User:RobDuch

I have been editing Wikipedia since August 2013. I am primarily a content creator, and lean towards inclusionism. I am interested in the US Armed Forces, primarily the US Navy and the US Army's coast defense history. I have a decent reference library in these areas, including most of Norman Friedman's US Navy design history books. My specialties have been US coast defense forts, along with US Navy cruiser, destroyer, and submarine class articles. In general I work on what I want, when I want to. My goal is to create a large number of Class B or C articles rather than produce higher-quality articles. With the articles I feel I can contribute a lot to I'm a WikiPuma. Paradoxically, I think I'm a WikiHobbit as well, since I prefer to edit in non-controversial areas. When I don't have time to do major work in Wikipedia I sometimes act as a WikiGnome. I am an American Civil War buff, though I haven't done much on that subject in Wikipedia. I am a member of the Coast Defense Study Group (www.cdsg.org), which encompasses all coast defenses but specializes in US fortifications 1885-1945.

I frequently take unannounced WP:Wikibreaks, but since I usually monitor my talk page during them it may not count as a wikibreak.

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This user is a veteran of the United States Navy.	An ancestor of this user fought to preserve the Union in the American Civil War.	This user loves History.	This user thinks you can learn a lot by editing an Encyclopedia.
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This user is interested in the History of the United States of America.	This user is interested in the American Revolution.	This user is interested in the War of 1812.	This user is interested in the American Civil War.
This user is interested in World War I.	This user is interested in World War II	This user is interested in the history of the Cold War.	This user is interested in naval history.
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This user enjoys travelling.	34This user has visited 34 of the 205 countries in the world.	5This user has visited 5 of the 7 continents in the world.	This user has visited 32 of the 50 States and the District of Columbia.32
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Articles I have created or contributed significantly to

• C = Created article
• As of 1 August 2020: 345 articles with significant contributions, of which I created 66.
• I helped discover a 9-year-old WP:HOAX, Conchobar Mac Con Raoí, allegedly a 280-year-old resident of Galway, Ireland who died in 1580 (now deleted and on Wikipedia:List of hoaxes on Wikipedia).
• Op-ed piece in the August 2021 Bugle, in which I explain why and how I gradually did a lot of work on US coast defenses, followed by a brief history thereof.

Navy and Civil War articles

(see below)

