User:Taylordw

About me

I am a grad school dropout (diplomatic and economic history) and I need somewhere to direct my unceasing research proclivities. I live in Washington, D.C., United States of America. On Wikipedia I'm all about NPOV; if you want my "original research", you can see my [http://twitter.com/donaldtaylorii twitter feed] or my [http://marchingunderbanners.net/ blog].

News

  • 1 March 2015 - I finally moved the Joan Dillon page out of my sandbox and into the article main space.
  • In cooperation with [http://wikimediadc.org/wiki/Home DC Wikimedia] I am organizing an edit-a-thon at the University of Maryland Library to focus on Chronicling America and the [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wikipedia_Summer_of_Monuments Summer of Monuments WikiProject]. Learn more or sign up for the edit-a-thon here.
  • I may have contacted you recently as I am conducting a study of how Chronicling America is being used by contributors to Wikipedia. If you have any questions, concerns, complaints or suggestions, feel free to contact me either by the e-mail tool to the left or via my talk page. If you are taking my survey, thank your for your time and considered opinions.

Potential conflict of interest disclosure

During May-August 2014 I am the Wikipedian-in-Residence with the University of Maryland Libraries [http://digital.lib.umd.edu/newspapers Historic Maryland Newspapers Project]. Additionally, I work for an association that advocates for the rights of people with significant disabilities. From Dominic McDevitt-Parks's conflict of interest statement: "When I am editing Wikipedia as part of my professional duties, I always strive to strictly abide by Wikipedia's accepted practices on conflicts of interest, neutrality, and notability. I will always work in the best interest of Wikipedia ..."

Contributions to Wikipedia

I began editing Wikipedia in August 2008. I suffer from an acute case of bibliomania and I'm mostly adding to, correcting and standardizing references and bibliographies.

Think of this as being like my Wikipedia wishlist:

=Economic history articles=

=Diplomatic and military history and strategy=

=Politics=

=Alexandria and Virginia=

=Washington, D.C.=

=Disability issues=

=Science=

=Pacific Northwest=

I'm from Seabeck in Kitsap County on the Kitsap Peninsula and am interested in improving the pages of my small town origin.

=Other=

=Contributions to date=

See my [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Taylordw Contributions page].

=Photographs of living people=

Living in D.C., I attend a lot of think tank events and author talks. I try to take these opportunities to photograph living people, so a lot of my contributions are photographs of writers and public policy people.

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|File:Charles King speaking at Politics and Prose, 21 September 2014.JPG

|alt1=Author Charles King in a blue suite smiling as he addresses an audience question from behind a podium; the background is a large wall of books; in the foreground the heads of a few audience members intrude

|Georgetown University Professor Charles King speaking on his book, Midnight at the Pera Palace: The Birth of Modern Istanbul (2014), at Politics and Prose book store, Washington, D.C., 21 September 2014

|File:2014-Oct-27 New America Peter Bergen John Nagl Daniel Green.jpg

|alt2=Author John Nagle, in the midst of a point, gesturing with an open palm; flanked by Peter Bergen to the left and Daniel Greene to the right; in front of back-lit frosted blue glass panels; the backs of the heads of a few audience members are visible in the foreground

|Left to right, Peter Bergen, John Nagl and Daniel R. Green, discussing Nagl's new book, Knife Fights: A Memoir of Modern War in Theory and Practice, at the New America Foundation, 27 October 2014

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|Left to right: Kevin Baron, Michèle Flournoy, Janine Davidson, Thomas Ricks, "Is the Pentagon Adapting Fast Enough?" panel discussion at the New America Foundation first annual Future of War conference, Washington, D.C., 25 February 2015

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|Left to right: Michael Lind, Ian Morris, Lawrence Freedman, Philip Bobbitt; "What Do Lessons from History Tell Us About the Future of War?" panel discussion at the New America Foundation first annual Future of War conference, Washington, D.C., 25 February 2015

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|Princeton Professor Stephen Kotkin, discussing his book, Stalin: Volume I: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928 at Politics and Prose book store, Washington, D.C., 11 March 2015

|File:Sandor Katz Monticello 12 Sep 2015.jpg

|alt6=A color image of Sandor Katz, a man in a loosely worn purple plaid shirt and cargo pants with grey hair and two shade of grey mutton chop sideburns and mustache. He is standing at a table in which he is making sauerkraut. He has one hand in the bowl and is making a circular gesture with the other.

