User:Chiswick Chap/Articles
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 635 articles to Good and Featured Article status as nominator. Another 61 GA/FA articles are included here: most are co-nominated GANs and FACs that I helped on their way, along with a dozen rescues at GAR and FAR, for a total of 696.
Agriculture
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- By country
- Agriculture in Alaska (rescue)
- Agriculture in Wales (
small contrib)
- Women in agriculture in the United Kingdom *
- Animal husbandry
(DYK 2693, collab)
- Cattle
- Chicken
- Domestic duck (fatten up a bit)
(DYK 4656)
- Pig
- Meat (trim a lot of fat)
- Cattle
- Pests and diseases
- Biological pest control
(collab)
- Pest
(collab)
- Plant disease *
- Plant pathology (spray, split)
- Biological pest control
- Systems
- Crop diversity
- Crop rotation
- Hydrogel agriculture (rescue)
- Permaculture (a little, er, cautious pruning...)
- Crop diversity
Animals
[edit]- Groups
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ANIMAL (collab)
INVERTEBRATES
- Barnacle
- Centipede
- Cestoda
(collab)
- Cirolana * named for mistress Carolina, tsk tsk
- Echinoderm
- Jellyfish
(collab)
- Leech
(collab)
- Mite
(collab)
- Octopus
(collab)
- Scorpion
(collab)
- Sea urchin
(collab)
- Squid
(collab)
- Starfish
(collab)
- Tick
(collab)
- Antlion (DYK
collab)
- Aphid
(collab)
- Bee
(collab)
- Beetle
(collab)
- Bumblebee (DYK 6080
(collab)
- Butterfly
(collab)
- Caddisfly
(collab)
- Cicada
(collab)
- Cimicidae
(collab)
- Cockroach (DYK 5830
collab)
- Cricket (DYK 2799
collab)
- Damselfly (DYK 2069
collab)
- Dragonfly (DYK 2775
collab)
- Webspinner (
collab)
- Firefly
- Flea
(collab)
- Fly (DYK 2811
collab)
- Grasshopper (
collab)
- Hemiptera
(collab)
- Horse-fly (DYK 9604
collab}
- Ladybird
- Locust (DYK 2759
collab)
- Louse
(collab)
- Mantis (
collab)
- Mayfly (DYK 8442
collab)
- Mole cricket
(collab)
- Mosquito
- Owlfly
- Sawfly
(collab)
- Scale insect
(collab)
- Scorpionfly
(collab)
- Snakefly
(collab)
- Stick insect (DYK 2742
collab)
- Thrips
(collab)
- Wasp
(collab)
- Bat
(collab)
- Bear
(collab) (DYK)
- Crocodilia (DYK 2456
collab)
- Fish
- Teleost
(collab)
- Electric eel (
collab; featured 63,736)
- Electric eel (
- Teleost
- Tube-nose
(orphaned nom)
- Rodent
(collab)
- Salamander
(collab)
- Turtle
(collab) (TFA 52,185)
- Individual species
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- Anthidium florentinum
- Ammophila sabulosa *
(DYK, 3750)
- Anopheles
- Athous haemorrhoidalis (from stub) (DYK)
- Chimpanzee
- Cirolana cranchii * (named for a girlfriend, and a friend, how could I resist)
- Common pine sawfly *
- Grey heron
(collab)
- Greylag goose
(collab)
- Echinaster sepositus *
- Eurasian bittern
(collab)
- European hare (
collab)
- Housefly
(collab)
- Hymenopus coronatus
- Iris sawfly * (DYK, 750)
- Leithia *
- Libelloides macaronius *
- Little owl
(collab)
- Myrmecoris gracilis *
- Olive baboon
(minor)
- Otocephala *
- Platycnemis acutipennis *
- Pseudocreobotra ocellata *
- Spanish fly
- Parymenopus davisoni *
- Pine processionary
- Red Crossbill
- Venus dione (what was Linnaeus up to)
- Tiger
(collab)
- Vulgichneumon saturatorius *
Artists
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- Christophe Annedouche *
- Gordon Anthony (photographer) *
- Elmer Russell Ball *
- Philibert Charles Berjeau *
- Berry F. Berry *
- Elis Chiewitz * (transla)
- Henrique Alvim Corréa *
- Cyrus Cuneo *
- John Donowell (from stub)
- Paul Frenzeny *
- Alexander Fussell *
- Edward Hargitt (all the refs)
- Thomas Erat Harrison *
- William Hatherell *
- Herbert Hendrie *
- Auguste Hervieu *
- Wallace Hester *
- James Humphries Hogan *
- Christian Gottlieb Kratzenstein Stub * (from Danish)
- Edward Killingworth Johnson *
- Louis Legrand (DYK)
- Edmund Leighton (from ... stub)
- James Mahony *
- Johan Fredrik Martin *
- Peter Mazell * (DYK, 1094)
- John de Mirjian *
- Willem Ormea *
- Gustave Pellet * (DYK)
- Peter Paillou (the younger) *
- Harold H. Piffard (of Chiswick) (from stub)
(DYK 10,649)
- Burnell Poole *
- Jean-Gabriel Prêtre *
- Augustus Prinsep *
- E. W. Robinson *
- Hester Sainsbury *
- Pierre Jacques Smit *
- David Watson Stevenson *
- James Hope Stewart *
- Joseph Ratcliffe Skelton *
- John Thompson (engraver) *
- Manfred Trautschold *
- George Fiddes Watt *
- George Walker - The Costume of Yorkshire *
- Henry Tanworth Wells *
- William Wilson (artist) *
- T. W. Wood * (DYK, 5502)
- Johann Baptist Zwecker *
Biology
[edit]- Ediacaran biota (FA)
- Eukaryogenesis *
- Eukaryote (refs and axework)
- Slime mold
- Stramenopile
(got Heterokont merged into its synonym...)
