User:BD2412/Contributions - General

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Contents 1 Contributions 2 Projects I've worked on 3 Special mention 4 Articles I've started 4.1 Educators 4.2 Musicians 4.3 Authors 4.4 Other entertainers 4.5 Sports figures 4.6 Other people 4.7 Florida places 4.8 Other places 4.9 Organizations/Institutions 4.10 Education 4.11 Books and other print media 4.12 Other media 4.13 Sociology 4.14 Religion and mythology 4.15 Popular culture 4.16 Other Stuff 4.16.1 Lists 4.17 Disambiguation pages 4.17.1 Human name disambigs 4.17.2 Other disambigs 5 Wikitools 5.1 Templates 5.2 Categories 5.3 Images 6 Articles I've improved

This page contains projects with which I have been involved and articles I've started, or to which I've made substantial contributions, other than law-related articles.

[edit] Contributions

Law * Rehab

[edit] Projects I've worked on

I've tried my hand at a lot of different projects, but there are a few where I've put in particular effort:

• Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links
• Wikipedia:Templates with red links
• Wikipedia:Duplicated sections
• Wikipedia:List of non-admins with high edit counts
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles (primarily with the now-defunct Encarta articles and related crossover lists)
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/1919 Bartlett's Quotations
• Wikipedia:Most wanted articles
• Wikipedia:Userfication

[edit] Special mention

• Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/Fake color articles
• Wikipedia:Deletion policy/names and surnames
• Nominated Hall Monitor (RfA), R. fiend (RfA), Brighterorange (RfA), Necrothesp (RfA), Ianblair23 (RfA), Ancheta Wis (RfA) Mike Rosoft (RfA), Jonathunder (RfA), NoSeptember (RfA), Mark83 (RfA) and Grendelkhan (RfA) in their successful adminship bids.
• ...and on August 20, 2005 I undertook the grueling task of closing the 156+ vote AfD on Jamie Kane.

[edit] Articles I've started

[edit] Educators

• Abraham Lavender, sociologist
• Carlos Alvarez (professor), alleged Cuban spy
• Colin Clark, economist
• Emory S. Bogardus, sociologist
• Frank Chaloupka, professor of economics
• Gregory Baker Wolfe, University President
• Herbert Spencer Jennings, zoologist and geneticist
• Modesto Maidique, University President
• Robert Hewison, Slade Professor of Fine Art at Oxford
• Stephen Leatherman, beachologist
• Susan Starr Sered, professor of sociology, anthropology, and religion

[edit] Musicians

• Al Schmitt, music producer
• Andy Wallace (producer), music producer
• April March (uncredited), singer/animator
• Chanter Sisters, singers
• Colin Richardson, music producer
• Ernest Gold, composer
• Gil Norton, music producer
• Horatiu Radulescu, composer
• James Mallinson, music producer
• Jay Livingston, composer
• Joe Burke, Irish accordianist
• Lordz of Brooklyn, Italian rap group
• Raful Neal, musician
• Ray Evans, composer
• Roger Earl, drummer
• Walter Johannes Damrosch, composer

[edit] Authors

• Anne Nichols, playwright
• Dennis Lehane, author
• Doug Wead, presidential biographer
• George Arnold, poet
• James Merrick, poet
• Jean Sirmond, poet
• John Newbrough, mystic-writing dentist
• Liz Balmaseda, journalist
• Ross Gelbspan, journalist and writer
• Ryszard Wincenty Berwinski, poet and folklorist
• Viña Delmar, author
• William Harbutt Dawson, British writer

[edit] Other entertainers

• Benjamin Brown (actor)
• Benjamin Brown (artist)
• Donald Gibb, actor
• Eddie Tagoe, Ghanaian actor
• Ernest Palmer, cinematographer
• Francis the Talking Mule, talking mule
• George Wallace (comedian)
• Gregory Hoblit, director
• Jeff Altman, comedian
• John Bryan (art director)
• Joseph Pevney, director
• Lisa Barbuscia, model/actress
• Masked Avengers, radio personalities
• Meinhardt Raabe, Munchkin
• Naima Mora, model
• Randy Spears, male porn star
• Steven Dean Moore, animation director

