User:Rye 212

Mike, not living in Dublin

Wikipedia life
First visited at 15:45PST Fri Oct 8, 2004 via Google result #6 for Australian PM John Howard when Alexa ranked the site as approx the 250th most popular. Voting had just started in the Australian 2004 elections, and Howard was seeking a record 4th term. I wanted more info on his terms of office - and found it on WP. Twenty-four hours later Howard had won the election, and was featured on the WP home-page.

I was surprised to find the Oct 1st re-election of Irish President Mary McAleese already recorded, which demonstrated the accuracy of the site. I made my first contributions to pages on Irish politicians John O'Donoghue and Mary Harney to reflect the recent cabinet reshuffle.

Next day, to test WP, I researched my favourite topic - What is the formal date of Irish independence? The answers were there on Irish Republic. I added to that info, made a few more contributions and joined WikiPedia on Sun 10th October, 2004. Enjoy Looking fwd to being a constructive member. - Rye1967 20:57, Oct 11, 2004 (UTC)

Made my 1500th logged-in contribution with a new page on Eddie Wade on 1st Dec 2005 and 2000th on March 20, 2006 with a change to Esera Tuaolo, 2500 on 16 May, 2006, change to Gerald Boland, 4600 on 26 March 2007 change to Ian Paisley (Impending First Min Nom.), 6621 edits by Mar 2011, 7588 as of 25 Sep 2023. Slowed down! Most recent was on Merab Sharikadze Georgian Rugby International.

Made some anon contributions as follows: I agree to multi-license all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:
 * 64.32.180.82 in 2004 and 2005
 * 24.136.82.123 in October 2004
 * 75.80.109.78 on Dec 11, 2006
 * 89.127.164.8 in 2007
 * 89.100.154.154 in 2007 and 2008
 * 83.141.89.154 in April 2008, June 2009 and in July 2010
 * 109.255.22.196 in 2010
 * 109.255.141.254 in 2011
 * 109.255.235.7 in 2012
 * 178.250.114.154 in August 2013, February 2014, November 2014 and May 2015

23 Apr 2013: My first view of anon-IP contributions logged with an IPv6 address. . Vandalism, sadly.

When were topics 'born' Wikipedia

 * Alan Turing started Nov 12, 2001
 * Google started Oct 30, 2001, Googol started Aug 8, 2001
 * France started Jan 29, 2001 (small entry, amusing)
 * User:JimboWales made his first contribution to ThomasEdison Jan 23rd 2001, became User:Jimbo Wales in March 2001
 * See also History of Wikipedia
 * the first entry on the Sept 11 attacks at 10:02 EST. Much written since, including early updates from Jimbo wales.
 * Wikipedia.com launched Jan 15th 2001 - see History of Wikipedia
 * From WP I learned that Mikheil Saakashvili of Georgia was born just one day before me
 * Articles that have not been edited in a long, long time

Some famous (to me) old people from WP
Created Feb 2006, Last update Sep 2023, Last extension Sep 2023

1889 to 1914

 * 1889 September 14 María Capovilla (d. August 27 2006, aged 116)
 * 1902 January 2   Dan Keating (d. October 2 2007, aged 105)
 * 1910 July 4      Gloria Stuart Titanic actress (d. September 26 2010, aged 100)
 * 1912 December 22 Lady Bird Johnson (d. July 11 2007, aged 94)
 * 1913 July 14     Gerald Ford (d. December 26 2006, aged 93)
 * 1913 July 23     Michael Foot (d. March 3 2010, aged 96)
 * 1913 August 17   W. Mark Felt (d. December 18 2008, aged 95)
 * 1914 October 16  Mohammed Zahir Shah (d. July 23 2007, aged 92)

1915

 * January 13  Kit Ahern (d. December 27 2007, aged 92)
 * February 4  Norman Wisdom (d. October 4 2010, aged 95)
 * September 15 Eddie Filgate (d. January 19, 2017, aged 101)
 * October 15  Yitzhak Shamir (d. June 30, 2012, aged 96)
 * November 9  Sargent Shriver (d. January 18 2011, aged 95)
 * November 25 Augusto Pinochet (d. December 10 2006, aged 91)

1916

 * January 12  Pieter Willem Botha (d. October 31 2006, aged 90)
 * May 8       João Havelange (d. August 16, 2016, aged 100)
 * June 9      Robert Mcnamara (d. July 6 2009, aged 93)
 * July 11     Gough Whitlam (d. October 21 2014, aged 98)
 * November 4  Walter Cronkite (d. July 17 2009, aged 92)
 * November 10 Louis le Brocquy (d. April 25 2012, aged 95)
 * December 8  T. K. Whitaker (d. January 9, 2017, aged 100)
 * December 9  Kirk Douglas (d.February 5, 2020, aged 103)

