User:TheoClarke/Selected contributions

This is a list of the articles to which I have made substantial contributions. New articles that I created are marked N.

Featured articles

• David Helvarg had been flagged for attention when I came across it. Created as a stub by MikeCapone (19:32, 7 Dec 2004), an anonymous user made a small expansion of 5 Mar 2005 and on 1 Apr 2005 it was flagged for speedy deletion. This was rapidly moved to WP:VFD and on 3 Apr 2005 it was flagged for attention. The article was single paragraph when I found it. I researched the subject online and expanded the article because one VFD voter felt that Helvarg was not notable. I contacted Helvarg and asked him for some specific information and a photograph, which he provided. Thus, I was able to expand the article further on 8 Apr and it came off VFD the next day. Bish then copy edited the article at my request. Over the next few days I continued to polish the article and solicited comments from Maureen. On 11 Apr I posted it prematurely at WP:FAC. I moved it next day to peer review and for the next few days implemented the various suggesstions that were made there. These suggestions soon attenuated and on 17 May I put it back on FAC where it sparked a host of comments, which I could not address sufficiently fast to prevent its failure. I continued to polish the article with widespread guidance, and, on 14 June I returned it to Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/David Helvarg. This time it was successful, and on July 8 it was the featured article of the day: From stub through VFD to Main Page, now there is a lifecycle!
• N Ted "Double Duty" Radcliffe was my first article. I had researched him for a Dead Celebrities draw. After getting Helvarg to featured article I thought that I should start on those that I had initiated. I was surprised at how little work was needed before I brought it to peer review on July 23 2005. The changes identified there were simple to effect so I nominated the article for featured article status. Again, the few requested changes were readily effected and the article was promoted on August 14 2005.

