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[[File:Harry and stella.jpg|thumb|left|My photo of kittens Harry and Stella illustrates the [[Wiktionary]] entry for '''[[wikt:huggable|huggable]]''', among [[commons:File:Harry and stella.jpg|other uses on various wikis]]. Did you know that '''[[:wikt:pl:sześciotygodniowy|sześciotygodniowy]]''' is Polish for "six weeks old"?]]
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Hi, I am '''Rob C''', a historian, computer guy, and cat wrangler in [[Birmingham, Alabama]]. I work part time for a [[Quaker]] association in six southern states. 

I do a [[podcast]] called [https://deepsouthhistory.com '''Deep South History'''] about "the most southern part of the [[American South]]." (Another episode is coming out [[real soon now]].)

To reach me, drop a note on my '''[[User talk:Alarob|talk page]]''' or (if you're not in a hurry) send '''[[Special:Emailuser/Alarob|email]]'''.

==About this user==
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===My contributions===
I've started '''71''' of Wikipedia's {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} articles. 
These days I'm mostly [[WP:GOCE|copyediting]] or doing [[WP:Gnome|gnomish]] tasks.

'''I recently revised:'''&nbsp; 
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| Federation of Damanhur
| Monroe Alpheus Majors
| Kenneth M. Stampp
| B
| Voiced bilabial plosive
| Enjoining good and forbidding wrong
| Alfred E. Jackson
| Johannes Kelpius
| Gunpowder Plot
| Socorro, New Mexico
| Moses Cleaveland
| Hayy ibn Yaqdhan
| Killing of David Ben Avraham
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'''Articles I've started:'''&nbsp; 
{{pagelist |nspace=w|separator=&ensp;''':&nbsp;:'''&ensp;|conjunction=&ensp;''':&nbsp;:'''&ensp;
|American Farmland Trust 
|August Wenzinger
|Avinash Sachdev
|Bartram's Travels
|Bernard Gregory 
|Buckdancer's Choice 
|Burnt Corn, Alabama
|City of Basel Music Academy
|Contraguitar
|Cusseta, Alabama 
|Elko, Georgia 
|Farid Esack 
|Flintridge Building
|Folkwang Academy
|Frederica (given name)
|Georg Schäfer (industrialist)
|Gesellschaft für das Gute und Gemeinnützige
|Heutelia
|History of the Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in America 
|Huntley Project 
|J. Gordon Coogler
|James R. Osgood 
|John Harvard Library
|John Pope (travel writer)
|Lauren Newton 
|Lukas Vischer (theologian) 
|Mamma Haidara Commemorative Library
|Mathias Rüegg 
|Montgomery Symphony Orchestra 
|Museum Georg Schäfer
|Museum of Cultures Basel 
|Poarch Creek Indian Reservation 
|Ring shout 
|Sankt Georgen Graduate School of Philosophy and Theology 
|Schloss Ebenrain
|Schrammelmusik 
|Spanish West Florida
|Suum cuique
|Vienna Art Orchestra
|Vischer Ferry, New York
|William and Mary Quarterly}}

'''[[WP:DAB|Disambiguation]] pages''' ("dab pages" for short)''':'''&nbsp; 
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|Arts and letters (disambiguation) 
|Available Jones
|Ballantine 
|Benjamin Porter 
|Frederika 
|Fredrika 
|James Douglass 
|Luke Field 
|Northridge High School 
|Lukas Vischer 
|Romano-Germanic 
|Standard Oil (disambiguation)
|VAO
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'''These are still [[Wikipedia:Stub|stub-class]]:'''&nbsp; 
{{pagelist |nspace=w|separator=&ensp;''':&nbsp;:'''&ensp;|conjunction=&ensp;''':&nbsp;:'''&ensp;
|Al-Mu'tasim, Iraq
|Benjamin F. Porter 
|Big Warrior 
|Cappella Coloniensis
|Cherokee War of 1776
|Cusseta tribal town 
|Hadron collider 
|The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
|Johann Spies
|John Harvard Library (series)
|Lucerne School of Music 
|Lukas Vischer (collector) 
|Pompey's Pillar, Montana
|Tukabatchee 
|Wheeling, Louisiana
|William H. Miles 
|WVSU-FM}}