|DIY fermentation fetishist Sandor Katz, giving a fermentation workshop at the Monticello Heritage Harvest Festival, 12 September 2015

|File:Yuval Levin AEI 1-Oct-2015.jpg

|alt7=A man with close-cropped, receding hair,wearing a suite, looking intently slightly to his right. He is sitting at a table with a microphone against a blue, repeating ARI logo.

|Yuval Levin, editor of National Affairs and Hertog Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, discusses Edmund Burke at the American Enterprise Institute event, [http://www.aei.org/events/economic-liberty-and-human-flourishing-a-discussion-with-deirdre-mccloskey-susan-shell-and-yuval-levin/ Economic Liberty and Human Flourishing], 1 October 2015

|File:Eric Jarosinski German Embassy Washington DC 8 October 2015.jpg

|alt8=A crowd listens as a staff member from the German Embassy and Eric Jarosinski, a. k. a. Nein Quarterly, sit in modernist chairs on a low stage. There is a black, red and yellow German flag behind Jarosinski and a flat-screen behind the embassy person displaying the Nein Quarterly avatar. A diffuse light through high curtains creates a blue-grey neutral far background.

|Eric Jarosinski discusses his twitter persona and book, Nein. A Manifesto (2015), at [http://www.germany.info/Vertretung/usa/en/newsletter/WASH__Cul/2015/Sondernewsletter-NeinQuarterly.html Nein Regrets to Inform You – A Ruined Evening With @NeinQuarterly] at the German Embassy in Washington D.C., 8 October 2015

|File:2016-Jun-27-Thomas-Gilhool-Pennhurst.jpg

|alt9=A man with clumpy silver hair in a white suit, pale blue shirt and a red, white and blue striped bowtie, bearing a striking resemblance to Tom Wolfe. He sits at a table with a collection of legal papers, a paper name placard and slender adjustable microphone in front of him. The room is slightly dark, but he is well illuminated. The background is dark wood paneling.

|Thomas Gilhool, the lead plaintiff's attorney in Pennhurst v. Halderman, discusses the strategy pursued by the Public Interest Law Center of Philadelphia in the Supreme Court cases, Pennsylvania Association for Retarded Children (PARC) v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (1971) and Pennhurst v. Halderman (1984); part of a panel discussion, "The Disability Rights Movement: From Pennhurst Until Today", U.S. Capitol Visitor Center, Washington, D.C., 27 June 2016.

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|Left to right: Jon Wolfsthal, Christine Parthemore, Rebecca Hersman, General C. Robert Kehler (Ret.) and Heather Williams at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Project on Nuclear Issues and Ploughshares Fund panel discussion, "[https://www.csis.org/events/debate-modernization-nuclear-missiles Debate: Modernization of Nuclear Missiles]", Washington, D.C., 23 May 2017

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|Left to right: Adam Mount, Ellen O. Tauscher, Rebecca Hersman, John Harvey and Kori Schake at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Project on Nuclear Issues and Ploughshares Fund panel discussion, "[https://www.csis.org/events/debate-us-nuclear-weapon-modernization Debate: U.S. Nuclear Weapon Modernization]", Washington, D.C., 29 June 2017

|File:Ann-and-Rud-Turnbull-TASH-Conference-14-Dec-2017.jpg

|alt12=A photograph of Ann and Rud Turnbull. They are standing at two black podiums against a dark cloth curtain backdrop. Ann Turnbull is wearing a black dress and a brightly colored multi-strand bead necklace. She is gesturing with a projector remote in her hand. Rud Turnbull is wearing a dark suit jacket and maroon striped tie. He has his hands folded behind his back and is watching Ann as she speaks.

|Ann and Rud Turnbull speaking about how they helped to create "an enviable life" for their son, Jay, at the TASH 2017 Annual Conference, 14 December 20017

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=Historical images=

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|The Raine Building, publishing location of Der Deutsche Correspondent, southwest corner of Baltimore Street and Post Office Avenue (now known as Customs House Avenue), Baltimore Maryland, circa 1869, prior to the great 1904 fire

