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Main Interests
Particular interests in:
- Emergency Medicine & Ambulance Care
- Emergency Services (Police, Fire etc.)
- First Aid
- Equestrian
- Devon, esp local history
Wikipedia Contributions
Pages I Created
- A382 road - Road in Devon
- ABC (medical) - Created this page and ported information out of ABC (first aid), adding additional historical data - also major improvements to the citations and layout
- Advanced Medical Priority Dispatch System - The system used in the UK and elsewhere to decide clinical priority for the dispatch of ambulances
- Air Ambulance Kent Surrey Sussex
- Air source heat pump - major heating technology
- Airways Flying Club - Created in order to get rid of a red link!
- Alphred Duport - from research on Exeter Mayors
- Ambrosia (food) - Food brand i used to work on
- Angel Delight (album) - DAB from the food
- Arthur Kipps
- ASHICE - Ambulance service patient reporting protocol
- Atora - Food brand i used to work on
- Baux score - Medical scale for predicting severity of burns
- Becky Falls - local point of interest
- Bicton Arena - local equestrian venue
- Bicton Arena International 5* - major equestrian event
- Blood bike - emergency vehicle type
- Bowling for a pig - historic fete game
- Brian Kellett - DAB
- British Association for Immediate Care - UK emergency medical charity
- British Equestrian Federation - UK governing body for equestrian sport
- British Equestrian Trade Association - member of the British Equestrian Federation
- British Equestrian Vaulting - member of the British Equestrian Federation
- British Horseball Association - member of the British Equestrian Federation
- British Horse Driving Trials Association - member of British Equestrian Federation
- British Horse Industry Confederation - Overall umbrella body representing equestrian industry to government
- British Jumping Derby - Showjumping event at All England Jumping Course at Hickstead
- British Showjumping Association - UK governing body for showjumping
- Burgess Hill Rugby Football Club - My former rugby club
- Caduceus as a symbol of medicine - Completed with content from Caduceus and Rod of Asclepius, specifically addressing the confusion between the two
- Caroline Pratt - 3 day eventer who tragically died competing at Burghley horse trials
- CHALET - The Emergency Service protocol
- County show - type of UK event
- Crocodiles of the World - UK crocodile zoo
- Defence Fire Training and Development Centre - former defence fire training at RAF Manston
- Dr Blackall's Drive - local point of interest
- Drowning chain - The causes of drowning
- Elektromotive - Created an article on an existing redirect page
- Emergency - Whilst not technically creating the page, I created the article from what was previously a disambiguation page - awarded a barnstar for this work
- Emergency bleeding control - Combined articles on Direct Pressure, Pressure point (first aid) and Emergency tourniquet in to one place, and added additional information, including on internal bleeding
- Emergency care practitioner - Added this advanced paramedic qualification as a stub
- Emergency medical services in Canada - split from Ambulance
- Emergency medical services in France - split from Ambulance
- Emergency medical services in Germany - Created as a split of Ambulance
- Emergency medical services in Norway - Split from ambulance
- Emergency medical services in the United Kingdom - UK specific ambulance site, involved closing other pages such as "List of UK Ambulance Services" for comprehensive encyclopaedic page
- Endurance GB - UK equestrian body
- Equine dentistry - major missing topic
- ETHANE - The Emergency Service protocol
- Exeter Arena - Created to close redlink out
- Exeter City Fire Brigade - created as daughter from Exeter Theatre Fire
- Exeter Theatre Royal fire - article about UK'd deadliest ever building fire
- Five freedoms - animal welfare article
- FSCTE Manston - MOD Central Fire Training School
- Former UK Ambulance Services - Addresses changes created by ambulance service restructure
- Francis Foster (comedian) - host of Triggernometry
- Gammon (meat) - mmmmmm, pork
- Gas safe register - The UK gas engineer approval scheme
- Geoff Billington - British show jumper
- Guy Williams (equestrian) - British equestrian
- HMS Express (1874) - close out redlink from Exeter Theatre Fire
- Hawkmoor Hospital - former sanatorium in Lustleigh
- Hawley Hospital - linked hospital to Hawkmoor
- Heavitree hospital - Exeter hospital
- Heavitree isolation hospital - Former Exeter hospital
- Honeylands - Former Exeter hospital
- Hundatorra - deserted medieval village on Dartmoor
- Hunter's Tor, Lustleigh Cleave - Tor on Lustleigh Cleave
- Independent Ambulance Association - trade association for ambulance providers in England
- Inset day - Was looking for information, and couldn't find it, so created it
- King Edward's Place - childrens' activity centre
- Knurr and spell - historic game that i heard about, so wrote an article!
