User:Gillyweed

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As you can tell from my edits, one of my pet peeves is unreferenced articles. As for my name, you can find its meaning here.

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		The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		Gillyweed, for ceaselessly protecting Wikipedia's quality. Axl 19:55, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

		The Barnstar of Diligence
		Kudos to you for your contributions to, and watchful eye over, Omaha Beach. FactotEm 10:23, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

		The Australian Barnstar of National Merit
		For your many contribs including new entries about the highways and byways of Australian history and writing. Thank you. hamiltonstone (talk) 03:29, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

Articles I have created

Whilst nobody 'owns' anything on Wikipedia I feel a small amount of pride that some of these more obscure, yet notable, bits and pieces of knowledge are now available on the world's best encyclopaedia. I hope, after the 'birth' of these 202 articles that they have gone on and grown from stubs into magnificent expositions... one can but hope!

• Graeme Simsion - An Australian author.
• Isabella (1824 ship) - A ship that disappeared off the coast of Australia in 1824.
• Phoenix (1798 ship) - A frigate damaged in 1824 and turned into a prison hulk in Sydney.
• Belinda (ship) - A brig wrecked off the coast of Western Australia in 1824.
• Actaeon (ship) - A ship wrecked off the Northern Coast of Tasmania in 1822.
• Victorine (ship) - A ship that disappeared off the coast of Australia in 1822.
• Grace (ship) - A ship burnt and destroyed in 1822 on the way to England with Governor Macquarie's dispatches.
• Phatisalam — A ship wrecked in 1821 by Captain Peter Dillon who went on to discover what happened to La Perouse.
• Princess Charlotte (brig) — An Australian brig that went missing with all hands in 1820
• Frank Sydney Greenop - Australian editor and author, born (1913 - 1975)
• Evgeny Ukhanov - A Ukraninan (now Australian) pianist, born in 1982.
• John Palmer (1814 schooner) - An Australian schooner wrecked in 1819.
• Hector Holthouse - An Australian popular historian - when did he live?
• Charles Seltman - An English Art Historian (1886 - 1957)
• Raymond de Becker - A Belgian writer and journalist (1912 - 1968)
• Daphne (brig) - A brig wrecked in 1819 in Bass Strait.
• The Elligood - A ship that may have been wrecked in 1801.
• Malcolm Sircom - An English composer and writer of musicals (1934 - 2008)
• Reginald Whinney - An English Royal Navy Captain who sank three U-boats.
• Young Lachlan - An Australian schooner stolen by convicts in 1818.
• William Cossar - An Australian schooner stolen by convicts in 1817.
• Frederick (ship) - A ship wrecked in 1818 with the loss of 23 crew.
• Bruce Quarrie - An English historian, journalist and wargamer 1947 -
• Simon Fowler (author) - An English historian and journalist
• Ruth Paley - An English historian.
• Marie-Madeleine Gauthier - (1920 - 1998) A French expert in medieval enamels.
• John Putnam Demos - An American historian and author who writes about witchcraft.
• Jeremy Pascall - An English journalist and comedian.
• Robert Macklin - An Australian journalist and writer, born 1941.
• James Bentley - An English Reverend and Author who died in 2000. He liked writing about relics.
• Hope (ship) 1817 - a ship owned by Solomon Wiseman wrecked at Port Stephens in 1817.
• Lady Elliot - A ship wrecked off Cardwell in 1816.
• Trial (ship) - A ship that was wrecked off the East Coast of Australia after being stolen by convicts.
• Elizabeth Henrietta (1816) - An Australian brig that capsized in 1816.
• Governor Hunter (ship) - An Australian schooner that was wrecked in 1816.
• Whale (ship) - An Australian sloop that disappeared in 1816 of the coast of New South Wales.
• Hawkesbury Packet - An Australian sloop wrecked in 1817
• Lyneham Primary School, ACT - An ACT Primary School established 1959.
• Solomon Wiseman - An Australian convict, merchant and ship owner. 1777- 1838
• The Brothers (ship) - A ship wrecked by William Hilton Hovell of Hovell and Hume fame in 1816.
• Edwin (ship) - A ship that was wrecked off the coast of New South Wales in 1816.
• Windsor (ship) - A ship that was wrecked off the coast of Sydney in 1816 with the poor survivors of the Recovery on board!
• Recovery (ship) - A sloop that was wrecked near Port Stephens in 1816.
• Estramina - A schooner with a chequered history that was wrecked in 1816.
• Amelia (ship) - A ship that disappeared off the coast of Australia in 1816.
