User:DeLarge
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| 6 November 2024 |
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Notable contributions... [edit] | |
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 | My peer review of Talbot Tagora was one of the first small steps which helped User:Bravada, User:Outriggr and others to bring the page to featured status. I was awarded a userbox and barnstar for my contributions, although my active involvement in editing the article was minimal.[1][2] |
 | My expansion/rewrite of the list of bestselling vehicle nameplates led to it being cited as a source by The New Zealand Herald.[3][4] |
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 | My expansion of Ten O'Clock Classics using the cited content from Ronen Segev, which had been speedily deleted and locked by User:Jimbo Wales,[6] protected the article from accusations of being unreferenced,[7] and deletion.[8] |
| My expansion of Frank Westmore protected the article from the threats of prodding and redirecting,[9][10] and accusations of being unreferenced.[11] |
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| My three small contributions to snail racing helped User:Violetriga expand the article after it was tagged for speedy deletion.[13] |
| My creation of Ghost Blows Out the Light led to it being cited as a source by BeyondHollywood.com.[14][15] |
| My creation of You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again led to it being passed as a Good Article.[16] |
Did You Know...? [edit] | |
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 | ... that Mitsubishi Motors manufactures a keicar simply named "i"? (August 11, 2006), expansion/rewrite, talk page |
| ... that rally driver Lucien Bianchi, who had driven across 10,000 miles of treacherous terrain on three continents in only 24 days without incident, crashed out of the lead of the 1968 London-Sydney Marathon with only 150 miles of well-surfaced public roads left to the finish? (November 14, 2006), creation, talk page |
| ... that Erica Larson, a chemist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, won the Pikes Peak mountain marathon five times in six years between 1999 and 2004, more than any other woman in the event's history? (June 12, 2007), creation, talk page |
| ... that the perpetrators of the largest bank robbery in Chinese history spent almost all the US$6.7 million they embezzled on lottery tickets, in the hope of winning back even more than they had stolen? (August 15, 2007), creation, talk page |
| ... that American entrepreneur Timothy Dexter defied the popular idiom and actually made a profit when he sold coal to Newcastle? (April 1, 2008), creation, talk page |
| ... that after losing to Tiger Woods in the 1994 U.S. Amateur Championship, amateur golfer Trip Kuehne pursued a career in finance in lieu of professional golf? (April 25, 2008), creation, talk page |
| ... that ATF undercover agent William Queen infiltrated the Mongols motorcycle gang so successfully that he was elected treasurer and vice-president of his chapter? (May 20, 2008), creation, talk page |
| ... that the Webster ruling is a legal precedent clarified by the Court of Arbitration for Sport in 2008, which extends to professional footballers in Europe the same contractual freedom of movement as workers in other industries? (May 30, 2008), creation, talk page |
| ... that Bruno Sacco, the Italian-born head of styling at Daimler-Benz between 1975 and 1999, considers his design of the 1991 Mercedes-Benz S-Class luxury car to be four inches (10 cm) too tall? (June 11, 2008), creation, talk page |
| ... that John Boylan, who won an acting award in the play On the Harmful Effects of Tobacco, eventually died of lung cancer? (June 22, 2008), creation, talk page |
| ... that the bankruptcy of property fund owner William Stern with debts of £118 million led directly to the creation of Britain's first Policyholders' Protection Act in 1975? (November 26, 2008), creation |
| ... that it took the publisher's lawyers 14 months to approve the publication of You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again, Julia Phillips' scandalous autobiography? (December 24, 2008), creation, talk page |
| ... that Randal Kleiser saved money shooting his student film Peege by using the studio offices of a Steven Spielberg television movie which had wrapped ahead of schedule? (January 11, 2009), creation, talk page |
| ... that Phil Packer, who was rendered paraplegic in 2008 by a rocket attack while serving in the Iraq War, has since rowed the English Channel, climbed El Capitan, and completed two London Marathons? (May 15, 2010), creation, talk page |
| ... that the Philippe Starck-designed A has been described as both "the most extraordinary yacht launched in recent memory" and "one of the ghastliest megayachts ever created"? (March 1, 2012), creation, talk page |
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