User:Johnlp

I have been coming to these pages, fairly regularly, though not prolifically, since July 2005 and have now created a few articles, mostly cricket biographies, mainly derived from a lifetime of watching cricket and a 130-year collection of Wisden, which is well thumbed.

I'm not particularly interested in creating Featured Articles, though happy to contribute where I can to other people's efforts. Rather, I like to advance articles from stub status towards at least a basic coverage of the points of interest and notability.

My declining interest in contributing here is directly linked to the involvement of editors whose interest appears solely to consist of nitpicking minor corrections and the removal of content, rather than any attempt to create articles, fill in gaps or expand the scope of the encyclopedia. There is very little joy for me in attempting to make small improvements here and there, only to have my work immediately "corrected".

Nice things

All a bit immodest to put these things on one's User Page. So now there's a separate page for them here.

Projects

Long-standing project: flesh out some of the more basic cricketer biographies for South African Test players pre- and post-WW2. List here. Please feel free to help. Also started list of players whose biogs seem in need of attention here.

19Y

This Wikipedian joined Wikipedia on July 25, 2005 (19 years, 3 months, 3 weeks and 6 days ago).