User:HouseOfChange

He/him. For wikitools, policies, etc. see User:HouseOfChange/WikiToolsEtc. And I collected all my DYKs here.

Quote from Henry David Thoreau's "The Old Marlborough Road"

 * What is it, what is it
 * But a direction out there,
 * And the bare possibility
 * Of going somewhere?

Quote from Steven Weinberg (May 3, 1933 – July 23, 2021)
"If there is no point in the universe that we discover by the methods of science, there is a point that we can give the universe by the way we live, by loving each other, by discovering things about nature, by creating works of art."

Quoted in Frankenberry The Faith of Scientists: In Their Own Words (2008), p. 336

My Wikipedia efforts
I am here at Wikipedia to create (useful, encyclopedic) content that people will want to know more about), to encourage others who support the great Wikipedia project, and also to defend Wikipedia policies about WP:BLP (for example) when people come here to "right a great wrong" by adding poorly sourced negative material to bios of those they dislike.

Here are some articles I created or expanded

 * Colleen McGuinness: An American writer/producer of television comedies.
 * Atlas Obscura: Somebody else created this before I got around to creating it, so I just improved it.
 * Gina Ortiz Jones: An interesting Texas political candidate endorsed by DFA, VoteVets, and others, AfDed twice but still in Wikipedia.
 * Donna Zakowska: American costume designer, one Emmy win, several nominations.
 * Biographies related to Vienna Plague Column: Tobias Kracker and Matthias Rauchmiller. Matthias Rauchmiller was featured at DYK on August 19, 2018. Onlhy 2449 page views, but I am proud of it.
 * Articles related to beautiful Stockholm Stock Exchange Building: Started expansion of bio for 18th c Swedish architect Erik Palmstedt and created bio for his teacher Johan Eberhard Carlberg based on Swedish wiki. Carl Henrik König) (Palmstedt's boss after the death of Carlberg) is a redlink in en-wiki but an article in sv-wiki; I will create that one when I get around to it.
 * Nazo Dharejo "Pakistan's toughest woman". Article deleted in 2015 but after 2017 film My Pure Land was based on her life, more RS covered her story and she passed GNG. Nominated it for DYK, wish I had an image for it. She has a wonderful face. Also created article on the film's writer/director Sarmad Masud.
 * Elena Ivanovna Barulina Russian biologist whose 1930 monograph on lentils is still standard for researchers.
 * Based on nl-wiki but expanded: P. van Heerdt tot Eversberg-Quarles van Ufford (Dutch feminist and artist) as well as her father Hendrik Quarles van Ufford.
 * Scientist, artist, illusionist Roger Shepard: after improving his uninformative article, I created articles for two of his most famous illusions, Shepard tables (16,899 page views at DYK!) and Shepard elephant (16,274 views at DYK.)
 * Elizabeth Hargrave, designer of prize-winning games.
 * Princess Bride Reunion (2020), a live script read-through that raised $4.5M for Wisconsin Democrats, and got much advance publicity, followed by reviews in The A.V. Club, Rolling Stone, and New Yorker, among other places (12,913 views at DYK.)
 * Imran Mahmood, Liverpool-born London barrister, author of thrillers (only 2,560 pageviews for December 8, 2020 DYK but that's not too bad for article with no photo.)
 * Columbia Global Reports, small press "somewhere between a magazine and book publisher," moment of curiosity became a small workmanlike effort for the encyclopedia. DYK.

Here are some WP:BLPs where I have tried to maintain NPOV, BLP, and WEIGHT

 * Al Giordano: Leftist activist who fought with Bernie Sanders supporters on his Twitter feed.
 * Lawrence Krauss: Physicist, book author inc. The Physics of Star Trek, atheist, provocateur.
 * Naomi Wu: Shenzhen-based woman Maker who uses social media to talk about wearable tech she creates.
 * Simone Giertz: Woman inventor of useless "useful" inventions
 * Joy Reid: Black woman journalist whose decade-old blog has been mined for embarrassing comments.
 * Laura Moser: Texas Congressional candidate whose article became a COATRACK for political POV edits.
 * Gloria Allred: Lawyer who stages events for press to get attention for her clients.
 * Devi Sridhar: Global public health expert who has criticized US and UK on coronavirus.