[edit] Sports figures

• Alvin Harrison, Olympic track and field athlete
• Andy Wallace (racer), racer
• Benjamin Brown (athlete), Olympic track and field athlete
• Bärbel Wöckel, Olympic track and field athlete
• Calvin Harrison, Olympic track and field athlete
• Colin (horse), racehorse
• Uel Eubanks, MLB pitcher
• Gerald Hunsicker, baseball manager
• Guy Lewis, NCAA basketball coach
• José Oscar Bernardi, Brazilian soccer star
• Laleh Seddigh, racer
• Orlando (horse), racehorse
• Takashi Saito (sumo wrestler)
• Thelma Coyne Long, tennis player
• Valerie Brisco-Hooks, Olympic track and field athlete

[edit] Other people

• Alberto Vilar, billionaire
• Benjamin Brown (developer)
• Brian Wells, pizza delivery victim
• Carrie Williams Clifford, civil rights/women's rights activist
• Charles Koppelman, businessman, advisor to Martha Stewart
• Daniel Edwards, sculptor
• George Banks, mass murderer
• J. Sidlow Baxter, theologian
• Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt, Austrian architect
• Leonard Abramson, CEO
• Lucy Duff Gordon, fashion designer
• Raffaele Esposito, royal pizza-maker
• Ralph Venning, religious leader and writer
• Raymond Plouhar, Iraq casualty previously filmed in Fahrenheit 9/11
• Samuel LeFrak, developer
• Samuel Lincoln, presidential ancestor
• Stuart Epperson, evangelical communications magnate
• Suzan Shown Harjo, American Indian activist
• Valentine Blacker, British officer and surveyor in India
• Vivien Kellems, tax-protesting industrialist

[edit] Florida places

• Cape St. George Light, Florida lighthouse
• Fort Zachary Taylor, South Florida
• Indian Key State Historic Site, South Florida
• John D. MacArthur Beach State Park
• Oleta River State Park, South Florida

[edit] Other places

• Antarctic continental shelf
• Barakaldo, Spain
• Budaun, India
• Cantabrian Mountains, Spain
• Champagne, Switzerland
• Feuerschaugemeinde, Switzerland
• Gortynia, Greece
• Gulf of Zula, Eritrea
• Hart, Austria
• Horse Thief Lake‎, South Dakota
• Hurunui District, New Zealand
• Jacobabad, Pakistan
• Jingnan, China
• King William's Town, South Africa
• Kranji, Singapore
• Lăpuşna, region of Moldova
• MacKenzie District, New Zealand
• Mount Maria, Falkland Islands
• Noor, Iran
• Orlando, Soweto, South Africa
• Ruapehu District, New Zealand
• Seleucia Tracheotis, Babylonia
• Sentjur pri Celju, Slovenia
• South Taranaki District, New Zealand
• Waimakariri District, New Zealand
• Whiskeytown Falls, California
• Xinjiao, China
• Žalec, Slovenia

[edit] Organizations/Institutions

• Alpha Kappa Delta
• AmeriCorps Florida State Parks
• Association of College Honor Societies
• Brothers to the Rescue
• Cavalier Telephone and TV
• Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs
• Florida Board of Control
• Florida Board of Governors
• Florida Board of Regents
• Florida State Parks
• Florida Student Association
• Lorillard Tobacco Company
• Mount Sinai Hospital, Hartford, Connecticut
• Mount Sinai Medical Center & Miami Heart Institute
• Society for Crypto-Judaic Studies
• Spurgeon's College
• St. Thomas University (Florida)
• Tau Epsilon Phi Fraternity
• Tong Li Comics‎