People

• N Loderingo Andalò populated a redlink in List of cultural references in The Divine Comedy
• Pete Atkin, a talented acquaintance.
• N Arthur Baker (financier) flowed from Little Pub Company.
• N Arthur Baker (calligrapher) flowed from Arthur Baker (financier).
• Eddie Barclay had just died.
• N Fleur Beale after an article on the fictional Children of the Faith sect from her book I am not Esther was VFD.
• N Jack Beddington while watching the television series Animation Nation.
• N Mary Hayley Bell having researched her for a Dead Celebrities draw.
• Wilson Bentley after reading a New York Academy of Sciences newsletter article.
• John Berryman after merge from a misnamed article.
• Laurence Binyon needed a bibliography.
• N Genevieve Blanchett came from a random hit on Cate Blanchett.
• Louis Blanchette as one of the links from Blanchett.
• Carol Bouman was a substub listed on Wikipedia:Deadend pages.
• N Chet Brewer was a colleague of Ted Radcliffe.
• Brunhilda of Austrasia, who may be the person after whom Bruniquel is named.
• Jim Capaldi had just died.
• Helena Carr was on VfD.
• N Robert Carrier, after picking up a cookbook.
• N Cavalcante de' Cavalcanti populated a redlink in List of cultural references in The Divine Comedy
• Chiang Yee was a de facto stub listed on Wikipedia:Deadend pages.
• N Lou Chirban was a colleague of Ted Radcliffe.
• N Neil Churchill was a colleague of Ted Radcliffe.
• N Lou Clarizio was a colleague of Ted Radcliffe.
• N Niccolo Antonio Colantonio because someone had created a Colantonio dead end stub.
• N Peter Collinson FRS, a resident of Peckham, of which I had just expanded the history.
• N Fred Conlon, Kelly Conlon, Mary A. Conlon, Patrick Conlon (artist), and Patrick Conlon (politician) were all redlinks when I disambiguated Conlon.
• Douglas Corrigan was a short article that I found as a random page. After expansion and peer review, I proposed it as a featured article on November 13 2005. It failed because I was unable to report enough about his character.
• Laura Cottingham was on VfD.
• Robert Creeley, as a gift to Billy, who was distressed by the death of his friend.
• N Alistair Cameron Crombie who was cited in the article on Robert Grosseteste, most famous resident of Stradbroke.
• George Curry (Wild Bunch) was a stub that I found as a random page.
• Chris Curtis had just died.
• N Al Dubetts was a colleague of Ted Radcliffe.
• N Frank Dyall was a colleague of Ted Radcliffe.
• John Wayles Eppes was a stub that I found as a random page.
• N Mark Finch was a friend.
• N George "Showboat" Fisher played for Jamestown Red Sox.
• N Henry Folland owned Folland Aircraft Ltd. My grandfather managed the Folland machine shop from the beginning. My father and his sister were Folland apprentices.
• N Gene Frankel had just died.
• N Raelee Frazier populated a redlink in Ted Radcliffe
• N Gertrude of Poland was an owner of the Gertrude Psalter.
• N Wilfred Gibson because it was a mispelling redirect to the poet Wilfrid Wilson Gibson from the band Electric Light Orchestra.
• N Mike Golding populated a redlink in Southampton.
• Frank Gorshin had just died.
• N Thomas Graham, Lord Lynedoch to fix a redlink in Battle of Barrosa, which was a dead end that I copy edited.
• Anthony Green was a de facto stub listed on Wikipedia:Deadend pages.
• N Eric Griffiths had just died.
• N William Harmon because I cited him in Poetry analysis.
• N Peter Hennessy after seeing a TV broadcast of his appearance before the Select Committee on the publication of political memoirs.
• Aaron Hill needed expansion. I found this while hunting for Aaron's Hill, Surrey as part of List of United Kingdom places
• N Debra Hill had just died.
• N Edward Hirsch came from expanding Poetry analysis.
• David Holbrook after reading his novel A Play of Passion.
• N Menra Hopewell was the author of a romanticised story about Louis Blanchette.
• N W. G. Hoskins populated a redlink in Local history.
• N Tony Jackson (bass player) named Chris Curtis when they were in The Searchers (band).
• Georgios Karatzaferis was a stub that I found as a random page.
• N H. R. F. Keating after expanding Inspector Ghote.
• N Ed Krebs after creating his entry on request at Wikiquote.
• N Arthur Lake, Bishop of Bath and Wells, after whom my school house was named.
• N Thomas Lake was the (probably more significant) brother of Arthur.
• N Sheldon Lee (politician) flowed from Sheldon Lee disambiguation.
• John Leland was a key figure in the history of English local history.
• N Yaron Lifschitz worked with Genevieve Blanchett.
• N William Lily taught John Leland
• N Hugh Lloyd arose because I had researched him for a Dead Celebrities draw.
• L. S. Lowry, my godfather; I expanded every part of this article.
• N Raffæle Marcellino worked with Genevieve Blanchett.
• N Elliott Marks after watching the Starsky & Hutch movie.
• N J. B. Martin populated a redlink in Ted Radcliffe
• N Charles Herbert Mayo was the vicar of Longburton.
• N Charles Horace Mayo to differentiate him from the unrelated Charles Herbert Mayo.
• N Stanley Miarka was a colleague of Ted Radcliffe.
• N Gladys Mitchell, a favoured author.
• N Walter Nugent Monck after reading David Holbrook's novel Play of Passion.
• Robert Montagu was a stub that I found as a random page.
• N Barney Morris was a colleague of Ted Radcliffe.
• N Richard Mottram after creating his entry on request at Wikiquote.
• N Eugène Diomi Ndongala Nzomambu flowed from a nonsensical deadend page.
• David Ogilvy was a stub that I found as a random page.
• Baroness Orczy, a favoured author.
• N Chris Parr commissioned a play by Pete Atkin.
• N W. E. W. Petter was a redlink in Folland.
• N Gervase Phinn after meeting him at a conference.
• N V. S. Pritchett after reading a recent biography of this Ipswich native.
• Tom Phillips, an erstwhile neighbour; I added a substantial biography to complement the existing description of his works.
• N Alex Radcliffe was the brother of Ted Radcliffe.
• N Matthias Ringmann in response to a question at Wikipedia:Reference desk
• A. L. Rowse was a stub that I found as a random page.
• Frederic George Stephens flowed from the disambiguation of Athenaeum.
• N Fred Stovall, owner of Monroe Monarchs.
• Bobbi Sykes was a de facto stub listed on Wikipedia:Deadend pages.
• N H. W. Timperley wrote a book illustrated by [[#L. S. Lowry]|L. S. Lowry]].
• N Quincy Trouppe was a colleague of Ted Radcliffe.
• N Philip Turner, after reading a Stephen Chance novel.
• Pierre Adolphe Valette was a teacher of [[#L. S. Lowry]|L. S. Lowry]].
• Raoul Vilain was a stub that I found as a random page.
• Akintunde Warnock was a de facto stub listed on Wikipedia:Deadend pages. It still needs further expansion but the subject did not catch my interest.
• Theodore Watts-Dunton was an editor of Athenaeum magazine.

Music

• N Antis after reading Music of Lithuania
• Athenaeum flowed from the disambiguation of Athenaeum.
• N Basement Tape was an attempt to resolve conflict at John Wesley Harding (album).
• N Blue Mink having seen Madeline Bell singing on television and remembering how my school teacher said in 1970 that Blue Mink would be forgotten by 1974.
• Blue Moon (song) having tidied Blue Moon.
• Cry of the afflicted was proposed for deletion; needlessly to my mind.
• Cutting Jade had been flagged as needing attention.
• The Family Jewels had been flagged as needing attention.
• Jonathan Fire Eater were a follow-up to The Ignobles.
• The Quarrymen after creating the biography of Eric Griffiths.
• The Searchers (band) flowed from Chris Curtis.

