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About me
I have been active on Wikipedia since September 2003, mostly in the areas of history and politics, although I have other interests and have edited on a wide range of subjects. I have a PhD in history from the University of Melbourne. I was involved in the gay press and the fight against AIDS from the late 1970s until 1996, when I more or less retired from activism to devote my time to history, elections and politics. I live in the Melbourne suburb of St Kilda, I am a member of the Australian Labor Party and I support the Melbourne Football Club. I am descended from Edward III of England and through him from the Kings of England and Wessex back to the 5th century. If there is ever a Plantagenet restoration I would have a good claim to be Queen of Australia. I am also descended from the Emperor Charlemagne so I am probably Holy Roman Emperor as well. (See my website for family trees.)
My full biography and a variety of other things can be seen at my website. If you share my bizarre obsession with election statistics, you can visit my online archive, Psephos: Adam Carr's Electoral Archive.
Please place comments at my Talk page.
Please do not confuse me with this Adam Carr (he's much better looking than me).
Countries I have been to
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I have made about 25,000 edits to Wikipedia. The last time I looked, I had the highest number of edits of any English-Wikipedia editor who was not an Administrator. On this basis I claim the position of Wikipedia Leader of the Opposition.
Since my visit to Berlin in May, I have been concentrating on German history and German places that I have photos for. Lustgarten (rewrite), Berliner Stadtschloss (rewrite), Action T4, Fritz Thyssen (rewrite), Heinrich Müller (rewrite), Herschel Grynszpan (rewrite), Tiergartenstrasse, Leipziger Strasse, National Socialist German Workers Party (rewrite), Voss-strasse, Oranienburger Strasse, Nikolaikirche (Berlin), St. Marienkirche (Berlin), Rosa-Luxemburg-Strasse, Ebertstrasse, Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse, Axel Freiherr von dem Bussche-Streithorst, Erich Kordt, German Resistance, Gottfried Graf von Bismarck-Schönhausen, Sippenhaft, Memorial to the German Resistance, Topography of Terror, Niederkirchnerstrasse, Wilhelmstrasse, Strasse des 17 Juni, Soviet War Memorial (Tiergarten), Bebelplatz
Other recent article: Wilfrid Kent Hughes, Robert McCallum, Jr. (rewrite), Fred Whitlam, Victory Monument (Bangkok), Eric Butler
Things I delete on sight: Edits by members of the LaRouche cult; "Trivia" sections on serious articles; the vile cliches "famous" and "controversial."
A list of articles I have contributed or edited in the past, most of which I no longer monitor
The problem with Wikipedia
"No complex project can be expected to yield satisfactory results without a clear vision of what the goal is – and here I mean what a worthy internet encyclopedia actually looks like – and a plan to reach that goal, which will include a careful inventory of the needed skills and knowledge and some meaningful measures of progress. That vision of the goal must do something that Wikipedia and Wikipedians steadfastly decline to do today, and that is to consider seriously the user, the reader. What is the user meant to take away from the experience of consulting a Wikipedia article? The most candid defenders of the encyclopedia today confess that it cannot be trusted to impart correct information but can serve as a starting-point for research. By this they seem to mean that it supplies some links and some useful search terms to plug into Google. This is not much. It is a great shame that some excellent work – and there is some – is rendered suspect both by the ideologically required openness of the process and by association with much distinctly not excellent work that is accorded equal standing by that same ideology. One simple fact that must be accepted as the basis for any intellectual work is that truth – whatever definition of that word you may subscribe to – is not democratically determined. And another is that talent, whether for soccer or for exposition, is not equally distributed across the population, while a robust confidence is one's own views apparently is. If there is a systemic bias in Wikipedia, it is to have ignored so far these inescapable facts." Robert McHenry
What's wrong with Wikipedia
My suggestions for fixing Wikipedia
Wikipedia Celebrates 750 Years Of American Independence
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