User:Grimhelm

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Grimhelm This user has written or significantly contributed to 1 Featured Article on Wikipedia. This user has significantly contributed to 14 Good Articles on Wikipedia. ' This user is a Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game hobbyist. This user is a member of the Fortifications task force of the Military history WikiProject. This user is a member of the Middle Ages WikiProject. This user is a member of the Medieval warfare task force of the Military history WikiProject. This user is a member of the French military history task force of the Military history WikiProject. This user has been a major contributor to 14 articles featured in the Did you know... section on the Main Page. This user is interested in the Byzantine Empire AD This user prefers traditional terminology in date-naming This user is a member of WikiProject Strategy Games.

I have been using Wikipedia since 2003, and and making small edits to articles anonymously until my formal registration on November 1 2005. I have not been particularly active on Wikipedia since the end of 2007; only coming briefly out of retirement to help the Cannon article along to possible Featured Article status.

I got my first DYK article on the Main page a year after registering here, for which I have to thank User:Ghirlandajo; it later qualified as a Good Article. Many of the DYK articles I have started have been brought up to Good Article status, and I got my first award working on one of them.

Some of my best editing has been for the Military History Project. Immediately after joining, I acted on the request for the expansion of a stub entitled "Byzantine-Arab Wars", bringing this up to Good Article status as well. I also helped co-ordinate the effort to improve the quality of articles on The Lord of the Rings SBG, as the main contributor on that topic, as well as a wide variety of history and miniature wargaming articles.

From experience, I have found that AfDs limit an editor's ability to contribute to more worthwile articles. There is not much that can be done about that. I used to occassionally edit Wikipedia in other languages, but the English Wikipedia was where I am most active. Some of articles that I have started or made substantial contributions to include (the main ones are in bold):

Contents 1 Contributions to Articles 1.1 Biographical 1.2 Historical and Scientific 1.3 Lord of the Rings and Miniature Wargaming 2 Did you Know? 3 Miscellany 4 Uploaded Images, Templates and Categories 5 Awards

[edit] Contributions to Articles

[edit] Biographical

• ‎Alan and Michael Perry, started article.
• ? Bolli Bollason, wrote article about first member of the Varangian Guard, from the Laxdœla saga.
• Bolli Þorleiksson, wrote article about the father of Bolli, from the same saga.
• Brodir, wrote article related to the Vikings at the Battle of Clontarf.
• Gormflaith, expanded and cleaned up stub related to Brian Boru, Ireland.
• Guðrún Ósvífursdóttir, wrote article about the chief protaganist of the Laxdœla saga.
• Ivan Vyrodkov, expanded article about military engineer's battery-towers of the Russo-Kazan Wars.
• Sigurd Hlodvirsson, wrote article related to the medieval Earl of Orkney.
• John Chrysostom, general improvement and discussion, particularly relating to Patristics, his homilies and litrugical work
• Julian the Apostate, got involved in a lengthy 26Kb discussion of the Roman Emperor and philanthropy & agape.
• Sigtrygg Silkbeard, wrote article related to Viking history.
• Saint Mercurius, cleaned up and wikified article about Coptic saint.

