User:Shreevatsa/Personal

Articles contributed to
It seems I like finding sources more than writing, so articles I write turn out looking as if the purpose of sentences in the article is to serve as excuses to link to sources.

Created
Edit count or pages created. Articles that are not too short are in bold.


 * Der Verlorene, a film by Peter Lorre
 * James O. Clephane. I was reading The Design of Everyday Things and found a paragraph mentioning a certain "James Clephane" in passing. Although there was no mention of him on Wikipedia at all, digging further found a lot of history (Google's News Archive Search was most helpful) and I just couldn't stop, so at some point I gave up and created the article.
 * Hammersley–Clifford theorem, in Markov networksk
 * Ali Guli Mane, it's a game popular in Karnataka, but had to translate from Italian wikipedia!
 * Arthur W. Ryder. I collected quite a few sources, but lost patience when actually writing. Would like to expand quite a bit.
 * Maurizio Savini, makes sculptures out of bubble gum
 * Fire Watch (story), by Connie Willis
 * Christoph Rudolff, German mathematician who introduced some notation
 * Initial mess at Streaming algorithm, which motivated someone to make it better :-)
 * Mola Ram, not the Indiana Jones villain
 * T. Ganapati Sastri, Sanskrit scholar who discovered Bhasa's plays
 * K. V. Sarma, Indian historian of science, astronomy, mathematics, etc.
 * You Are Old, Father William, the poem from Alice
 * Popoviciu's inequality, about convex functions
 * Neelakantha Chaturdhara, 17th-century commentator on Mahabharata
 * Kirātārjunīya, one of the six mahakavyas (great poems) in Sanskrit
 * R. Shamasastry, who discovered the Arthashastra
 * Narayana Ninna Namada, a song. Someone else created it, rescued from deletion and rewrote.
 * Sasirekha Parinayam, a folk story
 * The Lost Leader (poem), a poem by Robert Browning attacking William Wordsworth
 * Ketan Mulmuley, computer scientist
 * Isolation lemma, probability lemma
 * Shishupala Vadha, Sanskrit epic poem — expanded from stub
 * The Brahmin and the Mongoose, a story you've surely heard in some form
 * Madanakamaraja Katha, Tamil/Telugu collection of stories
 * Pizza effect — Americans invent Pizza, export it to Italy, then look for "authentic" pizza there
 * Neemrana Hotels — saved from prod and AfD. I was really only trying to prevent WP:BITE…
 * GRETIL — Göttingen Register of Electronic Texts in Indian Languages
 * Nottuswara — Sanskrit devotional compositions based on band tunes of Scotland/Ireland
 * Gatha Saptashati — Prakrit collection of love poetry (c. 200 BCE–200 CE)
 * List of Sahitya Akademi Award winners for Sanskrit — modern Sanskrit literature. Modern Sanskrit authors:
 * Rewa Prasad Dwivedi
 * P. C. Devassia
 * Jagannath Pathak
 * Om Prakash Pande
 * Prashasya Mitra Shastri
 * Hari Dutt Sharma
 * Harshadev Madhav
 * Rajendra Mishra
 * Mithila Prasad Tripathi
 * H. R. Vishwasa
 * Narottam Narayan, painter of reputedly the best-selling and most-recognised image in India
 * S. Krishnaswamy, documentary film maker
 * Kavanagh (novel), by Longfellow
 * Kavyadarsha, Dandin's on poetics
 * Rudrata, Kavyalankara… later
 * Any day soon:
 * Chitrakavya — constrained writing in Sanskrit (e.g. use http://creative.sulekha.com/chitrakavya-chitrabandha_541896_blog)


 * Templates, categories etc.:
 * * Created Category:Collapse templates, Template:Kālidāsa, etc.

Rewrite / improvement

 * Rewrote Columbia Pictures in February 2009. Again, tracked down a few obscure sources. Many later removed as trivia. :-(
 * Christopher Sholes: January 2009
 * T. R. Mahalingam (flautist): March 2009
 * Marmaduke's "reception": July 2009
 * K. Pattabhi Jois: June 2009


 * Panchatantra: Great assault April 2010 (earlier: 2009-01-16 diff to 2009-04-29, diff to 2009-07-05)
 * Bhartṛhari (poet), expanded a little, searched for sources

Wrote the lead of Binary prefix at some point, now rewritten.

Articles I would like to improve but never get around to: Indian English, Sanskrit in the West.

Disambiguation / lists

 * Gowers, Kulothunga Chola, Lanman (disambiguation), Thora, Oriental Research Institute, Arkady, Maharaja College, Verlag, Nagavarma, Lehmer, Dactylic metre, Amisha, List of hat-tricks, Shata, Narda (disambiguation), etc.

Redirects
It's really pointless to keep track of these, but there seem to be about 200 of them (Feb 20111).