This is a list of articles that I started or significantly contributed to. Some of the articles that I did not start, but contributed to were in pretty bad shape when I started and the reason I list them here is that I updated the majority of the content, removed invalid/unreliable sources, added better, reliable sources, and other general copy editing in a significant enough way to improve the article from where it was when I started. I'd like to get them to GA status. I currently have taken one article to GA (The Chosen).
Some of the list articles were splits from existing articles, but others I started from scratch. I wrote a python script to get episodes from epguides.com and put them into a wikimarkup scaffolding to start an episode table. Some of the list articles I started are of that nature.
A large portion of this work is part of my passion for working within the Television and Westerns WikiProjects. The Westerns project was abandoned some time ago, but I worked on reviving it. It still has relatively few members, but since it is mostly curation and organizational in nature, a lot of the necessary work gets picked up by related projects (such as the TV, Film, and Radio projects).
Some of the articles I started are fringe subjects. Having read a lot of academic work on the history of Christian Identity and related topics, I find that there are a lot of editors that miss the important nuances of differences between various labeled organizations. Dealing with hate groups requires understanding the difference in their belief systems. Assuming that every fringe group is the same is what led to tragic outcomes like Ruby Ridge and Waco. It is particularly hard because journalists tend to lump them all into a single bucket as well, which makes things difficult on Wikipedia because this circular sourcing is taken at face value since the source is "reliable". Context is important.
An Easter Story - The final episode of the first season of The Waltons. It was also the first two-hour show of the series. The article was requested by the Television WikiProject.
Opie the Birdman - The first episode of the fourth season of The Andy Griffith Show. It aired on CBS on September 9, 1963. In the episode, Opie accidentally kills a mother songbird and bears the responsibility of rearing her three young birds. The episode was #27 in TV Guide's ''Top 100 Episodes of All Time'' 1997 list and moved up to #18 when the list was revised in 2009. The article was requested by the Television WikiProject.
Bonanza and Gunsmoke have significantly long episode list articles, which is not surprising since they ran for 14 and 20 seasons, respectively. The list article for Gunsmoke also happens to be a featured list article (WP:FL). However, since its approval for featured status, it had a significant run of editing that added a lot of tangential information (fancruft) that is not suitable for list articles and was nominated to remove featured status. In order to prevent that downgrade, I began working on the article. This ultimately led to breaking off season articles with episode lists that could be transcluded in the main list article. There was enough content incorporated into the individual seasons to justify notability for each season. That led to a similar project for Bonanza which had essentially the same problem.
Note: I completely re-did the Gunsmoke articles. There were previously written articles for some of the initial seasons, which were changed to redirects later. All of the remaining seasons existed as redirects. Due to my impatience in getting the project done for addressing the featured list concerns, I simply worked new articles in picking up at the existing redirects rather than wait to do a technical move for starting a new article.
William J. Cameron - Cameron was a newspaper man who most notably worked for Henry Ford in the publishing of Ford's newspaper, The Dearborn Independent. In that vein, his notoriety is that of being the fall-guy for Ford in the publishing of The International Jew, a series of pamphlets that were reprinted articles from the Dearborn Independent. He's probably less well known for his involvement in the promotion of British Israelism and that branching off of Christian Identity. Some of his ideas and work was a catalyst for the offshoot of Christian Identity from BI. Interestingly, later in life he left that view and became a minister in the Unity Church movement.
E. Raymond Capt - Capt was a major figure in developing the Anglo-Israel views within Christian Identity. His father, S.J. Capt, was instrumental in the early days of CI emerging from British Israelism on the US West Coast, and had a direct influence on Wesley Swift.
San Jacinto Capt - S. J. Capt was a difficult figure to source properly. However, given the influence he had over the three main Christian Identity figures (known by Michael Barkun as "the triumvirate"), he is certainly notable. He is credited with converting William Potter Gale, Wesley A. Swift, and Richard Girnt Butler to Christian Identity and essentially introducing them all to each other, as well as other figures such as Tom Metzger, Gerald L. K. Smith, and others. Generally, he is in the background as an influencer, so only very detailed works tend to mention him. More cursory CI sources focus only on those that were his students who rose to prominence. He was the father of E. Raymond Capt.
Christian Defense League - A Christian Identity organization conceived of by S. J. Capt, and started by Capt and Gale, or Comparet and Butler, depending on who is telling the story.
Bertrand Comparet - Comparet was a significant figure in Christian Identity. As a lawyer (and former asst DA), he handled legal work for other CI figures during the early emergence of CI as a movement. Later, he also spent time as a CI minister and author.
Sheldon Emry - Emry was a key figure in the advancement of Christian Identity in the 1970s and 1980s. Unlike some of his contemporaries, like Richard Butler, he was not prone to violence.
