User:Ruhrfisch/Pages

Pages I have made or substantially added to:

Chemistry Related

 * stir bar - since it is my User name, it seemed kind of obvious (my first article)
 * William A. Noyes - my first biography of a recipient of the American Chemical Society's Priestley Medal
 * Francis P. Garvan - the only non-scientist to recieve the Priestley Medal (a lawyer)

Children's Literature

 * Kipper the Dog - I am the parent of a small child who likes this show
 * Chris Lang a voice actor on Kipper the Dog's TV show

Rivers

 * Meander - added Meander ratio
 * Relief ratio - basically slope, to get rid of red links in creek articles

Germany

 * Gernrode - I cleaned up, corrected, and expanded the English version of the page (based on the German version and other sources and links listed)
 * Gero - he founded the church at Gernrode, plus I like the word 'Margrave'
 * Power Station Westerholt - I found this lonely stub and translated the rest of the German Wikipedia article, like Gernrode I have never been there...
 * Neues Museum - a lot of translation / cleanup, the German article is excellent, maybe someday this will be too...
 * Bälau - a stub about a village in Schleswig-Holstein I found and translated at WP:PNT

Creeks and Places in Pennsylvania

 * Lycoming County, Pennsylvania - the Geography section, plus all the locator maps for all 53 municipalities
 * Larrys Creek - probably the article I have worked hardest on to date, and my first Featured Article (but don't take my word for it... WP:FA)
 * Pennsylvania Route 287 - starts at the mouth of Larrys Creek and follows it north, then into Tioga County
 * Loyalsock Creek - an amazing creek
 * Loyalsock Trail - for hiking along...and up and down (a lot)
 * Lycoming Creek - no one else had done it and it got me started on creeks
 * Muncy Creek - started life as a redirect to the township
 * Pine Creek - the biggest 'creek' in the US (and someday the biggest creek article on Wikipedia?)
 * White Deer Hole Creek - great name, the article I have the most edits on and my second Featured Article
 * Pennsylvania Route 554 - the route into the White Deer Hole valley from South Williamsport
 * Pennsylvania Route 973 - Starts at Pine Creek, crosses Larrys Creek, Lycoming Creek, and finally Loyalsock Creek (and ends there)
 * Little Pine State Park - let's dam one of the nicest creeks in the region!
 * Susquehanna State Park (Pennsylvania) - 20 acres along the river, now with a fake paddlewheeler!
 * Upper Pine Bottom State Park - basically a picnic area and parking lot
 * Crooked Creek (Pennsylvania) - in Tioga County, originally made it to get rid of a red link in Larrys Creek
 * Lancaster County, Pennsylvania - watersheds, protected places, lots of copyedits
 * Transportation in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania - the Native American paths are mine, Choess wrote the more interesting stuff on canals and, wait for it... trains ;-)
 * Chiques Creek - also known as Chickies Creek, a shout out to all my Chickies and peeps in Lebanon and Lancaster Counties
 * Cocalico Creek - I say that name and just smile - Lancaster County creek names are great
 * Conewago Creek - both the east (in Lancaster Co.) and west (in York Co.) creeks
 * Susquehannock State Park - Lancaster County's only state park - although they do have 10 acres of Valley Forge State Forest
 * National Civil War Museum in Harrisburg, PA
 * Central Mountains Shared Use Trails System - got rid of a red link in White Deer Hole Cree

Pennsylvania Railroad Articles

 * Steamtown National Historic Site in Scranton, PA - Woohoo! this was featured in Portal:Trains/Did you know/August 2005
 * F. Nelson Blount - founder of Steamtown
 * Stourbridge Railroad - cleaned up a stub I found looking for a model short line article
 * North Shore Railroad - namesake of the North Shore Railroad system that also operates the next six lines
 * Lycoming Valley Railroad - to get rid of a red link in the Larrys Creek article
 * Union County Industrial Railroad - to get rid of a red link in the White Deer Hole Creek article
 * Juniata Valley Railroad - why stop at four?
 * Nittany and Bald Eagle Railroad - runs along beautiful Bald Eagle Creek
 * Shamokin Valley Railroad - runs along (inset adjective here please, one fails me) Shamokin Creek
 * Wellsboro and Corning Railroad - OK, it does run into New York State too

Native American Paths in Pennsylvania

 * Culbertson's Path - ran along White Deer Hole Creek
 * Great Island Path - another White Deer Hole Creek path
 * Great Shamokin Path - crosses Larrys Creek (and a lot of other creeks)
 * Sheshequin Path - got rid of a red link in White Deer Hole Creek, even though it runs along Lycoming Creek
 * Wyalusing Path - clean up in aisle 12!

Protected Areas in Pennsylvania

 * 21 Pennsylvania State Forest articles
 * Conrad Weiser Area School District - to get rid of a red link in Weiser State Forest (I'm older, but not Weiser)
 * I made this template map of State Parks in Pennsylvania - each dot is wikilinked to the corresponding state park article (cool):


 * Allegheny Islands State Park - fixed and expanded this, on three islands in the river near Pittsburgh, inaccessible with no plans for development
 * List of Pennsylvania state parks - trying to get it to featured list status
 * Recreation Demonstration Area - a 1930s federal program to get rid of red links in List of PA state parks ;-)

Places in Ohio

 * Stubs for each township in Hancock County, Ohio (17 total)
 * Stubs for the following Hancock County School Districts: Arcadia, Arlington, Cory-Rawson, Liberty-Benton, McComb, Van Buren, and Vanlue
 * A stub for Hardin-Northern school district in Hardin County (all to make red links blue)
 * Pymatuning State Park (Ohio) - the old article was on both the Pennsylvania and Ohio state parks, so I cleaned up the PA article and made this stub

Places in Tennessee

 * Warriors' Path State Park - got rid of a red link and was the other end of a dab for Warriors Path State Park in PA