Willthorpe
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Name
Will Thorpe
NationalityAustralian
Country Australia
Current ___location Sydney
LanguagesEnglish
Time zoneAEST
Education and employment
OccupationJournalist
UniversityUniversity of Sydney
Contact info
WebsitePointifications

Love is all you need.

Overview

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This editor is a Veteran Editor and is entitled to display this Iron Editor Star.
 
Sarah Wentworth, a fascinating Australian

My editorship of Wikipedia reflects a desire to contribute to the wealth of beneficial public, freely accessible information. I am a journalist, writing for a community newspaper called City Hub, and have been published by the Daily Telegraph and the former's sister mastheads the Star Observer and the Inner West Independent. Further, I have written extensively for my university's student newspaper Honi Soit, and have self-published articles in my personal journal named Pontifications.

Once a priest, always a priest; once a Mason, always a Mason; but once a journalist, always and for ever a journalist.Rudyard Kipling

I am a history and railway enthusiast, and a politics scholar. I am a financial member of the Kipling Society and the Oberon Tarana Heritage Railway.

Musings about editing

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Sometimes it is necessary to cull content to improve the encyclopaedia, but likewise it is sometimes necessary to substantially improve content with the addition of easily located sources and rewriting.

Wikipedia contributors are spread too thin, with there being about 54 articles for every active editor. It would be ideal to have more editors, but equally important is adhering to good editorial standards, ensuring the content we compose is well-written and appropriately sourced – and not overly time-sensitive.

Library selection

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Categories not mutually exclusive

Australian history

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Australian politics

Commonwealth

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Economics

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Feminism

  • A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
    • Concerning Wollstonecraft's strong republicanism and negative outlook toward landed wealth, it is fitting to read her essay within a close time frame of Disraeli's Sybil, a book which impresses me with its feminist themes and representations of powerful women. Both Wollstonecraft and Disraeli, from very different perspectives, paint compelling pictures representative of the lives and lifestyles of those they write about.
  • The Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner

Fiction

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Poetry

Railways

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South Africa

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Contributions

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Articles written

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The creation of some of these articles involved substantial amounts of copyediting.

Australiana Railways South Africa Other

Stubs

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Sandown railway station, Hardies railway station, Goodyear railway station, Cream Of Tartar Works railway station, Nanardine railway station, Fish Hoek railway station, Pippita railway station, Enfield Loco railway station, Somersby Airfield, Forster (Wallis Island) Airport, Airly

Outdated map of subjects of articles I've written

Lists

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List of Commonwealth organisations (largely re-wrote to reflect correct terminology)

Did You Know?

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Significant contributions

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The beautiful Mudgee railway station
 
William Charles Wentworth, a great Australian

I have made significant contributions to various articles, including:

When interests intersect

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The authoring of the article for the Hunter River Railway Company was an interesting task, combining my love of history – in this case, Australian colonial history – with my love of railways. More specifically, it combined my fascination with railways with my affinity for the colonial-era statesman William Charles Wentworth, who I have discovered was among many other things something of a railway pioneer like his great-grandson. Articles I've written about railways in Sydney and most particularly in the Inner West where I reside also reflect a convergence of interests!

Userboxes

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Misc

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 This user drinks tea.
 This user plays the Guitar.
  This user has had numerous articles published in newspapers and magazines
  uSyd This user is studying at the
University of Sydney
   
 This user loves reading The Sydney Morning Herald
EThis user reads The Economist.
 This user is an enby. 
M*A*S*HThis user understands:
"the M stands for mobile".
  This user appreciates the writer
Olive Schreiner.
  This user loves Joan Baez
 This user enjoys the works of
William Shakespeare
  This user enjoys the works of
Rudyard Kipling.
 This user is a fan of The Easybeats
 This user is too busy singing to put anybody down
 This user loves
The Beatles.
 This user is a fan of
The Rolling Stones.
 This user is of British ancestry.
 This user has been in and loves New Zealand.
  Proud to be Australian.    

Interests

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 This user is interested in the United Kingdom.
 This user is interested in the Commonwealth of Nations.
 This user is interested in the history of Australia. 
 This user is a railway buff
 This user is interested in South Africa.
 This user is interested in the British Empire.
 This user is interested in the United States of America.

Societal issues

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libThis user is a liberal.
 This user is a feminist
This user is an internationalist.
 This user wishes humans would just get rid of their overly destructive weapons.
 
This user strongly believes in freedom of speech.
 
This user supports the Australian Crown.
 
 This user supports the Indian National Congress.


DAThis user supports the
Democratic Alliance.
 This user supports Hong Kong independence.
 This user supports LGBTIA rights.
 To this user, all human lives matter.

Pictures!

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Siemens train at Williamstown
 
XPT passing Wondabyne
 
Xplorer at Canberra station
 
King Charles III and Queen Camilla
 
Melbourne XPT at Central
 
Ben Boyd plaques, Neutral Bay
 
Queen Victoria Building
 
Mudgee!