Theatre, Film & TV

• American Dragon: Jake Long was a de facto stub listed on Wikipedia:Deadend pages.
• N Away was a play produced by Griffin Theatre Company.
• Beauty World was a de facto stub listed on Wikipedia:Deadend pages.
• N Duke the Lost Engine flowed from The Railway Series.
• N The Flying Irishman was the biopic of Douglas Corrigan
• N Griffin Theatre Company where Genevieve Blanchett started her career.
• N Mainstage was a discipline within which Yaron Lifschitz had worked.
• Mull of Kintyre test was mentioned on WikiEN-l.
• Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go! was a request from User:Angie Y..
• The Guru (movie) was a movie that I watched on TV.

Places

• Brumunddal after expanding the same subject found randomly at no:wikipedia.
• N Bruniquel, to populate a link from the Graffiti article of the day.
• Charlestown, NSW was a de facto stub listed on Wikipedia:Deadend pages.
• N Chiselborough, about which I once wrote a dissertation.
• Copp's Hill was a stub that I found as a random page.
• The Drake Hotel, Chicago was mentioned as Giano's favourite hotel.
• Great Highway was a stub that I found as a random page.
• N Hemingstone to fix a redlink in Professional farter.
• N Iron Door Club was a residency of The Searchers.
• Islip (town), New York was a random page where I added the wonderful story of Mobro 4000.
• N List of United Kingdom locations and its many subpages arose from a transwiki and reformat of a huge list on Multilingual Wikisource.
• Lochinvar held the transcript of Walter Scott's verse, which I had transwikied.
• Longburton was a stub that I found as a random page.
• Montacute was linked from Montacute House, where my great grandparents may have met.
• N North Elmham was the birthplace of John Mills.
• Peckham, my hwilhom home town. I expanded the history.
• N Te Rata Bridge was the subject of Wikisource:Butcher report, which I transwikied.
• Stradbroke, my workplace.
• Watford Gap service station was a stub that was up for deletion.
• Zone Point was the last redlink on List of United Kingdom locations

Organisations

• Abraham Puls & Sons was a renaming and expansion of Pulsen after transwiki.
• Amateur press association after conversation outside Wikipedia.
• Athenaeum Club flowed from the disambiguation of Athenaeum
• N British Amateur Press Association flowed from expanding Amateur press association.
• N Blue Frontier Campaign to populate a redlink in David Helvarg.
• N Environmental Law Service to populate a redlink in EPS, which I had just refactored.
• Folland, for whom my father and grandfather worked.
• N GE Capital Bank after cleaning up GE Capital Bank AB.
• Gentlemen's club replaced a redirect to the more general Club.
• N Knights of Saint Mary was a religious order founded by Loderingo Andalò.
• N Ligue des Gourmands flowed from transwikiing Gourmand to Wiktionary.
• Little Pub Company was a stub that I found as a random page.
• N New York Academy of Sciences, of which I am a member.
• N Pye after realising that there was nothing about the parent company when tidying Pye Records.
• World Financial Group flowed from World Lending Group
• World Lending Group flowed from Gross profit
• N Worshipful Company of Management Consultants, my second article, flowed from my membership.
• Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers, to which I added a history after following the link from the King James Version of the Bible article of the day.

History

• N Guildford pub bombing to populate a link in the Guildford Four article.
• N History of English local history is a personal enthusiasm.
• N Local history, which is one of my academic disciplines.
• N Pub name origins flowed from a discussion of this topic in a pub.
• N Treaty of Windsor 1522, to populate a link from the Mary I of England article of the day.

Finance

• Fixed cost flowed from Gross profit
• Gross profit was a random article.
• Variable cost flowed from Gross profit

Education

• N Business and Enterprise College

Politics

• N List of Parliamentary constituencies in the United Kingdom because I could not find a list of all constituencies past and present when writing the A. L. Rowse article.
• N Mandatory sentencing was a policy that Genevieve Blanchett opposed.
• N Seaweed rebellion to populate a redlink in David Helvarg.

