SHB2000

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“

Lawbreakers, anti-maskers and vandals aren't welcome

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—User:SHB2000

“

Худые вести не лежат на месте

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—Anonymous, en translation: Bad news travels fast

If you need help with anything at all, please leave a message on my talk page.
If there's something you need to discuss in private, email me in strictest confidence
If you're bored, I'm more than happy to have a chat

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About me

Warami (means hello in Dharug, a local Aboriginal language of Sydney),

I'm SHB2000 and I'm based in Sydney, Australia but have lived in numerous locations throughout Australia but all in either NSW or Qld. and my purpose here is to make Australian articles usable and a lot more other things that you might find me doing. I prefer they/them pronouns but I don't mind if you say he/him pronouns to refer to me.

Outside of Australia, the most place where I've travelled extensively to is Santa Barbara in California, which also explains my love of US politics.

Apart from travelling, my other favourite interest is music and history.

My work on Wikivoyage

On the English Wikivoyage, I mainly work on Australian and New Caledonian articles and to a lesser extent, articles on the US, where I have most extensively visited outside Australia as well as South East Asia. My main goal is to get every single Australian and New Caledonian article to usable, and then maybe the US. I also work a lot on templates, which is one of my passions. If you need any help with articles or templates, I'll be sure to help out to the best of what I can.

I also make .json lines (line markers) for itineraries as well, and can do one upon request. Although I probably wouldn't be doing it without geojson.io, a useful tool to get a line marker.

You can also find me on the French Wikivoyage as well, where my goal is to create an article for every important tourist spot in East Coast Australia, as I am the only Australian contributor on fr.

I'm available on other WMF sites too, such as meta and commons, and from time to time, Nauru, and Simple English Wikipedia as well as the English Wikibooks.

Not to forget, I also have a GitHub page.

If any help with map lines, templates or Australian destinations is needed, feel free to pop in my talk or ping me. I'll do my best to help.

Docent

This section is about me being a Docent. If your looking for some information, this is the section

To ask information, just simply leave a message on my talk page by clicking the button below!

If you want me to email you, then yes, I can, however, to email me, you'll need to be autoconfirmed (have at least had your account for 4 days).

See the below section for my particular section of expertise, mainly Australian articles.

Articles and Pages

Wikivoyage Pages: Wikivoyage:Barncompasses, Wikivoyage:Nigeria café and its subpages, Wikivoyage:Kosovo and Albania café, Wikivoyage:Event articles, Wikivoyage:Event article status

City and City districts in Australia: Brewarrina, Innamincka, Parkes, Lucknow, Horsham, Keith, Stanwell Park, Bedourie, Lyndhurst, Mallacoota, Ouse, Carlton, Tibooburra, La Perouse, Foster, Glen Innes, Thredbo, La Perouse, Kurnell, Kiama

City and city districts outside Australia: Auki, Lauwaki, Żejtun, Le Mont-Dore

Parks: Sydney Harbour National Park, Point Nepean National Park, Dharawal National Park, Dorrigo National Park, Thirlmere Lakes National Park, Walls of Jerusalem National Park, Nullarbor Wilderness Protection Area, Malabar Headland National Park, Kamay Botany Bay National Park, Dharug National Park, Hunter Wetlands National Park, Ķemeri National Park¹, Gardens of Stone National Park

Itineraries: Tourist Drive 33, Overland travel between Melbourne and Adelaide, Tourist Drive 30, Grand Pacific Drive, Strzelecki Track, Alpine Way

Phrasebooks: Nauruan phrasebook, Tiwi phrasebook

Travel topics: Using Sydney's public transport, Ned Kelly tourism, RFDS tourism, New South Wales National Parks, Driving in New Caledonia, Fossil sites and museums in Australia, Kanak culture in New Caledonia, Astrotourism in Australia, Great Artesian Basin

Region articles: Sapphire Coast, Central Highlands (Tasmania)

Map lines: E8 through Finland and Norway, Tourist Drive 33, Oxley Highway, Gippsland Plains Rail Trail Quebec Route 389 and Oodnadatta Track. Interstate 5 will be up next

Articles I want to make

Boulia
Bordertown
Lajamanu
Roxby Downs
Bemboka
Robinvale
Wadeye
Mystery Bay
Nanum-Trunding
Halls Creek
Mount Hope
and most importantly, all the red links in New South Wales National Parks

Notes

¹ was a collaboration article worked by Ground Zero and myself

This section was inspired by User:LivelyRatification and User:Ground Zero and to say, I have to give them credits
The templates used here are by User:82.3.185.12 and to say, that deserves a shoutout

Want to go

Here are just a couple of places that I would like to visit someday:

A days trip or a night stay

Cotton Candy Caves
Secret Waterfall (Woy Woy)
Glow Worm Canyon
The Secret Cave, Kurnell
Dry Canyon.
Red Hands Cave

Further out

Brewarrina
Cobar
Moree and Narrabri
Goondiwindi
Tamworth

Interstate/Interterritory

Uluru (yes, having been to the Territory multiple times, I still haven't been to the Red Centre yet)
Ochre Pits
Coober Pedy
Kakadu National Park
Purnululu National Park (would be my first time going to WA if I go here)
Adelaide River and Coomalie Creek
Aurora Australis, Tasmania (would be my first time going to TAS if I go here)
Margaret River

International

Machu Picchu
Yellowstone
Christ the redeemer
Angkor Wat
and a lot more.