Fort articles

Fort articles

The US fort articles are arranged in the traditional geographical order of US Army reports, which the CDSG has continued to use. The list starts in Down East Maine and goes clockwise around CONUS. Maine Harbor Defenses of Portland - C Fort George (Castine, Maine) - added War of 1812 info Fort Knox (Maine) Fort Edgecomb - water battery Fort Popham - more info on previous forts on site Fort Baldwin Fort Allen (Maine) Fort Sumner (Maine) - C Fort Preble - details on Endicott batteries, other info Fort Scammell Fort McKinley (Maine) - includes Fort Lyon, C Fort Williams (Maine) Fort Levett Battery Steele - added info on other forts in area Two Lights State Park Jewell Island (Maine) Fort Foster (Kittery, Maine) Fort McClary New Hampshire Harbor Defenses of Portsmouth - C Fort Constitution - mostly added Endicott and WW2 info Fort Stark Fort Dearborn (New Hampshire) - added Seacoast Science Center, almost all of Fort Dearborn and Rye AFS sections Massachusetts Harbor Defenses of Boston - C Harbor Defenses of New Bedford - C List of military installations in Massachusetts - based on a part-defunct navbox, C Eastern Point Fort Fort Defiance (Massachusetts) Stage Fort - C Fort Pickering Fort Miller (Massachusetts) - C Fort Glover East Point Military Reservation Fort Independence (Massachusetts) - added several Colonial rebuilds Fort Winthrop Fort Warren (Massachusetts) Fort Dawes Fort Strong Fort Standish (Boston, Massachusetts) Fort Andrews Brewster Islands Military Reservation Fort Revere - Most except "Military Chronology" section Fort Andrew Fort Standish (Plymouth, Massachusetts) Camp Edwards - part of WWII subsection Butler Point Military Reservation - C Fort Rodman - aka Fort Taber, tried to sort out the two fort names, added Endicott thru WWII material Acushnet Fort Mishaum Point Military Reservation Rhode Island Harbor Defenses of Narragansett Bay - C Fort Adams - added most of the 20th century section Fort Church (Rhode Island) - C Sachuest Point National Wildlife Refuge - added History section, found better pic and map Fort Wetherill - changed the list of gun batteries to a table Fort Getty Fort Burnside Fort Greble (Rhode Island) Fort Kearny (Rhode Island) - C Camp Varnum - C Fort Greene (Newport, Rhode Island) - C Fort Greene (Narragansett, Rhode Island) - C Fort Mansfield Oak's Inn Military Reservation - C Connecticut Fort Trumbull - Updated Neighborhood section from another article (later moved to New London city article by another editor), added info to 19th century and 20th century New York Harbor Defenses of Long Island Sound - C Harbor Defenses of New York - C Fort H. G. Wright Camp Hero State Park - added minimal fort info Montauk Air Force Station - added minimal fort info Fort Michie Gardiners Point Island - Fort Tyler Fort Terry - added about 1/2 the article, nothing added about animal disease center Fort Slocum (New York) - added about 1/3 of article, mostly 1916-1946 Fort Totten (Queens) - Most of History section Fort Schuyler Fort Jay - Merged Fort Columbus into it Fort Hamilton Fort Lafayette - Construction section, infobox Fort Tilden Fort Gansevoort - C Ellis Island - added a couple of sentences and refs about Fort Gibson Liberty Island - added refs and a little info about Fort Wood Flagstaff Fort Fort Wadsworth - most of History section Battery Weed Fort Tompkins (Staten Island) New Jersey see New York for Ellis Island and Liberty Island Harbor Defenses of Sandy Hook included in Harbor Defenses of New York Fort Hancock, New Jersey Highlands Air Force Station - expanded Seacoast defense Cape May Point State Park - added info on military reservation Fort Mott (New Jersey) Fort Billingsport Fort Mercer Delaware Harbor Defenses of the Delaware - C Fort Miles Fort Saulsbury - C Fort Delaware - Construction and Endicott info Fort DuPont Virginia Cape Charles Air Force Station - Fort John Custis Fort Monroe Fort Wool Joint Expeditionary Base Fort Story Fort Norfolk (Norfolk, Virginia) Fort Nelson (Virginia) - most of article Fort Powhatan - C Craney Island (Virginia) Fort Boykin Fort Huger Other states Fort Armistead - C Fort Moultrie - redid Postbellum subsection Fort Funston - most of History section Overseas Newfoundland Harbor Defenses of Argentia and St. John's - C Naval Station Argentia - added Fort McAndrew Pepperrell Air Force Base - added to coast defense info Bermuda Bermuda Base Command - added to coast defense info Philippines Harbor Defenses of Manila and Subic Bays - most of article Fort Mills - did almost all of article Fort Frank Fort Hughes Fort Drum (Philippines)

