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Now that I'm teaching full-time, I'm not around Wikipedia on a day-to-day basis anymore, but feel free to leave a note on my Talk page if you have some article ideas to which you think I could make a useful contribution. I'll do what I can during my next bout of wiki-itis. Lawikitejana 03:53, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
A little tiny bit of bragging: The featured biography for Portal:Dallas for April 2007 is Stanley Marcus, summarizing an article I created after someone on the Neiman-Marcus article's Talk page complained that the N-M article overstated his importance to the fashion industry.
A tiny bit more ... an article to which I made substantial contributions, Byron Nelson, has been promoted to Good Article status as of today.Lawikitejana 02:50, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
Yet again ... the "Did you know ...?" feature for August 10, 2007, included an item from the David Leeson article I had written. Lawikitejana 09:05, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
The Stanley Marcus piece is now officially a Good Article!Lawikitejana (talk) 04:11, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
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Stanley Marcus - Dallas retailer admitted to Advertising Hall of Fame <-- a summary of this article was used as the Featured Biography for Portal:Dallas in April 2007
Segundo Montes, Morazan, about a Salvadoran community named for the martyred Jesuit professor
Michael Mayer, Broadway director -- was watching the Tonys the year he and Spring Awakening won, and was amazed to find he had no article despite multiple Tony nominations over the years
"Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair," a remarkable blues song originated by Bessie Smith that I couldn't believe didn't have an article with all that's been written about it
James Madison High School (Dallas) - added considerable historical information about the school and building dating back to its construction in 1916 as Forest Avenue High School
Texas Country Reporter - feature stories on people and places of rural Texas - still on the air after 35 years
I have been experimenting lately with the following tasks:
Using the "random article" navigation to find articles to edit, particularly with respect to assessing biographical articles and adding wikilinks to content.
Going through sets of book and biography articles to ensure the appropriate WikiProject template has been added to the talk page.
Working on a select set of politically and/or religiously charged articles relating to U.S. popular culture (books, TV, major speakers) and controversial issues and trying to improve the NPOV orientation. I believe this is especially important to do with respect to strengthening articles on positions to which one is opposed, because championing a position in the outside non-NPOV world is much more satisfying when one knows other positions have been well portrayed and given the opportunity of serious consideration.
Stanley Marcus - Dallas retailer admitted to Advertising Hall of Fame <-- a summary of this article was used as the Featured Biography for Portal:Dallas in April 2007
