Although I am a computer guy by trade (now retired), I have concentrated on American Civil War related topics since my first Wikipedia article on January 6, 2004. You can find out more about me on my personal website, www.posix.com. Here are some Wikipedia statistics and tools related to my contributions:
If you would like to email me, which I would recommend if you intend to conduct a dialogue or ask a question, see this yellow box. Hal Jespersen ( talk) 17:09, 14 June 2010 (UTC)
I have set up this page to display the long lists in multiple columns. This feature currently works only in Mozilla Firefox, I'm told. It sometimes is flaky and does not display the entire page. In those cases, I have found the resizing the width of the browser window and refreshing the page usually corrects the problem.
Here's a list of articles I have created or modified substantially. I don't include articles that I've simply cleaned up, but only those for which I consider myself the principal (if not always the original) author. My favorites are listed in bold.
Some of the battle articles I've written include maps that I've created myself. I used Macromedia Freehand or Adobe Illustrator and have shared the source files on my website. On none of the these articles did I do the "battle boxes", although I usually correct them if I notice a problem. The ones that are marked with [M] are articles that I "maintain" by posting my name in their Talk pages. This is not done to denote ownership, but to provide a contact point for people with questions about citations, missing material, etc. The battle articles below are listed alphabetically by the name of the battle or campaign, ignoring First, Second, etc.
The bold entries are those articles that I like the best. Those marked with [M] are maintained articles (see above for explanation).
The following were originally written by me, but they have gone through so many contentious edits that I no longer claim credit or pay much attention to them any more:
I also created this template, although it has been enhanced considerably by others since its introduction:
This one, too:
I invite anyone to select items from my to-do list and work on them before I get a chance to do so. In those cases where I would like to reserve an article for myself, I have annotated them. Bold items are short-term priorities for me. The ones that are marked simply "needs footnotes" are ones I consider well written articles with solid references, but do not meet current Wikipedia standards for in-line citations. Note that this is not an exhaustive list of all the work needed for Civil War battle articles, but is a list of articles I am interested in creating or improving. When a campaign is listed, it implies that the battle articles in that campaign probably need expansion, too.
For those that I have annotated "needs footnotes," I am suggesting that these are the more important, more visible articles, whether or not I am the principal author. For shorter articles that have a small number of references, footnotes are good, but lower priority. For the great majority of these, the tiny lead paragraphs need to be expanded to summarize the contents of the article. Bold entries are ones I am prioritizing higher than the others for now.
Although I am a computer guy by trade (now retired), I have concentrated on American Civil War related topics since my first Wikipedia article on January 6, 2004. You can find out more about me on my personal website, www.posix.com. Here are some Wikipedia statistics and tools related to my contributions:
If you would like to email me, which I would recommend if you intend to conduct a dialogue or ask a question, see this yellow box. Hal Jespersen ( talk) 17:09, 14 June 2010 (UTC)
I have set up this page to display the long lists in multiple columns. This feature currently works only in Mozilla Firefox, I'm told. It sometimes is flaky and does not display the entire page. In those cases, I have found the resizing the width of the browser window and refreshing the page usually corrects the problem.
Here's a list of articles I have created or modified substantially. I don't include articles that I've simply cleaned up, but only those for which I consider myself the principal (if not always the original) author. My favorites are listed in bold.
Some of the battle articles I've written include maps that I've created myself. I used Macromedia Freehand or Adobe Illustrator and have shared the source files on my website. On none of the these articles did I do the "battle boxes", although I usually correct them if I notice a problem. The ones that are marked with [M] are articles that I "maintain" by posting my name in their Talk pages. This is not done to denote ownership, but to provide a contact point for people with questions about citations, missing material, etc. The battle articles below are listed alphabetically by the name of the battle or campaign, ignoring First, Second, etc.
The bold entries are those articles that I like the best. Those marked with [M] are maintained articles (see above for explanation).
The following were originally written by me, but they have gone through so many contentious edits that I no longer claim credit or pay much attention to them any more:
I also created this template, although it has been enhanced considerably by others since its introduction:
This one, too:
I invite anyone to select items from my to-do list and work on them before I get a chance to do so. In those cases where I would like to reserve an article for myself, I have annotated them. Bold items are short-term priorities for me. The ones that are marked simply "needs footnotes" are ones I consider well written articles with solid references, but do not meet current Wikipedia standards for in-line citations. Note that this is not an exhaustive list of all the work needed for Civil War battle articles, but is a list of articles I am interested in creating or improving. When a campaign is listed, it implies that the battle articles in that campaign probably need expansion, too.
For those that I have annotated "needs footnotes," I am suggesting that these are the more important, more visible articles, whether or not I am the principal author. For shorter articles that have a small number of references, footnotes are good, but lower priority. For the great majority of these, the tiny lead paragraphs need to be expanded to summarize the contents of the article. Bold entries are ones I am prioritizing higher than the others for now.