User:Uncle G/Missing encyclopaedic articles
Whilst researching other things, I've on several occasions come across groups of topics that not only did we not have, but we didn't even know (via a redlink anywhere) that we didn't have. Not even Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles had some of these. Partly to keep track of these for future reference, and partly to reiterate the point that the whole idea of our having reached some sort of Wikipedia:Concept limit at this juncture is baloney (even if that wasn't already obvious from the number of redlinks still in the missing articles project), I'm recording them here.
- Troll wars (AfD discussion) led me to:
- Whilst researching Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Typoglycemia (2nd nomination), I noted that we have devoted our efforts to an article by a made-up title that spends all of its time debunking a popular myth about non-existent research, whilst at the same time we don't have the articles that tell readers about the real scientific research that has actually been done on these particular workings of the human brain:
- Whilst researching Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Surgical Incisions, I came across other encyclopaedias showing that we had a fairly fundamental deficiency, on the basic topic of surgical incisions, to remedy before Wikipedia could be considered an encyclopaedia of surgery. Some of our many lacking articles on this that are in other encyclopaedias (cited in the AFD discussion) are:
- the internal Bevel incision · the extrasulcular incision · the Crestal incision · the anchor incision · the various incision placement guidelines · W-plasty · Y-plasty · the h-flap incision · the doughnut incision · the short scar incision (a.k.a. lollipop incision)
- Whilst researching a question about eels as currency, I came across the following. There is a list of sources, and even some potential content, at User talk:Iridescent/Archive 14#Eels as a form of currency.
- Whilst following Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Grove Avenue, London, I noticed the elephant in the room:
- Whilst discussing what to do about M. C. Escher in popular culture, I found that we didn't have the original "reversing" figure that Relativity is itself a popular culture reference to:
- the Schröder stairs (a.k.a. the Schröder staircase)
- Whilst researching Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pretend wallet reach, I came across a whole load of history that we don't have, since our focus was on silly sexism and jokes made by comedians instead of actual researched human knowledge, some sources for which are cited in the AFD discussion:
- treating · charity girls · the courtship practice of calling
- In the AFD discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Stewart's law, where someone had erroneously thought that the way to make up a law is to scribble it directly into an encyclopaedia without getting it published first, it became apparent that we don't have several "laws" that have long since actually been published and whose histories, and (in the case of one) mathematics (a simple exercise in probability theory), are documented:
- Whilst doing something else entirely unrelated to Wikipedia, I found another person, who has an entry in Gale's Encyclopaedia of Biography, that we didn't even know that we didn't have (until I added redlinks):
- Whilst doing background research for a deletion discussion on Wikimedia Commons, I found that we don't even know that we don't have an article on what is believed to be the oldest known book on medical ethics written in Arabic. Writ Keeper took up the challenge.
- Whilst researching Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cloud gap, I found a program run by the USDOD and ACDA between 1962 and 1968. Drmies decided to take up the challenge after I dropped a dangling hyperlink on xyr user talk page.
- Whilst rewriting Wikipedia:I just don't like it (MfD discussion) I found a missing topic, which I added to the page complete with citations of some potential sources:
- Not Hopping (a.k.a. negative transport, neg-raising, and negative raising)
- Whilst researching the Thomond deeds (AfD discussion), I found a book written about at length by Eugene O'Curry and at even greater length by Aoife Nic Ghiollamhaith:
- From researching Snow baby (AfD discussion) I discovered two topics discussed in sources in depth, one of whom has indeed written about the other:
- Reading Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/K. N. Rao (2nd nomination) led me to a far better documented person:
- Kandarpa Narahari Rao
- Reddy, Satti Paddi; Dasari, Ramachandra R. (2000-09-01). "Kandarpa Narahari Rao". Physics Today. 53 (9): 86. Bibcode:2000PhT....53i..86R. doi:10.1063/1.1325248.
- Osterbrock, Donald E. (2000). "Kandarpa Narahari Rao (1921–2000)". Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society. 32 (4): 1684–1685. Bibcode:2000BAAS...32.1684O.
