User:Clovermoss/Content

I try to write and improve content sometimes because Wikipedia is an encyclopedia. There are people who are better at it than me (I've never written an FA!) but I do try to pitch in where I can be useful. This subpage is dedicated to keeping track of all this since 30,000+ edits can be a bit difficult to navigate.

This user has helped promote 2 good articles on Wikipedia.

This user has been a major contributor to 5 articles featured in the Did you know... section on the Main Page.

This user has created 51 articles on Wikipedia.

Articles I've started

GAs

Katherine Hughes (activist) – This was my first ever article and SkyGazer 512 was incredibly helpful with suggestions that eventually lead to it being accepted through AfC. Then, they helped me with a DYK nomination and this article was displayed on the main page on June 24, 2019. This article was promoted to a good article on August 8, 2021. I have a book that is a biography of her life that would be useful for further expansion.
Ketchup chip – Written and promoted in 2024

B-class

Creatable World – This is a gender-neutral doll line by Mattel.
First home savings account – Savings account in Canada

C-class

Moss lawn – I may have started this article, but HLHJ wrote most of the content currently there.
Burgoyne Bridge – This is a bridge in St. Catharines. I hope to find more sources to write about the early history of the bridge someday.
Racial segregation in Canada – An article that did not exist in 2023.
Fun Guyz – An article about a business selling illegal drugs
Rock 'n Play – Infant sleeper connected with 100 infant deaths.
Clover Point – Park in Victoria, British Columbia, DYK.

Start class

Compagnons de Saint-Laurent – This is second article that I ever tried to write. It's not as impressive as Katherine Hughes and I made the initial mistake of choosing an article from fr.wikipedia to translate that did not have many inline citations. I've since cut down on the unreferenced portions but the article is a mess and I'm not that proud of it. I have bought a book in French that goes into the history of the company and I hope to eventually use it as a source.
Toponym'elles – A database used in Montreal to improve toponymic representation of women.
Niagara Falls Convention Centre – A place where large events are held in Niagara Falls, Ontario.
Niagara Square (shopping centre) – This was a requested article.
Project Surname – This was formerly a redirect. I noticed that this was a requested article so I tried to create an article. The underlying background is horrifying. I have access to a book that may be useful in further expansion.
Victoria Pickett – An athlete whose name was included as a redlink that I found as part of Women in Red. Other editors have expanded the article since its creation.
Sadie (novel) – I created this as a stub, credit should be given to Significa liberdade for most of the reception section
Lamb v Benoit – This was a legal case in Quebec involving one of Jehovah's Witnesses.
Morningstar Mill – This was a redlink I noticed in another article. It's also a place I've visited in real life.
Brown Homestead – The oldest building in St. Catharines.
Shickluna Shipyard – A former shipyard in St. Catharines.
Persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia – My former religion is currently illegal in Russia. The article currently is a mess of content copied from elsewhere and needs a major rewrite. It's a very barebones article right now. One day I'll read a book I have about JWs and their perseverance under persecution in this country, which will hopefully lead to a more informative article.
Clover lawn – A lawn trend that I would totally use if I had my own lawn. I wrote this article while I was running for RfA.
Pokémon Bank – The 3DS equivalent to Pokémon Home
St. Catharines Library – Exactly what it sounds like :)
Checkout charity – Fundraising method.
Kiska (orca) – Orca that lost all five of her calves and was alone for the last twelve years of her life at Marineland of Canada.
No kid zone – Places where children are banned, DYK.
Thorold Public Library – Another article that's exactly what it sounds like.
Canada Games Park – Sports venue in Thorold used for hosting the Canada Summer Games
Niagara-on-the-Lake Public Library – Exactly what it sounds like
Betty Brussel – 100 year old woman known for competitive swimming
Grape and Wine Festival – Annual event in St. Catharines

Stubs

I have complicated feelings about stubs that have evolved over time. I used to see them as a bit of a stain compared to more "perfect" articles and guilty that I created them at all. However, perfection is the enemy of good. I'd like to think in most circumstances, something is better than nothing, along as it is accurate information. When I do write stubs, I don't write "substubs" that contain a single sentence. I'd say that most of my stubs are relatively close to start-class, they just need a little push. I come to back to my stubs every so often and try to make them better if I can.

