User:ERcheck

ERcheck is taking a short wikibreak and will be back on Wikipedia soon.

Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generation beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe. Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition? — Ralph Waldo Emerson (in Nature (1836))

Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.

— Albert Einstein (quoted in the New York Times, March 13, 1940)

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Adminship


I, Tony the Marine, as the nominator of ERcheck to administrator status, present you with your adminship. Pilot her well!

Interesting projects

Wikipedia projects of interest

Created USMC articles

Select created USMC articles

Richard O. Culver, Jr., one of the founders of the Marine Corps Sniper School — 3 March 2018
W. Patrick McGinnis, retired CEO of Ralston Purina
LtGen Clayton C. Jerome, decorated combat veteran, aviator
LtGen William K. Jones, decorated combat veteran of three wars - Navy Cross, Silver Star, Bronze Star, Purple Heart - 11 Jan 2009
LtGen John R. Allen, Deputy Commander CENTOM; first Marine to be Commandant of Midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy - 4 January 2009
LtGen George R. Christmas, USMC (ret), Navy Cross, President/CEO Marine Corps Heritage Foundation - 4 January 2009
RADL Alan T. Baker, Chaplain of the Marine Corps - 30 December 2008
LtGen Robert B. Johnston, USMC (ret), CENTCOM Chief-of-Staff — 30 December 2008
Major General David M. Jones, USAF, Doolittle Raider — 2 Dec 2008
Robert Sherrod - 30 Nov 2008
John F. Kelly - 28 Nov 2008
John S. Brown - 22 Oct 2008
General William L. "Spider" Nyland, USMC, Asst CMC — 4 July 2007
Clarke Glacier — 24 June 2007
General Thomas R. Morgan, USMC, Asst CMC — 27 May 2007
General Kenneth McLennan, USMC, Asst CMC — 27 May 2007
General Samuel Jaskilka, USMC, Asst CMC — 27 May 2007
Major General Ross T. Dwyer, USMC — 27 May 2007
Rear Admiral William O. Gallery, USN — 21 May 2007
Major General Ray L. Smith — 19 May 2007
Rear Admiral Philip D. Gallery — 18 May 2007
Brigadier General Edwin H. Simmons — 13 May 2007
Major General Carl B. Jensen, USMC — 6 May 2007
RADM Mark W. Balmert, USN — 6 May 2007
LtGen Nicholas Kehoe, USAF— 17 March 2007
Aubrey McDade — 15 March 2007
Carlton W. Kent — 20 January 2007
Richard E. Cavazos — 17 January 2007
Gerald C. Thomas — 13 January 2007
Keith J. Stalder — 12 January 2007
Alan Shapley — 06 January 2007

To Do Lists

To Do

Mathematicians needing articles

World's Best Mathematics Scientists - Research.com

Henri Prade (mathematician)

Business related

5/12/2025: CMS Nomeco, former operator of Alba field in Equatorial Guinea
5/12/2025: Alba field in Equatorial Guinea

Expand/Enhance articles

4/26/2025: Mary Ann Mobley
- National Council on Disability obituary
- CNN obituary - public service roles
- UMiss alum, public roles, donation to university
- AP - humanitarian, documentarian
DONE - 4/22/2025 (on his 103rd BD) - expand John C. Raaen, Jr. - oldest living U.S. military officer who landed on Omaha Beach on D-Day
Add for William K. Jones - [1], [2], [3], youngest USMC battalion commander, Tinian, Korean War, MCA PDf, and HTML, Boys of '67, Tawara quote, 3rd Marine Division
LtGen Samuel L. Howard, USMC, NC, PH - ANC, Semper Fidelis, Inspector General USMC, Gen of WWII, WWII NPS.
Jefferson Award for Public Service - [4], "Nobel Prize for Public Service", founded by Jackie Kennedy Onassis
Matice Wright - first African American female U.S. Naval aviation officer
- DoD Still image
Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps
- Marine Corps Book of Lists, page 145
- History Channel]
Vice Adm. Samuel L. Gravely, Jr., USN, Chief of Naval Personnel. [5] [6] [7]

Create articles

(2025-06-17) Robyn Y. Cohen, South African writer ?? notability??
See iol.co.za - ndependent Online (IOL) Robyn Cohen on IOL

