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25 April 2024 |
A series on Economic history: |
History of finance |
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History of banking |
Bubbles and Crashes |
History of insurance |
History of accounting |
Hi, I am Rob C, a historian, computer guy, and cat wrangler in Birmingham, Alabama. I do a podcast called Deep South History about "the most southern part of the American South."
To reach me, drop a note on my talk page or (if you're not in a hurry) send email.
At the moment I'm mostly copyediting or doing gnomish tasks.
I recently revised: Elizabeth Oakes Smith : : Appleton Oaksmith : : Celia Cooney : : Alexi McCammond : : Ella Baker : : Feministing : : Unsinkable Sam : : Alabama : : Right of return : : Sheikh Jarrah controversy : : Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor : : Ceratitis capitata : : Fannie Lou Hamer : : Literacy test : : Bob Zellner : : Fiddle
Articles I've started: American Farmland Trust : : August Wenzinger : : Avinash Sachdev : : Bartram's Travels : : Bernard Gregory : : Buckdancer's Choice : : Burnt Corn, Alabama : : City of Basel Music Academy : : Contraguitar : : Cusseta, Alabama : : Elko, Georgia : : Farid Esack : : Flintridge Building : : Folkwang Academy : : Frederica (given name) : : Georg Schäfer (industrialist) : : Gesellschaft für das Gute und Gemeinnützige : : Heutelia : : History of the Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in America : : Huntley Project : : J. Gordon Coogler : : James R. Osgood : : John Harvard Library : : John Pope (travel writer) : : Lauren Newton : : Lukas Vischer (theologian) : : Mamma Haidara Commemorative Library : : Mathias Rüegg : : Montgomery Symphony Orchestra : : Museum Georg Schäfer : : Museum of Cultures Basel : : Poarch Creek Indian Reservation : : Ring shout : : Sankt Georgen Graduate School of Philosophy and Theology : : Schloss Ebenrain : : Schrammelmusik : : Spanish West Florida : : Suum cuique : : Vienna Art Orchestra : : Vischer Ferry, New York : : William and Mary Quarterly
Disambiguation pages ("dab pages" for short): Arts and letters (disambiguation) : : Available Jones : : Ballantine : : Benjamin Porter : : Frederika : : Fredrika : : James Douglass : : Luke Field : : Northridge High School : : Lukas Vischer : : Romano-Germanic : : Standard Oil (disambiguation) : : VAO
These are still stub-class: Al-Mu'tasim, Iraq : : Benjamin F. Porter : : Big Warrior : : Cappella Coloniensis : : Cherokee War of 1776 : : Cusseta tribal town : : Hadron collider : : The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution : : Johann Spies : : John Harvard Library (series) : : Lucerne School of Music : : Lukas Vischer (collector) : : Pompey's Pillar, Montana : : Tukabatchee : : Wheeling, Louisiana : : William H. Miles : : WVSU-FM
Templates: Unicode support notices for Canadian Aboriginal syllabics and Cherokee syllabics (now handled differently) : : Some ISO 639 support templates for Native American languages: Alabama (akz), Algonquin (alq), Chickasaw (cic), Chippewa (ciw), Chitimacha (ctm), Choctaw (cho), Dakota (dak), Kiowa (kio), Koasati (cku), Mikasuki (mik), Creek (mus), Central Ojibwa (ojc), Eastern Ojibwa (ojg), Northwestern Ojibwa (ojb), Severn Ojibwa (ojs), Western Ojibwa (ojw), Opata (opt), Ottawa (otw), Unami (unm), and Yuchi (yuc).
Did you know? … that the Mamma Haidara Commemorative Library in Timbuktu in Mali houses a collection of manuscripts begun more than 500 years ago? ( 30 May 2013)
Babel boxes: Appalachian English : : Middle English ( basic, intermediate, fluent, advanced)
Other pages in my userspace: Userboxen : : Languages : : Travels : : 10 Random Pages : : References : : Workspace
(Updated infrequently.) As of August 2017 I had made over 11,390 edits to more than 3,630 pages.
Some of the more unusual articles I keep an eye on:
Chang and Eng Bunker : : Dictionary of Received Ideas : : Frick and Frack : : Guadalcanal Diary (band) : : List of fatal alligator attacks in the United States : : Mike the Headless Chicken : : Muslimgauze : : Pylon (band) : : St. Marx Cemetery : : The real McCoy : : Why did the chicken cross the road?
