User:Carbon Caryatid

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My primary interest on Wikipedia is helping to weave the web. Creating links between mere raw items of information turns data into the "aha!", the "I never knew that!", the "now I see!", the "eureka!"

Sometimes I act as a wikignome. Sometimes I add facts that come my way. Mainly I sprinkle in wikilinks, and "see also"s, and terms for things that previously had no name. (I love it that Wikipedia has given me names for concepts I knew of but had never really thought about. Once we have a name for something, it becomes a much more real mental construct, and suddenly we see examples all around us. So once Wikipedia led me to the Anglosphere and cousin couples and political decoy I want to add them wherever relevant, so other readers can be exposed to these ideas as well.) Sometimes I write opening sentences or paragraphs that tie the threads together, placing a subject in context. Sometimes I contribute to the reference desks, especially humanities and miscellaneous: answers, and also questions. Sometimes I hive off sections into separate stand-alone articles. So I really should join in with Wikipedia:WikiProject Reference Desk Article Collaboration.

I have wide-ranging interests. Don't we all? I also have my blind spots. Don't we all?

Articles of interest

Ones I've worked on

These are a few articles I've made substantial contributions to:

Biographies

Isaias Afewerki, president of Eritrea
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Somali-Dutch politician
Waheed Alli, Baron Alli, out gay Muslim politician
Saartjie Baartman, the original Hottentot Venus
Shukria Barakzai, Afghani feminist (took this one to Did You Know)
Cyrano de Bergerac, French soldier
Luisa Casati, Italian millionaire muse
Quentin Crisp, English stately homo
Father Damien, leper priest
Lubna al-Hussein, Sudanese journalist who dared to wear trousers
John R. Jewitt, slave in early Canada
Helen Keller, socialist
Leopold II of Belgium, who set the Congo up to fail
the Lupton family of Leeds, Victorian merchants and philanthropists
Fitzroy Maclean, soldier, diplomat, adventurer, possible model for James Bond
Irshad Manji, Canadian journalist, author of The Trouble with Islam Today
Marquess of Bristol, a family of often notable and notorious aristocrats
- Victor, inter alia jewel thief
  - his first son, John, drug addict, flamboyant user of rent boys, died in penury
  - his second son, Nicholas, traditionalist, schizophrenic, bankrupt, suicide
Compton Mackenzie, prolific writer and Scottish nationalist
Jessica Mitford and Esmond Romilly, lovebirds in the pink
Craig Murray, "being a dissident is rather fun"
Elizabeth Robins Pennell, American writer in London 1884-1916
White Rajahs of Borneo
Uvavnuk, the Inuit oral poet

Language

Reminder to self: articles to work on and things to do (someday)

General

learn Wikidata
write up 3? personae
redo this page - split
keep track of certain tricky articles
Find templates for troublesome articles, e.g. weasel words, limited scope, needs citations
Label the articles that deserve it
Help:Referencing_for_beginners#Same_reference_used_more_than_once

Start (just ideas)

Amélie Munier-Romilly, French painter, probably connected to Jane Franklin
Theodosia Monson
Matilda Charlotte Houstoun (or possibly Houston) [née Jesse; other married name Fraser], (1815-1892) novelist and travel writer, daughter to Edward Jesse. [1]
keeping company - perhaps an article exists under another name, but this is a historic (obsolete?) euphemism for the *accepted* practice of premarital sex in communities which we tend to assume forbad or penalised it
Dollar princess (unless there's already an article under another name) (there's a recent book out on this, but doesn't use the phrase in thetitle, which I've forgotten)
Newington Green Academies, a subset of Dissenting academies
Lyceum Club - like the gentlemen's clubs, but for women; founded 1904? Inspired or affiliated to clubs of the same name in Texas and Australia?
maternity nurse - redirects to midwifery - not what I mean
- and Night Nurse too - both the medicine and the baby sort
wise woman - currently a very unsatisfactory dab
collusive abduction, i.e. including elements of elopement and bride kidnapping
menstrual seclusion aka menstrual hut, as a bad case of menstrual taboo
marriage as prostitution, barely mentioned under Criticism of marriage
women's page - NOT the "society page" for gossip. EG Cotton's Weekly described in The Feminist Challenge to the Canadian Left, 1900-1918 (1997) (re UK Observer)
Auxiliary hospital - set up in WW1 (esp in English country houses) and largely staffed by Voluntary Aid Detachment nurses. See Red Cross info. There were thousands. Many leaders (often county ladies) got gongs (link to eg 1918 Birthday Honours and 1918 New Year Honours).
nyumba ntobhu, women marrying women in Tanzania, an old custom with a modern twist
translate School Mistresses and Governesses’ Benevolent Institution from German Wikipedia
invalid food
postnatal care (not the same as the current article postpartum care) - or merge with postpartum confinement?

