User:Infrogmation

I am a New Orleanian who started contributing to Wikipedia in September of 2002 and became the 40th most active Wikipedian.

I've made many contributions to some of my favorite subjects: early jazz, New Orleans, and MesoAmerican archaeology. I've been making good use of my knowledge of minutia of early 20th century culture. I've made some contributions conserning geography and history of Latin America, particularly the areas of the Yucatan and northern Central America where I lived for a while. I've been working on improving the pages related to the List of musical events and the Record label list.

I've been doing fair amount on painters and art styles. I feel rather underqualified for some of this (I'm just a guy who likes lookin' at the purty pictures), but hope what I've done will be a usefull start to later Wikipedians. I think I cobbled some decent entries on, for example, Alfons Mucha and Salvador Dali.

Articles I started &/or made significant contributions to include:

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I was also responsible for adding candidates to U.S. presidential election (it previously gave the impression that there always have been and could only be two candidates per election), and contributed the Perceptions of Columbus section to the contentious Christopher Columbus page. I've helped improve the Louis Armstrong page (which still needs more work). I explained what the phrase Honky tonk meant before it was applied to faux-hillbilly pop music. I also did the Amos & Andy article. Someone had to.

I've scanned and uploaded some 19th century and early 20th century images from my collection to illustrate such articles as Emilio Aguinaldo, John James Audubon, Clara Barton, Enrico Caruso, Georges Clemenceau, Stephen Crane, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Giza, David Lloyd George, London Bridge, Louisiana Purchase Exposition, Francisco I. Madero, John Stuart Mill, Original Dixieland Jass Band, Palace of Westminster, Anna Pavlova, Pedro II of Brazil, Maximilien Robespierre, San Francisco earthquake of 1906, Victor Emmanuel II of Italy, White House, Woodrow Wilson, World Columbian Exposition, Emiliano Zapata, and others, and also have uploaded a few photos I've taken myself.

Yes, I know, my spelling sucks. Sorry. (Believe it or not, its much improved from what it was a few years ago.)

More than you need to know: Infrogmation's last 2,000 Wikipedia edits

My personal website can be found at:

http://www.libox.net/~frog
(if that's temporarily down, try the alternative URL: http://www.angelfire.com/la/carlosmay/ )