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Archaeologist exhumed: Martin Rundkvist from double-deletion to FA

From sickbed to GA: Tuberculosis in human culture

Here are a few of the articles I rescued, including some of the first things I ever did here, mainly those that ended up with a star of some kind. It's a particular pleasure when something saved from the trash ends up as a Good Article, and basically astonishing to all of us when one such gets from double-deletion to Featured Article.

Resurrected in various ways

• Martin Rundkvist (assisted with exhumation from double-deletion, all the way to FA)
• "The Man in the Moon Stayed Up Too Late" (extra 63%, straight after GA)
• "The Scouring of the Shire" (rewritten to GA)
• "The Tale of Aragorn and Arwen" * (resurrected to GA, with expert help on sources by Carcaroth)
• Patrick Curry * (resurrected to GA, I found out afterwards, had been double-deleted)
• Finwë and Míriel * (resurrected to GA)
• Kaivalyadhama (dePRODded, all the book sources)
• Plant defense against herbivory (rescued, pre-GAR)
• Updog redirect (saved at RfD)

Saved at AfD

This is a small and somewhat random sample of AfD interventions.

• White Aethiopians (saved at AfD straight to DYK, then GA) (Barnstar; one of the first things I ever did)
• Tuberculosis in human culture (restructure, almost all the refs, to GA)
• Maija Isola (upgrade to GA)
• Scarlet Harlets (rewrite + all the refs)
• Heller Furniture (rewritten)
• Salsta Castle (added sources from Salsta slott)
• Mythology of Stargate (scholarly materials, refs, images, i.e. anything that wasn't primary...)
• Troll (Middle-earth) (upgrade to GA)
• The Fellowship of the Ring (rewritten to GA)
• Wolf in sheep's clothing (zoology additions)
• Out of the frying pan into the fire (The Hobbit additions)
• The quick and the dead (saved to WP:HEY, fiction additions)
• 2010 Duke University faux sex thesis controversy (rewritten, most of the refs)
• Blandings Castle (list of refs)
• Knitting in literature (added Virginia Woolf, reknitted)
• AVR-Pii (retargeted)
• Deddington Castle
• Sivananda yoga (rescued, rewritten to GA, 7 years later)

Saved at FAR

• The Lord of the Rings (1978 film)
• Alfred Russel Wallace

Saved at GAR

Agriculture, food and drink

• Bees and toxic chemicals
• Apple
• Onion
• Sugar
• Carrot
• Salt
• Beer
• Botanical garden

Biology

• Invasive species
• Catalytic triad (not destroyed by the reaction)
• Lipid bilayer
• Nepenthes rajah
• Protein (saved from having its globulins permanently crosslinked)
• Ctenophora (still shimmering)
• Histoire Naturelle (saved it from being dragged off to GAR)
• Flora of Scotland
• Lepidoptera
• Archaeoraptor
• Whale

Culture

• The Tale of Peter Rabbit (saved from Mr McGregor)
• Eliminative materialism (saved from elimination)
• Metric system (made measurable, at least, I assisted)
• Batik
• The Cat in the Hat
• Anggun
• Green Knight
• High-pressure area
• Supermarine Spitfire (still flying)
• Pussy Riot (still telling'em)
• Mathematical economics (still counting)
• Astrology (still talkin')
• Human uses of reptiles (still crawlin')
• Ring a Ring o' Roses (still singin' 'n' 'dancin')
• Astronomy (still stargazin')
• Swaminarayan Akshardham (Delhi) (still sittin')
• Mermaid (still lurin')
• Harmondsworth Great Barn (still standin')

Places

• Canterbury (lifted siege)
• Helvellyn (still walkin')
• Shetland
• Richmond Park
• Mumbai
• Frome

People

• Eckhart Tolle
• Louise Nevelson (assisted)
• Gary Gygax (rescued from the dark dungeons)
• Gabriel García Márquez
• Vyacheslav Molotov
• Geoffrey Boycott (not out)
• Ronnie Barker (still laughing)
• Mikhail Gorbachev (cut 40%)
• Jerry Fodor (still arguing)
• Rembrandt (still the greatest)
• Nikola Tesla (still sparkin')
• Augustin-Jean Fresnel (still shinin')
• Anna Wintour (still frosty)