User:Infrogmation
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I am a New Orleanian who started contributing to Wikipedia in September of 2002, became an Administrator in February of 2003, and a year later became Wikipedia's 7th Bureaucrat. I'm often in the top 20 most active Wikipedians. More about me: User:Infrogmation/Personal info
Meet the Wikipedian
I've made many contributions to some of my favorite subjects: early jazz, New Orleans, and MesoAmerican archaeology. I've been making good use of my knowledge of minutiae of early 20th century culture. I've made some contributions concerning geography and history of Latin America, particularly the areas of the Yucatán and northern Central America where I lived for a while. I contributed the majority of the States of Mexico articles, though at writing many have not yet expanded beyond minimal stub article status. I've been working on improving the pages related to the List of musical events and the List of record labels.
I've done fair amount on painters and art styles. I feel rather underqualified for some of this (I'm just a guy who likes lookin' at the purty pictures), but hope what I've done will be a useful start to later Wikipedians. I think I cobbled some decent entries on, for example, Alfons Mucha and Salvador Dalí.
A few of my early contributions were made before I became a logged-in user.
Yes, I know, my spelling is poor. Sorry. (Believe it or not, it's much improved from what it was a few years ago.)
List of articles I started &/or made significant contributions to
See: User:Infrogmation/Articles
Additionally, I was also responsible for adding candidates to U.S. presidential election (it previously gave the impression that there always have been and could only be two candidates per election), and contributed the Perceptions of Columbus section to the contentious Christopher Columbus page. I've helped improve the Louis Armstrong page (which still needs more work). I explained what the phrase Honky tonk meant before it was applied to faux-hillbilly pop music.
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These lists are for images uploaded directly here to en.wikipedia. Since November 2004, I've mostly been uploading GFDL and public domain images to the new Wikimedia Commons. Those are listed on my page on the commons (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Infrogmation).
Public Domain Images
I've scanned and uploaded many now public domain 19th century and early 20th century images from my collection. These images, most previously never availible on the web, illustrate hundreds of Wikipedia articles. Finding, scanning, and uploading them is one of my contributions to Wikipedia of which I am most proud.
List: User:Infrogmation/Public domain images
This list is incomplete. Others illustrate entries in the list of record labels. I do not include public domain images found elsewhere on the web (such as on loc.gov) in this list, though I have uploaded copies of a number of those to Wikipedia as well.
Public Domain Maps
Old maps I've scanned help illustrate: Campeche State, History of Africa, History of Central America, History of the United States (1865-1918), Provinces of Cuba, Yucatán
My Photos
I've also have uploaded some photos I've taken myself for use in various articles. Listing: User:Infrogmation/My photos
| Miscellany |
More than you need to know: Infrogmation's last 2,000 Wikipedia edits (http://www.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Contributions&target=Infrogmation&limit=2000&offset=0)
- User:Infrogmation/To Do List
- User:Infrogmation/Useful boilerplate texts
I agree to multi-license all my contributions to any U.S. state, county, or city article as described below:
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External links
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Infrogmation Elsewhere on the Web: |
- http://www.angelfire.com/la/carlosmay/ My personal site
- http://www.geocities.com/infrogmation Froggy's New Orleans Jazz & Mardi Gras
- http://www.geocities.com/cag03/Novcont.html Froggy's Novelty Song Lyric Collection
- http://www.livejournal.com/users/infrogmation/ Web journal