User:Dugan Murphy

I scanned this for Wikimedia from a John Neal children's story

My name is Dugan Murphy (he/him) and I am really into John Neal (writer). I overhauled that article on two occasions 14 years apart and then saw it through to featured article status. I also created new articles and lists for Neal's bibliography, his articles in periodicals, his magazine The Yankee, his friend Tobias Watkins, the Delphian Club he co-founded with Watkins, his longest work of literary criticism American Writers, and his novels Seventy-Six, Rachel Dyer, Logan, and Brother Jonathan. The articles about Watkins and their club are good. The rest are featured articles and featured lists.

I sometimes overhaul existing articles on history topics, like Hoffman's Course of Legal Study, Green Memorial A.M.E. Zion Church (good), Benjamin Jackson (sailor) (featured), and the African Civilization Society (good). I sometimes write new articles contemporary topics, like my favorite DIY boy band, Oshima Brothers (good); my favorite Swede, Fredy Clue (good); and my favorite inanimate product of Sweden, Bäckadräkten (featured).

Occasionally I'll pull an image from an old, public domain book or take a photo of a historic building and upload it to Wikimedia Commons so I can add it to improve a Wikipedia article. Because of my experience nominating articles, I sometimes participate in peer reviews and review nominations for good and featured status.

I also lead historical walking tours of Portland, Maine, as Portland by the Foot.

I always have a hard time finding these links when I need them, so I keep them here: Template:DYK checklist, Copyvio detector, and DYK noms by username.