User:Txn

I am a Canadian civil servant. I've also taught History at several universities in Canada in the United States and am the books editor of a scholarly periodical concerned with names.

My contributions fall into several categories.

The first is articles, mainly on East European subjects, apparently written by people whose first language is not English. These I've simply edited for grammar and style.

The second is lives of people referred to in other articles, but for whom there were no main entries. I've thus turned many "red" names into "blue" ones. To do this work I've relied heavily on information in the Dictionary of National Biography, the Catholic Encyclopedia (1st ed.), the Encyclopedia Britannica (11th ed.), and the Grand Larousse encyclopédique.

The third category is articles I've added to or deleted material from to make them less baised or more balanced. For example, the article on Evelyn Waugh contained so much on his war service that he seemed to be primarily a soldier rather than a novelist. (I put in some details of his earlier and later life and took out a little of the WWII material, but the latter was quickly restored by an alert war buff.) Another example is the article on Cardinal Manning, which contained a great deal on his early life but nothing whatsoever on his career after his conversion to Catholicism.

Some of the articles I've created or edited here were done before I adopted "TXN" as my user name.

As "67.70.70.249" I worked on: Greece, Thomas Horton, Hugo de Balsam, John Goodwin, John Thurloe, Francis Borgia, Vic, August II of Poland, Pier Luigi Farnese, New College, Oxford, Pope Nicholas III, Pope John XXI, Pope Innocent III, Duke of Vendôme, Battle of Narva, Ercole Consalvi, Pasquin, Ingatestone, and Frombork.

As "69.156.76.98", I added material on Nicholas Bobadilla, Society of Jesus, Adam de Brome, William of Durham, Ruthenia, and Evelyn Waugh.

TXN