Hi, I amRob C, a historian, computer guy, and cat wrangler inBirmingham, Alabama. I work part time for aQuaker association in six southern states.

I do apodcast calledDeep South History about "themost southern part of theAmerican South." (Another episode is coming outreal soon now.)

To reach me, drop a note on mytalk page or (if you're not in a hurry) sendemail.

I've started71 of Wikipedia's 7,097,275 English-language articles. These days I'm mostlycopyediting or doinggnomish tasks.

I recently revised: New Testament apocrypha : : Divine countenance : : Memorbuch : : Quebec Act : : Statute Law Revision Act 1871 : : Loess : : Endianness : : John Woolman : : Battle of Dollar : : Mencius : : Legalism (Chinese philosophy) : : Guna people : : Abya Yala : : Erasmus : : Montesquieu : : Types of democracy : : Whetstone (benchmark) : : Operating system : : Herbert Butterfield : : Polikarpov I-185 : : Agelenidae : : 2025 New Orleans truck attack : : Bouvard and Pécuchet : : Dragging Canoe

Articles I've started: American Farmland Trust : : August Wenzinger : : Avinash Sachdev : : Bartram's Travels : : Bernard Gregory : : Buckdancer's Choice : : Burnt Corn, Alabama : : City of Basel Music Academy : : Contraguitar : : Cusseta, Alabama : : Elko, Georgia : : Farid Esack : : Flintridge Building : : Folkwang Academy : : Frederica (given name) : : Georg Schäfer (industrialist) : : Gesellschaft für das Gute und Gemeinnützige : : Heutelia : : History of the Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in America : : Huntley Project : : J. Gordon Coogler : : James R. Osgood : : John Harvard Library : : John Pope (travel writer) : : Lauren Newton : : Lukas Vischer (theologian) : : Mamma Haidara Commemorative Library : : Mathias Rüegg : : Montgomery Symphony Orchestra : : Museum Georg Schäfer : : Museum of Cultures Basel : : Poarch Creek Indian Reservation : : Ring shout : : Sankt Georgen Graduate School of Philosophy and Theology : : Schloss Ebenrain : : Schrammelmusik : : Spanish West Florida : : Suum cuique : : Vienna Art Orchestra : : Vischer Ferry, New York : : William and Mary Quarterly

Userboxes It is approximately3:08 PM where this user lives. This user iscurrently working on a historypodcast. This user hasadopted the typo "Alabaman" to nurture. This user participates inPages needing translation into English. Wikipedia Ichschreibe Beiträge für diedeutschsprachige Wikipedia. I supportGerman language Wikipedia withmy contributions. This user can readFraktur. This user simplifies Wikipedia referencing withProveIt. This user has been on Wikipedia for20 years, 3 months and 29 days. wd-4 WikiDefcon Level isNormal. 2.60 RPM according toDeadbeefBot

Disambiguation pages ("dab pages" for short): Arts and letters (disambiguation) : : Available Jones : : Ballantine : : Benjamin Porter : : Frederika : : Fredrika : : James Douglass : : Luke Field : : Northridge High School : : Lukas Vischer : : Romano-Germanic : : Standard Oil (disambiguation) : : VAO

These are stillstub-class: Al-Mu'tasim, Iraq : : Benjamin F. Porter : : Big Warrior : : Cappella Coloniensis : : Cherokee War of 1776 : : Cusseta tribal town : : Hadron collider : : The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution : : Johann Spies : : John Harvard Library (series) : : Lucerne School of Music : : Lukas Vischer (collector) : : Pompey's Pillar, Montana : : Tukabatchee : : Wheeling, Louisiana : : William H. Miles : : WVSU-FM

Templates:  Unicode support notices forCanadian Aboriginal syllabics andCherokee syllabics (now handled differently): :SomeISO 639 support templates for Native American languages:Alabama (akz),Algonquin (alq),Chickasaw (cic),Chippewa (ciw), Chitimacha (ctm),Choctaw (cho),Dakota (dak),Kiowa (kio),Koasati (cku),Mikasuki (mik),Creek (mus),Central Ojibwa (ojc),Eastern Ojibwa (ojg),Northwestern Ojibwa (ojb),Severn Ojibwa (ojs),Western Ojibwa (ojw),Opata (opt),Ottawa (otw),Unami (unm),andYuchi (yuc).

Did you know? …that theMamma Haidara Commemorative Library inTimbuktu inMali houses a collection of manuscripts begun more than 500 years ago? (30 May 2013)

Babel boxes: Appalachian English: :Middle English (basic,intermediate,fluent,advanced)

Other pages in my userspace: Userboxen: :Languages: :Travels: :10 Random Pages: :References: :Workspace

(Updated infrequently.)As of August 2017 I had made over11,390 edits to more than3,630 pages.

