User:BabelStone

BabelStone has passed away. His user page is preserved here in his memory. Learn more about this Wikipedian at Andrew West (linguist).

This user has a page on the English Wikipedia.

Galleries of photos taken by myself

Tianning Temple Pagoda, Beijing, December 2013

I mostly take photos of historical and archaeological buildings and features in Britain and China. My favourite subjects are churches and pagodas. I also take large numbers of photos of museum objects, unfortunately often not great quality, but I try to cover interesting objects that are not well represented on Commons.

• Category for photographs by Andrew West

Museums

• Museum of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Nanning, China
• Museum of the Mausoleum of the Nanyue King, Guangzhou, China
• Quanzhou Museum of Maritime History, Fujian, China
• Great Wall of China Museum, Beijing, China
• Liao and Jin City Wall Museum, Beijing
• Farnham Museum, Farnham, Surrey
• National Museum of China, Beijing
• Capital Museum, Beijing, China
• Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
• Reading Museum, Reading
• British Museum, London

Outdoors

• Buildings, churches, towers, pagodas, bridges, etc.
• Cloud Platform at Juyongguan, Beijing
• Miscellaneous historical objects
• Inscribed stones and monuments
• English gravestones
• Out and about
• On location
• China 1984-1985

Fauna and Flora

• Wildlife
• People

Themes

• A History of the World in 100 Objects

Imported from geograph and flickr

• File:Mother Ludlam's Cave, Moor Park.jpg
• File:Interior of Mother Ludlam's Cave, Moor Park.jpg
• File:Father Footes Cave.jpg
• File:Moor Park House.jpg

Quality images

• 
  Odiham Castle, Hampshire.
• 
  Wilder's Folly, Berkshire

Activity statistics (as of 23 November 2022)

• Total edits: 24,997
• Total files uploaded: 4,111
• My own photographs (approximately): 3,406
• Categories created: 841
• Deletion requests initiated: 102
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Deleted files

• 18 images of Chairman Mao badges in my collection deleted (but see Category:Chairman Mao badges)

External links

• Diary of a Rambling Antiquarian - my blog featuring many photos that I have uploaded to Commons
• BabelStone's photostream on flickr - mostly photos that are not interesting enough for Commons, or which cannot be uploaded (e.g. because of FoP) [I'm no longer active here]
• BabelStone on Instagram - random photos