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Thank you for viewing my user page. Please assume good faith: if I've made a mistake, it's an honest one; assuming bad faith will not improve the situation. I expect to be treated in the same way as a friendly colleague in a productive and professional environment would be treated. I really do not like hyperbole, profanity, or hostility. If we have a difference of opinion, I'm open to discussing it (time permitting).
I have very strong feelings about the importance of notability, policies and guidelines, sources and evidence, and process and consensus for building the quality of the encyclopedia.
Best wishes from Los Angeles,
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I spend most of my time working on articles about books, authors, and bibliographies about topics I'm interested in. The work I am most proud of is the
bibliographies related to Russian and Soviet history
I've created on English Wikipedia.
Topics that interest me
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My main areas of interest are:
- History: the United States and Eastern Europe generally; specifically colonial and early American history; the history of California; twentieth-century European History; the history of the Russian and Soviet empires and the Communist bloc; Imperial Japanese History; southeast Asian history.
- California and the Los Angeles area.
- Science Fiction, Adventure, and Fantasy fiction, especially golden age Science Fiction.
- Classic Rock (Anglo-American), American Blues, Doo-Wop.
- Books and Bibliographies.
- Outlines and indexes.
- Glossaries
Places
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On non-English wikis, I work on articles about the city of Los Angeles and the state of California.
- Wikipedia:California
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Wikipedia:Los Angeles
,
Wikipedia:Hollywood
- Wikipedia:East Hollywood, Los Angeles
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Wikipedia:Thai Town, Los Angeles
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Wikipedia:Koreatown, Los Angeles
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Wikipedia:West Hollywood, California
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Wikipedia:Silver Lake, Los Angeles
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Wikipedia:Downtown Los Angeles
,
Wikipedia:Chinatown, Los Angeles
,
Wikipedia:Little Tokyo, Los Angeles
,
Wikipedia:Arts District, Los Angeles
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Wikipedia:Skid Row, Los Angeles
- Wikipedia:MacArthur Park
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Wikipedia:Barnsdall Art Park
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Wikipedia:Sunset Strip
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Wikipedia:Hollywood and Vine
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Wikipedia:Pershing Square (Los Angeles)
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Wikipedia:Amoeba Music
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Wikipedia:Canter's
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Wikipedia:Clifton's Cafeteria
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Wikipedia:Whisky a Go Go
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Wikipedia:The Grove at Farmers Market
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Wikipedia:Farmers Market (Los Angeles)
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Wikipedia:Pig 'n Whistle
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Wikipedia:Pink's Hot Dogs
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Wikipedia:Hollywood and Highland Center
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Wikipedia:Third Street Promenade
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Wikipedia:Los Angeles City College
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Wikipedia:University of California, Los Angeles
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Wikipedia:Los Angeles Public Library
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Wikipedia:Santa Monica Pier
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Wikipedia:Hermosa Beach Pier
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Wikipedia:Redondo Beach pier
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Wikipedia:Manhattan Beach Pier
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Wikipedia:Los Angeles LGBT Center
- Wikipedia:Union Station (Los Angeles)
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Wikipedia:Los Angeles Metro Rail
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Wikipedia:Red Line (Los Angeles Metro)
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Wikipedia:Gold Line (Los Angeles Metro)
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Wikipedia:Expo Line (Los Angeles Metro)
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Wikipedia:7th Street/Metro Center station
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Wikipedia:Hollywood/Vine station
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Wikipedia:Hollywood/Highland station
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Wikipedia:Santa Monica Boulevard
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Wikipedia:Sunset Boulevard
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Wikipedia:Hollywood Boulevard
The basics about TimothyBlue
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My page on
Quotes from people much wiser than I will ever be
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- The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy, instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence, you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence, you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate. Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
?Martin Luther King.
[1]
- "The Russian Revolution was the most successful criminal conspiracy in history. The takeover of an entire nation by a shameless huckster supported by a hostile foreign power. And the revolution was also an object lesson in how liberals can lose, and lose catastrophically, from a position of great advantage, if they are divided in the face of a ruthlessly ideological foe."
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- "I told you so. You
damned
fools".
[3]
- "Civilization is in a race between education and catastrophe. Let us learn the truth and spread it as far and wide as our circumstances allow."
H.G. Wells
- “They neglect their own children so that the children of others will be cared for; they live in substandard housing so that other homes will be shiny and perfect; they endure privation so that inflation will be low and stock prices high,” she wrote. “To be a member of the working poor is to be an anonymous donor, a nameless benefactor, to everyone.”
Barbara Ehrenreich
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Ponderables
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- Should Rita Graham and David open the door?
- Who are the overlords of the UFO?
- The Floor Show
Quotes from people much wiser than I will ever be
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- The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy, instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence, you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence, you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate. Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
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Martin Luther King.
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- "The Russian Revolution was the most successful criminal conspiracy in history. The takeover of an entire nation by a shameless huckster supported by a hostile foreign power. And the revolution was also an object lesson in how liberals can lose, and lose catastrophically, from a position of great advantage, if they are divided in the face of a ruthlessly ideological foe."
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- "I told you so. You
damned
fools".
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- "Civilization is in a race between education and catastrophe. Let us learn the truth and spread it as far and wide as our circumstances allow."