Thérèse Cadorette – The first woman recognized by the Toponym'elles database
Kid Food – A book about the lack of healthy food given to children. I read it and I remember it being interesting. It goes a bit into the national lunch program of the US, the early history of "kid's menus", advertising and marketing targeting children, etc.
A Girl Like That (novel)
The Beauty of the Moment
Women's Franchise Act
Fairview Cemetery, Niagara Falls
St. George's Anglican Church, St. Catharines
Tanaz Bhathena
Joie de vivre (album) – Translated from fr.wikipedia, created from a redirect
As a Woman
Hunted by the Sky
Aftershocks (memoir)
Jellyfish Barge
St. Catharines Armoury
Oakes Park, Niagara Falls
Zoe Knox – Academic
Kylee Russell – Actress
St. Catharines Collegiate – High school

Articles I've improved

This editor has improved 85 articles

This is a list of edits I'm proud of that have been what I have considered to be some form of substantial improvement, beyond basic gnomery. It's organized from most recent to oldest:

Paul the apostle – I added this paragraph [1]
Children in the Holocaust – reorganized to be more readable and added content about Jehovah's Witnesses
Jehovah's Witnesses in the United States – major rewrite
Ontario Library Association – trimmed considerably [2]
Wisdom (albatross) – added sentence about her egg at 74 years old
Seneca the Younger – removed unreliable sources
Laura Secord Secondary School – added citations to secondary sources, slight expansion, removed promotional content
Governor Simcoe Secondary School – removed promotional content, addressed primary sources tag from 2009, expanded
Parental investment – removed undersourced content that made broad statements about women [3]
Pleasant Bay (Maine) – added citations to completely unsourced article
Dog meat – more accurately reflected status in Canada
Lewiston Public Library (New York) – added image and removed unsourced content
Mat Siscoe – uploaded photo, slight expansion
Niagara Cantilever Bridge – rewrite
McDonald's Canada – rewrite to be more encyclopedic, source verification
Clichettes – less promotional, more focused to notable performances, slight expansion
Energy drink – added content about regulation in Canada
Congregation B'nai Israel (St. Catharines) – expanded
Leffert L. Buck – expanded article
Whirlpool Rapids Bridge – remove uncited information and used book source
A. N. Myer Secondary School – major rewrite
Regional Municipality of Niagara – added content about human trafficking
List of air rage incidents – removed content not present in sources
Signal (messaging app) – added content about countries that blocked it in 2024
Hematogen – slight expansion
Snack – reorganized and added content about Canada
Concerns and controversies at the 2024 Summer Olympics – started sports journalism section
Betting shop – added content
Niagara Falls Public Library (Ontario) – updated and expanded (it was three sentences when I started and I'm very proud of what I've been able to accomplish here)
Steven van de Velde – added content
Age segregation – added content
Stillbirth – added content about the United States
Thorold Secondary School – added content, removed unsourced information, added citations
Thorold – slight expansion and added citations for unreferenced content
Yellow-tailed black cockatoo – added content about a newly discovered all-yellow bird
Niagara Region Transit – added content and references to secondary sources
Convention on the Rights of the Child – added content about South Korea
Painted bat – added content about hunting and near threatened status
Greater Fort Erie Secondary School – addressed primary sources tag
Homeschooling – removed content cited to blogs and added some content cited to reliable sources.
Dynamic pricing – article was full of promotional nonsense before I trimmed it substantially and reorganized it in a logical way.
Single parent – removed a lot of content with poor sourcing and some questionable phrasing. I also added content about people who become single parents by choice (e.g. women using artificial insemination) and context about why US divorce rates suddenly increased (no fault divorce).
Marineland of Canada – various edits
Insects as food – added content in aversion section to address concerns written on the talk page.
Embryo donation – various edits
Budgerigar – removed poorly sourced content and rewrote content with citation needed tags.
Declaration of Facts – major rewrite
Euthanasia in Canada – massive trim of tangentially related content, reorganized content for better flow, and fleshed out some of the criticism.
Destinies of the Soul – rewrote and expanded from stub, DYK
Education in Ontario – major rewrite and expansion
Shoppers Drug Mart – removed some promotional text, added content about the MedsCheck scandal
Eviction – added content about renoviction
IP address – created law section
Maiden and married names – made the article less disorganized and more readable
