User:Thiagovscoelho

This page is a list of things I did at Wikipedia, in chronological order. I have divided my contributions by "periods" of what I seemed to be on about at a given time. I mention the contributions I thought most worth noticing, and the date in which I made them. For many of the articles that I mention at a particular date, I returned to them at later dates to make further edits, which is not mentioned.

Origin–June 2022: Medieval and early modern philosophy

 * I have had this Wikipedia account since I was a very young teenager, and I don't remember why I made it so many years ago or what I did with it back then.
 * In September 2020, I began using my account by revising the Absence of good article.
 * In August 2021, I edited the De duodecim abusivis saeculi article.
 * In June 2022, I made a major revision to the Best of all possible worlds article.

February 2023: Political philosophy book summaries

 * In February 2023, I remade the summary of The Open Society and Its Enemies, by Karl Popper, at that book's article. Then, I added summaries for The Ethics of Liberty, The Betrayal of the American Right, Man, Economy and State, and Power and Market by Murray Rothbard; Economics in One Lesson, by Henry Hazlitt; Human Action, by Ludwig von Mises; and The State, by Franz Oppenheimer.
 * These summaries were based entirely on the books themselves, which were cited as primary sources. In the articles about the books by Mises and Rothbard, this material was removed for this reason, while there were no such complaints in the other book articles. (I guess someone must have felt a personal connection to Mises and Rothbard.) Although I have stopped following edits to these articles closely, I maintain that the practice was acceptable in all cases, since WP:USEPRIMARY claims that, for a novel, "the novel itself is an acceptable primary source for information about the plot", which surely can extend to nonfiction, when the claims made about its content are non-interpretive, as in the summaries I had added to these articles (and similar summaries). The policy followed by the other editors of those articles, of preventing such non-interpretive summarizing of nonfiction, would, if generalized, severely stifle Wikipedia's coverage of books.

May–July 2023: Esoteric and Brazilian content

 * In May and June 2023, I added a bunch of articles about Brazilian topics to Wikipedia by translating them from Portuguese-language Wikipedia, and revised some articles about Brazilian topics by replacing some or all of the original English-language text with text translated to English from the Portuguese-language article. I think this is not very interesting since these additions and revisions were merely translations, which I consider to be relatively uncreative work, so I won't name all of the articles in which I did this. My favorite creations from this period are probably The First Mass in Brazil (Victor Meirelles) and Carteirada; my most extensive revisions-by-translation on Brazilian topics were to Kardecist spiritism and to JBS S.A., which included additions of some articles about topics related to these.
 * In June 2023, I made a major revision to Egregore, which included creating Template:Esotericism. I also revised the Olavo de Carvalho article, reorganizing it and adding more detail on Olavo's conspiracist and philosophical views. As part of a dispute about the fact that Olavo made claims about Obama's "military enlistment" (which may not exist), I produced a complete translation of the newspaper column in which Olavo made the relevant claim, and added it to my user space.
 * In July 2023, I continued improving the Egregore and Olavo de Carvalho articles.

July–November 2023: Literature and philosophy content

 * In July 2023, after restructuring the Peter Abelard article, I moved material from the Peter Abelard and Héloïse articles to a separate article titled Letters of Abelard and Heloise. I also edited Open secret.
 * On August 31, 2023, I wrote the entire contents of the A Preface to Paradise Lost article, which had been a stub.
 * In November 2023, I made edits to the Modern Moral Philosophy article, which would later grow to be a major revision.

February–July 2024: Mathematics and logic content

 * In February 2024, I added a List of set theory symbols to my userspace. I'm not sure if it overlaps too much with the List of mathematical symbols by subject, but I wanted to use the format of the List of logic symbols, which is the best-looking symbol table on Wikipedia, in my opinion.
 * In March 2024, I made a major revision to Block matrix. I made many edits to Propositional calculus, for which I created the Template:Formal languages and Template:Logical connectives sidebar. I began putting together the glossary of logic in my userspace, which I finished in April and moved to mainspace.
 * In April 2024, I continued editing Propositional calculus and making logic-related edits, for which I created the Template:Normal forms in logic and the Template:Diagrams in logic. I also made a major revision to Moral patienthood, and created the Glossary of mereology. Eventually, I completed and published the Glossary of logic.
 * In May 2024, I made edits to Natural deduction, introducing some usage of the ubiquitous Suppes–Lemmon notation into the article – although still only for the propositional calculus, for now.
 * In June 2024, I continued to make edits related to logic and set theory, which included minor improvements to Axiom schema of specification and to Axiom of empty set, as well as a major revision of Scope (logic), the creation of Conjunction/disjunction duality, and further minor improvements to Propositional calculus and Natural deduction.
 * In July 2024, I continued improving Propositional calculus, partly by moving some excessive details to Axiomatic system (logic). I still hope to add material to the former, and to replace unsourced material in the latter with well-sourced material, but at least Propositional calculus doesn't have any unsourced sections anymore.

Nothing else I did is worth noticing, for now. Thiagovscoelho (talk) 03:48, 2 July 2024 (UTC)