User:Edward/contribs

These lists are very incomplete.

Articles I started

 * 1) Misuse of Drugs Act 1971
 * 2) Ten Tors - dartmoor hiking challenge
 * 3) Datamation - computer magazine - stub
 * 4) Simon Reeve - author - stub
 * 5) Cube farm - stub
 * 6) Backwell - village where my parents live
 * 7) Megabus
 * 8) Slopping out - stub
 * 9) Robert X. Cringely - technology author and broadcaster
 * 10) South Central Los Angeles
 * 11) Greg Critser - author and journalist - stub
 * 12) Breadmaker - Home appliance
 * 13) Pret a Manger - UK sandwich retailer
 * 14) Jon Courtenay Grimwood - cyberpunk author and journalist
 * 15) Katie Hafner - author / journalist - stub
 * 16) Dragon Runner - military robot - stub
 * 17) Gernot Zippe - centrifuge engineer
 * 18) Zippe-type centrifuge - nuclear fuel centrifuge
 * 19) The Money Programme - finance and business affairs television programme on BBC2
 * 20) Package holiday - transport and accommodation advertised and sold together by a tour operator.

Categories

 * Category:Vietnam War
 * Category:Vietnam War operations and battles
 * Category:Vietnam War equipment
 * Category:Vietnam War aircraft
 * Category:Vietnam War films
 * Category:Vietnam War people
 * Category:Cold War
 * Category:Cold War people
 * Category:Cold War films
 * Category:Science fiction films
 * Category:Free software
 * Category:KDE
 * Category:GNOME
 * Category:Widget toolkits
 * Category:Zope
 * Category:Python programming language
 * Category:Publicly-funded broadcasters
 * Category:BBC radio
 * Category:Radio
 * Category:Dune
 * Category:Science fiction novels
 * Category:Back to the Future (franchise)
 * Category:Techno-thrillers
 * Category:BBC
 * Category:United States armed forces
 * Category:Quake
 * Category:Text editors
 * Category:BBC television channels
 * Category:Spain
 * Category:Semitic languages
 * Category:Afro-Asiatic languages
 * Category:Glasgow
 * Category:Metro
 * Category:Public transport
 * Category:Celtic languages
 * Category:Singapore political parties
 * Category:Singapore
 * Category:Database management systems
 * Category:Lunar deities
 * Category:Shopping malls
 * Category:Retailers
 * Category:Commerce
 * Category:Supermarkets
 * Category:British supermarkets
 * Category:Post-apocalyptic science fiction films
 * Category:Online music stores
 * Category:Electronic commerce
 * Category:Disaster movies
 * Category:Online retailers
 * Category:Television networks
 * Category:24-hour television news channels
 * Category:Encyclopedias
 * Category:Computer magazines
 * Category:Boxers
 * Category:Fortune 500 companies
 * Category:Breakfast
 * Category:Diets
 * Category:Alcoholic beverages
 * Category:Deserts
 * Category:Pointing devices
 * Category:Input devices
 * Category:Laptops
 * Category:Declarative programming languages
 * Category:Nuclear strategies
 * Category:Home computers
 * Category:Personal computers
 * Category:Fictional buildings
 * Category:Free trade
 * Category:North Somerset
 * Category:West Sussex
 * Category:Cornwall
 * Category:East Sussex
 * Category:Military of Russia
 * Category:Online auction websites
 * Category:The Sprawl trilogy
 * Category:Cyberpunk
 * Category:Russian writers
 * Category:Edinburgh
 * Category:Romantic comedy films
 * Category:Eco-fiction
 * Category:Fast food
 * Category:Fast-food restaurants
 * Category:Restaurants
 * Category:Snack foods
 * Category:Universities and colleges in Colorado
 * Category:Oil spills
 * Category:Ales
 * Category:English seaside resorts, populated with help from t0m and Pepsiman
 * Category:Welsh seaside resorts
 * Category:Endorheic lakes
 * Category:Software metrics
 * Category:Combat sports
 * Category:Boardsports
 * Category:Fictional coffeeshops
 * Category:Centrifuges
 * Category:Edinburgh
 * Category:Italian writers
 * Category:Surfing
 * Category:Skateboarders
 * Category:Skateboarding
 * Category:Meals
 * Category:Korean cuisine
 * Category:Islands of the Philippines
 * Category:Vaccines
 * Category:Legacy systems
 * Category:Israeli settlements
 * Category:Private military contractors
 * Category:Drinking culture
 * Category:Massacres
 * Category:Spreads
 * Category:Unilever brands
 * Category:Police operations in the United Kingdom
 * Category:Protests
 * Category:Economic bubbles
 * Category:Living arrangements
 * Category:Energy crises
 * Category:Cakes
 * Category:Search engine optimization
 * Category:Weather satellites
 * Category:Earth observation satellites
 * Category:Package management systems
 * Category:English seaside resorts
 * Category:Dot-com
 * Category:Neologisms
 * Category:Political neologisms
 * Category:Popular culture neologisms
 * Category:High streets in the United Kingdom
 * Category:Gas explosions
 * Category:Slave trade
 * Category:Control characters
 * Category:America Online
 * Category:Online service providers
 * Category:Network topologies
 * Category:Railway tunnels
 * Category:Greenpeace
 * Category:Transhumanist books
 * Category:Postcyberpunk
 * Category:Military science fiction
 * Category:Geographic portmanteaus
 * Category:Computing portmanteaus
 * Category:Scientific portmanteaus
 * Category:Monday
 * Category:Tuesday
 * Category:Wednesday
 * Category:Wednesday
 * Category:Thursday
 * Category:Friday
 * Category:Sunday
 * Category:Saturday
 * Category:Stock market crashes
 * Category:Gardening tools
 * Category:Make Poverty History
 * Category:Unmanned resupply spacecraft
 * Category:Nomads
 * Category:G8
 * Category:Chairs
 * Category:Stagecoach Group
 * Category:No frills
 * Category:Dot-com magazines
 * Category:Dot-com people
 * Category:Pub chains
 * Category:Piazzas
 * Category:Accidental deaths
 * Category:Road accident victims
 * Category:British executions
 * Category:Industrial disasters
 * Category:Firearm deaths
 * Category:People shot dead by police
 * Category:Social stigma
 * Category:Unarmed people shot dead by police
 * Category:Alcohol law
 * Category:Drink driving
 * Category:Drunk drivers
 * Category:Christian companies
 * Category:Skiing deaths
 * Category:Infant feeding
 * Category:Boycotts
 * Category:Student strikes
 * Category:Terrorism in London