'''Templates:'''&nbsp; Unicode support notices for [[Canadian Aboriginal syllabics]] and 
[[Cherokee syllabics]] (now handled differently)
''':&nbsp;:'''
Some [[ISO 639]] support templates for Native American languages: 
{{ISO 639 name|akz}}<!-- Alabama --> (akz),
{{ISO 639 name|alq}}<!-- Algonquin --> (alq),
{{ISO 639 name|cic}}<!-- Chickasaw --> (cic),
{{ISO 639 name|ciw}}<!-- Chippewa --> (ciw), 
{{ISO 639 name|ctm}}<!-- Chitimacha --> (ctm),
{{ISO 639 name|cho}}<!-- Choctaw --> (cho),
{{ISO 639 name|dak}}<!-- Dakota --> (dak),
{{ISO 639 name|kio}}<!-- Kiowa --> (kio),
{{ISO 639 name|cku}}<!-- Koasati --> (cku),
{{ISO 639 name|mik}}<!-- Mikasuki --> (mik),
{{ISO 639 name|mus}}<!-- Muskogee --> (mus),
{{ISO 639 name|ojc}}<!-- Central Ojibwa --> (ojc),
{{ISO 639 name|ojg}}<!-- Eastern Ojibwa --> (ojg),
{{ISO 639 name|ojb}}<!-- Northwestern Ojibwa --> (ojb),
{{ISO 639 name|ojs}}<!-- Severn Ojibwa --> (ojs),
{{ISO 639 name|ojw}}<!-- Western Ojibwa --> (ojw),
{{ISO 639 name|opt}}<!-- Ópata --> (opt),
{{ISO 639 name|otw}}<!-- Ottawa --> (otw),
{{ISO 639 name|unm}}<!-- Unami --> (unm),
and
{{ISO 639 name|yuc}}<!-- Yuchi --> (yuc).

'''[[:Template:Did you know|Did you know?]]''' … ''that the '''[[Mamma Haidara Commemorative Library]]''' in [[Timbuktu]] in [[Mali]] houses a collection of manuscripts begun more than 500 years ago?'' ([[Wikipedia:Recent_additions|30 May 2013]])

'''[[WP:Babel|Babel boxes]]:'''&nbsp; [[:Wikipedia:Userboxes/English/Dialects/American#en-us-ap (Appalachian English)|Appalachian English]] ''':&nbsp;:'''
[[:User:Alarob/languages#Middle English|Middle English]] ([[Template:User enm-1|basic,]] [[Template:User enm-2|intermediate,]] [[Template:User enm-3|fluent,]] [[Template:User enm-4|advanced]]) 

'''Other pages in my userspace''':&nbsp; [[User:Alarob/Userboxen|Userboxen]] ''':&nbsp;:'''
[[User:Alarob/languages|Languages]] ''':&nbsp;:'''
[[User:Alarob/Travels|Travels]] ''':&nbsp;:'''
[[User:Alarob/10pages|10&nbsp;Random&nbsp;Pages]] ''':&nbsp;:'''
[[User:Alarob/ref|References]] ''':&nbsp;:'''
[[User:Alarob/Workspace|Workspace]]

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(Updated infrequently.) '''As of August 2017''' I had made over '''11,390''' edits to more than '''3,630''' pages.
*'''2.6''' average edits per day
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*My [[Special:Contributions/Alarob|'''latest contributions''']]
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===Watchlist oddities===
Some of the more unusual articles I keep an eye on: 

[[:Chang and Eng Bunker]] :&nbsp;: [[:Dictionary of Received Ideas]] :&nbsp;: [[:Frick and Frack]] :&nbsp;: [[Guadalcanal Diary (band)]] :&nbsp;: [[List of fatal alligator attacks in the United States]] :&nbsp;: [[:Mike the Headless Chicken]] :&nbsp;: [[Muslimgauze]] :&nbsp;: [[:Pylon (band)]] :&nbsp;: [[:St. Marx Cemetery]] :&nbsp;: [[:The real McCoy]] :&nbsp;: [[:Why did the chicken cross the road?]]