- Kursaal (amusement park)
- Lewes Bonfire - Created article from redirect page
- List of foxhound packs of the United Kingdom - Following extensive work on Fox hunting
- List of South East Coast Ambulance Service stations - Created to move information clutter from main article
- Louise Skelton - British equestrian
- Lustleigh - A Devon village close to my heart
- Lustleigh Cleave - natural feature in Lustleigh
- Lustleigh May Day - village event
- Lustleigh Show - village event
- Marshwood Castle - to close out redlink from Lustleigh
- Metropolis Management and Building Acts Amendment Act 1878 - daughter article for Exeter Theatre Fire
- Metropolitan Building Act 1855 - daughter article for Exeter Theatre Fire
- Mounted Games Association of Great Britain - member of the British Equestrian Federation
- NHS ambulance services
- Newton Abbot power station - former Devon power station
- Newton Bushell Turnpike Trust - builders of the A382
- Operational Research CONsultancy - The targeting system used to measure the performance of UK ambulance trusts
- Oval Raceway - Local motor racing circuit
- Pain stimulus - Medical knowledge
- Paraveterinary workers in Australia
- Paraveterinary workers in Belgium
- Paraveterinary workers in Denmark
- Paraveterinary workers in France
- Paraveterinary workers in Ireland
- Paraveterinary workers in Italy
- Paraveterinary workers in Japan
- Paraveterinary workers in New Zealand
- Paraveterinary workers in Norway
- Paraveterinary workers in South Africa
- Paraveterinary workers in Sweden
- Paraveterinary workers in Switzerland
- Paraveterinary workers in Thailand
- Paraveterinary workers in Turkey
- Patient's Charter - NHS charter of service
- Piggy French - British eventing competitor
- Police vehicles in the United Kingdom - Created after work on Police car
- Police vehicles in Belgium
- Pre 2006 NHS ambulance services - Created after major changes to EMS in the UK when trust boundaries changed, created article to capture old structure
- Primley House - Created along with work on Paignton Zoo and Herbert Whitley
- Primley Sceptre - First UK crufts champion
- RAF Booker - Created with sketchy detail, so needs to expand
- RAF Chailey
- RAF Manston - Where I used to be an air cadet (created article from a redirect page)
- RAF Pocklington - Didn't have an article, and i thought it deserved one...
- Resuscitation Council (UK) - The UK governing body for resus protocols
- Richborough Energy Park - At Richborough Power Station near where I grew up
- Robert Pople - Exeter Mayor
- Robertson's - Food brand i used to work on, now discontinued
- Roger Beynim - Exeter Mayor
- Rowland Glave Saunders - Exeter Mayor
- Royal International Horse Show - equestrian show at All England Jumping Course at Hickstead
- Sarah Wilkinson - former NHS chief exec
- Sheriff of Exeter - Exeter position
- South of England Show - Local agricultural show
- Spindles Farm - Detail on major animal cruelty case
- Stover Country Park - Local destination
- Sussex Police Air Operations Unit
- Sutreworde - deserted medieval village in Lustleigh
- Tail lift - Created as a stub, but hope to expand it. Obviously should have an article, but not a subject expert!
- Template:Caduceus confusion summary - A short article part intended to harmonise text between Caduceus and Rod of Asclepius and link on to main article
- The Great Bovine Pestilence - from work on Hundatorra
- The Horse Whisperer (book) - famous book without a page!
