User:Choess/sandbox

Some content in my userspace:
 * User:Choess/Pretenders articles on pretenders, some of them subject to attack by their partisans.
 * User:Choess/Citations books I commonly cite from
 * User:Choess/Awards
 * User:Choess/Portfolio some of my work
 * User:Choess/Abeyances
 * User:Choess/Latin Empire
 * User:Choess/Lowther family
 * User:Choess/Offices
 * User:Choess/Onslow tree

Tasks
General tasks:
 * Go back and add inline citations to various articles I've contributed to
 * Do some Good Article reviews

Useful links

 * Biodiversity Heritage Library
 * Botanicus

Tasks

 * Write more species articles for Adiantum.
 * User:Choess/Ferns
 * User:Choess/Serpentine barrens

Medieval history

 * Eliminate redlinks in Charles I of Sicily: Hugh of Baux (Provençal rebel; that will probably be a disambig. page), Herbert of Orléans (Vicar-General of Sicily).

US history

 * User:Choess/Chestnut Hill Branch (Pennsylvania Railroad)
 * User:Choess/Beech Creek Railroad
 * User:Choess/B.K. Jamison
 * User:Choess/Fall Brook Coal Company
 * User:Choess/Thomas Shoemaker


 * Scan and upload some of my photos: I have illustrations for the Ithaca Gun Company (the old factory in Ithaca), Anthony's Nose (Westchester) (as viewed from Manitou), Popolopen Creek (the mouth, from the Bear Mountain Bridge), Market Street Bridge (Harrisburg).
 * Finish expanding Bellefonte Central Railroad.
 * Improve Tuckerton Railroad.
 * Work on citation checking/improvement at Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, make map of canals/early railroads, full railroad network for Transportation in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
 * Evaluate ShareMap service for railroad mapping. Frankly, doesn't look ready for prime time right now but will give further assessment.

NRHP articles: improve:
 * Barns-Brinton House
 * User:Orlady/List

Pine Barrens:
 * Harrisville, New Jersey
 * Atsion, New Jersey
 * Batsto, New Jersey
 * Wharton Estate (?)
 * Schizaea pusilla
 * Charles Read (New Jersey)
 * Narthecium americanum
 * Buzby's General Store
 * Chatsworth, New Jersey
 * Joe Mulliner

maybe nn?:
 * Weymouth Furnace
 * Isaac Potts—link to Valley Forge, other ironworks. Draft an article on the family?
 * John Cox—Batsto, AQMG during the Revolution, privateering
 * Joseph Ball—Batsto
 * Etna Furnace (Medford Lakes)
 * Taunton Furnace
 * Stephen Colwell—might fit under Richards family
 * Quaker Bridge
 * John Youle
 * Elijah Clark

Politicians and peers

 * Help with lists of High Sheriffs and succession boxes.
 * Write and expand articles based on the History of Parliament Online, using User:Choess/HOP corrections to track corrections to be fed back to them at a future date
 * Use archived regiments.org to fill out succession boxes for colonelcies of regiments
 * Create or expand biographies from Gent. Mag. obits
 * Create, expand or source biographies of peers using Doyle's Baronage
 * Officers of the Tower of London: Constable of the Tower, Lieutenant of the Tower, Gentleman Porter of the Tower, Major of the Tower (later Resident Governor). See Younghusband and Joseph Wheeler

Missing Lord-Lieutenants who are peers:
 * Christopher Roper, 5th Baron Teynham
 * Robert Bewicke-Copley, 5th Baron Cromwell
 * Robert Greville, 4th Baron Brooke

Peerage articles: We have a number of peerage articles consolidated that perhaps shouldn't be. E.g., the Paulets were Marquesses of Winchester, then Dukes of Bolton, and after the extinction of the dukedom, Marquesses of Winchester again. Perhaps better to have a separate article for the Dukes of Bolton?
 * McLaren Baronets->Baron Aberconway
 * Baron of Abercorn->Earl of Abercorn AND Lord Paisley, Hamilton, Mountcastell and Kilpatrick->Baron Hamilton of Strabane*->Viscount Strabane AND Baron Mountcastle->Viscount Hamilton of Hamilton->Marquess of Abercorn->Duke of Abercorn AND Marquess of Hamilton of Strabane
 * Hamilton Baronets (multiple families)
 * Lord Paisley (1 independent holder, then to the 2nd Earl)
 * Baron Hamilton of Strabane (affected by attainder; already separate)
 * Earl of Aberdeen AND Viscount of Formartine AND Lord Haddo, Methlick, Tarves and Kellie->Viscount Gordon of Aberdeen->Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair AND Earl of Haddo
 * Baron Bergavenny->Earl of Abergavenny AND Viscount Nevill->Marquess of Abergavenny AND Earl of Lewes
 * Gordon Baronets (multiple families)

Experts
People I often run across while doing work and whose contributions I respect, or know for off-Wikipedia experts. Any omissions are accidental, and not intended as a slight.

Railroads

 * (inactive; CNE, Poughkeepsie Bridge, etc.)
 * (NY railroads and other local history)
 * (mostly inactive; NY railroads)
 * (corporate history)
 * (Central PA railroads and history in general)
 * (NY railroads)
 * (general)
 * (inactive)

Mines

 * (inactive; NJ iron mines)

Geography

 * (PA state parks)
 * (PA geology)
 * (inactive; NJ streams)
 * (inactive; NJ streams)

Dormant

 * User:Choess/Blazonrolls trying to identify various individuals in the blazon rolls at and link to their articles.
 * User:Choess/Offices
 * User:Choess/Unknowns