Sandbox (my notes)

Lawrence family was significant in Unitarian movement in England in the 19th century, and later. They tended to be Liberal politicians, had a building firm, and were wealthy and generous.(my notes)
The Langham Place Group: currently this is a redirect from English Woman's Journal but they're overlapping, not synonymous. There's already some material at Langham_Place,_London#The_Langham_Place_Group.
Harmful traditional practices, a euphemism in official circulation - to what exactly does it refer? (my notes)
Fleetwood House and all it contained (sources)
Foss-Pelly scandal, concerning race and sex on the Canadian frontier (my notes)
subscription publishing, a C18 version of crowd-funding (my notes)
private fostering, if that's the right term; not kinship care but not through social services either (my notes)
Reading Abbey Girls' School (my notes)
women's centre or Women's center
Stonewall 25 (my notes)
Ayah's home (my notes)

Improve

Sometimes this might mean going through the archives to see what has been removed or messed up.

- Ellen Mary Rope the sculptor
- Joseph Chamberlain
- Mohammad Akram Nadwi
- Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
- Rosa Bonheur
- Lupton family
- Swraj Paul, Baron Paul
- Islamic feminism
- children of the plantation (or perhaps there is another better article)
- don't forget Toilet and all the related articles
- clitoris is not nearly as good as it needs to be (my notes)
- Women-only space

Q&A

User:BrainyBabe/Q&A

Useful links

Tools

Using Google to search within Wikipedia
Media files (images and other)
Workspace
Workspace2
/Sandbox
Resource requests
Prep Bio tool - to create an outline of a biography
User:Citation bot/use

First Nations and small languages

Atikamekw, Wikipedia in a dialect of Cree, about 1000 articles, many on medicinal plants
- YouTube video explaining the project, in French at Wikimania Montreal

Women in Red

This user has been on Wikipedia for 20 years, 1 month and 4 days.

A welcome message

First, take a look at the Wikipedia Tutorial, and perhaps dabble a bit in the test area.
When you have some free time, take a look at the Manual of Style and Policies and Guidelines. They can come in very handy!
Remember to use a neutral point of view!
If you need any help, feel free to post a question at the Help Desk
Explore, be bold in editing pages, and, most importantly, have fun!

Editing links

Wikipedia:Userboxes

Categories, tags, and templates

Wikipedia:Template messages/User talk namespace includes vandalism warnings
Category:Categories
Template:Globalize
subst:sofixit in {{ }} produces "Thank you for your suggestion.....(Please do something about it)".
{{Wikipedia template messages}}

Miscellaneous

Wikipedia:Disambiguation#Primary_topic

Reminders to self of things done

How to delete an article

Things I've learned on Wikipedia that I never would have heard of without

CamelCase. Of course I had noticed it, and indeed used it myself, but I never thought to enquire if it had a name.
Anglosphere
Cousin couple

Info about Wikimedia and wikis generally

Just in case

[2]

To read

"Thus I Refute Beelzy" by John Collier

Awards

This editor is a **Grand Tutnum** and is entitled to display this **Book of Knowledge with Coffee Cup Stain**.

		The Original Barnstar
		Your recent work on Farid Esack (besides other articles) is careful and skillful, and I can't help but appreciate it. Jizakullah! -- Rob C (Alarob) 22:28, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

		The Barnstar of Diligence
		To User:BrainyBabe I hereby award the prestigious Barnstar of Diligence for sweeping questions from the wrong desk to the right desk with unfailing, deft wrist motions and alacrity thereby saving the rest of us our time and hair pulling, clearing the refdesks of clutter and restoring their precision, so improving Wikipedia. With thanks, Julia Rossi (talk) 01:00, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

		The BLP Barnstar
		For great diligence on the Nicola Horlick article. DonFB (talk) 10:29, 3 May 2017 (UTC)

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