User:Taylordw

About me
I am a grad school dropout (diplomatic and economic history) and I need somewhere to direct my unceasing research proclivities. I live in Washington, D.C., United States of America. On Wikipedia I'm all about NPOV; if you want my "original research", you can see my twitter feed or my blog.

News

 * 1 March 2015 - I finally moved the Joan Dillon page out of my sandbox and into the article main space.


 * I am experimentally organizing a D.C.-Baltimore area Railroad edit-a-thon / treasure hunt hybrid. Call it a wiki-hunt, if you will. I am thinking about 18 or 25 October 2014 for dates.


 * In cooperation with DC Wikimedia I am organizing an edit-a-thon at the University of Maryland Library to focus on Chronicling America and the Summer of Monuments WikiProject. Learn more or sign up for the edit-a-thon here.


 * I may have contacted you recently as I am conducting a study of how Chronicling America is being used by contributors to Wikipedia. If you have any questions, concerns, complaints or suggestions, feel free to contact me either by the e-mail tool to the left or via my talk page.  If you are taking my survey, thank your for your time and considered opinions.

Potential conflict of interest disclosure
During May-August 2014 I am the Wikipedian-in-Residence with the University of Maryland Libraries Historic Maryland Newspapers Project. Additionally, I work for an association that advocates for the rights of people with significant disabilities. From Dominic McDevitt-Parks's conflict of interest statement: "When I am editing Wikipedia as part of my professional duties, I always strive to strictly abide by Wikipedia's accepted practices on conflicts of interest, neutrality, and notability. I will always work in the best interest of Wikipedia ..."

Contributions to Wikipedia
I began editing Wikipedia in August 2008. I suffer from an acute case of bibliomania and I'm mostly adding to, correcting and standardizing references and bibliographies.

Think of this as being like my Wikipedia wishlist:

Economic history articles

 * The Sixteenth Century Price Revolution
 * The article on the History of the British national debt is too twentieth century-oriented. I'm working on some additional sections.
 * As long as I'm adding to the History of the British national debt article, the Crowding out and Gibson's paradox articles could use history and literature reviews.
 * Coinage Act of 1853
 * Great Depression of 1873–1896
 * Or do I edit the article on The Great Deflation
 * Financial Crises of the National Banking Act Era
 * Latin Monetary Union
 * Biographies of economists and other important economic actors:
 * O.M.W. Sprague
 * George F. Warren
 * James Harvey Rogers
 * Ferdinand Ward
 * Gustav Cassel
 * League of Nations Gold Delegation
 * Committee for the Nation for Rebuilding Purchasing Power and Prices
 * The article on Henry Morgenthau, Jr. could use a lot of work
 * I am interested in economic thinkers of bimetallism vs. the gold standard from the late nineteenth century through the New Deal:
 * Monometallists: Samuel B. Ruggles, Horace White, Edward Atkinson, Henry Linderman
 * Bimetalists: S. Dana Horton, F. A. Walker, George Walker, Key Pittman
 * Keynesian fine-tuning
 * an article on the stagflation / great inflation of the 1970s (I don't even know what to title it for now) — The Great Stagflation for now.
 * Lois Green Carr, founder of the Chesapeake school of early American history

Diplomatic and military history and strategy

 * Albert Wohlstetter
 * Revolution in Military Affairs
 * Fiscal-military state
 * Stability–instability paradox

Politics

 * Chennault Affair
 * Moorer-Radford affair
 * ITT affair

Alexandria and Virginia
Well, I don't live in the district anymore: I live in Virginia now, so I guess I should get used to working on Virginia topics:


 * Geology of Virginia
 * Atlantic Seaboard fall line
 * Second Empire architecture in Virginia
 * Buildings in Alexandria, Virginia
 * National Register of Historic Places in Alexandria, Virginia
 * National Register of Historic Places listings in Alexandria, Virginia

Washington, D.C.

 * District of Columbia WikiProject
 * Alexander Robey Shepherd
 * Washington, D.C. buildings
 * Demolished buildings in Washington, D.C.
 * Beaux-Arts architecture in Washington, D.C.
 * Second Empire Architecture in Washington, D.C.
 * Alfred B. Mullett
 * Eisenhower Executive Office Building
 * Art Deco Architecture in Washington, D.C.
 * National Baptist Memorial Church
 * National Register of Historic Places WikiProject

Disability issues
Pages I'm working on for WikiProject Disability:
 * Pennsylvania Association for Retarded Children (PARC) v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 334 F. Supp. 1257 (E.D. PA 1971)
 * Mills v. Board of Education of District of Columbia, 348 F. Supp. 866 (D.D.C. 1972)
 * O'Connor v. Donaldson, 422 U.S. 563 (1975)
 * Youngberg v. Romeo, 457 U.S. 307 (1982)
 * Board of Education of Hendrick Hudson Central School District v. Rowley, 458 U.S. 176 (1982)
 * Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. Halderman, 465 U.S. 89 (1984)
 * The Oregon District Court Case, Lane v. Brown, concerning sheltered workshops
 * Roland Johnson
 * Jane B. Schulz
 * Katie Beckett Medicaid waiver

Science

 * Allegheny Plateau
 * A significant rewrite and expansion of the aeroplankton entry
 * An article on prospection
 * A subsection on transient hypofrontality for the Creativity article

Pacific Northwest
I'm from Seabeck in Kitsap County on the Kitsap Peninsula and am interested in improving the pages of my small town origin.
 * Lone Rock
 * Big Beef Bay
 * Anderson Creek
 * United States v. Washington (1974), the "Boldt Decision"
 * United States v. Washington (2017)

Other

 * Africa WikiProject
 * Heterotopia (space)
 * Building novel
 * Rétif de la Bretonne
 * Affective labor, Emotion work and Emotional labor
 * Reliable Consultants, Inc. v. Earle
 * Campari, my favorite amari
 * Rutherford Platt

Contributions to date
See my Contributions page.

Photographs of living people
Living in D.C., I attend a lot of think tank events and author talks. I try to take these opportunities to photograph living people, so a lot of my contributions are photographs of writers and public policy people.