User:Willthorpe

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Willthorpe

— Wikipedian —
Name	Willia Thorpe
Pronouns	They/them
Nationality	Australian
Country	Australia
Current location	Sydney
Languages	English
Time zone	AEST
Education and employment
Occupation	Journalist

Love is all you need.

Overview

My editorship on Wikipedia reflects a desire to contribute to the wealth of publicly, freely accessible information and hence contribute to a better informed, and therefore better, society. As a journalist, I write for a local newspaper called City Hub and for my university's student newspaper Honi Soit, and have posted articles on Substack.

Shamed beThis user reads Honi Soit.	Shamed beThis user contributes to Honi Soit.

Good books

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Australian history

• 1788 by Lieutenant General Watkin Tench
• William Charles Wentworth: Australia's greatest native son by Andrew Tink MP
• Sarah Wentworth: Mistress of Vaucluse by Carol Liston AO
• The Seahorse and the Wanderer: Ben Boyd in Australia by Marion Diamond

Fiction

• The Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner
• Sybil, or The Two Nations by Benjamin Disraeli MP
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

South Africa

• Jan Christian Smuts by his son Jannie Smuts

Economics

• The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
• How Marxism Works by Chris Harman

Contributions

Articles written

The creation of some of these articles involved substantial amounts of copyediting.

Sarah Wentworth, Wentworth–Bland flag, Rozelle–Darling Harbour Goods Line, Hunter River Railway Company, Darling Harbour Yard, Rozelle Yard, Railways in Canberra, Romandisea Titanic, Byron Bay Train, Rose Bay Water Airport, Bourke railway station, Camden railway station, Potts Hill railway line, Big House, Irene, Australia Day debate, Statue of James Cook, Hyde Park, South African Naval Ensign

Did You Know?

• Sarah Wentworth
• Statue of James Cook, Hyde Park
• Hunter River Railway Company
• Railways in Canberra

Stubs

Sandown railway station, Hardies railway station, Goodyear railway station, Cream Of Tartar Works railway station, Nanardine railway station, Fish Hoek railway station, Pippita railway station, Enfield Loco railway station, Somersby Airfield, Forster (Wallis Island) Airport, Airly

Map of subjects of articles I've written

Lists

List of Commonwealth organisations (largely re-wrote to reflect correct terminology)

Significant contributions

I have made significant contributions to various articles, including that for the University of Sydney student newspaper Honi Soit, and:

• Railway-related articles, including:
  • High-speed rail in Australia
  • Railways in Sydney
  • Light rail
  • Articles related to light rail in Sydney, particularly concerning light rail stations
    • Resurrected the articles for Lilyfield and Wentworth Park light rail stations whilst attempting to better integrate light rail at heavy rail stations (see Dulwich Hill)
    • Improved the adjacent stations module for Sydney light rail services
• Commonwealth-related articles, including:
  • English in the Commonwealth of Nations
  • Liberalism in South Africa
  • British influence in Pakistan
• Australian history articles, including:
  • William Wentworth and articles related to him and his family

When interests intersect

The authoring of the article for the Hunter River Railway Company was an interesting task, combining my love of history – in this case, Australian colonial history – with my love of railways. More specifically, it combined my fascination with railways with my fascination with the colonial-era statesman William Charles Wentworth, who I have discovered was among many other things something of a railway pioneer like his great-grandson. Articles I've written about railways in Sydney and most particularly in the Inner West where I reside also reflect a convergence of interests!

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Misc

This user takes public transport.	0.00040% This user has created 28 of the 6,937,681 articles on the English language Wikipedia.	This user plays the Guitar.
This user has had numerous articles published in newspapers and magazines	uSyd This user is studying at the University of Sydney	This user drinks tea.
This user loves reading The Sydney Morning Herald	EThis user reads The Economist.	This user is an enby.
This user has ridden on Sydney Trains	This user has ridden on Sydney Metro	This user has ridden the Dulwich Hill Line
This user loves Express Passenger Trains	This user loves The Beatles.	M*A*S*HThis user understands: "the M stands for mobile".
This user is too busy singing to put anybody down	This user loves Chuck Berry.	This user is a fan of The Rolling Stones.
ZThis user is a member of Generation Z.	This user is of British ancestry.	Proud to be Australian.

Interests

This user is interested in the United Kingdom.	This user is interested in the United States of America.	This user is interested in the history of Australia.
	This user is a railway buff
This user is interested in South Africa.	This user is interested in the British Empire.	This user is interested in the Commonwealth of Nations.

Societal issues

libThis user is a liberal.	This user is a feminist	This user is an internationalist.
This user wishes humans would just get rid of their overly destructive weapons.	This user strongly believes in freedom of speech.	This user supports the Australian Crown.
This user supports Hong Kong independence.	This user supports LGBTIA rights.	To this user, all human lives matter.