User:Ian Rose



"You see, in this world, there is one awful thing, and that is that everyone has his reasons." -- Jean Renoir, The Rules of the Game
 * "England has been offered a choice between war and shame. She has chosen shame, and will get war." -- Winston Churchill on the Munich Agreement
 * "Thank God I'm still an atheist." -- Luis Bunuel

"My dear Rikki," Karellen retorted, "it's only by not taking the human race seriously that I retain what fragments of my once considerable mental powers I still possess!" -- Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood's End
 * "The Englishman sighed softly, as if slightly puzzled by the ability of Man to complicate unnecessarily his own existence here on earth." -- Frederick Forsyth, The Day of the Jackal
 * "Gentlemen, you can't fight in here -- this is the War Room!" -- President Merkin Muffley, Stanley Kubrick's Dr Strangelove

Wikipedia projects/roles
Please feel free to ask me for information or assistance about these.
 * Featured article candidates -- Coordinator
 * WikiProject Military history -- Coordinator Emeritus and co-editor of The Bugle newsletter

Wikipedia history


Showcase
In order of assessment; Today's Featured Articles in bold George Jones * Morotai Mutiny * Richard Williams‎ * Stanley Goble * William Bostock‎ * Frank McNamara * Harry Cobby * Adrian Cole * John Lerew * Joe Hewitt * Ellis Wackett * John Lloyd Waddy * Frederick Scherger * Charles Eaton * Jerry Pentland * Roderic Dallas (with Georgejdorner) * Lester Brain * Brian Eaton * Bill Newton * Ian Dougald McLachlan * William Brill * John McCauley * Valston Hancock * Alister Murdoch * Frank Bladin * Peter Jeffrey * Oswald Watt * Nicky Barr * Hector Waller * John Balmer * Roy Dowling * John Francis Jackson * Henry Wrigley * Colin Hannah * Reg Saunders (with AustralianRupert) * James Rowland * David Evans * Allan Walters * Lockheed C-130 Hercules in Australian service (with Nick-D) * William Hely * No. 2 Operational Conversion Unit RAAF * Bobby Gibbes * No. 36 Squadron RAAF * Albert Ball (with Georgejdorner) * No. 33 Squadron RAAF * Frank Headlam * No. 34 Squadron RAAF‎ * Elwyn Roy King * No. 1 Flying Training School RAAF * Roy Phillipps * 1940 Brocklesby mid-air collision * Henry Burrell * No. 1 Squadron RAAF * Garnet Malley (tks Georgejdorner) * No. 77 Squadron RAAF * Les Holden * HMS Nairana‎‎ (with Sturmvogel 66) * John Wilton * No. 450 Squadron RAAF (with AustralianRupert) * Pat Hughes * No. 90 Wing RAAF * Reg Pollard * No. 91 Wing RAAF * Dick Cresswell * No. 37 Squadron RAAF * Clare Stevenson * No. 1 Aircraft Depot RAAF * Donald Hardman * RAAF area commands * Henry Petre * Australian Air Corps * Peter Drummond‎ * Eastern Area Command (RAAF) * Ragnar Garrett * North-Eastern Area Command (RAAF)‎ * Lou Spence * Western Area Command (RAAF) * Vance Drummond * North-Western Area Command (RAAF) * Thomas White * Mary Bell * Eric Harrison * Alan Rawlinson * Wilfred Arthur * Gordon Steege * Air Board (Australia)‎ * William Anderson Command in the South West Pacific Area (with Hawkeye7) * No. 90 (Composite) Wing RAAF (with Nick-D) * RAAF area commands Alan Charlesworth * Frank Lukis * George Mackinolty * Central Flying School RAAF * No. 82 Wing RAAF‎ * Hippolyte De La Rue * No. 86 Wing RAAF‎ * No. 81 Wing RAAF‎ * No. 78 Wing RAAF‎ * No. 84 Wing RAAF Station to Station * Robert Little * Neville McNamara * Les Clisby * Len Waters (tks Grant65) * Nigel Cullen * No. 71 Wing RAAF‎ * No. 73 Wing RAAF‎ * Leslie Douglas Jackson * Peter Turnbull * Arthur William Murphy‎ * Charles Read * No. 79 Wing RAAF * No. 76 Wing RAAF * No. 77 Wing RAAF * No. 2 Service Flying Training School RAAF * No. 8 Service Flying Training School RAAF * Dave Shannon * Peter Isaacson (with RichardH) * No. 1 Operational Conversion Unit RAAF * No. 1 Basic Flying Training School RAAF * No. 72 Wing RAAF * John Newham * No. 114 Mobile Control and Reporting Unit RAAF * Ray Funnell * No. 1 Operational Training Unit RAAF * No. 5 Service Flying Training School RAAF * Northern Area Command (RAAF) * No. 3 Aircraft Depot RAAF * No. 482 Squadron RAAF * No. 486 Squadron RAAF * No. 5 Operational Training Unit RAAF * No. 3 Elementary Flying Training School RAAF * No. 11 Elementary Flying Training School RAAF‎ * No. 2 Elementary Flying Training School RAAF * No. 5 Elementary Flying Training School RAAF * No. 391 Squadron RAAF * No. 491 Squadron RAAF * No. 82 Squadron RAAF (with AustralianRupert) * No. 30 Transport Unit RAAF * No. 20 Squadron RAAF (with AustralianRupert) * Fighter Squadron RAAF * Seaplane Squadron RAAF * John Slessor (with Dormskirk) * Central Area Command (RAAF) * Southern Area Command (RAAF) * No. 1 Initial Flying Training School RAAF ‎* No. 1 Elementary Flying Training School RAAF ‎* No. 4 Elementary Flying Training School RAAF ‎* No. 4 Service Flying Training School RAAF ‎* No. 8 Elementary Flying Training School RAAF * Ivor McIntyre * No. 4 Operational Training Unit RAAF * Northern Command (RAAF) * RAAF Transport Flight (Japan) * No. 75 Wing RAAF * No. 285 Squadron RAAF No. 91 (Composite) Wing RAAF

