I am a
New Orleanian who started contributing to
Wikipedia in September of
2002, became an
Administrator in February of
2003, and last time I checked was just in the top 20
most active Wikipedians.
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 minutia of early 20th century culture. I've made some contributions conserning geography and history of Latin America, particularly the areas of the Yucatan 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 status. I've been working on improving the pages related to the List of musical events and the List of record labels.
I've been doing 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 usefull start to later Wikipedians. I think I cobbled some decent entries on, for example, Alfons Mucha and Salvador Dali.
A few of my early contributions were made before I became a logged-in user.
Articles I started &/or made significant contributions to include:
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- Emilio Aguinaldo
- Red Allen
- Altun Ha
- Pedro de Alvarado
- American Federation of Musicians
- Analogue disc record
- Antigua Guatemala
- Arezzo
- Lil Hardin Armstrong
- Aztec
- Bacalar
- Bagel
- Theda Bara
- Louis Barbarin
- Paul Barbarin
- Justo Rufino Barrios
- Barrison Sisters
- Basra
- Battle of New Orleans
- Battle of Puebla
- P.G.T. Beauregard
- Becan
- Sidney Bechet
- Bix Beiderbecke
- Lionel Belasco
- Belize (and subordinate pages)
- Emile Berliner
- Bevo
- Barney Bigard
- Blue Bird Corporation
- Sharkey Bonano
- Bonampak
- Boswell Sisters
- Clara Bow
- Wellman Braud
- Bronx cheer
- Shelton Brooks
- Tom Brown (trombonist)
- Patrick Buchanan
- Calypso music
- Cameo Records
- Campeche
- Eddie Cantor
- Al Capp
- Caracol, Belize
- Lazaro Cardenas del Rio
- Mutt Carey
- Carlota of Mexico
- Hoagy Carmichael
- Cartago, Costa Rica
- Ceske Budejovice
- Cesky Krumlov
- Chac
- Chandler Motor Car
- Chapultepec
- Cheeta
- Don Cherry (jazz)
- Chess Records
- Chetumal
- Chichen Itza
- Alex Chiu
- Cholula
- Emile Christian
- Frank Christian
- Coban
- George M. Cohan
- Colmar
- Comayagua
- Córdoba, Argentina
- Hernan Cortes
- Ileana Cotrubas
- Country Joe and the Fish
- Henry Creamer
- Charles Cros
- Salvador Dalí
- Edgar Degas
- José Cecilo del Valle
- Detroit Electric
- George Dewey
- Dictaphone
- Dixieland
- Baby Dodds
- Johnny Dodds
- Walter Donaldson
- Jimmy Dorsey
- Tommy Dorsey
- Morton Downey
- Duomo di Milano
- Eddie Edwards
- Edison Records
- Emerson Records
- Emir
- Doris Fisher
- Fred Fisher
- James Montgomery Flagg
- Max Fleischer
- French Quarter
- Jim Garrison
- William Lloyd Garrison
- Gennett Records
- Geronimo
- Giambologna
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
- Giza
- Percy Grainger
- Green Bay, Wisconsin
- Grito de Dolores
- George Grossmith
- Guanajuato
- Guayaquil
- Gulf City, Florida
- Ham the Chimp
- Emmett Hardy
- Ben Harney
- Coleman Hawkins
- Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre
- Lafcadio Hearn
- Fletcher Henderson
- George Herriman
- History of Central America
- History of Guatemala
- History of Mexico
- History of the Philippines
- Hit of the Week Records
- William Hogarth
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (both of him)
- Julia Ward Howe
- Huastec
- George Inness
- Itasca State Park (one end of the Mississippi River)
- Augustin de Iturbide
- Izabal
- Izamal
- Tony Jackson
- William Jerome
- Bill Johnson
- Bunk Johnson
- Dink Johnson
- James P. Johnson
- Richard M. Jones
- Hubert Julian
- Benito Júarez
- Franz Kafka
- Freddie Keppard
- Khaki
- Kibology
- Ward Kimball
- Earl King
- Robert Koehler
- Krewe
- Krewe du Vieux
- Gene Krupa
- Kunduz
- Kut
- Lacandon
- Papa Jack Laine
- Lake Pontchartrain
- Joseph Lamb
- Moon Landrieu
- Eddie Lang
- Nick LaRocca
- League
- Meade Lux Lewis
- Steve Lewis
- Ted Lewis
- List of artworks
- Edward Livingston
- Locomobile
- Louisiana Purchase
- Louisiana Purchase Exposition
- Lubaantun
- Machinson Sisters
- Mandeville, Louisiana
- Pigmeat Markham
- José Martí
- Tomas Masaryk
- Artie Matthews
- Maximilian of Mexico
- Maxwell automobile
- Mayan civilization
- Mayapan
- George Meade
- Mesoamerica
- Mesoamerican ballgame
- Klemens Wenzel von Metternich
- Giacomo Meyerbeer
