User:Infrogmation
I am a New Orleanian who started contributing to Wikipedia in September of 2002 and became the 77th most active Wikipedian.
I've made many contributions to some of my favorite subjects: early jazz, New Orleans, and MesoAmerican archaeology. I've been making good use of my knowledge of minutia of early 20th century culture. I've been working on improving the pages related to the List of musical events and the Record label list.
I've been doing fair amount on painters and art styles. I feel rather underqualified for some of this (I'm just a guy who likes lookin' at the purty pictures), but hope what I've done will be a usefull start to later Wikipedians. I think I cobbled some decent entries on, for example, Alfons Mucha and Salvador Dali.
Articles I started &/or made significant contributions to include:
- Emilio Aguinaldo
- Red Allen
- Pedro de Alvarado
- Analogue Disc Record
- Antigua Guatemala
- Aztec
- Louis Barbarin
- Paul Barbarin
- Barrison Sisters
- P.G.T. Beauregard
- Sidney Bechet
- Lionel Belasco
- Belize (and subordinate pages)
- Bevo
- Barney Bigard
- Bonampak
- Wellman Braud
- Bronx cheer
- Al Capp
- Ceske Budejovice
- Cesky Krumlov
- Calypso music
- Chac
- Chichen Itza
- Emile Christian
- Hernan Cortes
- Salvador Dalí
- Edgar Degas
- Detroit Electric
- George Dewey
- Dixieland
- Baby Dodds
- Johnny Dodds
- Emir
- French Quarter
- William Lloyd Garrison
- Gennett Records
- Giza
- Ham the Chimp
- Ben Harney
- Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre
- Lafcadio Hearn
- History of Central America
- History of Guatemala
- History of Mexico
- History of the Philippines
- William Hogarth
- Huastec
- George Inness
- Augustin de Iturbide
- Tony Jackson
- Bill Johnson
- Bunk Johnson
- Hubert Julian
- Franz Kafka
- Krewe
- Papa Jack Laine
- Joseph Lamb
- Nick LaRocca
- League
- Meade Lux Lewis
- Steve Lewis
- Ted Lewis
- Mandeville, Louisiana
- José Martí
- Tomas Masaryk
- Mayan civilization
- Mesoamerica
- Mesoamerican ballgame
- Klemens Wenzel von Metternich
- Giacomo Meyerbeer
- Lizzy Miles
- Francis David Millet
- Jean-Francois Millet
- Little Brother Montgomery
- Paul Morphy
- Alfons Mucha
- Gussie Mueller
- Muggles
- Ernesto Nazareth
- Near beer
- New Orleans
- New Orleans Rhythm Kings
- Jimmie Noone
- Alcide Nunez
- Juan O'Gorman
- Original Dixieland Jass Band
- Phonograph
- Phonograph cylinder
- Armand J. Piron
- Pop art
- Louis Prima
- Quetzal
- Quetzaltenango
- Quirigua
- Rhapsody in Blue
- Norbert Rilleaux
- J. Russell Robinson
- Jack Ruby
- Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
- George Santayana
- John Singer Sargent
- Scat singing
- Schaffhausen
- James Scott
- Sopron
- Spanish-American War
- Spanish Conquest of Yucatan
- John Lloyd Stephens
- Storyville
- Wilber Sweatman
- J. R. D. Tata
- Jack Teagarden
- George H Tichenor
- Toothbrush
- Toothpaste
- Leonardo Torres y Quevedo
- United States highway
- UPI
- Kitagawa Utamaro
- Uxmal
- Rudy Vallee
- Victor Talking Machine Company
- Albert Von Tilzer
- Harry Von Tilzer
- Rudy Weidoeft
- Paul Whiteman
- Clarence Williams
- Woodrow Wilson
- A. Baldwin Wood
- Yucatan
I was also responsible for adding candidates to U.S. presidential election (it previously gave the impression that there always have been and could only be two candidates per election), and contributed the Perceptions of Columbus section to the contentious Christopher Columbus page. I've helped improve the Louis Armstrong page (which still needs more work). I explained what the phrase Honky tonk meant before it was applied to faux-hillbilly pop music. I've scanned and uploaded some 19th century and early 20th century images from my collection to illustrate such articles as Emilio Aguinaldo, John James Audubon, Clara Barton, Enrico Caruso, Georges Clemenceau, Stephen Crane, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Giza, David Lloyd George, London Bridge, Louisiana Purchase Exposition, Francisco I. Madero, John Stuart Mill, Original Dixieland Jass Band, Palace of Westminster, Anna Pavlova, Pedro II of Brazil, Maximilien Robespierre, Victor Emmanuel II of Italy, White House, Woodrow Wilson, World Columbian Exposition, Emiliano Zapata, and others, and also have uploaded a few photos I've taken myself.
Yes, I know, my spelling sucks. Sorry. (Believe it or not, its much improved from what it was a few years ago.)
My 100 most recent edits within the last 30 days
More than you need to know: Infrogmation's last 2000 Wikipedia edits within the last 200 days
My personal website can be found at:
- http://www.libox.net/~frog
- (if that's temporarily down, try the alternative URL: http://www.angelfire.com/la/carlosmay/ )