- Slime mold
- Last universal common ancestor (LUCA)
(DYK 17,491)
- Pseudo-panspermia *
- Symbiogenesis
- EVOLUTION
- Adaptation
- Baldwin effect
- Cleaning symbiosis *
(DYK, 8569)
- Coevolution
rewritten
- Convergent evolution
- Function
- Genetic assimilation
- Homology
- Lamarckism
- Mutation
- Timeline of fish evolution * (split from Evo. of fish)
- Tree of life
(DYK 7422)
- Coloration evidence for natural selection *
- Group selection
- Industrial melanism *
- Kin selection
- Peppered moth evolution
- Sexual selection
- Heterochrony
- Neoteny (a little history)
- Aggregated distribution *
- Brood parasite
- Host
- Host-parasite coevolution
- Kleptoparasitism
- Parasitoid
- Parasitoid wasp
- Flagship species
- Hybrid
- Invasive species
(rescued at GAR)
- Keystone species
- Umbrella species
- ETHOLOGY (study of Animal behaviour)
- Animal migration
- Animal navigation *
(DYK, 1032)
- Bird migration
- Chemical communication in insects *
- Deimatic behaviour *
(DYK, 3226)
- Dominance hierarchy
- Eusociality
- Handicap principle
- Insect flight
- Lek mating
- Parental care *
- Signalling theory
- Stotting
- SPECIAL SENSES
- Ampullae of Lorenzini
- Animal echolocation
- Electric fish (rewritten)
- Electric organ (fish)
(DYK, 4930)
- Electroreception and electrogenesis (rewritten)
- Jamming avoidance response
- Lateral line
- Magnetoreception (rewritten)
(DYK, 9316)
This section is an offshoot of work on camouflage; of course, it's mainly evolutionary biology, how could it not be.
- Advertising in biology *
- Aposematism
- Bioluminescence
- Chromatophore
- Structural coloration *
(DYK, 5125)
- Aggressive mimicry
- Ant mimicry
- Automimicry
- Batesian mimicry
- Deception in animals (reorg)
- Müllerian mimicry
- Emsleyan mimicry * (split and extend)
- Eyespot (mimicry)
- Gilbertian mimicry * $$$
- In plants
- Pouyannian mimicry *
- Vavilovian mimicry
- INJURY *
- PLANT (rewritten)
- Flowering plant (rewritten)
- Cucurbita (
collab)
- Medicinal plants
- Oak (planed, polished, ...)
- Tree
(collab)
- Iris persica (rescue)
- Melastoma polyanthum *
- Other topics
- Anatomy
(collab)
- Biological rules * $$$
- Cell
- Microorganism
- Organism
- Plasmodium (a lot of sweeping up; it reached GA eventually)
- Books
Inspiring books, written by excellent speakers too, by the way.
- The Compatibility Gene (Dan Davis) *
- Endless Forms Most Beautiful (Sean B. Carroll)
- How the Snake Lost Its Legs (Lewis Held, thanked me) *
- Sociobiology: The New Synthesis (E. O. Wilson)
- The Vital Question (Nick Lane) *
- Ontogeny and Phylogeny (Stephen Jay Gould)
- Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness (Peter Godfrey-Smith) *
- Who We Are and How We Got Here (David Reich) *
- People
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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.
