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Hello Greetings from Los Angeles
Thank you for viewing my user page. Please assume good faith: if I've made a mistake, it's an honest one; assuming bad faith will not improve the situation. I expect to be treated in the same way as a friendly colleague in a productive and professional environment would be treated. I really do not like hyperbole, profanity, or hostility. If we have a difference of opinion, I'm open to discussing it (time permitting).

I have very strong feelings about the importance of notability, policies and guidelines, sources and evidence, and process and consensus for building the quality of the encyclopedia.

Best wishes from Los Angeles, TimothyBlue (talk)

Flag of Los Angeles, California
Flag of Los Angeles, California
Support Ukraine
LGBT pride
Whisky a Go Go
Whisky a Go-Go
Canter's Deli
Canter's Deli
West Hollywood Pride
Thailand Plaza, Thai Town, Hollywood
UCLA
Los Angeles City Hall
Los Angeles City Hall
Union Station Los Angeles
Union Station Los Angeles
West Hollywood Pride
West Hollywood Pride
Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles California
Hollywood Boulevard
South Olive Street
South Olive Street
Janss Steps in front of Royce Hall, UCLA
Janss Steps in front of Royce Hall, UCLA
Los Angeles Skyline at Night
Los Angeles Skyline at Night
Glamda The Fabulous
Hollywood Boulevard in Thai Town, Los Angeles
Hollywood Boulevard in Thai Town, Los Angeles
Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles
Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles
South Olive Street
South Olive Street
Olvera Street
Olvera Street
Los Angeles China Town
China Town
Pinks Hot Dogs
Pinks Hot Dogs
Sixth Street, Los Angeles
Sixth Street, Los Angeles
South Olive Street
South Olive Street
Pacific Design Center
Downtown Los Angeles and 110 freeway
Hollywood Forever Cemetery

I spend most of my time working on articles about books, authors, and bibliographies about topics I'm interested in. The work I am most proud of is the bibliographies related to Russian and Soviet history I've created on English Wikipedia.

Topics that interest me

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My main areas of interest are:

  • History: the United States and Eastern Europe generally; specifically colonial and early American history; the history of California; twentieth-century European History; the history of the Russian and Soviet empires and the Communist bloc; Imperial Japanese History; southeast Asian history.
  • California and the Los Angeles area.
  • Science Fiction, Adventure, and Fantasy fiction, especially golden age Science Fiction.
  • Classic Rock (Anglo-American), American Blues, Doo-Wop.
  • Books and Bibliographies.
  • Outlines and indexes.
  • Glossaries

Places

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On non-English wikis, I work on articles about the city of Los Angeles and the state of California.

The basics about TimothyBlue

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My page on

Quotes from people much wiser than I will ever be

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  • The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy, instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence, you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence, you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate. Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. —Martin Luther King.[1]
  • "The Russian Revolution was the most successful criminal conspiracy in history. The takeover of an entire nation by a shameless huckster supported by a hostile foreign power. And the revolution was also an object lesson in how liberals can lose, and lose catastrophically, from a position of great advantage, if they are divided in the face of a ruthlessly ideological foe."[2]
  • "I told you so. You damned fools".[3]
  • "Civilization is in a race between education and catastrophe. Let us learn the truth and spread it as far and wide as our circumstances allow." H.G. Wells
  • “They neglect their own children so that the children of others will be cared for; they live in substandard housing so that other homes will be shiny and perfect; they endure privation so that inflation will be low and stock prices high,” she wrote. “To be a member of the working poor is to be an anonymous donor, a nameless benefactor, to everyone.” Barbara Ehrenreich[4]

Ponderables

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  • Should Rita Graham and David open the door?
  • Who are the overlords of the UFO?
  • The Floor Show

