User:Delirium

Hi, I'm Mark. Though on the internet I'm more often "Delirium", a handle I picked in the mid-'90s in middle school, and kind of kept by inertia. In real life, I'm an academic with a background in computer science, specializing in artificial intelligence. Much of my Wikipedia editing relates to my hobby of researching historical figures and events, though I occasionally edit in my "official" specialty. I grew up in Chicago and Houston, and since then have lived in Los Angeles, Atlanta, Santa Cruz, Copenhagen, Cornwall, and Washington, D.C.. I've also spent a good amount of time in Thessaloniki.

Article lists
My Wikipedia interests are mainly in history. I'm especially interested in writing articles on people and events from non-English-speaking regions, even subjects of relatively minor importance. Since Wikipedia is a hypertext encyclopedia, even minor subjects help illustrate the contours of a time and place, as well as providing link scaffolding to more easily add additional articles in that area into the English-Wikipedia web of knowledge.

For a combination of vanity and organizational purposes, here are some of the articles I created (some are still mainly my work, while others have been significantly expanded by others):


 * Robert Contee, American police chief
 * Reneé Hall, American police chief
 * Carmen Best, American police chief
 * Julie Kirchner, American activist
 * Betsy Reed, American journalist and editor
 * Endeavour (building), high-rise building in Houston, Texas
 * Hudson and Emma Rood Tuttle, American spiritualist authors
 * Natural Trap Cave, paleontological site in Wyoming
 * John H. Davis (diplomat), American academic and diplomat
 * Guillaume de Varax, Swiss bishop
 * Slug's Saloon, Jazz club in New York
 * Hoshino Hisashi, Japanese historian
 * Yvonne Herløv Andersen, Danish politician
 * May Brodbeck, American philosopher of science
 * Krudttårnet, historical structure in Frederikshavn, Denmark
 * André Bollier, French resistance member during World War II
 * James L. Autry House, community center in Houston, Texas
 * Joseph-Frédéric-Benoît Charrière, Swiss–French manufacturer of surgical instruments
 * Lariboisière Hospital, hospital in Paris
 * Former Reichsbank building, building in Berlin
 * Old Navarino castle, fortress near Pylos, Greece
 * Kavala aqueduct, aqueduct in Kavala, Greece
 * Jurgen Ruesch, American psychiatrist
 * Latvia University of Agriculture, university in Jelgava, Latvia
 * Johan Cornelius Krieger, Danish landscape architect
 * Søren Pind, Danish politician
 * International Hygiene Exhibition, 1911 world's fair in Dresden
 * Ibrahim al-Mazini, 20th-century Egyptian writer
 * Romm publishing house, 19th-century Jewish publisher
 * Grisha Bruskin, 20th/21st-century Russian artist
 * Georg Gradnauer, 20th-century German politician
 * Roger Brunet, 20th/21st-century French geographer
 * Château Saint-Maire, Swiss castle
 * Francesco Pasquale Ricci, 18th/19th-century Italian composer
 * Giuseppe Pasquale Ricci, 18th-century politician of Triste
 * Krzysztof Grodzicki, 17th-century Polish general
 * Hans Sima, 20th-century Austrian politician
 * Mostafa Mir-Salim, 20th/21st-century Iranian politician
 * Mohsen Aminzadeh, 20th/21st-century Iranian politician
 * Zan (newspaper), 20th-century Iranian newspaper
 * Uzdunrobita, mobile-phone operator of Uzbekistan
 * Gernot Rumpold, Austrian politician
 * Karl Sudhoff, 19th/20th-century German historian of medicine
 * Juan de Esteyneffer, 17th/18th-century missionary and documenter in the New World
 * Thomas Drennan, 18th-century Irish minister
 * Pericles the Younger, ancient Athenian general
 * Charles Monnard, 19th-century Swiss historian
 * Carl Jacob Burckhardt, 20th-century Swiss diplomat and historian
 * Boris P. Stoicheff, 20th-century Macedonian-Canadian physicist
 * Dom in svet, 19th/20th-century Slovenian journal
 * Jacob Toorenvliet, 17th/18th-century Dutch painter
 * Dirck van der Lisse, 17th-century Dutch painter
