User:MK2

MK2 is the new incarnation of MK. Unfortunately, this doesn't imply a new improved version; I lost my password information and was unable to retrieve it.

You still won't find any autobiographical information here.

I have no specific areas of expertise. The subjects of the entries I've worked on are usually history or pop culture.

My typical practice here is to wander about and occasionally be inspired to fill in some page that's either empty or a stub. I also often tweak spelling and grammatical errors. I also try to do my share of "janitorial" work such as fixing links.

Due to a cavalier attitude, I often work under anonymous names because I neglected to log in. If you see work by someone whose name starts with 170.215 it's probably me. I also have some work posted under 24.44.35.70 from when I was between usernames.

Here's a list of some articles I've worked on:


 * Trisha Meili - First entry I worked on. Revised it from a stub.
 * Attica Prison riots - Added the list of employees who were killed. My contributions were later deleted and the article has become a travesty by people who are clueless.
 * Ginger Lynn - There was an empty entry listed under Ginger Lynn Allen. I wrote an entry and then someone combined it with the existing entry on Ginger Lynn which I hadn't known about. I then edited the information from the entries into a coherent whole.
 * Survivor (television series) - I'm a fan of the show. The main entry existed before I arrived, but I extensively revised it and added entries on the international versions Australian Survivor and Survivor (UK version) (which I later revised and combined with a duplicate article). I also created the articles on Tom Buchanan and Twila Tanner and worked on the Terry Deitz, Richard Hatch (reality TV), Shii Ann Huang, and Jerri Manthey articles.
 * The Pussycat Dolls and Dave Navarro - The former was an empty entry, which led to a link to Carmen Electra, which led to the stub of the latter.
 * S. M. Stirling - A favorite author with an empty entry. This article was later absorbed into S.M. Stirling.
 * Horatio Gates - My first attempt to prove I can compose entries about subjects not found in the tabloid press. There was an entry which consisted solely of a picture of Gates. I added the text.
 * Rachael Leigh Cook - It was her birthday and she had an empty entry. Plus she's a babe.
 * Dick Clark - Empty entry with several links to it.
 * Carl Spaatz and Lyman Lemnitzer - Historical subjects with empty entries.
 * List of multiracial people - Added a lot of information to the list. The exception to my claim above about not getting a lot of revision requests. Controversial subject.
 * New York, New York - Did an extensive revision on the "Crimes, disasters, and assassinations" section, which was later moved to Timeline of New York City disasters, and wrote related entries on the General Slocum and Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire.
 * Waterbury, Vermont - A geographical entry for a change of pace.
 * Annabella Lwin, Béatrice Dalle, Charlie Daniels, Daveigh Chase, The Early Show, The Frisco Kid, A Fish Called Wanda, Laura San Giacomo, Melanie Griffith, Ornella Muti, Tom Berenger - Entertainment entries I expanded from stubs.
 * Alan West, Atlanta Child Murders, Barbary pirates, Battle of Washita River, Betty Davis, Durum, Genus Helix, Harold Russell, Ibrahim Petrovich Gannibal, John Gardner (creator of Boysie Oakes), John Neumann, John Surratt, Madden NFL, Marv Newland, Melvin R. Laird, Nicole Lenz, Riot control, Robert W. Welch Jr., Thandie Newton, William Smith (actor) - Some entries that were originated by others but I did some revisions and/or wikkification on.
 * Maxim (magazine), Penthouse magazine - Revised and added some additional information in these entries.
 * Scooby-Doo - Added mention of the movie.
 * Joe Haldeman - Revised the list of books.
 * Jerry Lee Lewis - Added some stuff about his shooting incidents.
 * Pink (musician) - Combined it with another entry on the same person.
 * Ironing - Added a mention of extreme ironing.
 * Lester Bangs - Added a mention of the Sterling story.
 * Carl Richard Jacobi - Wrote this as part of the World Fantasy Awards revisions I was doing.
 * Ben-Hur - Added the mention of the book's success.
 * Super Bowl XXXVIII - I don't usually work on current events, but I added some information about this game, including the initial information about the halftime controversy which was later moved to Super Bowl XXXVIII Halftime controversy.
