User:ClaudeMuncey

I'm a programmer/database administrator/whatever and found Wikipedia through Ward's Wiki late in 2001. Started editing and well, you know how these addictions start. . . the first one is always free. ..

I live in Central California (check the articles below and make a guess where) but have long standing interests in film, history, theology and the spirituality of the Carmelite and Benedictine Orders.

What I have been doing lately (and have been having a lot of fun with) is to pick a "most wanted" page, or an empty link on a page I find interesting, and then roughing in something a bit longer than a stub, but not a full article -- yet. A "super stub" is usually made up of:


 * a proper introductory sentence or two, as all good stubs have (including, if a person, birth and death dates, as well as full name)
 * bullet point list of "notes toward an article"
 * if person, quotes (if available)
 * bullet point list of links for further research

What I try to do as well is fully wikify the entries, and to do some basic reference cleanups or redirects as necessary. This ensures that those who are most likely to flesh out the "super stub" to a full aricle will find it.

The advantage is that they are fast to do, can often supply a substantial amount of information where there is none currently, and provide a start for a real article. Also, they help me avoid unconscious plagiarism of the sources (sometimes a real problem for me) through boiling the language down to the basic facts.

These seem to be working out well, and the best part is when you see someone else take off with it from there.

I'm working on the following


 * Second Vatican Council
 * Ad Gentes
 * Apostolicam Actuositatem
 * Christus Dominus
 * Dei Verbum
 * Dignitatis Humanae
 * Gaudium et Spes
 * Gravissimum Educationis
 * Inter Mirifica
 * Lumen Gentium
 * Nostra Aetate
 * Perfectae Caritatis
 * Presbyterorum Ordinis
 * Optatam Totius
 * Orientalium Ecclesiarum
 * Sacrosanctum Concilium
 * Unitatis Redintegratio


 * National park
 * National parks (Australia)
 * National parks (Canada)
 * National parks (England and Wales)
 * Snowdonia National Park
 * National parks (Germany)
 * National parks (Ireland)
 * National parks (Kenya)
 * National parks (New Zealand)
 * National parks (Scotland)
 * National parks (United States)
 * Vietnam Veterans Memorial
 * Yosemite National Park


 * Sierra Nevada


 * Yosemite
 * Yosemite Valley
 * Bridalveil Falls
 * El Capitan
 * Half Dome
 * Yosemite Falls
 * John Muir Trail
 * Hetch Hetchy Valley
 * Mariposa Grove
 * Tuolumne Meadows


 * Redwood
 * Sequoia
 * Coast redwood
 * Giant sequoia


 * Douglas-fir
 * Coast Douglas-fir
 * Rocky Mountain Douglas-fir
 * Bigcone Douglas-fir


 * California black oak


 * American black bear
 * Brown bear


 * Carmelites
 * Edith Stein
 * John of the Cross
 * Teresa of Avila
 * Westminster Abbey
 * World Council of Churches

Contribuiting to


 * Catholicism
 * Nuclear Weapon
 * Pope John Paul II

SuperStubs started (see above)


 * Anthony Quinn
 * Billy Wilder
 * Crimean War
 * Laurence Olivier
 * Lew Wallace
 * Merced, California
 * Russo-Japanese War
 * Sophia Loren
 * Spencer Tracy
 * T E Lawrence

Stubs or disambiguation pages


 * Catholic Modernist Theology
 * Cork (city)
 * County Cork
 * Encyclopedia Astronautica
 * Liberation Theology
 * Sandwich
 * Temple

Looking at working on pages


 * Catholic Social Teachings
 * Catholic Worker Movement
 * Dorothy Day
 * Therese of Liseaux
 * Thomas Merton


 * San Joaquin Valley

Memberships