User:TheoClarke/Selected contributions

This is a list of the articles to which I have made substantial contributions. New articles that I created are marked N.

Featured articles

 * David Helvarg had been flagged for attention when I came across it. Created as a stub by MikeCapone (19:32, 7 Dec 2004), an anonymous user made a small expansion of 5 Mar 2005 and on 1 Apr 2005 it was flagged for speedy deletion. This was rapidly moved to WP:VFD and on 3 Apr 2005 it was flagged for attention. The article was single paragraph when I found it. I researched the subject online and expanded the article because one VFD voter felt that Helvarg was not notable. I contacted Helvarg and asked him for some specific information and a photograph, which he provided. Thus, I was able to expand the article further on 8 Apr and it came off VFD the next day. Bish then copy edited the article at my request. Over the next few days I continued to polish the article and solicited comments from Maureen. On 11 Apr I posted it prematurely at WP:FAC.  I moved it next day to peer review and for the next few days implemented the various suggesstions that were made there. These suggestions soon attenuated and on 17 May I put it back on FAC where it sparked a host of comments, which I could not address sufficiently fast to prevent its failure.  I continued to polish the article with widespread guidance, and, on 14 June I returned it to Featured article candidates/David Helvarg. This time it was successful, and on July 8 it was the featured article of the day: From stub through VFD to Main Page, now there is a lifecycle!
 * N Ted "Double Duty" Radcliffe was my first article. I had researched him for a Dead Celebrities draw. After getting Helvarg to featured article I thought that I should start on those that I had initiated.  I was surprised at how little work was needed before I brought it to peer review on July 23 2005. The changes identified there were simple to effect so I nominated the article for featured article status. Again, the few requested changes were readily effected and the article was promoted on August 14 2005.