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Music
Gary Numan & Tubeway Army Complex (song) * We Are Glass * I Die: You Die * Stormtrooper in Drag * She's Got Claws * Tubeway Army (album) * Telekon * Sacrifice (Gary Numan album) * Exile (Gary Numan album) * Pure (Gary Numan album) * Paul Gardiner David Bowie & associates All the Young Dudes (song) * Heroes (David Bowie song) * Ashes to Ashes (David Bowie song) * David Live * Warren Peace * Simon House * Mick Woodmansey * Tony Newman (drummer) * George Murray (musician) * Tony Sales * Ricky Gardiner * Roy Carr John Foxx & Ultravox Systems of Romance * Burning Car * Miles Away (song) Other Broken English (album) * Ricky's Hand *  Fire (Arthur Brown song) * Know Your Product

Military
Air Force Morotai Mutiny *  Bobby Gibbes *  George Jones (RAAF officer) *  William Bostock‎ *    Wilfred Arthur *  No. 9 Operational Group RAAF *   Stanley Goble * No. 205 Squadron RAF *   Valston Hancock *   Peter Roy Maxwell Drummond‎ * No. 145 Squadron RAF‎ *   John McCauley * No. 4 Operational Training Unit RAAF *   Ivor McIntyre * No. 221 Squadron RAF‎ *   Alister Murdoch *   Charles Read (RAAF officer) *    Clare Stevenson‎ *   Joe Hewitt (RAAF officer) *    Frank Lukis *   Henry Wrigley *  No. 40 Wing RAF *   Adrian Cole (RAAF officer) *   Arthur William Murphy *  7,900hits Frank Bladin *  5,000hits John Lerew *    Hippolyte De La Rue *   Ellis Wackett *   John Lloyd Waddy *   Mary Bell (aviator) *    Henry Petre *    Eric Harrison (RAAF officer) *   3,900hits George Mackinolty *  4,200hits Charles Eaton (RAAF officer) *  8,300hits Roy Phillipps *  4,300hits Les Holden *   ]4,200hits Allan Walters *   Lester Brain *  13,000hits Brian Eaton *  11,500hits Les Clisby *  6,200hits Nigel Cullen *   No. 77 Wing RAAF *   No. 79 Wing RAAF *  4,666hits No. 76 Wing RAAF *   Gordon Steege *   No. 72 Wing RAAF *  6,300hits John Francis Jackson *   Leslie Douglas Jackson *   RAAF Command *  12,400 hits Peter Turnbull *   4,400hits Alan Charlesworth *  7,900hits Peter Jeffrey (RAAF officer) *   No. 1 Flying Training School RAAF *   No. 2 Service Flying Training School RAAF *  5,400hits 1940 Brocklesby mid-air collision *   John Balmer *  15,800hits William Brill *   No. 1 Basic Flying Training School RAAF *  No. 1 Initial Flying Training School RAAF *  4,123hits No. 4 Service Flying Training School RAAF *   No. 7 Service Flying Training School RAAF *   No. 3 Service Flying Training School RAAF *   No. 6 Service Flying Training School RAAF *   No. 8 Service Flying Training School RAAF *  8,508hits Dave Shannon *   No. 3 Aircraft Depot RAAF *   No. 1 Operational Conversion Unit RAAF *   No. 1 Aircraft Depot RAAF *   Lockheed C-130 Hercules in Australian service (with Nick-D) *   No. 90 Wing RAAF *  William Hely * List of former Duntroon cadets in the RAAF - self-explanatory * Alan Rawlinson (WWII ace) * Margaret Blackwood (WAAAF officer) * Audrey Herring (WAAAF officer) * Murray Jones (Australian Flying Corps officer) * RAAF Air Board (controlling body 1920-76) * RAAF area commands (geographical command system 1939-54) * RAAF command problems of World War II - self-explanatory (gleam in eye only) * [http://adbonline.anu.edu.au/biogs/A160345b.htm? Lou Spence] (RAAF officer - family connection) * [http://adbonline.anu.edu.au/biogs/A140507b.htm? John Herington] (RAAF officer & historian) General Template:ADF Leadership * 49,500hits Leonard Siffleet *    Henry Burrell (RAN officer)}}

