User:Adam Faanes
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Dude. I got a barnstar for uploading a ridiculous number of photos of obscure French statesmen. How crazy is that?
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Hey.
The Wikipedia kicks ass. If you want any help writing, finding pictures for, or researching an article, I'd definitely like to collaborate. I particularly like pictures on the Wikipedia; with plentiful, quality pictures added to good prose any article can be a pleasure to read.
My interests:
- My historical interests are primarily since 1500-ish. But I have not yet found any area of history uninteresting when I've taken the time to look at it.
- Modern politics (at any level)
- Economics (at any level)
My Contributions, listed mainly (read: solely) for my personal vanity. And for curious passers-by who want to vex themselves at some kind of pattern.
Things I have not finished and may and ought to get back to
- Habsburg Spain should be bigger. It should be several articles instead of just one.
- Enlightenment Spain needs more stuff. I'm happy with the political content, but our colleagues on the Spanish wikipedia at La Ilustración en España have made a good article with lots of other information about the period. We've got to mention Domenico Scarlatti.
- Add pictures to History of Spain
Things people should work on
(This is kinda my list of things that I might eventually get to myself, but, if you're out and somehow stumbled here, then please, take a look at the following pages and see about adding to/creating them.)
- Carlist Wars
- Rene Coty
- History of Oman (the history after 1964 is good, but before that it's rather shabby for such an important empire)
- History of the Ottoman Empire
- History of Austria (Needs subarticles)
- Ferenc I Rákóczi
- Five Pecks of Rice - Chinese rebellion
The Most Peculiar Irony of British History
Now, last I checked, this is an English wikipedia.
Yet the British History (particularly English history) section of the English wikipedia is lacking. There are, as I can identify, the following pieces:
- History of Britain (the top-level in the series template for "History of Britain")
- History of the United Kingdom (the last element in "History of Britain")
- Kingdom of Great Britain
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- United Kingdom (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)
- Britain in the Middle Ages
The part that I am interested in working on is mainly during and after the Hundred Years' War. Thus:
- Early modern Britain (brief)
- Tudor period (stub)
- English Renaissance (pretty good but not enough)
- Elizabethan era (Can't tell what the article is talking about, really)
- Jacobean era (Stub)
- Restoration (Reasonable length for a specific event, no pictures)
- Scottish Enlightenment (pretty good but not enough)
- Georgian era (stub)
- Tudor period (stub)
- History of the United Kingdom (Mainly needs sub-articles)
- Regency period (Brief)
- Victorian era (Brief)
- Edwardian period (Brief)
- Britain in World War I (Ought to be a stub)