• Betsey (1803 ship) - An Australian ship that was abandoned off the coast of New Zealand in 1815.
• Morning Star (ship) - An Indian ship that disappeared in the Torres Strait in 1814.
• Three Bees - A British ship that exploded in Sydney Harbour in 1814.
• Argo (ship) - An Indian ship that disappeared off Tasmania in 1814.
• Unity (ship) - A schooner that disappeared off Tasmania in 1813.
• Campbell Macquarie - A ship wrecked on Macquarie Island in 1812.
• Active (ship) - A brigantine that disappeared in the Tasman Sea in 1810.
• Contest (ship) - A sloop sunk near Port Stephens in 1807.
• Hazard (ship) - A sloop sunk near Broken Bay in 1809.
• Argument (ship) - A sloop sunk near Broken Bay in 1809.
• Charlotte (sloop) - A ship sunk off Sydney Harbour in 1808.
• Dundee (ship) - A ship wrecked at the mouth of the Hunter River in 1808.
• Hebe (ship) 1808 - A ship sunk near Port Dalrymple in 1808.
• Eliza (1808) - An American ship sunk in Fiji in 1808.
• Alex Kershaw - An American non-fiction author.
• Edith Simon - An English author and sculptor.
• Michael Ridley - An English archaeologist and orientalist
• John (ship) - A sloop that disappeared off the coast of New South Wales in 1806.
• Britannia (ship) - A ship that was wrecked off the coast of New South Wales in 1806.
• Bee (ship) - A ship that disappeared off the coast of Newcastle in 1806.
• Tellicherry (1796 ship) - A ship wrecked in the Philippines in 1806
• Sydney (ship) - An East Indiaman wrecked off New Guinea in 1806
• Governor King (ship) - An Australian schooner wrecked at Newcastle in 1806
• George (ship) - An Australian sloop wrecked in Twofold Bay in 1806
• Betsey - A Schooner wrecked in the China Sea in 1805
• Peter Frankis - An Australian short story writer.
• Michael Byrne - An Australian poet
• Stephen Matthews - An Australian writer and publisher
• Tim Metcalf - An Australian poet and doctor
• Rory Steele - An Australian fiction writer and diplomat.
• ACT Writing and Publishing Awards - A literary award awarded since 2004
• Integrity (ship) - An Australian cutter that disappeared in 1805.
• Mersey (1801 ship) - A Bengali ship wrecked in the Torres Strait in 1805.
• Nancy (ship) - An Australian sloop wrecked near Jervis Bay in 1804.
• Union (ship) - An American ship wrecked in Fiji in 1804.
• Cato (ship) - An English ship wrecked on the Great Barrier Reef in 1803.
• HMS Porpoise (1799) - An English Sloop wrecked on the Great Barrier Reef in 1803.
• Margaret (brig) - An English Brig wrecked in the Society Islands in 1803.
• L'Enterprise - A French Schooner wrecked with total loss of life in Bass Strait in 1802/03
• Duke of Portland (whaler) - A 400 ton whaler that was wrecked in Tonga in 1802
• Fly (brig) - A 100 ton Brig that disappeared in 1802.
• Caroline (ship) - American Schooner disappeared 1802.
• Norfolk (brig) - Australian Brig wrecked in 1802.
• Argo (1800) - American Schooner sunk near Fiji in 1800
• Eliza (ship) - Small sloop used to rescue survivors of the Sydney Cove (ship) in 1797
• Boussole - French Navy ship sunk in the New Hebrides in 1788
• Aagtekerke - Dutch East India Ship wrecked somewhere in WA in 1726
• Fortuyn - Dutch East India Ship wrecked somewhere in WA in 1724
• Charles Bateson - New Zealand maritime historian and journalist (1903 - 1974)
• Graham Jones (Australian author) - Australian author and historian
• Ephraim John Burford - English historian (1905 - 1997)
• James Cleugh - English author and translator (1891 - 1969)
• Judith C Brown (historian) - American historian and author.
• E.C. Buley - Ernest Charles Buley, Australian journalist, romance novelist and thief (1869 - 1933)
• William Scurry - Australian soldier and inventor (1895 - 1963)
• Rhodanthe Lipsett - Australian midwife and author
• Simon MacKenzie - Canadian academic and writer.
• Nino Lo Bello - American author and journalist (1922 - 1997)
• Anthony Arthur - American author and historian
• Clark Heinrich - American author and ethno-botanist
• Siân Rees - English author and historian
• Pat Studdy-Clift - Australian author and historian (1926 - )
• Elinor Gadon - American author and expert on Goddess religions
• Kenneth McIntyre - Controversial Australian historian (1910 - 2004)
• Dr Hector Kinloch - Australian politician and academic (1927 - 1993)
• Ben Shephard - English TV producer and author (1948 - )
• Ann Dally - British psychiatrist and author
• Fraser Harrison — British author and publisher (1944 - )
• Raymond T McNally - American Professor specializing in Horror (1931 - 2002)
• Iain Finlay - Australian author and journalist (1935 - )
• Edward Lynch - Australian soldier and author (1898 - 1980)
