User: Llywrch
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My home page is at http://www.rdrop.com/users/llywrch. I haven't been very good about updating it.
I encountered Wikipedia one evening while googling for mentions of Valentinian III. I had a look around, and decided that I could help out here.
I am a native Portlander; one of my ancestors on my mother's side was in one of the last wagon trains to Oregon. I am old enough to remember the promise of Tom McCall's governorship, which now appears endangered by the efforts of bottomfish like Lon Mabon and Bill Sizemore.
True nerd confession: when I was a kid, I used to enjoy reading the encyclopedia. (It was a Funk and Wagnells, for those of you old enough to remember the joke from Laugh-In.) I would spend hours going from one cross reference to another. Hmm: is there an experiment, akin to the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, to see if one can get from a given article in Wikipedia to any other article in 6 clicks or less?
Wikipedia Entries I have written, (beginning with the ones concerning Roman history):
- Anthemius
- Constantius III
- Libius Severus
- Symmachus
- Carausius
- Allectus
- Avitus
- Philip the Arab
- Gordian I and Gordian II
- Pupienus and Balbinus
- Macrobius
- Sidonius Apollinaris
- Roman Britain
- Battle of Chalons
- Tonsure
- Krazy Kat
- Constantine III
- Pertinax
- Antoninus Pius
I've contributed these concerning Arthur and the Saxon Conquest. Sometimes I think I have bitten off more than I can chew ;-)
- Heptarchy
- Mordred
- Gildas
- Nennius
- Ambrosius Aurelianus
- Aelle of Sussex
- Mercia
- Dinas Emrys
- Ceawlin of Wessex
- Historia Brittonum
- Samson of Dol
I've also written the following two entries connected with Oregon history, but I consider them more of stub entries than complete ones:
I spent a while adding content to Oregon's 36 existing (& one deceased) counties, only to discover that they need more work to conform to the proposed Wikipedia standard. :-(
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- MediaWiki User's Guide: Creating special characters
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