- Kandarpa Narahari Rao
- Cormac Ó Comáin (AfD discussion) let me to Francis Joseph Bigger, the editor who so objected to Walker's hearsay of Ousely and whom we at least knew from just four dangling links in article space (at the time) that we did not have, and to William Ouseley (which we had), his father that we did not even know that we did not have, his father's grand nephew, and a chain of missing and not even known to be missing historians, authors, and institutions. This led me to point out at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles#Missing missings some serious project deficiencies (obviously no lists for the Dictionary of Irish Writers, the The Concise Oxford Companion to Irish Literature, the Dictionary of Irish Architects, the New Dictionary of Ulster Biography or even Newmann's original Dictionary of Ulster Biography, and the Dictionary of Irish Biography) that this implies.
- Ralph Ouseley (1739) · Charles Étienne Coquebert de Montbret · Ralph Ouseley · Joaquim de Sousa Leão · Joseph Walker Jasper Ouseley · Ulster Public House Association (a.k.a. the Ulster Public House Trust or Ulster Public House Reform Association) · Ulster Literary Theatre · David Bigger · Robert Magill Young · Young and Mackenzie · Samuel Simms (historian) · St Mary's Minor Hall · Gerald McNamara · Rutherford Mayne · Carnmoney Cotton Printing Mill · Robert William Magill Strain · William Thomas Latimer · Irish Book Lover
- Mossley Mill history involving the Biggers and the Campbells is published for starters in a pamphlet by the local council that is on the WWW.
- Robert Magill Young is in several dictionaries of biography.
- St Mary's Minor Hall has an older name of St Mary's Catholic Hall, under which there are historical sources documenting its development (and concomitant adjustments to Bank Street, Belfast), interior, and early history
- Samuel Simms (historian) has entries in the Dictionary of Ulster Biography and the Dictionary of Irish Biography, and has yet another biography, which cites even more sources to look at, by Queen's University Belfast (which holds his collection).
- William Thomas Latimer is in the Dictionary of Ulster Biography too.
- Clarke, R. S. J. (May 2001). "Dr R W M Strain". Ulster Medical Journal. 70 (1): 3–4. PMC 2449210.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link) - Curl, James Stevens (2006). "Young and Mackenzie". A Dictionary of Architecture. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198606789.
- Ralph Ouseley (1739) · Charles Étienne Coquebert de Montbret · Ralph Ouseley · Joaquim de Sousa Leão · Joseph Walker Jasper Ouseley · Ulster Public House Association (a.k.a. the Ulster Public House Trust or Ulster Public House Reform Association) · Ulster Literary Theatre · David Bigger · Robert Magill Young · Young and Mackenzie · Samuel Simms (historian) · St Mary's Minor Hall · Gerald McNamara · Rutherford Mayne · Carnmoney Cotton Printing Mill · Robert William Magill Strain · William Thomas Latimer · Irish Book Lover
- Dennis Bernstein (AfD discussion) led to another elephant in the room, covered only piecemeal in biographies and fairly cursorily elsewhere. This one has entire history books and archived national press coverage.
- Patty Willis (AfD discussion) led, via a rather circuitous route involving a namesake, to two composers for whom we had articles on several of their biographers but not the persons themselves.
- Rahn curve (AfD discussion) led to an economist.
- Gerald William Scully
- Porter, Philip (October 2009). "In Memoriam: Gerald W. Scully (1941-2009)". Journal of Sports Economics. 10 (5): 447–450. doi:10.1177/1527002509346417. S2CID 156024881.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link) - Weber, Bruce (2009-06-06). "Gerald W. Scully, Who Wrote Landmark Baseball Analysis, Dies at 67". The New York Times.
- Porter, Philip (October 2009). "In Memoriam: Gerald W. Scully (1941-2009)". Journal of Sports Economics. 10 (5): 447–450. doi:10.1177/1527002509346417. S2CID 156024881.
- Gerald William Scully
- Church of St. Elizabeth of Hungary in Łódź (AfD discussion) led me to:
- While discussing Sitush-comedy on User talk:Sitush, I came across Father Ted:
- Edward Kelly Groves (1777–1854 with an entry in the DIB, and one in a Guide to Irish Fiction)
- Frances Street Squats (AfD discussion) led me to a squat with a name that it is commonly known by that goes by other names in more formal literature:
- Woodsquat
- Blomley, Nicholas (2004). Unsettling the City: Urban Land and the Politics of Property. Routledge. ISBN 9781135954192. (Blomley 2004, pp. 39–50)
- Robertson, Kirsty (2019). Tear Gas Epiphanies: Protest, Culture, Museums. McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation Studies in Art History. Vol. 27. McGill-Queen's Press. ISBN 9780773558298.
