"You see, in this world, there is one awful thing, and that is that everyone has his reasons." -- Jean Renoir, The Rules of the Game
- "England has been offered a choice between war and shame. She has chosen shame, and will get war." -- Winston Churchill on the Munich Agreement
- "Thank God I'm still an atheist." -- Luis Bunuel
"My dear Rikki," Karellen retorted, "it's only by not taking the human race seriously that I retain what fragments of my once considerable mental powers I still possess!" -- Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood's End
- "The Englishman sighed softly, as if slightly puzzled by the ability of Man to complicate unnecessarily his own existence here on earth." -- Frederick Forsyth, The Day of the Jackal
- "Gentlemen, you can't fight in here -- this is the War Room!" -- President Merkin Muffley, Stanley Kubrick's Dr Strangelove
Contents
Wikipedia projects/roles
- Wikipedia:Featured article candidates -- Coordinator
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history -- Co-editor of The Bugle newsletter
Please feel free to ask me for information or assistance about these.
Personal
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Australia: Perth * Rottnest Island * Adelaide * Melbourne * Canberra * Wollongong * Sydney * Central Coast (New South Wales) * Newcastle, New South Wales * Taree, New South Wales * Armidale, New South Wales * Grafton, New South Wales * Coffs Harbour * Ballina, New South Wales * Lennox Head, New South Wales * Gold Coast, Queensland * Brisbane * Ipswich, Queensland * Sunshine Coast, Queensland * Townsville * Cairns * Gove, Northern Territory * Darwin, Northern TerritoryWikipedia history
Why do I read - and contribute to - Wikipedia ? Like Everest, because it’s there, i.e. on the Web and free and solicitous of contributions. Also because of its strong focus on art and culture, particularly modern/popular art and culture. Where else do you find more on David Bowie than you do on Beethoven? Don’t get me wrong, I think Beethoven deserves all the coverage he gets but I can find a decent article on him in Britannica – unfortunately can’t say the same of Bowie in that august journal...
My main projects are or have been (see sections below for status):
- rectifying the (once) lamentable lack of articles on Gary Numan recordings
- adding/expanding articles on David Bowie recordings and associated artists such as Iggy Pop
- expanding articles on early Roxy Music recordings
- adding/expanding articles on John Foxx and early Ultravox recordings
- adding/expanding articles on Fad Gadget recordings
- cleaning up and filling the occasional gap in other artists' representation
- working with the Australian military history task force, primarily on RAAF articles
- helping out at WikiProject The Rolling Stones
- helping out on aviation accident articles
- 1st - 14:44, 15 October 2005
- 500th - 07:36, 20 March 2006
- 1000th - 12:55, 3 June 2006
- 1500th - 23:42, 2 September 2006
- 2000th - 14:28, 25 October 2006
- 2500th - 16:15, 4 December 2006
- 3000th - 07:49, 29 January 2007
- 3500th - 01:37, 8 March 2007
- 4000th - 09:57, 15 April 2007
- 4500th - 00:37, 15 May 2007
- 5000th - 09:19, 6 June 2007
- 6000th - 14:38, 5 August 2007
- 7000th - 08:19, 1 October 2007
- 8000th - 23:18, 9 December 2007
- 9000th - 11:31, 7 February 2008
- 10000th - 00:17, 6 April 2008
Showcase
In order of assessment; Today's Featured Articles in bold
