User:Metalicat

I like making things better.

What I do

I write and improve articles, mostly aiming at Good Article and Featured Article standard. My main subject area is early twentieth-century British boxing, but I'll work on anything that catches my interest and has decent sources. Recent work has ranged from the National Sporting Club to algorithmic amplification to the printing press.

I do a lot of sourcing from the British Newspaper Archive, cross-referenced against civil records, census returns and modern scholarship. I also review other editors' work at GA, peer review and FAC as a way of contributing to the community.

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Articles

Article	Status	Notes
Pat O'Keeffe		British middleweight champion and Lonsdale Belt holder. Built from a stub using BNA, BoxRec, census records, and Harding (2016). Promoted to Featured Article in June 2026.
Arthur Frederick Bettinson	Under development	Co-founder and manager of the National Sporting Club. Restructured from institutional history to biography following GA review.
National Sporting Club		Foundation, governance, championship boxing, and dissolution. Substantially expanded.
Lonsdale Belt	Occasional contributions	Weight divisions, early belt holders, pension disputes.
Algorithmic amplification		How recommendation algorithms on digital platforms increase content visibility. Sourced from peer-reviewed literature and primary legislative material.
Printing press		Level-4 vital article. Promoted to GA in May 2026 after extensive citation, prose and structural work on a long-standing article.

Reviews

I participate in the GA nomination process, peer review and FAC as both nominator and reviewer. If you're working on something and want a second pair of eyes, leave a note on my talk page.

This user is a Wikipedian.

This user lives in the United Kingdom.

🥊	This user writes about British boxing history.

★	This user enjoys improving articles to GA/FA standard.

This user has their good article nominations reviewed more quickly with good article review circles.

This editor is a WikiGnome.

This user participates in
WikiProject Boxing.

This user has access to Cambridge University Press resources.

This user has access to JSTOR.

This user has access to the British Newspaper Archive and can verify sources on request.

This user has access to Newspapers.com and can verify sources on request.

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"Stop it, Billy, I'm not the Kaiser!"

– Pat O'Keeffe to Billy Wells, c. 1914–1915