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[edit] Good Articles I've worked on

South West Coast Path 9 Jan 2008 - a great team project
Leeds Country Way 23 Oct 2007 - pretty much a solo effort

[edit] Did You Know items I've contributed to Wikipedia home page

... that Fountains Fell, a mountain in the Yorkshire Dales, England, is named after Fountains Abbey whose monks grazed sheep there in the 13th century? 30 May 2008

[edit] Articles, stubs and categories I've created

Not including umpteen disambiguation pages created while working on Wikipedia:Suggestions for name disambiguation

Ainsty Bounds Walk, 5 June 2008, another path
Abbeys Amble, 27 May 2008, starting to clear up the redlinks in Long-distance footpaths in the United Kingdom with a view to turning it into a Featured List eventually
Fountains Fell, 25 May 2008, because it needs an article (and Wikipedia:WikiProject British and Irish hills/Key mountains agrees)
Simon Fell (Yorkshire Dales), 25 May 2008, stub created as easiest way to disentangle the various links for the mountain which were pointing to the man Simon Fell
Edmund Schulze, 17 May 2008, after noticing him mentioned but not linked in Meanwood
Buslingthorpe, Leeds, 25 April 2008, dabbing it from Buslingthorpe in Lincolnshire: I walk along Buslingthorpe Lane twice a week.
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, 3 April 2008, created after working on Chapel Allerton Hospital and realising the Trust should have an article
Scarborough General Hospital, 3 April 2008 - stub created because it was previously a redirect to a Canadian hospital
Alastair Dunnett, 12 Mar 2008 - stub created to resolve redlink in Dorothy Dunnett and after suggestion in DDRA newsletter that there should be a page for him
Wothersome, 11 Mar 2008 - stub created to resolve redlink in List of civil parishes in West Yorkshire#City of Leeds
Doug Goldstein, 27 Feb 2008 - stub created from Wikipedia:Most_wanted_articles#Uncategorized, resolving redlinks for this TV writer
Codru-Moma Mountains, 27 Feb 2008 - stub created from Wikipedia:Most_wanted_articles#Uncategorized, resolving various redlinks (mostly infoboxes for Romanian rivers which have their sources there)
Sunndi, 27 Feb 2008 - stub created from Wikipedia:Most_wanted_articles#Uncategorized, resolving various redlinks
Mount Skollis, 27 Feb 2008 - stub created from Wikipedia:Most_wanted_articles#Uncategorized, resolving redlinks at Mount Scollis, Skollis, and Scollis also.
Wilhelm Sulpiz Kurz, 27 Feb 2008 - stub created from Wikipedia:Most_wanted_articles#Uncategorized
Ranjit Bolt, 23 Feb 2008 - having tonight been to see The Grouch which he translated from Molière, decided he merited a page
Peter Lampl - while tidying up The Belvedere Academy, realised that this philanthropist should have an article
Calders, 4 Feb 2008 - Spanish location, to disambiguate from Calders (Yorkshire Dales)
George Corson, 23 Jan 2008 - Leeds architect who needs an article
St Chad's Church, Far Headingley, 18 Jan 2008 - after exploring possible infoboxes etc for Headingley Parish Church which another editor recently created
David Bowe (politician), 18 Jan 2008 - to resolve various redlinks after another editor had disambiguated him (former MEP, as opposed to actor of same name)
Category:History of the textile industry, 19 Dec 2007 - after Category:textiles was removed from Salts Mill, felt the need for this new cat
Marcus Morris, 10 Dec 2007 - saw him referred to as a notable person not yet in WP, researched a bit, created stub article to resolve several existing redlinks
William Beckett (disambiguation), 29 Nov 2007 - while tidying up some dabs around Leeds MPs
Rowland Barran, 27 Nov 2007 - MP for Leeds North, previously redlinked several places with and without middle name Hirst
John Barran (a dab page) and George Goodman (disambiguation), 27 Nov 2007 - tidying up links for Leeds MPs
Cistercian Way, 25 Nov 2007 - a disambiguation page to link to the English and Welsh paths
Francis John Hyde Wollaston, 25 Nov 2007 - leading on from exploring links around the Williams Wollaston led me to this man who seems distinctly notable, made a stub for him
William Wollaston (disambiguation), 24 Nov 2007 - came across the pair of MPs for Ipswich via Richard Richardson while researching North Bierley which may become an article some time
Mainstream Publishing, 22 Nov 2007 - Scottish publisher of several G Brown books and others, seemed notable
Courage: Eight Portraits, 22 Nov 2007 - article on Cicely Saunders said she was mentioned, I wondered who the other 7 were, researched, added as footnote to the book's entry in author G Brown's bibliog, then decided to make it an article
South West Coast Path Association, 21 Nov 2007 - notable organisation needing an article, after major improvement work done on the article on the path itself
Ian Brown (theatre director) 14 Nov 2007 - while expanding the West Yorkshire Playhouse article
Emmaville, New South Wales 7 Nov 2007 - it needs a page, even though the population is only 303 (correction: that was 2001 census, it's down to 247 in 2006!), and was already redlinked from the "Cities and towns in the New England region of New South Wales" navbox
Emmaville, 5 Nov 2007 - a dab page. Some of my Cornish in-laws lived a few years in the NSW settlement.
Lady Elizabeth Hastings, 1 Nov 2007 - after seeing her unlinked mention in Ledsham page; also stub for her father Theophilus Hastings, 7th Earl of Huntingdon and dab page at Elizabeth Hastings
St Gregory's Minster, 15 Oct 2007 - read about it while researching Kirkdale Cave following a link from York Museum Gardens, found it to be grade I listed with a noteworthy sundial, and worth a page: created a stub.
York Art Gallery, 12 Oct 2007 - just a stub because it needs to be there and was a red link in the GA candidate York Museum Gardens.
A660 road, 11 Oct 2007 - it was previously a redirect. There are articles about many other roads, and this is my local main road.
Edward Brotherton, 1st Baron Brotherton 24 Sept 2007 - short article because he needs to be there, and then Arthur Harold Marshall stub to resolve red links in succession box.
Robert Blackburn (aviation pioneer) 20 Sept 2007 - stub created to resolve red link in Roundhay Park, but various other sources and several categories added
Golden Acre Park, Woodkirk, Ebor Way, Meanwood Valley Trail, Wike, Cockersdale, Mickletown 19 Sept 2007 - stubs created, to resolve red links in Leeds Country Way
Leeds Country Way 16 Sept 2007 - 62-mile footpath around Leeds - Good Article
Gragareth 10 Sept 2007 - hill on Yorkshire/Lancashire border, one of the claimants for "county top" of Lancashire
Documentary Educational Resources 20 July 2007 stub - article on most wanted articles list after predecessor was deleted as copyvio
Abbey House Museum, Leeds Art Gallery and Leeds City Museum (due in Aug 2008),16 July 2007 as a result of tidying up the "Museums" section of Leeds
Leeds International Pianoforte Competition 23 June 2007 - surprised it's not there, various red links to it already
James Sharples 11 June 2007 - a red link from another editor's addition to the below
John "Walking" Stewart 8 June 2007 - a red link from Wordsworth,
Leeds Parish Church 1 June 2007 - needs to be there
Crigglestone 29 May 2007 - stub created while tidying links from West Yorkshire
Leeds Thomas Danby and Leeds College of Building 29 May 2007 - because they were the only 2 FE colleges mentioned but not linked from Education section of Leeds
Barrie Rutter, Northern Broadsides, Dean Clough 29 May 2007 - because they were red links from Halifax, West Yorkshire. And then Rutter disambiguation.
Robin Hood, West Yorkshire 28 May 2007 stub, - to avoid confusion between place and legendary person
Mary Robinson (Maid of Buttermere) 23 May 2007 - having witnessed confusion between her and the poet of same name, among students studying Romantic poetry. Not a long article, but a bid to disambiguate them - links provided from various relevant places. Hope it all hangs together properly and is in proper Wiki style: the article could and should probably be longer, will get round to that some time.

