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This user helped "G. F. Vernon's cricket team in Ceylon and India in 1889–90" become a good article.
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A bit about me
NameThis user's name is Jack.
heThis user prefers to be referred to using masculine gender pronouns.
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This user is from Bury
in Greater Manchester
This user lives in Yorkshire.
This user is of Scottish ancestry.
This user's time zone is UTC±00:00.
BAThis user has a Bachelor of Arts degree.
(R)After 45 years of hard work, this user is (at last) retired.
This user is old enough to remember what a typewriter is, and that's all you need to know.
This user does not smoke.
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WikiProject Cricket.
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but prefers to call it stamp collecting.
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For the field is full of shades as I near the shadowy coast,

And a ghostly batsman plays to the bowling of a ghost,

And I look through my tears on a soundless-clapping host

As the run-stealers flicker to and fro,
To and fro




Hello

Hi, I'm Jack. I've been an editor here since 2005, and I'm also active on Simple Wikipedia. I have many interests, but you'll usually find me working on the history of cricket. The lines above are from a classic poem called At Lord's by Francis Thompson (1859–1907).

My topicons show that I've improved some thirty-plus articles to GA standard. I'm normally content to get an article to B-class (about 100 or so), but I sometimes think a review will help. I regard B-class as GA without a review, and vice-versa. I had always avoided FAC because its review process takes far too long, and I haven't the patience for it because I multi-task and work fast. This year (2026), however, I was persuaded to nominate History of cricket to 1725 at FAC, and it passed. It was Today's featured article on 6 October 2026, but I think it will be my only one.

I have a second account called BeachBoyJack (BBJ). That's for when I'm on a shared server and the bad vibrations begin. BBJ was created in unusual circumstances, when I briefly lost password access to this account, and needed help from the Wikimedia Foundation's Trust and Safety team (WFTS).

I generally avoid mistakes through due diligence, and by checking everything I've written before saving. Even so, some errors still slip through the net. I often spot and correct these myself, but I'm always grateful to anyone else who corrects one, and I make good use of the thank function. As I said earlier, I'm not a patient editor, but I always make allowance for newbies, and try to help them if possible. I have no patience at all with "experienced" editors who are incompetent.

Please note that I prefer to limit my involvement in discussions, with the exception of article reviews and cricket AfDs, though I will happily answer questions raised on my own talk page. Thanks.

Happy editing.

First edit

WANTED!
Dead or Alive:
for "occuring"!

I should be ashamed of it but I'm 90% sure that this ham fisted effort on 12 April 2005 was my first-ever WP edit (I did actually visit that show when it was on at the ExCeL). The edit needed an immediate fix, but it was a whole month before someone corrected "occuring"!

I think I did a handful of other IP edits, including one at Harold Wilson, before I decided to sign up on 31 July 2005.

That's right, this is Butch Cassidy. Quite an enigma. Did he survive the shoot-out in Bolivia? Has been played on screen by Charles Bronson, John Doucette, Neville Brand, and most famously by Paul Newman.

I don't take much notice of my edit count, which is a biggie, but it amused me to see that this edit was number 123,456. Ha!

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