User:Ian Rose
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[edit] About me
From bayside Russell Lea in Sydney, Australia; CIO for a major Australian IT firm (who hasn't forgotten how to program, let me hastily add); co-host of the Monday morning breakfast show on a Sydney community radio station; an abiding interest in film, music, history and travel; son of RAAF pilot Ian and model Betty; married to the beautiful Diana; owned by three cats and one lovable labrador, Cindy-Lea.
[edit] Where I've been
American Samoa * 
Australia * 
Austria * .svg/22px-Flag_of_Belgium_(civil).svg.png){kind=small}
Belgium * 
France * 
Germany (before and after the Wall) * 
Greece * 
Israel * 
Mauritius * 
Mexico * 
New Zealand * 
Palestine * 
Portugal * 
Singapore * 
South Africa * 
Spain * 
Switzerland * 
Turkey * 
United Kingdom * 
United States
[edit] Why I'm here
Why do I read - and contribute to - Wikipedia ? Like Everest, because it’s there, i.e. on the Web and free and solicitous of contributions. Also because of its strong focus on art and culture, particularly modern/popular art and culture. Where else do you find more on David Bowie than you do on Beethoven? Don’t get me wrong, I think Beethoven deserves all the coverage he gets but I can find a decent article on him in Britannica – unfortunately can’t say the same of Bowie in that august journal...
My main projects are or have been (see sections below for status):
- rectifying the (once) lamentable lack of articles on Gary Numan recordings
- adding/expanding articles on David Bowie recordings and associated artists such as Iggy Pop
- expanding articles on early Roxy Music recordings
- adding/expanding articles on John Foxx and early Ultravox recordings
- adding/expanding articles on Fad Gadget recordings
- cleaning up and filling the occasional gap in other artists' representation
- working with the Australian military history task force, primarily on RAAF articles
- helping out at WikiProject The Rolling Stones
- helping out on aviation accident articles
However, the beauty (or curse) of a project like this is that roads lead everywhere so you never know where I might pop up...
[edit] Articles created
[edit] Music
Gary Numan & Tubeway Army
Complex (song) * We Are Glass * I Die: You Die * Stormtrooper in Drag (DYK) * She's Got Claws * Tubeway Army (album) * Telekon * Sacrifice (Gary Numan album) * Exile (Gary Numan album) * Pure (Gary Numan album) * Paul Gardiner
David Bowie & associates
All the Young Dudes (song) * Heroes (David Bowie song) * Ashes to Ashes (song) * David Live * Warren Peace * Simon House * Mick Woodmansey * Tony Newman (drummer) * George Murray (musician) * Tony Sales * Ricky Gardiner * Roy Carr * Guy Peellaert - to come
John Foxx & Ultravox
Systems of Romance * Burning Car * Miles Away (song)
Other
Broken English * Ricky's Hand (DYK) * Fire (Arthur Brown song) (DYK) * Know Your Product
[edit] Air Force
Morotai Mutiny (DYK) (A-Class) * Bobby Gibbes (DYK) * George Jones (RAAF officer) (FA-Class) * William Bostock * Wilfred Arthur (DYK) * No. 9 Operational Group RAAF * Stanley Goble (DYK/pic) * No. 205 Squadron RAF * Valston Hancock (DYK) * Peter Roy Maxwell Drummond (DYK) * No. 145 Squadron RAF * John McCauley (RAAF officer) (DYK/pic) * No. 4 Operational Training Unit RAAF
[edit] Major revisions/expansions
[edit] Music
Gary Numan & Tubeway Army
