User:Nick Moyes
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Hello. I've been an active editor here for some years, and am happy to help you if you hit problems editing Wikipedia. You can find me at the Teahouse along with my fellow 'hosts' who are there 24/7/365 to answer all newcomer questions. I'm also a 'Mentor', and I get randomly assigned to new users via their 'Homepage' Tab. So, if my name appears in the "Your mentor" box, you can reach out to me directly through your "Ask your mentor a question" button, or you can post straight to my Talk page. If you don't get a reply in good time, you are free, of course, to ask anyone at the Teahouse for help and advice. We'll get you sorted one way or another!
I am finding real world matters are seriously reducing the time I can spend on Wikipedia. So please forgive me if I do not always respond immediately to any query.
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About Me
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Hi, I'm Nick Moyes. I'm honoured that in 2020 the editing community trusted me sufficiently to give me administrator privileges here on Wikipedia. I see this additional role as helping our community of editors to grow and to work cooperatively and constructively, undisturbed by bad-faith actions. I'm bound to make mistakes at first, so please let me know if you have any concerns over any of my actions. If I've made a really obvious or stupid mistake, I authorise another experienced admin to revert my actions without the need to first consult me. I am not always around to respond immediately - just leave a note on my talk page if you've felt the need to reverse one of my admin actions, or want to politely express any concerns about my actions here. I recently took early retirement, but was Senior Keeper of Natural History at Derby Museum and Art Gallery, where I worked for over 25 years. I also worked in Kirklees at Tolson Museum and Bagshaw Museum, though my first ever museum job was a student post within the European herbarium of the Natural History Museum, London. I have also worked for the CIA and the TA. I set up the Derby Cathedral Peregrine Project in 2006, which I still run today. (You can watch our live nest camera here). Dangling off ropes, installing nest platforms, fixing webcameras, helping to ring wild falcon chicks, meeting the public and doing tons of social media stuff has been incredibly rewarding (though not monetarily!) It was an approach to Derby Museum in late 2010 to use QRpedia codes that led to my serious involvement with Wikipedia (see video on right), though I only really started editing in earnest from 2015 onwards. For 20 years I collected and computerised nearly a million vascular plant records from across my county and, in 2015, I jointly published a major new version of the Flora of Derbyshire. It replaced Clapham's 1969 Flora and the 1903 Flora, both of the same name. (See here -again, it was done for love of the subject, not for profit). My involvement with Wikipedia picked up once that huge project was out of the way. From 2011 to 2017 I worked as a Biodiversity Project Officer, doing BAP stuff (see here) and LNP-related stuff). I have interests and expertise in biological recording; species mapping; botany; herbaria; Floras and biographies of UK botanists; peregrine falcons; glow worms; ecology, biodiversity and conservation; geology; Derbyshire and, of course, museums. Other interests include alpine mountaineering, mountain biking, photography and, of course, Wikipedia. Former activities included radio comms, self-sufficiency/defence and the TA. Mountains I've climbed over 4,000 metres (13,123 ft), by height: Mexico: Pico de Orizaba; Iztaccihuatl; Nevado de Toluca; Alps: Mont Blanc; Dufourspitze; Nordend; Zumsteinspitze; Signalkuppe; Dom; Liskamm; Weisshorn; Täschhorn; Liskamm; Matterhorn; Mont Maudit; Parrotspitze; Dent Blanche; Ludwigshöhe; Nadelhorn; Schwarzhorn; Combin de Grafeneire; Dôme du Goûter; Finsteraarhorn; Mont Blanc du Tacul; Stecknadelhorn; Castor; Zinalrothorn; Hohberghorn; Vincent Pyramid; Alphubel; Rimpfischhorn; Aletschhorn; Strahlhorn; Combin de Valsoray; Breithorn; Bishorn; Mönch; Pollux; Ober Gabelhorn; Gran Paradiso; Aiguille de Bionnassay; Gross Fiescherhorn; Grünhorn; Dürrenhorn; Allalinhorn; Hinter Fiescherhorn; Weissmies; Dôme de Rochefort; Dent du Géant; Lagginhorn; Aiguille de Rochefort. I am always keen to share my knowledge and experience, and to learn from others - whatever their age or gender. If you still feel the need for a WP:COI, please see below. I'm using the rest of this and other sub-pages as a notepad to help me manage or plan future editing. I variously edit via a desktop, a tablet, an iPhone and a laptop, catching whatever sleep I can in between! |
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