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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 659 articles to Good and Featured Article status as nominator. Some other articles are included here: around 60 are co-nominated GANs and FACs that I helped on their way. Some 25 of the Good Articles have won the Million Award, meaning they were read by at least a million people per year.

Agriculture

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Rice-duck farming in Central Java
This was quite the neglected corner. Presumably rural life was rather distant from editors' worlds. Curiously, at least 9 of the Good Articles have Million Awards for annual readership in the millions, so I'm pleased to have made a difference here.

AGRICULTURE

Animals

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Groups
Owlfly
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 (rewrite)

 

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

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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

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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
 
Reproductive mechanisms
 
PARASITISM
 
PREDATION
 
SPECIES
 
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
 
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

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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

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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

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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

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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)

Human uses of living things

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Microbes in culture
Epithet series
Other

Literature

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Bolckow Vaughan

History and philosophy of science

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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

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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

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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 134 new (*) articles (including half-a-dozen phoenixes) and some 225 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
Philology

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

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John Alexander (chief clerk)

Yoga

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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).

yogic-sleep-pose
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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