People

 * N Loderingo Andalò populated a redlink in List of cultural references in The Divine Comedy
 * Pete Atkin, a talented acquaintance.
 * N Arthur Baker (financier) flowed from Little Pub Company.
 * N Arthur Baker (calligrapher) flowed from Arthur Baker (financier).
 * Eddie Barclay had just died.
 * N Fleur Beale after an article on the fictional Children of the Faith sect from her book I am not Esther was VFD.
 * N Jack Beddington while watching the television series Animation Nation.
 * N Mary Hayley Bell having researched her for a Dead Celebrities draw.
 * Wilson Bentley after reading a New York Academy of Sciences newsletter article.
 * John Berryman after merge from a misnamed article.
 * Laurence Binyon needed a bibliography.
 * N Genevieve Blanchett came from a random hit on Cate Blanchett.
 * Louis Blanchette as one of the links from Blanchett.
 * Carol Bouman was a substub listed on Deadend pages.
 * N Chet Brewer was a colleague of Ted Radcliffe.
 * Brunhilda of Austrasia, who may be the person after whom Bruniquel is named.
 * Jim Capaldi had just died.
 * Helena Carr was on VfD.
 * N Robert Carrier, after picking up a cookbook.
 * N Cavalcante de' Cavalcanti populated a redlink in List of cultural references in The Divine Comedy
 * Chiang Yee was a de facto stub listed on Deadend pages.
 * N Lou Chirban was a colleague of Ted Radcliffe.
 * N Neil Churchill was a colleague of Ted Radcliffe.
 * N Lou Clarizio was a colleague of Ted Radcliffe.
 * N Niccolo Antonio Colantonio because someone had created a Colantonio dead end stub.
 * N Peter Collinson FRS, a resident of Peckham, of which I had just expanded the history.
 * N Fred Conlon, Kelly Conlon, Mary A. Conlon, Patrick Conlon (artist), and Patrick Conlon (politician) were all redlinks when I disambiguated Conlon.
 * Douglas Corrigan was a short article that I found as a random page. After expansion and peer review, I proposed it as a featured article on November 13 2005.  It failed because I was unable to report enough about his character.
 * Laura Cottingham was on VfD.
 * Robert Creeley, as a gift to Billy, who was distressed by the death of his friend.
 * N Alistair Cameron Crombie who was cited in the article on Robert Grosseteste, most famous resident of Stradbroke.
 * George Curry (Wild Bunch) was a stub that I found as a random page.
 * Chris Curtis had just died.
 * N Al Dubetts was a colleague of Ted Radcliffe.
 * N Frank Dyall was a colleague of Ted Radcliffe.
 * John Wayles Eppes was a stub that I found as a random page.
 * N Mark Finch was a friend.
 * N George "Showboat" Fisher played for Jamestown Red Sox.
 * N Henry Folland owned Folland Aircraft Ltd. My grandfather managed the Folland machine shop from the beginning. My father and his sister were Folland apprentices.
 * N Gene Frankel had just died.
 * N Raelee Frazier populated a redlink in Ted Radcliffe
 * N Gertrude of Poland was an owner of the Gertrude Psalter.
 * N Wilfred Gibson because it was a mispelling redirect to the poet Wilfrid Wilson Gibson from the band Electric Light Orchestra.
 * N Mike Golding populated a redlink in Southampton.
 * Frank Gorshin had just died.
 * N Thomas Graham, Lord Lynedoch to fix a redlink in Battle of Barrosa, which was a dead end that I copy edited.
 * Anthony Green was a de facto stub listed on Deadend pages.
 * N Eric Griffiths had just died.
 * N William Harmon because I cited him in Poetry analysis.
 * N Peter Hennessy after seeing a TV broadcast of his appearance before the Select Committee on the publication of political memoirs.
 * Aaron Hill needed expansion. I found this while hunting for Aaron's Hill, Surrey as part of List of United Kingdom places
 * N Debra Hill had just died.
 * N Edward Hirsch came from expanding Poetry analysis.
 * David Holbrook after reading his novel A Play of Passion.
 * N Menra Hopewell was the author of a romanticised story about Louis Blanchette.
 * N W. G. Hoskins populated a redlink in Local history.
 * N Tony Jackson (bass player) named Chris Curtis when they were in The Searchers (band).
 * Georgios Karatzaferis was a stub that I found as a random page.
 * N H. R. F. Keating after expanding Inspector Ghote.
 * N Ed Krebs after creating his entry on request at Wikiquote.
 * N Arthur Lake, Bishop of Bath and Wells, after whom my school house was named.
 * N Thomas Lake was the (probably more significant) brother of Arthur.
 * N Sheldon Lee (politician) flowed from Sheldon Lee disambiguation.
 * John Leland was a key figure in the history of English local history.
 * N Yaron Lifschitz worked with Genevieve Blanchett.
 * N William Lily taught John Leland
 * N Hugh Lloyd arose because I had researched him for a Dead Celebrities draw.
 * L. S. Lowry, my godfather; I expanded every part of this article.
 * N Raffæle Marcellino worked with Genevieve Blanchett.
 * N Elliott Marks after watching the Starsky & Hutch movie.
 * N J. B. Martin populated a redlink in Ted Radcliffe
 * N Charles Herbert Mayo was the vicar of Longburton.
 * N Charles Horace Mayo to differentiate him from the unrelated Charles Herbert Mayo.
 * N Stanley Miarka was a colleague of Ted Radcliffe.
 * N Gladys Mitchell, a favoured author.
 * N Walter Nugent Monck after reading David Holbrook's novel Play of Passion.
 * Robert Montagu was a stub that I found as a random page.
 * N Barney Morris was a colleague of Ted Radcliffe.
 * N Richard Mottram after creating his entry on request at Wikiquote.
 * N Eugène Diomi Ndongala Nzomambu flowed from a nonsensical deadend page.
 * David Ogilvy was a stub that I found as a random page.
 * Baroness Orczy, a favoured author.
 * N Chris Parr commissioned a play by Pete Atkin.
 * N W. E. W. Petter was a redlink in Folland.
 * N Gervase Phinn after meeting him at a conference.
 * N V. S. Pritchett after reading a recent biography of this Ipswich native.
 * Tom Phillips, an erstwhile neighbour; I added a substantial biography to complement the existing description of his works.
 * N Alex Radcliffe was the brother of Ted Radcliffe.
 * N Matthias Ringmann in response to a question at Reference desk
 * A. L. Rowse was a stub that I found as a random page.
 * Frederic George Stephens flowed from the disambiguation of Athenaeum.
 * N Fred Stovall, owner of Monroe Monarchs.
 * Bobbi Sykes was a de facto stub listed on Deadend pages.
 * N H. W. Timperley wrote a book illustrated by L. S. Lowry.
 * N Quincy Trouppe was a colleague of Ted Radcliffe.
 * N Philip Turner, after reading a Stephen Chance novel.
 * Pierre Adolphe Valette was a teacher of L. S. Lowry.
 * Raoul Vilain was a stub that I found as a random page.
 * Akintunde Warnock was a de facto stub listed on Deadend pages. It still needs further expansion but the subject did not catch my interest.
 * Theodore Watts-Dunton was an editor of Athenaeum magazine.

Music

 * N Antis after reading Music of Lithuania
 * Athenaeum flowed from the disambiguation of Athenaeum.
 * N Basement Tape was an attempt to resolve conflict at John Wesley Harding (album).
 * N Blue Mink having seen Madeline Bell singing on television and remembering how my school teacher said in 1970 that Blue Mink would be forgotten by 1974.
 * Blue Moon (song) having tidied Blue Moon.
 * Cry of the afflicted was proposed for deletion; needlessly to my mind.
 * Cutting Jade had been flagged as needing attention.
 * The Family Jewels had been flagged as needing attention.
 * Jonathan Fire Eater were a follow-up to The Ignobles.
 * The Quarrymen after creating the biography of Eric Griffiths.
 * The Searchers (band) flowed from Chris Curtis.

