User talk:HouseOfChange/DYK

Why these articles are on my list

My first DYK was for Matthias Rauchmiller. I created the article because I love the (beautiful baroque) Vienna Plague Monument and wanted to learn more about it.

I found several articles by having AfDs of women on my watchlist: e.g. Helen Woodrow Bones, Robert Seyfarth (scientist) (article about his wife was AfDed), and Nazo Dharejo. Working on the bio of Nazo Dharejo led me to the British director of a film about her (Sarmad Masud), which then led me to a British thriller writer (Imran Mahmood) whose dramatized novel was being directed by Masud for the BBC.

I think I saw Elena Ivanovna Barulina mentioned on Twitter, as a woman whose decades-old work on lentils is still the authority. It seemed intriguing.

I briefly met and photographed Roger Shepard at a conference, and thought two of his optical illusions should get their own articles, Shepard tables and Shepard elephant.

I was one of the many who watched Princess Bride Reunion, so it was fun to create an article about it. What was not fun was working on In Praise of Blood, a book whose article I reviewed at DYK. I then got sucked into a long series of interactions about the book and trying to improve the article. While doing that, I came across Columbia Global Reports, a small publishing house, one of whose books got mentioned there.

At that point, I was looking for new topics for DYK, and somehow then came across Tom Griffiths (cognitive scientist), Rey Jaime I Awards, Giovanni Rossi (anarchist), the new head of DARPA Stefanie Tompkins.

Charles A. Bevilacqua is another find from an AfD. I discovered Samuel Powel Griffitts for reasons related to a dispute about someone's editing on behalf of the American Philosophical Society.

The little "lovable" fossil turtle Amabilis uchoensis was an intriguing redlink in an article about a turtle family. I am also slowly working on an article about another redlink from another turtle family to make more use of my surprise new collection of information about obscure ancient turtles.

I saw George L. P. Weaver mentioned as one of only two Black people ever invited to the National Press Club lunch room before 1955. I am slowly working now on another article about a notable Black labor organizer from the same era.

My role with Tess Posner was minor. I at first tagged the article for notability per GnG, but later helped the author find it via NCREATIVE.

I had wanted to do some editing in the general area of ice-core research, but it is too far from my expertise to be easy. I came across Jérôme Chappellaz as a redlink in an article about a climate-science prizewinners. HouseOfChange (talk) 00:56, 12 February 2022 (UTC)