[edit] Education

• Dean (education)
• Extracurricular activity
• Final examination
• Hebrew school
• Honor society
• Hospitality management
• Mass Communication
• Private university
• Public university
• Substitute teacher

[edit] Books and other print media

• An American Dilemma
• Anacalypsis
• Book of Lists
• Human Rights Record of the United States (China Human Rights Report)
• Other People's Money and How the Bankers Use It
• Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire
• The Auk (periodical)
• The Bible and Its Influence
• The Last Basselope
• The Power Elite

[edit] Other media

• "Baby Elephant Walk" (song)
• Classical Baby (tv show)
• Donald in Mathmagic Land (short film) (uncredited - got logged out)
• "Hazy Shade of Winter" (song)
• Hell No We Ain't All Right!, rap protest song
• Leadbelly (film)
• My Bare Lady, reality TV series
• "No Sex (In the Champagne Room)", spoken word song
• Oscar (movie) (later disambiguated between two articles for the original and the remake)
• "Ring of Fire (song)"
• The Lonely Guy, film
• The Maid Freed from the Gallows (song)
• Zazel (erotic film)

[edit] Sociology

• Alternative theories regarding Hurricane Katrina (originally at "Hurricane Katrina conspiracy theories"; later moved to "Alleged causes of Hurricane Katrina", where it survived AfD)
• Cooking pit
• Criticism of government response to Hurricane Katrina (originally at "Political effects of Hurricane Katrina"; later moved to this new title, after which I re-started the "Political effects of Hurricane Katrina" article to capture political information not relating to criticism to the government response)
• Demographics of the Supreme Court of the United States
• From each according to his ability, to each according to his need
• Gogodala, language/ethnic group in Papua New Guinea
• Hui (secret society)
• Majority-minority state
• Piankeshaw Indians
• Political effects of Hurricane Katrina
• Self-induced abortion (Survived VfD))
• Sexuality in Islam
• Smith (surname)
• Social effects of Hurricane Katrina

[edit] Religion and mythology

• Aino, Finnish mythological figure
• Dean (religion)
• Earth Day Sunday
• Great Spirit
• Oscar (Irish mythology)
• Pandeism (Survived VfD)
• Pantheon (gods)

[edit] Popular culture

• American Civil War reenactment
• Benefit concert
• Culture of corruption (political slogan)
• Drug lord
• Fantasy Fest
• Float (parade)
• Gag name
• Identity document forgery
• Kumite (tournament)
• Low-end fortified wine
• Mount Rushmore in popular culture (from material originally deleted from Mount Rushmore)
• Music at sporting events (Survived VfD)
• Newspaper from the future
• Oscar party
• Scarlett (G.I. Joe)
• Seating capacity
• Sofa King
• Southern hospitality
• Tony Roma's (restaurant chain)

[edit] Other Stuff

• 4-8-8-2 locomotive
• Campaign bus
• Contender (stock character)
• Greatest thing since sliced bread (expression)
• Knife fight
• Laeliinae, an orchid subtribe
• Mugen Motorsports
• Passenger (replaced a disambig page with a real article)
• Pierinae, a butterfly subfamily
• Piezochromism, a chemical tendency
• Prelinger Archive (uncredited)
• Prosopopoeia, a rhetorical device
• Reluctant hero, character archetype
• Roach Motel
• Tiktaalik, prehistoric fishapod

[edit] Lists

• List of political and geographic subdivisions by total area
  • List of political and geographic subdivisions by total area in excess of 200,000 km²
  • List of political and geographic subdivisions by total area from 100,000 to 1,000,000 km²
  • List of political and geographic subdivisions by total area from 20,000 to 200,000 km²
  • List of political and geographic subdivisions by total area from 10,000 to 50,000 km²
  • List of political and geographic subdivisions by total area from 5,000 to 20,000 km²
  • List of political and geographic subdivisions by total area from .1 to 5,000 km²
• List of minor Biblical figures
• List of National Hockey League mascots (combined many stubs into one article)

