikipedia activity

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Significant Articles written from scratch, (or a stub) include:

- as at 13:30 Dec 30, 2002 (UTC)

- as at 08:50 Dec 31, 2002 (UTC)

- as at 13:24 Jan 4, 2003 (UTC)

- as at 08:21 Jan 20, 2003 (UTC)

kiwiinapanic 12:29 Jan 20, 2003 (UTC)
After this I discovered the contributions link identified all the articles I contributed to and gave up recording what I was doing, because I was so active editing I didn't have time to document. -- Cameron Dewe 02:39, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
I would, now, probably characterise much of my early activities and behaviour as that of a wikignome. I did tone down my activity after a while and later moved on to participate in a number of other wikis. Also, a lack of activity here for a (long) while does not mean I have stopped being involved in Wikipedia, just that there is not have enough time in my life to to contribute meaningfully. -- Cameron Dewe 02:46, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

Possibilities

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Some articles I am (still) thinking about or are interested in:

Some articles I though need attention in 2002 - (but may have been improved over the years):

Notices

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This user comes from New Zealand.
This user lives in New Zealand.