- Lincoln Brower *
- Tim Caro *
- Sean B. Carroll
- George F. Edmunds * (mayfly specialist)
- R. A. Fisher
- Michael Ghiselin
- Alister Hardy
- Peter Herring * (a well-named marine biologist)
- Steven Haddock * (ditto)
- Wilson R. Lourenço * (scorpion specialist)
- Joanna Masel *
- Konstantin Mereschkowski
- Lavater brothers *
- Robert Poulin *
- Carl Sachs *
- D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
- Jay Traver (whole biography)
- Alfred Russel Wallace (rescued at FAR)
- James Wood-Mason (DYK 725)
- Conservation
Camouflage
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- List of camouflage methods *
8380
- Active camouflage
- Counter-illumination
- Countershading
- Disruptive coloration *
- Distractive markings *
- Motion camouflage
- Self-decoration camouflage *
- Snow camouflage *
- Decorator crab (DYK 3863)
- Flower mantis
- Underwater camouflage
- Aircraft camouflage
- Adaptiv * (DYK, 5482)
- Dazzle camouflage
- Diffused lighting camouflage *
- German World War II camouflage patterns
- List of military clothing camouflage patterns
- Multi-spectral camouflage
- Multi-scale camouflage (* from stub)
- Ship camouflage
- Yehudi lights
- Histories
- Middle East Command Camouflage Directorate *
- Operation Bertram *
(DYK, 13734)
- Russian military deception
- Books
- Cott's Adaptive Coloration in Animals (1940) *
(DYK, 1768)
- Beddard's Animal Coloration (1892 book) *
- Poulton's The Colours of Animals (1890) *
(DYK, 1434)
- Thayer's Concealing-Coloration in the Animal Kingdom (1909) *
(DYK, 9701, not bad for a 100 year old book)
- Forbes's Dazzled and Deceived: Mimicry and Camouflage (2009) *
- CAMOUFLEURS * (DYK, 3133)
- Alan Sorrell
- André Mare
- Tony Ayrton *
- Geoffrey Barkas *
- Roy Behrens *
- John Codner *
- Hugh B. Cott *
- Innes Cuthill *
- Louis Guingot * (from French)
- Jasper Maskelyne
- Leon Underwood
- Roland Penrose
- Peter Proud *
- Brian Robb *
- Thomas N. Sherratt *
- Martin Stevens (biologist) *
- Steven Sykes (artist) *
- Julian Trevelyan
- Timothy O'Neill *
Cookery
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- Books
- The Cookery Book of Lady Clark of Tillypronie *
- The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy *
- The Experienced English Housekeeper *
- The Compleat Housewife *
- Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management
- A Book of Mediterranean Food *
- Modern Cookery for Private Families *
- A New System of Domestic Cookery *
DYK
- Elinor Fettiplace's Receipt Book *
- The Modern Cook *
- The Good Huswifes Jewell *
- The Accomplisht Cook *
- The Cooks and Confectioners Dictionary *
- The Queen-like Closet, Or, Rich Cabinet *
- The Closet of the Eminently Learned Sir Kenelme Digbie Kt. Opened *
- The English Huswife *
- The English Art of Cookery *
- A History of English Food *
- How to Eat *
- Food in England *
- Food and drink
- People
Culture
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- Things
- Andromeda (mythology) - (sourced, rewritten)
- Astrology
(yeah... Tay Whale)
- Batik
(2014...)
- Batik in Indonesia * (splitting out accretions)
- British industrial architecture *
- British Queen Anne Revival architecture *
- CRON-diet (rewrite after near-deletion: point is, MEDRS isn't the whole story)
- Fashion in Film Festival (Barnstar)
- Heller Furniture (rescued, rewritten)
- McKim, Mead & White (a lot of sortable tables)
- Metric system
(rescued at GAR)
- Moscow Strikes Back
- Religious tourism (totally rewritten, every word)
- Sea in culture *
- Sheiling * (DYK, 25,734)
- War film
- White Aethiopians
(my first Barnstar)
- Music
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- Dance
- Dancers
- Bernhard Wosien * (from German)
- Marguerite Agniel *
- Gabrielle Roth
- Ruth St. Denis
- Grete Wiesenthal
- People
- Shajar al-Durr
- Nigel Barley (anthropologist) (rewritten)
- Séverin Cafferra *
- Thomas Carlyle * (DYK)
- Gary Gygax (rescued from the dark dungeons of GAR)
- Heinz Grill *
- Robin Hanbury-Tenison *
- Gabriel García Márquez
- Sheila Paine *
- Steven Pinker
(orphaned nom)
- D. Fairchild Ruggles *
- Saba Sahar * (a 'Woman in Red')
- Berthe Weill (Barnstar)
- Places
- All Saints' Church, Tudeley (images)
- Canterbury
(saved at GAR)
- Corrieyairack Pass (images, map)
- Cott Inn *
- Latymer Upper School
- Mir Samir (DYK, 1023) *
- Uttar Pradesh
(saved at GAR)
- Whitley Castle *
(DYK, 7793)
- Winchester College (refs, architecture)
- Architecture of Winchester College *
- James Sabben-Clare *
- Old Wykehamists
- Notions (Winchester College)
- Winchester College in fiction *
