User:Peterdownunder
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Welcome to Peterdownunder's Userpage! 
I am an administrator, oversighter and checkuser on the Simple English Wikipedia. If you need help with oversight, please email me directly, do not leave a message here.
I enjoy writing with the challenge of using Simple English. I worked with students with learning disabilities for more than 30 years. I have a special interest in adding Australian pages to the Wikipedia. If you would like to help with an Australian page check the list here for needed articles. I am always happy to help new editors with any questions - anytime.
Today is Saturday, November 15, 2025, and the current time is 16:17 (UTC/GMT). There are currently 276,052 articles.
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Things I use a lot
[change | change source]- Tools for rewriting
- English wiki template:
{{Enwp based | url= (add full address here) }} - Image code:
[[Image:picture.jpg|thumb|[width in number of pixels]px|right|Insert caption here]] - Person Infobox: http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Infobox_Person
- Band Info box : http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Infobox_Band
- Citation Templates: http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Citation_templates
- Newspaper Citation:
{{cite news |first= |last= |coauthors= |title= |work= |page= |date= |accessdate=15 November 2025 |quote= |url= }} - Web Citation:
<ref>{{cite web |url= |title= |accessdate=15 November 2025 |format= |work= }}</ref> - Web Citation with author:
<ref>{{cite web | last = | first = | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = | work = | publisher = | date = | url = | format = | doi = | accessdate =15 November 2025 }}</ref>
- Book Citation
<ref>{{cite book | last = | first = | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = | publisher = | date = | location = | pages = | url = | doi = | id = | isbn = }}</ref> - Encyclopaedia Citation:
ref>{{cite encyclopedia | title = | encyclopedia = | volume = | pages = | publisher = | date = | id = | accessdate = }}</ref> - Video citation:
{{cite video |people= |year= |date= |title= |url= |format= |medium= |publisher= |location= |accessdate=15 November 2025 |time= |quote= }}
- Reference needed
{{fact}} - Births and Deaths Template:
{{BD|Year Birth|Year Death|Last, First}} - Categories: Did it! make the category, and then give it a category
- Aussie barnstar:
{{subst:The Australian Barnstar of National Merit|message}} - Wiktionary Link:
[[wikt:word|word]] - Converter:
{{convert|0|km|mi|0|lk=on|abbr=on}} {{convert|0|acre|ha|0|lk=on|abbr=on}} - Main article link:
{{Main|article name}} - Wiktionary candidate:
{{dicdef}} - Talkback message:
{{Talkback|Peterdownunder}} - Find sources:
{{Find sources|Article name}} - Check Wikipedia
- Dab solver
- Link Checker
- Reflinks
{{Subscription required|via=[[HighBeam Research]]}}Goes before access date{{Subscription required|via=[[Questia]]}}goes before access date
Admin stuff
[change | change source]- Vandal warning code:
{{subst:Test}}{{subst:Vandalism|pagename}}{{subst:uw-vandalism1}} - Self revert:
{{subst:uw-selfrevert}} - Block message:
{{subst:uw-block1}}{{subst:block|reason|time}} - School IP template:
{{subst:schoolIP|NAME OF SCHOOL OR OTHER INSTITUTION (optional)|host=NAME OF HOST IN THE FORMAT "proxy.example.edu"(reverse DNS lookup optional)}} - Shared IP template:
{{subst:sharedIP|NAME OF REGISTERED USER OF IP (optional)}} - VIP codes:
- Welcome message in table:
{{subst:welcomeg}}{{subst:welcome}}{{subst:Anon}} - Cyberbully warning:
{{subst:Cyberbully warning|ARTICLE NAME (optional)}} - Cyberbully block:
{{subst:cyberbully block|time}} - Copyright violation detector
Useful Australian stuff
[change | change source]- Australian Biography On Line
- Australian Dictionary of Biography template
- Australian Census 2006 template
- Australian Census 2006
- Australian Census 2011 template
- Australian Census 2011
- Dictionary of Australian Biography template
- Dictionary of Australian Biography
- Australian place info boxes
- Australian Historic Places Inventory: eg
{{cite AHPI|RNE Number|Name}} - Reed's Australian place names
<ref name="reed">{{cite book | title=Place names of Australia | publisher=Reed Books Pty. Ltd. | author=Reed, A.W. | year=1973 | location=French's Forest, NSW | pages=XX | isbn=0730100510}}</ref> - Geographical Names Board NSW:
{{NSW GNR|id = |title = |date = |accessdate = }}
Readability
[change | change source]Flesch Reading Ease score between 70 to 80 is equivalent to school grade level 8. This means text should be fairly easy for the average adult to read.
- Readability of Wikipedia compares articles in Simple English and on EnWiki
- Readability, with suggestions: Test and Improve
- Readability: Joe's Web Tools
- Readability: Read-able
- Readability: Readability-score
- Readability:
| Fog Score | Examples from Juicy Studio |
|---|---|
| 6 | TV guides, The Bible, Mark Twain |
| 8 | Reader's Digest |
| 8-10 | Popular fiction |
| 10 | Time, Newsweek |
| 11 | Wall Street Journal |
| 14 | The Times, Guardian |
| 15-20 | Academic papers |
| Over 20 | Only the government can get away with this, because you can't ignore them. |
| Over 30 | The government is covering something up |
My pages
[change | change source]- My created pages User:Peterdownunder/createdpages
- My Barnstars: Barnstars
- Welcome message: User:Peterdownunder/welcome
- Sandbox: User:Peterdownunder/Sandbox
- Pages created
- My edits
- Pie Graph of Edits
- Child message 1: User:Peterdownunder/c1
- Child message 2: User:Peterdownunder/c2
- Privacy warning: User:Peterdownunder/Privacy warning
- Nobel master stub: User:Peterdownunder/Nobel Prize
- User box: User:Peterdownunder/Userbox
Wanted Australian pages
[change | change source]- User:Peterdownunder/Australia a list of Australian pages needed to remove redlinks from existing articles
Links to useful tools
[change | change source]Statistics
[change | change source]| Admin statistics | |
|---|---|
| Action | Count |
| Edits | 45432 |
| Edits+Deleted | 46345 |
| Users created | 1 |
| Pages deleted | 9044 |
| Pages restored | 21 |
| Users blocked | 1125 |
| Pages protected | 192 |
| Pages unprotected | 3 |
| Rights modified | 107 |
Other
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| Request type | Entries |
|---|---|
| Wikipedians looking for help | 0 |
| Quick deletion requests | 4 This does not count categories in the QD category |
| Requests for unblock | 0 |
| Wikipedia semi-protected edit requests | 0 |
| Open sockpuppet investigations | 0 |
| Click here to locate other admin backlogs | |
| Request type | Entries |
|---|---|
| Rollbacker | 0 |
| Patroller | 0 |
| IPExempt | 0 |
| Adminship | 0 |
| Bureaucratship | 0 |
| Checkusership | 0 |
| Oversightership | 0 |
| Rights Removal | 0 |
Administrative backlog
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