User:Ruhrfisch/Pages
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Pages I have made or substantially added to:
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[edit] Chemistry Related
- stir bar - since it is my User name, it seemed kind of obvious (my first article)
- William A. Noyes - my first biography of a recipient of the American Chemical Society's Priestley Medal
- Francis P. Garvan - the only non-scientist to recieve the Priestley Medal (a lawyer)
[edit] Children's Literature
- Kipper the Dog - I am the parent of a small child who likes this show
- Chris Lang a voice actor on Kipper the Dog's TV show
[edit] Rivers
- Meander - added Meander ratio
- Relief ratio - basically slope, to get rid of red links in creek articles
[edit] Germany
- Gernrode - I cleaned up, corrected, and expanded the English version of the page (based on the German version and other sources and links listed)
- Gero - he founded the church at Gernrode, plus I like the word 'Margrave'
- Power Station Westerholt - I found this lonely stub and translated the rest of the German Wikipedia article, like Gernrode I have never been there...
- Neues Museum - a lot of translation / cleanup, the German article is excellent, maybe someday this will be too...
- Bälau - a stub about a village in Schleswig-Holstein I found and translated at WP:PNT
[edit] Creeks and Places in Pennsylvania
- Lycoming County, Pennsylvania - the Geography section, plus all the locator maps for all 53 municipalities
Larrys Creek - probably the article I have worked hardest on to date, and my first Featured Article (but don't take my word for it... WP:FA)
- Pennsylvania Route 287 - starts at the mouth of Larrys Creek and follows it north, then into Tioga County
- Loyalsock Creek - an amazing creek
- Loyalsock Trail - for hiking along...and up and down (a lot)
- Lycoming Creek - no one else had done it and it got me started on creeks
- Muncy Creek - started life as a redirect to the township
- Pine Creek - the biggest 'creek' in the US (and someday the biggest creek article on Wikipedia?)
- White Deer Hole Creek - great name, the article I have the most edits on and my second Featured Article
- Pennsylvania Route 554 - the route into the White Deer Hole valley from South Williamsport
- Pennsylvania Route 973 - Starts at Pine Creek, crosses Larrys Creek, Lycoming Creek, and finally Loyalsock Creek (and ends there)
- Little Pine State Park - let's dam one of the nicest creeks in the region!
- Susquehanna State Park (Pennsylvania) - 20 acres along the river, now with a fake paddlewheeler!
- Upper Pine Bottom State Park - basically a picnic area and parking lot
- Crooked Creek (Pennsylvania) - in Tioga County, originally made it to get rid of a red link in Larrys Creek
- Lancaster County, Pennsylvania - watersheds, protected places, lots of copyedits
- Transportation in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania - the Native American paths are mine, Choess wrote the more interesting stuff on canals and, wait for it... trains ;-)
- Chiques Creek - also known as Chickies Creek, a shout out to all my Chickies and peeps in Lebanon and Lancaster Counties
- Cocalico Creek - I say that name and just smile - Lancaster County creek names are great
- Conewago Creek - both the east (in Lancaster Co.) and west (in York Co.) creeks
- Susquehannock State Park - Lancaster County's only state park - although they do have 10 acres of Valley Forge State Forest
- National Civil War Museum in Harrisburg, PA
- Central Mountains Shared Use Trails System - got rid of a red link in White Deer Hole Cree
[edit] Pennsylvania Railroad Articles
- Steamtown National Historic Site in Scranton, PA - Woohoo! this was featured in Portal:Trains/Did you know/August 2005
- F. Nelson Blount - founder of Steamtown
- Stourbridge Railroad - cleaned up a stub I found looking for a model short line article
- North Shore Railroad - namesake of the North Shore Railroad system that also operates the next six lines
- Lycoming Valley Railroad - to get rid of a red link in the Larrys Creek article
- Union County Industrial Railroad - to get rid of a red link in the White Deer Hole Creek article
- Juniata Valley Railroad - why stop at four?
- Nittany and Bald Eagle Railroad - runs along beautiful Bald Eagle Creek
- Shamokin Valley Railroad - runs along (inset adjective here please, one fails me) Shamokin Creek
- Wellsboro and Corning Railroad - OK, it does run into New York State too
[edit] Native American Paths in Pennsylvania
- Culbertson's Path - ran along White Deer Hole Creek
- Great Island Path - another White Deer Hole Creek path
- Great Shamokin Path - crosses Larrys Creek (and a lot of other creeks)
- Sheshequin Path - got rid of a red link in White Deer Hole Creek, even though it runs along Lycoming Creek
- Wyalusing Path - clean up in aisle 12!
[edit] Protected Areas in Pennsylvania
- 21 Pennsylvania State Forest articles
- Conrad Weiser Area School District - to get rid of a red link in Weiser State Forest (I'm older, but not Weiser)
- I made this template map of State Parks in Pennsylvania - each dot is wikilinked to the corresponding state park article (cool):
- Allegheny Islands State Park - fixed and expanded this, on three islands in the river near Pittsburgh, inaccessible with no plans for development
- List of Pennsylvania state parks - trying to get it to featured list status
- Recreation Demonstration Area - a 1930s federal program to get rid of red links in List of PA state parks ;-)
[edit] Places in Ohio
- Stubs for each township in Hancock County, Ohio (17 total)
- Stubs for the following Hancock County School Districts: Arcadia, Arlington, Cory-Rawson, Liberty-Benton, McComb, Van Buren, and Vanlue
- A stub for Hardin-Northern school district in Hardin County (all to make red links blue)
- Pymatuning State Park (Ohio) - the old article was on both the Pennsylvania and Ohio state parks, so I cleaned up the PA article and made this stub
[edit] Places in Tennessee
- Warriors' Path State Park - got rid of a red link and was the other end of a dab for Warriors Path State Park in PA