- Winchester College football (nearly all the refs)
- New College, Oxford
- St Catherine's Hill (history, ecology)
Chiswick
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CHISWICK (yeah.... Augean Stables)
- Acton Green (DYK 2559)
- Duke of Sussex *
(DYK 6418)
- St Alban's, Acton Green *
- Duke of Sussex *
- Bedford Park (rewritten and reillustrated)
- Architecture of Bedford Park *
- Jonathan Carr (from stub, DYK 10,596)
- St Michael and All Angels *
- The Tabard
- Architecture of Bedford Park *
- Chiswick High Road *
- Old Chiswick *
- Chiswick House
- Chiswick House Gardens * (just by splitting; it's a mess, needs much work)
- Chiswick Mall *
- St Nicholas Church *
- Chiswick House
- Grove Park, Chiswick
- Dukes Meadows
(DYK 4587)
- Dukes Meadows Footbridge *
- Little Sutton *
- St Michael's Church *
- Dukes Meadows
- Strand-on-the-Green
- Turnham Green
Living things in culture
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- Fungi in culture *
- Plants in culture *
- Microbes in culture *
- Tuberculosis in culture (rescue, rewrite)
- Tuberculosis in culture (rescue, rewrite)
- Epithet series
- Other
Literature
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- Kipling
- Explorers and travellers
- Arabian Sands
- A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush
(DYK, 3017)
- The Mint
- Jay Griffiths (doubled, with "Woodwise's" help...)
- Raynor Winn
- Zoom! *
- Kid (rewritten)
- Book of Matches (rewritten)
- Magnetic Field: The Marsden Poems *
- Walking Home: Travels with a Troubadour on the Pennine Way *
- Other good things
- Green Knight (saved at GAR)
- Kalīla wa-Dimna
- The Leopard
- The Outrun * (by Amy Liptrot)
- Beatrix Potter
- The Tale of Peter Rabbit (saved from Mr McGregor at GAR)
- The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck
- The Tale of Peter Rabbit (saved from Mr McGregor at GAR)
- Strandloper (uncited for 13 years...)
- The Manchester Rambler * (DYK, 1643)
- The Perennial Philosophy
- Inside the Wave * (Helen Dunmore)
- A Voyage to Arcturus (reviews)
- The Midwich Cuckoos (reviews)
- The tale of Phyllis and Aristotle *
- The Divine Comedy in popular culture (tighten, refs)
- Uprooted (by Naomi Novik)
- The Defence of Duffer's Drift (by Ernest Swinton)
Mathematics and art
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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)
- Droste effect
- Mathematics and architecture
(rewrite)
- M. C. Escher
(rewrite)
- Tessellation
(rewrite)
- PATTERNS IN NATURE *
(DYK, 17181)
- The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants
- On Growth and Form (1917) *
- Margaret Wertheim (Crochet Coral Reef) (reworked)
- Islamic
- Islamic ornament *
- Girih
- Islamic embroidery *
- Islamic geometric patterns
(rewrite)
- Kilim motifs *
- Girih
- Science in the medieval Islamic world
(rewrite)
Natural history
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- Topics
- Birding in Chennai (now that was a lot of wiki links)
- Catena *
- Desert (
collab)
- Kayoa (island) * (DYK, 1992)
- List of parson-naturalists *
- ROSS EXPEDITION *
- Sea
(DYK, collab, 12245) palaver
- People
- Jean de Saint-Amand
- Thomas Bewick
- Helena Cronin
- Arthur Dendy * (more or less a dare)
- Johann Jacob Dillenius (Historia muscarum images)
- William George Hoskins (and the English Landscape...)
- John Lightfoot (biologist) (DYK, 1152)
- Richard Lydekker (and the first Cuckoo...)
- William Markwick *(DYK, 725)
- Thomas Pennant (
, DYK collab, 220)
- Sydney Barber Josiah Skertchly * (DYK, 588)
- William Yarrell
- Books
- De materia medica (c. 70–90) *
(DYK)
- Etymologiae
- Histoire Naturelle (1749–1804) * (transla, extended)
- History of Animals (c. 350 BC) *
- History of British Birds (1804) *
(DYK, 2287)
- History of British Birds (1843) *
(DYK, 739)
- Historia Plantarum (Theophrastus) (c. 390-287 BC) *
- The Malay Archipelago (1869) *
(rewritten, DYK 3782)
- The Making of the English Landscape (1955) *
(DYK 1478)
- The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne (1789)
(reworked)
- Natural History (Pliny) (c. 79) *
(DYK 6442, pretty good for 2000 yrs old)
- The Naturalist on the River Amazons (1863) *
(rewritten, DYK 3051)
- Natural Theology or Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity (1802) *
- Ornithological Dictionary; or Alphabetical Synopsis of British Birds (1802) *
- Philosophie Zoologique (1809)
- Le Règne Animal (1817) *
Scandinaviana
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"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.
