User:Chiswick Chap/Rescues
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Here are a few of the articles I rescued, including some of the first things I ever did here, mainly those that ended up with a star of some kind. It's a particular pleasure when something saved from the trash ends up as a Good Article, and basically astonishing to all of us when one such gets from double-deletion to Featured Article.
Resurrected in various ways
- Martin Rundkvist (assisted with exhumation from double-deletion, all the way to FA)
- "The Man in the Moon Stayed Up Too Late" (extra 63%, straight after GA)
- "The Scouring of the Shire" (rewritten to GA)
- "The Tale of Aragorn and Arwen" * (resurrected to GA, with expert help on sources by Carcaroth)
- Patrick Curry * (resurrected to GA, I found out afterwards, had been double-deleted)
- Finwë and Míriel * (resurrected to GA)
- Kaivalyadhama (dePRODded, all the book sources)
- Plant defense against herbivory (rescued, pre-GAR)
- Updog redirect (saved at RfD)
Saved at AfD
This is a small and somewhat random sample of AfD interventions.
- White Aethiopians (saved at AfD straight to DYK, then GA) (Barnstar; one of the first things I ever did)
- Tuberculosis in human culture (restructure, almost all the refs, to GA)
- Maija Isola (upgrade to GA)
- Scarlet Harlets (rewrite + all the refs)
- Heller Furniture (rewritten)
- Salsta Castle (added sources from Salsta slott)
- Mythology of Stargate (scholarly materials, refs, images, i.e. anything that wasn't primary...)
- Troll (Middle-earth) (upgrade to GA)
- The Fellowship of the Ring (rewritten to GA)
- Wolf in sheep's clothing (zoology additions)
- Out of the frying pan into the fire (The Hobbit additions)
- The quick and the dead (saved to WP:HEY, fiction additions)
- 2010 Duke University faux sex thesis controversy (rewritten, most of the refs)
- Blandings Castle (list of refs)
- Knitting in literature (added Virginia Woolf, reknitted)
- AVR-Pii (retargeted)
- Deddington Castle
- Sivananda yoga (rescued, rewritten to GA, 7 years later)
Saved at FAR
Saved at GAR
Agriculture, food and drink
Biology
- Invasive species
- Catalytic triad (not destroyed by the reaction)
- Lipid bilayer
- Nepenthes rajah
- Protein (saved from having its globulins permanently crosslinked)
- Ctenophora (still shimmering)
- Histoire Naturelle (saved it from being dragged off to GAR)
- Flora of Scotland
- Lepidoptera
- Archaeoraptor
- Whale
- Acer rubrum
- Marsileaceae
- Ecology (snatched from the jaws of GAR, before they closed)
- Quoll
Culture
- The Tale of Peter Rabbit (saved from Mr McGregor)
- Eliminative materialism (saved from elimination)
- Metric system (made measurable, at least, I assisted)
- Batik
- The Cat in the Hat
- Anggun
- Green Knight
- High-pressure area
- Supermarine Spitfire (still flying)
- Pussy Riot (still telling'em)
- Mathematical economics (still counting)
- Astrology (still talkin')
- Human uses of reptiles (still crawlin')
- Ring a Ring o' Roses (still singin' 'n' 'dancin')
- Astronomy (still stargazin')
- Swaminarayan Akshardham (Delhi) (still sittin')
- Mermaid (still lurin')
- Harmondsworth Great Barn (still standin')
- Syntactic Structures
- Wind turbine
- The Devil Wears Prada
Places
- Canterbury (lifted siege)
- Helvellyn (still walkin')
- Shetland
- Richmond Park
- Mumbai
- Frome
- London
- People
- Eckhart Tolle
- Louise Nevelson (assisted)
- Gary Gygax (rescued from the dark dungeons)
- Gabriel García Márquez
- Vyacheslav Molotov
- Geoffrey Boycott (not out)
- Ronnie Barker (still laughing)
- Mikhail Gorbachev (cut 40%)
- Jerry Fodor (still arguing)
- Rembrandt (still the greatest)
- Nikola Tesla (still sparkin')
- Augustin-Jean Fresnel (still shinin')
- Anna Wintour (still frosty)
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Carl Linnaeus