User:Lear's Fool

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The Basics

This user comes from Melbourne.

This user is a former administrator on the English Wikipedia. (verify)

Hi, I'm Lear's Fool. I'm from Melbourne, Australia.

I've been on Wikipedia since 2006, and I was mainly active between 2009 and 2013. I became an administrator in January 2011, but have resigned the tools. I am retired for most purposes, but I occasionally make minor contributions.

In the past I used the alternate accounts Lear's Fool (Sock) (talk · contribs) and Lear's Fool (Mobile) (talk · contribs), but I don't any more.

Some articles I've worked on

• Union Hall (Adelaide)
• Leonard Faulkner
• Andrew Killian
• Robert Spence (bishop)
• John O'Reily
• Helen Mayo
• Philip Wilson (archbishop)
• James Gleeson (bishop)
• 1896 South Australian Referendum
• Laurence Sheil
• Matthew Beovich
• William Mackinder
• Lowe Kong Meng

My stats and contributions

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• My logged actions
• My edit count

Things to Check

Administrative Dashboard Candidates for speedy deletion Entries User requested 0 Empty articles 1 Nonsense pages 0 Spam pages 1 Importance or significance not asserted 7 Other candidates 7 User:Xenocidic/dashboard/users Immediate requests Entries Candidates for speedy deletion as attack pages 0 Wikipedians looking for help 0 Requests for unblock 86 Wikipedia semi-protected edit requests 107 Wikipedia extended-confirmed-protected edit requests 73 Wikipedia template-protected edit requests 11 Wikipedia fully protected edit requests 3 Wikipedia conflict of interest edit requests 193 Requested RD1 redactions 7 Candidates for speedy deletion as copyright violations 1 Candidates for speedy deletion 15 Open sockpuppet investigations 47 Click here to locate other admin backlogs Current RfAs and RfBs RfA candidate S O N S% Ending (UTC) Time left Dups? Report RfB candidate S O N S% Ending (UTC) Time left Dups? Report No RfXs since 19:36, 23 April 2025 (UTC).—cyberbot ITalk to my owner:Online The Wikipedia Signpost The Wikipedia Signpost The Wikipedia Signpost Volume 21, Issue 6 — 2025-05-01 News and notes: India cut off from Wiki money; WMF annual plan and Wikimedia programs seek comment In the media: Feds aiming for WMF's nonprofit status Recent research: How readers use Wikipedia health content; Scholars generally happy with how their papers are cited on Wikipedia Arbitration report: Sysop Tinucherian removed and admonished by the ArbCom Discussion report: Latest news from Centralized discussions Traffic report: Of Wolf and Man Disinformation report: At WikiCredCon, Wikipedia editors and Internet Archive discuss threats to trust in media News from the WMF: Product & Tech Progress on the Annual Plan Humour: Crisis erupts as furious admins, functionaries complain about crappy t-shirts Comix: By territory In focus: Using AI on the Russian Wikipedia: opportunities or challenges? Community view: A deep dive into Wikimedia Debriefing: Barkeep49's RfB debriefing Gallery: Meet the winners of Wiki Loves Monuments 2024 Obituary: JarrahTree, JohnClarknew and Yashthepunisher Centralised Discussions Some useful links Sources Trove: the National Library of Australia — Old Newspapers, pictures etc. The Catholic Encyclopedia at Newadvent — Public domain encyclopaedia The Australian Catholic Record at Informit — Australian Catholic Journal The Australian Dictionary of Biography — Biographies of Australians On-Wiki tools CorenSearchBot/manual — Check for copyvios Compare two webpages — helps with copyvio checks. Betacommand's AfD log My tools User:Lear's Fool/monobook.js User:Lear's Fool/monobook.css

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