User:Nick-D
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There's one characteristic that sets writing apart from most of the other arts – its apparent democracy, by which I mean its availability to almost everyone as a medium of expression
— Margaret Atwood, On Writers and Writing
It’s a funny habit to write encyclopedia entries. It’s not a mass taste.
Arguing with anonymous strangers on the internet is a sucker's game because they almost always turn out to be – or to be indistinguishable from – self-righteous sixteen year olds possessing infinite amounts of free time
— Neal Stephenson,Cryptonomicon
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- Library
- Useful online resources
- My sandbox
- Drafts1,Drafts2,Drafts3,Drafts4,Drafts5,Drafts6,Drafts7,Drafts8,Drafts9,Drafts10,Drafts11,Drafts12,Drafts13,Drafts14,Drafts15,Drafts16,Drafts17,Drafts18,Drafts19,Draft book reviews,Random drafts
- photo gallery
- Some thoughts on Wikipedia based on my experience
- Advice on the A-class and FA review processes
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To do list
I intend to work on these articles in the near future:
- Battle of Tarakan (1945)
- 1 May 1982 engagements(draft under developmenthere,and suggestions for a better article name would be appreciated!)
- Proposed Japanese invasion of Australia during World War II
- Operation Title
- Operation Source
I also have plans to improve or start the following articles over the longer term:
- Battle for Brest-User:Nick-D/Drafts12
- Bombing of Kure (July 1945)(if I can ever find enough sources)
- Australia in the War of 1939–1945
- Convoy TM-1/Convoy TM 1(see:User:Nick-D/Drafts2)
- Various RAAF flying squadrons (seeUser:Nick-D/RAAF_sqns)
- B-24 Liberator in Australian service(User:Nick-D/Drafts6)
- Sheila Mary McClemans- Director of the WRANS for much of World War II
- Margaret Irene Lang
- Australian occupation of British Borneo and the Netherlands East Indies- seeUser:Nick-D/Drafts7
- Attack on Kure (March 1945)
- Recovery of Allied prisoners of war and internees from Japanese captivity(draft under development atUser:Nick-D/Drafts11)
- Japanese home island air defences of World War II- seeUser:Nick-D/Drafts5
- Allied air raids on Hokkaido and northern Honshu
- Operation Inmate
- Liberation of Strasbourg
- Operation Counterblast
- Australian contribution to the Mediterranean and Middle East theatre of World War II (1943-45)
- Battle of Trier
- Battle of Luzonre-write (atUser:Nick-D/Drafts16)
- Pacification of Rabaul- needs a new title for starters
- Battle of the Mons Pocket
- British re-occupation of Hong Kong(atUser:Nick-D/Drafts17)
- Manpower Directorate (Australia)
- Atlantic pockets
- Operation Argos
- 1st Army Tank Brigade (New Zealand)
- Brewster SB2A Buccaneer
- Australian military deployments to Europe since 1945(atUser:Nick-D/Drafts16)
- South African forces in the Rhodesian Bush War(atUser:Nick-D/Drafts8)
- Royal Air Force attacks on the German battleship Tirpitz (1940–1942)(atUser:Nick-D/Drafts9)
- British nuclear weapons and the Falklands War(atUser:Nick-D/Drafts18)