 * Richard Lawrence and Fanya Kaplan - Original entries.
 * Matt Groening - Added some information about his family.
 * Michael the Archangel - Added the information about the movie.
 * Toni Braxton - An empty entry from the Most Wanted Articles page, so I wrote one.
 * The Chanukah Song - I was surprised nobody had already done this.
 * Engblom v. Carey - An attempt at a article on a more substantial topic. Which led me to write Hugh L. Carey.
 * Stockard Channing - One of only four Oscar nominated actresses with no page (and the other three are relative unknowns).
 * Charles F. Adams class - Another article from high on the Most Wanted list. Also expanded the USS Hoel (DDG-13) article.
 * List of porn stars who appeared in mainstream films - Added most of the names on the list and saved it from deletion. Also led me to write an article on Police Academy.
 * James Bond - Added the information about the Gardner and Benson books and the parodies. The latter of which was moved to a seperate article, James Bond parodies.
 * Fluxx - I like the game.
 * Kirby Awards, Eisner Awards, Harvey Awards - Did the three main articles, which led to others: Astro City, Dale Messick, Kurt Busiek, Milton Caniff, Nexus (comic book), Wally Wood
 * Blackford Oakes - I was surprised by how little information was available online about this character.
 * Exploding sheep - one of stranger articles I've contributed to.
 * Jenny McCarthy - Surprised she didn't have an article already.
 * Jack Warden - He'd been hanging around the middle of the "most wanted" list for months.
 * Alice (television) - I didn't like the show much but there were numerous links to it.
 * Robert Guillaume - Another show biz article. I don't remember what inspired me to write this one.
 * Jenny Agutter - The existing article only covered her career as a child actress. I expanded it to cover the 35 years since then.
 * Lingerie Football League - Came up in Clean up.
 * Longarm - 300 books deserved some kind of recognition.
 * Winston Churchill (novelist) - An article on a forgotten author.
 * Chet Huntley - Another one off the Most Wanted list.
 * Rosario Dawson - I think I'm getting in a pop culture rut.
 * William Russell - I decided to knock another article off the Most Wanted list. Turns out there are thirteen different William Russells. So I created a disambiguation page and planned to work on individual articles, but I only completed William Russell (Lord Deputy of Ireland).
 * Tourism in Argentina - The existing article was being considered for deletion. I expanded it and saved it.
 * Earth (novel) - The original article came up in Cleanup and VfD. I revised it.
 * Playmate - I added the PMOY list.
 * Characters on The West Wing - I started an article originally called "West Wing (characters)". The title was changed to "Characters on West Wing" (I preferred my original title, except it should have been The West Wing). I later found there were duplicate articles "Recurring characters on The West Wing" and "Characters on The West Wing". I combined them into one.
 * Stanford Prison Experiment - I added a counter-argument. Apparently others disagreed; my comments were gradually revised into oblivion.
 * Kobe Tai - Added some information that didn't come out of a press kit.
 * Forever Knight - Expanded the article from a stub and episode list.
 * Added and revised the lists of FHM 100 Sexiest Women in the World for 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004. These led to creating articles on Angie Everhart, Caprice Bourret, Diane Youdale, Eva Mendes, Greta Scacchi, Jaime Pressly, Kelly Hu, Leeann Tweeden, Natalie Appleton, Nicole Appleton, Rebecca Gayheart, Stacy Kamano, and Tatjana Patitz. Created Category:FHM 100 Sexiest Women in the World. Later led to an annoying debate.
 * Great American Desert - Revised and expanded.
 * National Lampoon's Last Resort - A red link that made the two year list.
 * Bill Pickett - Wrote an article about him. No particular reason except I saw an article about him in a book.
 * Eddie Albert, Laura Antonelli, Bobcat Goldthwait, George 'Gabby' Hayes, Nunnally Johnson, Rich Little, Paula Poundstone, Jaclyn Smith, Betty Thomas, and Patric Zimmerman - Celebrity bios from the Requested Articles list.
 * Non-standard poker hand - A red link. If it had been my choice, I'd have called it Non-standard poker hands. Only article I've ever written which got linked to the main page.
