User:Llywrch

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:

Tom McCall

John Reed (journalist)

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. :-(