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|Chinatown, Washington, D.C., 7th Street NW, east side, looking north from G Street, circa 1900-1905, the current location of Verizon Center

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|alt3=A black-and-white photograph of a street scene. The focus is a small, light-colored five story hotel with the first floor below grade, rounded turrets at the corners and an ornamental parapet, viewed catty-corner looking southwest across the intersection of New Jersey Avenue and C Street. The trees are bare and the street is lined with over a dozen twenties-era automobiles.

|George Washington Inn, Capitol Hill, looking southwest from the northeast corner of New Jersey Avenue SE and C Street SE (Cannon House Office Building to the rear), Washington D.C., circa 1910-1925

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|alt4=A black and white photograph of Folger Park and Providence Hospital, looking southwest across the southeast corner of the park. The trees are sparse and bare. The ground looks sandy. The bell tower of the hospital rises amid an unobstructed patch in the tree branches.

|Providence Hospital after Waddy B. Wood's 1904 remodel, viewed looking south across Folger Park, circa 1910-1926, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division

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|alt5=A browning black and white photograph of George Walker, a man with a high hairline and part and mutton chops wearing a band collar, small back bow tie and heavy dark suit jacket

|Massachusetts State Representative George Walker, 1868; Legislators' Photographs, State Library of Massachusetts

|File:1993-Jan-12-Bush-Library-P39091-04A-Roland-Johnson-ADA-Award.jpg

|alt6=President Bush in the foreground looks with interest at a plaque as Roland Johnson, slightly behind the President and looking smaller owing to the perspective, beams as he hands it to him. A number of other people look on against blue drapes.

|Speaking for Ourselves Board of Directors President Roland Johnson presents President George Bush with an award in recognition of his enacting the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. 12 January 1993 (Official White House photograph, courtesy of the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum, College Station, Texas)

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|Lock 38 of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal and ruins of a bridge across the Potomac River at Shepherdstown, West Virginia, ca. 1861–1865 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division). Today the new James Rumsey bridge is slightly up-river.

|File:1903-Henry-Traumer-Duquesne-French_iron-clad.jpg

|alt8=Detail of an oil painting of the Duquesne, a hybrid ship with an iron hull and two funnels from its seam plant, but also three masts. The sails are furled, but the rigging is considerable. The hull is grey and darker at the waterline. There is a row of gunports. The funnels are red and the French tricolor flies from both the bow and stern. The water is dark and a dark cloud silhouettes the ship.

|The Duquesne (1876), an ironclad unprotected cruiser in the French navy; detail of "The Duquesne" (1903), painting by Henry E. Traumer, on display at the Duquesne Club, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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|Henry Richard Linderman, Director of the United States Mint, ca. 1865–1880 (from the Brady-Handy Photograph Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.)

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|President Ronald Reagan presents Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter and Paul Nitze with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The East Room of the White House, Washington, D.C., 7 November 1985. Photograph by Peter J. Souza, courtesy of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.

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|President Ronald Reagan presents Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter and Paul Nitze with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The East Room of the White House, Washington, D.C., 7 November 1985. Photograph by Peter J. Souza, courtesy of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.

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|President Ronald Reagan presents Roberta Wohlstetter with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Also pictured: Albert Wohlstetter and Paul Nitze (obstructed by Mr. Wohlstetter). The East Room of the White House, Washington, D.C., 7 November 1985. Photograph by Peter J. Souza, courtesy of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.

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|The Commission on Integrated Long-Term Strategy meets with President Reagan to discuss their report, Discriminate Deterrence. Members of the Commission on the left side of the table (clockwise from the bottom of the photograph to the top): Gen. Bernard Schriever, Judge William P. Clark, Ambassador Anne Armstrong, Gen. John Vessey, Albert Wohlstetter, Fred Iklé, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Gen. Andrew J. Goodpaster, W. Graham Claytor, Jr., Samuel P. Huntington, Admiral James L. Holloway III. The President and staff, right side of table, (top to bottom): National Security Adviser Colin Powell; President Ronald Reagan; Secretary of Defense Frank Carlucci (obstructed); Chief of Staff Howard Baker. White House Cabinet Room, Washington, D.C., 12 January 1988. Photograph by William Fitz-Patrick, courtesy of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.

