User:Richwales/Tabs/MyWork

This user helped get "Calvin's Case" listed at Did You Know on the main page on 21 May 2012.
This user helped get "George E. Crothers" listed at Did You Know on the main page on 11 August 2011.
This user helped get "Georgian numerals" listed at Did You Know on the main page on 14 February 2012.
This user helped get "Keturah" listed at Did You Know on the main page on 15 July 2015.
This user helped get "Nguyen v. INS" listed at Did You Know on the main page on 1 June 2012.
This user helped get "White Horse Prophecy" listed at Did You Know on the main page on 7 June 2010.
This user did a major rewrite of "BSAA Star Dust accident" become a good article on 28 September 2011.
This user helped "George E. Crothers" become a good article on 18 January 2013.
This user did a major rewrite of "Icelandic Naming Committee" become a good article on 27 June 2013.
This user did a major rewrite of "Kawakita v. United States" become a good article on 23 October 2015.
This user did a major rewrite of "Keturah" become a good article on 16 July 2015.
This user contributed significantly to "Minor v. Happersett" become a good article on 30 June 2012.
This user contributed significantly to "Steve Irwin" become a good article on 5 February 2011.
This user helped "Vance v. Terrazas" become a good article on 30 December 2010.
This user created and contributed significantly to "White Horse Prophecy" become a good article on 3 December 2011.
This user helped get Katyn massacre listed on the "In the News" section of the main page on 26 November 2010.
This user has administrator privileges on the English Wikipedia.
This user did a major rewrite of "Afroyim v. Rusk", which became a Featured Article on 25 December 2012 and was Today's Featured Article on 20 February 2014
This user contributed significantly to "United States v. Wong Kim Ark", which became a Featured Article on 23 February 2012 and was Today's Featured Article on 19 October 2012
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Editing from a neutral point of view (NPOV) means representing fairly, proportionately, and as far as possible without bias, all significant views that have been published by reliable sources. All Wikipedia articles ... must be written from a neutral point of view.... This policy is nonnegotiable and all editors and articles must follow it.

— from WP:NPOV
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Recognized content for
which I was responsible

Featured articles:

United States v. Wong Kim Ark (US citizenship law case)

— Good Article, 5 Jan. 2011
— Featured Article, 23 Feb. 2012
— Today's Featured Article, 19 Oct. 2012

Afroyim v. Rusk (US citizenship law case)

— Good Article, 2 Jan. 2011
— Featured Article, 25 Dec. 2012
— Today's Featured Article, 20 Feb. 2014

Good articles:

Vance v. Terrazas (US citizenship law case)

— Good Article, 30 Dec. 2010

Steve Irwin (biography) — Good Article, 5 Feb. 2011

1947 BSAA Avro Lancastrian Star Dust accident (aviation)

— Good Article, 28 Sep. 2011

White Horse Prophecy (Mormon history)

— Did You Know?, 7 June 2010
Did you know ... that the White Horse Prophecy, attributed to Mormon founder Joseph Smith, is "not embraced as Church doctrine" by the Mormon Church?
— Good Article, 3 Dec. 2011

Minor v. Happersett (US voting rights case)

— Good Article, 30 June 2012

George E. Crothers (Stanford University alumnus and benefactor)

— Did You Know?, 11 August 2011
Did you know ... that Crothers Memorial Hall, one of two Stanford University dormitories funded by gifts from Judge George E. Crothers, was named in memory of the judge's mother?
— B-Class article, 13 Nov. 2011
— Good Article, 18 Jan. 2013

Icelandic Naming Committee

— Good Article, 27 June 2013

Keturah (Biblical personality)

— Good Article, 16 July 2015
— Did You Know?, 22 July 2015
Did you know ... that Keturah, the woman Abraham married after the death of Sarah, has been called "the most ignored significant person" in the Hebrew Bible?

Kawakita v. United States (US citizenship law and treason case)

— Good Article, 23 October 2015
Did you know ... that Tomoya Kawakita, a Japanese-American convicted of treason against the United States after World War II, was arrested after a former POW recognized him in a Los Angeles department store?

Georgian numerals (linguistics)

— Did You Know?, 14 February 2012
Did you know ... that the names of numbers in Georgian are constructed in part using a base-20 system?

Calvin's Case (English nationality law case)

— Did You Know?, 21 May 2012
Did you know ... that Calvin's Case, an English legal case from 1608, helped establish the principle of birth on American soil as the primary means of acquiring United States citizenship at birth?

Nguyen v. INS (US citizenship law case)

— Did You Know?, 1 June 2012
Did you know ... that in Nguyen v. INS, the US Supreme Court upheld a law making it harder for a foreign-born illegitimate child to inherit US citizenship from the father than from the mother?

In the news (on Wikipedia front page)

Katyn massacre (WWII Soviet atrocity)

— In the News, 26 Nov. – 2 Dec. 2010
In the News: The Russian State Duma declares Joseph Stalin and other officials of the Soviet Union to have been responsible for the 1940 Katyn massacre.


Did You Know reviewing activity

(see this page for details on my DYK history)

Articles which I started,
or where I did a major rewrite

1947 BSAA Avro Lancastrian Star Dust accident (aviation)

Afroyim v. Rusk (US citizenship law case)

Calvin's Case (English nationality law case)

George E. Crothers (Stanford University alumnus and benefactor)

Georgian numerals (linguistics)

Icelandic Naming Committee

Kawakita v. United States (US citizenship law and treason case)

Keturah (Biblical personality)

Minor v. Happersett (US voting rights case)

Nguyen v. INS (US citizenship law case)

United States v. Wong Kim Ark (US citizenship law case)

Vance v. Terrazas (US citizenship law case)

White Horse Prophecy (Mormon history)


Other articles where I have
made significant contributions
(ongoing involvement with keeping the article neutral — especially concerning the question of whether the expression "anchor baby" is derogatory or not)
(ongoing involvement with keeping the article neutral — especially concerning the treatment of the Wong Kim Ark case and questions about the original intent of the 14th Amendment)
(did extensive copy-editing on this article for the July 2010 GOCE cleanup)

Katyn massacre (Soviet atrocity during World War II)

(added a fact which caused the article to appear in "In the News", 26 Nov. – 2 Dec. 2010)

Leal Garcia v. Texas (US criminal law / international law case)

(suggested the hook that was ultimately used when this article appeared in "Did You Know?" on 5 August 2011)
(ongoing involvement with keeping the article neutral — especially concerning the Founding Fathers' original intent and controversies over the presidential eligibility of Barack Obama)
(replaced all photos in the article with new versions showing better technique on 22 September 2014)

Steve Irwin (became a "Good Article" on 5 February 2011)


Some controversies where I've been heavily involved

Current / Recent:

Past (probably won't return to these):

Some of my future plans

Work toward Featured Article status:
Korean Air Lines Flight 007

(clean up per 2009 failed Featured Article candidacy)

Steve Irwin (clean up citations, get a peer review)

Work toward Good Article status:

(the court case — eligibility for US naturalization)

Calvin's Case (English allegiance law)

Add more information, sources, and inline citations:

Nguyen v. INS (US citizenship by descent)

Create new articles:

(off-label use of prescription medication)


Some other articles
which I pay special attention to

Articles about people with whom I have/had a personal connection (I generally avoid editing these articles):

 † Carlfred Broderick (USC sociology professor)
 † Ariel Bybee (operatic singer)

 † Tom Lantos (politician, human rights advocate)

 † Diane Ellingson Smith (gymnast and motivational speaker)

Other articles:

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