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Music
Gary Numan & Tubeway Army That's Too Bad * Bombers (Gary Numan song) * Jo the Waiter * Only a Downstat * Down in the Park * Are 'Friends' Electric? * Replicas (album) * Cars (song) * The Pleasure Principle (album) * Dance (Gary Numan album) * Jagged David Bowie The Supermen * Changes (David Bowie song) * Starman (song) * Rock 'n' Roll Suicide * John, I'm Only Dancing * The Jean Genie * Aladdin Sane (song) * Future Legend * Rebel Rebel * 1984 (song) * Golden Years (song) * Weeping Wall (David Bowie song) * Joe the Lion * Neuköln * David Bowie (album) * Space Oddity (album) * The Man Who Sold the World (album) & most tracks * Aladdin Sane & all tracks * Diamond Dogs *  Station to Station * "Heroes" & all tracks * Stage (album) * Lodger (album) * Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) & most tracks *  Schöner Gigolo, armer Gigolo * You've Got a Habit of Leaving Iggy Pop The Idiot (album) * Lust for Life (album) * Blah Blah Blah (album) Bryan Ferry & Roxy Music Roxy Music (album) * For Your Pleasure * Country Life (album) * Let's Stick Together John Foxx & Ultravox Metamatic * The Garden (John Foxx album) * The Golden Section Fad Gadget Fad Gadget * Fireside Favourites * Incontinent (album) The Saints The Saints (band) * (I'm) Stranded (song) Other Shock the Monkey * Hall of the Mountain Grill * Friday on My Mind * Lucifer Sam * How Soon Is Now? * Iron Virgin * Move It

Military
Air Force No. 82 Wing RAAF *  No. 78 Wing RAAF *    No. 81 Wing RAAF *   No. 86 Wing RAAF *   Frederick Scherger *  Chief of Air Force (Australia) *   Richard Williams (RAAF officer)‎ *    William Anderson (RAAF officer)‎ *  John Slessor *   Donald Hardman * Officer Training School RAAF *  Colin Hannah *  Frank Hubert McNamara *  Arthur Henry Cobby *  William Ellis Newton *  Elwyn King *  Robert A. Little *  10,600hits Alexander Pentland *   Oswald Watt *  Roderic Dallas (collaboration with Georgejdorner) *  4,000hits Neville McNamara *  Nicky Barr *   Albert Ball (collaboration with Georgejdorner) *  Len Waters (kicked off by Grant65) *  Australian First Tactical Air Force *   No. 71 Wing RAAF *   No. 73 Wing RAAF *   RAAF Base Richmond *   Ian Dougald McLachlan *  No. 37 Squadron RAAF *   No. 2 Flying Training School RAAF *  No. 5 Service Flying Training School RAAF *  James Rowland (RAAF officer) *  David Evans (RAAF officer) *   Central Flying School RAAF *  Peter Isaacson (collaboration with RichardH) *   HMS Nairana (1917)‎‎ (collaboration with Sturmvogel 66) *   7,062hits No. 84 Wing RAAF *  No. 36 Squadron RAAF *  No. 114 Mobile Control and Reporting Unit RAAF *  John Newham (kicked off by Oliver Nouther) * Paterson Clarence Hughes (enhancement under way) * Clive Caldwell (enhancement to come, collaborating with Nick-D) * Charles Learmonth (enhancement to come) * Edgar McCloughry (possible enhancement to come) * Edgar Johnston (possible enhancement to come) * Lawrence Wackett (possible enhancement to come) * John Vincent Barry (possible enhancement to come) General Hector Waller (improved to Start-Class by Janggeom) * Roy Dowling *  Reg Saunders (collaboration with AustralianRupert) * John Augustine Collins (enhancement to come) * Guy Royle (possible enhancement to come) * Hastings Harrington (possible enhancement to come) }}

