User:Lawikitejana

Now that I'm teaching full-time, I'm not around Wikipedia on a day-to-day basis anymore, but feel free to leave a note on my Talk page if you have some article ideas to which you think I could make a useful contribution. I'll do what I can during my next bout of wiki-itis. Lawikitejana 03:53, 29 November 2006 (UTC)


 * A little tiny bit of bragging: The featured biography for Portal:Dallas for April 2007 is Stanley Marcus, summarizing an article I created after someone on the Neiman-Marcus article's Talk page complained that the N-M article overstated his importance to the fashion industry.
 * A tiny bit more ... an article to which I made substantial contributions, Byron Nelson, has been promoted to Good Article status as of today.Lawikitejana 02:50, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Yet again ... the "Did you know ...?" feature for August 10, 2007, included an item from the David Leeson article I had written. Lawikitejana 09:05, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
 * The Stanley Marcus piece is now officially a Good Article!Lawikitejana (talk) 04:11, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

Created template or infobox

 * Template:Betsy-Tacy

Created category

 * Category:North Carolina Community College System
 * Category:Two-year colleges in the United States
 * Category:Brand name frozen desserts
 * Category:Graduates of Dallas ISD - for articles on those who graduated from a public high school in the Dallas Independent School District

Created disambiguation page

 * Montgomery Community College

Created article

 * North Carolina Community College System
 * Symbol support vote.svg Stanley Marcus - Dallas retailer admitted to Advertising Hall of Fame <-- a summary of this article was used as the Featured Biography for Portal:Dallas in April 2007
 * M. E. Kerr and related redirects
 * Linda Bloodworth-Thomason and related redirects
 * Wolf Brand Chili
 * Museum of the Revolution (El Salvador)
 * Radio Venceremos
 * Deep Valley, Minnesota - fictional town featured in the Betsy-Tacy books
 * Jing-Mei "Deb" Chen
 * Thomas Jefferson High School (Dallas)
 * Hillcrest High School (Dallas)
 * Catawba Valley Community College
 * Forsyth Technical Community College
 * Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College
 * Montgomery Community College (North Carolina)
 * Billboard Latin Music Awards
 * Carlos Lacamara
 * Palapa Azul
 * Crisis at Central High
 * God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse
 * "Summer Samba (So Nice)" (bossa nova song)
 * The Country Girl (1915 film)
 * The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations
 * "What Part of No" (country song)
 * Big Spender (TV series) - reality TV series on A&E Network
 * Ryan Smith (writer) - writer for MADtv and participant in various Mediocre Films productions
 * William's Doll - 1972 children's book on gender role stereotyping and child development
 * People Newspapers - Dallas-based publishers of weekly newspapers for rich people
 * A. Maceo Smith High School - Dallas high school
 * Alexa Junge - screenwriter who wrote some of my favorite Friends episodes
 * "Adelaide's Lament" - classic song from the 1950 musical Guys & Dolls
 * Texas Almanac - one of the preeminent reference books on the state of Texas
 * Arthello Beck - Dallas-area artist
 * David Leeson - Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist for The Dallas Morning News
 * Taurean Blacque - Emmy-nominated television and film actor
 * Bob Phillips - veteran Texas television feature reporter, host of Texas Country Reporter
 * El analfabeto - a 1961 comedy film featuring the Mexican actor Cantinflas
 * Ms. Foundation for Women
 * Billy Olson - Olympic athlete
 * El bolero de Raquel - Cantinflas comedy film
 * Golden Ariel - Mexican film award
 * Ariel Award for Best Picture - Mexican film award
 * Hesperian Foundation - about the publishers of Where There is No Doctor
 * Thomas C. Marsh Middle School - Dallas middle school
 * Kent Rathbun, Dallas chef
 * Ilegales, Dominican merenhouse group (oddly, had been deleted previously as non-notable despite two Grammy nominations - go figure!)
 * Rufina Amaya, principal witness to the 1981 El Mozote Massacre in El Salvador
 * Nelson Coates, American production designer
 * Dean Fearing, Dallas chef
 * The Harmonizing Four, an African-American gospel singing group
 * Segundo Montes, Morazan, about a Salvadoran community named for the martyred Jesuit professor
 * Michael Mayer, Broadway director -- was watching the Tonys the year he and Spring Awakening won, and was amazed to find he had no article despite multiple Tony nominations over the years
 * "Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair," a remarkable blues song originated by Bessie Smith that I couldn't believe didn't have an article with all that's been written about it
 * Buddy Brock, country music songwriter

