User:Jengod

About me: Hello, I'm Jen! I'm a wife and SAHM of four who writes encyclopedia articles on her phone while waiting to pick up the kids, etc. I'm mostly here with the goal of making new start-class to B-class quality articles on topics of low importance in my areas of interest (history, nature, books, women). New Wikipedia article topic clusters include biographies of New Deal artists, demolished buildings, projects explicitly inspired by the success of Wikipedia, water in the desert, stubs for California coastal sage and chaparral ecoregion biota getting observations on iNaturalist, and biographies of troubled heirs (e.g. Robert Johnson, St. Clair Morgan, Hope H. Slatter II, George W. Kirkman, Christian R. Holmes II) and 19th-century American scoundrels (such as assorted American slave traders, S. S. Boyd, Hilliard P. Dorsey, Fontaine H. Pettis). I also have a soft spot for men who did the work and did it well, even if no one ever gave them the title, cf John Bell Brownlow and A. W. Murray.

Sometimes I start find article topics that trigger the creation of a whole web of related articles—for instance, Joe Martin (orangutan), William Andrew Johnson, Chicano Liberation Front, and Red Hynes (coming soon?). I think I find those webs the most rewarding of all. That said, in the course of big research dives I end up occasionally doing articles totally out of my wheelhouse (e.g. 1846 Grenada, Mississippi tornado, Lightning in the Night), since I'm probably the only person on Wikipedia who has encountered multiple reliable sources for this topic I feel obliged to create it, but, man, it is uncomfortable!

''Jump to articles created 2024 section to see what I've been doing lately. Jump to additional images section to see bug photos uploaded to Commons.''

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Some unhinged American history conspiracy theories of mine, in case you want to lose all respect for me right off the bat:


 * I strongly suspect Beverly Randolph Snow was actually Beverley Hemings, Thomas Jefferson's oldest son with Sally Hemings; he was named after Jefferson's cousin Beverley Randolph who died a year or two before he was born.
 * Paul Jennings was probably James Madison's son. ("His Reminiscences offer a provocative glimpse into his world, yet leave the reader with the feeling that Paul Jennings knew and experienced much more than he chose to tell.")
 * The county stock association that formed in that southern or western U.S. county between 1865 and 1900 was actually a cover for the First Klan. They thought black people should stay livestock, see, and the stock association meetings were where they collaborated to ensure the animals didn't get uppity, all while hiding in plain sight.

Leisure reading
WIKIPEDIA MAGAZINES YOU MIGHT ENJOY: Alex's New Article Bot Good Search Result * Clovermoss's Editor Reflections * The Signpost

Work: Articles created 2024
Bold means that I think I did a good job or more likely that I just had a grand old time researching this topic.

🌱 means it's a stub and you shouldn't expect much.

➡️ means the page existed previously as redirect

❓means it hasn't been patrolled/reviewed yet

Order within categories is usually (but not always) chronologically newest to oldest.

Women

 * Mandie Quark 🍄 ✅
 * Ruth Sterry ✅
 * Nora Sterry ✅
 * Puss Pettus ✅
 * Charlotte Gilchrist ✅
 * Eva Shafran ✅
 * Betty Hoag ✅
 * Lucy Chase and Sarah Chase ✅
 * Judith Kelleher Schafer ✅

New Deal artists

 * Gordon K. Grant 🌱 🎨 ✅
 * James Redmond 🎨 ✅
 * Sherry Peticolas 🎨 ✅

California

 * "The Lid Off Los Angeles" ❓
 * Fred Allhoff ✅
 * Lightning in the Night ✅
 * Lucius Lomax 🌱 ❓
 * Joseph E. Shaw (California) 🌱 ❓
 * The two Tonys 🌱 ❓
 * Ward H. Rodgers ✅
 * Venice celery strike 🌱 ✅
 * Carbon Canyon (Malibu, California) 🌱 ✅
 * Sam Lazes 🌱 ❓
 * Sam Farkas 🌱 ✅
 * Charles Cradick ✅
 * Toddle House (Culver City) ✅
 * Gandier ordinance 🌱 ✅
 * Frank Sebastian's Cotton Club 🌱 ✅
 * Harry E. Munson 🌱 ✅
 * Zeke Caress 🌱 ✅
 * Jimmy Utley ✅
 * Curley Robinson ✅
 * Sam Rummel ✅
 * Bob Gans 🎰 👑 ✅
 * George Watson (photographer) ✅
 * James T. Peasgood ✅
 * Long Beach pier auditorium disaster ✅
 * Abbot Kinney Pier ✅
 * Rush Griffin ✅
 * Greater Los Angeles Association ✅
 * Los Angeles Record ✅
 * W. A. Hawley ➡️ 🌱 ✅
 * Alexander W. Murray ➡️ 👮‍♂️ ✅
 * Charles Elton ➡️👮‍♂️ ✅
 * Los Angeles Record 📰 ✅
 * Dome Pier ✅
 * Hilliard P. Dorsey 🎩 ✅
 * Luke Lane 👮‍♂️ ✅
 * 1914 California Proposition 20 🥊 🌱 ✅
 * 1924 California Proposition 7 🥊 🌱 ✅
 * Jack Doyle (boxing promoter) 🥊 🌱 ✅
 * Vernon Arena 🥊 ✅
 * 1924 Ocean Park pier fire	🔥 ✅
 * 1915 Ocean Park pier fire 🔥 ✅
 * LAPD Red Squad 👮‍♂️ ✅
 * Charles Austin Stivers 🔬 ✅
 * LAPD Red Squad raid on John Reed Club art show 👮‍♀️ 📕 ✅
 * Crystal Pier 🌱 ✅
 * Ship Cafe (Venice, California) 🍹💃🕺 ✅
 * C. C. Julian ⛽️ 🌱 ✅
 * Earl E. Kynette 👮‍♂️ ✅
 * The Pioneer (Los Angeles) 🌱 ✅
 * Ponet Square Hotel and Apartments fire 🌱 ✅
 * La Graciosa, California 🌱 ✅
 * Big donuts of Southern California 🍩 ✅
 * California biota (list incomplete)
 * Synanthedon resplendens ✅
 * Calvatia pachyderma ✅
 * Brownit ✅

