User:Carcharoth/Ideas

Ideas and notes for articles and other content work (a dump of ideas previously kept in e-mails).


 * See http://toolserver.org/~magnus/fist.php (a free images search tool)
 * Nobel laureate bios (see Nobel website)
 * For Services Rendered
 * Something on Christmas lights or celebrations following this AfD
 * An article on Auguste Arthur de la Rive
 * Scopes Trial defence expert witnesses, see photograph here. The witnesses were: Horatio Hackett Newman, Maynard Mayo Metcalf, Fay-Cooper Cole, Jacob Goodale Lipman, Winterton Conway Curtis, Wilbur A. Nelson, William Marion Goldsmith. Our Scopes Trial article says there were eight witnesses (the photograph shows only seven), but only one (Metcalf) was allowed to give testimony.
 * London County Council Clerks (1889-1965) - source - Office of Clerk of the London County Council:
 * 1889-1896 H. De la Hooke
 * 1896-1900 Charles J. Stewart
 * 1900-1915 Sir Laurence Gomme
 * 1915-1925 Sir James Bird
 * 1925-1933 Sir Montagu Cox
 * 1933-1939 Sir George Gater C.M.G. D.S.O.
 * 1939-1946 Sir Eric Salmon M.C.
 * 1946-1947 L. H. Oliver C.B.E.
 * 1947-1956 Sir Howard Roberts C.B.E.
 * 1956-1965 Sir William Hart C.M.G.

Only one with an article. Three have DNB entries: Gater; Salmon; Hart. Some of the deputy clerks are also mentioned in the DNB.


 * Various royal wedding articles
 * WWI poets again
 * Selig Brodetsky Memorial Lecture
 * Armero tragedy (expand from sources found a few months ago)
 * More on Leon Mestel
 * Lister Medal (do more on this)
 * Defaultsort discussions and more on biographical metadata
 * Something on this memorial should be somewhere in an article, such as Footballers' Battalion (a redirect to Association football during World War I).
 * Some more on the monuments aux mort and other French war memorials (see also here).