George Jones * Morotai Mutiny * Richard Williams * Stanley Goble * William Bostock * Frank McNamara * Harry Cobby * Adrian Cole * John Lerew * Joe Hewitt * Ellis Wackett * John Lloyd Waddy * Frederick Scherger * Charles Eaton * Jerry Pentland * Roderic Dallas (with Georgejdorner) * Lester Brain * Brian Eaton * Bill Newton * Ian Dougald McLachlan * William Brill * John McCauley * Valston Hancock * Alister Murdoch * Frank Bladin * Peter Jeffrey * Oswald Watt * Nicky Barr * Hector Waller * John Balmer * Roy Dowling * John Francis Jackson * Henry Wrigley * Colin Hannah * Reg Saunders (with AustralianRupert) * James Rowland * David Evans * Allan Walters * Lockheed C-130 Hercules in Australian service (with Nick-D) * William Hely * No. 2 Operational Conversion Unit RAAF * Bobby Gibbes * No. 36 Squadron RAAF * Albert Ball (with Georgejdorner) * No. 33 Squadron RAAF * Frank Headlam * No. 34 Squadron RAAF * Elwyn Roy King * No. 1 Flying Training School RAAF * Roy Phillipps * 1940 Brocklesby mid-air collision * Henry Burrell * No. 1 Squadron RAAF * Garnet Malley (tks Georgejdorner) * No. 77 Squadron RAAF * Les Holden * HMS Nairana (with Sturmvogel 66) * John Wilton * No. 450 Squadron RAAF (with AustralianRupert) * Pat Hughes * No. 90 Wing RAAF
Clare Stevenson * Alan Charlesworth * Frank Lukis * George Mackinolty * Eric Harrison * William Anderson * Henry Petre * Central Flying School RAAF * No. 82 Wing RAAF * Wilfred Arthur * Hippolyte De La Rue * No. 86 Wing RAAF * No. 81 Wing RAAF * No. 78 Wing RAAF * No. 84 Wing RAAF * Gordon Steege * No. 91 Wing RAAF * Donald Hardman * Reg Pollard * RAAF area commands
Peter Roy Maxwell Drummond * Station to Station * Robert Little * Neville McNamara * Les Clisby * Len Waters (tks Grant65) * Nigel Cullen * No. 71 Wing RAAF * No. 73 Wing RAAF * Leslie Douglas Jackson * Peter Turnbull * Arthur William Murphy * Charles Read * Mary Bell * No. 79 Wing RAAF * No. 76 Wing RAAF * No. 77 Wing RAAF * No. 2 Service Flying Training School RAAF * No. 8 Service Flying Training School RAAF * Dave Shannon * Peter Isaacson (with RichardH) * No. 1 Aircraft Depot RAAF * No. 1 Operational Conversion Unit RAAF * No. 1 Basic Flying Training School RAAF * No. 72 Wing RAAF * John Newham * No. 114 Mobile Control and Reporting Unit RAAF * Ray Funnell * North-Eastern Area Command (RAAF) * No. 1 Operational Training Unit RAAF * No. 5 Service Flying Training School RAAF * Northern Area Command (RAAF) * No. 3 Aircraft Depot RAAF * No. 482 Squadron RAAF * No. 486 Squadron RAAF * No. 5 Operational Training Unit RAAF * No. 3 Elementary Flying Training School RAAF * No. 11 Elementary Flying Training School RAAF * No. 2 Elementary Flying Training School RAAF * No. 5 Elementary Flying Training School RAAF * No. 391 Squadron RAAF * No. 491 Squadron RAAF * No. 82 Squadron RAAF (with AustralianRupert) * No. 30 Transport Unit RAAF * No. 20 Squadron RAAF (with AustralianRupert) * Fighter Squadron RAAF * Seaplane Squadron RAAF * John Slessor (with Dormskirk) * Ragnar Garrett * Central Area Command (RAAF) * Western Area Command (RAAF) * Southern Area Command (RAAF) * North-Western Area Command (RAAF) * Eastern Area Command (RAAF) * No. 1 Initial Flying Training School RAAF * No. 1 Elementary Flying Training School RAAF * No. 4 Elementary Flying Training School RAAF * No. 4 Service Flying Training School RAAF * No. 8 Elementary Flying Training School RAAF * Thomas White * Ivor McIntyre * No. 4 Operational Training Unit RAAF
