User:Ruhrfisch/Pages

Pages I have made or substantially added to:

Chemistry Related

• stir bar - since it is my User name, it seemed kind of obvious (my first article)
• William A. Noyes - my first biography of a recipient of the American Chemical Society's Priestley Medal
• Francis P. Garvan - the only non-scientist to recieve the Priestley Medal (a lawyer)

Children's Literature

• Kipper the Dog - I am the parent of a small child who likes this show
  • Chris Lang a voice actor on Kipper the Dog's TV show

Rivers

• Meander - added Meander ratio
• Relief ratio - basically slope, to get rid of red links in creek articles

Germany

• Gernrode - I cleaned up, corrected, and expanded the English version of the page (based on the German version and other sources and links listed)
  • Gero - he founded the church at Gernrode, plus I like the word 'Margrave'
• Power Station Westerholt - I found this lonely stub and translated the rest of the German Wikipedia article, like Gernrode I have never been there...
• Neues Museum - a lot of translation / cleanup, the German article is excellent, maybe someday this will be too...
• Bälau - a stub about a village in Schleswig-Holstein I found and translated at WP:PNT

Creeks and Places in Pennsylvania

• Lycoming County, Pennsylvania - the Geography section, plus all the locator maps for all 53 municipalities
  • Larrys Creek - probably the article I have worked hardest on to date, and my first Featured Article (but don't take my word for it... WP:FA)
    • Pennsylvania Route 287 - starts at the mouth of Larrys Creek and follows it north, then into Tioga County
  • Loyalsock Creek - an amazing creek
    • Loyalsock Trail - for hiking along...and up and down (a lot)
  • Lycoming Creek - no one else had done it and it got me started on creeks
  • Muncy Creek - started life as a redirect to the township
  • Pine Creek - the biggest 'creek' in the US (and someday the biggest creek article on Wikipedia?)
  • White Deer Hole Creek - great name, the article I have the most edits on and my second Featured Article
    • Pennsylvania Route 554 - the route into the White Deer Hole valley from South Williamsport
  • Pennsylvania Route 973 - Starts at Pine Creek, crosses Larrys Creek, Lycoming Creek, and finally Loyalsock Creek (and ends there)
  • Little Pine State Park - let's dam one of the nicest creeks in the region!
  • Susquehanna State Park (Pennsylvania) - 20 acres along the river, now with a fake paddlewheeler!
  • Upper Pine Bottom State Park - basically a picnic area and parking lot
• Crooked Creek (Pennsylvania) - in Tioga County, originally made it to get rid of a red link in Larrys Creek
• Lancaster County, Pennsylvania - watersheds, protected places, lots of copyedits
  • Transportation in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania - the Native American paths are mine, Choess wrote the more interesting stuff on canals and, wait for it... trains ;-)
  • Chiques Creek - also known as Chickies Creek, a shout out to all my Chickies and peeps in Lebanon and Lancaster Counties
  • Cocalico Creek - I say that name and just smile - Lancaster County creek names are great
  • Conewago Creek - both the east (in Lancaster Co.) and west (in York Co.) creeks
  • Susquehannock State Park - Lancaster County's only state park - although they do have 10 acres of Valley Forge State Forest
• National Civil War Museum in Harrisburg, PA
• Central Mountains Shared Use Trails System - got rid of a red link in White Deer Hole Cree

Pennsylvania Railroad Articles

• Steamtown National Historic Site in Scranton, PA - Woohoo! this was featured in Portal:Trains/Did you know/August 2005
  • F. Nelson Blount - founder of Steamtown
• Stourbridge Railroad - cleaned up a stub I found looking for a model short line article
• North Shore Railroad - namesake of the North Shore Railroad system that also operates the next six lines
• Lycoming Valley Railroad - to get rid of a red link in the Larrys Creek article
• Union County Industrial Railroad - to get rid of a red link in the White Deer Hole Creek article
• Juniata Valley Railroad - why stop at four?
• Nittany and Bald Eagle Railroad - runs along beautiful Bald Eagle Creek
• Shamokin Valley Railroad - runs along (inset adjective here please, one fails me) Shamokin Creek
• Wellsboro and Corning Railroad - OK, it does run into New York State too

Native American Paths in Pennsylvania

• Culbertson's Path - ran along White Deer Hole Creek
• Great Island Path - another White Deer Hole Creek path
• Great Shamokin Path - crosses Larrys Creek (and a lot of other creeks)
• Sheshequin Path - got rid of a red link in White Deer Hole Creek, even though it runs along Lycoming Creek
• Wyalusing Path - clean up in aisle 12!

Protected Areas in Pennsylvania

• 21 Pennsylvania State Forest articles
  • Conrad Weiser Area School District - to get rid of a red link in Weiser State Forest (I'm older, but not Weiser)
• I made this template map of State Parks in Pennsylvania - each dot is wikilinked to the corresponding state park article (cool):

   

• Allegheny Islands State Park - fixed and expanded this, on three islands in the river near Pittsburgh, inaccessible with no plans for development
• List of Pennsylvania state parks - trying to get it to featured list status
  • Recreation Demonstration Area - a 1930s federal program to get rid of red links in List of PA state parks ;-)

Places in Ohio

• Stubs for each township in Hancock County, Ohio (17 total)
• Stubs for the following Hancock County School Districts: Arcadia, Arlington, Cory-Rawson, Liberty-Benton, McComb, Van Buren, and Vanlue
• A stub for Hardin-Northern school district in Hardin County (all to make red links blue)
• Pymatuning State Park (Ohio) - the old article was on both the Pennsylvania and Ohio state parks, so I cleaned up the PA article and made this stub

Places in Tennessee

• Warriors' Path State Park - got rid of a red link and was the other end of a dab for Warriors Path State Park in PA