- Bacchi Tempel *
- Par Bricole * (transla)
- Ulla Winblad
- Paul Britten Austin *
- Carina Burman
- Martin Bagge * (transla)
- Lars Lönnroth (transla)
- Charles Wharton Stork *
- FREDMANS EPISTLAR
- Ep. 2 Nå skruva Fiolen
- Ep. 3 Fader Berg i hornet stöter *
- Ep. 5 Käre bröder, så låtom oss supa i frid *
- Ep. 7 Fram med basfiolen, knäpp och skruva *
- Ep. 9 Käraste Bröder Systrar och Vänner *
- Ep. 12 Gråt Fader Berg och spela *
- Ep. 23 Ack du min moder *
- Ep. 24 Kära syster *
- Ep. 28 I går såg jag ditt barn, min Fröja *
- Ep. 33 Stolta Stad! *
- Ep. 35 Bröderna fara väl vilse ibland *
- Ep. 36 Vår Ulla låg i sängen och sov *
- Ep. 40 Ge rum i Bröllopsgåln din hund! *
(DYK 3590)
- Ep. 43 Värm mer Öl och Bröd *
- Ep. 45 Tjenare Mollberg, hur är det fatt? *
- Ep. 48 Solen glimmar blank och trind *
- Ep. 51 Movitz blåste en konsert *
- Ep. 63 Fader Bergström *
- Ep. 71 Ulla, min Ulla, säj, får jag dig bjuda *
- Ep. 72 Glimmande nymf *
- Ep. 79 Charon i Luren tutar *
- Ep. 80 Liksom en Herdinna, högtids klädd *
- Ep. 82 Hvila vid denna källa *
- Ep. 2 Nå skruva Fiolen
- FREDMANS SÅNGER
- S. 6 Hör klockorna med ängsligt dån *
- S. 21 Så lunka vi så småningom *
- S. 31 Opp Amaryllis! *
- S. 32 Träd fram du Nattens Gud *
- S. 35 Gubben Noak (uniquely, both a Bellman and a Tolkien article)
- S. 64 Fjäriln vingad syns på Haga *
- S. 6 Hör klockorna med ängsligt dån *
- MUSIC
- Sjofn * (my first one)
- Mari Boine
- Gula Gula * (after 10 years)
- Marimekko
- Maija Isola (rescued 2011)
- Maija Isola (rescued 2011)
- LITERATURE
- Jan Gullberg
- Eyvind Johnson
- Return to Ithaca (* from stub)
- Astrid Lindgren
- Sven Lindqvist (works)
- Kristina Lugn (all the refs)
- Tove Jansson
(DYK 13,093)
Iron and steel
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- Bolckow Vaughan *
(DYK, 1492)
- John Vaughan (ironmaster)
- John Marley (mining engineer) *
(DYK, 5839)
- John Joseph Bramah *
- Consett Iron Company (DYK, 7307)
- Aaron Manby (ironmaster) * (DYK, 1096)
- Losh, Wilson and Bell *
(DYK, 429)
- Isaac Lowthian Bell (DYK, 2480)
- Hugh Lee Pattinson * (DYK, 3534)
- Robert Benson Bowman *
- Isaac Lowthian Bell (DYK, 2480)
- Roots Blower Company * (DYK, 3133)
- Vulcan Iron Works
- and see Robinson Thwaites
History and philosophy of science
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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
- Alfred Russel Wallace
- Alfred Russel Wallace centenary * (DYK 3798 on 7.11.2013)
- Darwinism (1889)
- Alternatives to Darwinian evolution *
- Aristotle (rewrite)
- Aristotle's biology *
- Biological determinism (rewrite)
- Blending inheritance (rewrite)
- Eclipse of Darwinism
- History of bioelectricity *
- Lysenkoism
- Monad to man: the concept of progress in evolutionary biology *
- Modern synthesis (20th century) (rewrite)
- Mutationism (rewritten as history)
- Orthogenesis (rewrite)
- Ross expedition *
- Spontaneous generation
- Structuralism
- Teleology in biology *
- Vitalism
- Pseudophysics
Beowulf
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- BEOWULF
- Beowulf and Middle-earth *
(TFA 70,355, or 86,727 over 4 days)
- "Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics" *
- The dragon (Beowulf)
- "On Translating Beowulf" *
- Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary
- Heaneywulf
- Translating Beowulf *
- List of translations of Beowulf * (inc. before 1963!)
