User:Hugo999

From Hugo aka John: Hugo999 03:31, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

As a retired Electrical/Telecom Engineer in Wellington, New Zealand, I may contribute to some items on telecommunications and electric (rail) locomotives, but so far I have mainly contributed to:

Transport: Trams in New Zealand (split from Trams in Australasia). Most of the NZ part is about Christchurch, so there is some filling in needed for other centres. Also Rail transport in Fiji, done (including Trams).

Railways, some stubs (each with reference to a book about the line) about lines which were missing an article.

Military: The Second Boer War (Siege of Kimberley) and the Victoria Cross, particularly the pages on New Zealand VC-winners and on the New Zealand (Land or Maori) Wars. Also Bletchley Park - the fascinating British codebreaking establishment.

New Zealand Political: particularly those relating to politicians who are Leaders of the Opposition (say) with a box (former/next) at the bottom. So I have added various new stub pages for some politicians to complete some series, with information from the ‘New Zealand Parliamentary Record 1840-1984' by J. O. Wilson. This gives the full name, the parliamentary seat(s) held and the year of birth/death, so an accurate political stub can be written with their basic details, and they can be distinguished from others with the same name e.g. Charles Brown x2 from Canterbury and Taranaki. Hence I helped complete the tally so there is an article on every New Zealand member of partliament (MP) and on every member of the former upper house or legislative council (MLC).

From amendments and alterations to categories by country or year I have noticed that the nineties decade is nearly as populated as the two decades of the 21st century, and categories by year should usually go back to 1990 where possible (this will also cover all of the new ex-Soviet Union countries from 1990+). Re country categories, the United States and the United Kingdom generally have the most articles, followed by Australia and Canada.. This follows of course from their size and their being English-speaking or largely English-speaking. Hence a category like Category:Child sexual abuse with (2015) a country subcategory for the United Kingdom is asking for similar United States categories (which I have created).

I created new articles on James C. Marshall (2015) and Kenneth Nichols (2007) about the first and second District Engineers of the Manhattan Engineer District as apart from Leslie Groves and Franklin Matthias, engineers seem to have been overlooked for their contribution to the Manhattan Project.

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