User:Laura1822

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Howdy!
I have wide-ranging interests in the Liberal Arts, including history, English literature, music, law, languages, and the genealogy of European royal and noble families, especially British.

I expect that, at least initially, my work in Wikipedia will consist of editing rather than writing. More specifically, in referencing Wikipedia articles on historical personages, I have noticed inconsistencies, incorrect links, and some style issues that I recognize as stemming mostly from translations. I intend to correct these types of things as I encounter them.

I love Wikipedia and look forward to contributing.

As of 2016, I am more active on Wikisource and on Commons than I am here.

How I think
On the Political compass, I am:


 * Economic Left/Right: 7.75
 * Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.85

which means, to the best that I can tell, that I disagree with most people on most political issues.

According to the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, I am an INTP, fitting most closely the Myers-Briggs "classical profiles" of "Achiever" and "Developer." INTPs correlate to the Keirsey Temperament Sorter's Rational Architects type, and they sound pretty obnoxious to me. I last took the test in 1995, and I'm pretty sure that the results were different from the previous time about ten years earlier. No doubt they would be different today. I will have to look up that earlier test.

Expertise

 * English grammar, spelling, and style
 * the British Peerage, including title usage and genealogy
 * European royal and noble families


 * Law
 * American
 * Texas
 * Louisiana
 * historical British


 * Music Literature, History, and Performance
 * Opera
 * Piano
 * Choral
 * Viennese
 * Theory


 * Language translation
 * Latin
 * German


 * Roman Catholic history and doctrine


 * English Literature
 * British 18th and 19th centuries
 * American 18th and 19th centuries


 * History
 * British
 * American
 * Viennese


 * Historical Fashion


 * Portaiture


 * 18th & 19th century British art prints


 * Genealogical methods and sources

Tools

 * Tim's article word count tool
 * Interiot's external javascript edit counter (aka Tool2)
 * Interiot's external perl edit counter (aka Tool1, "Wannabe Kate")
 * current editcount tools
 * Genealogics citation template

Sub-pages

 * User:Laura1822/Notebook
 * User:Laura1822/ToDo

Links I like to keep handy

 * Help:Footnotes
 * Help:Table
 * WP:WPR
 * WP:LAME
 * personal intervention in an edit war by HMTQ
 * User:John Kenney/Queens
 * Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (names and titles)
 * User:John Kenney/Naming conventions (names and titles)