User:Eugene van der Pijll



My name is Eugene van der Pijll. You may remember me from such websites as commons.wikipedia.org, nl.wikipedia.org, and fr.wikipedia.org.

Fields of interest are, with articles I wrote or heavily edited:


 * history of the Netherlands, especially Golden-Age and earlier: Guelders, Duke of Brabant, Count William II of Holland, Battle of Worringen, John Maurice of Nassau, Count of Holland, Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alva, Hook and Cod wars
 * Dutch geography, especially the province of Utrecht: Amersfoort, Bunschoten (see also WikiProject_Dutch_municipalities, User:Eugene van der Pijll/Lists of Dutch towns).
 * other miscellaneous Dutch subjects: Jaap de Hoop Scheffer

and much more in the future, I hope.

I have added some historical statistics about the population of large cities. These come from a 1931 book published by the International Institute of Statistics. See for example History of Berlin, Bremen, Wroclaw, Karlsruhe, Braunschweig (city), Vienna, Antwerp (city).

I have created several reports from a wikipedia database dump: Contact me if you want me to update these or make more pages like these.
 * WikiProject Tree of Life/Articles without images
 * WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/fr

Useful links...

List of encyclopedia topics -- User:Eugene van der Pijll/random pages --, - WikiProject_Tree_of_Life - User:Eugene van der Pijll/Dutch missing articles - User:Eugene van der Pijll/NL Geo - /Sandbox /Sandbox 2

My favorite edit:

2005-05-31: I've been nominated to become an administrator. (Nomination succesful, I'm now an administrator.) Note: Desysoped at the beginning of September 2013

(Note that some of my contributions are translations, for example from the Dutch Wikipedia. As I am not the sole author of these contributions, they are not dual-licensed, unless the original author also agrees.)