Through my articles for creation work, I often end up expanding new articles I've created, and submitting them for dyk, or just nominating ones which are already well written. I also have created some requested articles from scratch, and submitted them. Here are some articles that have been put on the main page that I have either expanded/created or nominated.
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Barnstars
The Original Barnstar
The Original Barnstar is awarded to User:FingersOnRoids, who has first noticed serious problems with bot-generated algae articles and attempted to work with the bot owner and the community to fix the problems early on. Thank you for your contributions to an accurate and reliable encyclopedia. 69.226.103.13 (talk) 17:51, 22 June 2009 (UTC)
A woman has a close male friend. This means that he is probably interested in her, which is why he hangs around so much. She sees him strictly as a friend. This always starts out with, you're a great guy, but I don't like you in that way. This is roughly the equivalent for the guy of going to a job interview and the company saying, You have a great resume, you have all the qualifications we are looking for, but we're not going to hire you. We will, however, use your resume as the basis for comparison for all other applicants. But, we're going to hire somebody who is far less qualified and is probably an alcoholic. And if he doesn't work out, we'll hire somebody else, but still not you. In fact, we will never hire you. But we will call you from time to time to complain about the person that we hired.
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