Water

 * Efqa Spring (Syria) 🏛️ ✅
 * La Vida Mineral Springs (California) ✅
 * Ontario Hot Springs (California) ✅
 * Dominguez Slough (California) 🦆 ✅
 * Democrat Hot Springs (California) ✅
 * Stinky Springs (Utah) ✅
 * Delonegha Hot Springs (California) ✅
 * El Granito Springs (California) 🌱🚰 ✅
 * Laurel Spring (California) ✅
 * Shaffer Springs (Arizona) ✅
 * Zem Zem Springs (California) 🌱 ✅
 * Alhambra Springs (California) 🚰 ✅
 * Console Springs (California) 🚰 ✅
 * Tolenas Springs (California) ✅
 * Magnesia Spring Ecological Reserve (California) 🐏 ✅
 * Alvarado Hot Springs (California) ✅
 * Veronica Springs (California) 🚰 ✅
 * Cañada Honda Creek (California) 🌱 ✅
 * Gaviota Hot Springs (California) ✅

U.S. history and demolished buildings

 * Fontaine H. Pettis ✅
 * Lewis Robards ❓
 * Gilbert (Tennessee) ✅
 * Andrew Jackson and the slave trade in the United States ✅
 * 1868 State of the Union Address ✅
 * Slave pass ✅
 * Aaron Burr's farewell address 🌱 ✅
 * Union Hotel (Washington, D.C.) ✅
 * George W. Kirkman ✅
 * Memphis and Hernando Plank Road ✅
 * Red flag (American slavery) ✅
 * Schuetzen Park (Washington, D.C.) ✅
 * Hope H. Slatter II ✅
 * List of State of the Union addresses ✅
 * Kennard House ✅
 * Banks' Arcade ✅
 * George Fort Milton Jr. ✅
 * Andy's Trip ✅
 * Treason must be made odious ✅
 * Arnold Buffum ✅
 * Martin P. Kennard ✅
 * William I. Bowditch ✅
 * United States Post Office, Court House, and Custom House (Louisville, Kentucky, 1893) ✅
 * Louisville Hotel ✅
 * 1867 State of the Union Address ✅

19th-century American slave traders

 * John W. Anderson (slave trader) ✅
 * Matthew Garrison (slave trader) ✅
 * List of white American slave traders who had mixed-race children with enslaved black women ✅
 * John T. Hatcher ✅
 * John M. Gilchrist ✅
 * Jilson Dove ✅
 * Washington Robey ✅
 * Josiah Maples (and Forrest & Maples) ✅
 * William Harker (slave trader) ✅
 * C. F. Hatcher ✅
 * C. M. Rutherford ✅
 * Elihu Creswell ✅ - grandson of U.S. Senator
 * Henry F. Slatter 🌱 ✅
 * James F. Purvis ✅

Food

 * Cream of sorrel soup ✅

Stubs on random topics 🌱🌱🌱

 * Tom Holland's Lip Sync Battle performance of "Umbrella" ❓
 * "Lord Lovat's Lament" ✅
 * Missing Books Register ✅
 * Fibraurea tinctoria ✅
 * Det danske handelskammers komite og administrerende direktør, 1995 🖼️ ✅
 * Thomas Kluge 🎨 ✅
 * Izifozonke ✅
 * Stametta ✅
 * Anson Street African Burial Ground ✅
 * Vendue Range ✅
 * Henry Vuibert ✅
 * Eutaris ✅
 * Dry Bay, Alaska ✅
 * Ludwig, Nevada ✅
 * Peticolas ✅
 * Philippe Abraham Peticolas ✅
 * Robert L. White (collector) 💀 ✅
 * Radium fad ☢️ ✅