Ferrar Fenton - Fenton was an interesting character. Not having formal religious training, some might find it surprising that he personally edited an entire translation of the Bible into English. He claimed to know 25 languages and dialects, some of them ancient, such as Hebrew, Greek, and Aramaic. His Bible translation is unique in that he orders the books more like the Hebrew Bible for the Old Testament and into chronological order for the New Testament.
Conrad Gaard - Gaard was a key figure in the transition of West Coast British Israelism to the emergence of Christian Identity. His major contribution was the introduction of the serpent seed doctrine, which posits that Cain was the offspring of an adulterous union between Eve and the serpent. Gaard's view of this doctrine was that the serpent was a pre-Adamite and was under the authority of Satan.
William Potter Gale - Gale is a person that some would consider dangerous. If not personally violent and dangerous, he certainly is responsible for violent racism both while he was alive, as well as being the leader of a movement that would spawn some of today's most extreme hate groups. He started the Church of Jesus Christ, Christian, which, following his death became the religious arm of Aryan Nations, led by Richard Girnt Butler. He was also one of the founders of the Posse Comitatus movement.
Nordic Israelism - This is a re-do of an article that was deleted. The original article was started by an indeffed user banned for copyright infringement and all of their articles have been deleted. I am writing a new article to replace the one that was removed.
Ralph Lord Roy - Roy was a pacifist minister who wrote in opposition to what he perceived as a growing threat of white supremacy and racism in the mid-20th century America. He marched with MLK, Jr. and participated as a Freedom Rider. He wrote one of the earliest works on Christian Identity (one of the earliest works about Christian Identity from outside CI itself).
Carole C. Carlson - American writer and ghost writer best known for writing The Late Great Planet Earth.
Frank A. Clark - Frank Clark published a syndicated single panel cartoon strip known as The Country Parson from 1955 until his death in 1991.
Unregistered Baptist Fellowship - Unregistered Baptist Fellowship is a loosely organized (and somewhat unknown) group of essentially fundamentalist Baptist churches that do not believe in registering as a 501(c)3 corporation on the grounds that the church is a religious organization and therefore not subject to the rule of man.
The Chosen (TV series) - I did not start this article. However, over the past 3 years, I have contributed 40% of the edits and 56% of the readable prose, taking it from start-class to GA. It was a small article when I started, and I worked on replacing half of the original cited sources that were mostly primary sources and others not meeting RS criteria. I expanded the content from around 800 words to about 4400 words of readable prose and contributed approximately 60 additional reliable sources and a significant number of citations. Throughout the process, I had it independently reviewed for both C-class and B-class assessments and used suggestions from those reviews to work on getting it to GA status.
Russell Doughten - Russell Doughten is "the godfather" of indie filmmaking in Iowa. Probably best known for A Thief in the Night (another article I have heavily contributed to), he made several other films. Another of his well-known works was the 1958 sci-fi class The Blob. This is another article that was essentially stub class when I started working on it, so I didn't create the article itself, but rather, expanded it to C class (presently), contributing more than half of the content.
Donald W. Thompson - This article was basically a stub when I came across it. I expanded it as best I could, getting it to (currently) start class, contributing the majority of the current article content. Donald W. Thompson is probably best known for his work on A Thief in the Night with Russell Doughten. If you grew up Evangelical or Fundamentalist in the 70s, no doubt your church probably had a showing of that film (and likely its sequels) at some point.
Joe Pickett (TV series) - I did not start the article, but I finished it to get it out of draft. It was created as a stub and quickly moved into draft space and rejected for notability reasons when I picked it up after the original author simply didn't come back to solve the article's issues. At the time, it certainly was notable, but the original author hadn't taken the time to establish that notability through reliable sources. Following that initial rejection, I completed the article to a point where it could pass out of the draft space.
Better Living Through TV - the 7th episode of The Honeymooners. The episode was #7 in TV Guide's ''Top 100 Episodes of All Time'' 2009 list.
I'll Be Waving as You Drive Away - This is the episode of Little House on the Prairie where Mary goes blind. The episode is listed in both TV Guide "greatest" lists (1997 and 2009). It garnered an Emmy nomination for Melissa Sue Anderson (Mary Ingalls).
List of Bat Masterson episodes - Split from main article Bat Masterson (TV series)
Frank A. Clark - Frank Clark published a syndicated single panel cartoon strip known as The Country Parson from 1955 until his death in 1991.
Dispensationalism - Was C-class when I started; have currently contributed over 39% of the text and 22% of the total edits.
The Chosen (TV series) - I did not start this article. However, over the past 3 years, I have contributed 40% of the edits and 56% of the readable prose, taking it from start-class to GA. It was a small article when I started, and I worked on replacing half of the original cited sources that were mostly primary sources and others not meeting RS criteria. I expanded the content from around 800 words to about 4400 words of readable prose and contributed approximately 60 additional reliable sources and a significant number of citations. Throughout the process, I had it independently reviewed for both C-class and B-class assessments and used suggestions from those reviews to work on getting it to GA status.