Quotes from people much wiser than I will ever be

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  • The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy, instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence, you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence, you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate. Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Template:MdashMartin Luther King.[5]
  • "The Russian Revolution was the most successful criminal conspiracy in history. The takeover of an entire nation by a shameless huckster supported by a hostile foreign power. And the revolution was also an object lesson in how liberals can lose, and lose catastrophically, from a position of great advantage, if they are divided in the face of a ruthlessly ideological foe."[6]
  • "I told you so. You damned fools".[7]
  • "Civilization is in a race between education and catastrophe. Let us learn the truth and spread it as far and wide as our circumstances allow." H.G. Wells
  • “They neglect their own children so that the children of others will be cared for; they live in substandard housing so that other homes will be shiny and perfect; they endure privation so that inflation will be low and stock prices high,” she wrote. “To be a member of the working poor is to be an anonymous donor, a nameless benefactor, to everyone.” Barbara Ehrenreich[8]

Random thoughts and musings

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  • I once found a Wikipedia:coconut in Wikipedia:Mercia.
  • "Once ya, ya get to know these parts, you never lack for somethin ta do. People always ask me, "Why I stay here?" I tell'm I stay cuz I like it better here than I would anywharez else." — Herb Jones, Wikipedia:The Legend of Boggy Creek.
  • Wikipedia is a creation worthy of the gnomes of Ak'Anon and as challenging for a newbie as Crushbone.
  • I'm convinced I was a librarian in a former life; maybe not a good one.

Things I've learned to live by on Wikipedia (or try to)

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  • Think before you type. Then type. Then think again before you press Publish.
  • When in doubt, don't press Publish.
  • If you're uncertain, Ask.
  • When you're wrong, you're wrong. Accept it gracefully.
  • I try and abide by a personal 2RR rule (except in cases such as vandalism, copyright, or BLP violations). If I've reverted twice and things continue, I'll leave it to another editor to pick up where I stop. If it's important someone else will come along.
  • Think if something can be Improved, rather than Reverted or Deleted. If it can, then either Improve it or leave it for someone else.
  • Don't engage in petty reverting. See above.
  • Sometimes it's best to disengage from a quarrel and return later rather than keeping it going.
  • Use polite and meaningful but short edit summaries.
  • Use warning templates sparingly. A note often produces better results.
  • Some topics I am too emotionally close to and I choose generally not to edit in those areas. At best it will be frustrating, at worst it will result in a ban or block. Everyone has to know their limitations. Wikipedia should be enjoyable and edifying, not frustrating and exasperating.
  • Don't stick your nose into situations you know nothing about. "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt." —Abraham Lincoln
  • Don't stir the pot simply to get a reaction.
  • Don't hold grudges.
  • Not every editor is able to constructively edit/review every article. Know what articles are best left to others.
  • When you've dug yourself into a hole, that's a battleground; stop digging and just walk away.
  • Beating a dead horse with a lead pipe is messy and unnecessary; just walk away

The worst part of Wikipedia

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The seemingly endless, repetitive, and ultimately meaningless time sink discussions where editors constantly repeat themselves over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again. Usually accompanied by walls of text, hyperbole, amusing and enlightening vocabulary gaffes, and a noticeable lack of logic, all of which begins to blur into each other like a mental quagmire. The talk histories of many articles are monuments to wasted time and energy.

Articles and investigative reports about Wikipedia

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Useful pages on Wikipedia

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New Articles Created

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Afrikaans

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  1. af:Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel

English

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Bibliographies

  1. en:Bibliography of the history of the Early Slavs and Rus'
  2. en:Bibliography of Russian history (1223–1613)
  3. en:Bibliography of Russian history (1613–1917)
  4. en:Bibliography of the Russo-Japanese War
  5. en:Bibliography of Russia during World War I
  6. en:Bibliography of the Russian Revolution and Civil War
  7. en:Bibliography of Stalinism and the Soviet Union
  8. en:Bibliography of the Soviet Union during World War II
  9. en:Bibliography of the Post Stalinist Soviet Union
  10. en:Bibliography of Russian history (1991–present)
  11. en:Bibliography of Martin Van Buren
  12. en:Bibliography of United States Presidential Spouses
  13. en:Bibliography of Eleanor Roosevelt
  14. en:Bibliography of works about communism
  15. en:Bibliography of Ukrainian history
  16. en:Bibliography of the history of Central Asia
  17. en:Bibliography of the history of Poland
  18. en:Bibliography of Poland during World War II
  19. en:Bibliography of the history of Belarus and Byelorussia
  20. en:Bibliography of the history of the Caucasus
  21. en:Bibliography of Genocide studies
  22. en:List of Slavic studies journals

