Editing Incubator escapee wiki:Danny's contest/Danny's contest 2

=='''The Contest Is Over!'''== 

We did it! We chose the winners for the second contest, after a lengthy wait. We had another great collection of entries that kept the judges busy. We finally decided on our three winners, along with three honorary mention, but everyone deserves honorary mention for a job well done. 

===Winners===
So, the winners are:

# '''[[Battle of Alesia]]''' by ''[[User:Muriel Gottrop|muriel@pt]]''.  Great coverage of an important battle, and a nice homemade map to go along with it. 
# '''[[Turquoise]]'' by '''[[User:Hadal|Hadal]]''. Very thorough, with great illustrations. It is already a featured article. 
# '''[[Page table]]''' by ''[[User:Dysprosia|Dysprosia]]''. An important engineering topic, explained well and excellent diagrams. 

Honorable mention goes to:
# '''[[Paper plane]]''' by ''[[User:Squash|Squash]]''. Fun and quirky. Just like I like. Something you won't find in a conventional encyclopedia.
# '''[[Hayyim Nahman Bialik]]''' by ''[[User:Woggly|Woggly]]''. An important poet, with a great entry. Having translated Bialik professionally, I am a little biased, but so what? It's my contest. 
# '''[[Andamanese languages]]''' by ''[[User:Mustafaa|Mustafaa]]''. Like he said, gotta love a language which divides the world up by similarities to body parts.

Finally, special mention should be made of '''[[User:Grutness|Grutness]]''''s devotion in submitting four excellent articles, expanding our information about [[New Zealand]].

===Judges===
* [[User:Danny|Danny]]
* [[User:Raul654|Raul654]]
* [[User:Grunt|Grunt]]
* [[User:Elian|Elian]]
* [[User:Sj|Sj]]

===Rules===
We are looking specifically for ''stubs'' that were transformed into full-fledged articles, ''not'' new articles. That is, the article should exist as a stub at the opening of this contest (even though it does not necessarily have to include a stub template). The contest ends on Saturday, [[December 4]], [[2004]].

===Useful links===
* [[:Category:Stub categories]]: choose your favorite stub

===Ideas for new contests===
Please put them on the [[Wikipedia:Danny's contest/Ideas for new contests|''ideas for new contests'']] subpage.