That's Too Bad * Bombers (Gary Numan song) * Jo the Waiter * Only a Downstat * Down in the Park * Are 'Friends' Electric? * Replicas (album) * Cars (song) * The Pleasure Principle (album) * Dance (Gary Numan album) * Jagged
David Bowie
The Supermen * Changes (David Bowie song) * Starman (song) * Rock 'n' Roll Suicide * John, I'm Only Dancing * The Jean Genie * Aladdin Sane (song) (DYK) * Future Legend * Rebel Rebel * 1984 (song) * Golden Years (song) * Weeping Wall (David Bowie song) * Joe the Lion * Neuköln * David Bowie (album) * Space Oddity (album) * The Man Who Sold the World (album) & most tracks * Aladdin Sane & all tracks * Diamond Dogs * Station to Station * "Heroes" & all tracks * Stage (album) * Lodger (album) * Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) & most tracks * Schöner Gigolo, armer Gigolo (DYK) * You've Got a Habit of Leaving
Iggy Pop
The Idiot (album) * Lust for Life (album) * Blah Blah Blah (album)
Bryan Ferry & Roxy Music
Roxy Music (album) * For Your Pleasure * Stranded (album) - expansion to come * Country Life (album) * Siren (Roxy Music album) - expansion to come * Let's Stick Together
John Foxx & Ultravox
Ultravox! - expansion/clean-up to come * Metamatic * The Garden (John Foxx album) * The Golden Section
Fad Gadget
Fad Gadget * Fireside Favourites * Incontinent (album)
The Saints
The Saints (band) * (I'm) Stranded (song) (DYK) * (I'm) Stranded - expansion to come
Other
Shock the Monkey * Hall of the Mountain Grill * Friday on My Mind * Lucifer Sam * How Soon Is Now? * Iron Virgin * Move It
[edit] Air Force
No. 82 Wing RAAF * No. 78 Wing RAAF * No. 81 Wing RAAF (DYK) * No. 86 Wing RAAF * Frederick Scherger (DYK) * Chief of Air Force (Australia) * Richard Williams (RAAF officer) (DYK/pic) (A-Class) * William Anderson (RAAF officer) (DYK/pic) * John Slessor * Donald Hardman (DYK/pic) * Officer Training School RAAF
[edit] Other updates/expansions/clean-ups
[edit] Music
Gary Numan & Tubeway Army
Gary Numan * Tubeway Army * Living Ornaments '80 * Freak Like Me (Sugababes song)
David Bowie & associates
David Bowie * Cygnet Committee * The Prettiest Star * Memory of a Free Festival * Holy Holy * The Width of a Circle * Black Country Rock * Oh! You Pretty Things * Quicksand (David Bowie song) * The Bewlay Brothers * Lady Stardust * Diamond Dogs (song) * Rock 'n' Roll With Me * Big Brother (song) * Wild Is the Wind (song) * It's No Game * Fashion (song) * Scream Like a Baby * Hunky Dory * ChangesOneBowie * Low (album) * Berlin Trilogy * ChangesTwoBowie * ChangesBowie * Ziggy Stardust - The Motion Picture * LiveAndWell.com * All the Young Dudes * Mick Ronson - copyedit to come * Paul Buckmaster * Hunt Sales * Claudia Lennear * Colin Thurston * The Laughing Gnome * Earthling (album)
Brian Eno
Brian Eno * Here Come the Warm Jets * Another Green World * Before and after Science
Iggy Pop
Iggy Pop * The Passenger (song)
John Foxx & Ultravox
John Foxx * Ha!-Ha!-Ha! - clean-up to come
Kraftwerk
Florian Schneider * Radioactivity (song) * Das Model
The Rolling Stones
Mick Jagger * Keith Richards * Let's Spend the Night Together * Gimme Shelter * Miss You (The Rolling Stones song)
The Beatles
The Beatles (album) * Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band * Revolver (album) * Working Class Hero (John Lennon song) * Yoko Ono
Bob Dylan