Publications and literature

• Apocalypse Zero was a stub that I found as a random page.
• Athenaeum (magazine) flowed from the disambiguation of Athenaeum.
• Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art was an article written to replace a transcript.
• Childe Rowland to the Dark Tower Came was an article written to replace a transcript.
• N Computing (magazine) flowed from adding a citation to Wikipedia:Wikipedia as a press source 2006.
• N Cosmographiae Introductio to populate a redlink in Matthias Ringmann.
• N Gertrude Psalter was the source of information about the illegitimacy of Sviatopolk II of Kiev.
• Humani Generis Redemptionem after transwiki of transcript to a Wikisource article.
• Inspector Ghote after reading a novel.
• List of cultural references in The Divine Comedy was one of User:Filiocht's projects.
• N Moon in art and literature after tidying Full moon.
• N List of schools of poetry]] because the topic was too big to cover adequately in Poetry analysis. I later merged this into List of poetry groups and movements.
• N List of used book conditions because I kept having to explain that Good was "not very good".
• N Marmion flowed from Lochinvar.
• Mary Poppins after merging sub-articles back into main article.
• N Pittsburgh Courier populated a redlink in Ted Radcliffe
• Poetry analysis, which had been flagged as needing attention.
• N Princeps Pastorum was needed to explain a clause in List of Popes, which was on FLC.
• Vajacki mars was a random page where I replaced a copyvio verse translation with a prose version.

Games

• N Buck (poker) to answer a Wikipedia:Reference desk question about "the buck stops here".
• N Dead Celebrities because I was involved in a game.
• N Kung Fu Master in response to a question at Wikipedia:Reference desk.

Sport

• N Bismarck Churchills populated a redlink in Ted Radcliffe
• N Columbus Blue Birds populated a redlink in Ted Radcliffe
• N Earl Mack Major League All-Stars played against Jamestown Red Sox.
• N Elmwood Giants populated a redlink in Ted Radcliffe
• N Gilkerson's Union Giants populated a redlink in Ted Radcliffe
• N Illinois Giants populated a redlink in Ted Radcliffe
• N Jamestown Red Sox populated a redlink in Ted Radcliffe
• N Louisville Buckeyes populated a redlink in Ted Radcliffe
• N Memphis Red Sox populated a redlink in Ted Radcliffe
• N Monroe Monarchs populated a redlink in Ted Radcliffe
• N National Semipro Championship populated a redlink in Ted Radcliffe
• N Negro Leagues Baseball Museum populated a redlink in Ted Radcliffe
• N New York Black Yankees populated a redlink in Ted Radcliffe
• N Representative side to explain term in Sydney Riot of 1879.

Others

The following pages all flowed from other work:

• Amitabha's forty-eight vows was listed on Wikipedia:Deadend pages and needed to be converted to an encyclopedia article after transwikiing to Wikisource
• N Bedsit flowed from fixing an article on the Austrian equivalent.
• N Differential GPS to fix a redlink in Global Positioning System.
• Earnings management was a de facto stub listed on Wikipedia:Deadend pages.
• Ecological community was a de facto stub listed on Wikipedia:Deadend pages.
• Entertainment-Education was a de facto stub listed on Wikipedia:Deadend pages.
• Flame test was needed for a Wikipedia:Reference desk request.
• Foolscap folio was a stub that I found as a random page.
• N Gourmand World Cookbook Award flowed from transwikiing Gourmand to Wiktionary.
• N Indirect grilling flowed from the transwikied Beer can chicken.
• N Marine conservation populated a redlink in Blue Frontier Campaign.
• N Nipah palm to populate a link in the Attap dwelling article.
• N Prestige dialect to populate a link in the International English article.
• N Store detective for reasons that escape me now.
• N Vee formation, a symmetric form of Echelon formation, which I found when checking the links in Blenheim Palace.

Controversies

The following pages were all the focus of controversial discussions in which I became involved:

• Arts in Birmingham
• E. E. Cummings
• Iglesia ni Cristo
• Italo disco
• John Wesley Harding
• Karla Homolka
• Scientology
• Scientology controversy
• Sunflower (album)
• Ward Churchill
• Younger Than Yesterday

Disambiguation

• N Blanchett to handle removal of surname origin information from [[Cate Blanchett].
• Conlon was a transwikied surname dicdef up for speedy deletion.
• Crombie flowed from Alistair Cameron Crombie.
• Gertrude flowed from Gertrude of Poland.
• Laura flowed from Laura Cottingham.
• Radcliffe flowed from Ted Radcliffe.
• Stovall flowed from Monroe Monarchs.

Wikipedia process

The following are discussions of policy or other material that is not part of the encyclopedia:

• User talk:Bishonen/European toilet paper holder
• Wikipedia:Reference desk
• Wikipedia talk:Countdown deletion
• Wikipedia:Simplified Ruleset
• N Wikipedia:History of Wikipedian processes and people arose from discussion at Wikipedia_talk:Wikipedia_Signpost.