User:Brianboulton/Sandbox6

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About me

My earliest WP edits probably go back to about 2003 or 2004; the first that I can definitely identify was this IP edit 20 December 2005, adding details about Kenneth Baker's education. I started regular editing in September 2007, and I adopted my username in November of that year.

For most of my active Wikipedia years I created or improved article content, generally with the aim of achieving featured status. I also spent a fair proportion of my time reviewing, and served for a while as one of the selector/co-ordinators for the main page's Today's Featured Article. In my early days I worked mainly on creating or expanding polar history articles and biographies, but later broadened my range into classical music (especially opera), literature, politics and history, and topics of broad general interest. I have now semi-retired from active service, but will still be around keeping an eye on areas that interest me, and will work on a few projects which I don't seem capable of leaving alone.

Main work to date

Featured content[edit]

Featured Articles: main editor[edit]

Articles created by me are indicated with †. The rest are major expansions, often from stubs.

Articles with asteriks against promotion date have been revised against current FA criteria since 1 May 2015

Article name	Field	Date of FA promotion	date on main page
Ross Sea party 1914–16	Polar exploration	13 February 2008 *	23 September 2009
Terra Nova Expedition	Polar exploration	20 February 2008 *	27 June 2010
Discovery Expedition	Polar exploration	17 March 2008 *	1 May 2008
Robert Falcon Scott	Polar biography	3 April 2008	24 October 2010
Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition	Polar exploration	14 April 2008 *	28 June 2008
Aeneas Mackintosh†	Polar biography	10 May 2008 *	14 March 2014
Nimrod Expedition	Polar exploration	7 June 2008 *	9 January 2009
William Speirs Bruce	Polar biography	2 July 2008 *	3 December 2009
Ernest Joyce†	Polar biography	17 July 2008 *	14 November 2017
Scottish National Antarctic Expedition	Polar exploration	6 August 2008 *	17 July 2015
Voyage of the James Caird	Polar exploration	30 August 2008 *	10 May 2014
Southern Cross Expedition	Polar exploration	26 September 2008 *	14 October 2012
Farthest South†	Polar exploration	4 October 2008 *	24 August 2011
Rhinemaidens† (Co-nom Peter cohen)	Music (opera)	28 October 2008 *	5 June 2009
Tom Crean (explorer) (Co-nom Zatoichi26)	Polar biography	15 November 2008 *	17 March 2010
Mozart family Grand Tour†	Music biography	25 November 2008 *	11 March 2009
Shackleton–Rowett Expedition	Polar exploration	17 December 2008 *	7 April 2009 and 5 April 2017
New South Greenland†	Polar exploration	11 January 2009 *	6 November 2010
Mozart in Italy†	Music biography	31 January 2009 *	4 September 2010
Carsten Borchgrevink	Polar biography	11 February 2009 *	1 December 2014
Benjamin Morrell†	General biography	12 March 2009 *	20 August 2010
Agrippina (opera) (Co-nom Shoemaker's Holiday)	Music (opera)	25 March 2009 *	14 April 2009
SY Aurora's drift†	Polar exploration	11 April 2009 *	14 December 2018
Clements Markham	General biography	12 May 2009 *	20 July 2010
Bedrich Smetana	Music biography	7 July 2009 *	24 July 2010
The Bartered Bride	Music (opera)	25 July 2009 *	30 May 2016
Cosmo Gordon Lang	General biography	6 September 2009 *	30 October 2009 and 5 October 2017
Nansen's Fram expedition (Co-nom Ruhrfisch)	Polar exploration	28 October 2009 *	23 June 2012
L'incoronazione di Poppea	Music (opera)	28 November 2009 *	18 February 2014
Peter Heywood	General biography	10 January 2010 *	6 June 2012
Last voyage of the Karluk	Polar exploration	16 February 2010 *	31 March 2013
Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria	Music (opera)	16 March 2010 *	4 November 2015
Gustav Mahler	Music biography	27 April 2010 *	7 July 2010
Symphony No. 8 (Mahler)	Classical music	4 June 2010 *	12 September 2010
The Temple at Thatch†	Literature	6 July 2010 *	28 January 2011
Tosca (Co-nom Wehwalt)	Music (opera)	18 July 2010 *	7 August 2010
Fridtjof Nansen	Polar biography	4 September 2010 *	10 October 2010
L'Orfeo	Music (opera)	7 October 2010 *	15 October 2010
Talbot Baines Reed	Literary biography	9 November 2010 *	2 April 2012
Evelyn Waugh	Literary biography	20 December 2010 *	26 May 2011
Gianni Schicchi (Co-nom Wehwalt)	Music (opera)	31 December 2010 *	31 May 2011
C. R. M. F. Cruttwell†	General biography	24 January 2011 *	26 June 2018
Frederick Delius (Co-nom Tim riley)	Music biography	8 February 2011 *	10 June 2014
Rinaldo (opera)	Music (opera)	15 February 2011 *	25 February 2011
Tom Driberg	Political biography	3 April 2011 *	15 February 2012
Nixon in China (opera) (Co-nom Wehwalt)	Music (opera)	16 April 2011 *	22 October 2012
Percy Grainger	Music biography	27 May 2011 *	8 July 2018
Kathleen Ferrier	Music biography	27 June 2011 *	22 April 2012