Highway 61 Revisited * Like a Rolling Stone * Highway 61 Revisited (song) * Subterranean Homesick Blues
Miscellaneous music
Virginia Plain * Block Buster * Venus in Furs (song) * Killing an Arab * Children of the Night * Cut Lunch * The White Albun * The Iron Man: A Musical * Captive Soundtrack * Are You Gonna Be My Girl * Aqualung (album) * On Broadway (song) * Never for Ever
Miscellaneous artists
Roxy Music * T.Rex (band) * Grace Jones * Nina Hagen * Snakefinger * Heaven 17 * B.E.F. (British Electric Foundation) * Sinéad O'Connor * Eddie Rayner * Noel Crombie * Martin McCarrick * Mike Leander * Jet (band) * Michael Brook * Bobby "Boris" Pickett * Birgit Nilsson * Anne-Sophie Mutter * Gene Simmons
Other
Deram Records * Olympic Studios * Mersey Sound
[edit] Film, TV, literature
2001: A Space Odyssey (film) * Ben-Hur (1959 film) * Monty Python's Life of Brian * The Lord of the Rings * Blake's 7 * David Tench Tonight * Richard Carleton * Belinda Emmett * Edward Fox (actor) * David Hemmings * The Cold Equations * Graham Kennedy
[edit] Military
Air Force
No. 1 Squadron RAAF * No. 3 Squadron RAAF * No. 10 Squadron RAAF * No. 11 Squadron RAAF * No. 33 Squadron RAAF * RAAF Williams * Clive Caldwell * Hughie Edwards * Len Waters * Charles Burnett (RAF officer) * Edward Leonard Ellington * George Kenney * Eric Lock * No. 233 Squadron RAF * Nicky Barr * Australian First Tactical Air Force * No. 75 Squadron RAAF * No. 35 Squadron RAAF * No. 4 Squadron RAAF * No. 204 Squadron RAF * No. 206 Squadron RAF * No. 208 Squadron RAF * No. 210 Squadron RAF * Structure of the RAAF * No. 1 Medical Receiving Station RAAF * No. 5 Fighter Sector RAAF * RAAF Station Sandgate * RAAF Bradfield Park * RAAF Base Mallala * RAAF Station Cunderdin * Werner Mölders * Adolf Galland
General
Charles Upham * Murray William James Bourchier * Malayan Emergency * Appeal of 18 June * Military history of Australia during World War II * Chief of the Defence Force (Australia) * Medal of Honor * Vice Chief of the Defence Force (Australia) * Huta Pieniacka massacre * Corkbush Field mutiny * Texas Ranger Division * Brian Horrocks * William Horrocks * Thomas Blamey
[edit] Aviation
PSA Flight 182 * American Airlines Flight 96 * United Airlines Flight 232 * Japan Airlines Flight 123 * Lauda Air Flight 004 * British Airways Flight 9 * Tenerife disaster * 1959 Turkish Airlines Gatwick crash * de Havilland Comet * Bristol Beaufort * De Havilland DH.50
[edit] Automotive
Donald Campbell * Allan Moffat * Bathurst 1000 * Eddie Hasha
[edit] Miscellaneous
Knox Grammar School * Gare Montparnasse * Surfers Paradise, Queensland * Neukölln * Roger Rogerson * List of atheists * Wangal people * Rachel Wall
...and a host of gnomic little corrections/additions at many other pages that have caught my attention...
[edit] Edit history
- 1st - 14:44, 15 October 2005
- 500th - 07:36, 20 March 2006
- 1000th - 12:55, 3 June 2006
- 1500th - 23:42, 2 September 2006
- 2000th - 14:28, 25 October 2006
- 2500th - 16:15, 4 December 2006
- 3000th - 07:49, 29 January 2007
- 3500th - 01:37, 8 March 2007
- 4000th - 09:57, 15 April 2007
- 4500th - 00:37, 15 May 2007
- 5000th - 09:19, 6 June 2007
- 6000th - 14:38, 5 August 2007
- 7000th - 08:19, 1 October 2007
- 8000th - 23:18, 9 December 2007
- 9000th - 11:31, 7 February 2008
- 10000th - 00:17, 6 April 2008
As the Doc said in Bridge on the River Kwai, "Madness...! Madness...!"
