User:Adam Carr
At Mycenae, 2002
Proud to be a Problem User (now reformed)
"Information can be made memorable only when it is slightly coloured by prejudice."
About me
I have a PhD in history from the University of Melbourne. I have been a gay rights activist and journalist for many years. I live in the Melbourne suburb of St Kilda, I am a member of the Australian Labor Party and I support the Melbourne Football Club.
My full biography and a variety of other things can be seen at my website. If you share my bizarre obsession with election statistics, you can visit my online archive, Psephos: Adam Carr's Electoral Archive.
I would like to see Wikipedia develop a comprehensive and academically respectable Australian history and politics section, although I hope to make contributions in other areas as well.
Biographical articles
Governors-General of Australia
In chronological order: Earl of Hopetoun, Baron Tennyson, Baron Northcote, Earl of Dudley, Baron Denman, Sir Ronald Munro-Ferguson, Baron Forster, Baron Stonehaven, Sir Isaac Isaacs (rewrite), Baron Gowrie, Duke of Gloucester (rewrite), Sir William McKell, Field Marshall Sir William Slim, Viscount Dunrossil, Viscount De L'Isle, Baron Casey, Sir Paul Hasluck, Sir John Kerr, Sir Zelman Cowen, Sir Ninian Stephen, Bill Hayden, Sir William Deane, Dr Peter Hollingworth (edit), Maj-Gen (ret) Michael Jeffery (rewrite)
Prime Ministers of Australia
In chronological order: Sir Edmund Barton, Alfred Deakin, John Christian Watson, Sir George Reid, Andrew Fisher, Sir Joseph Cook, Billy Hughes, Stanley Bruce, James Scullin, Joseph Lyons, Sir Earle Page, Sir Robert Menzies, Sir Arthur Fadden, John Curtin, Frank Forde, Ben Chifley, Harold Holt, Sir John McEwen, Sir John Gorton, Sir William McMahon, Gough Whitlam, Malcolm Fraser, Bob Hawke, Paul Keating, John Howard
(Some of these files include work by other contributors, while some I have written from scratch. I have done edits on Whitlam, Fraser, Hawke, Keating and Howard but these are mostly the work of others.)
Other Australian politicians
Kim Beazley, Neville Bonner, Bob Brown, Jim Cairns, Alexander Downer, Dr H V "Doc" Evatt, Sir Samuel Griffith, Bill Hayden
Other figures from Australian history
J F Archibald, George Bass, Sir Thomas Brisbane, Anthony van Diemen, Dame Mary Gilmour, Dirk Hartog, William Hovell, William Lawson, John Macarthur, Lachlan Macquarie, Thomas Mitchell, Sir John Monash, Junie Morosi, Vance and Nettie Palmer, Binot Paulmyer, Arthur Phillip, Pedro Fernandez de Quiros, James Ruse, Charles Sturt, Viscount Sydney, Luis Vaez de Torres
Gay-related
Antinous, Herschel Grynszpan, Jesse Dirkhising, Karl-Heinrich Ulrichs, Karl-Maria Kertbeny, Robert Helpmann, Rudolf Nureyev
Others
Arrian, Augustus, Christoph Blocher, Léon Blum, Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski, Rauf Denktash, Dingle Foot, Adolf Hitler, Jan Karsky, Zofia Kossak-Szczucka, Bruno Kreisky, Pierre Mendès-France, Guy Mollet, Edgardo Mortara, Andreas Papandreou, George Papandreou (senior), George Papandreou (junior), Bernard Sanders, Kurt Schumacher, Wladyslaw Sikorski, Mário Soares, Mother Teresa (rewrite of biographical section), James Woodsworth
The Hitler article includes much material by other contributors (see Talk:Adolf Hitler).
Historical and political articles
Australian history and politics
The Australian electoral system (major article), Australian Natives Association, Communist Party of Australia, Constitutional Conventions, Early history of Melbourne, Ern Malley, Free Trade Party, History of Australia, (contributed some sections), Hume and Hovell expedition, Parliament House, Canberra, President of the Australian Senate, Protectionist Party, Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives, White Australia Policy (some rewriting)
Ancient and mediaeval history
Original articles: Arch and Tomb of Galerius, Eretria, Hippodrome of Constantinople, Lindos, Pnyx, Sultan Ahmed Mosque, Vergina, White Tower of Thessaloniki, Winged Victory of Samothrace
Expansion of previous articles: Pantheon, Pylos, Samothrace, Troy
Other history
2002 Bali terrorist bombing (rewrite), Curzon line, General Jewish Labor Union, History of Burma, History of Poland (1939-1945), Maoism (rewrite), People's Republic of Poland, Sino-Soviet split, The Sixties, Zionism (rewritten with Danny and Zero0000)
Politics
Governor-General, Guatemala election, 2003, Japan elections, 2000, List of socialists (most of it), revisionism, Socialism (rewrite of opening section), Swiss elections, 2003, United Nations (some rewriting), China and the United Nations (rewrite), United States and the United Nations (rewrite)
Miscellaneous articles
Australian subjects
Archibald Fountain, Bathurst, The Bulletin, Darling River, Dirk Hartog Island, Murrumbidgee River, New England, Portland, Spencer Gulf, St Kilda, Sydney Cove, Torres Strait
Places
List of European cities with alternate names, Mani Peninsula, Skopje (rewrite)
Simple English Wikipedia articles
Australia, History of Australia