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Music
Gary Numan & Tubeway Army Gary Numan * Tubeway Army * Living Ornaments '80 * Freak Like Me (Sugababes song) David Bowie & associates David Bowie * Cygnet Committee * The Prettiest Star * Memory of a Free Festival * Holy Holy * The Width of a Circle * Black Country Rock * Oh! You Pretty Things * Quicksand (David Bowie song) * The Bewlay Brothers * Lady Stardust * Diamond Dogs (song) * Rock 'n' Roll With Me * Big Brother (song) * Wild Is the Wind (song) * It's No Game * Fashion (song) * Scream Like a Baby * Hunky Dory * ChangesOneBowie * Low (album) * Berlin Trilogy * ChangesTwoBowie * ChangesBowie * Ziggy Stardust - The Motion Picture * LiveAndWell.com * All the Young Dudes * Mick Ronson - copyedit to come * Paul Buckmaster * Hunt Sales * Claudia Lennear * Colin Thurston * The Laughing Gnome * Earthling (album) Brian Eno Brian Eno * Here Come the Warm Jets * Another Green World * Before and After Science Iggy Pop Iggy Pop * The Passenger (song) John Foxx & Ultravox John Foxx * Ha!-Ha!-Ha! - clean-up to come Kraftwerk Florian Schneider * Radioactivity (song) * Das Model The Rolling Stones Mick Jagger * Keith Richards * Let's Spend the Night Together * Gimme Shelter * Miss You (The Rolling Stones song) The Beatles The Beatles (album) * Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band * Revolver (album) * Working Class Hero (John Lennon song) * Yoko Ono Bob Dylan Highway 61 Revisited * Like a Rolling Stone * Highway 61 Revisited (song) * Subterranean Homesick Blues Miscellaneous music Virginia Plain * Block Buster * Venus in Furs (song) * Killing an Arab * Children of the Night * Cut Lunch * The White Albun * The Iron Man: A Musical * Captive Soundtrack * Are You Gonna Be My Girl * Aqualung (album) * On Broadway (song) * Never for Ever Miscellaneous artists Roxy Music * T.Rex (band) * Grace Jones * Nina Hagen * Snakefinger * Heaven 17 * B.E.F. (British Electric Foundation) * Sinéad O'Connor * Eddie Rayner * Noel Crombie * Martin McCarrick * Mike Leander * Jet (band) * Michael Brook * Bobby "Boris" Pickett * Birgit Nilsson * Anne-Sophie Mutter * Gene Simmons Other Deram Records * Olympic Studios * Mersey Sound

Film, TV, literature
2001: A Space Odyssey (film)‎ * Ben-Hur (1959 film) * Monty Python's Life of Brian * The Lord of the Rings * Blake's 7 * David Tench Tonight * Richard Carleton * Belinda Emmett * Edward Fox (actor) * David Hemmings * The Cold Equations * Graham Kennedy * King Kong (1976 film)‎

Military
Air Force No. 1 Squadron RAAF * No. 3 Squadron RAAF * No. 10 Squadron RAAF * No. 11 Squadron RAAF * No. 33 Squadron RAAF * RAAF Williams * Hughie Edwards * Charles Burnett (RAF officer)‎ * Edward Leonard Ellington * George Kenney * Eric Lock * No. 233 Squadron RAF‎ * No. 75 Squadron RAAF‎ * No. 35 Squadron RAAF * No. 4 Squadron RAAF * No. 204 Squadron RAF * No. 206 Squadron RAF * No. 208 Squadron RAF * No. 210 Squadron RAF * Structure of the RAAF * No. 1 Medical Receiving Station RAAF * No. 5 Fighter Sector RAAF * RAAF Station Sandgate *  RAAF Bradfield Park * RAAF Base Mallala * RAAF Station Cunderdin * Werner Mölders * Adolf Galland‎ General Charles Upham * Murray William James Bourchier * Malayan Emergency * Appeal of 18 June * Military history of Australia during World War II‎ * Chief of the Defence Force (Australia)‎ * Medal of Honor‎ * Vice Chief of the Defence Force (Australia) * Huta Pieniacka massacre * Corkbush Field mutiny * Texas Ranger Division‎ * Brian Horrocks * William Horrocks * Thomas Blamey * Military history of Australia during the Indonesia-Malaysia Confrontation - minor expansion to come

Aviation
PSA Flight 182 * American Airlines Flight 96 * United Airlines Flight 232 * Japan Airlines Flight 123 * Lauda Air Flight 004 * British Airways Flight 9 * Tenerife disaster * 1959 Turkish Airlines Gatwick crash‎ * de Havilland Comet * Bristol Beaufort * De Havilland DH.50

Automotive
Donald Campbell * Allan Moffat * Bathurst 1000 * Eddie Hasha

Miscellaneous
Knox Grammar School * Gare Montparnasse * Surfers Paradise, Queensland * Neukölln * Roger Rogerson * List of atheists * Wangal people * Rachel Wall‎ * Bungaree ...and a host of gnomic little corrections/additions at many other pages that have caught my attention...}}