- The House That Moved - Exeter landmark and one of Europe's oldest buildings
- The Romany Rye (play) - daughter of Exeter Theatre Royal fire
- Thomas Blackall - Notable historic Devon person
- Triggernometry (podcast) - popular podcast
- Veterinary medicine in the United Kingdom - sensible split/merge of vet, veterinary surgeon
- Veterinary medicine in the United States - fixing global problems with veterinarian
- West of England Eye Infirmary - former Exeter hospital
- Whipton Barton - former Exeter manor
- Whipton Hospital - Exeter hospital
- William Prouz - Historic Exeter figure
- William de Widworthy - historic Devon figure
- Wonford House Hospital - Exeter hospital
- Woolstore Theatre - small theatre in Wiltshire
- Wycombe Air Park - The link between RAF Booker and British Airways flying club!
Fox hunt articles
Rugby articles
Nav Templates I made
Pages I made major contribution to (main or second contributor)
- Aerial work platform - Overhauled this article, removing how-to and restructuring the article to improve readability dramatically. Also cut out a lot of duplication
- Airway management - Added detail and restructured article
- All England Jumping Course at Hickstead - Restructure and split off daughter articles for two main shows
- Amateur Transplants - UK comedy band
- Ambulance - Made major edits to this (about 80% of the article written or re-written), in order to make it in to an excellent resource article. Included splitting out country specific information
- Artificial respiration - Major overhaul, including bringing in stubs from CPR Mask and Face shield
- August Bank Holiday - about the day
- Automated external defibrillator - Added detail and tidied the article up to separate more from Defibrillation
- AVPU - Added detail to this, making it no longer a stub (IMHO)
- Bandage - Restructured to make better base for expansion
- Battenburg markings - Overhauled this fairly new article, and uploaded images I created to illustrate
- Bed rest - Merged with 'Bedrest' in to a single article, and added additional citations and tidy up
- Bleeding - Rewrote large sections of this article, and added sections on types of bleeding cause
- British Association for Immediate Care - This article was on the verge of a speedy delete after creation, but I rescued it to be a good article start
- British Dressage - UK governing body for dressage
- British Eventing - UK governing body for eventing
- British Horse Society - Restructure
- British Red Cross - Created structure and major copy editing
- Buckland Beacon - Devon landmark
- C. J. Phipps - Theatre designer and cause of Exeter Theatre Royal fire
- Caduceus - Major rewrite to this article to clear up ambiguity around usage (and overlap with rod of asclepius)
- Cardiopulmonary resuscitation - Added a lot of info, restructured and added loads of references
- Caroline Pratt - British equestrian
- Cecil Torr - noted Devon antiquarian
- Choking - Major additions to this article. removal of lots of how to, and merged abdominal thrusts in
- Colson's - Exeter department store
- County Ground Stadium - Former Exeter stadium
- Defibrillation - Instigated merge with Defibrillator, and managed merge of two articles together to create one much better article with the support of other regular editors
- Devon Air Ambulance - Asked to look at this by another EMS task force editor, added full inline citation and copy edited
- Dressing (medical) - Structured article for expansion
- Edward Whitley (politician) - father of Herbert Whitley
- Emergency
- Emergency action principles - Was entirely POV and instruction guide focused, and also entirely based on medical emergencies. 100% rewrite to make more encyclopaedic and more general
- Emergency medical services - Tough challenge involving an almost total rewrite of a US focused article to reflect a global view
- Emergency service - This was a very patchy article containing a list added to randomly, and some sub sections which weren't strictly relevant here. Now structured in to core, secondary and civil emergency services
- Emergency vehicle equipment - Rearranged the structure to try and make this not only global, but add a technical edge
- Emergency vehicle lighting - Complete overhaul, rewrite and significant addition of extra information and citations.