Thoughts on editing

As an editor, I enjoy:

writing in lively style about places I know or interesting Aussie places and parks.
writing article leads
adding listings (except coordinates)
contributing to history, infrastructure and aviation-related articles and sections.
welcoming new users to Wikivoyage and Wikipedia.
dealing with problematic edits (yes, it's one of my strengths and you can see this at enwiki)
writing about big sculptures (Australia's big things)
adding funny name places (e.g. The edge of the world, the other side of the moon, eggs and bacon bay, nowhere else and penguin)

I think the following aspects of editing are tedious but necessary:

adding coordinates (seriously)
anything to do with impossible-to-remember but useful templates
tables - I prefer the damn visual editor for this
adding colour to text
reverting Telstra's (Brendan John Williams) good faith edits
dealing with GRP and other vandals/spambots

Things you won't find me doing:

Making a static map - I'm using a loan laptop to edit Wikivoyage so I can't download ink-space as well as it sounds tedious to do
Working on anything related to North America or Europe - we have a large number of fine North American and European editors who are brilliant at what they do, so a destination article for just about anywhere else in the world is much more in need of my time.
Working on Western Australian or Tasmanian articles - I've never been to these states so I don't know what's the trend there - I have however, started to work on the latter with the help of User:JTdale

This section was inspired by User:ThunderingTyphoons! and to say, I have to give him credit

My records

My records	Place
Southernmost	Southern tip of Victoria (Wilsons Promontory)
Northernmost	Tromsø
Easternmost	via air
Westernmost	via air
Closest ever to a bushfire	30m next to the Wollemi National Park bushfires in 2019-20, which had consumed about 512,612 ha of bushland.
Longest flight	SYD^IATA - OSL^IATA (21.5 hours)
Closest to equator (northern hemisphere and overall)	Singapore (≈1°)
Closest to equator (southern hemisphere)	Darwin (≈-11°)
Highest point in altitude	Mt. Kosciuszko (2228m)
Lowest point in altitude	Death Valley (-87m)
Longest train ride	Sydney - Newcastle (2 hours)
Longest bus ride	Cairns - Townsville (6 hours)
Longest journey by bike	Sydney - Parramatta (60+ kilometers)
Longest trail by foot	[Unknown trail] (33km, 1 day) or [trail hidden - due to its restricted access] (18km, 3 days)
Longest distance on an unpaved track	143km (Mungo National Park)

This section was inspired by User:ThunderingTyphoons! (which was robbed off User:Andrewssi2) and to say, I have to give him credit

Useful Links

This includes cross wiki as well.

Barncompasses

We as humans, often fail to be grateful for others, and from what I can see, there's very little giving of Barncompasses compared to the English Wikipedia. So I decided to be creative and create custom barncompass templates, and one for each country. It's still a work in progress, but I hope to do all 200 ish countries. See a list of all my barncompasses at User:SHB2000/List of Barncompasses.

	The Wikivoyage Barncompass
	For your general contributions to Wikivoyage, and specifically for your work on Australia articles. We're glad you're here, mate. Ground Zero (talk) 12:39, 18 March 2021 (UTC)

	The Aussie Wikivoyage Barncompass
	Thanks for your great work on improving Australian travel pages, especially driving articles. Hope Tourist Drive 33 gets star status soon! --Lively Ratification (talk) 02:58, 23 March 2021 (UTC)

	The Aussie Wikivoyage Barncompass
	This Barncompass is to show appreciation for your great work on Aussie articles on Wikivoyage. --82.3.185.12 11:46, 12 April 2021 (UTC)

	Sweepers' Club Membership Certificate
	Thanks for helping sweep old conversations off to relevant talk pages. Like housework, it's often best to do a little every day or every week, but we'd let the page get out of hand. Thanks for helping with the "spring cleaning". WhatamIdoing (talk) 18:38, 20 April 2021 (UTC)

	The Wikivoyage Barncompass
	I recently pasted 500 edits and would like to give you this Barncompass to thank you for helping me learn how to edit this site and for always quickly responding to my questions on your talk page. --Tai123.123 (talk) 04:39, 11 September 2021 (UTC)

This section was inspired by a number of users, and to say, I have to give them credit.