User:HouseOfChange

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He/him. For wikitools, policies, etc. see User:HouseOfChange/WikiToolsEtc. And I collected all my DYKs here.

Quote from Henry David Thoreau's "The Old Marlborough Road"[edit]

What is it, what is it
But a direction out there,
And the bare possibility
Of going somewhere?

Quote from Steven Weinberg (May 3, 1933 – July 23, 2021)[edit]

"If there is no point in the universe that we discover by the methods of science, there is a point that we can give the universe by the way we live, by loving each other, by discovering things about nature, by creating works of art."

Quoted in Frankenberry The Faith of Scientists: In Their Own Words (2008), p. 336

My Wikipedia efforts[edit]

I am here at Wikipedia to create (useful, encyclopedic) content that people will want to know more about), to encourage others who support the great Wikipedia project, and also to defend Wikipedia policies about WP:BLP (for example) when people come here to "right a great wrong" by adding poorly sourced negative material to bios of those they dislike.

Here are some articles I created or expanded[edit]

Here are some WP:BLPs where I have tried to maintain NPOV, BLP, and WEIGHT[edit]

  • Al Giordano: Leftist activist who fought with Bernie Sanders supporters on his Twitter feed.
  • Lawrence Krauss: Physicist, book author inc. The Physics of Star Trek, atheist, provocateur.
  • Naomi Wu: Shenzhen-based woman Maker who uses social media to talk about wearable tech she creates.
  • Simone Giertz: Woman inventor of useless "useful" inventions
  • Joy Reid: Black woman journalist whose decade-old blog has been mined for embarrassing comments.
  • Laura Moser: Texas Congressional candidate whose article became a COATRACK for political POV edits.
  • Gloria Allred: Lawyer who stages events for press to get attention for her clients.
  • Devi Sridhar: Global public health expert who has criticized US and UK on coronavirus.

Another hobby is to improve articles at AfD if WP:RS show they are notable[edit]

  • Steven Christopher Parker. Not very notable actor but notable as writer/producer/director IMO.
  • Olga Clark: Colorful muse to chess legend Capablanca and 3 other husbands besides.
  • Belinda Ferrari: distinguished microbiologist whose work sheds light on astrobiology.
  • Dorothy Cheney (scientist): Distinguished (NAS etc.) scientist who studies primates.
  • Shawna McCarthy: Won Hugo Prize (nominated 3 times won once) but placed in AfD as "just doing her job, no indications of notability."
  • Carrie Anderson: This article draft had been rejected several times, but I was able to find RS citations for her multiple awards, so it was finally accepted as an article.
  • Helen Woodrow Bones: Woodrow Wilson's cousin, served as "surrogate First Lady" for 16 months between death of his first wife and his second marriage. The article was featured at DYK on September 20, 2018. Wow 12,366 page views![2]
  • Suhai Aziz Talpur: Her article AfDed in May 2018 but resurrected in November when she became media hero leading police defense that saved Chinese embassy in Karachi, Pakistan from terrorists.
  • Worldware: 1990s concept that inspired educators' thinking on software. I had AfDed it, but others found useful RS hidden by mentions, so using these I built a maybe-useful article.
  • Margarita Brender Rubira: Pioneering woman architect in the 1960s. Article was in bad shape but I found good RS via es-wiki, ca-wiki, and ro-wiki.
  • Elaine J. Coates: First African-American to graduate from UMD, her story and multiple honors described in RS.
  • Samantha Vinograd: CNN foreign affairs specialist, whose opinions are widely cited in other RS. Article still in bad shape tho AfD was closed.
  • Martha West: Feminist lawyer whose reports on gendered hiring were discussed in NYT and elsewhere, dismissed by nom as "not notable."
  • Keren Bergman: Electrical engineering prof with named chair at Columbia (AfDed despite clearly meeting NPROF), but I was able to find more RS to expand her bio and take off the "like a resume" tag.
  • H. Candace Gorman: Civil rights lawyer with lots of in-depth coverage for work on Chicago Police "street files" as well as being the "feisty Gitmo lawyer."
  • Kerstin Emhoff: producer of films and commercials, won an Emmy, head of a jury for Cannes Lions, but AfDed because she got recent trivial coverage as the ex-wife of the husband of Kamala Harris.
  • Marquita Bradshaw: environmental-justice candidate who became first Black woman to win a major party's statewide primary in Tennessee. Others at AfD agreed that this milestone and her "astonishing upset victory"(AP) over DSCC-favored candidate, first upstart in a decade to beat the DSCC-backed candidate, added up to two major achievements and BASIC. Her male Republican opponent-to-be, who has also never won office, of course has an article that wasn't AfDed.
  • Victoria Hawkins: actress known for Geordie "tart with a heart" roles. Found lots more coverage by searching for "Vicky Hawkins" and "Victoria Temperley."

Just for the fun of it[edit]

I add information about series I enjoy, for example

I value Wikipedia very much. If I make mistakes, and I do sometimes, please let me know. HouseOfChange (talk) 03:07, 9 April 2018 (UTC)

Wikipedia tilde mathematics[edit]

Two tildes ~~

Three tildes HouseOfChange (talk)

Four tildes HouseOfChange (talk) 03:56, 19 March 2014 (UTC)

Five tildes 03:56, 19 March 2014 (UTC)

Ha! So in Wikipedia tilde-land, 3 + 5 = 4.

Please post messages on my talk page, not my userpage[edit]

Where is my talk page? Here it is: User_talk:HouseOfChange

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