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 Wikipedia: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 Wikipedia: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 Wikipedia: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 Wikipedia: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 Wikipedia: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 Wikipedia:Deadend pages.
N H. W. Timperley wrote a book illustrated by [[#L. S. Lowry]|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]|L. S. Lowry]].
Raoul Vilain was a stub that I found as a random page.
Akintunde Warnock was a de facto stub listed on Wikipedia: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 Wikipedia:Deadend pages.
N Away was a play produced by Griffin Theatre Company.
Beauty World was a de facto stub listed on Wikipedia: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 Wikipedia: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 Wikisource: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: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 Wikipedia: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 Wikipedia: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 Wikipedia: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 Wikipedia:Deadend pages.
Ecological community was a de facto stub listed on Wikipedia:Deadend pages.
Entertainment-Education was a de facto stub listed on Wikipedia:Deadend pages.
Flame test was needed for a Wikipedia: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:

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: