User:Carboxen~enwiki

About me
I am a scientist and science historian with interests in volcanism, environmental chemistry, geology, and in natural hazards. I currently reside in the Western USA.

Here my alter ego though: Carboxen

My wiki statement
I am individually more interested in creating or correcting contents rather than formats. I am eternally greatful for the speedy minor wiki format corrections to my prior contributions by fellow wikiites! I am trying my best to get it as close as I can to proper wiki format (forgive my errors!) but I feel that my contributions may benefit more from my expertise in subject matters rather than formats.

Pages I created
uuuh... not soo many. I did a couple in the German Wikipedia though. Check for more soon!

created Template:VNUM, now outdated and superseded by a better template, but for over a year the only one we had!


 * 02 November 2005 Volcanic gas (still as 68.231.48.106)
 * 16 January 2006 Hempel (created disambiguation page from a fwd page)
 * 18 January 2006 Frederick Pearson Treadwell (biography) - finally another one!
 * 12 June 2006 Alfred Lacroix (redirect page, to Antoine Lacroix
 * 15 June 2006 Carl Gotthelf Immanuel Friedlaender (biography)
 * 18 September 2006 Ernst-Ludwig Schwandner (biography, translation)
 * 28 September 2006 Cassope

(need to check if there are other ones I did)

Pages I am supposedly (co-) watching
These are pages I am watching more than just for the occasional edit, I feel somewhat responsible for them but I am certainly not the only one nor do I have any "rights" on them - I just am especially interested in them. That doesn't mean I get to always be there when vandalism happens...


 * Ernst-Ludwig Schwandner
 * Volcanic gas
 * Volcano observatory
 * Volcano Prediction
 * Poros
 * Aegina
 * Temple of Aphaea
 * List of volcanoes in Greece
 * Carl Gotthelf Immanuel Friedlaender
 * Friedländer
 * Gas-liquid chromatography

Pages I significantly modified or co-worked on
incomplete ! see a more detailed list here


 * Hempel (disambiguation)
 * Peter Desaga (biography)
 * Gas mask
 * Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (biography)
 * Nisyros
 * Poros
 * Aegina
 * Gustav Wyneken (biography)
 * Alexander von Humboldt (biography)

Old edits: (since October 2005) see 68.231.48.106 and 129.219.145.154 (edits after 2006 using these IPs are not associated with me)
 * Volcano observatory

To-do list

 * edit, clean up, and create biographies of famous scientists
 * edit, clean up, and expand existing pages related to my interests
 * time permitting, create some new pages

Biographies (to do)

 * Franz_Fischer (stub)
 * Arthur_L._Day (stub)
 * J.-L. Albert Brun
 * Arnold Escher von der Linth (stub)
 * Charles Joseph Sainte-Claire Deville (stub)
 * Hans Stille (stub)
 * Volker J. Jacobshagen
 * Katia and Maurice Krafft (stub)
 * Norman L. Bowen (stub)
 * Paul Niggli (stub)
 * Christian Leopold von Buch (stub)
 * Werner F. Giggenbach
 * Hans Goldschmidt (stub)
 * Hermann Emil Fischer (stub)
 * Leopold Gmelin (stub)
 * Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau (stub)
 * Robert S. Dietz (stub)
 * translations of my German wikipedia contributions

links & tools

 * Requested articles
 * Guide to improving articles
 * biographies style help page
 * Wikitree
 * Guide to Notability
 * Scientists stubs
 * Category: History of science
 * Portal: History of science
 * Translation tools
 * Citing_sources
 * Volcano Number
 * Template_messages
 * Help:Template
 * Help:Advanced_templates
 * Wikiproject: History of Science
 * Wikiproject: Academics (Biography)
 * Academia Template (pedigree)
 * Better to now use the
 * citation style: How to add references to an article, please see
 * watching this discussion here: MediaWiki_talk:Common.css and Wikipedia_talk:Persondata
 * Vandalism
 * Template:Unsigned2 syntax: —The preceding unsigned comment was added by IP (talk • contribs) time/date (UTC)

Discussion welcome!

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