Messiah (Handel) (Conoms Tim riley and Gerda Arendt)	Classical music	4 August 2011 *	23 March 2013
Brunette Coleman	Literature	30 August 2011 *	2 August 2012
Georges Bizet	Music biography	28 October 2011 *	25 October 2013
Amundsen's South Pole expedition (Conom: Apterygial)	Polar exploration	14 November 2011 *	14 December 2011
Les pêcheurs de perles	Music (opera)	22 December 2011 *	30 September 2013
Monteverdi's lost operas†	Music (opera)	10 February 2012 *	10 September 2012 and 14 September 2017
Carmen	Music (opera)	31 March 2012 *	6 April 2013
Tichborne case	History	4 May 2012 *	1 June 2013
A Child of Our Time	Classical music	28 May 2012 *	9 November 2013
Cosima Wagner	Music biography	23 July 2012 *	24 December 2012
Reginald Heber	General biography	12 August 2012 *	21 April 2013
Learie Constantine (Conom Sarastro1)	Sports biography	30 August 2012 *	15 July 2016
The Rite of Spring	Classical music	11 September 2012 *	29 May 2013
Peter Warlock	Music biography	18 October 2012 *	30 October 2014
Pierre Monteux (Conom Tim riley)	Music biography	27 October 2012 *	1 July 2014
Harold Larwood	Sports biography	7 December 2012 *	14 November 2014
Neville Cardus (Conom Tim riley)	Literary biography	23 January 2013 *	2 April 2013
Kenneth Widmerpool	Literature	10 February 2013 *	23 April 2013
George Lansbury	Political biography	23 March 2013 *	15 August 2013
Jane Cobden	Political biography	24 April 2013 *	10 July 2014
Gustav Holst (Conom Tim riley)	Music biography	8 May 2013 *	21 September 2014
Jane Joseph	Music biography	3 June 2013 *	31 May 2014
Harold Davidson	General biography	6 July 2013 *	28 July 2013
Benjamin Britten (Conom Tim riley)	Music biography	21 July 2013 *	22 November 2013
The Diary of a Nobody	Literature	17 August 2013 *	9 October 2013
Symphony No. 8 (Sibelius)	Classical music	9 September 2013 *	8 December 2015
L'Arianna	Music (opera)	10 October 2013 *	24 June 2014
Michael Tippett	Music biography	11 November 2013 *	2 January 2013
Stella Gibbons	Literary biography	7 December 2013 *	5 January 2016
Nancy Mitford	Literary biography	23 January 2014 *	7 April 2014
Profumo affair	History/Politics	21 February 2014 *	9 August 2014
Imogen Holst	Music biography	5 April 2014 *	12 April 2018
Thorpe affair†	History/Politics	24 May 2014 *	3 August 2016
SS Arctic disaster†	History	2 July 2014 *	27 September 2014
Horatio Bottomley	History/Politics	27 July 2014 *	17 September 2016
Noye's Fludde (Co-nom Alfietucker)	Music (opera)	17 August 2014 *	14 July 2017
Margaret Bondfield	Political biography	5 October 2014 *	18 March 2015
Ellen Wilkinson	Political biography	12 November 2014 *	8 March 2016
A Handful of Dust	Literature	29 December 2014 *	16 September 2015
Girl Pat (1935 trawler)†	History	14 February 2015 *	1 March 2016
Mary Celeste	History	17 March 2015 *	4 December 2015
Jarrow March	History/Politics	9 May 2015	5 October 2016
Mutiny on the Bounty (conom Cliftonian)	History	21 June 2015	28 April 2016
The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold	Literature	16 July 2015	27 November 2016
Jeremy Thorpe	Political biography	1 August 2015	29 April 2019
Jeannette Expedition†	Polar history	20 September 2015	8 July 2016
Assassination of Spencer Perceval†	History	31 October 2015	11 May 2016
Bessie Braddock	Political biography	12 December 2015	8 March 2017
Handel's lost Hamburg operas†	Music: opera	30 January 2016	23 August 2016
Nelson's Pillar (conom Carcharoth)	History (Ireland)	30 March 2016	24 April 2016
George Bernard Shaw (conom Tim riley)	Literature	8 April 2016	17 March 2016
S. O. Davies	Political biography	6 May 2016	21 October 2016
Lieutenant Kijé (Prokofiev)	Classical music	30 September 2016	21 December 2016
Alan Bush	Music biography	11 August 2017	22 December 2018
Claudio Monteverdi (conom Smerus)	Music biography	31 August 2017
Spiro Agnew (conom Wehwalt)	Politics (U.S.)	21 October 2017	5 November 2018
Loss of MV Darlwyne†	History	27 February 2018	1 August 2018
Guy Burgess	History	31 May 2018	22 September 2018
Australasian Antarctic Expedition (posthumous)	Polar exploration	29 February 2020

Featured Lists[edit]

Article name	Field	Date of FL promotion	date on main page
List of operas by Mozart	Music (opera)	23 July 2008
Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration	Polar exploration	17 December 2008	10 December 2012

Good Articles[edit]

Article name	Date of promotion to GA	Date of promotion to FA
Terra Nova Expedition	27 January 2008	20 February 2008
Rhinemaidens (Wagner)	12 May 2008	28 October 2008
Scottish National Antarctic Expedition	26 May 2008	6 August 2008
William Speirs Bruce	9 June 2008	2 July 2008
Aurora's drift	13 July 2008	11 April 2009
Farthest South	31 July 2008	4 October 2008
Carsten Borchgrevink	24 October 2008	11 February 2009

Ideas for future articles

Current and future work[edit]

The following information is mainly for my own guidance, and is subject to frequent change.

Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration – future Featured Topic[edit]

Article name	Current status
Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration	Featured List
Southern Cross Expedition	Featured Article
Discovery Expedition	Featured Article
Scottish National Antarctic Expedition	Featured Article
Nimrod Expedition	Featured Article
Terra Nova Expedition	Featured Article
Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition	Featured Article
Ross Sea party	Featured Article
Shackleton-Rowett Expedition	Featured Article
Australasian Antarctic Expedition	Start
Amundsen's South Pole expedition	Featured article
Belgian Antarctic Expedition	Stub
Second German Antarctic Expedition	Start (in Filchner article)
Swedish Antarctic Expedition	Stub
Charcot Expeditions	Start (in French expeditions)
Gauss Expedition	Start
Japanese Antarctic Expedition	Stub

Awards and Barnstars
100-plus barnstars received with thanks. A list (incomplete) is here

Poems

Read these poems[edit]

The Gods of the Copybook Headings[edit]

As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man
There are only four things certain since Social Progress began.
That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire
And the burnt Fool's bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire;

And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins
When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins,
As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn,
The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!

Rudyard Kipling (1919)

From the Lyke-Wake Dirges[edit]

If ever thou gavest meat or drink,

Every nighte and alle,

The fire sall never make thee shrink;

And Christe receive thy saule.

If meat or drink thou ne'er gav'st nane,

Every nighte and alle,

The fire will burn thee to the bare bane;

And Christe receive thy saule.

This ae nighte, this ae nighte,

Every nighte and alle,

Fire and fleet and candle-lighte,

And Christe receive thy saule.

Conclusion of the "Lyke-Wake dirge" (17th century)

Annabel Lee[edit]

It was many and many a year ago

In a kingdom by the sea,

That a maiden there lived, whom you may know

By the name of Annabel Lee;

And this maiden she lived with no other thought

Than to love, and be loved, by me

I was a child and she was a child,

In this kingdom by the sea;

But we loved with a love that was more than love –

I and my Annabel Lee;

With a love that the winged seraphs above

Coveted her and me...

Edgar Allan Poe

The Internationale[edit]

Arise, ye starvelings, from your slumbers,

Arise, ye criminals of want;

For reason in revolt now thunders

And at last ends the age of cant.

Away with all your superstitions,

Servile masses, arise, arise!

We'll change forthwith the old conditions

And spurn the dust to win the prize.

Then comrades, come, rally,

And the last fight let us face:

The Internationale

Unites the human race!

Then comrades, come, rally,

And the last fight let us face:

The Internationale

Unites the human race!

Eugene Pottier, 1871

Dark as a Dungeon (folksong)[edit]

Come all you young fellers, so brave and so fine,

And seek not your fortunes way down in the mine.

It will form like a habit and seep in your soul

'Til the stream of your blood runs as black as the coal.

Chorus: It's dark as a dungeon and damp as the dew,

Where the dangers are double and the pleasures are few;

Where the rain never falls and the sun never shines.....

It's dark as a dungeon way down in the mines!

There is many a man I have known in my day

Who lived just to labor his whole life away.

Like the fiend with his dope and the drunkard his wine,

A man will have lust for the lure of the mine.

Chorus

I hope when I die and the ages shall roll,

That my body will blacken and turn into coal.

I will look from the door of my heavenly home

And pity the miner a slave to my bones.

Chorus

Traditional, USA

Abroad

These are all places I've visited recently[edit]

Austria Belgium Czech Republic Denmark England France Germany Gibraltar Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Isle of Man Israel Italy Lebanon Malta Morocco Netherlands Norway Portugal Russia Scotland Spain Sweden Syria Vatican City Wales

Waterfalls
A gift from Ruhrfisch[edit] Thanks for your help at peer review, and for your kind words and support. Waterfalls in Ricketts Glen State Park made Featured Article today! Dincher (talk) and Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 21:15, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

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Featured articles[edit]

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Featured content[edit]

Featured Articles: main editor[edit]

Featured Lists[edit]

Good Articles[edit]

Current and future work[edit]

Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration – future Featured Topic[edit]

Read these poems[edit]

The Gods of the Copybook Headings[edit]

From the Lyke-Wake Dirges[edit]

Annabel Lee[edit]

The Internationale[edit]

Dark as a Dungeon (folksong)[edit]

These are all places I've visited recently[edit]

A gift from Ruhrfisch[edit]