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IIn November 2006 I tried the 10 Random Pages exercise first suggested by another user.

My first comment was, "I have to say that the overall quality is a pleasant surprise. I didn't run into any garbage or spam. Take a bow, Wikipedians!"

Atlanta Municipal Airport (Michigan)

A stub under the supervision of Wikipedia:WikiProject Airports. Has an info box.

It's one of three Atlanta Airports, including of course the world-famous ATL.

Ballantine, Montana

This was just a basic community page done with a program or script called MapIt. It led me into a prolonged wikisociation with Yellowstone County, Montana — for which I'm grateful.

First I added a History section to the Ballantine article. This led me to work on articles about Worden, Montana and Huntley, Montana. I also started a disambiguation page for Ballantine as well as the short article on Pompey's Pillar, Montana.

These small towns are all part of a United States Bureau of Reclamation irrigation district. So I started Huntley Project, the second article of its kind on Wikipedia.

I helped keep an eye on Billings, Montana, and repeatedly removed linkspam from the articles about the Huntley Project communities. Learned some things about the Crow Indians, land treaties, federal water projects, sugar beets, and other aspects of the history of the area.

Now all these Yellowstone County articles are linked by a template.

One of these days I want to pay a visit.

Chebyshev's inequality

A concept in probability theory, to be distinguished from Chebyshev's sum inequality, which is not the same thing at all. The article started out as Tchebysheff's theorem. I've made gnomish changes to it. Since 2006 it has grown into a detailed article with mathematical formulas rendered with LaTeX code.

Club Atlético Tiro Federal Argentino

This one about a B-level team from Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina, has developed very well under the care of the WikiProject on Football. In 2010 it was renamed Tiro Federal after the more commonly recognized name of the club.

Hayes Volcano

An Alaska volcano, not to be confused with Mount Hayes. Good example of how info boxes have developed over the years to become more informative and usable. The article was already part of WikiProject Alaska, later joined by WikiProject Mountains.

KRDN-LP

A two-line stub when I first saw it. It's about a low-power TV station in Redding, California.

In November 2006 this article entered the purview of the California and Television Stations WikiProjects.

The subject of the article ceased to exist in 2013. The article will probably never grow beyond its current three paragraphs.

Manufacturing operations

A stub related to economics/finance. I would say it's the least successful of the ten articles on this list. A nagging template has sat atop this article for more than a decade, unregarded. The article has the dubious distinction of having attracted some Italian-language vandalism.

Instead of working on this, I've kept an eye on the core articles Manufacturing and Industry as well. Industry is such a broad topic that it eventually became a disambiguation page. Manufacturing, on the other hand, was too narrow in scope. Having read some monographs on early modern European manufacturing, I felt impatient with the recentism and parochialism of that article. In time it became part of a series centered on Machine industry, but Manufacturing remained disjoint and largely composed of bullet points.

Marcelo Tinelli

Short bio of an Argentinian media businessman. There were some initial translation issues from the Spanish version.

WikiProject Biography quickly flagged it as an article about a living person. He seems to be a somewhat controversial figure, and yes, he is still alive.

Scottish beer

Not to be confused with Scotch ale! Beer aficionados seem to have this one well under control. In August 2008 the article was renamed Beer in Scotland.

I haven't had much to do with this one. Instead, I ended up nagging the peculiar little article Beer in Alabama, which, believe it or not, had a politically partisan slant. Eventually it calmed down and was transformed into a list of Alabama breweries.

Subdivisions of the Soviet Union

A stub linking to four articles. At first it had redlinks to both Oblasts of the Soviet Union and Autonomous oblasts of the Soviet Union. An editor called The russian leader created an article on the autonomous oblasts. I resolved the other redlink by redirecting to a section of Oblast.

There is a matching Category:Subdivisions of the Soviet Union.

In March 2014 this article gained a useful family tree chart, based on this template.