User:Adam Bishop

I've been around since 2002. I actively started contributing in January 2003, and I've been an Administrator since August 2003. For some unwise reason, I signed up with my real name.

Apparently I speak West–Central Canadian English, as well as heavily-accented but coherent French. I can read Latin and French (and Old French), German if necessary, and bits of Arabic. I lived in Nantes, France for 18 months, where very few people speak English. I have a PhD in medieval studies, and work on some ridiculously obscure aspects of the crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem, like the kind of things where in real life other people go "oh...!" and smile politely. But I know this is Wikipedia and none of that means anything.

Testimonials
As an editor:
 * "There will certainly be several problems in "Adam Bishop"'s path towards doctorate in medieval history, if his working methods and use of sources are as can be deduced from his possessive treatment of the text in this article."
 * "Almost every single sentence is faulty or incomplete. The article must be rewritten by someone who read the book and who has proper scholar background"
 * "MY illiterate friend Adam !...Learn history before you write!"
 * "Do you want to get PHD in a (noname beast) Canadian university? PHD is very very low rank compare with real academic scholars (as writers of British Britannica). Do you think you are better than members of Royal Academy ? Hahahaha"
 * "I dont't want to heart you, but Britannica is more creditable than the private opinion of an aspirant PHD-boy."
 * "Be wise, at this point you can crawfish without the loosing of your countenances."
 * "You behave like a self-appointed opinion-champion, wich is a clearly childish behaviour. You are a micro Stalin on wikipedia, and therefore you are noxious."
 * "You can't proove your statements. Please show me an academic work which can deny that fact. I'm still waitnig for it! Until that, your oppinion remain only just a private opinion."
 * "It is unfounded accusations & slanders!"

As an administrator:
 * "Adam Bishop is the single longest running Admin I have ever run into on Wikipedia. I am shocked by his behavior and have concerns that he is acting out of his nature and that perhaps real world circumstances have become overwhelming."
 * "I cannot believe the cavalier attitude towards the tools and "power" behind them...but it might have been forgivable until the unbelievable disregard for the community as a whole..."
 * "Adam Bishop's use of the tools here was so far out of line, and his response when questioned was just as bad, a desysop is the only choice."
 * "I will ask ArbCom to de-sysop you, and I don't think there is much doubt that they will do it."

Some useful links

 * WikiProject Middle Ages
 * WikiProject Middle Ages/Crusades task force
 * WikiProject Military history/Crusades task force/Popular pages
 * Category:Crusades task force articles
 * Category:Crusades
 * WikiProject Military History
 * WikiProject Reference Desk Article Collaboration
 * Reference Desk
 * User:Adam Bishop/sandbox
 * User:Adam Bishop/library
 * User:Adam Bishop/List of religious leaders in 1220 (unceremoniously deleted, so I've moved it here)

Did you know, Featured Articles, Good Articles
For the "Did you know?" section on the Main Page:
 * [[Image:Symbol question.svg|15px|Did you know?]]Saladin tithe
 * [[Image:Symbol question.svg|15px|Did you know?]]Adelaide del Vasto
 * [[Image:Symbol question.svg|15px|Did you know?]]Quantum praedecessores
 * [[Image:Symbol question.svg|15px|Did you know?]]Council of Nablus
 * [[Image:Symbol question.svg|15px|Did you know?]]Crusade cycle
 * [[Image:Symbol question.svg|15px|Did you know?]]Pactum Warmundi
 * [[Image:Symbol question.svg|15px|Did you know?]]Ismat ad-Din Khatun
 * [[Image:Symbol question.svg|15px|Did you know?]]Council of Acre
 * [[Image:Symbol question.svg|15px|Did you know?]]Bible translations in the Middle Ages
 * [[Image:Symbol question.svg|15px|Did you know?]]Warner of Grez
 * [[Image:Symbol question.svg|15px|Did you know?]]Gouffier of Lastours
 * [[Image:Symbol question.svg|15px|Did you know?]]Robert of Nantes
 * [[Image:Symbol question.svg|15px|Did you know?]]Gerold of Lausanne
 * [[Image:Symbol question.svg|15px|Did you know?]]Lando (archbishop of Messina)

Featured Articles that I helped write:
 * [[Image:LinkFA-star.png]]First Crusade
 * [[Image:LinkFA-star.png]]Treaty of Devol
 * [[Image:LinkFA-star.png]]Second Crusade
 * [[Image:LinkFA-star.png]]William of Tyre (this is mostly entirely mine)

And some Good Articles as well:
 * [[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|15px]]Siege of Damascus (well, I started it)
 * [[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|15px]]William the Carpenter - I am particularly pleased with this. I think one of the most efficient uses of Wikipedia is to correct misinformation that is spread all over the Internet, especially for obscure subjects like this one.
 * [[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|15px]]Usama ibn Munqidh

Barnstars etc
Here are the barnstars people have seen fit to give me for some reason. I don't quite get these; anyone can give one to anyone else for any reason, so do they really mean anything? Oh well.

"Wikipedia is not a student newspaper." From Hamster Sandwich, January 20, 2006





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