Theatre, Film & TV

 * American Dragon: Jake Long was a de facto stub listed on Deadend pages.
 * N Away was a play produced by Griffin Theatre Company.
 * Beauty World was a de facto stub listed on Deadend pages.
 * N Duke the Lost Engine flowed from The Railway Series.
 * N The Flying Irishman was the biopic of Douglas Corrigan
 * N Griffin Theatre Company where Genevieve Blanchett started her career.
 * N Mainstage was a discipline within which Yaron Lifschitz had worked.
 * Mull of Kintyre test was mentioned on WikiEN-l.
 * Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go! was a request from User:Angie Y..
 * The Guru (movie) was a movie that I watched on TV.

Places

 * Brumunddal after expanding the same subject found randomly at no:wikipedia.
 * N Bruniquel, to populate a link from the Graffiti article of the day.
 * Charlestown, NSW was a de facto stub listed on Deadend pages.
 * N Chiselborough, about which I once wrote a dissertation.
 * Copp's Hill was a stub that I found as a random page.
 * The Drake Hotel, Chicago was mentioned as Giano's favourite hotel.
 * Great Highway was a stub that I found as a random page.
 * N Hemingstone to fix a redlink in Professional farter.
 * N Iron Door Club was a residency of The Searchers.
 * Islip (town), New York was a random page where I added the wonderful story of Mobro 4000.
 * N List of United Kingdom locations and its many subpages arose from a transwiki and reformat of a huge list on Multilingual Wikisource.
 * Lochinvar held the transcript of Walter Scott's verse, which I had transwikied.
 * Longburton was a stub that I found as a random page.
 * Montacute was linked from Montacute House, where my great grandparents may have met.
 * N North Elmham was the birthplace of John Mills.
 * Peckham, my hwilhom home town. I expanded the history.
 * N Te Rata Bridge was the subject of Butcher report, which I transwikied.
 * Stradbroke, my workplace.
 * Watford Gap service station was a stub that was up for deletion.
 * Zone Point was the last redlink on List of United Kingdom locations

Organisations

 * Abraham Puls & Sons was a renaming and expansion of Pulsen after transwiki.
 * Amateur press association after conversation outside Wikipedia.
 * Athenaeum Club flowed from the disambiguation of Athenaeum
 * N British Amateur Press Association flowed from expanding Amateur press association.
 * N Blue Frontier Campaign to populate a redlink in David Helvarg.
 * N Environmental Law Service to populate a redlink in EPS, which I had just refactored.
 * Folland, for whom my father and grandfather worked.
 * N GE Capital Bank after cleaning up GE Capital Bank AB.
 * Gentlemen's club replaced a redirect to the more general Club.
 * N Knights of Saint Mary was a religious order founded by Loderingo Andalò.
 * N Ligue des Gourmands flowed from transwikiing Gourmand to Wiktionary.
 * Little Pub Company was a stub that I found as a random page.
 * N New York Academy of Sciences, of which I am a member.
 * N Pye after realising that there was nothing about the parent company when tidying Pye Records.
 * World Financial Group flowed from World Lending Group
 * World Lending Group flowed from Gross profit
 * N Worshipful Company of Management Consultants, my second article, flowed from my membership.
 * Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers, to which I added a history after following the link from the King James Version of the Bible article of the day.

History

 * N Guildford pub bombing to populate a link in the Guildford Four article.
 * N History of English local history is a personal enthusiasm.
 * N Local history, which is one of my academic disciplines.
 * N Pub name origins flowed from a discussion of this topic in a pub.
 * N Treaty of Windsor 1522, to populate a link from the Mary I of England article of the day.

Finance

 * Fixed cost flowed from Gross profit
 * Gross profit was a random article.
 * Variable cost flowed from Gross profit

Education

 * N Business and Enterprise College

Politics

 * N List of Parliamentary constituencies in the United Kingdom because I could not find a list of all constituencies past and present when writing the A. L. Rowse article.
 * N Mandatory sentencing was a policy that Genevieve Blanchett opposed.
 * N Seaweed rebellion to populate a redlink in David Helvarg.