• Nicholas Stargardt - Australian historian (1962 - )
• Rudolph Brasch - Australian Rabbi and author (1912 - 2004)
• Samuel Janus - American psychotherapist and author (1930 - )
• Tama Starr - American author and businesswoman
• Paul Wilson (criminologist) - Australian criminologist (1941 - )
• Timothy Tovell - Australian airman who smuggled an orphan into Australia (1878 - 1966)
• Anthony Hill (author) - Australian author (1942 - )
• Muriel Segal - English journalist and author
• Marie Tulip - Australian feminist author
• Tantangara Reservoir - a dam in New South Wales (1960 - )
• Naas (valley) - an area in Namadgi National Park
• Fuse plug - an engineering structure on spillways
• Donald Eaton Carr - American author (1903 - ?)
• Calvin C. Hernton - American poet and sociologist (1932 - 2001)
• Elizabeth Gould Davis - Contentious American author (1910 - 1974)
• Bryna Taubman - American author (? - ?)
• Edward Weston (pastoralist) - Superintendent at Hyde Park Barracks and wealthy farmer (180? - 18??)
• London Bridge (karst) - A remarkable limestone formation.
• Heinrich Severloh - A German soldier with extraordinary claims (1923 - 2006)
• Westbourne Woods - An exotic planting in Canberra (1913 - )
• Kate Fairweather - Australian Olympian (1975 - )
• Ginninderra - A region in Canberra.
• John Tennant - Early Australian Bushranger (1820s)
• Ginninderra Creek - Watercourse in Canberra
• Duncan Dunbar (ship owner) - Owner of the Duncan Dunbar
• Duncan Dunbar - Clipper wrecked off Brazil (1865)
• Edward Kendall Crace - Canberra Pastoralist (1844 - 1892)
• Old Canberra Inn - (1860 - )
• All Saints Anglican Church - Church in Ainslie, Canberra (1869 - )
• Blundell's Cottage - Farmhouse in Canberra (1858 - )
• Pierce Galliard Smith - Rector, St Johns (1826 - 1908)
• Collector, New South Wales - Town in NSW (1829 - )
• Lake Bathurst - Lake in SE NSW
• Bungonia - Town in the NSW Southern Highlands (1832 - )
• Bong Bong - Town near Moss Vale (1821 - )
• Henry Hall (farmer) - Farmer in the Canberra District (1802 - 1888)
• Mount Tennent - ACT Mountain
• Sally Tracy - Australian Midwifery Researcher ( - )
• Laurence James Ludovici - American Author ( - )
• William Corin - Australian Electrical Engineer (1867 - 1929)
• Mt Stromlo Hydro-Power Station - Australian Engineering Structure (2000 - )
• Henry Douglas Stephens - Australian Surgeon (1877 - 1952)
• Frank Douglas Stephens - Australian Surgeon (1913 - )
• Bendora Gravity Main - Australian Engineering Structure (1966-1968)
• Richard O'Neill - English Author
• Jack Barber - Australian Author and Soldier (1919 - )
• Hans Roland - Australian Author and Teacher (1931 - )
• International Competitions and Assessments for Schools — Academic Testing
• Colin Burgess (author) - Australian Author (1947 - )
• Women's Electoral Lobby - Australian Lobby Group (1972 - )
• Mary Ingham - English Author
• Margot Hilton - Australian Author (1947 - )
• Peter Sekuless - Australian Lobbyist and Author (1945 - )
• Laurence John Hartley Teakle - Australian Agricultural Scientist (1901 - 1979)
• Bendora Arboretum - Botanical planting (1940 - )
• Flow splitter - Hydrological engineering device
• Nappe (water) - The water overtopping a dam.
• Bendora Dam - Dam on the Cotter River completed 1961
• Mark Johnston (author) - Australian Historian and Author (1960 - )
• Herbert Strang - English Author(s) of Adventure Stories (1866 - 1958)
• Lawrence Dwight Smith - American Author and Cryptologist
• Larner-Johnson Valve - Engineering component used in water control
• Frederick William Bourne - English Preacher and Author (1830-1905)
• Sarah Ellis - British Author (1812 - 1872)
• Gun Buster - British Author
• Roy Kyle - Australian soldier, 1st AIF (1897 - 1996)
• Wilhelm Falley - German General WWII (1897 - 1944)
• Arthur Swinson - British Brigadier and Historian
• William Craig (author) - US Historian (1929 - 1997)
• Don Pardee Moon - USN Rear Admiral (1894 - 1944)
• HMS Inconstant (1868)
• Iron Mountain (Riverboat) (1864 - 1872)
• Sreten Bozic - Anthropologist (1932 - )
• Robert Coupe - Australian Historian
• Clive Turnbull - Australian Journalist (1906 - 1975)
• Thomas Wood (author) - English Author (1892 - 1950)
• Richard Beckett - Australian Author (1936 - )
• Ray Beckett - Australian Journalist and Newspaper Editor (1903 - )
• Christopher Sweeney - Australian Author
• Mark Clisby - Australian Author and Military Historian
• Barry Dickins - Australian Author and Playwright (1949 - )
• John William Stokes - Australian Administrator on the Cocos Islands (1910 - )
• John Grady (author) - Australian Social Scientist (1923 - )
• Valerie McKenzie - Australian Historian