Karavan Press

Cape Times
(2025-06-13) Radia Daoussi - AIDS activist

chair Vineeta Foundation
Women's National Democratic Club speaker
KBOO radio, Portland Oregon, interview on Tunisia
mention in Savannah Morning News
mention in Politico.com as speaker at American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee 2011 conference
mention in Radio France Internationale (RFI) as Tunisia expert
mention in NBC News

(2025-04-29) Augmented Parachute System (USMC)

https://www.defense.gov/Multimedia/Photos/igphoto/2003701097/

(2025-03-13) Robert Maxfield, co-founder of ROLM

★DONE★ - 2025-03-19

(2025-03-15) Gianni Benvenuti (1926-2005), Italian artist, illustrator, sculptor

⇒★DONE★ - 2025-03-15

- https://news.rice.edu/news/2024/remembering-robert-maxfield-rice-owl-and-silicon-valley-engineering-pioneerSilicon Valley pioneer,
(2025-03-13) David Alan Sánchez (born 1933), American mathematician
(2025-03-08) Morris Gold and Barbara Gold - childbirth pioneers
J. C. Walter, Jr., Houston oilman & philanthropist

⇒★DONE★ - 2025-03-08

(2025-03-01): Walter E. Monteith, 44th mayor of Houston

★DONE★ - 2025-03-02

(2025-02-26): Herman Brown (b 1892/93 - 1962) - brother of George R. Brown (needs infobox)

⇒★DONE★ - 2025-03-01

- https://historichouston1836.com/glenwood-cemetery/
- original founder of Brown & Root, his brother joined the company & added partner Root
(2025-02-21): Dorothy Wolff Douglass(1890-1968), Dorothy Sybil Wolff Douglas, first wife of Paul H. Douglas
- She earned a PhD (Columbia), and was a social reformer in her own right
- Bryn Mawr
- Smith College
- https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Douglas%2C%20Dorothy%20W%2E%20%28Dorothy%20Wolff%29%2C%201890%2D1968
- https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/194070305/dorothy-sybil-douglas (stopping point to find more info)

(2025-02-21): Troops to Teachers, a US military program to help service personal and veterans get certification/employment as classroom teachers
- https://veteran.com/troops-to-teachers/
(2025-02-20): Rev Bill Lawson, Houston minister, "Houston's pastor", civil rights activist (lead the end of segregation in Houston.
- https://abc13.com/civil-rights-movement-houston-bill-lawson-segregation/1233992/
Director of the Marine Corps Staff (DMCS) (noted 2025-02-19, created 2025-02-19)
- Military Times

Association of Physicians of Great Britain and Ireland

Douglas-Mansfield Act, Public Law 82-416
- Marine Corps History, GlobalSecurity.org
- Reorganizing The Fleet Marine Force: From Division-Wing Teams To Marine Expeditionary Brigades, GlobalSecurity.org
- Once and Future Marines, pdf.
- Marine Corps Gazette, December 2006.

Gordon L. Rottman - author of military histories

Created by User Lankyant on 31 January 2022 Lankyant

Willie J. Williams (USMC), (retired) -- expanded stub article Willie Williams (general) on 2025-02-19

⇒★DONE★ Expanded 5X

- Marine Overcomes Adversity to Become General Officer
- Retirement announcement on hqmc.marines.mil
- HistoryMakers
- Military Times
- Kentucky Marines
- Central Virginian
  - - Nominated for DYK on 2/19/2025 after >5x expansion

Completed, Memories

Templates

{{portal|United States Marine Corps|USMC_logo.svg}}
Marine Corps Portal — no longer active portal

Resources / lists

Selected contributions

articles on Commandants of the Marine Corps — create missing articles, expand existing if needed — completed
articles on Sergeant Majors of the Marine Corps — create missing articles, completed
articles on Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipients (completed WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam)

Selection of favorite biographies

Military

John C. Raaen Jr. - U.S. Army major general who participated in D-Day, one of oldest survivors at age 103

Businessmen

Robert Maxfield, co-founder of ROLM
J. C. Walter Jr., J.C. Walter Jr. Transplant Center named in his honor
Herman Brown, co-founder Brown & Root

Academics

David A. Sánchez, mathematician

DYKs

QPQs

April 13, 2025 — Template:Did you know nominations/Maxine Fluharty - passed
April 23, 2025 — Template:Did you know nominations/Drymaeus poecilus (used for John C. Raaen, Jr.)
April 25, 2025: Template:Did you know nominations/Fear and trembling (biblical phrase)
May 10, 2025: Template:Did you know nominations/Jeremy Crawshaw
May 11, 2025: Template:Did you know nominations/Robert Allen Norris
May 17, 2025: Template:Did you know nominations/Octo Mundi Miracula
June 11, 2025: Template:Did you know nominations/USCGC Dione
July 9, 2025: Template:Did you know nominations/Fred Shirey