[edit] Disambiguation pages

[edit] Human name disambigs

• Abramson
• Andy Wallace
• Benjamin Brown
• Carlos Alvarez
• Edward McCabe
• Finkelstein
• Henry Latimer (moved Henry Latimer (senator))
• Ian Hogg (moved Ian Hogg (actor)
• James Callahan
• John Bryan (changed from a redirect page)
• John Colvin (moved John Russell Colvin)
• John Stevenson (changed from a redirect page)
• Thomas Baker (moved Thomas Baker (antiquarian))
• Thomas Wells (moved Thomas Leonard Wells)
• William McBride (moved William McBride (physician))

[edit] Other disambigs

• Accommodation (moved existing article)
• Arroyo (moved existing article)
• Bijon (changed from a redirect page)
• Colin (changed from a nonsense page)
• Conviction (moved existing article)
• Estrada (changed from a redirect page)
• Fantastic (disambiguation)
• Fay (disambiguation)
• Frogman (disambiguation)
• Gear (disambiguation) (from material on the Gear page)
• Hearsay (disambiguation)
• Hotpot
• Kalk (created per results of VfD)
• Lapham (changed from a redirect page)
• Lorillard (disambiguation)
• Midnight (disambiguation)
• Mr. T (disambiguation)
• Nacho (changed from a redirect page)
• NASD (disambiguation)
• Now and forever (moved existing article)
• Relevance (disambiguation)
• River (disambiguation)
• Scarlet (changed from a redirect page)
• Turnbull (changed from a nonsense page found on VfD)
• Valby (disambiguation)

[edit] Wikitools

Active Wiki Fixup Projects
Wikification needed Dead-end pages Most wanted stubs Most wanted articles Missing articles Disambig pages w/ links Templates w/ red links Red Link Recovery Unreferenced articles Geo-coordinates Uncategorised articles Orphaned articles Linkrot Transwiki log cleanup
Main - Inactive - Mini

[edit] Templates

• Template:Honor-stub
• Template:MiniAWFP
• Template:RfA-nom
• Template:Rfab
• Template:TemplatesWithRedlinks
• Template:Uganda-stub
• Template:Wikimedia2 (Wikimedia template minus Wikispecies)

[edit] Categories

• Category:Benefit concerts
• Category:Fictional professors
• Category:Florida International University
• Category:History of Europe
• Category:Politically motivated migrations
• Category:Secular holidays
• Category:Wikipedians who help fix disambiguation pages with links

[edit] Images

• Image:AbeLavender.jpg
• Image:Anacalypsis.jpg
• Image:AprilMarch.jpg
• Image:Awen.gif
• Image:BibleandItsInfluence.jpg
• Image:FIU-CBA.jpg
• Image:FIU-GreenLibrary.jpg
• Image:Maidique.jpg
• Image:Montezuma Castle Arizona USA.jpg
• Image:Plouhar.jpg
• Image:SuzanHarjo.jpg
• Image:TauEpsilonPhi.gif
• Image:Zazel-cover.jpg
• Image:Zazel-Swedish.jpg
• Image:ZhongKui-by-GongKai.jpg

[edit] Articles I've improved

Articles to which I have made substantial contributions:

• Abie's Irish Rose (play and film)
• American IV: The Man Comes Around (album)
• Connections (TV series)
• Economic effects of Hurricane Katrina (broken out from the main article on Hurricane Katrina)
• Dora Noemí Kerchen, deported sea-turtle-loving model
• Florida International University
• Godfrey Higgins, religionist, collaborative effort
• Grass (was a disambig, with no main article on the basic subject)
• Groin attack
• James Buchanan Duke, tobacco tycoon
• List of fictional hurricanes
• Madlyn Rhue, actress
• Omphalos (theology)
• Sara Hickman, singer/songwriter (replaced article previously deleted as a copyvio)
• Snake-Eyes (G.I. Joe)
• Steve Kubby
• Three wishes joke