User:Philby NZ

Hi guys

My name is Phil Mason, and I hale from Auckland, New Zealand. I've had a particular interest in the Jagdwaffe - WW2 Luftwaffe Fighter Pilots, and that is where my initial Wikipedia-editing was based around. Sorry I haven't been active there for a while - there are several editors in that WikiProject who have been very difficult to deal with and it drained my enjoyment for the topic. I'm still collecting data & references but I've found my time drawn off to other projects (as you do). The other big interest is sport-car racing and the iconic Le Mans 24 Hours, and I have now been writing up race histories for that great event, with a good bunch of knowledgeable Wiki-editors - an important aspect of Wikipedia's ongoing support and flourishing.

My aim has always been to collate information from a range of sources and show interconnection between events and the different people involved - some cause and effect. So the articles are not necessarily written purely biographically or as bare tables of data. I aim to put the information into a context with external events that can further explain what happened when, and why.

Comments welcome! cheers, Phil

Contributions (in a nominal priority)
1)  Filling in detail, gaps & references for the 24 Hours of Le Mans - 1920s to 1990s. Already completed are:        1923   1924   1925   1926   1927   1928   1929   1930   1931   1932   1933   1934   1935   1936   1937

1949   1950    1951    1952    1953    1954    1955    1955 disaster   1956    1957    1958    1959

1960   1961    1962    1963    1964    1965    1966    1967    1968    1969

1970   1971    1972    1973    1974    1975    1976    1977    1978    1979

1980   1981    1982    1983    1984    1985    1986    1987    1988    1989

1990   1991            1993    1994    1995    1996

2)  Filling in detail, gaps & references for the early years in Grand Prix motor racing - 1906 to 1950. Already completed are:        1906   1907   1908   1909   1910   1911   1912   1913   1914   1915   1916

1919  1920   1921   1922   1923   1924   1925   1926   1927   1928   1929

1930  1931   1932   1933   1934   1935   1936

3)  Contributing to building up the articles of motor-racing biographies with additional references.         Pietro Bordino       Eliška Junková        Jim Richards

4)  Compiling articles for sports-car series in the years 1940s to 2000s.

5)  Filling in detail, gaps & references for the WW2 Jagdwaffe, the German fighter pilots. Some have subsequently been deemed unimportant people for Wikipedia

Hermann Graf Heinz Sachsenberg  Günther Schack  Franz Schall  Günther Scheel  Wolfgang Schellmann

Georg Schentke Franz Schieß  Wilhelm Schilling  (Hans Schleef)  Hermann Schleinhege  Joachim Schlichting

Johann Schmid Erich Schmidt Heinz Schmidt Winfried Schmidt Karl-Heinz Schnell Siegfried Schnell Franz Schwaiger

Karl Schnörrer Gerhard Schöpfel  Herbert Schramm  Werner Schröer  Otto Schultz  Otto Schulz

Carl-Alfred Schumacher (Günther Seeger)  (Georg Seelmann)  Johannes Seifert  Reinhard Seiler  Waldemar Semelka

Heinrich Setz (Kurt Sochatzy)  Wolfgang Späte  Günther Specht  Gustav Sprick  Hans-Arnold Stahlschmidt

Hermann Staiger Leopold Steinbatz  (Günther Steinhausen)  (Wilhelm Steinmann)  Heinrich Sterr

That should get me through till I'm about 95...  :)