User:Lawikitejana

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Now that I'm teaching full-time, I'm not around Wikipedia on a day-to-day basis anymore, but feel free to leave a note on my Talk page if you have some article ideas to which you think I could make a useful contribution. I'll do what I can during my next bout of wiki-itis. Lawikitejana 03:53, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

A little tiny bit of bragging: The featured biography for Portal:Dallas for April 2007 is Stanley Marcus, summarizing an article I created after someone on the Neiman-Marcus article's Talk page complained that the N-M article overstated his importance to the fashion industry.

A tiny bit more ... an article to which I made substantial contributions, Byron Nelson, has been promoted to Good Article status as of today.Lawikitejana 02:50, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

Yet again ... the "Did you know ...?" feature for August 10, 2007, included an item from the David Leeson article I had written. Lawikitejana 09:05, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

Contents 1 Wikipedia Topics 2 Major contributions 2.1 Created template or infobox 2.2 Created category 2.3 Created disambiguation page 2.4 Created article 2.5 Added and edited content 2.6 Added content 2.7 Edited content 2.8 Working on content offline 2.9 Other Wikipedia tasks 3 Education Topics 4 Random Topics

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This user is a member of WikiProject Country Music.

[edit] Major contributions

[edit] Created template or infobox

• Template:Betsy-Tacy

[edit] Created category

• Category:North Carolina Community College System
• Category:Two-year colleges in the United States
• Category:Brand name frozen desserts
• Category:Graduates of Dallas ISD - for articles on those who graduated from a public high school in the Dallas Independent School District

[edit] Created disambiguation page

• Montgomery Community College

[edit] Created article

• North Carolina Community College System
• Stanley Marcus - Dallas retailer admitted to Advertising Hall of Fame <-- a summary of this article was used as the Featured Biography for Portal:Dallas in April 2007
• M. E. Kerr and related redirects
• Linda Bloodworth-Thomason and related redirects
• Wolf Brand Chili
• Museum of the Revolution (El Salvador)
• Radio Venceremos
• Deep Valley, Minnesota - fictional town featured in the Betsy-Tacy books
• Jing-Mei "Deb" Chen
• Thomas Jefferson High School (Dallas)
• Hillcrest High School (Dallas)
• Catawba Valley Community College
• Forsyth Technical Community College
• Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College
• Montgomery Community College (North Carolina)
• Billboard Latin Music Awards
• Carlos Lacamara
• Palapa Azul
• Crisis at Central High
• God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse
• "Summer Samba (So Nice)" (bossa nova song)
• The Country Girl (1915 film)
• The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations
• "What Part of No" (country song)
• Big Spender (TV series) - reality TV series on A&E Network
• Ryan Smith (writer) - writer for MADtv and participant in various Mediocre Films productions
• William's Doll - 1972 children's book on gender role stereotyping and child development
• People Newspapers - Dallas-based publishers of weekly newspapers for rich people
• A. Maceo Smith High School - Dallas high school
• Alexa Junge - screenwriter who wrote some of my favorite Friends episodes
• "Adelaide's Lament" - classic song from the 1950 musical Guys & Dolls
• Texas Almanac - one of the preeminent reference books on the state of Texas
• David Leeson - Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist for The Dallas Morning News
• Taurean Blacque - Emmy-nominated television and film actor
• Bob Phillips - veteran Texas television feature reporter, host of Texas Country Reporter
• El analfabeto - a 1961 comedy film featuring the Mexican actor Cantinflas
• Ms. Foundation for Women
• Billy Olson - Olympic athlete
• El bolero de Raquel - Cantinflas comedy film
• Golden Ariel - Mexican film award
• Ariel Award for Best Picture - Mexican film award
• Hesperian Foundation - about the publishers of Where There is No Doctor
• Thomas C. Marsh Middle School - Dallas middle school
• Kent Rathbun, Dallas chef
• Ilegales, Dominican merenhouse group (oddly, had been deleted previously as non-notable despite two Grammy nominations - go figure!)
• Rufina Amaya, principal witness to the 1981 El Mozote Massacre in El Salvador
• Nelson Coates, American production designer

