User:Holly Cheng

I am Holly Cheng (she/her) and I am an administrator both on English Wikipedia (see nomination) and on Commons.

As a Commons admin, I am also familiar with copyrights and fair use issues, although I am not an intellectual property attorney.

My other favorite thing to do is dig through image archives such as the Library of Congress and upload suitable images. If you are so inclined, please have a look at the lists of my image uploads on Commons and on Wikipedia.

Other stuff:

• User:Howcheng/quickimgdelete.js - Javascript helper file to make nominating images for deletion and tagging no source, no license, no fair use rationale, and orphaned fair use images easier.
• As of November 14, 2019, I am #525 on the List of Wikipedians by number of edits, not that it means anything.

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I did almost all of the scheduling for this from November 2011 to August 2022:

November 30: Saint Andrew's Day (Christianity)

The Flying Scotsman

• 1700 – Great Northern War: Swedish forces led by King Charles XII defeated the Russian army at the Battle of Narva.
• 1934 – Flying Scotsman (pictured) became the first steam locomotive officially to exceed 100 miles per hour (161 km/h).
• 1953 – Mutesa II, Kabaka of Buganda, was temporarily deposed and exiled to London by Andrew Cohen, the British governor of Uganda.
• 1954 – A meteorite crashed through a roof in Sylacauga, Alabama, and hit a sleeping woman in the first verified case of a human being injured by an extraterrestrial object.
• 1999 – A series of protests by anti-globalization activists against the World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference of 1999 in Seattle forced the cancellation of the opening ceremonies.

I used to write the blurb for this (May 2006–January 2013):

Picture of the day

Winston Churchill (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British statesman, soldier and writer who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, during the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955. Apart from 1922 to 1924, he was a member of Parliament from 1900 to 1964, representing five different constituencies. This black-and-white photograph of Churchill, titled The Roaring Lion, was taken on 30 December 1941 by the Armenian-Canadian photographer Yousuf Karsh in the Centre Block on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Canada. The photograph is particularly noted for Churchill's posture and facial expression, which have been compared to the wartime feelings that prevailed in the United Kingdom – persistence in the face of an all-conquering enemy.Photograph credit: Yousuf Karsh

Archive – More featured pictures...

• Casa de Estudillo
• Mussel Slough Tragedy
• Rancho Camulos
• Rancho San Francisco
• United States v England (1950 FIFA World Cup)
• Ygnacio del Valle
• Lucia Visconti

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  Mt. Hood, Oregon
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  Tamarack (Michigan) Miners
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  Kansas crops
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  Dorothea Lange
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  Ulysses S. Grant
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  Cheshire Regiment, Battle of the Somme
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  Erg Chebbi, Morocco
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  Train wreck, Gare Montparnasse, France
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  The Great Wave Off Kanagawa
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  Comet Hale-Bopp
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  Bee collecting pollen
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  Salmon larva
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  Camouflaged flounder
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  Common Raccoon
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  Zipper
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  Lilac chaser illusion
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  Edgar Allan Poe
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  Whipped slave
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  Crying Sudeten woman saluting Hitler
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  Santa Claus
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  Dungeness crab face
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  Cry for Noble Saicho
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  Early Autumn
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  California Ground Squirrel (this one I took)
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  James Abbot McNeill Whistler self-portrait
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  The Duchess of Padua
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  Battle of Spottsylvania
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  Pittsburgh, Allegheny & Birmingham