H.G. Wells
- “They neglect their own children so that the children of others will be cared for; they live in substandard housing so that other homes will be shiny and perfect; they endure privation so that inflation will be low and stock prices high,” she wrote. “To be a member of the working poor is to be an anonymous donor, a nameless benefactor, to everyone.”
Barbara Ehrenreich
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Random thoughts and musings
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- I once found a
Wikipedia:coconut
in
Wikipedia:Mercia
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- "Once ya, ya get to know these parts, you never lack for somethin ta do. People always ask me, "Why I stay here?" I tell'm I stay cuz I like it better here than I would anywharez else."
? Herb Jones,
Wikipedia:The Legend of Boggy Creek
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- Wikipedia is a creation worthy of the gnomes of Ak'Anon and as challenging for a newbie as Crushbone.
- I'm convinced I was a librarian in a former life; maybe not a good one.
Things I've learned to live by on Wikipedia (or try to)
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- Think before you type. Then type. Then think again before you press Publish.
- When in doubt, don't press Publish.
- If you're uncertain, Ask.
- When you're wrong, you're wrong. Accept it gracefully.
- I try and abide by a personal 2RR rule (except in cases such as vandalism, copyright, or BLP violations). If I've reverted twice and things continue, I'll leave it to another editor to pick up where I stop. If it's important someone else will come along.
- Think if something can be Improved, rather than Reverted or Deleted. If it can, then either Improve it or leave it for someone else.
- Don't engage in petty reverting. See above.
- Sometimes it's best to disengage from a quarrel and return later rather than keeping it going.
- Use polite and meaningful but short edit summaries.
- Use warning templates sparingly. A note often produces better results.
- Some topics I am too emotionally close to and I choose generally not to edit in those areas. At best it will be frustrating, at worst it will result in a ban or block. Everyone has to know their limitations. Wikipedia should be enjoyable and edifying, not frustrating and exasperating.
- Don't stick your nose into situations you know nothing about.
"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt."
?Abraham Lincoln
- Don't stir the pot simply to get a reaction.
- Don't hold grudges.
- Not every editor is able to constructively edit/review every article. Know what articles are best left to others.
- When you've dug yourself into a
hole
, that's a
battleground
; stop digging and
just walk away
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- Beating a dead horse
with a lead pipe is messy and unnecessary;
just walk away
The worst part of Wikipedia
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The seemingly endless, repetitive, and ultimately meaningless time sink discussions where editors constantly repeat themselves over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again. Usually accompanied by walls of text, hyperbole, amusing and enlightening vocabulary gaffes, and a noticeable lack of logic, all of which begins to blur into each other like a mental quagmire. The talk histories of many articles are monuments to wasted time and energy.
Articles and investigative reports about Wikipedia
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- ((Paling, E.)) (21 October 2015),
"Wikipedia’s Hostility to Women"
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The Atlantic
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15 January
2023
- ((Page, S.)) (October 17, 2022),
"She’s made 1,750 Wikipedia bios for female scientists who haven’t gotten their due"
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The Washington Post
, retrieved
15 January
2023
- ((Qaiser, F.)), ((Zaringhalam, M.)), ((Bernardi, F.)), ((Wade, J.)), ((Pinckney, E.)) (23 May 2022).
"How academic institutions can help to close Wikipedia’s gender gap"
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Nature
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doi
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10.1038/d41586-022-01456-x
. Retrieved
15 January
2023
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- ((Gardner, R.)) (January 9, 2023),
"Wikipedia operator denies Saudi infiltration claim"
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BBC
, retrieved
15 January
2023
Useful pages on Wikipedia
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New Articles Created
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Afrikaans
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- af:Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel
English
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Bibliographies
Books
- en:Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928
- en:Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941
- en:Stalin: Breaker of Nations
- en:Stalin's Peasants
- en:Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941?1942
- en:The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942?1944
- en:Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945
- en:The Pacific War Trilogy
- en:Everyday Stalinism
- en:Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties
- en:The Lights that Failed: European International History 1919-1933
- en:The Triumph of the Dark: European International History 1933-1939
- en:The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia
- en:Lord and Peasant in Russia from the Ninth to the Nineteenth Century
- en:Russia in Flames: War, Revolution, Civil War, 1914?1921
- en:Russia in Revolution: An Empire in Crisis, 1890 to 1928
- en:The Empire of the Steppes
- en:The Russian Revolution: A New History
- en:The Politics of Muslim Cultural Reform: Jadidism in Central Asia
- en:Cannery Women, Cannery Lives
- Destruction Was My Beatrice: Dada and the Unmaking of the Twentieth Century
- en:The Road to Terror: Stalin and the Self-Destruction of the Bolsheviks, 1932?1939
- en:Russia: Revolution and Civil War, 1917?1921
- en:The New Life (2022 historical fiction)
- en:In Isolation: Dispatches from Occupied Donbas
Biography
Navigation
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Disambiguations
Ukrainian
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- uk:Готель Голл?вуд Рузвельт
(Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel)
- uk:Заперечення геноциду в?рмен
(Armenian genocide denial)
- uk:М?ський коледж Лос-Анджелеса
(Los Angeles City College)
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- zu:IHollywood Roosevelt Ihhotela
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