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Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

---Thomas Huxley

Jack, how do you know all these things that normal people don't know and you don't know things that normal people do know?

---Joey Potter, Dawson's Creek


This page is to record articles I've written, started, or done significant work on.

Most Important Contributions[edit]

The most substantial pieces of work I've done here include:

Ohio[edit]

County Names and Namesakes[edit]

List of Ohio county name etymologies, List of Ohio county name etymologies, A-K, List of Ohio county name etymologies, L-Z, William Darke, William Crawford (soldier), John Hardin, Hugh Mercer, Isaac Shelby, Benjamin Logan, James Lawrence, William Darke, Richard Butler, Andrew Holmes (started), John Allen

History[edit]

Symmes Purchase, Millcreek Township, Hamilton County, Ohio

Government[edit]

John William Brown (contributed information on governship), Robert T. Bennett (started), Michael K. Allen, John W. Griffin, Charles W. Sanders, Sandra Beckwith, Ohio county government, John D. Herbert, Ken Blackwell, Ohio State Board of Education, Ohio Ballot Board, Bruce Johnson, Joe Deters, Paper township

Congressmen From Ohio[edit]

William Harsha, Samuel Finley Vinton, Frank Cremeans, Clarence E. Miller, Clarence J. Brown, Clarence J. Brown, Junior, Bob McEwen, Tom Kindness, John McLean, Rob Portman

2d District Candidates in 2005[edit]

Ohio Second Congressional District Election, 2005 Steve Austin (Ohioan), Tom Bemmes, Tom Brinkman, Pat DeWine, Peter Fossett, Paul Hackett, Arthur Stanley Katz, Bob McEwen, Eric Minamyer, Douglas E. Mink, Jeff Morgan (Ohioan), James John Parker, Charles Sanders, Jean Schmidt, Jeff Sinnard, David R. Smith, Victoria Wells Wulsin

Warren County, Ohio[edit]

General[edit]

Warren County, Ohio, Middletown and Cincinnati Railroad, Golden Lamb Inn, Jeremiah Morrow Bridge, Little Miami Bike Trail (started), Little Miami Railroad, Marietta and Cincinnati Railroad (started), Cincinnati, Lebanon and Northern Railway, Glendower House, The Western Star, The Lebanon Gazette, The Lebanon Patriot, Lebanon Correctional Institution, Warren Correctional Institution, Warren County Canal, Durbin Ward, Joseph Whitehill, Caesar Creek State Park

Townships[edit]

Turtlecreek Township, Warren County, Ohio, Clearcreek Township, Warren County, Ohio, Salem Township, Warren County, Ohio, Union Township, Warren County, Ohio, Wayne Township, Warren County, Ohio, Massie Township, Warren County, Ohio, Deerfield Township, Warren County, Ohio, Franklin Township, Warren County, Ohio, Washington Township, Warren County, Ohio, Harlan Township, Warren County, Ohio

Places[edit]

Ridgeville, Ohio (started), Hagemans Crossing, Ohio, Crosswick, Ohio, New Burlington, Ohio (started), Fort Ancient, Ohio, Beedles Station, Ohio, Kings Mills, Ohio, Oregonia, Ohio, Hammel, Ohio, Millgrove, Ohio, Greentree Corner, Ohio, Cozadale, Ohio, Hopkinsville, Ohio, Murdock, Ohio, Zoar, Warren County, Ohio, Dallasburg, Ohio, Middletown Junction, Ohio, Fosters, Ohio

Butler County, Ohio[edit]

Townships[edit]

Fairfield Township, Butler County, Ohio, Hanover Township, Butler County, Ohio, Lemon Township, Butler County, Ohio, Liberty Township, Butler County, Ohio, Madison Township, Butler County, Ohio, Milford Township, Butler County, Ohio, Morgan Township, Butler County, Ohio, Oxford Township, Butler County, Ohio, Reily Township, Butler County, Ohio, Ross Township, Butler County, Ohio, St. Clair Township, Butler County, Ohio, Wayne Township, Butler County, Ohio, West Chester Township, Butler County, Ohio

Places[edit]

Heno, Ohio, Woodsdale, Ohio, Poasttown, Ohio, Tylersville, Ohio, Reily, Ohio, Bunker Hill, Ohio, Woods Station, Ohio, Peoria, Ohio, Alert, Ohio, Okeana, Ohio, Scipio, Ohio, Shandon, Ohio, Mcconigles, Ohio, Port Union, Ohio, Mauds, Ohio, Rialto, Ohio, Crescentville, Ohio, Pisgah, Ohio, Gano, Ohio, Overpeck, Ohio, Busenbark, Ohio, Collinsville, Ohio, Darrtown, Ohio, Amanda, Butler County, Ohio, Excello, Ohio, LeSourdsville, Ohio, Blue Ball, Ohio, Hughes Station, Ohio, Kyles Station, Ohio, Princeton, Ohio, Huntsville, Butler County, Ohio

Other[edit]