Music
Gary Numan & Tubeway Army
Complex (song) * We Are Glass * I Die: You Die * Stormtrooper in Drag * She's Got Claws * Tubeway Army (album) * Telekon * Sacrifice (Gary Numan album) * Exile (Gary Numan album) * Pure (Gary Numan album) * Paul Gardiner
David Bowie & associates
All the Young Dudes (song) * Heroes (David Bowie song) * Ashes to Ashes (David Bowie song) * David Live * Warren Peace * Simon House * Mick Woodmansey * Tony Newman (drummer) * George Murray (musician) * Tony Sales * Ricky Gardiner * Roy Carr
John Foxx & Ultravox
Systems of Romance * Burning Car * Miles Away (song)
Other
Broken English (album) * Ricky's Hand * Fire (Arthur Brown song) * Know Your Product
Military
Air Force
Morotai Mutiny * Bobby Gibbes * George Jones (RAAF officer) * William Bostock * Wilfred Arthur * No. 9 Operational Group RAAF * Stanley Goble * No. 205 Squadron RAF * Valston Hancock * Peter Roy Maxwell Drummond * No. 145 Squadron RAF * John McCauley * No. 4 Operational Training Unit RAAF * Ivor McIntyre * No. 221 Squadron RAF * Alister Murdoch * Charles Read (RAAF officer) * Clare Stevenson * Joe Hewitt (RAAF officer) * Frank Lukis * Henry Wrigley * No. 40 Wing RAF * Adrian Cole (RAAF officer) * Arthur William Murphy * 7,900hits Frank Bladin * 5,000hits John Lerew * Hippolyte De La Rue * Ellis Wackett * John Lloyd Waddy * Mary Bell (aviator) * Henry Petre * Eric Harrison (RAAF officer) * 3,900hits George Mackinolty * 4,200hits Charles Eaton (RAAF officer) * 8,300hits Roy Phillipps * 4,300hits Les Holden * ]4,200hits Allan Walters * Lester Brain * 13,000hits Brian Eaton * 11,500hits Les Clisby * 6,200hits Nigel Cullen * No. 77 Wing RAAF * No. 79 Wing RAAF * 4,666hits No. 76 Wing RAAF * Gordon Steege * No. 72 Wing RAAF * 6,300hits John Francis Jackson * Leslie Douglas Jackson * RAAF Command * 12,400 hits Peter Turnbull * 4,400hits Alan Charlesworth * 7,900hits Peter Jeffrey (RAAF officer) * No. 1 Flying Training School RAAF * No. 2 Service Flying Training School RAAF * 5,400hits 1940 Brocklesby mid-air collision * John Balmer * 15,800hits William Brill * No. 1 Basic Flying Training School RAAF * No. 1 Initial Flying Training School RAAF * 4,123hits No. 4 Service Flying Training School RAAF * No. 7 Service Flying Training School RAAF * No. 3 Service Flying Training School RAAF * No. 6 Service Flying Training School RAAF * No. 8 Service Flying Training School RAAF * 8,508hits Dave Shannon * No. 3 Aircraft Depot RAAF * No. 1 Operational Conversion Unit RAAF * No. 1 Aircraft Depot RAAF * Lockheed C-130 Hercules in Australian service (with Nick-D) * No. 90 Wing RAAF * William Hely * List of former Duntroon cadets in the RAAF - self-explanatory * Alan Rawlinson (WWII ace) * Margaret Blackwood (WAAAF officer) * Audrey Herring (WAAAF officer) * Murray Jones (Australian Flying Corps officer) * RAAF Air Board (controlling body 1920-76) * RAAF area commands (geographical command system 1939-54) * RAAF command problems of World War II - self-explanatory (gleam in eye only) * Lou Spence (RAAF officer - family connection) * John Herington (RAAF officer & historian)
General
Music
Gary Numan & Tubeway Army
That's Too Bad * Bombers (Gary Numan song) * Jo the Waiter * Only a Downstat * Down in the Park * Are 'Friends' Electric? * Replicas (album) * Cars (song) * The Pleasure Principle (album) * Dance (Gary Numan album) * Jagged
David Bowie
