User:Paul W

This user helped get "Alexander Duckham" listed at Did You Know on the main page on 26 June 2016.
This user helped get "Amy Richlin" listed at Did You Know on the main page on 5 February 2017.
This user helped get "Charles Manby" listed at Did You Know on the main page on 24 October 2013.
This user helped get "Crewe Alexandra F.C." listed at Did You Know on the main page on 3 August 2021.
This user helped get "Dingley Dell F.C." listed at Did You Know on the main page on 19 May 2022.
This user helped get "Fulham Refuge" listed at Did You Know on the main page on 17 March 2017.
This user helped get "Geoffrey Binnie" listed at Did You Know on the main page on 29 July 2013.
This user helped get "Georgina Kennedy" listed at Did You Know on the main page on 2 September 2022.
This user helped get "Iain Maxwell Stewart" listed at Did You Know on the main page on 1 May 2022.
This user helped get "International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering" listed at Did You Know on the main page on 19 October 2013.
This user helped get "Joseph Hobson" listed at Did You Know on the main page on 25 October 2015.
This user helped get "Roads Improvement Association" listed at Did You Know on the main page on 9 April 2022.
This user helped get "Robert Pearsall" listed at Did You Know on the main page on 11 January 2014.
This user helped get "The Foundery" listed at Did You Know on the main page on 8 December 2015.
This user helped get "Tony Hudgell" listed at Did You Know on the main page on 28 August 2022.
This user helped get "William Rees Jeffreys" listed at Did You Know on the main page on 6 April 2022.
This user helped "Crewe Alexandra F.C." become a good article on 15 July 2021.
This user helped get Carillion listed on the "In the News" section of the main page on 15 January 2018.
This user helped get Stan Bowles listed on the "In the News" section of the main page on 29 February 2024.
This user helped get United Kingdom football sexual abuse scandal listed on the "In the News" section of the main page on 7 December 2016.
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My name is Paul Wilkinson (not to be confused with the late political scientist or the former footballer) and I live in Blackheath, London in the Westcombe Park district of the Royal Borough of Greenwich. I have previously lived in other parts of London (including Kingsbury - where I was born - St John's Wood, Kilburn, Islington, Mile End, Kennington (in the Brandon Estate) and the Maze Hill district of Greenwich). Before adult life in London, I grew up in other parts of England - notably Nantwich in south Cheshire, and Leicester.

I started editing on 3 October 2003 (the first article I created was Greenwich Park), and have drifted away from time to time, only to find myself drawn back for sometimes quite intense periods of editing. My edits total passed the 10,000 mark in May 2009, 20,000 in February 2016, 30,000 in April 2018, 40,000 in May 2020, 50,000 in August 2021, then 60,000 just twelve months later[1] – I was clearly accelerating. I passed 70,000 edits in December 2023.

My interests mainly relate to:

I worked for the Halcrow Group (1987- 1994), Tarmac Professional Services (1994-1998; TPS later formed part of Carillion) and BIW Technologies (2000-2009) as a marketing and PR professional (I am a Fellow and past council member of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations, and was a board director in 2016 and 2017). From 1998 to 2000 and since 2009, I have worked as an independent consultant. I have been a visiting lecturer at the University of Westminster (two short-term contracts in 2015-16 and 2016-17).

For disclosure purposes, I maintain a list of current and recent clients on my website (see External links below - look at my 'About' page). I have edited pages about my former employers (after I left their employment), and about organisations of which I am a member. There have been past occasions when I had conflicts of interest in editing articles, but as have I learned more about Wikipedia and as COI policies have developed, I have - I hope - learned where not to tread (or, at most, where to amend minor factual inaccuracies, revoke vandalism, and/or provide verifiable, independent references).

I am an occasional photographer and have contributed photographs to Wikimedia Commons (sometimes using the now-discontinued Flickr Upload Bot - now do so via Commons:Upload). I have also added Voice Intros to three biographies of living people.

Wikipedia community activities[edit]

I'm a member of Wikimedia UK
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I was formally accepted as a member of Wikimedia UK in February 2011.

CIPR-related Wikipedia activities[edit]

  • In 2010, I met two WMUK members who contributed to a 'social summer' event at the CIPR; I subsequently wrote about the CIPR, PR and Wikipedia during development, with Wikimedia UK, of the CIPR's first guidance notes (published June 2012).
  • In 2014, I contributed to two guidance updates (the second update); in guiding PR people in their interactions with Wikipedians, I stress I am first and foremost a Wikipedian.
  • In 2018, I contributed a chapter about Wikipedia to Platinum: Celebrating the CIPR at 70 (Amazon), a collection of essays marking the 70th anniversary of the CIPR.
  • In 2021, the CIPR published a skills guide (How to avoid PR disasters on Wikipedia) about engaging with Wikipedia, which I co-authored with fellow Wikipedian Alastair McCapra.

I agree to multi-license all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

Multi-licensed with the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike License versions 1.0 and 2.0
I agree to multi-license my text contributions, unless otherwise stated, under Wikipedia's copyright terms and the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license version 1.0 and version 2.0. Please be aware that other contributors might not do the same, so if you want to use my contributions under the Creative Commons terms, please check the CC dual-license and Multi-licensing guides.

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Notes[edit]

  1. ^ "Edit Counter". Xtools. Retrieved 29 March 2018.

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