Another hobby is to improve articles at AfD if WP:RS show they are notable

 * Steven Christopher Parker. Not very notable actor but notable as writer/producer/director IMO.
 * Olga Clark: Colorful muse to chess legend Capablanca and 3 other husbands besides.
 * Belinda Ferrari: distinguished microbiologist whose work sheds light on astrobiology.
 * Dorothy Cheney (scientist): Distinguished (NAS etc.) scientist who studies primates.
 * Shawna McCarthy: Won Hugo Prize (nominated 3 times won once) but placed in AfD as "just doing her job, no indications of notability."
 * Carrie Anderson: This article draft had been rejected several times, but I was able to find RS citations for her multiple awards, so it was finally accepted as an article.
 * Helen Woodrow Bones: Woodrow Wilson's cousin, served as "surrogate First Lady" for 16 months between death of his first wife and his second marriage. The article was featured at DYK on September 20, 2018. Wow 12,366 page views!
 * Suhai Aziz Talpur: Her article AfDed in May 2018 but resurrected in November when she became media hero leading police defense that saved Chinese embassy in Karachi, Pakistan from terrorists.
 * Worldware: 1990s concept that inspired educators' thinking on software. I had AfDed it, but others found useful RS hidden by mentions, so using these I built a maybe-useful article.
 * Margarita Brender Rubira: Pioneering woman architect in the 1960s. Article was in bad shape but I found good RS via es-wiki, ca-wiki, and ro-wiki.
 * Elaine J. Coates: First African-American to graduate from UMD, her story and multiple honors described in RS.
 * Samantha Vinograd: CNN foreign affairs specialist, whose opinions are widely cited in other RS. Article still in bad shape tho AfD was closed.
 * Martha West: Feminist lawyer whose reports on gendered hiring were discussed in NYT and elsewhere, dismissed by nom as "not notable."
 * Keren Bergman: Electrical engineering prof with named chair at Columbia (AfDed despite clearly meeting NPROF), but I was able to find more RS to expand her bio and take off the "like a resume" tag.
 * H. Candace Gorman: Civil rights lawyer with lots of in-depth coverage for work on Chicago Police "street files" as well as being the "feisty Gitmo lawyer."
 * Kerstin Emhoff: producer of films and commercials, won an Emmy, head of a jury for Cannes Lions, but AfDed because she got recent trivial coverage as the ex-wife of the husband of Kamala Harris.
 * Marquita Bradshaw: environmental-justice candidate who became first Black woman to win a major party's statewide primary in Tennessee. Others at AfD agreed that this milestone and her "astonishing upset victory"(AP) over DSCC-favored candidate, first upstart in a decade to beat the DSCC-backed candidate, added up to two major achievements and BASIC. Her male Republican opponent-to-be, who has also never won office, of course has an article that wasn't AfDed.
 * Victoria Hawkins: actress known for Geordie "tart with a heart" roles. Found lots more coverage by searching for "Vicky Hawkins" and "Victoria Temperley."

Just for the fun of it
I add information about series I enjoy, for example
 * Marvelous Mrs Maisel: episode summaries
 * Special:NewPagesFeed: always good to check if I have time

I value Wikipedia very much. If I make mistakes, and I do sometimes, please let me know. HouseOfChange (talk) 03:07, 9 April 2018 (UTC)

Wikipedia tilde mathematics
Two tildes

Three tildes HouseOfChange (talk)

Four tildes HouseOfChange (talk) 03:56, 19 March 2014 (UTC)

Five tildes 03:56, 19 March 2014 (UTC)

Ha! So in Wikipedia tilde-land, 3 + 5 = 4.

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