RandomCritic

Contributions to Wikipedia

I have contributed primarily to articles about religion, astronomy, and works about science fiction or fantasy.

Astronomy

Created:

• Inner satellite
• List of albedo features on Mercury
• List of albedo features on Mars – unfinished
• List of Martian canals – perhaps this one belongs in "Fiction"! It began life as a section in the article Martian canals
• List of named solar system objects
• List of named asteroids
• List of natural satellites by diameter
• Name conflicts of solar system objects
• Sidera Lodoicea
• Space Shuttle crews
• Table of stars with Bayer designations
• Template:PlanetaryRings Footer
• Template:SolarSatellites Footer
• Template:Solarsatellites table
• Template:Venus spacecraft

Added to

• Apollo 1
• Dwarf planet
• Eris (dwarf planet)
• Jupiter's natural satellites – updated orbital elements
• List of solar system objects by radius – added pictures
• Naming of natural satellites – information on Roman numerals of the moons
• Project Apollo
• Project Gemini
• Project Mercury
• Timeline of discovery of solar system planets and their natural satellites – worked on organization and consistency

Religion

Buddhism

Created de novo

• Buddhist cosmology
  • Animals in Buddhism – in need of expansion
  • Asura (Buddhism)
  • Deva (Buddhism)
    • Brahma (Buddhism)
    • Sumeru
    • Trayastrimsa
    • Śakra
  • Human beings in Buddhism – also in need of expansion
  • Naraka (Buddhism)
  • Preta
• Kumbhanda

Compiled new articles

• Bhavacakra and Dharmacakra – separated these two articles, representing different iconic figures, out of one formerly called "Wheel of Life"
• Di Yu – a compilation of articles formerly titled "Fengdu" and "Eighteen levels of Hell", with some cleanup
• Four stages of enlightenment
• Karma in Buddhism
• Vaisravana – separated from Kubera, added information from Bishamon, and expanded a lot
• Yama (Buddhism and Chinese mythology) – an expansion of the Buddhist/Chinese/Japanese sections of the older Yama article

Added to

• Buddhism – mostly improved the orthography
• Four Heavenly Kings – reorganized table, worked on links
• Gandharva
• Garuda
• Nāga
• Pāli language – phonology, mostly
• Rebirth (Buddhism)
• Twelve Nidanas
  • also created several articles in this series, e.g. Avidya (Buddhism), Sparśa, Bhava, Jaramarana and linked the pages
• Yaksha

Zoroastrianism and Iranian mythology

Created

• Garshasp – article about a little-known Iranian epic hero
• Hara Berezaiti – the central mountain of Iranian mythology
• Shahnama kings:
  • Hushang
  • Tahmuras
  • Manuchehr
  • Nowzar

Added to

• Fereydun
• Jamshid – added information about Avestan Yima Khshaeta
• Keyumars – moved from "Gayomard" and expanded
• Zahhak – combined information from three different articles about the same character and considerably expanded
• Yazata – etymological information

Fiction

Created de novo

• Characters in Earthsea – a list
• Islands of Earthsea – a list, with some comments
• Leigh Brackett Solar System
  • Mercury in the fiction of Leigh Brackett
  • Venus in the fiction of Leigh Brackett – in progress
  • Mars in the fiction of Leigh Brackett
  • Jupiter in the fiction of Leigh Brackett
  • The Secret of Sinharat
  • People of the Talisman – unfinished
• Solar System in fiction – a list
• Dig Allen – stub about an obscure juvenile

Compiled new articles

• Aihal – a rewrite/move of the older Ogion article
• Solar system in fiction articles
  • Phobos and Deimos in fiction – moved from the Phobos (moon) and Deimos (moon) articles
  • Ceres in fiction – moved from main 1 Ceres article
  • Jupiter's moons in fiction – a compilation of various fiction articles
  • Saturn's moons in fiction – a compilation of various fiction articles
  • Outer planets in fiction – compiled from the fiction sections of Planet X and Tenth planet
• Stars and planetary systems in fiction – a compilation of various fiction articles scattered among articles about real stars
  • Aldebaran in fiction – this and the other pages below were just fiction sections in star articles that I moved to their own articles
  • Altair in fiction
  • Betelgeuse in fiction
  • Epsilon Eridani in fiction
  • Galaxies in fiction

Added to

• Ekumen – bibliography
• Eric John Stark
• Leigh Brackett – researched and expanded bibliography
• List of characters in The Chronicles of Narnia – expansion and clean-up
• List of fictional astronauts – considerable expansion and reorganization
• List of fictional universes – an only partially successful clean-up job
• List of Narnian creatures – clean-up
• Mars in fiction – organization
• Northwest Smith – bibliography. I'd like to add some story summaries some day.
• Orc – etymologies
• Planets in science fiction – this is one of my largest (and most successful) clean-up jobs. I keep an eye on this article to see that additions are properly placed and in the right format. I created quite a few book stubs in cleaning up this list, including Big Planet, Catteni Series, Dragon's Egg, Helliconia, Jurai, Land and Overland, Of Man and Manta, Orthe, Petaybee Series. These selections by no means reflect my taste in literature.
• Planetary romance
• Science fantasy
• Space opera
• Sword and planet
• Template:Astronomical locations in fiction – expansion and organization
• Venus in fiction – organization