User:JackTheVicar/sandbox

Current projects

Drafts in sandboxes

• SANDBOX-0 - Checklist for work on New Jersey State Parks articles (ONGOING/LONG-TERM PROJECT)
• SANDBOX-1 - Keen's Mill Brook (so small, technically VACANT)
• SANDBOX-2 - Newton Town Plot Historic District and Template:Newton Town Plot Historic District and Template:Newton, New Jersey (new)
• SANDBOX-3 - VACANT
• SANDBOX-4 - VACANT
• SANDBOX-5 - Kittatinny Mountain (rewrite)
• SANDBOX-6 - Pork Roll (rewrite)
• SANDBOX-7 - Highlands Trail (new, start from scratch)
• SANDBOX-8 - Sussex County, New Jersey (rewrite)
• SANDBOX-9 - Lia Romeo (new)

• Coming up: Wallpack Ridge, Flat Brook, User:JackTheVicar/List of NWCG courses

Work on articles

Works recognised

• Lake Neepaulin
• Neepaulakating Creek
• Christ Church, Newton

Articles created and improved

• SOON: Kittatinny Mountain • Sussex County, New Jersey • Newton, New Jersey

DYK

• Counting tool: [http://stats.grok.se/en/201005/John_McLaughlin_(artist)

#	Article	Hook	Image	Date	Views	Image views
1	Christ Church, Newton	... that on August 15, 1774, Christ Church, Newton (pictured), an episcopal church in Newton, New Jersey, was given a charter by Royal Governor William Franklin on behalf of Britain's King George III?		7 May 2015	2,958	1,427
2	Neepaulakating Creek	... that before the name Neepaulakating Creek was adopted in 2004, a New Jersey state engineer checked the internet, maps, and government and historical documents to ensure it had not already been named?	not used	21 July 2015	1,631	N/A
3	Lake Neepaulin	... that Lake Neepaulin (pictured) in Wantage Township, New Jersey was named after a combination of the original developers childrens' names?	not used	4 August 2015	914	N/A
4	Malcolm Guite	... that the poet Malcolm Guite who grew up in Nigeria, Canada, and England, decided he belonged in England partly after discovering real ale—something "they don’t have properly in Canada at all"?	not used	27 August 2015	1,511	N/A
5	New Jersey Forest Fire Service	... that a New Jersey Forest Fire Service firewarden has the authority under state law to summon any person age 18 to 50 to assist in putting out wildfires—and it's against the law to refuse?	not used	4 September 2015	46,406	N/A
6	Michael Derrick Hudson	... that the American poet Michael Derrick Hudson, a white man from Fort Wayne, Indiana, published a poem under the Chinese pseudonym "Yi-Fen Chou", igniting a heated debate in the literary world?	none	29 September 2015	4,810	N/A
7	List of New Jersey wildlife management areas	... that the New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife manages over 354,000 acres (1,430 km2) of land as wildlife management areas?	not used	2 November 2015	-	N/A
8	Papakating Creek	... that the Papakating Creek watershed offers wetland habitats for the endangered bog turtle and rare Fraser's Saint John's wort (pictured)?		pending	-	-

Articles reviewed

• GAN: • 2015: Nescopeck Mountain (GA1) • Erforsche mich, Gott, und erfahre mein Herz, BWV 136 (GA1) • Presbyterian Church in the United States of America (GA1) •

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Future Projects

Recognition sought (DYK/GAN/FAC)

• GAN: Malcolm Guite — Talk:Malcolm Guite/GA1
• GAN: New Jersey Forest Fire Service — Talk:New Jersey Forest Fire Service/GA1
• GAN: Sussex County Community College — Talk:Sussex County Community College/GA1
• GAN: Swartswood State Park — Talk:Swartswood State Park/GA1
• GAN: Papakating Creek — Talk:Papakating Creek/GA1
• GAN: Michael Derrick Hudson — Talk:Michael Derrick Hudson/GA1
• FAC: Christ Church, Newton — Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Christ Church, Newton/archive1
• DYK: Template:Did you know nominations/Papakating Creek
• DYK: Template:Did you know nominations/List of New Jersey wildlife management areas

Stuff I'd like to do

Kittatinny Valley • Delaware River • New York-New Jersey Highlands • Sparta Mountain • Allamuchy Mountain • Wawayanda Mountain • Pochuck Mountain • Hamburg Mountain • Pimple Hills • Flat Brook • Dunnfield Creek • Paulins Kill • Pequest River • Wallkill River • Newton Town Plot Historic District • Moody's Rock • Sylvester Graham • Joseph Stagg Lawrence (1896-1950) • Tranquility Cemetery • William Laud • Cardinal Wolsey • Thorough •

NJFFS template -- List of New Jersey wildfires • Bass River Fire (1936) • Bass River Fire (1977) • Dunnfield Creek Fire (1976) • Mount Tammany Fire Road • Sunfish Fire Road • Dunnfield Creek Fire Road • List of NJFFS sections

Work on list article and other NJ state parks. Separate some NJ state parks from bad merges, e.g. Fort Mott State Park, High Point State Park, Edison Tower article merge into Edison State Park. Acquire photos. List of New Jersey wildlife management areas +

Homer • Gifford Pinchot • John Forbes Nash, Jr. • Pulaski •

Alcohol-related fatalities

• Advocaat - spilled on JN in the Shining, DIEC sailors added rum to an advocado smoothie. now cross between eggnog and custard.
• Schelvispekel - Fish pickle, H. Van Toor? Dutch spiced brandy
• Corinwijn - barrel aged juniper/gin tastes like scotch

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• Newton NJ January 1905 blizzard from Spring Street
  Newton NJ January 1905 blizzard from Spring Street
• Brigflatts Quaker Meeting, Cumbria, UK
  Brigflatts Quaker Meeting, Cumbria, UK
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  Batsto Mansion with Fire Tower NJFFS
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  Merriam Avenue Elementary School Newton NJ
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  Saint Joseph's Regional School Newton NJ
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  First Baptist Church, Newton NJ
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  Methodist Church Newton NJ SW
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  Methodist Church Newton NJ NW
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  Covenant Reformed Church Newton NJ
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  Spring Street near Jefferson Street, Newton Nj
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  Spring Street, Newton NJ
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  Sussex County Administration Building, Newton NJ
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  Municipal Building, Trinity Street, Newton NJ
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  Halsted Street Middle School Newton NJ
• E. Cresswell Baber thimble tongue depressor
  E. Cresswell Baber thimble tongue depressor
• RA's poetry, NYC Penn Station
  RA's poetry, NYC Penn Station
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  ONBG grave Maj Richard Boyd d.1792 with winged cherub
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  ONBG grave Thomas Oakley Anderson and wife Delia
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  ONBG grave, Job S. Halsted and wife
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  view of ONBG
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  ONBG grave Rev Dr Joseph L Shafer
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  Father Time medallion, gates, Old Newton Burial Ground
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  Gates, Old Newton Burial Ground
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  Christ Church, lancet window, Good Samaritan and Prodigal Son
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  Christ Church seen from NE
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  Thomas Anderson House 1785
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  1774 charter for Christ Church, Newton
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  interior of Christ Church, Newton
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  Christ Church from across Main Street
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  1770 Old Parsonage, Newton NJ
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  Christ Church, Newton, c. Winter 1910
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  Title page, Richard Crashaw's Steps to the Temple (1646)