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|Joseph McCoy's Drover's Hotel, McCoy's Stock Yard, Abilene, Kansas, 1867, photograph by Alexander Gardner (1821-1882), Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.

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|President Ronald Reagan meets Katie Beckett, along with her parents, Julia and Mark Beckett as the President exits Air Force One on the tarmac of Cedar Rapids Municipal Airport, Iowa, 20 September 1984. After an encephalitis infection, Katie Beckett required regular ventilator assistance, a treatment that Medicaid would cover if she was hospitalized, but not at home. After being hospitalized nearly since birth, she became the inspirational case for the TEFRA, or "Katie Beckett" Medicaid waiver, enacted in 1982. Photograph by official White House photographer Michael Evans, courtesy of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.

|File:1997-Dec-Gunnar-Dybwad-TASH-Conference-1.jpg

|alt16=A quarter-profile photograph of Gunnar Dybwad. He has grey hair laid over to the photographer's side and a grey Van Dyke beard. He has a deeply lined face and is looking slightly down. He is wearing a suite and a maroon bow tie. The background is totally black.

|Gunnar Dybwad at the TASH Annual Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, December 1997

|File:Ronald-Reagan-ERTA-Omnibus-Budget-Rancho-del-Cielo-13-Aug-1981-NARA-C3490-4A.jpg

|alt15=Ronald Reagan sits at a round lattice table with two huge stacks of paper and two microphones. He is wearing denim pants and a denim jacket. He is intently signing one of the stacks of paper. The table is in the gravel driveway in front of a modest timber and plaster house with a tile roof. The house is slightly obscured in fog.

|President Ronald Reagan signing the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981 and the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 at his Santa Barbara, California ranch, Rancho del Cielo, 13 August 1981. Photograph by official White House photographer, Karl Schumacher, courtesy of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library (C03490-4A, https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/archives/photo/c03490-01).

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|alt1=A marble bench with an arced back and griffin-winged arms. There are a few steps up to it. It is weedy and leaf-littered, against a dark grove of trees

|Jean Jules Jusserand monument in Rock Creek Park, Washington D.C., just off Beach Drive and Western Ridge Trail, across the foot bridge from Peirce Mill.

|File:2016-Dec-9-Smithsonian-Mercury-Friendship-7.jpg

|alt2=A small, slightly conical capsule with corrugated black skin, a neck at the narrow end and a convex heat shield at the base. There are flowers on display in recognition of John Glenn's passing. In the glass of the display you can make out the reflection of the glass curtainwall of the foyer and Chuck Yeager's Bell X-1.

|The Mercury Friendship 7 capsule on display in the Boeing Milestones of Flight Hall, just inside the National Mall-side doors at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, Washington, D.C., on 9 December 2016, the day after John Glenn's death.

|File:Tahuya-estuary-North-Shore-bridge-17-Aug-2017.jpg

|alt3=NE North Shore bridge forms the left frame of the image and a bank of wild flowers the lower-left corner. An estuary consisting of a couple of river channels through a number of islands of sea grass. In the background are yellow fields. The river valley bends into the distance between two pine tree covered hills.

|The Tahuya River estuary at Tahuya Bay, where the river empties into the Hood Canal. Photograph taken from the bridge at NE North Shore Road, sunset, 17 August 2017.

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|alt4=Two channels of the Dewatto River running through high-banked deltas of sea grass. It is sunset, so the light is at a low angle from the left of the picture. The vegetation of the estuary is an extremely bright green in the light with bits of yellow dry grass interspersed. A wall of dark pine trees makes up the far bank of the estuary.

|The Dewatto River estuary at the head of Dewatto Bay, where the river empties into the Hood Canal. Photograph taken from Dewatto Bay Road / Dewatto-Holly Road, sunset, 17 August 2017.

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|alt16=Photograph of a small, rectangular, two story brick building pained white. It is surrounded by an asphalt parking lot. It is annexed to a more modern glass and steel building with an open stairwell showing through the large windows. The sign on the front of the building reads, Kitchen and Bath Factory.

|The former M.T. Broyhill & Sons Corporation headquarters building, 4624 Lee Highway, Arlington, Virginia 22207

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