User:Rossrs

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Welcome!

My name is Ross, and I live in Australia.

I'm interested in a lot of things, but my contributions here have been mainly related to cinema and music.

1 Featured articles
2 Other interests
3 To do
4 Barnstars
5 My image gallery
6 Favourite moments
7 Resources and useful things

[edit] Featured articles

Article name	Milestones	Article name	Milestones
Anne Frank	jointly nominated with User:Plek promoted February 10, 2005 reviewed and kept December 8, 2007	Sunset Boulevard	promoted August 20, 2005
Kylie Minogue	also jointly nominated with User:Plek promoted February 28, 2005.	Vivien Leigh	promoted January 31, 2006
Sharon Tate	promoted July 18, 2005	Bette Davis	promoted November 5, 2006

I have also noticed that the official website of Australian singer Marcia Hines provides a link to the Wikipedia article I started about her. Not that it's a featured article, or even a particularly good article. The way Marcia Hines' site has acknowledged our article is a compliment, which particularly pleases me because I like the artist so much.

This user has been on Wikipedia for
4 years, 4 months and 17 days.

[edit] Other interests

I'm also interested in some criminal cases.

I started the article about the Beaumont children disappearance, one of the more frightening events in the history of Australian crime, and also Colin Campbell Ross, who I believe was wrongly executed in one of the most appalling miscarriages of justice in Australian history.

[edit] To do

Stub articles to create:

Don Costello
June Preisser
Patricia Ellis
Mary Treen
Lowell Gilmore
Richard Fraser
Connie Gilchrist
Minna Gombell
Dorothy Morris
Joan Chandler
Edith Evanson
Arthur Byron
Purnell Pratt
Melville Cooper

[edit] Barnstars

For this comment (among others), I (Extraordinary Machine) award The Crackpot Mouse to Rossrs for his/her admirable upholding of Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy. 14:37, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

Thank you very much for the sound sample on "We Belong Together" — it was greatly appreciated. Keep up the good work! Oran e (t) (c) (e) 04:02, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

I award Rossrs this barnstar for his great contributions to Wikipedia, and as a special "thank you" for the sound samples. Good stuff!! Oran e (t) (c) (e) 21:45, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

Well deserved. Thanks. Orane (t) (c) (e) 23:05, 16 July 2006 (UTC)]]

		The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
		Belated barnstar! I, Kilo-Lima (aka Iolakana), hereby award Rossrs for his excellent and tremendous work on Blondie. The cleanup was excellent, and the article actually means something now. I will try to help it too, and try to get it to FA. Belated congratulations! Iolakana•T 19:51, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

For your contributions to Wikipedia and humanity in general, you are hereby granted the coveted Random Smiley Award
by Pedia-I ^{Project Jesus}
(Explanation and Disclaimer)

[edit] My image gallery

These are photographs that I've taken and have added to Wikipedia articles. There are not many - other people have beat me to it, in most cases. I'm putting these here, mainly so I can keep track of them.
Public domain screenshots can be found here

Carole Lombard's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame taken August 1995.	Myrna Loy's contribution to the forecourt of Grauman's Chinese Theatre taken August 1995.	The main facade of the building where Anne Frank and her family hid during the Second World War, in Amsterdam. Photo taken August 2002.	Statue of Anne Frank, near the Westerkerk, which is also near Anne Frank House. Taken in August 2002.
Front entrance to Auschwitz concentration camp, photo taken September 2002.	Ruins at Auschwitz concentration camp, taken on the same day as previous photo.	onto something a bit happier. I love this photo of jacaranda trees in bloom, in Wooroolin, Queensland, Australia. Taken October 22, 2005	more blooming jacarandas in the backyard of some very good friends of mine. October 22, 2005
Peanut silos in Kingaroy, Queensland, love the blue sky of an Australian summer! October 22, 2005	View from a Kingaroy vineyard looking into the Burnett Valley, Kingaroy, Australia. October 22, 2005

[edit] Favourite moments

I think there is nothing less funny than vandalism and nothing sadder than editors who try so soooooooooooooo hard to be funny and clever and come up with.... vandalism. But when someone writes something in good faith that's just not quite right - I love it.

From Sally Rand:

"She also conceived and developed the bubble dance, in part to cope with wind while performing outdoors."

From Kylie Minogue:

"She is the more beautiful and more talented older sister of Dannii Minogue".