[edit] Historical and Scientific

• Battle of Crécy, added sources and material regarding use of cannon.
• ? Battle of Quebec (1690), expanded stub to GA status, covering both the battle and the fortification background.
• Blast furnace, expanded with citation, regarding modern furnaces, the medieval period and Laskill.
• A Byzantine-Arab Wars, expanded and cleaned-up article, from stub to GA-class.
• A Cannon, restructured and rewrote, breaking it off into main articles.
  • ? English cannon, started new article from the Hundred Years War to the 18th century.
  • ? Cannon in the Middle Ages, started new article.
  • ? History of cannon, started main article of series.
  • ? Cannon operation, started new article.
  • ? List of cannon projectiles, split off from cannon operation.
  • User:Grimhelm/Spanish cannon, an abandoned draft. Someday someone may find a use for it.
• Castle, some work on cleaning up this article and improving sources. See also: User:Grimhelm/Castle Gallery.
• Cistercians, complete restructure, with images and improved content on technological diffussion.
• ? Condemnations (University of Paris), expanded article on the relationship between philosophy and medieval science.
• ? Fort Senneville, wrote article about the most castle-like fort of Montréal, New France.
• Gallowglass, expanded and cleaned up stub related to Hebridean mercenaries in Ireland.
• Heavy Cavalry, expanded with regard to medieval and Renaissance cavalry, with edits to images.
• History of science, significant expansion, citation and addition of images, especially in relation to Scholasticism.
• ? History of science and technology in China, expanded with key Chinese innovations, cultural limitations to scientific thought, and the work of the Jesuits.
• History of timekeeping, section on clocks, with the medieval cathedral clocks and Early Modern innovations.
• ? Horse transports in the Middle Ages, expanded article on medieval horse ships, with images.
• International Eucharistic Congress, added article related to Catholicism.
• Munster Republic, wrote article related to the Irish Civil War.
• ? Rus'-Byzantine War (860), wrote article about Rus' Siege of Constantinople with User:Ghirlandajo.
• ? Sausenburg Castle, added infobox and cleaned image.
• Siege of Constantinople (674), started article relating to the Byzantine-Arab Wars.
• Siege of Kazan (1552), expanded on contribution of Ivan Vyrodkov and the battery tower.
• Siege tower, wrote about the siege engine from antiquity until the Russo-Kazan Wars, adding quotes, pictures and citation.
• Varangian Guard, expanded on role in the Norse Sagas, in particular the Laxdœla saga.

Minor edits

• Charles Carroll of Carrollton ¤ Churl (Ceorl) ¤ Cog (ship) ¤ Landsknecht ¤ Tross ¤ Rus' Khaganate ¤ Travois ¤ Trebuchet

[edit] Lord of the Rings and Miniature Wargaming

• All at Sea, wrote article about naval miniature wargame.
• Battle Games in Middle Earth, wrote article related to DeAgostini magazines.
• Games Workshop, expanded article by adding DeAgostini, Liscensing and Online Campaigns.
• Miniature Conversions, merged stub with "Bitz" and added image.
• Miniature Wargaming, added images and did various organising of article.
  • List of miniature wargames, started off-shoot article.
  • Naval wargaming, expanded new article.
• Serpent Lord, wrote article related to the Battle of the Pelennor Fields.
• The Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game, expanded stub to current revision, as main contributor to the topic.
• War of the Ring, expanded and added image.
• War of the Ring Online Campaign
• White Dwarf (magazine)

[edit] Did you Know?

• ...that the Siege of Constantinople by the Rus in 860 is known primarily from the writings of Patriarch Photius, who referred to the invaders as "a swarm of wasps" and compared their attack to "a thunderbolt from heaven"? --31 October, 2006
• ...that Bolli Bollasson, a character in the Medieval Icelandic Laxdœla saga, is credited as the first West Norse member of the Varangian Guard (pictured)? --January 29, 2007.

• ...that the history of science and technology in China was made known in the West largely through the work of the Jesuits and later through Joseph Needham? --February 9, 2007
• ...that Sausenburg Castle (pictured) in Germany was destroyed in 1678 by the army of French Marshall Creque during the Franco-Dutch War? --14 February 2007

• ...that English cannon batteries (pictured) required artillery crews of twelve per gun? --16 March 2007
• ...that William the Conqueror's transport of over 2000 horses across the English Channel during the Norman invasion of England is depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry (pictured)? --16 March 2007
• ...that during the 1690 Battle of Québec , a group of French paddled a canoe up to the English flagship and under a hail of musket shots managed to return its ensign to the city unscathed? --17 March 2007
• ...that Fort Senneville, built in 1671 near Montréal, included the most fortified windmill in New France, along with a machicolation and other castle-like features? --18 March 2007

• ...that medieval cannon (pictured) were first used by the English during the Hundred Years War at the Battle of Crécy? --24 March 2007
• ...that French artillery officers were the most efficient at cannon operation (pictured) during the 18th century, firing 150 shots per cannon daily during siege, instead of the usual 100? --18 April 2007
• ...that the earliest European term for "cannon" was the Medieval Latin word "bombardum", and that "cannon" itself came from the Latin word canna, meaning a tube? --28 May 2007
• ...that the earliest cannon projectiles were round shot and grapeshot? --28 May 2007
• ...that miniature scale for naval wargames is worked out almost exclusively in ratios, rather than the millimetre-based scale preferred by land-based miniature wargaming? --19 June 2007
• ...that the Condemnations of 1277 at the University of Paris (pictured) are cited by historians as the birth of science, as they forced scholars to question Aristotle and think about the physical world in new ways? --21 Apil 2007