- Eyre Massey Shaw first chief of London Fire Brigade
- Fire - Restructured section on classifying fires
- Fire apparatus - Following heavy work on police car and ambulance, i overhauled fire apparatus. Clearly separated out types of apparatus to distinguish for the lay reader
- Fire prevention - Added table comparing European and US fire classfication systems
- First aid - Quite a stubby article, so added lots of info and Wikilinks
- First aid kit - Worked on article to try and make clear distinctions between types and bring some structure
- Fox hunting - Very disjointed article with a lot of repetition and POV, tidied up and started adding much needed citations
- Frances Helen Prideaux - pioneering female doctor
- Geoff Billington - British equestrian
- Glasgow coma scale - Copy editing and tabulating main features
- Herbert Whitley - founder of Paignton Zoo
- Horse teeth - Major overhaul
- Hugh Wood (landowner)
- John Blackaller - Devon historic figure
- Kelly Mine, Devon - mine in Lustleigh
- Kent Air Ambulance - Copy editing and best practice from other air ambulance articles
- Kent International Airport - Airport on the site of RAF Manston (see above)
- Lewes Bonfire - annual celebration
- Lifeguard - Complete rewrite of Lifeguard article as it was not a single coherent view, but a collection of statements which didn't really link to together, and contained a lot of WP:OR
- Man versus Horse Marathon
- Mayor of Exeter - converted from list to article
- Miles Thomas - former Morris motors managing director
- Monty Roberts - Significant improvements to article
- Moretonhampstead - Devon village
- NHS Digital - former UK NHS body
- Natural horsemanship - Complete rewrite of POV and OR article
- Nitrous oxide and oxygen - Complete rewrite and move away from focus on Entonox, which is a trade name. Added pictures (as gallery below).
- Nuffield Press - former Morris company
- Oropharyngeal airway - Overhaul on this article, including merging Guedal Pattern airway article in to it
- OPQRST - Restructured to make it more readable and moved first person voice. Good basis for more expansion here
- Oxygen therapy - Complete rewrite and restructure of this article
- Paignton Zoo
- Police car - Was a dreadful article, all split by country twice! Wrote significant amount of text to bring global and generic perspective
- Police dog - Add much needed citations and some clean up
- Police van - merged with colloquial article 'paddywagon' and edits
- Prestcold - historic Morris company
- Princess Royal Hospital, Haywards Heath - Sussex hospital
- RAF Membury - detail of what is now a motorway services
- RAF Pocklington - former RAF airbase
- RHM - Added lots of company info while I worked there
- River Bovey - Devon river
- River Teign - Devon river
- Rod of Asclepius - Restructured this article to make it easier to read, and adding additional information to separate from Caduceus
- Rollkur - a controversial technique in horse training
- Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital - Exeter hospital
- Scott Mills - Radio 1 DJ - restructured and turned it in to more encyclopaedic article
- Shire Horse - Major article overhaul, adding additional information and references
- Simon says - Article overhaul, split out DAB page (Simon says (disambiguation))
- Smelling salts - Changed stubby unreferenced article in to new structure with strong initial references
- Star of life - added major information to this article, including explanatory picture
- Stover Country Park - Devon attraction
- Them There - UK acting collective, converted from previous informal name
- Trailwalker - annual fundraising walk
- William Hurst (MP) - Exeter MP and mayor
Pages I watch and edit
Images I've added
Images ported under Creative Commons from Flickr
Fair use images i've added
- File:Cd ireland.jpg
- File:Ilcor logo.gif
- File:Resuscouncil flash.gif
- File:RAF Manston.jpg
- File:Edfenergy logo.gif
- File:SPlogo.gif
My awards
Wow, I actually got a barnstar!
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The Barnstar of Life
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| The barnstar of life is hereby awarded to Owain.davies for a particularly fine job of creating and editing the article emergency. The Transhumanist 20:03, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
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The Medicine Barnstar
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| For your hard work improving the quality of EMS and fire-related aritcles, I hereby award you this medicine barnstar. Thanks also for taking time to work with and provide guidance to new users while ensuring quality content. delldot talk 19:38, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
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