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My articles: Ann Francis · Berlanga Cup · Candace Bahouth This user helped get "Candace Bahouth" listed at Did You Know on the main page on 2 August 2026. · Judith Chernaik This user helped get "Judith Chernaik" listed at Did You Know on the main page on 30 August 2026. · Lake Flixton This user helped get "Lake Flixton" listed at Did You Know on the main page on 24 August 2026. · Léocadie Lushombo · Le Pas Saladin · Leslie Grove Jones · Libs Elliott · Parcevals saga and Valvens þáttr This user helped get "Parcevals saga and Valvens þáttr" listed at Did You Know on the main page on 30 July 2026. · Puncetto Valsesiano · Rocky 50k · SS Wallachia This user helped get "SS Wallachia" listed at Did You Know on the main page on 11 August 2026.

Other articles I have done significant work on: Poems on the Underground This user helped get "Poems on the Underground" listed at Did You Know on the main page on 30 August 2026. · Richard Coer de Lyon


Articles I am collecting notes for

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Hinojosa lace

Hugh Ehrman - needlepoint expert

Anna Maria Dashwood - 19thC literary patroness and wife of Leslie Grove Jones

Leila Bordreuil - contemporary experimental musician

Tula Pink - quilting fabric designer

Zhen xian bao - Chinese paperfolding design that's had a bit of a resurgence in the online craft sphere

Anchor institution - concept in business and policy studies

Napoleon and the conquest of the world - to translate from French

Elis saga ok Rósamundu - saga based on a 12thC chanson de geste

Eodez of Tremazan - 6th century Breton saint

The Shining Company - Sutcliff novel

Articles I want to improve

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Richard Coer de Lyon done so far:

  • corrected and expanded the section on the manuscripts
  • added section on the differences between the two versions
  • overhauled and expanded the editions section
  • expanded and corrected the dating section
  • added section on the "lost French original" and the authorship of the English text
  • added section on audience + influence on later texts
  • pictures including a couple of nice ones from the 1528 printing
  • sources section
  • reception section

still to do (drafts and notes in sandbox):

  • move external links section to bibliography maybe? - it's all primary sources
  • overhaul summary and figure out how best to mark which parts are A-version only
  • themes and overview of modern academic interpretation
  • general readthrough, copyedit and revise for flow, reading level and concision. then: GA time.


London Thornton Manuscript - incomplete

Siege of Jerusalem (poem) - section on manuscript history needs fixing up

Parcevals saga and Valvens þáttr - improve synopsis - full text available at https://www.arthurianpreservationproject.com/medieval-texts/norse-icelandic

Epithet#Usage prior to surnames - bynames section - include that 1981 article on modern Icelandic bynames