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  I, FireFox hereby award you this Minor Barnstar for all your brilliant minor edits! 17:21, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
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  For excellent work on VfD! Take care, Molotov (talk) 22:54, 19 October 2005 (UTC)
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  I award this Working Man's Barnstar to Howcheng for his tireless efforts on the Afd pages. Thanks for making sure every article gets a fair shake. D-Rock 05:51, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
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  I hereby award you the WikiMedal for Janitorial Services for cleaning out CAT:CSD, which was in a truly wretched state. Cheers. enochlau (talk) 00:19, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
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  For the rare occurrence creating a nice little article out of an "R with possibilies" I started (Navy-Marine Memorial), even including a picture, I hereby award you this Barnstar. — Eoghanacht April 1, 2006
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  The Editor's Barnstar: For removing 6000+ unencyclopedically unworthy pages from Wikipedia and helping to keep the encyclopedia in a healthy state - As a new admin, I can certainly attest to the unappetizing nature of this hard work (clearing CSD). Regards, Blnguyen • Have your say!!! 03:58, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
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  I hereby award howcheng the Working Man's Barnstar for tirelessly working at WP:POTD. --NauticaShades 14:29, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
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  I know this is pretty late, but I just saw the new FP page and it looks fantastic! Here's something for your effort. Raven4x4x 06:23, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
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  I hereby award you this technical barnstar award for your incredibly amazing image deletion and tagging tool. No longer should anyone complain that IFDs are too hard. Thank you. MECU≈talk 15:01, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
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  I hereby award howcheng the Working Man's Barnstar for tirelessly working at WP:POTD - you deserve another! --Fir0002 09:00, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
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  For your contributions to the Commons and integration to the project, as well as your warm demeanor in both places, the community thanks you. Yours, Smee 16:20, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
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  A long overdue recognition of all the work you put into DYK. I especially like, how you've strived (or is that striven?) to make the section more interesting by finding alternatives to the boring suggestions. Carabinieri 21:24, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
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  For your contributions to Wikipedia and humanity in general, you are hereby granted the coveted Random Smiley Award
  originated by Pedia-I
  (Explanation and Disclaimer) ♠TomasBat (@)(Contribs)(Sign!) 21:35, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
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  To Howcheng, for your hard work publishing everybody's newest articles, and for choosing another nice image, thank you very much. -Susanlesch 23:08, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
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  I, Durova, award howcheng the triple crown of Wikipedia editing for contributions to Did you know, good articles, and featured pictures. Thank you for outstanding volunteer work improving this site. Durova^Charge! 04:03, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
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  I, Anonymous Dissident, present Howcheng with this barnstar in recognition of both his diligence on Wikipedia and the amount of time he puts into the project (especially DYK) —ÅñôñÿMôús _{Dîššíd3nt} 02:15, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
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  I, Smee, hereby award you with The 25 DYK Medal, in recognition of your over 25 contributions to the Did you know? section, as featured on the Main Page. Great job, you're on your way to 100! Thank you for your contributions to the project. Yours, Smee 04:42, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
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  For all your hard work and flack that you receive in keeping the DYK's running Agne^Cheese/^Wine 03:50, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
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  It seems like you have plenty of barnstars, so in appreciation for all of your work on DYK I present you with this dress sword. Feel free to wear it at any black tie event or other ceremonial affair. SU Linguist 16:33, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
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  I hereby award you this purple star for withstanding personal attacks and speculative accusations levied at you on IFD. You are also commended for keeping your cool -- most of the time. :-)
  – Quadell ^{(talk) (random)} 19:05, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
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  I hereby award you the The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar for your work on defending the correct use of the fair use policy Bleh999 00:52, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
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  Dude, your image-tagging tool rocks my world. Hard. Thanks! – Quadell ^{(talk) (random)} 15:12, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
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  I hereby dub thee an official "Upholder of the Wiki" for thy dedicated work on WP:IFD, closing cases and reducing the backlog. Hear hear! – Quadell ^{(talk) (random)} 14:36, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
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  Your Imperial Majesty, it gives me great pleasure to bestow these Imperial Triple Crown Jewels in recognition of your contributions to Wikipedia. May you wear them well. Durova^Charge! 20:14, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
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  I notice your hard work at DYK and believe this award is long overdue.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/tcfkaWCDbwincowtchatlotpsoplrttaDCLaM) 18:59, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
