Articles Created edit
If I create an article on Wikipedia, it's usually because I looked for information about someone and was surprised to find no entry. Since I am usually looking for biographical or bibliographical information about authors - often obscure - those are the types of articles I end up creating. Although I wouldn't say these authors are all that obscure.
Bill Hopkins (novelist) March, 2007
Stuart Holroyd September, 2008
John Lodwick October, 2008
Michael Hastings (playwright) October 2008
Hank Janson February, 2009
Thomas Hinde (novelist) March, 2009
André Stil May, 2009
John Finnemore June, 2009
G. Selmer Fougner October, 2009
Derek Jewell December, 2009
Stuart MacGregor July, 2010
C. J. F. Williams April, 2011
Most of my time on Wikipedia, however, is spent editing philosophy articles, especially continental philosophy, as well as existing articles on authors, and some articles on pop culture and celebrity trivia. I also correct mistakes where I find them. One would have to be a special kind of masochist to actually create a new philosophy article. Even so, I have been engaged in sometimes surprising and always diverting arguments about Stefan George's sexuality, Radio North Sea International and terrorism, the transition from 3LW to the Cheetah Girls, whether the group Buzzcocks' name should be prefaced by the definite article (it should not) and Anne Nightingale's birth date. I am a magnet for controversy.