User:Verne Equinox

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Like the 1911 Edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica aimed to be more then a century ago, Wikipedia also threatens to become "the sum of human knowledge" for modern times, with 6,918,408 entries at this moment, calculated to represent more than 3,000 volumes.

Many of my contributions to this juggernaut have been initiated by finding empty entries or stubs during 'Random Article' searches. I am also interested in connections. Many of my minor edits have been to fix links, grammar and spelling. Of the articles that I write, I tend to focus on biographical matters rather than technical ones. I have also contributed quite a few photographs, some of which you can find at the bottom of this page.

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Stats 26,500+ This user has made more than 26,500 contributions to Wikipedia. This user has been on Wikipedia for 19 years, 1 month and 29 days. This user has written or expanded 24 articles featured in the Did You Know section on the Main Page. This user successfully nominated 5 articles by others that featured in the Did you know... section on the Main Page. This editor is a Senior Editor and is entitled to display this Rhodium Editor Star. This user believes that a user's edit count does not necessarily reflect on the value of their contributions to Wikipedia.  0.0037%  This user has created 253 of the 6,918,408 articles on the English language Wikipedia. 4243 On 29 February 2024 this user was 4243 on the list of Wikipedians by number of edits (falling)

Barnstars, Beer and Other Bling (Thank you!)

The Tireless Contributor Barnstar Awarded to Verne Equinox, your contributions are greatly appreciated. Thank you for all you do. ♫ Cricket02 02:31, 1 August 2007 (UTC) The University Barnstar Thank you for creating the academic "Bibliography of New Brunswick" Moxy (talk) 00:47, 7 June 2012 (UTC) The Red Maple Leaf Award This maple leaf is awarded to Verne Equinox for numerous article destubs, cleanups and creations, during the third year of The 10,000 Challenge of WikiProject Canada. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Reidgreg (talk) 20:25, 26 November 2019 (UTC) The Photographer's Barnstar Thanks for your wonderful photo contributions! Ensignricky Talk 21:46, 30 August 2013 (UTC) cartoonist Thank you for quality articles, letting us know places such as Saltwood Castle and mostly interesting people such as the best political cartoonist, Bruce MacKinnon, for gnomish improvements and for taking care of categories, all spiced with a grain of satire, - you are an awesome Wikipedian! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:42, 21 May 2013 (UTC) This is my first Wikipedia contribution and hopefully not the last. Thanks for the edit, it remains true to the source information. Having not watched the video I wasn't confident enough to paraphrase. If you ever obtain a copy of this VHS, let me know! Karaokevox (talk) 03:02, 12 June 2013 (UTC) Thanks for your help ! Greatpumkin (talk) 01:48, 25 December 2013 (UTC) thanks for your help with Charles Eisenmann Pumkinhead001 (talk) 03:38, 19 March 2012 (UTC) A smile for you You’ve just received a random act of kindness! 66.87.0.137 (talk) 13:35, 31 March 2012 (UTC) The Bronze Maple Leaf Award This maple leaf is awarded to Verne Equinox for creating or expanding five Canada-related articles during the fourth year of The 10,000 Challenge of WikiProject Canada. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Reidgreg (talk) 19:57, 11 February 2021 (UTC)

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This section shows some of my favourite images and notes some that have been popular for reuse on other websites. As I generally publish my images requesting reuse by attribution, I note which were acknowledged and which were not:

• File:Water transport
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  Ship Hector
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  Perini Navi
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  Clipper Round the World Yacht Race
• File:Wheeled transport
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  Canada Post
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  Nova Scotia Highway 104 Used by Nova Scotia Highways for their road twinning project, uncredited (2022)
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  Smith Automobile Company
• File:Forts
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  Beausejour. Encyclopedia Britannica began using this image in 2012 to illustrate their article on the Chignecto Isthsmus.
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  Edward I need to update this: Parks Canada no longer maintains the lawn at this fort.
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  Gaspareaux
• File:Houses
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  In 2009, somebody asked me to get a picture of the poet Elizabeth Bishop's house for Wikipedia. I had never heard of her before then. It was used in 2015 to illustrate an an article about Colm Tóibín's book about Miss Bishop.
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  Elmer Blaney Harris This is another photo somebody asked me to get. It was a little farther away than the Bishop House so it took me some months to get there, so many in fact that the requester had retired by the time I got it. But I added it to the article anyway. It is now a very nice inn and restaurant, owned by Michael Smith
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  Simeon Perkins
• File:Bridges
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  Rainbow Bridge and toll plaza, Niagara Falls
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  Westmorland StreetBridge, St. John River at Fredericton
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  Pedestrian crossing, Digby, Nova Scotia
• File:Churches
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  Church in Kennetcook, Nova Scotia. The Chronicle Herald used a crop of this image, saving money about one year into a staff strike on December 20, 2016 after the congregation decided to close the church due to falling attendance.
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  St. Louis de Gonzague Roman Catholic Church Richibucto
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  Former Woodville Church The Griffin, a provincial heritage quarterly, used this image in June 2020, lightening it and giving it a tighter crop; it looks great, but the source was not acknowledged.
• File:Train Stations
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  Pictou
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  Amherst railway station The Windsor Star used this as their lead photo for an online feature called "Travel Top 5: Canada's best train trips"
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  Politician David Hendsbee used this image for a poster announcing a fundraiser for this station; source not acknowledged.
• File:Geology and Landforms
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  Baxters Harbour
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  Saskatchewan Glacier
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  Digby Gut
• File:Places
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  Rainbow Bridge (Niagara Falls) I lucked out on this shot. I was in Niagara Falls on a work assign-ment and my workmate had a suite at the hotel overlooking the falls. While having a beer at the end of the day, we sat on the balcony and I snap-ped this. It was used by a local NPR news outlet in 2020; source acknowledged.
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  Saint-Pierre, Saint-Pierre and Miquelon I like this, the human element, but it was removed some time ago in a re-edit of the page.
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  New Glasgow. Unfortunately, this quite charming Nova Scotia town was selected the worst place to live in Canada in 2011 by Money Sense magazine. They used this image to illustrate the article. On March 20, 2012 both the Vancouver Sun and Montreal Gazette also used the image when they reprinted the article.
• File:Edinburgh
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  Quartermile
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  Edinburgh Festival (Christmas) This image was used by US News Travel to illustrate a feature on the Edinburgh Festival.
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  Edinburgh Waterfront
• File:Technology
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  Radio Canada International I got a nice e-mail one day a few years ago telling me this image was used to illustrate a (rather complicated) article about RCI.
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  Impact attenuator Used in a Jalopnik article about John Fitch, inventor of the crash barrier; and in a twisted format in this 2012 blog (uncredited, but Google found it anyway)
• File:X
• File:Energy
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  Tufts Cove. This is used at Power Plants Around the world and has illustrated a number of blogs.
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  LNG Terminal. This image illustrated a photo feature by Offshore Technology.com
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  Massachusetts Gas Bar. In 2009, NOAA's Climate Watch Magazine used this photo to illustrate an article on carbon dioxide. I like the way they cropped the photo to suggest the gas bar could be endless.
• File:Halifax
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  NSCAD University Several university papers including The Brunswican used this image to illustrate articles about NSCADU's financial woes in 2011-2012.
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  Nelson Barracks
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  Citadel High School
• File:Edmonton
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  Edmonton Journal
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  Enbridge A number of investor blogs, news sites such as Mining.com and change.org have been using this uncredited for a couple of years.
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  Fort Edmonton Park
• File:Saint John
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  Saint John High School
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  Rothesay Netherwood School
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  Saint John City Market
• File:Scenic
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  Nova Scotia Route 215
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  Mount Allison University
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  Waterfall, Cobequid Mountains
• File:Food and Packaging
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  A quite useful website called The Leafy Place did an article on oysters and used my picture of Beausoleil oysters from northern New Brunswick as one of the illustrations; credited.
• Fiji Water Probably my most popular shot, this was used to numerous times to illustrate articles and blogs about Fiji Water including this recent one in 2011 from the Earth Institute. Deleted in 2015.
  Fiji Water Probably my most popular shot, this was used to numerous times to illustrate articles and blogs about Fiji Water including this recent one in 2011 from the Earth Institute. Deleted in 2015.
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• File:Maps & illustrations
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  Septentrional (Mallet map) used to illustrate the concept of north in an online English-Hindi dictionary.
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  Bear River First Nation Portion of an illustration by J.F.W. Debarres from his monumental Atlantic Neptune map series.
• File:X
• File:Notable people
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  Peter Coade
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  Lawrence Paul
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  Tom Vanderbilt
• File:X
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  Glenn Howard Journalism students at Centennial College cropped this picture for an article in The Toronto Observer 2015; acknowledged.
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  Linden MacIntyre
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  Edward Egan This was used by several bloggers and news sites, including Forbes, in February 2012 after controversial comments were uttered by the retired cardinal. It was credited only Wikimedia Commons.
• File:Published photographs
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  Bonar Law This photo appeared in the book, "New Brunswick - Nouveau-Brunswick", published by La Grande Marée in 2009.
• File:X

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