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  To Howcheng, thank you for your help with English Wikipedia featured pictures —Susanlesch 14:25, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
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  With the power bestowed upon me, I hereby award you, Howcheng, this humble barnstar for your tireless work at POTD. Keep it up Fcb981^{(talk:contribs)} 22:01, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
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  For consistently lightening the mood of Wikipedia, culminating in a good few roffles this morning after reading your comment on the Main Page talk, on the subject of that day's POTD, I award you the barnstar of Good Humour. Conga rats. —Vanderdecken∴ ∫ξφ 11:08, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
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  I did the DYK update a few hours ago and wanted to thank you for checking all the articles - it was my first time to do DYK and that made things much easier (and hopefully I did everything correctly). Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 15:39, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
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  For all your great work. The historical posters for National Park areas are much appreciated additions.MONGO 00:37, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
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  WilliamH (talk) has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling at someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Cheers, and happy editing! WilliamH (talk) 17:21, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
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  Seems like someone forgot to award you this, I'm sure you should have received it long ago. Well done Howcheng! Your contributions at DYK are always appreciated. Gatoclass (talk) 23:03, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
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  For your tireless efforts in gathering images for the List of crossings of the Columbia River. Pete (talk), July 2008
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  Thank you for your diligent and consistently superb work at Template:Picture of the day. You've earned this many times over. :) Durova^Charge! 02:59, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
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  This Barnstar recongnizes Howcheng's tireless contributions, from Main Page management to prolific article writing to seeking out great images by others to original photography. ragesoss (talk) 03:39, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
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  User:Holly Cheng has been identified as an Awesome Wikipedian, and therefore, I've officially declared today as Holly Cheng's day! For being such a beautiful person and great Wikipedian, enjoy being the Star of the day, dear Holly Cheng! Peace, Rlevse 00:13, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
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  I was truly humbled by the overwhelming community support for the recent proposal to place featured sounds on the main page. The proposal closed on Tuesday with 57 people in support and only 2 in opposition. Thanks again for such a strong showing of support, and I hope to see you at featured sounds in the future. Sven Manguard Wha?, Adam Cuerden ^(talk), (X! · talk) 00:58, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
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  I don't really give out these things but I thought I should make an exception in this case! Please accept this barnstar as a small token of appreciation for all of the hard, thankless work that you do to keep the main page updating day after day. POTD and OTD simply wouldn't work half as well as they do at the moment without you. I don't think many people realise the amount of work that you do keeping all of the myriad of templates accurate and up to date. Thanks again and keep up the hard work. Woody (talk) 17:01, 11 June 2011 (UTC)
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  For all the POTD captions and notifications. JJ Harrison (talk) 07:31, 6 August 2011 (UTC)
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  Hello Howcheng! I hope you accept this cookie as an amicable greeting from a fellow Wikipedian, SwisterTwister talk 21:58, 27 August 2011 (UTC)
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  I kind of messed up by carelessly moving an article and you quickly fixed it. On behalf of Wikipedia, I award you this barnstar for your hard work and knowledge about Wikipedia. Metsfreak2121 (talk) 18:30, 24 March 2012 (UTC)
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  You are awarded this mighty Great American Wiknic Barnstar for your valorous efforts in helping to organize the 2012 Great American Wiknic in the great city of Los Angeles. -—Pharos (talk) 21:10, 2 July 2012 (UTC)
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  even though we can't meet, you can have a virtual cheese burger with a fellow wikipedian! Thegabster (talk) 16:34, 16 January 2013 (UTC)
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  For your contributions to and organization of this year's LA Wiknic Chris Troutman (talk) 08:04, 23 June 2013 (UTC)
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  You are awarded this mighty Great American Wiknic Barnstar for your valorous efforts in helping to organize the 2013 Great American Wiknic in the great city of Los Angeles. -—Pharos (talk) 22:59, 8 August 2013 (UTC)
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  Thank you for your prompt response! Amandajm (talk) 04:20, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
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  Thank you for contributing to Wikipedia! Gg53000 (talk) 14:09, 9 January 2014 (UTC)
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  Thank you for fixing my blunder in the Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 23 holding area, I had multiple history tabs and something went very wrong. — xaosflux ^Talk 11:44, 23 September 2014 (UTC)
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  For helping to achieve the impossible, here's another barnstar for the pile. —David Levy 00:31, 25 July 2015 (UTC)
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  Hello my friend! 2016 has been a crazzzzzy year. And 2017?! Wow... But what you do makes a huge difference - you are curating and teaching so many millions of people about so many amazing moments in history! Thank you for everything you do here and beyond - you deserve lots of warm fuzzies! DrMel (talk) 05:51, 18 December 2016 (UTC)
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  So stoked you made it to Wikipedia Day/LA. Thank you!JSFarman (talk) 19:14, 19 February 2017 (UTC)