- E. Talbot Donaldson *
- Hugh Magennis *
- Martin Rundkvist *
(collab) (TFA 39,692)
- A. Diedrich Wackerbarth *
- Wiglaf
Tolkien
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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 the old articles are now a great deal better-cited, while the unciteable ones aren't around any more. At least 125 new (*) articles (including half-a-dozen phoenixes) and some 200 GAs and FAs, not counting the 4 Tolkien/Beowulf ones. The old articles were basically all in-universe; the new ones are thematic and analytic, summarizing a now-vast body of international Tolkien scholarship.
- Scholars and their books
- Bogstad & Kaveny
- Nicholas Birns *
- Marjorie Burns
- Stratford Caldecott
- Lin Carter, not a scholar
- Jane Chance
- Janet Brennan Croft
- Tolkien on Film * $$$
- Patrick Curry (* phoenix: had been double-deleted)
- Jonathan Evans *
- Helge Fauskanger *
- Vincent Ferré *
- Dimitra Fimi
- Jason Fisher *
- Verlyn Flieger
- A Question of Time * $$$
- Karen Wynn Fonstad
- John Garth *
- Glen GoodKnight *
- Thomas Honegger *
- Carl F. Hostetter
- Paul H. Kocher
- Stuart D. Lee *
- A Companion to J. R. R. Tolkien * (DYK 4879)
(collab)
- A Companion to J. R. R. Tolkien * (DYK 4879)
- ———, with Elizabeth Solopova (rescued)
- Tom Loback *
- Jared Lobdell *
- Michael Martinez *
- Catherine McIlwaine *
- Gergely Nagy *
- Corey Olsen
- Holly Ordway *
- Helmut W. Pesch * (from German)
- John D. Rateliff
- Robin Anne Reid *
- Brian Rosebury
- Fleming Rutledge (Tolkien section)
- Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond
- The J. R. R. Tolkien Companion and Guide (rewritten, structure, reviews)
- Tom Shippey
- Sandra Ballif Straubhaar *
- Christopher Tolkien
- Allan Turner *
- Richard C. West *
- Hamish Williams
- Ralph C. Wood *
- Rose Zimbardo and Neil D. Isaacs
- Philology
- Bagme Bloma * (the only poem ever written in Gothic)
MIDDLE-EARTH (End-of-Age-scale reshaping)
THE HOBBIT (already GA, needed work)
- Places
- People
- Celebrimbor * (resurrect the wraith)
- Eärendil and Elwing
- Elendil *
(DYK 9778, mentioned in dispatches)
- Fëanor
- Fingolfin *
- Finwë and Míriel (* phoenix)
- Gil-galad (* phoenix)
- Glorfindel
- Húrin
- Isildur
(DYK 15,187, mentioned in dispatches)
- Lúthien and Beren
- Melian
- Morgoth
- Thingol (Elwë)
- Tuor and Idril
- Túrin Turambar
- Ungoliant
- The Fellowship of the Ring
- The Two Towers
- The Return of the King
- "The Scouring of the Shire" (rescued)
- "The Tale of Aragorn and Arwen" (* phoenix)
- "The Scouring of the Shire" (rescued)
- Artists and actors
- Pauline Baynes
- Cor Blok *
- Ian Holm
- Alexander Korotich * (from Russian, and yes, all the refs)
- Christopher Lee (a lot of tidying-up)
- Ted Nasmith (desc, refs)
- The Tolkien Ensemble
- An Evening in Rivendell (reception)
- Elijah Wood
- Storytelling
- Constructing The Lord of the Rings *
- Elvish Languages
- A Mythology for England *
- Tolkien's impact on fantasy *
- Literary reception (rewritten)
- "On Fairy-Stories"
- Unfinished Tales (reviews)
- Middle-earth in motion pictures
- Peter Jackson's interpretation *
- Music of The Lord of the Rings films (rewrite)
- Production of The Lord of the Rings film series
- In Dreams (all the refs)
- Music of The Hobbit film series (ditto)
- Peter Jackson's interpretation *
- The Lord of the Rings (1955 radio series) (doubled, all the refs)
- The Lord of the Rings (1978 film)
(rescued at FAR)
- Khraniteli (1991 film) *
(DYK 7481)