- Lizzy Miles
- Francis David Millet
- Jean-Francois Millet
- Miss America
- Mixtec
- Mojo
- Little Brother Montgomery
- Francisco Morazán
- Paul Morphy
- Mosul
- Alfons Mucha
- Gussie Mueller
- Muggles
- Said Musa
- Museo Reina Sofia
- Mutual Broadcasting System
- Mystick Krewe of Comus
- Nabisco
- Najaf
- Charles W. Nash
- Nassiriya
- National Educational Television
- Ernesto Nazareth
- Near beer
- New Orleans
- New Orleans Rhythm Kings
- New Spain
- Noble rot
- Jimmie Noone
- Alcide Nunez
- Oaxaca
- Juan O'Gorman
- Okeh Records
- Fred Olsen
- Original Dixieland Jass Band
- Palenque
- Paramount Records
- Parkway
- Paseo de la Reforma
- Pathé Records
- Adelina Patti
- Peten
- James Petrillo
- Phonograph
- Phonograph cylinder
- Alphonse Picou
- Piedras Negras
- Pierce-Arrow
- Pilottown, Louisiana (the other end of the Mississippi)
- Armand J. Piron
- Zazu Pitts
- Archimedes Plutonium
- Pop art
- James Pradier
- Pretzel
- Louis Prima
- Promontory Point, Utah
- Quetzal
- Quetzaltenango
- Quintana Roo
- Quirigua
- Radio network
- Ramses III
- Reo Speed-Wagon
- Rex parade
- Rhapsody in Blue
- Norbert Rilleaux
- J. Russell Robinson
- Jack Ruby
- Sabado Gigante
- Sacrifice
- Sam & Henry
- San José, Costa Rica
- San Pedro Sula
- Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
- George Santayana
- Santiago de Cuba
- John Singer Sargent
- Scat singing
- Schaffhausen
- Jean Schwartz
- James Scott
- Shrewsbury, Louisiana
- Chris Smith (composer)
- Mamie Smith
- Sopron
- Spanish-American War
- Spanish Conquest of Yucatan
- Spanish Flu
- Edwin Starr
- John Lloyd Stephens
- Storyville
- Wilber Sweatman
- Tarascan
- J. R. D. Tata
- Jack Teagarden
- Studs Terkel
- Texcoco
- George H Tichenor
- Tikal
- Tin Pan Alley (& various related people & topics)
- Tlaxcala
- Tokaji
- Tooth fairy
- Toothbrush
- Toothpaste
- Leonardo Torres y Quevedo
- Ben Turpin
- Tzintzuntzán
- United States highway
- UPI
- Kitagawa Utamaro
- Uxmal
- Philipp Veit
- Diego Velasquez de Cuellar
- Diego Velazquez
- Rudy Vallee
- Venice, Louisiana
- Paolo Veronese
- Victor Talking Machine Company
- Albert Von Tilzer
- Harry Von Tilzer
- John Wanamaker
- Jay Ward
- James Weaver
- Rudy Weidoeft
- Raquel Welch
- Paul Whiteman
- Jane Wilde
- William Wilde
- Clarence Williams
- Spencer Williams
- Woodrow Wilson
- A. Baldwin Wood
- World Cotton Centennial
- Ed Wynn
- Xunantunich
- Yaxchilan
- Andrew Young
- Yucatán
- Ignacio Zaragoza
- José Santos Zelaya
- Zonophone Records
- Zulu Social Aid & Pleasure Club
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. I also did the Amos & Andy article. Someone had to.
I've scanned and uploaded some 19th century and early 20th century images from my collection to illustrate such articles as Emilio Aguinaldo, John James Audubon, Clara Barton, Enrico Caruso, Pablo Casals, Cicero, Georges Clemenceau, Columbia, Stephen Crane, Joaquín Crespo, Diana, Porfirio Diaz, Dodge, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Fountain pen. Giuseppe Garibaldi, Giza, Alexander Glazunov, Mikhail Glinka, Ketch, Horatio Kitchener, Li Hung Chang, Franz Liszt, David Lloyd George, Carole Lombard, London Bridge, Louisiana Purchase Exposition, James Russell Lowell, Maria White Lowell, Myrna Loy, Erich Ludendorff, Francisco I. Madero, Nellie Melba, John Stuart Mill, Modest Mussorgsky, New York Public Library, Original Dixieland Jass Band, Palace of Westminster, Anna Pavlova, Pedro II of Brazil, Phonograph cylinder, Mary Pickford, Sergei Rachmaninov, Rambler, Reo, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Maximilien Robespierre, Anton Rubinstein, San Francisco earthquake of 1906, Studebaker, Alexis de Tocqueville, USS Brooklyn, Victor Emmanuel II of Italy, White House, Woodrow Wilson, World Columbian Exposition, Emiliano Zapata, and others. I've also have uploaded some photos I've taken myself.
Yes, I know, my spelling sucks. Sorry. (Believe it or not, its much improved from what it was a few years ago.)
More than you need to know: Infrogmation's last 2,000 Wikipedia edits (/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Contributions&target=Infrogmation&limit=2000&offset=0)
User:Infrogmation/To Do List
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