Gerry Lynch

I'm Gerry Lynch. I was born on 28 July 1977 in Belfast, Northern Ireland, eventually studying Politics at the Queen's University of Belfast (after school at St. Malachy's College). I lived in the New Lodge all my life until I graduated in 2000 with first class honours and upped sticks for London. I returned to Belfast in 2007 to take up a post as Executive Director of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland. I have made much fewer contributions to Wikipedia since, largely spelling and grammatical corrections, thanks in large part to a mistaken identity issue resulting in serious moderator abuse and suspension of my editing privelliges in the Summmer of 2007.

Please send me a message on my User talk page in English, auf Deutsch ya da Türkçede.

Wiki contributions focus on the politics of Northern Ireland and its recent history, politics of Turkey, obscure contemporary classical composers, opera, amateur radio or Anglicanism.

I am a licensed amateur radio operator, with the callsign GI0RTN.

What's with Turkey? I've been on holiday there a number of times, gone to night classes and learned passable Turkish, really enjoy the country, thought I could use it to do something useful on Wikipedia.

I dislike reference fascists. I also dislike teenagers with User pages that consist of forests of userboxes but have made about two and a half mainspace edits in a year. What do they do all day?

I can remember wikipedia before userboxes, but I use them now as a sort of shorthand even though I'm not convinced about them.

The article I started on the galactic halo made it to the front page on August 3, 2004 - - see the record in the archive.

My picture of black-headed gulls in flight is a Wikimedia Commons featured picture and was a candidate for picture of the year in 2006!

I also contribute very occasionally to German Wikipedia and Turkish Wikipedia.

Articles I've worked on in some significant way:

Wikipedia:Babel

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This user is a native speaker of the English language.

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Dieser Benutzer hat Deutschkenntnisse auf muttersprachlichem Niveau.

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Bu kullanıcı orta düzey Türkçe ile katkıda bulunabilir.

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Cet utilisateur peut contribuer avec un niveau élémentaire de français.

Bout ye-5

This user speaks with a Belfast accent and regards it as the most elevated form of English.

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This user can spell.

This user has an amateur radio license with callsign GI0RTN.

This user is homosexual.

This user is Irish.

This user is proud to come from Northern Ireland but does not regard the sectarian Ulster Banner as his national flag.

This user is a high-speed morse code operator.

This user is a proud cyclist.

This user studies or studied at Queen's University Belfast.

This user spends too much time and money going to the opera.

**Travelled to / lived in**

Northern Ireland Politics and Culture

Northern Ireland - quite a brutal rewrite of the politics bit!
History of Northern Ireland - wrote a lot of this before it migrated from the main article
Demographics and politics of Northern Ireland - wrote a lot of this before it migrated from the main article
History of Belfast - wrote a lot of this before it migrated from the main article
Night of the Big Wind - wrote a lot of this
Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
1981 Irish Hunger Strike - began this one
David Ford - expanded from stub
Holy Cross dispute - began this one
Peter Robinson - expanded from stub
Nigel Dodds - expanded from stub
Bobby Sands
armalite and the ballot box - expanded from stub
Belfast - the transport section and much of the history section
Derry
North Down
Paul Berry - began this one
North Belfast (UK Parliament constituency)
South Belfast (UK Parliament constituency)
East Belfast (UK Parliament constituency)
West Belfast (UK Parliament constituency)
Kathy Stanton - began this one
Tayto (Northern Ireland) - began this one
Template:NI-stub - invented this stub category
Ireland national rugby union team
Ulster Rugby
New Lodge, Belfast - started this one
A2 road (Northern Ireland)
spide
Diocese of Connor (Church of Ireland) - began this one
Roman Catholicism in Ireland
St. George's Church, Belfast - began this one

German Politics and Culture

Feleknas Uca - began this one
City (band) - began this one

British Politics

Margaret Hodge - added info on Nanny State speech
Nanny state
Cities of London and Westminster - contributed considerable chunks to
Regent's Park and Kensington North - contributed considerable chunks to
Peter Bruinvels - started this one
Shirley Porter

Turkish Politics and Culture

Republican People's Party (Turkey) - expanded from stub
Justice and Development Party (Turkey) - expanded from stub
Felicity Party (Turkey) - began this one
Alevi
Kurds
Islamism
Diyarbakir - expanded from stub plus pictures
Denizli - edited
Sezen Aksu - began this one
Abdullah Gül
Urfa - added pictures plus lots of text
Mardin Province - expanded from stub
Dayro d-Mor Gabriel - expanded from stub
Turkey national football team - Euro 2004 and WC2006 qualifying

Anglicanism

Church of Ireland
Affirming Catholicism - began this one
Forward in Faith - began this one
Cyril Garbett - began this one
Walsingham - added picture
Anglican views of homosexuality - Church of Ireland
Robert Runcie - considerable expansion
Gareth Bennett - began this one
The Red Dean of Canterbury - considerable expansion

Classical Music

Takashi Yoshimatsu - began this one
Jean Langlais - began this one
Valery Gergiev - began this one
Akira Ikufube - began this one
Percy Grainger - considerably expanded
Henry Balfour Gardiner - began this one
The Handmaid's Tale (opera) - began this one
The Makropulos Affair - considerably expanded
Hermann Goetz - considerably expanded through translation from German wikipedia
El Niño (oratorio) - began this one
Hans Werner Henze - considerably expanded through translation from German wikipedia
Florian Leopold Gassmann - considerably expanded through translation from German wikipedia
Nixon in China (opera) - synopsis added
Boulevard Solitude - started this one

European Union law and politics

gold-plating - began this one
host state regulation - began this one
home state regulation - began this one
maximum harmonisation - began this one
minimum harmonisation - began this one

Astronomy

galactic halo - started this one and it made it to 'Did You Know?' on the front page!
Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy - expanded
Canis Minor Dwarf Galaxy - began this one

Amateur Radio

Amateur radio - did a lot of work on the main article
Contesting or Radiosport - began this one
Four square - added info on the four square aerial
EME or moonbounce
DXpedition - significantly expanded
Shortwave bands - made less US-centric
4 metres - started this one

Unclassifiable

Roads in Ireland - added Northern Ireland trunk roads
Jet2.com - began this one
George Smiley - expanded from stub
Green Party - tried to make less obviously from a Green POV
Jeremy Clarkson - added info on degree controversy
Bayswater - contributed considerable chunks to
Marijuana Parties - info on Spain plus election poster
Jorge Alessandri - expanded from stub to considerable article by translating from German wikipedia
Chilean Council of State - stub
Waistcoat
Tie bar - began this one
European windstorm - added info on big Irish storms
The Saviour Sect
Yannick Nyanga - began this one
Whole life tariff - Viktor Dembovskis
chav
City of Westminster - including several pics

Pictures only added

Much done, more to do

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