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I have around 125 articles created or expanded from stubs or redirects. This doesn’t include dab pages, redirects, etc.

• East German balloon escape. I watched a TV dramatization of this event, which I remembered from when it happened over forty year ago, went to read our article to see how accurate the program was and was astonished to find there wasn’t one. So I wrote it (March 2018), and it has received 20,000 views both times it ran on OTD.

• Fred Thomas (athlete) is another “missing article”; I say that because there so many articles on athletes with questionable notability yet this one didn’t exist until I wrote it (November 2019) after seeing a story somewhere online.

• Kerima (actress) has an interesting story. Her ethnicity was publicized inaccurately for promotional reasons since 1951 and if you had Googled her before I wrote this article (January 2016), you would probably have thought she was Algerian. My digging uncovered a couple of sources that explained the true story, and with this article, Google will now tell you she is French. I happened upon her when fixing dab links to Kerima.

• Firoza Begum (actress) is not a very important article, but I still remember it as quite satisfying to add seven sources to the one it had which led to a keep at AFD.

• Schools at War was another I really enjoyed writing. I attempted to make that a GA, but a reviewed identified several books that might fill in some missing parts and I was unwilling to buy them or try to get them from a library.

• Ronald J. Shurer, a US Army Medal of Honor recipient. A stub was created the day his MOH was announced. The next day, I expanded the article 8x and it ran on DYK a week later on the day of the award ceremony at the White House. It received over 40,000 views, my best DYK ever.