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- Did You Knows?
Other contributions I'm proud of:
- Palace of Tranquil Longevity - 12:05, April 27, 2012 (Qianlong emperor's retirement retreat in the northeast corner of the Forbidden City, which is currently undergoing an $18 million international restoration effort)
- Proposal:Moving beyond moribund WikiProjects to new platforms for collaboration - 03:57, 9 July 2011 (A proposal I wrote on strategy.wikipedia.org about how we could improve Wikipedia by transitioning away from the WikiProjects that have died to the new platforms for collaboration mentioned in the Wikimedia Strategic Plan to 2015) I discussed the proposal with Jimmy Wales here, and with the WikiProject Council here.
- Juan Gualberto Gómez - 02:06, June 20, 2011 (After discussing on WikiProject Cuba the fact that Afro-Cuban leader in the war of independence against Spain, Juan Gualberto Gómez, DESERVES AN ARTICLE, I created it, the first article I've created on Wikipedia. That the Juan Gualberto Gómez Airport has its own article but its namesake, a Cuban founding father, did not was just weird! So I tried to rectify this; my sources were primarily the español wikipedia and the Cuban government article on him)
- Hoja-Niyaz - 04:19, June 17, 2011 (MAJOR copyedit, improving grammar and English phrasing, adding lead, wikifying, and removing one unsourced paragraph. Please note I only sought to copyedit, not deal with the content, which may have citations needed)
- United States presidential election, 1952 - 02:00, June 16, 2011 (—»General election: improved photo location; added fear of Latin America going communist as a campaign issue with citation from reliable source)
- Ming Dynasty - 00:46, June 1, 2011 (—»History: HUUUGE overhaul trimming back and summarizing the content duplicated at History of the Ming Dynasty in order to ensure Ming Dynasty is the best article it can be, complying with Wikipedia's summary and article size policies, also, moving one section to History of the Ming Dynasty)
- Confucianism#Women_in_Confucian_thought - 00:57, May 19, 2011 (added content for "Women in Confucian thought" section that I created)
- Zheng He#Expeditions - 22:56, May 18, 2011 (Removed unsourced material, added very important sourced material from an English summary from Journal of Chinese Studies)
- Adolf Hitler - 14:47, September 19, 2009 (—»Early years: added material from Payne's The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler about pivotal experiences during Hitler's formative years)
- Christopher Pike (Star Trek) - 22:45, September 1, 2009 ("The Menagerie": removed outdated and offensive "confined to a wheelchair" phrase)
- Woodrow Wilson - 02:52, August 31, 2009 (cleanup, trim, and fix redundancies in the too-long introduction. not everything has to be in the lead. added a mention of the Zimmermann Telegram)
- U.S.-attempted annexation of the Dominican Republic - 05:20, August 16, 2009 (merged into Dominican_Republic#U.S.-attempted_annexation_of_the_Dominican_Republic)
- Kangxi Emperor - 19:33, August 15, 2009 (added section about Kangxi's famous interactions with Christianity)
- Edict of toleration - 13:53, August 15, 2009 (added Kangxi Emperor's Edict of Toleration (1692))
- 1692 - 13:15, August 15, 2009 (merging 1692 in China into this article, adding some sourcing)
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg - 05:01, August 15, 2009 (carefully merged content from the public domain FJC Bio into the article and some restructuring)
- List of Mayor-Presidents of the Mobile City Commission - 02:32, August 15, 2009 (merged this into List_of_mayors_of_Mobile,_Alabama)
- Southern United States Culture - 13:12, August 13, 2009 (merged this into Culture of the Southern United States, part of WP:INT project)
- Culture of the Southern United States - 12:19, August 13, 2009 (following the WP:BOLD guideline, I moved the cultural variations section from Southern United States article and merged it here where it's more fitting; deleted the unnecessary Tobacco section)
- Oregon Health Plan - 17:07, August 11, 2009 (created a new section called "Controversy," to include previous edits about the OHP denying chemotherapy controversy using copious sourcing and NPOV)
- Hashshashin - 18:41, August 9, 2009 (A big overhaul: restructuring for clarity, simplicity. Length shortened, as some unsourced and redundant text is trimmed or removed. Citations are still a problem, but this edit was sorely needed)
- List of generic and genericized trademarks - 15:15, August 9, 2009 (—»List of protected trademarks frequently used as generic terms added Ambu bag)
- Hospital emergency codes - 17:46, October 9, 2008 (—»Code White added Coler Goldwater Memorial Hospital's use of code white, for disaster)
- Culture of the Southern United States - 12:06, 31 December 2005 (I spent all day on Culture of the Southern United States, adding stuff. I redid the overview, added a big new "People" section and doubled the size of the language section. I like how I made one section flow into the next. I already see more I want to add. Will do that tomorrow.)
- Mongol invasions of Japan - 05:18, 18 December 2005 (got Kanjii pillar translated and added caption)
- Justinian I - 06:58, 28 December 2005 (—»Relations with Rome - major edit for clarity and to weed out confusion, but more is needed, esp. a source & more content re: letter of Pope Leo I to Flavian of Constantinople)
- Baal - 12:38, 16 December 2005 (Huge merge of 2 other baals into this Baal. Having a separate Ba'al article for those researching the Ba'al of Carthage / Phoenicians cuts these people off from the better source on this same topic,)
- Sea monster - 12:18, 4 December 2005 (Added Himilco the Navigator to sea monsters)
- Himilco the Navigator - 09:13, 4 December 2005 (I've added more about the Iberian sea route Himilco found for Carthage and his tales of sea monsters, as well as fixing some grammar)
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