User:Borderman

Templates I use regularly
Infoboxes
Template:Infobox settlement Template:Infobox lake Template:Infobox fell Template:Infobox valley Template:Infobox park Template:Infobox waterfall
Formatting
Template:Center – For centring text Template:Right – For right-aligning text Template:Larger – Making text about 120% Template:X-larger – Making text even larger
Coordinates
Template:Osm – For creating a clickable latitude and longitude link to Open Street Map Template:Osm2 – For creating a clickable latitude and longitude link to Open Street Map Template:Location – For adding decimal degree, National Grid and what3words coordinates in collapsible box Category:Compass direction templates – Set of 16 templates for compass directions used on image pages
Wiki links
Template:W1 – For linking to Wikipedia articles Template:W2 – For linking to Wikipedia articles when I want the text to appear differently to the original article title
Notes/Messages
Template:Inaccurate gps – Note about incorrect gps metada has been adjusted
Referencing
Template:Reflist – For populating references in article pages Template:Collingwood-1904 Template:Gambles Template:Martineau-1855 Thompson-1904 Template:Whaley Template:Wordsworth-1835

Hello and welcome. I go by the name of Borderman but people who know me just call me Chris. I have two websites hosted by Miraheze, my other project being The Lonsdale Battalion, which has been around for a while and is forever a work-in-progress.

So, you have reached my user page. Whether you stumbled across it or happened upon here with purpose, I am the creator and administrator of this site and I am here to help out if anyone runs into issues. This area is where I tend to add stuff to help me work on different aspects of the site, mainly because I forget things that might be useful. So it is here where I come back to, making notes and adding links to other pages and templates.

I am not a photographer, at least not in the professional sense, but I do enjoy taking photos, primarily of landscapes. I use the Sony RX10 bridge camera and my iPhone 12 Pro. A lot of the photos on this site have been taken with my iPhone, simply because for the size, it carries a fair bit of power. It will never compare to a dSLR, especially a full-frame dSLR, but for simple shots they are great, which is why it always comes in handy when out walking in the countryside without the bulkier camera.

There is a lot of photographic snobbery out there, which doesn't sit well here. If you enjoy taking photos, it shouldn't matter what tools you use. I have taken some fairly decent silky smooth waterfall photos with just my iPhone and small tripod. Zoom in and yes, the quality isn't top notch but I can still enlarge the pictures to full-size on my Mac and they look pretty good.

Using my photos

If you would to you any of my photos, you are welcome to providing you give proper attribution ― Please read this first.

My sub-pages here

• User:Borderman/Example article headings
• User:Borderman/Example calendar
• User:Borderman/Example file page
• User:Borderman/Example flex boxes
• User:Borderman/Example flex boxes 2
• User:Borderman/Example page
• User:Borderman/Licence notification
• User:Borderman/On this day
• User:Borderman/OS grid count
• User:Borderman/Talk header
• User:Borderman/Templates I use
• User:Borderman/Upload signature
• User:Borderman/Using my photos

Links to websites I use

• Ordnance Survey explore maps – Used for National Grid reference numbers
• UK Grid Reference Finder – Very handy for getting latitude / longitude / what3words / OS National Grid references.
• Lake District National Park website – Fairly self-explanatory
• National Trust Heritage Records Online – Archaeological records of National Trust properties and land
• Online Etymology Dictionary – Great for researching the history of words
• Anglo-Saxon Dictionary – For researching Old English words
• Middle English Dictionary – For researching works from Middle Ages period
• Old Norse Dictionary – Useful for researching Old Norse words and their meanings for etymology sections
• Wiktionary – For researching a variety of Old Norse and Old English words and their meanings

Helpful guides

• Helpful PDF guide to the OS National Grid

Contact me

Please feel free to drop me a message on discussion page and I'll get back to you as soon as I can.