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Hi, I'm Mark. Though on the internet I'm more often "Delirium", a handle I picked in the mid-'90s in middle school, and kind of kept by inertia. In real life, I'm an academic with a background in computer science, specializing in artificial intelligence. Much of my Wikipedia editing relates to my hobby of researching historical figures and events, though I occasionally edit in my "official" specialty. I grew up in Chicago and Houston, and since then have lived in Los Angeles, Atlanta, Santa Cruz, Copenhagen, Cornwall, and Washington, D.C.. I've also spent a good amount of time in Thessaloniki.
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My Wikipedia interests are mainly in history. I'm especially interested in writing articles on people and events from non-English-speaking regions, even subjects of relatively minor importance. Since Wikipedia is a hypertext encyclopedia, even minor subjects help illustrate the contours of a time and place, as well as providing link scaffolding to more easily add additional articles in that area into the English-Wikipedia web of knowledge.
For a combination of vanity and organizational purposes, here are some of the articles I created (some are still mainly my work, while others have been significantly expanded by others):
- Robert Contee, American police chief
- Reneé Hall, American police chief
- Carmen Best, American police chief
- Julie Kirchner, American activist
- Betsy Reed, American journalist and editor
- Endeavour (building), high-rise building in Houston, Texas
- Hudson and Emma Rood Tuttle, American spiritualist authors
- Natural Trap Cave, paleontological site in Wyoming
- John H. Davis (diplomat), American academic and diplomat
- Guillaume de Varax, Swiss bishop
- Slug's Saloon, Jazz club in New York
- Hoshino Hisashi, Japanese historian
- Yvonne Herløv Andersen, Danish politician
- May Brodbeck, American philosopher of science
- Krudttårnet, historical structure in Frederikshavn, Denmark
- André Bollier, French resistance member during World War II
- James L. Autry House, community center in Houston, Texas
- Joseph-Frédéric-Benoît Charrière, Swiss–French manufacturer of surgical instruments
- Lariboisière Hospital, hospital in Paris
- Former Reichsbank building, building in Berlin
- Old Navarino castle, fortress near Pylos, Greece
- Kavala aqueduct, aqueduct in Kavala, Greece
- Jurgen Ruesch, American psychiatrist
- Latvia University of Agriculture, university in Jelgava, Latvia
- Johan Cornelius Krieger, Danish landscape architect
- Søren Pind, Danish politician
- International Hygiene Exhibition, 1911 world's fair in Dresden
- Ibrahim al-Mazini, 20th-century Egyptian writer
- Romm publishing house, 19th-century Jewish publisher
- Grisha Bruskin, 20th/21st-century Russian artist
- Georg Gradnauer, 20th-century German politician
- Roger Brunet, 20th/21st-century French geographer
- Château Saint-Maire, Swiss castle
- Francesco Pasquale Ricci, 18th/19th-century Italian composer
- Giuseppe Pasquale Ricci, 18th-century politician of Triste
- Krzysztof Grodzicki, 17th-century Polish general
- Hans Sima, 20th-century Austrian politician
- Mostafa Mir-Salim, 20th/21st-century Iranian politician
- Mohsen Aminzadeh, 20th/21st-century Iranian politician
- Zan (newspaper), 20th-century Iranian newspaper
- Uzdunrobita, mobile-phone operator of Uzbekistan
- Gernot Rumpold, Austrian politician
- Karl Sudhoff, 19th/20th-century German historian of medicine
- Juan de Esteyneffer, 17th/18th-century missionary and documenter in the New World
- Thomas Drennan, 18th-century Irish minister
- Pericles the Younger, ancient Athenian general
- Charles Monnard, 19th-century Swiss historian
- Carl Jacob Burckhardt, 20th-century Swiss diplomat and historian
- Boris P. Stoicheff, 20th-century Macedonian-Canadian physicist
- Dom in svet, 19th/20th-century Slovenian journal
- Jacob Toorenvliet, 17th/18th-century Dutch painter