Wikipedia does not contain the truth. Articles in Wikipedia, at their best, reflect the general state of human knowledge, or (to put it even less precisely) what most qualified people these days believe to be true. I reserve the right to believe that most people are wrong about some things. But I do not have the right to make my opinion prevail in Wikipedia. (See: Wikipedia: Verifiability.)
From " observations on Wikipedia behavior" by Antandrus:
From some advice by William Pietri:
‘’Wikipedia's articles are no place for strong views. Or rather, we feel about strong views the way that a natural history museum feels about tigers. We admire them and want our visitors to see how fierce and clever they are, so we stuff them and mount them for close inspection. We put up all sorts of carefully worded signs to get people to appreciate them as much as we do. But however much we adore tigers, a live tiger loose in the museum is seen as an urgent problem.’’
The typical Wikipedian is a relatively privileged white male " knowledge worker," student, or professional from the so-called First World who has easy access to the Internet and a high comfort level with geekery. This imposes an unintended but inherent bias on the encyclopedia's coverage of topics — a bias that militates against the ideal of Wikipedia as a universal repository of human knowledge. Overcoming that bias is an interesting challenge.
To date, most of my articles have been located in the American South (especially the Deep South, where I'm from) or in Europe, and most of my editing of biographies has been about men. I'm trying to branch out more.
Bonnie Blue flag (takes sides rather than reporting the debate) : : Benjamin Hawkins (mere storytelling) : : Cherokee-American wars (mistitled, but no clear alternative) : : History of Alabama (needs rewrite, begun here) : : Islam in the United States (a bias magnet) : : William McIntosh (needs rewrite, begun here) : : Zheng He (sprawling, confused)
Adopt-a-typo is a Wikipedia project for quickly identifying and correcting a spelling or typing error that recurs constantly in English.
I have adopted the relatively obscure typo of "Alabaman" for " Alabamian." It occurs frequently in direct quotations that must be left untouched. "Alabaman" is acceptable when referring to the language of the Alabama people, but the more common name for the language is "Alabama."
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Besides the other Wikimedia projects shown above, I'm a contributor to:ArchivesWiki (the moribund
AHA resource) : :
BhamWiki (excellent) : :
Papers of the War Department, 1784-1800 (very buggy) : :
Wikivoyage
I've made minor contributions to the German, Spanish, French, Italian, and Bengali Wikipedias.
|
25 April 2024 |
A series on Economic history: |
History of finance |
---|
History of banking |
Bubbles and Crashes |
History of insurance |
History of accounting |
Hi, I am Rob C, a historian, computer guy, and cat wrangler in Birmingham, Alabama. I do a podcast called Deep South History about "the most southern part of the American South."
To reach me, drop a note on my talk page or (if you're not in a hurry) send email.
At the moment I'm mostly copyediting or doing gnomish tasks.
I recently revised: Elizabeth Oakes Smith : : Appleton Oaksmith : : Celia Cooney : : Alexi McCammond : : Ella Baker : : Feministing : : Unsinkable Sam : : Alabama : : Right of return : : Sheikh Jarrah controversy : : Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor : : Ceratitis capitata : : Fannie Lou Hamer : : Literacy test : : Bob Zellner : : Fiddle
Articles I've started: American Farmland Trust : : August Wenzinger : : Avinash Sachdev : : Bartram's Travels : : Bernard Gregory : : Buckdancer's Choice : : Burnt Corn, Alabama : : City of Basel Music Academy : : Contraguitar : : Cusseta, Alabama : : Elko, Georgia : : Farid Esack : : Flintridge Building : : Folkwang Academy : : Frederica (given name) : : Georg Schäfer (industrialist) : : Gesellschaft für das Gute und Gemeinnützige : : Heutelia : : History of the Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in America : : Huntley Project : : J. Gordon Coogler : : James R. Osgood : : John Harvard Library : : John Pope (travel writer) : : Lauren Newton : : Lukas Vischer (theologian) : : Mamma Haidara Commemorative Library : : Mathias Rüegg : : Montgomery Symphony Orchestra : : Museum Georg Schäfer : : Museum of Cultures Basel : : Poarch Creek Indian Reservation : : Ring shout : : Sankt Georgen Graduate School of Philosophy and Theology : : Schloss Ebenrain : : Schrammelmusik : : Spanish West Florida : : Suum cuique : : Vienna Art Orchestra : : Vischer Ferry, New York : : William and Mary Quarterly
Disambiguation pages ("dab pages" for short): Arts and letters (disambiguation) : : Available Jones : : Ballantine : : Benjamin Porter : : Frederika : : Fredrika : : James Douglass : : Luke Field : : Northridge High School : : Lukas Vischer : : Romano-Germanic : : Standard Oil (disambiguation) : : VAO
These are still stub-class: Al-Mu'tasim, Iraq : : Benjamin F. Porter : : Big Warrior : : Cappella Coloniensis : : Cherokee War of 1776 : : Cusseta tribal town : : Hadron collider : : The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution : : Johann Spies : : John Harvard Library (series) : : Lucerne School of Music : : Lukas Vischer (collector) : : Pompey's Pillar, Montana : : Tukabatchee : : Wheeling, Louisiana : : William H. Miles : : WVSU-FM
Templates: Unicode support notices for Canadian Aboriginal syllabics and Cherokee syllabics (now handled differently) : : Some ISO 639 support templates for Native American languages: Alabama (akz), Algonquin (alq), Chickasaw (cic), Chippewa (ciw), Chitimacha (ctm), Choctaw (cho), Dakota (dak), Kiowa (kio), Koasati (cku), Mikasuki (mik), Creek (mus), Central Ojibwa (ojc), Eastern Ojibwa (ojg), Northwestern Ojibwa (ojb), Severn Ojibwa (ojs), Western Ojibwa (ojw), Opata (opt), Ottawa (otw), Unami (unm), and Yuchi (yuc).