Added and edited content

 * Aristides de Sousa Mendes, Portuguese diplomat who saved masses of people during the Holocaust
 * Óscar Romero, murdered Salvadoran priest
 * Rutilio Grande, murdered Salvadoran priest
 * Aguilares, Rutilio Grande's hometown
 * Fernando Llort, Salvadoran artist
 * Lupe Ontiveros, American actress (had to start over practically from scratch with that article)
 * A Different World, American sitcom of the 1980s and '90s
 * Ron Popeil, American inventor
 * Sadie Hawkins Day, an American custom
 * Melba Pattillo Beals, author and member of the Little Rock Nine
 * Steven Curtis Chapman (also album articles)
 * Yolanda Saldívar
 * I Love Toys, the VH1 miniseries
 * Mondegreen, a linguistic term for misheard lyrics and the like
 * Evil eye
 * George Carlin, American comedian
 * W. G. Walden (aka Snuffy Walden), American musician
 * Christian denominations
 * Student-teacher ratio
 * James Dobson, American radio personality and author
 * The Absent-Minded Professor
 * Lamar Alexander, former U.S. presidential candidate from the South
 * Ross Perot, former U.S. presidential candidate from Dallas
 * Strawberry and Chocolate (Fresa y chocolate) - 1993 Mexican-Cuban-Spanish film
 * Wendy Russell Reves, Texas model and art collector
 * Emery Reves, second husband of Wendy Russell Reves
 * Paleta, a type of frozen dessert on a stick
 * Doonesbury, American political cartoon
 * Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids?, award-winning American documentary
 * Reader's Digest Condensed Books
 * Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
 * The Country Girl (1954 film)
 * Nexcite, a Swedish soda with supposed aphrodisiac properties
 * Drunk dialing
 * New Orleans, Louisiana
 * Grey's Anatomy
 * Free to Be… You and Me, American children's anthology of the 1970s
 * Christopher Gardner, American businessman
 * Shelley Sekula-Gibbs, Texas politician
 * Dragonsinger, science-fantasy novel
 * Byron Nelson, Texas golfer and noted Christian sportsman <-- a WP Good Article as of May 2007
 * Cheese (recreational drug), a form of heroin that's killing young people around my home town
 * Maná, Mexican rock group
 * Mary Engelbreit, American artist and illustrator
 * Judah Touro, Jewish philanthropist
 * Ruby Bridges, an early participant in the desegregation of U.S. schools
 * The Kent Family Chronicles, a 1970s historical fiction series
 * Gorgeous Tiny Chicken Machine Show - a video series on YouTube by Mediocre Films
 * Ronnie Gilbert, member of the folk group The Weavers
 * Trammell Crow, Dallas property developer - practically had to start over on this one
 * Charo, the '70s bombshell with a carefully cultivated "dumb sexy blonde" persona (but not necessarily so dumb)
 * Paige Davis
 * Land of the Lost (1974 TV series) - a kiddie show I watched as a child
 * H.R. Pufnstuf - another kiddie show with the same producers
 * Sid and Marty Krofft - producers of several children's show (and, apparently, of one raunchy burlesque puppet show before that!)
 * Woodrow Wilson High School (Dallas)
 * Musicovery, an online web site that suggests music organized by current or desired mood
 * Joshua Malina, actor (The West Wing, Sports Night, Big Shots) and executive producer
 * "The Homecoming Queen's Got a Gun" - the 1984 novelty hit by comedian Julie Brown
 * Tony Romeo, pop music composer, best known for "I Think I Love You"
 * Albert Maltz, member of the blacklisted Hollywood Ten

Added content

 * Allen Say
 * Gary Chapman (author)
 * Jerry Haynes - the inimitable "Mr. Peppermint"
 * The Brothers García
 * Cued speech
 * Nipsey Russell
 * Gene Arnold
 * Speed limits in the United States
 * Neiman Marcus - Dallas-based department store chain
 * Karri Turner - Texas-born actress
 * Category:People from Galveston, Texas - doubled population of category by using Google to search for people born there
 * Preston Hollow Elementary School - expanded discussion of "PHES In the News" and added cites
 * Bluffview, Dallas, Texas - added historical information
 * James Madison High School (Dallas) - added considerable historical information about the school and building dating back to its construction in 1916 as Forest Avenue High School
 * Texas Country Reporter - feature stories on people and places of rural Texas - still on the air after 35 years
 * To Market, to Market (SATC episode)
 * Maurissa Tancharoen - actress and writer, co-creator of Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog


 * Caroline Rose Hunt - Texas hotelier, restaurateur, heiress, and philanthropist

Edited content

 * Selena
 * Permanent residency
 * Saturday Night Live commercial
 * Durham Technical Community College
 * George Lopez (TV series)
 * Monchy y Alexandra
 * Gay young adult novels <-- still needs a LOT of work
 * Laura Ingalls Wilder and Little House on the Prairie
 * Dallas Christian College
 * Rube Goldberg
 * Korematsu v. United States
 * Telenovela
 * West Side Story
 * Sanger Harris
 * Festival Presidente de la Musica Latina
 * Corinto, Morazán
 * Django Reinhardt
 * Spritle (the Speed Racer character)

Working on content offline

 * Lupe Ontiveros - finally got most of it into the article as of Oct. 7, 2006
 * Abilene Christian University <-- had so much written - then computer crashed!
 * George Lopez (TV series)
 * Stanley Marcus - created Oct. 16, 2006 - still a lot to add
 * Yvette Lee Bowser
 * Permanent residency
 * Sue Vertue - British TV producer
 * Marcy Heisler - lyricist
 * Kent Rathbun, Dallas chef

Other Wikipedia tasks
I have been experimenting lately with the following tasks:
 * Using the "random article" navigation to find articles to edit, particularly with respect to assessing biographical articles and adding wikilinks to content.
 * Going through sets of book and biography articles to ensure the appropriate WikiProject template has been added to the talk page.
 * Working on a select set of politically and/or religiously charged articles relating to U.S. popular culture (books, TV, major speakers) and controversial issues and trying to improve the NPOV orientation. I believe this is especially important to do with respect to strengthening articles on positions to which one is opposed, because championing a position in the outside non-NPOV world is much more satisfying when one knows other positions have been well portrayed and given the opportunity of serious consideration.
 * Adding U.S. two-year colleges to Category:Two-year colleges in the United States and editing those articles as need arises &mdash; volunteer helpers welcomed with joy!