- Dirck van der Lisse, 17th-century Dutch painter
- Ministry of Energy (Russia), the energy ministry of Russia
- Sergei Shmatko, 20th/21st-century Russian businessman and politician
- Giacomo Guardi, 18th/19th-century Italian painter
- Francesco Albotto, 18th-century Italian painter
- Ukrainian school, 19th-century school of Polish poetry
- Minos Wines, Greek winemaker
- Lagorthi, Greek wine grape
- Ulubrae, ancient village near Rome
- Georgios Chortatzis, 16th/17th-century Greek dramatist
- Coxiella burnetii (section "History and naming"), bacteria
- Edward Holbrook Derrick, 20th-century American pathologist
- Turlupins, 14th/15th-century French religious sect
- Pedro de Soto, 16th-century Spanish Dominican
- Inalchuq, 13th-century governor in the Khwarezmian Empire
- London International College, 19th-century British secondary school
- Leonhard Schmitz, 19th-century German-British classical scholar
- Carl Werner, 19th-century German watercolor painter
- Emanuel von Friedrichsthal, 19th-century Austrian traveler and botanist
- Otto von Erdmannsdorff, 20th-century German diplomat
- Joaquín Vicuña, 19th-century Chilean politician
- Leopold Wagner, 20th-century Austrian politician
- Jan Prandota, 13th-century Polish bishop
- Jan Grot, 14th-century Polish bishop
- Iwo Odrowąż, 13th-century Polish bishop
- Martyrius of Antioch, 5th-century Patriarch of Antioch
- Archangel ivory, 6th-century Byzantine ivory panel
- Hippolyte Montillie, 19th/20th-century French sculptor
- Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes, 18th/19th-century French painter
- Esperanza Andrade, 20th/21st-century American politician
- Therese Maron, 18th-century German painter
- Anton von Maron, 18th-century Austrian painter
- Scipione Barbò Soncino, 16th-century Italian jurist and writer
- Madern Gerthener, 14th/15th-century German stonemason and architect
- Tsantali, Greek winemaker
- Marcus Antonius Antimachus, 15th/16th-century Italian translator of Greek
- Johann Peter Berg, 18th-century German theologian, historian, and Orientalist
- Piero Valeriano Bolzani, 15th/16th-century Italian Renaissance humanist
- Lazarus Buonamici, 16th-century Italian Renaissance humanist
- Calendion, 5th-century Patriarch of Antioch
- California Propositions 98 and 99 (2008), June 2008 ballot propositions in California relating to eminent domain and property rights
- Walter Channing (physician), 19th-century American physician and professor of medicine
- Conrad II, Bishop of Hildesheim, 13th-century German bishop
- Genaro Estrada, 20th-century Mexican statesman, academic, and writer
- Marcus Fabius Ambustus (consul 360 BC), 4th-century-BC statesman and general of the Roman Republic
- Leontius (usurper), 5th-century Byzantine usurper
- Pedro de Lerma, 15th/16th-century Spanish theologian
- Émile Loubon, 19th-century French painter
- Michiel Maddersteg, 17th/18th-century Dutch painter
- Jean Pierre Félicien Mallefille, 19th-century French novelist and playwright
- Laura Beatrice Mancini, 19th-century Italian poet
- Johann Kaspar Friedrich Manso, 18th/19th-century German historian and philologist
- Firmin Marbeau, 19th-century French philanthropist
- Bessie Marchant, 19th/20th-century English novelist
- Camille Mauclair, 20th-century French poet, novelist, biographer, travel writer, and art critic
- Carlo Mense, 20th-century German artist
- Neshobe Island, island in Vermont associated with the Algonquin Round Table
- Johann Georg Primavesi, 19th-century German etcher and painter
- Willi Schmid, 20th-century German music critic accidentally murdered by the Nazis in a case of mistaken identity
- Flavius Sigisvultus, 5th-century general of the Western Roman Empire
- Flavius Sporacius, 5th-century statesman of the Eastern Roman Empire
Other lists
- User:Delirium/Article list, for articles I wrote prior to mid-2008
- User:Delirium/Translations, for articles I've translated, either from public-domain sources or other Wikipedias