 * List of New York counties - Worked on the origins of the county names. Led to "The Twelve Original Counties" section in the Province of New York article and new articles on Adirondack County, New York and Peconic County, New York.
 * I revised the article about the historical Count Saint-Germain and wrote an article about the fictional Count Saint-Germain (vampire).
 * States List Puzzle - I remembered this puzzle and unsuccessfully looked online for a solution.
 * Wrote an article for Archie Goodwin (comic book writer) and disambiguated the references to Archie Goodwin (fictional detective).
 * Revised the Forrest Carter article to acknowlege his white supremist history.
 * Lord Ramage, The Lost Regiment, and Richard Bolitho were inspired by the series of books category.
 * Hannah Spearritt - A passing reference inspired me to start an article. But subsequent research produced surprisingly little information. The result was a short stub of an article.
 * Sealab 2020 - Expanded the article from a stub.
 * Janine Lindemulder - It's always a challenge digging up factual information about adult film performers.
 * McHale's Navy - Saw in the Ernest Borgnine article that there was no entry for this series.
 * Trygve Lie - Expanded the article.
 * Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham - Expanded the article to cover beyond his command against the Armada.
 * Archibald Percival Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell - Another expansion. I'm reading a book on British military leaders.
 * Vanity (performer) and Vanity 6 - Revised and wikified these two articles.
 * Henry S. Rawlinson - Another British general expansion.
 * Elizabeth Packard - Maybe I'll work on some legal subjects.
 * Did an expansion on the 87th Precinct series and added an article on Isola (fictional city).
 * A. J. Quinnell - While the author's real name and picture can be found online with enough effort, I decided to honor his request to keep his identity secret.
 * Eddie Slovik - Wrote the middle section to give the details about his desertion.
 * Emma Noble - The revision of this article was the first major thing I did under the new username.
 * Harry Turtledove - Did an extensive revision on the bibliography.
 * Liberty Law - A short historical article.
 * Hot L Baltimore - Wish I had more information about the original play or the French series.
 * Gretchen Phillips - Another article pulled from the Most Requested page.
 * Lord Ruthven - An important fictional character with no entry.
 * The Last Polka - Saw it wasn't mentioned in the fictional documentaries category.
 * Groo the Wanderer - Added the information about its complicated publication history.
 * Donald DeFreeze - Expanded the article from a stub.
 * Victor Alexander Charles Crutchley - The existing article for some reason focused entirely on Crutchley's relatively unimportant service as a WWI lieutenant and ignored his significant role as a WWII admiral.
 * Erich Hoepner - Another WWII article.
 * Christopher Memminger - Civil War article. Later added Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union - the longest title of any article I've written.
 * William Gordon-Cumming - Historical article about a royal scandal.
 * List of Playboy models - I helped switch the format to the table version and added a lot of the information. I then discovered that the article was going to violate a maximum limit on article length so it was split into six seperate articles: List of people in Playboy 1953-1959, 1960-1969, 1970-1979, 1980-1989, 1990-1999, and 2000-Present.
 * Ultra (comics), JSA: The Liberty Files, and JLA: Destiny - Wrote articles on comic book series I've been reading.
 * God, the Devil and Bob - A short-lived series but still surprised there wasn't already an article, especially after the DVD release.
 * Baker (military code-name) - I picked up a new book on military code-names.
 * Heather Graham Pozzessere - I wrote a stub on this author to disambiguate her from actress Heather Graham.
 * Joe Pyne - Getting back after a short break.
 * Carrie Ann Inaba - I had planned on doing an article on her a year ago. Then I dropped it when my computer was stolen. I revived the idea when she appeared on "Dancing With The Stars".
 * Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences - added the sections on past presidents and the current administration.
