User:ChrysGalley

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Greetings from Northumberland, mostly.

July 2026: I am adding some more material about Gavin Maxwell, as someone who has researched his life and works.

Articles that I have launched:

• Youth bulge theory - concept in international relations, relating to disproportionate populations of younger people. Needs more work on it.
• Fullerton (greyhound) - the only greyhound to win the Waterloo Cup four times over.
• Chalk (band) - post-punk duo (or maybe they are a band?) from Belfast.
• Shortflatt Tower - listed Pele tower in Northumberland
• Christopher Howse - Catholic journalist on the Telegraph
• Norman Balon - London's rudest pub landlord
• Christina Smith (property developer) - queen of Covent Gardens, London
• Izal (band) - the now defunct Spanish indie group, which started as a translation but ended up in a different place to the Spanish version.
• Fixed Ideas: America Since 9.11 - essay by Joan Didion, the last of her main works without an article.
• HMSO Store, Sighthill - Category A building hiding on an industrial estate in Edinburgh
• Reginald Stradling - government scientist during WW2.
• Francis Walley - post-war structural engineer
• Atlas of Brutalist Architecture - reference book on brutalist architecture.
• Esther Chávez - Mexican campaigner against femicide in Ciudad Juárez
• Canongate Flats - Brutalist housing development in central Edinburgh.
• Elida Carlés - Argentine pioneer female pilot (part translation from Spanish, but this English article has additional research).
• Ray Webster - First managing director of easyJet
• Mary Capper - Quaker writer and travelling minister
• Peter Janson-Smith - literary agent to the James Bond franchise
• Verité Reily Collins - doughty campaigner mentioned in the The Female Eunuch.
• Annette Morreau - arts administrator and writer
• Kathleen Dalyell - wife of the MP Tam Dalyell, Scottish conservationist
• Keyvan Moghissi - Surgeon of Persian heritage who contributed to the rollout of laser surgery in the UK
• Freedom House bombing - 1964 bomb attacks in Georgetown, Guyana.

Translations

• Emil Probst [de] - structural engineer - German into English
• Esther Chávez [fr] - Mexican campaigner against femicide in Ciudad Juárez - English into French
• Michael J. Schumacher [fr] - Wisconsin chronicler of the Beat Generation - English into French
• Antony Carr (historian) [cy] - Historian of Medieval Wales - Welsh into English.

Some other articles with my fingerprints are:

• Nathan Newby - Awarded George Medal for preventing a hospital bomb attack
• Louis Besson - former housing minister in the Rocard and Jospin governments
• Aleš Erjavec - Slovenian aesthetician
• Richard Sheppard (architect) - Architect behind Churchill College, Cambridge and Brunel's lecture centre
• William Tudor (surgeon) - Bath surgeon
• Max Wechsler - French artist
• Christopher Ryan (aviation executive) - First managing director of Ryanair
• Mr. Scarborough's Family - unfinished novel by Trollope
• Antoni Lallican - French photojournalist killed by the Russians in Ukraine
• Claudia Cardinale - Italian film start with an exotic back story
• Sheila Fell - Northern painter
• A.A. Thorne - Guyanese trade unionist.

Current drafts:

• Draft:Cope hole - engineering term

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ChrysGalley (talk) 8 March 2026

		The Order of the Superior Scribe of Wikipedia
		This is awarded to ChrysGalley for accumulating more than 575.5 points during the December 2025 AfC backlog drive. Your dedication and contributions to Wikipedia's content review process were crucial in reviewing over 9,000 drafts during the drive. Thank you for your participation and helping to reduce the backlog! ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 15:29, 11 January 2026 (UTC)

		The Teamwork Barnstar
		Many people review drafts. You review the reviewers. You peer-reviewed the peer reviewers and supported your fellow Wikipedians. :) This is awarded to ChrysGalley for completing more than 50 re-reviews during the December 2025 AfC backlog drive. Thank you for your efforts and teamwork! ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 08:23, 12 January 2026 (UTC)

		The Articles for Creation Barnstar 2025 Top Editor
		In 2025 you were one of the top AfC editors, thank you! --Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 19:07, 21 January 2026 (UTC)