User:Peaky76

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About Me

I am a software engineer originally from Bradford, Yorkshire, England, currently living in Burntisland, Fife, Scotland, with current or previous professional interest in the arts, gambling, horse racing, website management, and central government and academic interest in Linguistics and Politics.

My main Wikipedia focus is horse racing. I also make smaller contributions on topics such as music, stand-up comedy, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Yorkshire places and history, 1980s television, rugby league and lower league football.

Details

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Name: Peaky/The Birdman
Birthday: November 29
Location: Burntisland, Fife, Scotland
Contact
- Wikipedia: Talk page
- Twitter: @peaky76
Wikipedia Status: Editor

6,399+

This user has made 6,399+ edits to Wikipedia.

This user has created 214 articles on Wikipedia.

This user is ranked 3577 on the list of Wikipedians by articles created.

Landmarks

200th article - Jason Watson (jockey) on 16 Oct 2019
1st article (with this a/c) - Brocklesby Stakes on 28 March 2012
1st article (on prev a/c "Bradford rob") - Chicken Man (theme tune) on 16 October 2010

Completed tasks

Adding stub or better biographies for all British flat racing Champion Jockeys - completed 27 April 2013 with Jemmy Grimshaw
Adding stub or better biographies for all Derby winning jockeys - completed 20 January 2022 with Harry Carr (jockey)

Current tasks

Adding biographies for all British Classic Race winning jockeys.

Pending tasks

In progress

Articles on Edinburgh Comedy Awards winners and nominees
Improving articles on Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Improving Fred Archer article
Improving Sir Gordon Richards article
Improving Ryan Moore article
Sorting out the various horse racing glossaries

On the back burner

Improving Horse racing and merging superfluous articles about different types.
Cleaning up articles related to odds and betting
Adding to the article on Leith and other related topics, such as Leith Walk and Easter Road
Adding biographies for all jockeys who have featured in the Top 5 of the GB flat or jump jockeys championship this century.
Improving/wikifying all Category:Founder members of the Northern Rugby Football Union.
Expanding and updating content about Rugby league in Scotland.

Expanding the range of horse racing content, especially
- Updating/adding to List of British flat horse races
- Adding details on historical British racecourses
- Other historical figures in British horse racing

Clean-up horse racing:

clean-up listing for Horse_racing

Userboxes

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This user uses British English.

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This user is a native speaker of the English language.

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Este usuario puede contribuir con un nivel básico de español.

This user likes all types of music.

~~a lot~~ alot

This user recognizes that linguistic change is a natural and desirable aspect of human language.

This user is male.

This user is heterosexual.

This user lives in Scotland.

This user is a Yorkshire exile.

This user is a social liberal.

LRC

This user is a Liberal Roman Catholic.

Membership

This user is a member of WikiProject Horse racing.

This user is a participant in
WikiProject Rugby league

This user is a participant in WikiProject Edinburgh Festival Fringe

This user is a member of
WikiProject Edinburgh

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WikiProject Comedy.

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WikiProject
Alternative music.

This user is a participant in WikiProject Yorkshire.

This user participates in the
Bradford task force

Stars

		The Original Barnstar
		Have a star. Very impressed with all your work. Tommy Weston, Freddie Fox, Kempton Cannon... all articles that badly wanted doing. Tigerboy1966 21:32, 21 April 2013 (UTC)

	The Original Barnstar
	For Sam Arnull and your other racing articles :). Ironholds (talk) 23:15, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

	The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
	For all of your articles on jockeys - thank you! TKK! bark with me if you're my dog! 23:33, 24 July 2013 (UTC)

In The News

On 16 September 2023, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Edward Hide, which you created. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. The Kip 18:49, 17 September 2023 (UTC)

Did you know?

On 27 April 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article John Oaksey, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that horse racing commentator Lord Oaksey was once captain of Eton College's boxing team? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/John Oaksey. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Casliber (talk · contribs) 08:02, 27 April 2013 (UTC)

On 20 May 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Joe Childs, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Joe Childs rode Gainsborough to win the British Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing in 1918, and donated his riding fees for the year to the British Army's cavalry? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Joe Childs. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

The DYK project (nominate) 01:06, 20 May 2013 (UTC)

On 11 June 2014, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Birch Lane, which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that before they moved to their current home of Odsal Stadium, Bradford Northern spent 26 years based at Birch Lane? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Birch Lane. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:03, 11 June 2014 (UTC)