 * Blacula - Another topic pulled off the Most Requested page. First time I ever uploaded an image.
 * Dean Ing - A short stub. It was surprisingly hard to find biographical information on him.
 * Characters in the Southern Victory series - Trying to clear up a subject that was growing across too many articles.
 * 2GAT123 - Interesting trivia subject.
 * Tananarive Due - Short article off the Requested list. There was some confusion over the information on her family.
 * A Beautiful Mind - Added some material about the differences between the film and the subject's real life.
 * List of Elseworlds publications and Robin (comics) - added some material.
 * RM-2493 - An article on an urban legend.
 * Lizzie Jennings - Another article on a figure from a legal case. The article was later completely rewritten by somebody who wanted to make it more dramatic (and who came close to copyright violation).
 * Fantax - A French comic book character.
 * Pine Bush, New York - Added the UFO section.
 * 65 Episode Policy - Somebody created a different article on the same subject just hours after I created this one.
 * Invasion America (board wargame) - Should have been Invasion: America.
 * Greenhill's Alternate Decisions - Short article that required a lot of C&P.
 * Baird Searles, Charlotte Lewis - Stub articles. Couldn't find a lot of information on these subjects.
 * William Tager - Changed it from a redirect to a short article.
 * Dead at 21 - I was bored, so I wrote an article off a most wanted list. I saw one mention that this show was related to a contest but I couldn't verify it.
 * The 80's: A Look Back at the Tumultuous Decade 1980-1989 - I read it back in 1979. I recently picked up a used copy and decided to write an article on it.
 * Carmarthen by-election, 1957 - A difficult article to write in that I know only a minimum about UK election procedures.
 * Zuiikin' English - Saw the clips and thought it was worth an article.
 * Red Thunder (novel) - Wrote an article on the Varley novel. Also added some information to the Eight Worlds article.
 * Ambassadors from the United States, List of 'years in science', Timeline of the Second World War, World Fantasy Award for Best Novel - Compilation work, more or less. Unfortunately, I often move on before completing this type of thing.
 * I created or extensively worked on several categories: African-American actors, American Civil War generals, Amputees, Foreign-born US political figures (later renamed Foreign-born American politicians and split into national subcategories), Pulitzer Prize winners, Ships involved in international incidents (later renamed International maritime incidents which I feel is really a different albeit related category), John Brunner books, Soviet politicians, Secession crisis of 1860-1861, SS, Suicides, Survivor, and The Who
 * Accept, Alceo Dossena, Benjamin Paul Blood, Communes in Switzerland, Enrico Gatti, Guy Ducornet, List of Pokémon by Stage, Pipestone Region, Portage Lake Lift Bridge - Articles on subjects I had no particular knowledge of or interest in, but wrote because they were at the top of a most requested list and nobody else was doing them. In some cases, I was able to fashion short but decent articles with a little online research; in other cases, the articles are little more than stubs.
 * Some other entries I've contributed to in one way or another: Abbey Road, Adrienne Barbeau, Aetius, Celebrity sex tape, Christy Canyon, Douglas Reeman, George Carlin, Halle Berry, Jack Ryan (fictional character), Jack Ryan (Senate candidate), Leonidas I, Liberty Meadows, The Monkees, Patrick McDonnell, Rebecca Romijn-Stamos, Recurring South Park characters, Spider Robinson, Spinal Tap (band), Steven Barnes, Terri Welles, Thurgood Marshall, Tim Matheson, Traci Bingham, Treaty of Kuchuk-Kainarji, Vernor Vinge, Victoria Silvstedt, William Sanders (writer).
 * Did some checking in List of people by name, specifically K, I, and part of N, adding missing dates, descriptions, and correcting minor errors. Slow boring work.

Here's some links I'm putting here so they'll be handy for me:
 * Cleanup
 * Most Wanted Articles
 * Pages needing attention
 * Requested articles
 * Village pump
 * Votes for deletion
 * WikiMoney
 * Lists of people
 * Template:List of people by name exhaustive page-index (sectioned)

Here's some outside links I use:
 * Google
 * Internet Movie Datebase
 * Refdesk
 * Spellcheck
 * Dictionary