==About Wikipedia==
'''Wikipedia does not contain the truth.''' Articles in Wikipedia, at their best, reflect the general state of human knowledge, or (to put it even less precisely) what most qualified people these days believe to be true. I reserve the right to believe that '''most people are wrong''' about some things. But I do not have the right to make my opinion prevail in Wikipedia. (See: [[WP:V|'''Wikipedia: Verifiability''']].) 

===On writing for Wikipedia===
From "[[User:Antandrus/observations on Wikipedia behavior|observations on Wikipedia behavior]]" by [[User:Antandrus|Antandrus]]: 
* Wikipedia is an encyclopedia. The primary job of [[WP:Wikipedians|Wikipedians]] is to write it. Everything else is secondary.
* The very existence of Wikipedia is a massive proof that there are more people in the world wanting to build than to tear down. Were that not true, [[WP:VANDAL|vandals]] would have overwhelmed and destroyed us years&nbsp;ago.
* The best way to continue as a ''writing'' Wikipedian for many years is to be, as the [[Buddha]] recommends, "indifferent to both praise and blame." Indifference to praise is a hard task for mere humans, but millions of potential anonymous readers demand it of you…. And remember this: you are allowed to take your work seriously here, and think highly of your own efforts; but be advised, don't talk about&nbsp;it.
* A common insult hurled at dedicated Wikipedia editors is that they "[[Get a life (idiom)|have no life]]." If you write extensively in an out-of-the-way area, you may well become the most widely read writer in the world on your topic. There are worse ways of "having no life", such as abusing the few actually useful people on the internet, but those who deliver such insults are invariably tone-deaf to&nbsp;[[irony]].

From [[WP:TIGER|some advice]] by [[User:William_Pietri|William Pietri]]:

‘’Wikipedia's articles are no place for strong views. Or rather, we feel about strong views the way that a natural history museum feels about [[tigers]]. We admire them and want our visitors to see how fierce and clever they are, so we stuff them and mount them for close inspection. We put up all sorts of carefully worded signs to get people to appreciate them as much as we do. But however much we adore tigers, a live tiger loose in the museum is seen as an urgent problem.’’

===Systemic bias===
The typical [[WP:Wikipedian|Wikipedian]] is a relatively [[Social class|privileged]] [[Race (human classification)|white]] [[male]] "[[knowledge worker]]," [[student]], or [[professional]] from the so-called [[First World]] who has easy access to the [[Sociology of the Internet|Internet]] and a high comfort level with [[geek|geekery]]. This imposes an unintended but inherent [[WP:BIAS|bias]] on the encyclopedia's coverage of topics — a bias that militates against the ideal of Wikipedia as a universal repository of human knowledge. [[WP:WikiProject Countering systemic bias|Overcoming that bias]] is an interesting challenge. 

To date, most of my articles have been located in the [[American South]] (especially the [[Deep South]], where I'm from) or in [[Europe]], and most of my editing of biographies has been about men. I'm trying to branch out more. 

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===Some articles that need help===
* Third opinion disputes {{Wikipedia:Third Opinion}}<small>[{{fullurl:Wikipedia:Third opinion|action=edit&section=3}} update], {{purge}}</small>

[[:Bonnie Blue flag]] ''(takes sides rather than reporting the debate)'' :&nbsp;:
[[:Benjamin Hawkins]] ''(mere storytelling)'' :&nbsp;:
[[:Cherokee-American wars]] ''(mistitled IMO, but there's no obvious alternative)'' :&nbsp;:
[[:History of Alabama]] ''(needs rewrite, begun [[User:Alarob/Alahist|here]])'' :&nbsp;:
[[:Islam in the United States]] ''(a bias magnet)'' :&nbsp;:
[[:William McIntosh]] ''(needs rewrite, begun [[User:Alarob/Billymcintosh|here]])'' :&nbsp;:
[[:Zheng He]] ''(sprawling, confused)''