===Submissions===

# [[Champernowne constant]] - [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Champernowne_constant&diff=0&oldid=7444724 (initial)][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Champernowne_constant&diff=0&oldid=7444724 (final)], [[User:Dysprosia|Dysprosia]] 05:58, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)
# [[Stack-oriented programming language]] - [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Stack-oriented_programming_language&diff=0&oldid=7447866 (initial)][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Stack-oriented_programming_language&diff=0&oldid=7447866 (final)], [[User:Dysprosia|Dysprosia]] 09:41, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)
# [[Desmond Dekker]] [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Desmond_Dekker&diff=0&oldid=7462092 (initial diff of expansion)], [[User:TUF-KAT|Tuf-Kat]] 21:53, Nov 14, 2004 (UTC)
# [[Page table]] - [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Page_table&diff=0&oldid=7468166 (initial)][http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Page_table&diff=0&oldid=6441979 (final)], [[User:Dysprosia|Dysprosia]] 00:10, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)
# [[Paper plane]] [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Paper_plane&diff=0&oldid=7149475 (Before and after)] (Minus edits by other people). I also made [[:Image:Paper_plane_diagram.png|diagram]] for that article. [[User:Squash|Squash]] 07:09, Nov 15, 2004 (UTC)
# [[Turquoise]] - [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Turquoise&diff=0&oldid=7481042 (initial diff of expansion)]; used found images as my camera's been lent out. &mdash;[[User:Hadal|Hadal]] 09:22, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)
# [[Coromandel Peninsula]] - [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Coromandel_Peninsula&diff=7501220&oldid=7123243 (initial diff of expansion)]; over the course of several edits. Included two vacation snaps - it brought back some good holiday memories. I was in the process of adding more but someone else started working on it - the diff shown is to immediately before Drstuey added a satellite image. I've added more since. [[User:Grutness| Grutness]]|<sup>[[User_talk:Grutness|hello?]]</sup> [[Image:Grutness.jpg|25px|]] 11:15, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)
# [[Appetite]] - [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Appetite&diff=5264681&oldid=5250373 (initial diff of expansion)]; this article was hungrily awaiting expansion. I found some useful review articles and improved it considerably. [[User:Jfdwolff|JFW]]&nbsp;|&nbsp;[[User_talk:Jfdwolff|<small>T@lk</small>]] 18:27, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)
# [[The Castle of Otranto]] [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=The_Castle_of_Otranto&diff=7494736&oldid=7493516 (initial diff of expansion)] the first horror novel... deserves better than this though. [[User:Pedant|Pedant]] 18:30, 2004 Nov 15 (UTC)
# [[Heat of combustion]] - [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Heat_of_combustion&diff=0&oldid=7498803 (initial diff of expansion)] [[User:Duk|Duk]] 20:24, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)
# [[Andamanese languages]] - [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Andamanese_languages&diff=7490012&oldid=7489988 initial diff of expansion] over the course of several edits, as is my habit... you gotta love a language which divides the world up by similarities to body parts. - [[User:Mustafaa|Mustafaa]] 23:36, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)
# [[reactivity|Chemical reactivity]]-[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Reactivity&diff=0&oldid=7545228 initial diff of expansion] Increased from stub over about 3 edits. There are no sources because all of the information provided there is a result of my own knowledge using [[computational chemistry]] and some previous knowledge. - [[User:EagleFalconn|EagleFalconn]] 21:08, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)
# [[Similitude (model)]]-[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Similitude_%28model%29&diff=7858142&oldid=6790313 expansion]  A bunch of edits. [[User:Duk|Duk]] 15:05, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)
# [[Waikato]] - [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Waikato&diff=7643786&oldid=7573501 (initial diff of expansion)]; my second go. Not listed as a stub, but compared to now it certainly was. Multiple edits with no interruption this time! [[User:Grutness| Grutness]]|<sup>[[User_talk:Grutness|hello?]]</sup> [[Image:Grutness.jpg|25px|]] 10:52, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)
# ''[[Farewell, My Lovely]]'' - [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Farewell%2C_My_Lovely&diff=0&oldid=7749413 (initial diff of expansion)]. Was a literature stub and now gives an introduction to the book and details the three movie versions. [[User:KF|<KF>]] 14:30, Nov 22, 2004 (UTC)
# [[Michael Arlen]] - [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Michael_Arlen&diff=0&oldid=7781088 (initial diff of expansion)] originally a stub, then a by-product of ''Farewell, My Lovely'', now an article in its own right. [[User:KF|<KF>]] 22:20, Nov 23, 2004 (UTC)
# [[Hayyim Nahman Bialik]] - [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Hayyim_Nahman_Bialik&diff=7843265&oldid=7843250 (initial diff of expansion)]. --[[User:Woggly|Woggly]] 11:18, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)
# [[Death Gate Cycle]] - [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Death_Gate_Cycle&diff=0&oldid=7962777 (see expansion)] Started out as a list of books.  Now it's a fairly comprehensive guide to the series. - [[User:Lifefeed|Lifefeed]] 19:24, Dec 1, 2004 (UTC)
# [[Battle of Alesia]] - [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Battle_of_Alesia&diff=8049200&oldid=8049137 Before and after], then i added images (the diagram is also my doing) and tweaked the whole thing. [[User:Muriel Gottrop|muriel@pt]] 12:28, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)
# [[Northland]] - [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Northland&diff=0&oldid=8045525 Was/Is], entry no. 3, over numerous edits. [[User:Grutness| Grutness]]|<sup>[[User_talk:Grutness|hello?]]</sup> [[Image:Grutness.jpg|25px|]] 02:31, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)
# [[Cilk]] - [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Cilk&diff=0&oldid=7391241 (see differences)]  As I researched the article, I discovered that not only was it a stub, but just about all of it was copyvio taken from the MIT Cilk website, magnifying the task.  (Note:  I am not certain just when the contest started; if it turns out that I started working on the stub before the contest began, I ask the judges to consider my work from that point on, rather than disqualifying my entry.) -- [[User:Antaeus Feldspar|Antaeus Feldspar]] 04:22, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)
# [[Hokianga]] - [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Hokianga&diff=0&oldid=8045494 Pre-, Post-] One final go. Not as good as the others (no photo, to start with), but better than it was, anyway. Interesting subject, too. [[User:Grutness| Grutness]]|<sup>[[User_talk:Grutness|hello?]]</sup> [[Image:Grutness.jpg|25px|]] 12:13, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)
# [[Equilibrium Constant]] [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Equilibrium_constant&diff=0&oldid=7029027 Changes] Another chemistry article down... [[User:EagleFalconn|EagleFalconn]] 16:33, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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