- Hobitit (expand, img)
- Bored of the Rings
- The Last Ringbearer
- Tolkien fan fiction * $$$
- Translating The Lord of the Rings
- Into Russian
- Into Swedish
(rewritten)
- List of translations * (by splitting)
- Non-narrative elements
- Artwork *
- Family trees *
- Maps *
- Tolkien's poetry * $$$
- Proverbs *
- Scripts *
- Antiquarianism *
- Celtic *
- Classical world *
- Finnish *
- Modern *
- Modernism *
- Norse *
- Philology *
- First World War *
(DYK 5673)
- Character pairing *
- Dreams and visions *
- Editorial framing *
- Frame stories *
- Impression of depth *
- Narrative structure *
- Pseudotranslation *
- Addiction to power *
- Anachronism *
- Ancestry as guide to character *
- Architecture *
- Christianity *
- Cosmology (Arda-scale reshaping)
- Death and immortality *
- Decline and fall *
- Economy (from stub)
- England *
- Environmentalism *
- Evil * $$$
- Forests *
- Hell *
- Heroism *
- History of Arda
- Light *
- Luck and fate *
- Magic (rewritten)
- Medieval *
- Mental illness *
- Music *
- Named weapons *
- Northern courage *
- Paganism *
- Plants *
- Psychological journeys *
- Quests *
- Moral dilemma *
(DYK 12,048)
- Sexuality *
- Shakespeare * (DYK 9,769)
- Sound and language *
- Race *
- Trees *
- Women *
- Bree
- Gondor
- Minas Tirith * (phoenix)
- Minas Tirith * (phoenix)
- Harad
- Isengard
- Lonely Mountain (* phoenix)
- Lothlórien
- Mirkwood
- Mordor
- Moria
- Rivendell
- Rohan
- The Shire
- Bag End *
(DYK 10,550)
- Bag End *
- Races
- Balrogs
- Barrow-wights (* resurrect the undead)
- Dragons (awakened)
- Dwarves (major axework)
- Eagles
- Elves
- Half-elves (much working of spells)
- Noldor
- Half-elves (much working of spells)
- Ents (rewritten)
- Hobbits
- Men (regenerate)
- Tolkien's monsters *
- Nazgûl
- Orcs
- Trolls (rescued, almost turned to stone)
- Valar
- Wargs
- Wizards *
- People
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- Aragorn
- Arwen
- Balin
- Beorn
- Bilbo Baggins
- Boromir
- Denethor
- Elrond
- Éomer
- Éowyn
- Faramir (rewritten after prehistoric "GA")
- Frodo Baggins
- Galadriel
- Gandalf
- Gimli
- Goldberry
- Gollum
- Legolas
- Merry Brandybuck
- Old Man Willow *
- Pippin Took
- Radagast
- Sam Gamgee
- Sauron
- Shelob
- Smaug
- Théoden
- Thorin Oakenshield
- Tom Bombadil
- Thranduil
- Treebeard
- The Watcher in the Water
- Witch-king of Angmar (* phoenix)
- Wormtongue
- Events
- Battle of Helm's Deep
- Battle of the Pelennor Fields
- Battle of the Morannon
- Sundering of the Elves
(DYK 13,091)
- Objects
- Mithril
- One Ring
- Palantír
- Phial of Galadriel
- Red Book of Westmarch
- Rings of Power
- Silmarils
- Two Trees of Valinor
- Black Speech
(DYK 15,990)
- Khuzdul
- Sindarin
- Valarin * (resurrected, with sources this time)
- Westron *
- Misc.
- Farmer Giles of Ham
- "Leaf by Niggle"
- Smith of Wootton Major
- Nightfall in Middle-Earth by Blind Guardian
- The Battle of Evermore by Led Zeppelin
- Ramble On by Led Zeppelin
- Tolkien Calendars *
- Tolkienmoot (cut down by 4/5)
Victoriana
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- Bernard Granville Baker *
- Harrington Mann *
- John Major (publisher) *
- John Paget (author) *
- Major Rohde Hawkins * (DYK, 699)
- Royal Victoria Patriotic Building * (DYK, 998)
- Noël Marie Paymal Lerebours * (DYK, 805)
- Robert Hunter (Encyclopædist) *
- Stephen Hislop * (DYK, 708)
- Henry Scherren *
Yoga
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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).