1917

 * January 5   Jane Wyman (d. September 10 2007, aged 90)
 * February 2  Đỗ Mười (d. October 1, 2018, aged 101)
 * February 6  Zsa Zsa Gabor (d. December 18, 2016, aged 99)
 * March 20    Vera Lynn (d. 18 June 2020, aged 103)
 * August 18   Caspar Weinberger (d. March 28 2006, aged 88)
 * August 30   Denis Healey (d. October 30 2015, aged 98
 * October 1   Cahal Cardinal Daly (d. December 31 2009, aged 92)
 * November 3  Conor Cruise O'Brien (d. December 18 2008, aged 91)
 * November 20 Robert Byrd (d. June 28 2010, aged 92)
 * December 16 Arthur C. Clarke (d. March 19 2008, aged 90)

1918

 * March 12    Pádraig Faulkner (d. June 1 2012, aged 94)
 * April 8     Betty Ford (d. July 8 2011, aged 93)
 * May 27      Yasuhiro Nakasone (d. 29 November 2019, aged 101)
 * July 18     Nelson Mandela (d. Dec 5 2013, aged 95)
 * November 7  Billy Graham (d. February 21, 2018, aged 99)
 * December 21 Kurt Waldheim (d. June 14 2007, aged 88)
 * December 23 Helmut Schmidt (d. November 10, 2015 aged 96)

1919

 * January 1   J. D. Salinger (d. January 27 2010, aged 91)
 * January 14  Giulio Andreotti (d. May 6 2013, aged 94)
 * May 3       Pete Seeger (d. January 27 2014, aged 94)
 * July 20     Edmund Hillary (d. January 11 2008, aged 88)

1920

 * January 19  Javier Pérez de Cuéllar (d. March 4, 2020, aged 100)
 * April 13    Liam Cosgrave (d. October 4, 2017, aged 97)
 * April 20    John Paul Stevens (d. July 16, 2019, aged 99)
 * August 4    Helen Thomas (d. July 20, 2013, aged 92)
 * August 17   Maureen O'Hara (d. October 24 2015, aged 95)
 * September 23 Mickey Rooney (d. April 6, 2014 aged 93)
 * December 9  Carlo Azeglio Ciampi (d. September 16, 2016, aged 95)
 * December 13 George P. Shultz (d. February 6, 2021, aged 100)

1921

 * April 21    Tiede Herrema (d. 24 April 2020, aged 99)
 * June 10     Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (d. April 9, 2021, aged 99)
 * July 10     Nancy Davis Reagan (d. March 6, 2016, aged 95)
 * July 18     John Glenn (d. December 8, 2016, aged 95)
 * November 29 Jackie Stallone (d. September 21, 2020, aged 98)

1922

 * January 17  Betty White (d. December 31, 2021, aged 99)
 * February 6  Denis Norden (d. September 18, 2018, aged 96)
 * April 3     Doris Day (d. May 13, 2019, aged 97)
 * April 4     Máire Mhac an tSaoi (d. October 16, 2021, aged 99)
 * July 2      Pierre Cardin (d. December 29, 2020, aged 98)
 * November 14 Boutros Boutros-Ghali (d. February 16, 2016, aged 93)

1923

 * May 27      Henry Kissinger (d. November 29, 2023, aged 100)
 * May 27      Sumner Redstone (d. August 11, 2020, aged 97)
 * July 22     Bob Dole (d. December 5, 2021, aged 98)
 * August 2    Shimon Peres (d. September 28, 2016, aged 93)
 * September 16 Lee Kuan Yew (d. March 23, 2015, aged 91)
 * October 10  Murray Walker (d. March 13, 2021, aged 97)
 * October 10  Nicholas Parsons (d. 28 January 2020, aged 96)
 * December 12 Bob Barker (d. 26 August 2023, aged 99)

1924

 * February 20 Gloria Vanderbilt (d. June 17, 2019, aged 95)
 * February 21 Robert Mugabe (d. 6 September 2019, aged 95)
 * April 28    Kenneth Kaunda (d. 17 June 2021, aged 97)
 * June 12     George H. W. Bush (d. November 30, 2018, aged 94)
 * September 2 Daniel arap Moi (d. 4 February 2020, aged 95)
 * October 1   Jimmy Carter
 * October 15  Lee Iacocca (d. July 2, 2019, aged 94)
 * December 7  Mário Soares (d. January 7, 2017, aged 92)
 * December 25 Atal Bihari Vajpayee (d. August 16, 2018, aged 93)

1925

 * March 19    Brent Scowcroft (d. August 6, 2020, aged 95)
 * June 29     Giorgio Napolitano (d. September 22, 2023, aged 98)
 * July 10     Mahathir Mohamad
 * July 20     Jacques Delors (d. December 27, 2023, aged 98)
 * October 19  Angela Lansbury (d. October 11 2022, aged 96)
 * Dec 13      Dick Van Dyke

1926

 * February 2  Valéry Giscard d'Estaing (d. December 2, 2020, aged 94)
 * March 6     Alan Greenspan
 * April 21    Elizabeth II (d. September 8, 2022, aged 96)
 * May 8       David Attenborough
 * June 28     Mel Brooks
 * July 8      John Dingell (d. February 7, 2019, aged 92)
 * August 3    Tony Bennett (d. July 21, 2023, aged 96)