Publications and literature

 * Apocalypse Zero was a stub that I found as a random page.
 * Athenaeum (magazine) flowed from the disambiguation of Athenaeum.
 * Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art was an article written to replace a transcript.
 * Childe Rowland to the Dark Tower Came was an article written to replace a transcript.
 * N Computing (magazine) flowed from adding a citation to Wikipedia as a press source 2006.
 * N Cosmographiae Introductio to populate a redlink in Matthias Ringmann.
 * N Gertrude Psalter was the source of information about the illegitimacy of Sviatopolk II of Kiev.
 * Humani Generis Redemptionem after transwiki of transcript to a Wikisource article.
 * Inspector Ghote after reading a novel.
 * List of cultural references in The Divine Comedy was one of User:Filiocht's projects.
 * N Moon in art and literature after tidying Full moon.
 * N List of schools of poetry]] because the topic was too big to cover adequately in Poetry analysis. I later merged this into List of poetry groups and movements.
 * N List of used book conditions because I kept having to explain that Good was "not very good".
 * N Marmion flowed from Lochinvar.
 * Mary Poppins after merging sub-articles back into main article.
 * N Pittsburgh Courier populated a redlink in Ted Radcliffe
 * Poetry analysis, which had been flagged as needing attention.
 * N Princeps Pastorum was needed to explain a clause in List of Popes, which was on FLC.
 * Vajacki mars was a random page where I replaced a copyvio verse translation with a prose version.

Games

 * N Buck (poker) to answer a Reference desk question about "the buck stops here".
 * N Dead Celebrities because I was involved in a game.
 * N Kung Fu Master in response to a question at Reference desk.

Sport

 * N Bismarck Churchills populated a redlink in Ted Radcliffe
 * N Columbus Blue Birds populated a redlink in Ted Radcliffe
 * N Earl Mack Major League All-Stars played against Jamestown Red Sox.
 * N Elmwood Giants populated a redlink in Ted Radcliffe
 * N Gilkerson's Union Giants populated a redlink in Ted Radcliffe
 * N Illinois Giants populated a redlink in Ted Radcliffe
 * N Jamestown Red Sox populated a redlink in Ted Radcliffe
 * N Louisville Buckeyes populated a redlink in Ted Radcliffe
 * N Memphis Red Sox populated a redlink in Ted Radcliffe
 * N Monroe Monarchs populated a redlink in Ted Radcliffe
 * N National Semipro Championship populated a redlink in Ted Radcliffe
 * N Negro Leagues Baseball Museum populated a redlink in Ted Radcliffe
 * N New York Black Yankees populated a redlink in Ted Radcliffe
 * N Representative side to explain term in Sydney Riot of 1879.

Others
The following pages all flowed from other work:
 * Amitabha's forty-eight vows was listed on Deadend pages and needed to be converted to an encyclopedia article after transwikiing to Wikisource
 * N Bedsit flowed from fixing an article on the Austrian equivalent.
 * N Differential GPS to fix a redlink in Global Positioning System.
 * Earnings management was a de facto stub listed on Deadend pages.
 * Ecological community was a de facto stub listed on Deadend pages.
 * Entertainment-Education was a de facto stub listed on Deadend pages.
 * Flame test was needed for a Reference desk request.
 * Foolscap folio was a stub that I found as a random page.
 * N Gourmand World Cookbook Award flowed from transwikiing Gourmand to Wiktionary.
 * N Indirect grilling flowed from the transwikied Beer can chicken.
 * N Marine conservation populated a redlink in Blue Frontier Campaign.
 * N Nipah palm to populate a link in the Attap dwelling article.
 * N Prestige dialect to populate a link in the International English article.
 * N Store detective for reasons that escape me now.
 * N Vee formation, a symmetric form of Echelon formation, which I found when checking the links in Blenheim Palace.

Controversies
The following pages were all the focus of controversial discussions in which I became involved:
 * Arts in Birmingham
 * E. E. Cummings
 * Iglesia ni Cristo
 * Italo disco
 * John Wesley Harding
 * Karla Homolka
 * Scientology
 * Scientology controversy
 * Sunflower (album)
 * Ward Churchill
 * Younger Than Yesterday

Disambiguation

 * N Blanchett to handle removal of surname origin information from [[Cate Blanchett].
 * Conlon was a transwikied surname dicdef up for speedy deletion.
 * Crombie flowed from Alistair Cameron Crombie.
 * Gertrude flowed from Gertrude of Poland.
 * Laura flowed from Laura Cottingham.
 * Radcliffe flowed from Ted Radcliffe.
 * Stovall flowed from Monroe Monarchs.

Wikipedia process
The following are discussions of policy or other material that is not part of the encyclopedia:
 * User talk:Bishonen/European toilet paper holder
 * Reference desk
 * Wikipedia talk:Countdown deletion
 * Simplified Ruleset
 * N History of Wikipedian processes and people arose from discussion at Wikipedia_talk:Wikipedia_Signpost.