Projects
Here are some of the articles and projects I've put the most work into:
- Oregon and California Railroad Revested Lands: As I delved into Oregon history, so many topics came back to this topic, a jumbled mixture of the economy, the environment, local and national politics, law, and of course--scandal. The only thing missing is sports. It is a complex topic that continues to this day to have a huge impact on the state's economy and culture.
- List of United States Representatives from Oregon: When I first stumbled across this list, I was amazed at how few of the representatives had articles in Wikipedia and took to adding them one by one. Just when I thought I'd read the most incredible story—both good and bad—I found yet another. These "old dead guys and gals" never failed to disappoint.
- 75th Oregon Legislative Assembly: Within a week of the November 2008 election, I worked to ensure that all 30 Oregon senators in the current session had articles, and created a half dozen articles for the Oregon representatives.
- Oregon Sports Hall of Fame: So many Oregon sports heroes are included in this hall from a wide variety of sports, but a surprising number had no articles about them. I took their Oregon sports hall status as a show of notability and have been tracking down their bios for articles ever since. I continue to be amazed at the fascinating stories out there.
- Stanford Athletic Hall of Fame: Another sports hall of fame, this time from my alma mater. More interesting, notable sportspeople with no Wikipedia articles.
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Oregon/Assessment: Once the Oregon project really took off, we had thousands of articles that needed to be tagged to be included in the project and then assessed in terms of completeness and quality. I did as many as I could.
- Oregon portal: Several other editors did the vast majority of work, but I was happy to help where I could to get the Oregon Portal to Featured article status.
- Did You Know: When I create a new article, I nominate it for the Did You Know feature that appears on Wikipedia's main page.
- Barnstars and awards: Hey, it's fun to get recognition.
- To do: Articles to create one of these days if someone else doesn't beat me to it.
Articles created
Here are the articles I've created from scratch. There are a lot of articles I've written up from stubs, but that would take a lot more work to uncover so this is a good sampling of what I've done around here. I try never to create an article without at least one good reference and always work to get it to at least Start class.
Politics
As noted above, a lot of these are former Oregon congresspeople or current Oregon legislators.
Sports
A lot of these were based on sports figures who were inducted into the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame or the Stanford Athletic Hall of Fame.
Nick Aliotti
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Pokey Allen
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Darwin Barney
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John Beckett
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Guy Benjamin
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Bob Bowlsby
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Greg Buckingham
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Don Bunce
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Don Burness
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Douglas Burke
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Nigel Burton
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Jody Campbell
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Kaleb Canales
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Mitch Canham
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Rich Cho
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Jack Cody
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Ralph Coleman
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Bill Corbus
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Steve Coury
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Bill Cowden
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Steve Cox
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Jack Crabtree
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Grace DeMoss
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Jack Dana
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John H. Dick
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Steve Dils
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Christopher Dorst
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Jon Douglas
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Don Durdan
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Trent Edwards
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Chandler Egan
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David Esquer
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Jim Eyen
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Dutch Fehring
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John Ferris
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Kevin Freeman
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Hugh Gallarneau
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Bobby Garrett
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Marjorie Gestring
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Keith Gledhill
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Molly Goodenbour
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Quentin Greenough
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L. H. Gregory
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George Haines
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Leo Harris
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Eric Hardgrave
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Bill Hayward
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Don Head
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Bud Held
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Brenda Helser
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Biff Hoffman
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John Hopkins
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Todd Husak
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Hjalmar Hvam
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Brian Job
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Wally Johansen
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Chris Johnson
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Jenna Johnson
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Art Jones
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Mike Jorgensen
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Spec Keene
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Gary Kerkorian
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Don Kirsch
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Mel Krause
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James F. Lanagan
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Sam Lee
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Fred Linari
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Marybeth Linzmeier
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Leo Long
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Jair Lynch
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Andrew McDonald
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Thomas L. McFadden
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Owen Marecic
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Nancy Merki
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Mike Mikulak
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Butch Morse
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Alan Mouchawar
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Bernard Muir
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Phil Neer
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Paul Neumann
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Dick Norman
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North West Hockey League
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Danny O'Neil
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Oregon Sports Hall of Fame
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T. C. Ostrander
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Pacific Coast Pro Basketball League
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Jason Palumbis
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John Paye
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Platypus Trophy
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Portland Buckaroos
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Portland Power
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Portland Indians
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Portland Interscholastic League
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Walter D. Powell
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Tavita Pritchard
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Joe Prunty
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Larry Questad
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Susan Rapp
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Reliance Athletic Club
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Jeanne Ruark Hoff
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Jean Saubert
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Della Sehorn
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George Shaw
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Nate Shaw
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Tom Shaw
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Willie Shaw
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Charlie Sitton
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Malcolm Snider
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Stanford Cardinal women's basketball
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Katy Steding
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Ron Stratten
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Jerry Tarr
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Chuck Taylor
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Robert L. Templeton
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Claude E. Thornhill
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Ron Tomsic
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Frank Troeh
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George Varoff
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Randy Vataha
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Chris von Saltza
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Ed Voss
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Tim Walsh
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WSU Fight Song
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Western Canada Hockey League
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Nancy White
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Oscar F. Willing
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Artie Wilson
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Carolyn Wood
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Suzanne Zimmerman
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Bowl games: 1958 Rose, 1965 Rose, 1972 Rose, 1977 Sun, 1978 Bluebonnet, Toilet Bowl, 1986 Gator, 1991 Aloha, 1993 Blockbuster, 1995 Liberty, 2001 Fiesta, 2017 Alamo
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Stanford football seasons: 1891, 1892, 1893, 1894, 1895, 1896, 1897, 1898, 1900, 1901, 1902, 1903, 1904, 1906–17 (rugby) , 1919, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1921, 1923, 1925, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1937, 1938, 1942, 1946, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1959, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1971, 1975, 1980, 1986, 1999, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022
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Lists: Stanford bowl games, Stanford head football coaches, Stanford football seasons
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Other
Sometimes I just come across a redlink that is crying out for an article. A lot of these tend to be geographical in nature, but others just beg to be written.
Templates
Templates make life easier for editing and moving around articles in Wikipedia. Here are links to some that I created.
Articles edited
Date
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Edit rank
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1/18
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3898
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8/14
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3215
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11/12
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3143
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11/11
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3284
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10/10
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3597
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2/10
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3903
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Photos
Here are some of the photos I've taken and uploaded to Wikipedia that are in use in Wikipedia articles today.
Notes to self
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