1927

 * January 17 John A. Murphy (d. February 28, 2022, aged 95)
 * February 20 Sidney Poitier (d. January 6, 2022, aged 94)
 * March 1    Harry Belafonte (d. April 25, 2023, aged 96)
 * April 16   Pope Benedict XVI (d. December 31, 2022, aged 95)
 * August 18  Rosalynn Carter (d. November 19, 2023, aged 96)
 * October 28 Cleo Laine
 * Unknown Imogen Stuart

1928

 * January 24 Desmond Morris
 * March 18 Fidel V. Ramos (d. July 31, 2022, aged 94)
 * April 6 James Watson
 * April 11 Ethel Kennedy
 * May 4 Thomas Kinsella (d. December 22, 2021, aged 93)
 * May 12 Burt Bacharach (d. February 8 2023, aged 94)
 * June 4 Ruth Westheimer
 * June 7 James Ivory
 * June 20 Jean-Marie Le Pen
 * June 28 Hans Blix
 * December 7 Noam Chomsky

1929

 * February 17 Patricia Routledge
 * May 2 Édouard Balladur
 * July 2 Imelda Marcos
 * September 5 Bob Newhart
 * September 25 Barbara Walters (d. December 30, 2022, aged 93)
 * December 20 Milan Panić

1930

 * January 4 Tras Honan (d. November 25, 2023, aged 93)
 * January 12 Jennifer Johnston (novelist)
 * January 20 Buzz Aldrin
 * January 30 Gene Hackman
 * February 10 Robert Wagner
 * February 27 Joanne Woodward
 * March 3 Ion Iliescu
 * March 8 Douglas Hurd
 * March 22 Pat Robertson (d. March 22, 2023, aged 93)
 * March 26 Sandra Day O'Connor (d. December 1, 2023, aged 93)
 * March 30 Rolf Harris (d. May 10, 2023, aged 93)
 * April 15 Vigdís Finnbogadóttir
 * April 28 James Baker
 * May 20 Betty DeGeneres
 * May 31 Clint Eastwood
 * July 7 Theodore McCarrick
 * August 12 George Soros
 * August 20 Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh
 * August 30 Warren Buffet
 * October 28 Bernie Ecclestone
 * December 15 Edna O'Brien

Nonsense
I am responsible for including the following in the Robert Marjolin article in 2006:
 * ...he was head of State Department responsible for producing the Pineau aperitif...

which was later corrected to
 * ...he was a member of the staff of the socialist minister of foreign affairs, Christian Pineau... 

That nonsense was a consequence of applying Google translate to the German wikipedia page! Four years later it translates the same sentence correctly:
 * ...he...was...Cabinet Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs under Pineau ...

Mobile Phones

 * Nokia 1610 Dec 1996-2000 (end: needed to get an Irish account, got phone that could send txt messages)
 * ? 2000-2001 (end: Wanted more modern phone)
 * Siemens SL42 2001-2003 (end: Wanted more modern phone)
 * Nokia 6310i 2003-Dec 2007 (end: got given new phone for birthday)
 * Motorola v400 2004-Dec 2006 (first camera phone, end:Moved back to Ireland from USA)
 * Nokia E65 Apr-Aug 2007 (end: Lost in pub)
 * Nokia N70 Dec 2007-Jan 2010 (end: wanted more modern phone)
 * Nokia 5800 XpressMusic Jan 2010-July 2011 (end: Screen was broken, couldn't read)
 * HTC Desire S July 2011-Jan 2012 (end: Lost in taxi)
 * HTC Wildfire S Jan 2012-Feb 2013 (end: Qualified for an upgrade to faster phone)
 * Sony Xperia T Feb 2013-July 2014 (end: Camera focus damaged by car)
 * Sony Xperia Z1 Compact July 2014 - May 2016 (end: Touchscreen failure due to broken glass)
 * Sony Xperia Z5 Compact May 2016 - Dec 2016 (end: iPhone gift)
 * iPhone 6 Dec 2016 - Dec 2017 (end: iPhone 7 gift)
 * iPhone 7 Dec 2017 - Aug 2018 (end: iPhone X gift)
 * iPhone X Aug 2018 - Dec 2019 (end: iPhone 11 gift)
 * iPhone 11 Dec 2019 - Dec 2021 (end: iPhone 13 gift)
 * iPhone 13 Dec 2021 -

To do

 * User:Rye1967/KerryProj
 * search for (exact match) of 'Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy' in http://debates.oireachtas.ie/DDebates.aspx?Dail=29&Type=DAL
 * create a list of irish political party leaders, with terms in service
 * Clann_na_Talmhan says it is 1943 onwards, but it was in the 1927 general election - see link from there, however wiki.politics.ie say that was the Farmers Union
 * according to Government of the 23rd Dail Albert Reynolds was temporarily min for Trade, Commeerce & Tourism in 1982, according to Irish_Minister_for_Industry_%26_Commerce it was Paddy Power (politician)
 * improve sentence structure in Fianna Fáil
 * remove links to Fianna Fail
 * define Rapprochement in Wikictionary.com and link from Bertie Ahern, search for other occurences in WikiPedia.com
 * review Irish categories at approx [|here]
 * review all links to Irish and see if they should instead go to one of the others, or not be a link at all