[edit] Milestones

25 May 2008 11,500th edit - adding image from Geograph to Simon Fell (Yorkshire Dales)
13 May 2008 11,000th edit - adding The Hamlets school to Hamlet (disambiguation)
23 April 2008 10,500th edit - stubsorting Pendleton Historic District by turning from stub to dab
9 April 2008 10,000th edit - requesting a move from PAUL to Paul (bakery), having come across the latter duplicated article while stubsorting stubs starting with "Pa", as my contribution to the unsorted-stubs backlog!
26 Mar 2008 9,500th edit - wikifying a reference in Titus Salt
6 Mar 2008 9,000th edit - using AWB to clear up "was been"
20 Feb 2008 8,500th edit - while tidying up The Belvedere Academy, formerly The Belvedere School
17 Feb 2008 8,000th edit - more work with Wikipedia:Suggestions for name disambiguation
5 Feb 2008 7,500th edit - adding a hatnote to link to a dab page while working on Wikipedia:Suggestions for name disambiguation
31 Jan 2008 7,000th edit - working on Wikipedia:Suggestions for name disambiguation, which has the appeal of an infinite jigsaw puzzle!
24 Jan 2008 6,500th edit - continuing the campaign against "is been", inspired by WP:TYPO
16 Jan 2008 6,000th edit - one of a series of disambiguations of "Grand Hotel", part of a series of tidying which started with The Grand Theatre, Lancaster and went on from there.
9 Jan 2008 5,500th edit - one of a series of edits looking for, and fixing, "is been"! (Also did "should of" and similar)
1 Jan 2008 5,000th edit - tweaking Exmoor article in its Featured Article candidacy
18 Dec 2007 4,500th edit - contributing to discussion about Leeds v. City of Leeds article name
5 Dec 2007 4,000th edit - made a redirect to Scarborough and Ryedale Mountain Rescue Team from different capitalisation
21 Nov 2007 3,500th edit - working on the South West Coast Path article, adding transport links
3 Nov 2007 3,000th edit - corrected spelling mistake in Liberal Democrats leadership election, 2007 (but hit "send" by accident so edit summary incomplete!)
22 Oct 2007 2,500th edit - adding the new "Designation" field, which I'd proposed, to the {{Infobox Hiking trail}} for Pennine Way
12 Oct 2007 2,000th edit - improving text moved from trivia section of Adel, Leeds
10 Sept 2007 1,500th edit - putting sourced info about Humber Bridge tolls protest to replace deleted info
19 Aug 2007 1,000th edit - tidying up a Leeds school page (replacing stub category by stub template).
25 June 2007 500th edit - part of a disambiguating effort about various "Troutbeck"s
28 May 2007 100th edit - made a redirect as part of a general tidying up around "Robin Hood", place in West Yorkshire
20 May 2006 My first edit - I can't really remember the circumstances: I guess I looked for the information in WP, didn't find it there, found it elsewhere, and added it; clarified existing links too.