===Redlinks to turn blue===
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* [[Abeka]] (the Creek town, not the publisher)
* [[Alden T. Vaughan]]
* [[Eastern Muskogean languages]]
* [[Eleanora O'Donnell Iselin]] (who should not be subsumed under her husband)
* [[Fairfield Works]]
* [[Fort Crawford (Alabama)]]
* [[Ibrahima Abd al Rahman]]
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* [[John Parrish]] (1729-1807), abolitionist (see [https://web.tricolib.brynmawr.edu/speccoll/quakersandslavery/commentary/people/parrish_john.php here])
* [[Klondike, Georgia]]
* [[Lamine Kebe]] (or Kaba?)
* [[Mohammad Ali ben Said]]
* [[Montroville Dickeson]], archaeologist
* [[Negro Universities Press]]
* [[Nkiru Nzegwu]] (needs expansion)
* [[Reichensteiner Hof]]
* [[Southeastern Yearly Meeting]]
* [[Southern Appalachian Yearly Meeting and Association]]
* [[State Archives of Basel]] (Staatsarchiv Basel-Stadt)
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* [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Town_Meeting_Day&redirect=no Town Meeting Day] should not be a redirect to [[Town meeting]]. 
* [[Titus Müller]] (translation request)
* [[Tommy Jemmy]] (Seneca Indian named in historic lawsuit)
* ''[[Woodward's Reminiscences]]'' (by Thomas S. Woodward)
* [[Yarrow Mahmout]]
{{Columns-end}}

===Common misspellings===
[[Wikipedia:Adopt-a-typo|Adopt-a-typo]] is a Wikipedia project for quickly identifying and correcting a spelling or typing error that recurs constantly in English. 

I have adopted the relatively obscure typo of "Alabaman" for "{{search link|Alabaman|Alabamian|ns0|ns14|ns100}}." It occurs frequently in direct quotations that must be left untouched. "Alabaman" is acceptable when referring to the [[Alabama language|language of the Alabama people]], but the more common name for the language is "Alabama."

==Other wiki projects==
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Besides the other Wikimedia projects shown above, I'm a contributor to:<br /><s>ArchivesWiki</s> (the moribund [https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/directories/archiveswiki/index.php/Main_Page AHA resource)] :&nbsp;:
[http://www.bhamwiki.com/w/User:Alarob BhamWiki] (excellent) :&nbsp;:
[https://wardepartmentpapers.org/ Papers of the War Department, 1784-1800] (very buggy) :&nbsp;:
<s>[http://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/User:Alarob Wikivoyage]</s> 

I've made minor contributions to the [[German Wikipedia|German]], [[Spanish Wikipedia|Spanish]], [[French Wikipedia|French]], [[Italian Wikipedia|Italian]], and [[Bengali Wikipedia|Bengali]] Wikipedias.

==Templates I like==
===About Wikipedia===
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{{Wikipedia policies and guidelines}}
{{Essays on building Wikipedia}}
{{Word Association}}

===Topics of interest===
{{Johann Sebastian Bach}}
{{Character encodings}}
{{Controversies surrounding people captured during the War on Terror}}
{{Free and open-source typography}}
{{Indigenous rights footer}}
{{Iroquois Confederacy}}<!-- League... -->
{{Mississippian and related cultures}}
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===My home (past & present)===
{{Alabama}}
{{Jefferson County, Alabama}}
{{Birmingham Landmarks}}
{{Florida}}
{{North Florida}}
{{Jacksonville Metro}}
{{Nassau County, Florida}}
{{Georgia (U.S. state)}}
{{Athens, Georgia}}<!-- birthplace -->
{{Metro Atlanta}}
{{DeKalb County, Georgia}}
{{Druid Hills}}
{{Grady County, Georgia}}
{{Hall County, Georgia}}
{{Houston County, Georgia}}

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