The Supermen * Changes (David Bowie song) * Starman (song) * Rock 'n' Roll Suicide * John, I'm Only Dancing * The Jean Genie * Aladdin Sane (song) * Future Legend * Rebel Rebel * 1984 (song) * Golden Years (song) * Weeping Wall (David Bowie song) * Joe the Lion * Neuköln * David Bowie (album) * Space Oddity (album) * The Man Who Sold the World (album) & most tracks * Aladdin Sane & all tracks * Diamond Dogs * Station to Station * "Heroes" & all tracks * Stage (album) * Lodger (album) * Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) & most tracks * Schöner Gigolo, armer Gigolo * You've Got a Habit of Leaving
Iggy Pop
The Idiot (album) * Lust for Life (album) * Blah Blah Blah (album)
Bryan Ferry & Roxy Music
Roxy Music (album) * For Your Pleasure * Country Life (album) * Let's Stick Together
John Foxx & Ultravox
Metamatic * The Garden (John Foxx album) * The Golden Section
Fad Gadget
Fad Gadget * Fireside Favourites * Incontinent (album)
The Saints
The Saints (band) * (I'm) Stranded (song)
Other
Shock the Monkey * Hall of the Mountain Grill * Friday on My Mind * Lucifer Sam * How Soon Is Now? * Iron Virgin * Move It
Military
Air Force
No. 82 Wing RAAF * No. 78 Wing RAAF * No. 81 Wing RAAF * No. 86 Wing RAAF * Frederick Scherger * Chief of Air Force (Australia) * Richard Williams (RAAF officer) * William Anderson (RAAF officer) * John Slessor * Donald Hardman * Officer Training School RAAF * Colin Hannah * Frank Hubert McNamara * Arthur Henry Cobby * William Ellis Newton * Elwyn King * Robert A. Little * 10,600hits Alexander Pentland * Oswald Watt * Roderic Dallas (collaboration with Georgejdorner) * 4,000hits Neville McNamara * Nicky Barr * Albert Ball (collaboration with Georgejdorner) * Len Waters (kicked off by Grant65) * Australian First Tactical Air Force * No. 71 Wing RAAF * No. 73 Wing RAAF * RAAF Base Richmond * Ian Dougald McLachlan * No. 37 Squadron RAAF * No. 2 Flying Training School RAAF * No. 5 Service Flying Training School RAAF * James Rowland (RAAF officer) * David Evans (RAAF officer) * Central Flying School RAAF * Peter Isaacson (collaboration with RichardH) * HMS Nairana (1917) (collaboration with Sturmvogel 66) * 7,062hits No. 84 Wing RAAF * No. 36 Squadron RAAF * No. 114 Mobile Control and Reporting Unit RAAF * John Newham (kicked off by Oliver Nouther) * Paterson Clarence Hughes (enhancement under way) * Clive Caldwell (enhancement to come, collaborating with Nick-D) * Charles Learmonth (enhancement to come) * Edgar McCloughry (possible enhancement to come) * Edgar Johnston (possible enhancement to come) * Lawrence Wackett (possible enhancement to come) * John Vincent Barry (possible enhancement to come)
General
Music
Gary Numan & Tubeway Army
Gary Numan * Tubeway Army * Living Ornaments '80 * Freak Like Me (Sugababes song)
David Bowie & associates
David Bowie * Cygnet Committee * The Prettiest Star * Memory of a Free Festival * Holy Holy * The Width of a Circle * Black Country Rock * Oh! You Pretty Things * Quicksand (David Bowie song) * The Bewlay Brothers * Lady Stardust * Diamond Dogs (song) * Rock 'n' Roll With Me * Big Brother (song) * Wild Is the Wind (song) * It's No Game * Fashion (song) * Scream Like a Baby * Hunky Dory * ChangesOneBowie * Low (album) * Berlin Trilogy * ChangesTwoBowie * ChangesBowie * Ziggy Stardust - The Motion Picture * LiveAndWell.com * All the Young Dudes * Mick Ronson - copyedit to come * Paul Buckmaster * Hunt Sales * Claudia Lennear * Colin Thurston * The Laughing Gnome * Earthling (album)