• 2.6 average edits per day
• 3.1 average edits per page
• Mylatest contributions

Some of the more unusual articles I keep an eye on:

Chang and Eng Bunker : :Dictionary of Received Ideas : :Frick and Frack : :Guadalcanal Diary (band) : :List of fatal alligator attacks in the United States : :Mike the Headless Chicken : :Muslimgauze : :Pylon (band) : :St. Marx Cemetery : :The real McCoy : :Why did the chicken cross the road?

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Wikipedia does not contain the truth. Articles in Wikipedia, at their best, reflect the general state of human knowledge, or (to put it even less precisely) what most qualified people these days believe to be true. I reserve the right to believe thatmost people are wrong about some things. But I do not have the right to make my opinion prevail in Wikipedia. (See:Wikipedia: Verifiability.)

From "observations on Wikipedia behavior" byAntandrus:

• Wikipedia is an encyclopedia. The primary job ofWikipedians is to write it. Everything else is secondary.
• The very existence of Wikipedia is a massive proof that there are more people in the world wanting to build than to tear down. Were that not true,vandals would have overwhelmed and destroyed us years ago.
• The best way to continue as awriting Wikipedian for many years is to be, as theBuddha recommends, "indifferent to both praise and blame." Indifference to praise is a hard task for mere humans, but millions of potential anonymous readers demand it of you…. And remember this: you are allowed to take your work seriously here, and think highly of your own efforts; but be advised, don't talk about it.
• A common insult hurled at dedicated Wikipedia editors is that they "have no life." If you write extensively in an out-of-the-way area, you may well become the most widely read writer in the world on your topic. There are worse ways of "having no life", such as abusing the few actually useful people on the internet, but those who deliver such insults are invariably tone-deaf to irony.

Fromsome advice byWilliam Pietri:

Wikipedia's articles are no place for strong views. Or rather, we feel about strong views the way that a natural history museum feels abouttigers. We admire them and want our visitors to see how fierce and clever they are, so we stuff them and mount them for close inspection. We put up all sorts of carefully worded signs to get people to appreciate them as much as we do. But however much we adore tigers, a live tiger loose in the museum is seen as an urgent problem.

The typicalWikipedian is a relativelyprivilegedwhitemale "knowledge worker,"student, orprofessional from the so-calledFirst World who has easy access to theInternet and a high comfort level withgeekery. This imposes an unintended but inherentbias on the encyclopedia's coverage of topics — a bias that militates against the ideal of Wikipedia as a universal repository of human knowledge.Overcoming that bias is an interesting challenge.

To date, most of my articles have been located in theAmerican South (especially theDeep South, where I'm from) or inEurope, and most of my editing of biographies has been about men. I'm trying to branch out more.

• Third opinion disputesupdate,Purge

Black Patch Tobacco Wars(naive, not well sourced) : :Bonnie Blue flag(takes sides rather than reporting the debate) : :Benjamin Hawkins(should be better) : :Cherokee-American wars(mistitled IMO, but there's no obvious alternative) : :History of Alabama(needs rewrite, begunhere) : :Islam in the United States(a bias magnet) : :William McIntosh(needs rewrite, begunhere) : :Zheng He(getting better)

Adopt-a-typo is a Wikipedia project for quickly identifying and correcting a spelling or typing error that recurs constantly in English.

I have adopted the relatively obscure typo of "Alabaman" for "Alabamian." It occurs frequently in direct quotations that must be left untouched. "Alabaman" is acceptable when referring to thelanguage of the Alabama people, but the more common name for the language is "Alabama."

Interwiki Userpages Wiktionary User: Alarob (talk) Wikisource User: Alarob (talk) Wikimedia Commons User: Alarob (talk) Wikimedia Incubator User: Alarob (talk) Wikimedia Meta-Wiki User: Alarob (talk)

Besides the other Wikimedia projects shown above, I'm a contributor to:
ArchivesWiki (the moribundAHA resource) : :BhamWiki (excellent) : :Papers of the War Department, 1784-1800 (very buggy) : :Wikivoyage

I've made minor contributions to theGerman,Spanish,French,Italian, andBengali Wikipedias.

• Wikipedia autopatrollers
• Wikipedia rollbackers
• Members of the Fifteen Year Society of Wikipedia editors
• Wikipedians open to trout slapping
• Wikipedian typo adopters
• Wikipedians who participate in Pages needing translation into English
• Wikipedians who contribute to the German Wikipedia
• Wikipedians who can read Fraktur
• Wikipedians who use ProveIt
• Gandhian Wikipedians
• Muslim Wikipedians
• Quaker Wikipedians
• Wikipedian historians
• Wikipedian translators
• Wikipedians in Alabama
• Wikipedians interested in Alabama
• Wikipedians who contribute to Wikimedia Commons

• Search link templates with namespace parameters