User:Lar/DYK

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[edit] A pithy quote

The objective of FAs is to display the best work of the community; that of DYKs is to invite others to improve the articles.

--Gurubrahma 03:02, 7 March 2006 (UTC) [1]

That sums it up nicely for me. Every one of the articles I've had selected so far has been vastly improved by other editors while it was visible on the main page. What a great feeling... It's what Wikipedia is all about. I've been fortunate to have several articles selected.

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So anyway, without further ado, here's the info on articles by myself (unless otherwise noted, all are self nominations)....

Article Create Date DYK selection date
American Bridge Company a builder of many large bridges around the world, part of USS for a long time. 20:43, 25 December 2005 article selected 27 December, 2005
Sky Ride a Transporter bridge at the Chicago Century of Progress) Exposition. Steinman's only amusement ride. 20:17, 29 December 2005 article selected 2 January 2006
Orthotropic deck a weight saving deck used in bridge refits to increase carrying capacity and save money. 01:13, 1 January 2006 article selected 4 January 2006
Steel dam a rare dam type, only 2 examples survive in the US, one near my alma mater MTU. 21:48, 19 January 2006 article selected 22 January 2006
Hutsonville Bridge a David B. Steinman self-anchored bridge, the scrapper offered to donate the scrapping fee to save it from the torch to no avail. 17:23, 20 January 2006 article selected 23 January 2006
Coraopolis Bridge Formerly the third Pittsburgh Sixth Street Bridge, it was floated, partially disassembled, to be reused across a different river. 11:47, 23 January 2006 article selected 30 January 2006
The Observatory (band) A band I found while working in Singapore on a short assignment. 23:18, 2 March 2006 article selected 6 March 2006
Kingston-Port Ewen Suspension Bridge I used to live near this bridge, and it was pivotal in the career of David B. Steinman so seemed a natural to do an article on. 00:12, 1 April 2006 article selected 4 April 2006
Ashfork-Bainbridge Steel Dam Second of three Steel Dams in the US. Just one more to go and I will have done all three... 21:35, 12 April 2006 article selected 13 April 2006
Stamp mill Stumbled into the need for this article working on Redridge Steel Dam. User:Apwoolrich gave me the seed for it after I asked some questions about hammer mills, which are not the same thing. 15:10, 12 April 2006 article selected 14 April 2006
Teresa Bagioli Sickles Found her trolling around at random in US history, what a juicy story!!!! Notorious womanizing US representative (and Tammany Hall machine man) Daniel Sickles gets stepped out on by his toast of the town socialite wife, blows away the lover (the U.S. Attorney son of Francis Scott Key, no less) and it's the talk of the nation's papers for months. Beats the rap (with the first successful US use of the insanity defense), thanks to his dream team of lawyers (a future US Secretary of War among them). Then the papers turn on him and he goes on to become one of the most incompetent Union generals in the Civil War... Wow! 10:57, 29 April 2006 article selected 2 May 2006
Waldo-Hancock Bridge, another David B. Steinman bridge I've had on ice for a while. This one featured a new tower design and prestressed suspendor cables (both innovations at the time), and came in so far under budget that the bridge authority built another bridge with the leftover funds! 20:46, 1 May 2006 article selected 4 May 2006
Gaylord Building, the subject of a Lego model I built for the National Trust for Historic Preservation "Build the Trust" competition, I had all this background info in my head, and a folder full of prototype photos, so it seemed fitting to do an article. Started working on it in January, 5 edits over 5 months to go public... 02:11, 6 May 2006 article selected 8 May
Hell Below, my first movie article. Created because it was a red link in Merritt-Chapman & Scott. They blew up a destroyer for the movie to simulate a torpedo hit. Probably one of their more interesting contracts! 11:58, 15 May 2006 article selected 15 May
Merritt-Chapman & Scott a famed salvage and undersea contractor. Marshalled the largest construction fleet ever assembled to build the Mackinac Bridge. Had been a red link for a long time. 01:48, 14 May 2006 article selected 16 May
Artrain USA It's art! It's a train! It's based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. What's not to like? When I saw this in TRAINS I knew I had to do an article. 14:31, 18 June 2006 article selected 22 June 2006
Joyland Amusement Park A small regional family owned amusement park I happened to find out about in Lubbock, Texas. It has big plans for the future though. 23:54, 1 July 2006 article selected 7 July 2006
Brass ring An important added attraction of early carousels. The phrase grab the brass ring has entered the lexicon, meaning to take your best shot and go for it. 00:18, 11 October 2006 article selected 12 October 2006
Ada Covered Bridge One of 4 publicly owned covered bridges in the state of Michigan, this bridge is in my home town and I just got inspired to write an article about it after being out one fine fall day and taking pictures of it.. 18:34, 9 October 2006 article selected 13 October 2006

[edit] Nominations of articles by others

I am also happy about these articles (by others) that I nominated:

I would like to say I have a perfect record on nominations of articles by others too, but unfortunately I do not. [2]

[edit] Footnotes[3]

  1. ^ from talk page of User:Phr, quoted with permission
  2. ^ 5 for 7 I think...
  3. ^ I love footnotes!
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