User:Gerry Lynch

I'm Gerry Lynch. I was born on 28 July 1977 in Belfast, Northern Ireland, eventually studying Politics at the Queen's University of Belfast (after school at St. Malachy's College). I lived in the New Lodge all my life until I graduated in 2000 with first class honours and upped sticks for London. I returned to Belfast in 2007 to take up a post as Executive Director of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland. I have made much fewer contributions to Wikipedia since, largely spelling and grammatical corrections, thanks in large part to a mistaken identity issue resulting in serious moderator abuse and suspension of my editing privelliges in the Summmer of 2007.

Please send me a message on my User talk page in English, auf Deutsch ya da Türkçede.

Wiki contributions focus on the politics of Northern Ireland and its recent history, politics of Turkey, obscure contemporary classical composers, opera, amateur radio or Anglicanism.

I am a licensed amateur radio operator, with the callsign GI0RTN.

What's with Turkey? I've been on holiday there a number of times, gone to night classes and learned passable Turkish, really enjoy the country, thought I could use it to do something useful on Wikipedia.

I dislike reference fascists. I also dislike teenagers with User pages that consist of forests of userboxes but have made about two and a half mainspace edits in a year. What do they do all day?

I can remember wikipedia before userboxes, but I use them now as a sort of shorthand even though I'm not convinced about them.

The article I started on the galactic halo made it to the front page on August 3, 2004 - - see the record in the archive.

My picture of is a Wikimedia Commons featured picture and was a candidate for picture of the year in 2006!

I also contribute very occasionally to German Wikipedia and Turkish Wikipedia.

I like music. A lot. Music that leavens life includes: John Adams | Bela Bartok | Ludwig van Beethoven | Benjamin Britten | Maurice Duruflé | Gabriel Fauré | Gustav Holst | Howard Hanson | Zoltan Kodaly | Jean Langlais | György Ligeti | Gustav Mahler | Olivier Messiaen | Dmitri Shostakovich | Jean Sibelius | Richard Strauss | Igor Stravinsky | Ralph Vaughan-Williams | Richard Wagner | Takashi Yoshimatsu - Nat King Cole | Jimi Hendrix | Kraftwerk | Bob Marley | Pink Floyd | The Cure | The Pixies | The Smiths | The Stone Roses - Edip Akbayram | Sezen Aksu | Zülfü Livaneli | Tarkan - and of course, the wonderful music of morse code.

Articles I've worked on in some significant way:

Northern Ireland Politics and Culture

 * Northern Ireland - quite a brutal rewrite of the politics bit!
 * History of Northern Ireland - wrote a lot of this before it migrated from the main article
 * Demographics and politics of Northern Ireland - wrote a lot of this before it migrated from the main article
 * History of Belfast - wrote a lot of this before it migrated from the main article
 * Night of the Big Wind - wrote a lot of this
 * Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
 * 1981 Irish Hunger Strike - began this one
 * David Ford - expanded from stub
 * Holy Cross dispute - began this one
 * Peter Robinson - expanded from stub
 * Nigel Dodds - expanded from stub
 * Bobby Sands
 * armalite and the ballot box - expanded from stub
 * Belfast - the transport section and much of the history section
 * Derry
 * North Down
 * Paul Berry - began this one
 * North Belfast (UK Parliament constituency)
 * South Belfast (UK Parliament constituency)
 * East Belfast (UK Parliament constituency)
 * West Belfast (UK Parliament constituency)
 * Kathy Stanton - began this one
 * Tayto (Northern Ireland) - began this one
 * Template:NI-stub - invented this stub category
 * Ireland national rugby union team
 * Ulster Rugby
 * New Lodge, Belfast - started this one
 * A2 road (Northern Ireland)
 * spide
 * Diocese of Connor (Church of Ireland) - began this one
 * Roman Catholicism in Ireland
 * St. George's Church, Belfast - began this one

German Politics and Culture

 * Feleknas Uca - began this one
 * City (band) - began this one

British Politics

 * Margaret Hodge - added info on Nanny State speech
 * Nanny state
 * Cities of London and Westminster - contributed considerable chunks to
 * Regent's Park and Kensington North - contributed considerable chunks to
 * Peter Bruinvels - started this one
 * Shirley Porter