Books

  1. en:Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928
  2. en:Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941
  3. en:Stalin: Breaker of Nations
  4. en:Stalin's Peasants
  5. en:Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941–1942
  6. en:The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942–1944
  7. en:Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945
  8. en:The Pacific War Trilogy
  9. en:Everyday Stalinism
  10. en:Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties
  11. en:The Lights that Failed: European International History 1919-1933
  12. en:The Triumph of the Dark: European International History 1933-1939
  13. en:The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia
  14. en:Lord and Peasant in Russia from the Ninth to the Nineteenth Century
  15. en:Russia in Flames: War, Revolution, Civil War, 1914–1921
  16. en:Russia in Revolution: An Empire in Crisis, 1890 to 1928
  17. en:The Empire of the Steppes
  18. en:The Russian Revolution: A New History
  19. en:The Politics of Muslim Cultural Reform: Jadidism in Central Asia
  20. en:Cannery Women, Cannery Lives
  21. Destruction Was My Beatrice: Dada and the Unmaking of the Twentieth Century
  22. en:The Road to Terror: Stalin and the Self-Destruction of the Bolsheviks, 1932—1939
  23. en:Russia: Revolution and Civil War, 1917—1921
  24. en:The New Life (2022 historical fiction)
  25. en:In Isolation: Dispatches from Occupied Donbas

Biography

  1. en:Monica Muñoz Martinez
  2. en:William John Read
  3. en:Talant Mamytov
  4. en:Artem Novikov
  5. en:Edith B. Gelles
  6. en:Catherine Allgor
  7. en:Byun Hui-su

Navigation

  1. en:Index of articles related to the Russian Revolution and Civil War
  2. en:List of Nazi extermination camps and euthanasia centers
  3. en:Outline of whisky
  4. en:Outline of Slavic history and culture
  5. en:Outline of Genocide studies
  6. en:Outline of the Russo-Ukrainian War

California

  1. en:An Act for the Admission of the State of California
  2. en:Silverado Fire
  3. en:National parks in California
  4. en:Cannery Women, Cannery Lives (book)

Music

  1. en:The Bop Chords

Geography

  1. en:Amberjack Hole
  2. en:Green Banana Hole
  3. en:Cascade-Sierra province
  4. en:National Parks in Idaho
  5. en:National parks in California
  6. en:Great American Rail-Trail

Other

  1. en:2021 Kyrgyz presidential election
  2. en:Deepspot
  3. en:Bhalswa landfill
  4. en:Senegal bus crash (2023)
  5. en:2023 Israeli judicial reform

Set indexes

Disambiguations

Ukrainian

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  1. uk:Готель Голлівуд Рузвельт (Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel)
  2. uk:Заперечення геноциду вірмен (Armenian genocide denial)
  3. uk:Міський коледж Лос-Анджелеса (Los Angeles City College)

Zulu

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  1. zu:IHollywood Roosevelt Ihhotela

References

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  1. ↑ Martin Luther King Jr. (1967). Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?. p. 67. 
  2. ↑ * Gove, Michael (June 3, 2017). "The Russian Revolution: A New History by Sean McMeekin". Retrieved 2021-01-24. 
  3. ↑ "Preface to the 1941 edition of The War in the Air". Archived from the original on 22 December 2008. Retrieved 11 February 2008.  Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  4. ↑ "Barbara Ehrenreich, 'Nickel and Dimed' author and activist, dies at 81". NBC News. 
  5. ↑ Martin Luther King Jr. (1967). Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?. p. 67. 
  6. ↑ * Gove, Michael (June 3, 2017). "The Russian Revolution: A New History by Sean McMeekin". Retrieved 2021-01-24. 
  7. ↑ "Preface to the 1941 edition of The War in the Air". Archived from the original on 22 December 2008. Retrieved 11 February 2008.  Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  8. ↑ "Barbara Ehrenreich, 'Nickel and Dimed' author and activist, dies at 81". NBC News. 
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