About me

I am a grad school dropout (diplomatic and economic history) and I need somewhere to direct my unceasing research proclivities. I live in Washington, D.C., United States of America. On Wikipedia I'm all about NPOV; if you want my "original research", you can see my twitter feed or my blog.

News

Potential conflict of interest disclosure

During May-August 2014 I am the Wikipedian-in-Residence with the University of Maryland Libraries Historic Maryland Newspapers Project. Additionally, I work for an association that advocates for the rights of people with significant disabilities. From Dominic McDevitt-Parks's conflict of interest statement: "When I am editing Wikipedia as part of my professional duties, I always strive to strictly abide by Wikipedia's accepted practices on conflicts of interest, neutrality, and notability. I will always work in the best interest of Wikipedia ..."

Contributions to Wikipedia

I began editing Wikipedia in August 2008. I suffer from an acute case of bibliomania and I'm mostly adding to, correcting and standardizing references and bibliographies.

Think of this as being like my Wikipedia wishlist:

Economic history articles

Diplomatic and military history and strategy

Politics

Alexandria and Virginia

Well, I don't live in the district anymore: I live in Virginia now, so I guess I should get used to working on Virginia topics:

Washington, D.C.

Disability issues

Pages I'm working on for WikiProject Disability:

Science

Pacific Northwest

I'm from Seabeck in Kitsap County on the Kitsap Peninsula and am interested in improving the pages of my small town origin.

Other

Contributions to date

See my Contributions page.

Photographs of living people

Living in D.C., I attend a lot of think tank events and author talks. I try to take these opportunities to photograph living people, so a lot of my contributions are photographs of writers and public policy people.

Historical images

Contemporary images


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WikiProject Disability.