Brian Eno
Brian Eno * Here Come the Warm Jets * Another Green World * Before and After Science
Iggy Pop
Iggy Pop * The Passenger (song)
John Foxx & Ultravox
John Foxx * Ha!-Ha!-Ha! - clean-up to come
Kraftwerk
Florian Schneider * Radioactivity (song) * Das Model
The Rolling Stones
Mick Jagger * Keith Richards * Let's Spend the Night Together * Gimme Shelter * Miss You (The Rolling Stones song)
The Beatles
The Beatles (album) * Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band * Revolver (album) * Working Class Hero (John Lennon song) * Yoko Ono
Bob Dylan
Highway 61 Revisited * Like a Rolling Stone * Highway 61 Revisited (song) * Subterranean Homesick Blues
Miscellaneous music
Virginia Plain * Block Buster * Venus in Furs (song) * Killing an Arab * Children of the Night * Cut Lunch * The White Albun * The Iron Man: A Musical * Captive Soundtrack * Are You Gonna Be My Girl * Aqualung (album) * On Broadway (song) * Never for Ever
Miscellaneous artists
Roxy Music * T.Rex (band) * Grace Jones * Nina Hagen * Snakefinger * Heaven 17 * B.E.F. (British Electric Foundation) * Sinéad O'Connor * Eddie Rayner * Noel Crombie * Martin McCarrick * Mike Leander * Jet (band) * Michael Brook * Bobby "Boris" Pickett * Birgit Nilsson * Anne-Sophie Mutter * Gene Simmons
Other
Deram Records * Olympic Studios * Mersey Sound
Film, TV, literature
2001: A Space Odyssey (film) * Ben-Hur (1959 film) * Monty Python's Life of Brian * The Lord of the Rings * Blake's 7 * David Tench Tonight * Richard Carleton * Belinda Emmett * Edward Fox (actor) * David Hemmings * The Cold Equations * Graham Kennedy * King Kong (1976 film)
Military
Air Force
No. 1 Squadron RAAF * No. 3 Squadron RAAF * No. 10 Squadron RAAF * No. 11 Squadron RAAF * No. 33 Squadron RAAF * RAAF Williams * Hughie Edwards * Charles Burnett (RAF officer) * Edward Leonard Ellington * George Kenney * Eric Lock * No. 233 Squadron RAF * No. 75 Squadron RAAF * No. 35 Squadron RAAF * No. 4 Squadron RAAF * No. 204 Squadron RAF * No. 206 Squadron RAF * No. 208 Squadron RAF * No. 210 Squadron RAF * Structure of the RAAF * No. 1 Medical Receiving Station RAAF * No. 5 Fighter Sector RAAF * RAAF Station Sandgate * RAAF Bradfield Park * RAAF Base Mallala * RAAF Station Cunderdin * Werner Mölders * Adolf Galland
General
Charles Upham * Murray William James Bourchier * Malayan Emergency * Appeal of 18 June * Military history of Australia during World War II * Chief of the Defence Force (Australia) * Medal of Honor * Vice Chief of the Defence Force (Australia) * Huta Pieniacka massacre * Corkbush Field mutiny * Texas Ranger Division * Brian Horrocks * William Horrocks * Thomas Blamey * Military history of Australia during the Indonesia-Malaysia Confrontation - minor expansion to come
Aviation
PSA Flight 182 * American Airlines Flight 96 * United Airlines Flight 232 * Japan Airlines Flight 123 * Lauda Air Flight 004 * British Airways Flight 9 * Tenerife disaster * 1959 Turkish Airlines Gatwick crash * de Havilland Comet * Bristol Beaufort * De Havilland DH.50
Automotive
Donald Campbell * Allan Moffat * Bathurst 1000 * Eddie Hasha
Miscellaneous
Knox Grammar School * Gare Montparnasse * Surfers Paradise, Queensland * Neukölln * Roger Rogerson * List of atheists * Wangal people * Rachel Wall * Bungaree
...and a host of gnomic little corrections/additions at many other pages that have caught my attention...