- Ashtanga (eight limbs of yoga) * (split from Yoga Sutras)
- Haṭha yoga
- Dhauti (rewritten)
- Drishti (ended up rewritten)
- Kumbhaka (rewritten)
- Khecarī mudrā
- Vajroli mudra *
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ASANA (rewritten)
- Bhairavasana *
- Bidalasana *
- Bhujangasana
- Dvi Pada Sirsasana *
- Durvasasana *
- Eka Pada Rajakapotasana *
(rewritten)
- Gorakshasana *
- Jathara Parivartanasana *
- Kraunchasana *
- Kurmasana (rewritten)
- Lotus position
- Mandukasana *
- Meditative postures (reworked)
- Parsvottanāsana *
- Setu Bandha Sarvangasana *
- Shirshasana
- Siddhasana
- Viparita Karani
- Standing asanas *
- Natarajasana
- Parighasana *
- Prasarita Padottanasana *
- Virabhadrasana
(rewritten, all 3 poses)
- Natarajasana
- Tittibhasana *
- Trivikramasana *
- Upavishta Konasana *
- Utthita Padangusthasana *
- Vasisthasana *
- Viparita Dandasana (rewritten)
- Vriksasana
- Yoganidrasana *
- List of asanas (cleanup, 100 refs)
- Early modern yoga *
- Modern yoga gurus *
- Yoga tourism *
- Enlighten Up! *
- Guru (2006 film) * (on Jois)
- Siddha Yoga (sigh)
- Gurumayi Chidvilasananda (yeah)
- European Union of Yoga * (from draft)
- International Day of Yoga (rewritten)
- List of International Days of Yoga * (just by splitting)
- Post-lineage yoga *
- Science of yoga *
- Sexual abuse by yoga gurus *
- Yoga and cultural appropriation *
- Yoga in advertising *
- Yoga for children (rewritten)
- Yoga for women * (DYK, 1935)
- Yoga Journal
- Yoga nidra (rewritten)
- Yoga teacher training *
- Yoga brick *
- Yoga mat
(rewritten)
- Yoga pants
(rewritten)
Yoga as therapy (rewritten)
- Accessible yoga *
- Restorative yoga *
- Trauma-sensitive yoga (updated)
- Beer yoga (rewritten)
- Doga
(rewritten)
- Mindful Yoga *
- Naked yoga (rewritten)
- Paddle board yoga (rewritten, twice)
- Bikram Yoga (cleanup)
- Postures of Bikram Yoga * (split, reworked)
- Iyengar Yoga
(rewrite, nearly all the refs)
- Sivananda yoga
- Yin Yoga (reworked)
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- Yoga in America *
- Yoga in Britain *
- Yoga in France *
- Yoga in Germany *
- Postural yoga in India *
- Yoga in Italy *
- Yoga in Russia *
- Yoga in Sweden *
- Yoga pioneers
- Marguerite Agniel *
- Theos Bernard
- Bikram Choudhury (cleanup)
- Indra Devi (doubled)
- B. C. Ghosh *
- K. V. Iyer *
- K. Pattabhi Jois
- Swami Rama (convert hagio. to encyc.)
- Seetharaman Sundaram *
- Satyananda Saraswati (convert, as usual)
- Vishnudevananda Saraswati (ditto)
- Swami Satchidananda Saraswati (ditto)
- Beryl Bender Birch *
- Frank Jude Boccio *
- Stephen Cope * (and a scholar)
- Anne Cushman *
- Nischala Joy Devi *
- Mary Dunn (extended)
- Donna Farhi *
- Angela Farmer *
- Judith Hanson Lasater (extended)
- Janice Gates *
- Paul Grilley *
- Cyndi Lee *
- Sarah Powers *
- Shiva Rea *
- Matthew Remski (collab)
- Richard Rosen *
- Joseph Alter *
- Jason Birch *
- Gudrun Bühnemann *
- Mikel Burley *
- Christopher Chapple *+
- Vidya Dehejia (extended)
- Shaman Hatley *
- Gerald James Larson *
- James Mallinson (extended)
- Suzanne Newcombe * (thanked me)
- Srivatsa Ramaswami *
- Geoffrey Samuel *
- Mark Singleton * (thanked me)
- Bjarne Wernicke-Olesen * (transla)
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- Hatha yoga texts
- Amaraugha *
- Amritasiddhi *
- Bahr al-Hayāt *
- Dattatreya Yoga Shastra *
- Gorakṣaśataka *
- Haṭhābhyāsapaddhati *
- Haṭha Ratnavali *
- Joga Pradīpikā * (translated to जोगप्रदीपिका)
- Khecarīvidyā *
- Vasishtha Samhita *
- Vimānārcanākalpa *
- Vivekamārtaṇḍa *
- Yogabīja *
- Yogacintamani *
- Yogasopana Purvacatuska *
- Yogatārāvalī *
- Books
- Complete Illustrated Book of Yoga *
- Gurus of Modern Yoga *
- Hatha Yoga: The Report of a Personal Experience *
- A History of Modern Yoga *
- Light on Yoga *
- The Path of Modern Yoga *
- Positioning Yoga *
- Roots of Yoga *
- Selling Yoga *
- The Story of Yoga *
- The Subtle Body *
- Yoga Body *
- Yoga Makaranda *
- Yoga the Iyengar Way *