- Bird, Kate; Demers, Charles (2017). City on Edge: A Rebellious Century of Vancouver Protests, Riots, and Strikes. Greystone Books. ISBN 9781771643139.
- Woodsquat
- Researching Template:Did you know nominations/1935 New York anti-lynching exhibitions led to:
- Dwight Hale Blackwood (highway commissioner, born 1886-12-24 in Osceola, sheriff of Mississippi county until 1924) whs has a potted biography in a state report from when he was appointed (upon the death of the incumbent) State Treasurer in 1925 and successfully elected in 1926.
- Random search engine matching when researching Lassen Lodge, California (AfD discussion) let to a subject thats an Arcadia Publishing book on the things written by two ex-presidents of the American Numismatic Association.
- Lesher Dollar — There's even a ready-made: Did you know … that the Lesher Dollar had the support of governor Davis H. Waite and senator Edward Oliver Wolcott?(Snodgrass 2019, p. 200)
- "One (1) 1.25 Lesher dollar reproduction". National Museum of American History.
- Leonard Jr, Robert D.; Hallenbeck, Ken; Wilde Jr, Adna G. (2017). Forgotten Colorado Silver: Joseph Lesher's Defiant Coins. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 9781467135252.
- Zerbe, Farran (1917). "PRIVATE SILVER COINS ISSUED IN THE UNITED STATES: The Leshers or Referendum Pieces". American Journal of Numismatics. 51: 153–174. JSTOR 43594139.
- Reiter, Ed (1985-06-16). "HISTORIC LESHER HOUSE RECALLS A BYGONE ERA". The New York Times. p. 35.
- Hibler, Harold E.; Kappen, Charles V. (2008). "Lesher or Referendum Dollars 1900–1901". So-called Dollars: An Illustrated Standard Catalog (2nd ed.). Coin & Currency Institute. pp. 156–158. ISBN 9780871841025.
- Snodgrass, Mary Ellen (2019). "Lesher, Joseph". Coins and Currency: An Historical Encyclopedia (2nd ed.). McFarland. ISBN 9781476677965.
- Lesher Dollar — There's even a ready-made: Did you know … that the Lesher Dollar had the support of governor Davis H. Waite and senator Edward Oliver Wolcott?(Snodgrass 2019, p. 200)
- A draft article that (at the time of adding this entry) Drmies is still working on led to User:Drmies/Rod Nachman, which went on to become Rod Nachman, as it turns out that all of the books on the famous court case also gave fairly decent biographies of Nachman. That, in turn, led to a court case that rumbled on for fourteen years in Alabama and has no mention whatsoever in Wikipedia, not even a passing one in the Frank Minis Johnson article. There's a lot to say about it, and the two court cases (Pugh and James) that were merged into it, and really neither the judge nor the chairman of the committee are the central topic.
- Newman v. Alabama · Pugh v. Locke
- Yackle, Larry W. (1989). "Intransigence". Reform and Regret: The Story of Federal Judicial Involvement in the Alabama Prison System. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195363418.
- Schlanger, Margo (2018). "Civil rights injunctions over time: A case study of jail and prison court orders" (PDF). New York University Law Review. 81: 550–830.
- Farina, Steven M. (1990). "Reform and Regret: The Story of Federal Judicial Involvement in the Alabama Prison System". Michigan Law Review. 88 (6): 1883–1886. doi:10.2307/1289351. JSTOR 1289351.
- Yarbrough, Tinsley E. (Winter 1984). "The Alabama prison litigation". The Justice System Journal. 9 (3). National Center for State Courts: 276–290. JSTOR 20877750.
- Newman v. Alabama, 349 F. Supp. 278 (1972).
- Pugh v. Locke, D.C., 406 F. Supp. 318 (1976).
- Robbins, Ira P.; Buser, Michael B. (1977). "Punitive Conditions of Prison Confinement: An Analysis of Pugh v. Locke and Federal Court Supervision of State Penal Administration under the Eighth Amendment". Stanford Law Review. 29: 893–923. doi:10.2307/1228139. JSTOR 1228139.
- Conrad, John P. (1989). Keenan, Michael J. (ed.). "News of the Future". Federal Probation. 53 (1). Administrative Office of the United States Courts: 79–84.
- Newman v. Alabama · Pugh v. Locke