Caesarean section – added content about a western lowland gorilla in the "special cases" section and created the "other animals" section in pre-eclampsia
Stardew Valley – added content
ServiceOntario – updated
Staples Canada – added references, updated
Winter Festival of Lights – destubbed
Niagara Glen – destubbed
Jehovah's Witnesses' handling of child sex abuse – Removed 15,000 bytes of primary sources like press releases and the religion's own publications [4]
Montebello Park – added citations to essentially unsourced article, slight expansion
Wedding – added content about the "wedding tax" [5]
Downtown St. Catharines – still working on this one, too
Garden City Skyway – updated
Nintendo 3DS – updated
Toronto Transit Commission – added content about violence directed at employees [6]
Charles Daniels (activist) – helped make the article more encyclopedic
Eden High School – added sourced content about the early history of the school, uploaded a photograph depicting it
Welland House Hotel – major improvements to the article's content (expansion, fixing unreferenced statements, etc)
Niagara Falls, Ontario – Still working on this, but I have made some improvements.
Kilt and Clover – Made this more in line with what one expects from a Wikipedia article.
Infantilization – added some brief content about elder rights [7] and ableism [8]
Jehovah's Witnesses in Canada – various edits
Shreddies – less promotional
Jehovah's Witnesses and governments – various edits
St. Catharines – Still working on this, but I have made some improvements.
North Grenville District High School – Accepted and improved AfC submission
Iron supplementation – Created the Frequent blood donors section, added journal refs to food interactions
Jehovah's Witnesses – started gender roles section, removed more than 130 primary sources, added content supported by reliable sources. The article was already a GA when I started working on it but would've easily been delisted if I hadn't made efforts to improve it. I hope to eventually get the article to featured article status. All of my edits can be seen here.
Shaw Festival – The article had quite a bit of promotional text before I started editing. There was also several paragraphs of uncited information, which I fixed.
Alcohol and health – changed a questionable section name [9]. Might count as gnomery but it's something that stood out to me as a very important thing to change.
2019 in American music – I've made 50+ edits to this list/article, adding citations to the Deaths section to verify that those listed are actually dead. If I recall correctly, everyone was, but I did fix a few dates of death that were wrong.
PC Optimum – The first article that I consider myself to have made significant contributions to. I learned a lot about the basics of Wikipedia editing by citing sources and eventually removing a tag on the article.

DYK

On 24 June 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Katherine Hughes (activist), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Canadian journalist Katherine Hughes became Alberta's first provincial archivist, but later became a political activist, fighting for Irish self-determination? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Katherine Hughes (activist). You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Katherine Hughes (activist)), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

On 27 April 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Destinies of the Soul, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Destinies of the Soul was the only book that contained human skin in the collection of Harvard University? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Destinies of the Soul. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Destinies of the Soul), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

On 27 July 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Clover Point, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that untreated sewage was dumped directly into the ocean from Clover Point (pictured) until 2020? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Clover Point. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Clover Point), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

On 1 August 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article No kid zone, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the National Library of Korea is a no kid zone? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/No kid zone. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, No kid zone), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

On 8 October 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Betty Brussel, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Betty Brussel set three competitive swimming records on the same day at the age of 99? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Betty Brussel. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Betty Brussel), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.