[edit] Added and edited content

• Aristides de Sousa Mendes, Portuguese diplomat who saved masses of people during the Holocaust
• Óscar Romero, murdered Salvadoran priest
• Rutilio Grande, murdered Salvadoran priest
• Aguilares, Rutilio Grande's hometown
• Fernando Llort, Salvadoran artist
• Lupe Ontiveros, American actress (had to start over practically from scratch with that article)
• A Different World, American sitcom of the 1980s and '90s
• Ron Popeil, American inventor
• Sadie Hawkins Day, an American custom
• Melba Pattillo Beals, author and member of the Little Rock Nine
• Steven Curtis Chapman (also album articles)
• Yolanda Saldívar
• I Love Toys, the VH1 miniseries
• Mondegreen, a linguistic term for misheard lyrics and the like
• Evil eye
• George Carlin, American comedian
• W. G. Walden (aka Snuffy Walden), American musician
• Christian denominations
• Student-teacher ratio
• James Dobson, American radio personality and author
• The Absent-Minded Professor
• Lamar Alexander, former U.S. presidential candidate from the South
• Ross Perot, former U.S. presidential candidate from Dallas
• Strawberry and Chocolate (Fresa y chocolate) - 1993 Mexican-Cuban-Spanish film
• Wendy Russell Reves, Texas model and art collector
• Emery Reves, second husband of Wendy Russell Reves
• Paleta, a type of frozen dessert on a stick
• Doonesbury, American political cartoon
• Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids?, award-winning American documentary
• Reader's Digest Condensed Books
• Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
• The Country Girl (1954 film)
• Nexcite, a Swedish soda with supposed aphrodisiac properties
• Drunk dialing
• New Orleans, Louisiana
• Grey's Anatomy
• Free to Be… You and Me, American children's anthology of the 1970s
• Christopher Gardner, American businessman
• Shelley Sekula-Gibbs, Texas politician
• Dragonsinger, science-fantasy novel
• Byron Nelson, Texas golfer and noted Christian sportsman <-- a WP Good Article as of May 2007
• Cheese (recreational drug), a form of heroin that's killing young people around my home town
• Maná, Mexican rock group
• Mary Engelbreit, American artist and illustrator
• Judah Touro, Jewish philanthropist
• Ruby Bridges, an early participant in the desegregation of U.S. schools
• The Kent Family Chronicles, a 1970s historical fiction series
• Gorgeous Tiny Chicken Machine Show - a video series on YouTube by Mediocre Films
• Ronnie Gilbert, member of the folk group The Weavers
• Trammell Crow, Dallas property developer - practically had to start over on this one
• Charo, the '70s bombshell with a carefully cultivated "dumb sexy blonde" persona (but not necessarily so dumb)
• Paige Davis
• Land of the Lost (1974 TV series) - a kiddie show I watched as a child
• H.R. Pufnstuf - another kiddie show with the same producers
• Sid and Marty Krofft - producers of several children's show (and, apparently, of one raunchy burlesque puppet show before that!)
• Woodrow Wilson High School (Dallas)

[edit] Added content

• Allen Say
• Gary Chapman (author)
• Jerry Haynes - the inimitable "Mr. Peppermint"
• The Brothers García
• Cued speech
• Nipsey Russell
• Gene Arnold
• Speed limits in the United States
• Neiman Marcus - Dallas-based department store chain
• Karri Turner - Texas-born actress
• Category:People from Galveston, Texas - doubled population of category by using Google to search for people born there
• Preston Hollow Elementary School - expanded discussion of "PHES In the News" and added cites
• Bluffview, Dallas, Texas - added historical information
• James Madison High School (Dallas) - added considerable historical information about the school and building dating back to its construction in 1916 as Forest Avenue High School
• Texas Country Reporter - feature stories on people and places of rural Texas - still on the air after 35 years
• To Market, to Market (SATC episode)

[edit] Edited content

• Selena
• Permanent residency
• Saturday Night Live commercial
• Durham Technical Community College
• George Lopez (TV series)
• Monchy y Alexandra
• Gay young adult novels <-- still needs a LOT of work
• Laura Ingalls Wilder and Little House on the Prairie
• Dallas Christian College
• Rube Goldberg
• Korematsu v. United States
• Telenovela
• West Side Story
• Sanger Harris
• Festival Presidente de la Musica Latina
• Corinto, Morazán
• Django Reinhardt
• Spritle (the Speed Racer character)

[edit] Working on content offline

• Lupe Ontiveros - finally got most of it into the article as of Oct. 7, 2006
• Abilene Christian University <-- had so much written - then computer crashed!
• George Lopez (TV series)
• Stanley Marcus - created Oct. 16, 2006 - still a lot to add
• Yvette Lee Bowser
• Permanent residency
• Sue Vertue - British TV producer
• Marcy Heisler - lyricist
• Kent Rathbun, Dallas chef

[edit] Other Wikipedia tasks

I have been experimenting lately with the following tasks:

• Using the "random article" navigation to find articles to edit, particularly with respect to assessing biographical articles and adding wikilinks to content.
• Going through sets of book and biography articles to ensure the appropriate WikiProject template has been added to the talk page.
• Working on a select set of politically and/or religiously charged articles relating to U.S. popular culture (books, TV, major speakers) and controversial issues and trying to improve the NPOV orientation. I believe this is especially important to do with respect to strengthening articles on positions to which one is opposed, because championing a position in the outside non-NPOV world is much more satisfying when one knows other positions have been well portrayed and given the opportunity of serious consideration.
• Adding U.S. two-year colleges to Category:Two-year colleges in the United States and editing those articles as need arises — volunteer helpers welcomed with joy!

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