Voice of America Bethany Relay Station, Bethany, Ohio, College Township, Hueston Woods State Park

Clinton County, Ohio[edit]

Townships[edit]

Adams Township, Clinton County, Ohio, Chester Township, Clinton County, Ohio, Clark Township, Clinton County, Ohio, Green Township, Clinton County, Ohio, Jefferson Township, Clinton County, Ohio, Liberty Township, Clinton County, Ohio, Marion Township, Clinton County, Ohio, Richland Township, Clinton County, Ohio, Union Township, Clinton County, Ohio, Vernon Township, Clinton County, Ohio, Washington Township, Clinton County, Ohio, Wayne Township, Clinton County, Ohio, Wilson Township, Clinton County, Ohio


Government, Political Science[edit]

Supreme Court[edit]

Justices[edit]

John McLean, Pierce Butler, Samuel Freeman Miller, James Clark McReynolds, Four Horsemen, David Josiah Brewer (started), Joseph Philo Bradley (started), John Catron (started), John Hessin Clarke (started),
George Shiras, Jr., John Archibald Campbell (started), Stephen Johnson Field, Edward Terry Sanford (started), Peter V. Daniel (started), Horace Gray (started), Robert Cooper Grier (started)

Other Subjects[edit]

Supreme Court of the United States Reporter of Decisions, Richard Peters, Alexander J. Dallas (expanded considerably), Benjamin Chew Howard, William Cranch, John William Wallace, William Tod Otto, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Charles Henry Butler, Ernest Knaebel, Walter Wyatt, Henry Putzel, Jr., Henry Curtis Lind, Republican Party of Minnesota v. White (started).

Congress[edit]

Sen. John McLean (Illinois), the Bricker Amendment, John H. Reagan, Robert Smith Walker, Edwin Duing Eshleman, Bud Shuster (revised), Enid Greene (revised), Maury Maverick, Elizur Goodrich, Chauncey Goodrich, Doris Matsui, Paul Hays, Meg Goetz, Mary Kevin Niland

Congressmen From Ohio[edit]

William Harsha, Samuel Finley Vinton, Frank Cremeans, Clarence E. Miller, Clarence J. Brown, Clarence J. Brown, Junior, Bob McEwen, Tom Kindness, John McLean, Rob Portman

Copyright[edit]

Wheaton v. Peters, Donaldson v. Beckett, Millar v. Taylor (some rewriting), common law copyright

Nixon Administration[edit]

The resignation letter of Nixon

Hugh W. Sloan, Jr., Morton Halperin, Kenneth Reese Cole, Jr. Egil Krogh, Harry M. Rosenfeld

Law[edit]

Model State Emergency Health Powers Act, Lawrence O. Gostin

Other[edit]

Joseph A. Steger (started), Nancy Zimpher (started), Hang on Sloopy (Ohio's rock song), Goshen, Ohio (started), Spring Grove, Avondale and Cincinnati Railway, Cincinnati, Lebanon and Northern Railway, United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Arts and Letters[edit]

Pop culture[edit]

Dawson's Creek[edit]

Dawson's Creek, Katie Holmes, Kevin Williamson, Michelle Williams, Harve Presnell, Paul Stupin, David Dukes, Mary Beth Peil, Monica Keena (started), Meredith Monroe (started), Greg Berlanti (started), Gregory Prange (started), Mary-Margaret Humes, John Wesley Shipp, Nina Repeta, Kerr Smith, Gareth Williams, Obi Ndefo, Dylan Neal, Sasha Alexander, Leann Hunley, Outerbanks Entertainment

Other TV Shows[edit]

James at 15, Life As We Know It, Young Americans

Actors[edit]

Julia Stiles, Ian Richardson, Charles Kimbrough (started), Elaine Stritch (started), Hal Smith, Joanna Kerns (started), Josh Andrew Koenig (started), Jaime Bergman (started), Roger Rees, Melanie Mayron

Producers, Directors, Etc.[edit]

Richard D. Zanuck (started), David Brown (started), Carl Dudley (started), Stanley Donen (rewrote), James T. Aubrey, Jr., Amy Heckerling, Edith Head (revised), Jeff Zucker, Writers Guild of America (scandal), Vic Mizzy (started), Frank Capra, Jr. (started), Screenwriting credit, Art house film, Spyros Skouras, John A. Schneider.

