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Articles created are marked *. The list here is in large measure incomplete, as I don't list articles here unless I have worked on them fairly substantially (and remember to add them). I've brought at least 614 articles to Good and Featured Article status as nominator. Another 64 GA/FA articles are included here: these are co-nominated GANs and FACs that I helped on their way, along with a dozen rescues at GAR and FAR.

Agriculture edit

 
Rice-duck farming in Central Java
A neglected corner. Presumably rural life is rather distant from editors' worlds. Curiously, several of the articles have annual readership in the millions, so it was about time they were edited decently.

AGRICULTURE  

Animals edit

Groups
 
Butterfly
These collaborations are part of an attempt to make the ordinary biology articles people frequently visit simple, accurate, and informative. It's no accident they have short familiar names, and describe often quite large taxa: they're what people have heard of.

ANIMAL   (collab)

INVERTEBRATES

INSECT  

VERTEBRATE

 

Individual species
 
Ammophila sabulosa  
I generally don't create or develop single-species articles. When I do, it may be for a collaboration, or to fill in a redlink. Very occasionally it's a species I particularly enjoy seeing, like Ammophila sabulosa.


Artists edit

 
Johan Fredrik Martin
I created these short articles to provide bluelinks and what little detail that's recorded about these people whose works illustrate many articles. It seemed to me sad that we glanced at their work without even wondering who they were.

Biology edit

 
Aristotle's biology
"The whole area of evolutionary biology is just a bunch of jargon." Let's hope not any more.
 
ORIGIN OF LIFE  
 
EVOLUTION
 
NATURAL SELECTION  
 
EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY  
 
PARASITISM  
 
PREDATION  
 
SPECIES  

• Invasive species   (rescued at GAR)

 
ETHOLOGY (study of Animal behaviour)
 
SPECIAL SENSES
 
ANIMAL COLORATION  

This section is an offshoot of work on camouflage; of course, it's mainly evolutionary biology, how could it not be.

 
MIMICRY  
 
INJURY *
 
PLANT (rewritten)  
 
Other topics
 
Books

Inspiring books, written by excellent speakers too, by the way.

 
People
 
A. R. Wallace  

Some heroes, and some seriously odd blokes (that's a logical or). Mereschkowski's is a sad but curious tale; Thompson avoided evolution as an explanation.

 
Conservation

Camouflage edit

 
Camouflage (or not: at this moment, this chameleon is reverse countershaded)
This was one of the first areas I worked on. It was dominated by military patterns, many of which didn't seem to provide any actual cryptic effect. Painting spots on things is the least of it.
CAMOUFLAGE  
MILITARY CAMOUFLAGE  
Histories
Books
CAMOUFLEURS * (DYK, 3133)

Cookery edit

 
The Compleat Housewife
Most of these were written from scratch, with new articles and new links as they hadn't even been mentioned anywhere.

ENGLISH CUISINE  

Books
Food and drink
People

Culture edit

 
Actually not Andromeda  , though you'd be forgiven for thinking so
A bit of a ragbag from a vast jumble sale. White Aethiopians was one of the first things I ever did. Irene Papas sounds even better than she looks. In Whitley Castle I was delighted to find a whole Roman fort that had been overlooked in a quiet and beautiful corner of Northern Britain.
Things
Music
 
Irene Papas  
Dance
Dancers
People
Places
Winchester College (refs, architecture)  

Chiswick edit

 
Acton Green
What's in a town? Medieval villages, churches, great houses, pubs? Maybe all districts are interesting once one really looks at them.

CHISWICK   (yeah.... Augean Stables)

Living things in culture edit

 
Microbes in culture
Epithet series
Other

Literature edit

 
Just So Stories
These are just a few good things in odd corners that seemed to deserve coverage. See also #Scandinaviana.
Kipling
Explorers and travellers
Simon Armitage
Other good things

Mathematics and art edit

 
Patterns in nature

These articles reflect a personal delight in things that are visibly and beautifully mathematical. The Islamic articles go a step further, and here I certainly do think it important that we in the West understand a bit more of the Islamic world's culture and history.

MATHEMATICS AND ART   (rewrite)

 

PATTERNS IN NATURE *   (DYK, 17181)
Islamic

Natural history edit

 
Cleaning symbiosis, as imagined by Henry Scherren, 1906, after Herodotus
It's hard to define what exactly natural history now is, given that it has radically changed its status. Historically, it makes more sense, when naturalists weren't distinguishable from scientists (had the word been in use).
Topics
People
Books

Scandinaviana edit

 
Carl Michael Bellman

"What, the greatest of all song-writers, in any language, unknown?" (Paul Britten Austin)

Well, perhaps a little better-known now, with 34 GAs and tens of thousands of pageviews per year.

CARL MICHAEL BELLMAN  

MUSIC
SCANDINAVIAN DESIGN
LITERATURE

Iron and steel edit

 
Bolckow Vaughan

History and philosophy of science edit

 
Teleology in biology

Basically a dark corner, but a marvellous answer to recentism. Sometimes, as in Modern synthesis, a little reading also shows that what everybody knows just ain't so: it means they've swallowed one side's propaganda hook, line, and sinker.

Biology
Pseudophysics

Beowulf edit

 
Beowulf
The various small articles began from the Tolkien direction and grew from there. Then it became clear that the main article, mature and edited by many hands, wasn't too far from GA status but was languishing for lack of determined attention. It was fun filling in the gaps, including doing some mapping and finding some images as well as writing and finding sources.

Tolkien edit

 
Tolkien's influences

This didn't look like a dark corner, as it had been extensively and lovingly attended ... by fans. Suffice it to say that a lot of articles are now a great deal better-cited, while the unciteable ones aren't around any more. At least 100 new (*) articles (including half-a-dozen phoenixes) and some 200 GAs and FAs, not counting the 4 Tolkien/Beowulf ones.

Scholars and their books
Philology
  • Bagme Bloma * (the only poem ever written in Gothic)  

MIDDLE-EARTH   (End-of-Age-scale reshaping)

THE HOBBIT (already GA, needed work)

THE SILMARILLION  

Places
People

THE LORD OF THE RINGS  

Artists and actors
Illustrating Tolkien *  
Storytelling
Non-narrative elements
INFLUENCES  
LITERARY DEVICES *  
Themes  
Geography of Middle-earth *  
Races
People
 
The Haradrim's Mumakil derive from Pyrrhus's battle-elephants
Events
Objects
Languages  
Misc.

Victoriana edit

 
John Alexander (chief clerk)

Yoga edit

 
Asana

A corner that should be full of peace and calm, torn by two separate divisions: the meaning of "yoga" (spiritual path or exercise class), and quiet practice versus glitzy commercial pressure. There was quite a cleanup job to be done, which led eventually to over 100 new (or phoenix) articles and at least 54 GAs. Best Sanskrit? ष्वमि प्रोपगन्दानन्द​​ (Swami Propagandananda).

 
Yoganidrasana (how one feels trying to disentangle a bunch of WikiYoga articles)

ASANA   (rewritten)

MODERN YOGA *

YOGA AS EXERCISE *  

Yoga props *  

Yoga as therapy   (rewritten)

Yoga hybrids *
Yoga schools
 
Yoga as exercise, I guess
Yoga by country
Yoga pioneers
Yoga teachers
Yoga scholars
 
I love this view of Kurmasana from the Joga Pradīpikā as you have to work out the tangle of limbs from the aerial viewpoint, while the hut is conventionally seen from the front. Cubists eat your hearts out!
Hatha yoga texts
Books
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