User:Ardfern

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I live in Northern Ireland (well, somebody has to) and have major interests in local history, art, literature, airlines and aircraft, football (soccer) and ice hockey. I hope to reflect these interests and others in the development of useful material for Wikipedia. I started adding contributions on 18 January 2005.

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Contents 1 Current main work 2 Previous work 2.1 Primary schools in Northern Ireland 2.2 The Troubles in Towns/Villages in Northern Ireland 3 Articles and contributions 4 Awards 4.1 Barnstar

[edit] Current main work

• January 2007: Aviation and disaster categorisation
• February 2007: Disaster categorisation, airline articles (3 added), Years in Northern Ireland and Years in Ireland (92 articles added).
• March 2007: Births/deaths in Years in Northern Ireland, Years in Ireland (146 articles added), airline articles (4 added).
• April 2007: Updating airline articles, new airline articles (5 added). Years in Ireland (13 articles added).

[edit] Previous work

[edit] Primary schools in Northern Ireland

I had been adding Primary schools articles for NI, largely stubs, to which new contributors had started to add to and develop etc, but they came under attack by people proposing that all such primary school articles should be deleted as being non-notable etc. You can see the debate at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Abercorn Primary School. Following prolonged discussion the articles are being retained. Very many thanks to all who defended the inclusion of Primary schools articles - for once common sense has prevailed.

[edit] The Troubles in Towns/Villages in Northern Ireland

I had added 97 articles relating to incidents of two or more fatalities in towns/villages in Northern Ireland during the Troubles. Many of these were effectively stubs to be added to and developed, with reports on all fatalities, other incidents etc. However, some people do not seem to understand the stub concept and seek to destroy articles rather than build them up and develop them. These articles have been attacked twice - see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Troubles in Moneymore and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Troubles in Tynan. In both cases the Wiki-destructors have been successfully repelled. Very many thanks to all defenders and particularly to those developing and building the articles.

[edit] Articles and contributions

Articles and contributions have been many and various within the following subjects:

• Airlines (see List of airlines and List of defunct airlines) (1,067 articles added)
• Airports (Incidents and accidents added)
• Archaeological sites in Northern Ireland (2 articles added)
• Aviation categorisation
• Castles in Northern Ireland (33 articles added)
• Disaster categorisation (including Transportation and Natural Disasters)
• Geography of Northern Ireland
• Historic buildings in Northern Ireland (1 article added)
• Ireland categorisation
• Irish people by county
• Islands of Northern Ireland (2 articles added)
• Local Councils in Northern Ireland
• Northern Ireland lists and categorisation
• Northern Irish culture
• Northern Irish people
• Northern Irish people by county
• Republic of Ireland categorisation
• Rivers of Northern Ireland (5 articles added)
• Schools in Northern Ireland (65 articles added and stub)
• Sport in Northern Ireland
• Towns in Northern Ireland (three articles added and 38 inputs on 2001 Census)
• The Troubles in Northern Ireland (98 articles added)
• Villages in Northern Ireland (282 articles added and 361 inputs on 2001 Census)
• Years in Northern Ireland (87 articles added)
• Years in Ireland (164 articles added)

[edit] Awards

[edit] Barnstar

		The Original Barnstar
		For your hard work and dedication to improving Wikipedia, I, Sharkface217, hereby award you this Original Barnstar. Good job! Sharkface217 19:48, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

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