Turkish Politics and Culture

 * Republican People's Party (Turkey) - expanded from stub
 * Justice and Development Party (Turkey) - expanded from stub
 * Felicity Party (Turkey) - began this one
 * Alevi
 * Kurds
 * Islamism
 * Diyarbakir - expanded from stub plus pictures
 * Denizli - edited
 * Sezen Aksu - began this one
 * Abdullah Gül
 * Urfa - added pictures plus lots of text
 * Mardin Province - expanded from stub
 * Dayro d-Mor Gabriel - expanded from stub
 * Turkey national football team - Euro 2004 and WC2006 qualifying

Anglicanism

 * Church of Ireland
 * Affirming Catholicism - began this one
 * Forward in Faith - began this one
 * Cyril Garbett - began this one
 * Walsingham - added picture
 * Anglican views of homosexuality - Church of Ireland
 * Robert Runcie - considerable expansion
 * Gareth Bennett - began this one
 * The Red Dean of Canterbury - ''considerable expansion

Classical Music

 * Takashi Yoshimatsu - began this one
 * Jean Langlais - began this one
 * Valery Gergiev - began this one
 * Akira Ikufube - began this one
 * Percy Grainger - considerably expanded
 * Henry Balfour Gardiner - began this one
 * The Handmaid's Tale (opera) - began this one
 * The Makropulos Affair - considerably expanded
 * Hermann Goetz - considerably expanded through translation from German wikipedia
 * El Niño (oratorio) - began this one
 * Hans Werner Henze - considerably expanded through translation from German wikipedia
 * Florian Leopold Gassmann - considerably expanded through translation from German wikipedia
 * Nixon in China (opera) - synopsis added
 * Boulevard Solitude - started this one

European Union law and politics

 * gold-plating - began this one
 * host state regulation - began this one
 * home state regulation - began this one
 * maximum harmonisation - began this one
 * minimum harmonisation - began this one

Astronomy

 * galactic halo - started this one and it made it to 'Did You Know?' on the front page!
 * Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy - expanded
 * Canis Minor Dwarf Galaxy - began this one

Amateur Radio

 * Amateur radio - did a lot of work on the main article
 * Contesting or Radiosport - began this one
 * Four square - added info on the four square aerial
 * EME or moonbounce
 * DXpedition - significantly expanded
 * Shortwave bands - made less US-centric
 * 4 metres - started this one

Unclassifiable

 * Roads in Ireland - added Northern Ireland trunk roads
 * Jet2.com - began this one
 * George Smiley - expanded from stub
 * Green Party - tried to make less obviously from a Green POV
 * Jeremy Clarkson - added info on degree controversy
 * Bayswater - contributed considerable chunks to
 * Marijuana Parties - info on Spain plus election poster
 * Jorge Alessandri - expanded from stub to considerable article by translating from German wikipedia
 * Chilean Council of State - stub
 * Waistcoat
 * Tie bar - began this one
 * European windstorm - added info on big Irish storms
 * The Saviour Sect
 * Yannick Nyanga - began this one
 * Whole life tariff - Viktor Dembovskis
 * chav
 * City of Westminster - including several pics

Pictures only added
Galway | Winchester Cathedral | Edessa, Mesopotamia | Her Majesty's Treasury | Carp | Greys (yes, those ones) | Tigris | Anti-American sentiment | Bullfighting | Kommagene | Catalan | DCMS | Pall Mall, London | Athenaeum Club | Reform Club | Black-headed Gull | Ken Livingstone | Liverpool | utility cycling | George Best

Much done, more to do
Zülfü Livaneli | Edip Akbayram | Frank Weston | Mark Durkan | Martin Ingram | Bairbre de Brún | John Alderdice | Jeffrey Donaldson | True Path Party (Turkey) | Social Democratic People's Party (Turkey) | Tansu Çiller | John Federick Wolfenden, Baron Wolfenden | Herbert Hensley Henson | CQ World Wide Contest | Skywave | Sporadic E | Donald Coggan | Michael Ramsey | Anglo-Catholic Congress | Campaign for Real Education | Book of Common Prayer (2004) | Brian Williamson | FannyAnn Eddy | Karamanlides