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DYK (2006-2009)

On June 7, 2006, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Richard K. Sorenson, which you created. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

On July 8, 2006, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article William T. Perkins, Jr., which you created. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

On 18 July, 2006, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article David B. Barkley, which you created. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

On 31 July, 2006, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Ben L. Salomon, which you created. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

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On 4 January, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Frederick C. Branch , which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

On 6 January, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Megan McClung, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

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On 23 January, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Richard E. Cavazos, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

On 21 March, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Aubrey McDade, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

On 22 March, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Nicholas Kehoe, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

On 28 May, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article William O. Gallery, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

On 14 June, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Kimberly Casiano, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

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On 28 November, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Paul J. Carmouche, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

On 3 December, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article John F. Kelly, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

On 7 December, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article David M. Jones, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

... that in World War II, David M. Jones, later a U.S. Air Force Major General, participated in events that formed the basis for two Hollywood movies: Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo and The Great Escape?

On January 12, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article George R. Christmas, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

... that George R. Christmas (pictured), then known as Captain Christmas, received the Navy Cross for "extraordinary heroism" in the Vietnam War?

On January 22, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article William K. Jones, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

... that William K. Jones, awarded the Navy Cross and the Silver Star for valor at Tarawa and Saipan, was the youngest commander of a U.S. Marine Corps battalion during World War II?

On March 13, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Richard C. Mangrum, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

... that in October 1965, Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps LtGen Richard C. Mangrum, Navy Cross recipient at Guadalcanal, became the first Marine to be the "Gray Eagle" of Naval aviation?

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Recent DYKs

On 11 May 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article J. C. Walter Jr. The fact was

"DYK ... that nine days after his heart transplant, J. C. Walter Jr. merged his company Houston Oil & Minerals with Tenneco, then retired to his ranch and shortly after founded Walter Oil & Gas?"

On 20 April 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Robert Maxfield. The fact was:

"DYK ... that ROLM's first product was a military computer, even though Robert Maxfield was the only one of its four co-founders with computer experience? "

On 2 April 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Herman Brown. The fact was:

"DYK... that Herman Brown's estate and most of the proceeds from the sale of Brown & Root were donated after his death to his charitable foundation, which has given more than $2 billion in grants in Texas? "

On 30 March 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Gianni Benvenuti. The fact was:

"DYK... that Italian artist Gianni Benvenuti, known for his children's book illustrations, also had a diverse career as a painter, sculptor, and printmaker?"

On 24 March 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Willie Williams (general). The fact was:

"DKY... that retired United States Marine Corps three-star general Willie Williams originally planned to enlist in the Air Force after high school instead of going to college? "

Recognitions

This **motivated** Tireless Contributor Barnstar is given to **ERcheck** for his tireless contirbutions to all articles relating to the United States Military. Presented by Looper5920 27 July 2006

For your extensive contributions to Wikipedia's coverage of the United States Marine Corps, and on the recommendation of Looper5920, I hereby bestow upon you the *Military history WikiProject Distinguished Service Award*. Kirill Lok s h in 23:08, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

This **Marine** Tireless Contributor Barnstar is presented to **ERcheck** for his continous work on USMC related articles. Presented by Tony the Marine 02:52, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

I present **ERcheck** with this Nuevo Mexicano Barnstar for creating the Daniel Fernandez article, as well as for his work on the Hispanic MoH article and related pages. Thank you. --Murcielago 04:54, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

For managing to make adminship, I, Minun award you a barnstar —M in un ^{Spiderman • Review Me} 14:59, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for all of the work and help on the Military Brat article. Balloonman 06:03, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

I present you this DYK medal for all the outstanding and interesting new articles you create.Rlevse 22:47, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

This **Boricua** Tireless Contributor Barnstar is presented to **User: ERcheck** for his continous work on Puerto Rican and Hispanic related articles. Presented by Tony the Marine 22:26, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

**The Citation Barnstar**

— Jojhutton (talk) 14:53, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

**The Military Barnstar**
...for your work on both the USAF and Marine Corps portals. Ndunruh (talk) 14:43, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

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