User:M.boli/sandbox

Using this page both as a sandbox and notes for possible Wikipedia editing projects.

Yan Phou Lee
Needs article! 19th (and 20th) century Chinese-American writer and activist. Interacted with Wong Chin Foo.

Author of:
 * When I was a Boy in China 1887  (memoir)
 * The Chinese Must Stay (essay, answer to "the Chinese must go" movement)
 * Graduating Address of Yan Phou Lee, at Yale College
 * Why I Am Not a Heathen: A Rejoinder to Wong Chin Foo

Essay about Lee and his memoir. A main point is that this memoir is an answer to the popular (and unpleasant) views of the Chinese at the time, and was published when the first Chinese Exclusion Act was under consideration. Early Chinese American Autobiography: Reconsidering the Works of Yan Phou Lee and Yung Wing Floyd Cheung a/b Auto/Biography 18(1) 2003 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08989575.2003.10846768

It was published in a journal I can't get, but seems to be reprinted (anyway similar content) as a chapter in: Recovered Legacies: Authority And Identity In Early Asian Amer Lit By Keith Lawrence, Floyd Cheung 2005 Cheung's web page: https://www.smith.edu/academics/faculty/floyd-cheung

History of Federal Judiciary (government web site) has extract from "Chinese Must Stay" article, in the context of law suits over Chinese Exclusion Act. http://www.fjc.gov/history/home.nsf/page/tu_exclusion_doc_23.html

Wikimedia Commons has a picture: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BECK(1898)_p303_YAN_PHOU_LEE,_A_SCHOLAR.jpg Now there is Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55941312 (November 2022 update)

Tinctor
Medieval France book about witchcraft, influential in witch hunts. Parts survive in anti-semitic tracts to the modern era. (May 2013)
 * CBC Ideas radio program:
 * Book names: Invectives contre la secte de vauderie, Treatise against the Sect of Waldensians
 * Recent critical edition: Tournai: Archives du Chapitre cathedral; Paper. Pp. 139.
 * Review of 1999 critical edition:
 * Author name (regexp): (Jean + Johannes) (Taincture + Tinctor)

Update: there is a short paragraph in Wikipedia now Andrew_Gow (Dec 2016)

SURF
Sanford Underground Research Facility, at the Homestake mine in SD. Needs article. Currently redirects to Homestake mine article, which contains small amount of info. Also update information on DUESL, the predecessor to SURF at that site. (Homestake Mine article is rather sketchy in and of itself, considering.) LUX experiment and MAJORANA experiment both should point here. Also Davis experiment. (Oct 2013)

Esieh Lake
Bubbling lake in Alaska. Dramatic to look at, contains evidence of melting permafrost, releasing trapped methane, and also releasing methane from lower down that people didn't even think about. Here is WaPo article:  There is an article on Katie Walter Anthony, the main scientist studying the lake: A lot of references when you google esieh lake. (Oct 2018)

Digital Interviews and HireVue
Fix up the article on digital interviews.

HireVue runs AI-based digital interview service. Job applicant interacts with software, no interviewer. Answer questions presented by computer, computer monitors face and anything else it can record. AI software performs all kinds of evaluations based on facial expressions, as well as test answers, etc. Software provides a lot of evaluation numbers to the hiring company. It has become very common.

Wiki article (which is called One-way interview) sounds like promotional material. It does not deal with the issues.

It is weird that Digital Interview article got renamed without any talk-page discussion. I'm guessing OWI must be a industry term with better connotations. DI has 167k google hits, OWI gets <20k.

Articles from WaPo and Inside Higher Ed. There are many articles similar to IHE one on colleges peparing students.



EPIC has filed an FCC Complaint (Press release) (another copy of complaint).

Bloomberg and WaPo articles on EPIC complaint:



Illinois Artificial Intelligence Video Act, and its legislative history. The law seems toothless, no penalties or enforcement. It permits this stuff provided there is a click-through agreement. It does prohibit sharing videos which were collected, and allows the job applicant demand the videos be deleted.

Here is a National Law Review article on IL law, employer oriented:

I wonder whether Employee Polygraph Protection Act applies in any way. I wrote to EPIC lawyer to find out.

Tangentially related WaPo article on company that scans online presence to evaluate applicants for baby sitter jobs:

Note: Not related to Computer-assisted web interviewing which is a technique for administering surveys, not interviewing job applicants.

Update 11/23: HireVue has an article now. It seems to be overly promotional. Also check out company Zappyhire.

Laurie Bertram Roberts and Yellowhammer Fund
Pro-choice activist, the non-profit she started supports people for all aspects of their choices. Roberts has dramatic personal history. The organization assists people who need everything from diapers to medical care. Some references:


 * Slate interview, 2020
 * NY Times magazine, 2019
 * The Nation, 2019
 * Mother Jones, 2019

Ina Sugihara
Japanese-American activist.
 * Article on her in Densho Encyclopedia
 * I first read about her in Slate article

TEST EDITS
Does this box have an oddity in the list of minor prophets?

Naver Encyclopedia
Figure out what is going on with 지식백과. The URL is https://terms.naver.com. Google translate calls this "Wikipedia" and says it is verified translation. But it isn't wikipedia, see ko.wikipedia.org, which has two other Korean names. (Both contain phonetic wi-ki). But it also doesn't seem to be the Naver encyclopedia of knowledge.

Putting Arabic into wiki-page
إفطار رمضان

Testing Chinese calendar macro. Investigation 2024 and 2025 have errors
These are all the dates of lunar new year, according to ctime:x macro.
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Some recent developments at Prairie State Energy Campus

 * Article on PSEC from Bloomington Pantagraph, including study on carbon capture:


 * Politifact disagrees with claim by Cong. Rodney Davis that PSEC is cleanest coal:


 * Chicago Tribune article on carbon sequestration and pipelines in Illinois (may not be related to PSEC, but mentions it):