Did you know? … that the Mamma Haidara Commemorative Library in Timbuktu in Mali houses a collection of manuscripts begun more than 500 years ago? ( 30 May 2013)
Babel boxes: Appalachian English : : Middle English ( basic, intermediate, fluent, advanced)
Other pages in my userspace: Userboxen : : Languages : : Travels : : 10 Random Pages : : References : : Workspace
(Updated infrequently.) As of August 2017 I had made over 11,390 edits to more than 3,630 pages.
Some of the more unusual articles I keep an eye on:
Chang and Eng Bunker : : Dictionary of Received Ideas : : Frick and Frack : : Guadalcanal Diary (band) : : List of fatal alligator attacks in the United States : : Mike the Headless Chicken : : Muslimgauze : : Pylon (band) : : St. Marx Cemetery : : The real McCoy : : Why did the chicken cross the road?
Wikipedia does not contain the truth. Articles in Wikipedia, at their best, reflect the general state of human knowledge, or (to put it even less precisely) what most qualified people these days believe to be true. I reserve the right to believe that most people are wrong about some things. But I do not have the right to make my opinion prevail in Wikipedia. (See: Wikipedia: Verifiability.)
From " observations on Wikipedia behavior" by Antandrus:
From some advice by William Pietri:
‘’Wikipedia's articles are no place for strong views. Or rather, we feel about strong views the way that a natural history museum feels about tigers. We admire them and want our visitors to see how fierce and clever they are, so we stuff them and mount them for close inspection. We put up all sorts of carefully worded signs to get people to appreciate them as much as we do. But however much we adore tigers, a live tiger loose in the museum is seen as an urgent problem.’’
The typical Wikipedian is a relatively privileged white male " knowledge worker," student, or professional from the so-called First World who has easy access to the Internet and a high comfort level with geekery. This imposes an unintended but inherent bias on the encyclopedia's coverage of topics — a bias that militates against the ideal of Wikipedia as a universal repository of human knowledge. Overcoming that bias is an interesting challenge.
To date, most of my articles have been located in the American South (especially the Deep South, where I'm from) or in Europe, and most of my editing of biographies has been about men. I'm trying to branch out more.
Bonnie Blue flag (takes sides rather than reporting the debate) : : Benjamin Hawkins (mere storytelling) : : Cherokee-American wars (mistitled, but no clear alternative) : : History of Alabama (needs rewrite, begun here) : : Islam in the United States (a bias magnet) : : William McIntosh (needs rewrite, begun here) : : Zheng He (sprawling, confused)
Adopt-a-typo is a Wikipedia project for quickly identifying and correcting a spelling or typing error that recurs constantly in English.
I have adopted the relatively obscure typo of "Alabaman" for " Alabamian." It occurs frequently in direct quotations that must be left untouched. "Alabaman" is acceptable when referring to the language of the Alabama people, but the more common name for the language is "Alabama."
|
Besides the other Wikimedia projects shown above, I'm a contributor to:ArchivesWiki (the moribund
AHA resource) : :
BhamWiki (excellent) : :
Papers of the War Department, 1784-1800 (very buggy) : :
Wikivoyage
I've made minor contributions to the German, Spanish, French, Italian, and Bengali Wikipedias.