This is the user page for Hroðulf (or Hrothulf), a small-time pseudonymous volunteer editor of Wikipedia. You can use it to find out more about me, and in particular, some of the 'hows' and 'whys' of what I do on Wikipedia. Nothing I write here, or anywhere else, is officially sanctioned by Wikimedia (or anyone else!)
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I chose my username, Hroðulf (or Hrothulf), from the Anglo-Saxon or
Old English language epic poem
Beowulf. It was a little presumptuous of me, as the only
West Germanic languages I know are modern English and modern Scots. I actually understand much less of Beowulf than I do of the modern
West Frisian language, which isn't that much. Wikipedia has an article about the literary and historical character
Hroðulf, which I did not write.
That is the letter
Eth, used in Germanic and Celtic (Irish) alphabets. My username comes from the
Old English language, where ð represents the
th sound in modern English (as in the words that and the). It really is a modern West European character, listed in the
ISO/IEC 8859-1 Latin-1 standard character encoding, and is used in some modern Nordic languages, so most computer applications developed in the last ten to fifteen years support it.
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Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (
Talk) 10:11, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
Can you help?
Article improvement list
In my humble opinion, the encyclopedia would benefit if you call by one of these articles, and contribute your skills or knowledge.
Mario Marzi - classical saxophonist - half of it was deleted as copyright infringement
Seán FitzPatrick - criminal charges are spread across two sections, and seem in danger of undue weight or compromising a fair trial. Bring up to date.
Te Deum (Kodály) - are the refs right? should there be a brief bio? introduce more sources to the analysis, or listen to it?
Ebrington Barracks - at various times an army and navy base, and main centre for 2013 city of culture events in Derry/Londonderry - lots of material already in Wikipedia, for example
HMS Ferret (shore establishment 1940)
Andreas Raab - is there an obit in the trade or academic literature? In the meantime it got merged to
Squeak.
Retail banking merge with
Commercial bank, expand, spin out, and add to {{Banking}} series - proposed and rejected in 2006 - but still a woeful 2 line stub, confused with a generic section on types of banking.
Electronic trading needs a lot of cleanup and references, as do hundreds of articles in investment and finance. There seems to be a large amount of guesswork, quack theories, content forks , lack of global perspective, and even walled gardens, in these fields.
Dividend - expand as discussed in its assessment comments
{{Ise}} is pretty unsatisfactory. It links to Yahoo!, its text is ISEQ instead if ISE, {{ISE}} doesn't redirect to it, it uses non-standard Yahoo! ticker symbols instead of ISIN or SEDOL number, and it doesn't work for {{Ise|AIN}}
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{{Tyo}} works better, but displays a complete non-standard acronym, and Bloomberg has lots of ads
Merge
Episcopal into
Episcopal politydiff and tried to expand and cleanup the resulting article – took a couple of hours; unfortunately the combined content is still far from being a comprehensive encyclopedic article