Articles which I've improved

 * Swingometer - added mention of Peter Snow
 * Wired magazine - added Katie Hafner to list of contributers
 * updated Logarithmic timeline of current events
 * easyJet - initially telephone booking, moved to internet booking
 * British Airways - Union Flag, tail fin repaint, Margaret Thatcher
 * Wheel clamp - mention the guy with the angle grinder
 * crosslinked The Hunt For Red October and Crazy Ivan
 * Pakora - In the United Kingdom, Pakora is sold in fast food takeaways as an alternative to chips or a kebab during the evening and early morning.
 * Atacama - The European Southern Observatory operates two major observatories in the Atacama desert
 * Doogie Howser, M.D. - The show was set in Los Angeles. It was created by Steven Bochco and David E. Kelley; Trademarks of the show include Doogie's best friend Vinnie climbing in through his window, and Doogie writing his diary on his computer at the end of each episode.
 * Geek canon - Film - add Office Space
 * Near Field Communication - link to Wired article
 * Maluku link RMS to Republik Maluku Selatan
 * Toyota Prius - Bluetooth
 * Goldfish - In the United Kingdom they have traditionally been given as prizes at Fairgrounds, but new laws mean it is now illegal to give live animals as a prize.
 * Yellow - In Canada and the United States School buses are almost uniformly painted a bright yellow color (often referred to as "school bus yellow")
 * Richard Ottaway - He attended Backwell School, and studied Law at Bristol University, graduating in 1974.
 * New Journalism - added Further reading: New Journalism, Tom Wolfe, ISBN 0060471832
 * Dijon - birthplace of Charles Le Temeraire duke of Burgundy
 * Magna Carta - Ross Perot bought a copy in 1984
 * Biggin Hill - It is the home of London Biggin Hill Airport.
 * Sky News - featured in The Day After Tomorrow
 * Aircraft carrier - Aircraft carriers in fiction
 * Answering machine - Answer machines in fiction
 * Viewdata - added some text about how viewdata is used in the Travel industry in the United Kingdom
 * Foot and mouth disease - Many sporting events and leisure activities like Ten Tors were cancelled.
 * Chewing gum - Many modern chewing gums use petroleum based plastic instead of chicle.
 * Montrose, Angus - The population in the 2001 census was 10,845.
 * Blue screen of death - added a photo of a bluescreened payphone and some text about embedded systems bluescreening
 * Aloha Flight 243 - The made for TV movie Miracle Landing is based on this incident.
 * Cable spaghetti - some text + photo.
 * Camera phone - as of 2004 typically 0.3 megapixels
 * Orange Prize for Fiction - added winners for 2003 and 2004
 * Louise Woodward - wrote about the trial being shown on TV in the United Kingdom.
 * John Koza - added some more stuff about the lottery, biggest computer cluster owned by an individual and an external link