User:Dugan Murphy

My name is Dugan Murphy (he/him) and I am really into John Neal (writer). I overhauled that article on two occasions 14 years apart and then saw it through to featured article status. I also created new articles and lists for Neal's bibliography, his articles in periodicals, his magazine The Yankee, his friend Tobias Watkins, the Delphian Club he co-founded with Watkins, and his novels Seventy-Six, Rachel Dyer, Logan, and Brother Jonathan. The articles about Watkins and their club are good. The rest are featured articles and featured lists.

I sometimes overhaul existing articles on historic topics, like Hoffman's Course of Legal Study, Benjamin Jackson (sailor), and the African Civilization Society, the latter of which I then saw through good article status. I sometimes write new articles contemporary topics, like my favorite DIY boy band, Oshima Brothers (now good); my favorite Swede, Fredy Clue; and my favorite inanimate product of Sweden, Bäckadräkten (now featured).

Occasionally I'll pull an image from an old, public domain book or take a photo of a historic building and upload it to Wikimedia Commons so I can add it to improve a Wikipedia article. Because of my experience nominating articles, I sometimes participate in peer reviews and review nominations for good and featured status.

I also lead historical walking tours of Portland, Maine, as Portland by the Foot.

I always have a hard time finding these links when I need them, so I keep them here: Template:DYK checklist, Copyvio detector, and DYK noms by username.