Letters[edit]

Journalism[edit]

The Western Star, The Lebanon Patriot, The Lebanon Gazette, William H. P. Denny, William C. McClintock,Chillicothe Gazette, Centinel of the Northwest Territory, Cincinnati Enquirer, Dayton Daily News, Cox Communications, Eugene Meyer, Cincinnati Post, Harold Ross, William Shawn, The New Yorker (contributed history, Eustace Tilley info), Ely Jacques Kahn, Jr., Franklin Pierce Adams, Lowell Thomas, Washington Star (started), Cissy Patterson, Carrie Donovan, USA Weekend, Miller Publishing Company, Springboro Star Press, Middletown Journal

Lexicography and Language[edit]

Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, F.G. Fowler, dord, Nicholson Baker (info on libraries), Webster's Dictionary, Philip Babcock Gove, William Torrey Harris, Chauncey Allen Goodrich, William Allen Neilson, Webster's New World Dictionary, American Heritage Dictionary, Century Dictionary, William Dwight Whitney, Joseph Emerson Worcester, Random House Dictionary of the English Language, Dictionary of American English, John Bartlett (publisher), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations

Literature[edit]

Montague Summers, Winston Churchill (novelist) (revised)

Everything Else[edit]

James Bond (ornithologist) (rewrote article), Margaret Herrick, Thomas Hoving, J. Irwin Miller (revised heavily), Dana Gioia, Jeff Koons (revised), Skeeter Davis (merged two articles, added obits), Carmella DeCesare, Christopher Buckley, Barry Wakeman, Metropolitan Opera, Margaret Juntwait, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, Current Biography

Geography[edit]

Henderson Island, Ducie Island, Oeno Island

Other[edit]

Wilson Edgar Terry, Kentucky colonel, Berniece T. Hiser, John Morton Eshleman, General Land Office, Kenneth Cole (started), naturalist Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer, Robert S. Bennett (started), United Fruit Company (added corporate history), United Brands Company, Samuel Zemurray, Eli M. Black, Cuddebackville Dam, Jean MacArthur, Sidney Frank, Ira Rennert (started), Betsy McCaughey Ross (info on Clinton plan), Mary Carey (platform), Samuel Maverick, July 20, USS Howard (DD-179) (wikified), George Rippey Stewart (started), Postal savings systems

Images[edit]

See: User:PedanticallySpeaking/Images

Wikipedia[edit]

FAC Candidacies[edit]

These are articles I submitted FAC candidacies for.

Peer reviews[edit]

These are articles I asked for PR's on:

Edit History[edit]

To see my current count check out here.

Milestones[edit]

My first contribution was at 10:19 A.M. on August 6, 2004, to Wikipedia:Requested articles/Social Sciences and Philosophy. My first as a registered user was in creating Warren D. Huff. My tenth was to John Morton Eshleman, my 25th to Clarence J. Brown, my 50th to General Land Office, and my 100th to List of United States representatives from Ohio.

I made my one-thousandth edit on August 26, 2004 and I made my two thousandth edit to Wikipedia on September 11, 2004. My 2500th edit came on September 30, 2004. My 3000th edit came on October 13, 2004. My 3500th edit came on October 25, 2004. My 3800th edit came on October 30, 2004. My 3900th edit came on November 5, 2004. My 4500th edit came on November 19, 2004. My 5000th edit came on December 18, 2004 to Life As We Know It. My 6000th edit came on March 9, 2005, on User talk:PedanticallySpeaking. My 7000th edit was on April 7, 2005, to Jacksonburg, Ohio. My 7500th edit was on April 15, 2005, to the article Vernon Township, Clinton County, Ohio. My 8000th edit was to Bob McEwen on May 20, 2005. My 9000th edit was to Jean Schmidt on June 14, 2005. My 10,000th edit was to Miller Publishing Company on July 16, 2005.

Ranks[edit]

As of August 22, 2004 I was ranked the 769th most prolific contributor, having jumped 24,787 places in thirty days, and had made 872 contributions to that date. As of August 28, 2004, I ranked 418th with 315 edits. As of September 6?, 2004, I was ranked 587th with 1312 edits, up from 1885th the previous week. As of September 22, 2004, I was 477th with 1761 mainspace edits. As of October 10, 2004, I was ranked 412th with over 2200 edits to articles and 443d in all namespaces with over 2800 edits. An undated list posted at the ranking page put me at 401st with 3303 edits. As of November 8, 2004, I was ranked 325th with over 2963 edits to articles and 355th in all namespaces with over 3942 edits.

As of November 18, 2004, I was ranked 63d for main namespace edits and 75th for all namespace edits at Wikipedia:List_of_Wikipedians_by_number_of_recent_edits. As of circa November 20, 2004, I was ranked I was ranked 310th with over 3123 edits to articles and 329th in all namespaces with over 4254 edits. As of November 29, 2004, I was ranked I was ranked 305th with over 3289 edits to articles and 318th in all namespaces with over 4543 edits.

The CSV data (checked December 15, 2004), credits me with 3,393 mainspace edits, 1,311 other edits, and ranks me 317th, up from 334th. As of January 18, 2005, I was 195th ranked in recent edits, with 709. As of March 9, 2005, I was ranked 311th in edits to the main namespace with 4,045 edits and 306th in all namespaces with 5,987 edits. As of April 27, 2005, I was ranked 255th in the main namespace with 5,357 edits, up sixty-five places, and 253rd in all name spaces, with 7,749 edits. As of July 24, 2005, I was ranked 226th in the main namespace and 233rd in all namespaces.

Other Languages[edit]

Though I have done very little in other languages, I have accounts, also under the name PedanticallySpeaking, in the Spanish, French, and Latin Wikipedias.

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