The Genealogy of the Existing British Peerage: With Sketches of the Family Histories of the Nobility

House of Bourbon-Parma family tree <ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.borbonparma.org/flash/borbon.swf |title=Arbol Genealógical |format=[[Adobe Flash]] |publisher=House of Bourbon-Parma |access-date={{#time:Y-m-d}} |df=dmy-all}}</ref>

Complete Peerage: {{cite book |editor1-first=G.E. |editor1-last=Cokayne |editor2-first=Vicary |editor2-last=Gibbs |editor3-first=H.A. |editor3-last=Doubleday |editor4-first=Geoffrey H. |editor4-last=White |editor5-first=Duncan |editor5-last=Warrand |editor6-first=Lord Howard |editor6-last=de Walden |title=The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant |edition=new |location=Gloucester, U.K. |publisher=Alan Sutton Publishing |year=2000 |volume=XII/2 |page=895}} 1910 edition volume 1

Burke's Peerage (2003): {{cite book|editor-last=Mosley |editor-first=Charles |title=Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage |edition=107th |volume=3 |location=Wilmington, Delaware, U.S. |publisher=Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd |year=2003}}

Burke's Peerage (1999): {{cite book|editor-last=Mosley |editor-first=Charles |title=Burke's Peerage and Baronetage |edition=106th |location=Crans, Switzerland |publisher=Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd |year=1999}}

Histoire généalogique et chronologique de la maison royale de France {{cite book |title=Histoire généalogique et chronologique de la maison royale de France |volume=1 |trans-title=Genealogical and chronological history of the royal house of France |author=Anselm de Gibours |author-link=Anselm de Guibours|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n9lEAAAAcAAJ |publisher=La compagnie des libraires |location=Paris |language=fr |edition=3rd |year=1726 |ref={{harvid|Anselm|1726}}}}

Historia genealogica da casa real portugueza {{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/historiagenealog01sous/page/n317 |title=Historia genealogica da casa real portugueza |trans-title=Genealogical History of the Royal House of Portugal |volume=1 |language=pt |last=de Sousa |first=Antonio Caetano |publisher=Lisboa Occidental |year=1735 |at=chart 1}}

Dictionary of Royal Lineage

Historiches Lexikon der Schweiz {{cite encyclopedia |url= |title=e |encyclopedia=Historiches Lexikon der Schweiz [Historical Dictionary of Switzerland] |first= |last= |language=de}}

Digitale bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse letteren

Diccionario biográfico España {{cite encyclopedia |url= |title= |encyclopedia=Diccionario biográfico España |first= |last= |publisher=[[Real Academia de la Historia]] |language=es}}

Dictionary of Irish Biography

Dictionary of Canadian Biography

Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani {{cite encyclopedia |url= |title= |first= |last= |encyclopedia=Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani |language=it |volume= |year=}}

Svenskt biografiskt lexikon {{cite encyclopedia |url=https://sok.riksarkivet.se/Sbl/Presentation.aspx?id= |encyclopedia=[[Svenskt biografiskt lexikon]] |title= |volume= |year= |pages= |first= |last= |publisher=[[National Archives of Sweden]] |publication-place=Stockholm |language=sv}}

Dansk Biografisk Leksikon {{cite encyclopedia |url=http://runeberg.org/dbl/ |title= |volume= |pages= |first= |last= |encyclopedia=[[Dansk Biografisk Leksikon]] |editor-first=Carl Frederik |editor-last=Bricka |editor-link=Carl Frederik Bricka |language=da}}