[edit] Miscellany

Wikipedia:Babel en This user is a native speaker of English. la-3 Hic usor callidissima latinitate contribuere potest. me-la-3 Ipse usor una callidissima latinitate Medii Aevi et Ecclesiae contribuere potest. This user is a member of the Norse history and culture WikiProject This user is a member of the Saints WikiProject. This user is a member of the History of Science WikiProject. This user realizes that educated people from the Middle Ages already thought that the Earth was spherical. This user is a member of WikiProject Quebec. This user uses Imperial units *. This userbox is for the Department of Redundancy Department of the WikiProject WikiProject.

• My first thought it that it is from here that my userpage starts to get messy…
• I find the clumsiest article title on Wikipedia is "List of people known as father or mother of something". Realistically, I doubt anyone is going to type that up exactly into the search box while doing a casual search.
• One of my favourite userpage introductions is that of User:Paraphelion, a "wanted man in 22 countries and #32 on the Encyclopol's most wanted list."
• Wikipedia:Lamest edit wars is a growing list of outrageous arguments; to break up the monotony, I felt it would be nice to add some humorously captioned pictures.
• Wikipedia is a place of pseudo-neologisms. I thought I'd write a definintion for one of them:
  • Us·er·fy /ˈyuzər faɪ/,¹ also Us·er·if·y /ˈyuzər əˌfaɪ/.²
    -Verb (used with object). To move an article into user space (id est as a subpage of a main userpage), where the editor (or others if desired) can edit it freely, usually with the intent of moving it back into article space when complete. This process is a "vaguely common practice on Wikipedia".³
    [Origin: Wikipedia phrase; 14th century Middle English usere, from Latin ūsus (present tense participle of ūtī, "to use"); and Old French -fier, from Latin -ficāre "to make"]
    (Thanks to Pak21 and Xiner for helping me define this word!)
• Userboxes can be fun too. Some of my cornier ones can be found to the right, alongside some real ones:
• And now we come to a...

A Short List of Wikipedians with whom it has been a pleasure to work

• Ghirlandajo (talk · contribs)
• Majoreditor (talk · contribs)
• AndonicO (talk · contribs) (and the rest of the Tzatziki Squad)
• Berig (talk · contribs)
• Briangotts (talk · contribs)
• Ideogram (talk · contribs)
• Xiner (talk · contribs)

[edit] Uploaded Images, Templates and Categories

• Battle Games in Middle Earth Conversion Kit
• Battle Games in Middle Earth Cover Image
• Games Workshop Gimli
• Games Workshop Harad Banner
• Games Workshop Knights
• Games Workshop Maeglin Conversion
• Age of Empires Landsknecht
• Mordor Siege Towers
• Sausenburg Castle

• Template:Cannon
• Template:Games Workshop Worldwide Campaigns
• LotR SBG Template
• LotR SBG Article Category
• LotR SBG Image Category
• Category:Games Workshop Worldwide Campaigns

Here is a full list of my contributions

[edit] Awards

		The Original Barnstar
		I know you were just doing what every Wikipedian should do, but I was bitten by a fellow Wikipedian for making apparently groundless suggestions yesterday, and your willingness to listen was more welcome than you could've imagined. So thank you. Xiner (talk, email) 04:13, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

		The Original Barnstar
		In recognition for your excellent contributions to Byzantine-related articles I award you this Original Barnstar. Majoreditor 21:56, 13 April 2007

		The Working Man's Barnstar
		Please have this barnstar for your rapid sorting out of the Cistercian abbeys into appropriate lists. Itsmejudith (talk) 19:56, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

		The Christianity Barnstar
		For your impressive effort and hard work in improving pages relating to the Cistercians. Thank you. Dgf32 (talk) 17:22, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

		The Original Barnstar
		For your first FA (I think?). Well done. :) · AndonicO Hail! 12:01, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

		Germanic WikiProject award
		I, Odin Rex, hereby grant you the Snorri Award for your work in Germanic articles . 09 April 2007. King Óðinn The Aesir 20:55, 5 may 2007 (UTC)

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