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New articles To 15 August 2014 I have created 529 articles - my first article was Bernd Stange in January 2006. Most of my articles are about historical sporting figures, generally focussing on association football or Australian rules football.



Did You Know? I am an occasional Did you know contributor

Did you know...
 * ... that the Michelides Tobacco Factory became an ice cream factory after the decline of the Western Australian tobacco industry? - 7 February 2014
 * ... that university professor Brian Dawson is a successful Australian rules football coach? - 14 October 2012
 * ... that a bank robbery led to a career in bowls for Steve Glasson? - 22 September 2012
 * ...that Australian Olympic swimmer Garrick Agnew worked his passage from Brisbane to Vancouver in the engine room of a freight ship?" - 12 August 2012
 * ...that the Ballarat Miners introduced a women's team to the club in 2000? - 22 July 2012
 * ...that André Watson holds records for refereeing the greatest number of finals in the Currie Cup and Super Rugby? - 9 September 2011
 * ...that although Australian soccer player Kris Trajanovski only scored in three matches for his country, he scored three hat-tricks? - 31 March 2011
 * ...that Major League Baseball player and former fireman Len Koenecke was beaten to death with a fire extinguisher? - 27 December 2010
 * ...that 17 years after an aircraft crash killed most of the Zambia national football team, the Zambian government is yet to release a report on the crash? - 22 November 2010
 * ...that a fine for skinny dipping led Bill Slater into a legal career? - 28 June 2010
 * ...that Clarrie Isaacs, one of the founders of the Aboriginal Provisional Government, travelled to Libya on what he claimed was a valid Aboriginal passport but was denied re-entry to Australia with it? - 1 June 2010
 * ...that in 2008 Australian judge Betty King referred to herself as the "queen of banning things"? - 12 May 2010
 * ... that Uruguayan footballer Vladas Douksas' father was a Lithuanian shopkeeper? - 25 December 2009
 * ... that at least seven members of the Scottish Argentine Brown family have played international football for Argentina? - 23 December 2009
 * ... that a Glasgow-born railway engineer, John Harley, was responsible for revolutionizing the way Uruguay played football? - 14 December 2009
 * ... that Uruguayan Isabelino Gradín won South American championships in both football and track and field athletics? - 1 December 2009
 * ... that Glenn James is the only Indigenous Australian to umpire top grade Australian rules football? - 24 November 2009
 * ... that high school dropout Esther Reed studied at Harvard University under an assumed name? - 4 October 2009
 * ... that World Cup winning soccer player José Andrade once played drums in a carnival band? - 18 September 2009
 * ...that after his company struck oil, William Walkley stopped traffic in the middle of Sydney, Australia, wearing a red ten gallon hat? - 14 July 2009
 * ...that Dr Delano Meriwether won the 100 yard event at the 1971 Amateur Athletics Union championships wearing a hospital shirt, swimming trunks and gold suspenders (braces)? - 13 March 2009

Userspace
 * User:Hack/Plaques list: List of notable Western Australians with plaques on St Georges Terrace, Perth
 * User:Hack/Drafts: Articles that I may eventually finish
 * User:Hack/To_do_list: Things I probably won't do
 * User:Hack/Socceroos_list: List of Australian national team players
 * User:Hack/Aussie_club_list: List of Australian clubs that arguably meet WP:FOOTYN (incomplete)
 * Everything in my userspace

Sources
 * Fairfax News Store
 * Indian English Newspaper Search
 * NLA Trove newspaper search
 * NLA eResources
 * Chronicling America
 * Google - list of archived newspapers

New pages
 * AFC submissions
 * Category:G13 eligible AfC submissions
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