Coast Artillery regiments, big guns, and other articles

Coast Artillery regiments, big guns, and other articles

Coast Artillery regiment articles 1st Air Defense Artillery Regiment 2nd Air Defense Artillery Regiment 3rd Air Defense Artillery Regiment 4th Air Defense Artillery Regiment 5th Air Defense Artillery Regiment 6th Air Defense Artillery Regiment 7th Air Defense Artillery Regiment 8th Coast Artillery (United States) 9th Coast Artillery (United States) 10th Coast Artillery (United States) 11th Coast Artillery (United States) 12th Coast Artillery (United States) 13th Coast Artillery (United States) 14th Coast Artillery (United States) 15th Coast Artillery (United States) 16th Coast Artillery (United States) 18th Coast Artillery (United States) - C 19th Coast Artillery (United States) - C 20th Coast Artillery (United States) - C 21st Coast Artillery (United States) - C 22nd Coast Artillery (United States) - C 23rd Coast Artillery (United States) - C 24th Coast Artillery (United States) - C 27th Coast Artillery (United States) - C 44th Air Defense Artillery Regiment - includes 54th CA 49th Coast Artillery (United States) - C 50th Coast Artillery (United States) - C 52nd Air Defense Artillery Regiment 56th Air Defense Artillery Regiment 59th Air Defense Artillery Regiment 240th Coast Artillery (United States) - C 241st Coast Artillery (United States) - C 242nd Coast Artillery (United States) - C 243rd Coast Artillery (United States) - C 244th Air Defense Artillery Regiment 245th Coast Artillery (United States) - C 246th Field Artillery (United States) - C 248th Coast Artillery (United States) - C 249th Coast Artillery (United States) - C 250th Coast Artillery (United States) - C 251st Air Defense Artillery Regiment 265th Air Defense Artillery Regiment Other Coast Defense and Big Gun articles Seacoast defense in the United States United States Army Coast Artillery Corps Harbor Defense Command - did almost all of it List of coastal fortifications of the United States - rewrote page and redesigned table, added about 2/3 of the forts Railway gun - added most of the WWI-US section List of railway artillery - added most US and French weapons List of coastal artillery - most US weapons List of anti-aircraft guns - various US weapons List of anti-aircraft weapons - various US weapons List of surface-to-air missiles - added Soviet NATO naval designations and some weps List of naval anti-aircraft guns - various US weapons 16"/50 caliber M1919 gun 16"/50 caliber Mark 2 gun 16-inch howitzer M1920 - C 14-inch gun M1907 - C BL 13.5-inch Mk V naval gun - added Experimental hypervelocity gun section 12-inch gun M1895 12-inch coast defense mortar 10-inch gun M1895 - C 8-inch gun M1888 8-inch Mk. VI railway gun 8"/45 caliber gun - added Coast defense use, Surviving examples 7"/44 caliber gun - added Coast defense locations, added to Survivors Canon de 155mm GPF - added Surviving examples 6-inch gun M1897 - C 6"/50 caliber gun - added Surviving examples, coast defense use, other info 6"/47 caliber Mark 16 gun BL 6-inch gun Mk XIX - added to US and Brazilian service QF 6 inch /40 naval gun - added US service section 6-inch howitzer M1908 - added refs and most specs, later revised more 5"/51 caliber gun - added Surviving examples, coast defense use, other info 5-inch gun M1897 - C BL 60-pounder gun - added to US service 4.7-inch gun M1906 - C QF 4.7-inch Gun Mk I–IV - added United States service section 4"/50 caliber gun - added coast defense use, other info 4"/40 caliber gun - added Army coast artillery service 90 mm Gun M1/M2/M3 - added coast defense use 3.2-inch gun M1897 - C 3-inch M1902 field gun - some rework 3-inch gun M1903 75 mm Gun M1916 - added AA use details, expanded production/use story QF 6-pounder Hotchkiss - expanded American service section, added some surviving examples Bofors 40 mm gun - added to U.S. versions section Driggs-Schroeder - C Driggs-Seabury - C Wiard rifle James rifle Sylvanus Sawyer - artillery inventor Depression range finder - added info, merged Depression position finder into it Plotting room - rewrite due to merging US-specific info with Coast Artillery fire control system Coast Artillery fire control system - merged Corrected firing data and most of Plotting room into it, added info Other articles Radar picket Guardian-class radar picket ship - C Salisbury-class frigate List of destroyer classes of the United States Navy Steam turbine - some of Blade and Stage design, Marine propulsion New London, Connecticut - added two paragraphs on military installations to History Groton, Connecticut - most of 20th C Isaac Rice Electro-Dynamic Company - C New London Ship and Engine Company Busch-Sulzer - C Lake Torpedo Boat Griscom (name) - C Fleet Rehabilitation and Modernization Bureau of Ships QF 1-pounder pom-pom S2 (missile) - C Nuclear strategy Grover Cleveland - added "Military policy, 1885-1889" and "Military policy, 1893-1897" Advanced Base Force - Spelling/grammar overhaul Fishermen's Memorial State Park - described both park locations 371st Infantry Regiment (United States) - most of article 372nd Infantry Regiment (United States) - WWII material Martha MacGuffie Charles Tillinghast James Caretaker (military) - C Coast Guard Air Station Salem

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This user is a member of the Association of Inclusionist Wikipedians. The motto of the AIW is conservata veritate, which translates to "with the preserved truth". This motto reflects the inclusionist desire to change Wikipedia only when no knowledge would be lost as a result.