 * Ministry of Energy (Russia), the energy ministry of Russia
 * Sergei Shmatko, 20th/21st-century Russian businessman and politician
 * Giacomo Guardi, 18th/19th-century Italian painter
 * Francesco Albotto, 18th-century Italian painter
 * Ukrainian school, 19th-century school of Polish poetry
 * Minos Wines, Greek winemaker
 * Lagorthi, Greek wine grape
 * Ulubrae, ancient village near Rome
 * Georgios Chortatzis, 16th/17th-century Greek dramatist
 * Coxiella burnetii (section "History and naming"), bacteria
 * Edward Holbrook Derrick, 20th-century American pathologist
 * Turlupins, 14th/15th-century French religious sect
 * Pedro de Soto, 16th-century Spanish Dominican
 * Inalchuq, 13th-century governor in the Khwarezmian Empire
 * London International College, 19th-century British secondary school
 * Leonhard Schmitz, 19th-century German-British classical scholar
 * Carl Werner, 19th-century German watercolor painter
 * Emanuel von Friedrichsthal, 19th-century Austrian traveler and botanist
 * Otto von Erdmannsdorff, 20th-century German diplomat
 * Joaquín Vicuña, 19th-century Chilean politician
 * Leopold Wagner, 20th-century Austrian politician
 * Jan Prandota, 13th-century Polish bishop
 * Jan Grot, 14th-century Polish bishop
 * Iwo Odrowąż, 13th-century Polish bishop
 * Martyrius of Antioch, 5th-century Patriarch of Antioch
 * Archangel ivory, 6th-century Byzantine ivory panel
 * Hippolyte Montillie, 19th/20th-century French sculptor
 * Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes, 18th/19th-century French painter
 * Esperanza Andrade, 20th/21st-century American politician
 * Therese Maron, 18th-century German painter
 * Anton von Maron, 18th-century Austrian painter
 * Scipione Barbò Soncino, 16th-century Italian jurist and writer
 * Madern Gerthener, 14th/15th-century German stonemason and architect
 * Tsantali, Greek winemaker
 * Marcus Antonius Antimachus, 15th/16th-century Italian translator of Greek
 * Johann Peter Berg, 18th-century German theologian, historian, and Orientalist
 * Piero Valeriano Bolzani, 15th/16th-century Italian Renaissance humanist
 * Lazarus Buonamici, 16th-century Italian Renaissance humanist
 * Calendion, 5th-century Patriarch of Antioch
 * California Propositions 98 and 99 (2008), June 2008 ballot propositions in California relating to eminent domain and property rights
 * Walter Channing (physician), 19th-century American physician and professor of medicine
 * Conrad II, Bishop of Hildesheim, 13th-century German bishop
 * Genaro Estrada, 20th-century Mexican statesman, academic, and writer
 * Marcus Fabius Ambustus (consul 360 BC), 4th-century-BC statesman and general of the Roman Republic
 * Leontius (usurper), 5th-century Byzantine usurper
 * Pedro de Lerma, 15th/16th-century Spanish theologian
 * Émile Loubon, 19th-century French painter
 * Michiel Maddersteg, 17th/18th-century Dutch painter
 * Jean Pierre Félicien Mallefille, 19th-century French novelist and playwright
 * Laura Beatrice Mancini, 19th-century Italian poet
 * Johann Kaspar Friedrich Manso, 18th/19th-century German historian and philologist
 * Firmin Marbeau, 19th-century French philanthropist
 * Bessie Marchant, 19th/20th-century English novelist
 * Camille Mauclair, 20th-century French poet, novelist, biographer, travel writer, and art critic
 * Carlo Mense, 20th-century German artist
 * Neshobe Island, island in Vermont associated with the Algonquin Round Table
 * Johann Georg Primavesi, 19th-century German etcher and painter
 * Willi Schmid, 20th-century German music critic accidentally murdered by the Nazis in a case of mistaken identity
 * Flavius Sigisvultus, 5th-century general of the Western Roman Empire
 * Flavius Sporacius, 5th-century statesman of the Eastern Roman Empire

Other lists
 * User:Delirium/Article list, for articles I wrote prior to mid-2008
 * User:Delirium/Translations, for articles I've translated, either from public-domain sources or other Wikipedias