User:Tghe-retford

Generally, I don't contribute much any more. As other pressures and work commitments have to take precedence. Much of my information is already sourced and cited. Exceptions include ongoing updates to the Digital radio in the United Kingdom article. Reverts, miscellaneous edits and corrections will also be made if I come across them.

Gone as I may seem, don't assume I have gone on retirement. As I continue to check changes and make edits on a irregular basis. The talk page is still active and monitored. Email alerts are still sent to me for new messages so don't assume I have gone or anything.

Hi, my name is Gareth and this is my home user page. I believe in the freedom that Wikipedia offers, the flexibility and ease of editing and creation of new articles that attracted me to become a member of Wikipedia.

I generally keep to the media, especially television and radio, as well as the jazz (specifically smooth jazz) and computing. Tech is a major passion of mine as well including video games and journalism. I do occasionally keep an eye out for vandalised articles and revert them to the previous untouched version of that article.

I use the Linux operating system with the Arch Linux distribution and the KDE desktop environment as well as Chromium and other free and open-source software to contribute to Wikipedia.

• September 22, 2006: my contribution to What Satellite and Digital TV was discussed and this page was linked from the What Satellite and Digital TV blog.
• September 7, 2007: I was quoted in regard to an edit on Wikipedia by another editor about the closure of UK television channel ABC1byDigital Spy (source).

Articles I have created:

• 100.4 Jazz FM
• Amazing Radio
• Digital radio in the United Kingdom - including getting the article to good article status
• Gamston, Bassetlaw
• Jazz FM (UK)
• Markham Moor
• Official Dreamcast Magazine (UK)
• Ranskill
• theJazz
• TV3 (Czech Republic)
• What Satellite and Digital TV
• Yorkshire Radio

Portals I have created:

• Portal:Jazz

Task forces I have created:

• UK Radio task force

Major contributions to existing articles:

• 102.2 Jazz FM - major expansion
• 102.2 Smooth FM - expansion
• Idle Valley Nature Reserve - cleanup, reference gathering and expansion
• ITV Play - cleanup
• Quiz channel - criticism expansion
• Retford - expansion
• Sky Digital (UK & Ireland) EPG - conversion of lists to tables
• Sky Multichannels - major expansion and reference finding
• The Gadget Show - prevented mass vandalism after the show features Wikipedia on its programme

Contributions to Wikipedia policies and guidelines:

• Allowing {{prod}} to be used on user pages (sorry folks!)

My images:

Image of Retford town hall. Taken on a really nice summer day.

RAJAR figures for 102.2 Jazz FM, which then became 102.2 Smooth FM in 2005 and 102.2 Smooth Radio in 2007. This chart chronicles the listening figures from when records started in 1999 until the latest figures.

RAJAR figures for listening share for digital radio in the United Kingdom.