User:Pat Palmer/sandbox/todo list
TO DO
- U.S._Federal_Police_agencies not interlinked adequately
- Afghanistan_War_(disambiguation) and check everything associated with Afghanistan
- clean up links around Wars_of_Afghanistan
- World War I, American entry and World War I, American Entry
Research_peer_review: Evaluation by experts of the quality and pertinence of research or research proposals of other experts in the same field. [e]
National Rifle Association: A non-partisan, non-profit American interest group which claims promotion of gun ownership rights, firearm safety education, and marksmanship as its goals. [e]
- Epaminondas, Thebes and Sparta are not interlinked and are very sparse as topics
- rename Ashbridge's Creek and Tomlin's Creek
- Great Britain and United Kingdom
32 Names of Durga: a yoga and Hindu mantra from the Markandeya Purana, chapter 88 [e]
Mantra: something that is said, or perhaps sung, frequently and is deliberately repeated over and over [e]
Markandeya Purana: A major Hindu scripture collection containing the Durga Saptashati (700 Verses) including various well-known mantras [e]
Om Jayanti Maṅgalā Kālī: a yoga and Hindu mantra from the Markandeya Purana's 700 Verses segment [e]
Asana: Body position in Joga to improve flexibility and vitality, often held for extended periods. [e]
Bhagavad Gita: A Vaisnava treatise composed around the time of Christ, or perhaps a century or so before, and incorporated into the text of the epic poem Mahabharata. [e]
Buddhism: Spiritual tradition founded on the teachings of the Buddha. [e]
Hatha Yoga Pradipika: Sanskrit text by Maharishi Swatmarama that explains Hatha Yoga. [e]
Hinduism: A diffuse set of cultural and religious practices that originated on the Indian subcontinent. [e]
- Hindustani classical music: Add brief definition or description
Pali: An ancient Indic language from the Indian subcontinent, closely related to Sanskrit, in which the Pali Canon is written. [e]
Pali Canon: the scriptures of Theravada Buddhism [e]
Pali Text Society: A registered charity in the United Kingdom, founded in 1881 to foster and promote the study of Pali texts. [e]
Patanjali: (c. 150 BC) Indian teacher credited with gathering and systematizing the teachings of meditation and yoga, based on a loose set of doctrines and practices from the Upanishads. [e]
Sanskrit: A family of ancient languages that were spoken on the Indian Subcontinent. [e]
Yoga Sutras of Patanjali: A foundational text of Yoga, which forms part of the corpus of Sutra literature dating to India's Mauryan period. [e]
- User:Pat_Palmer/sandbox/test18 (updates)
Yoga: An entire (Indian) philosophy of being, with the goal of achieving peace of mind and of body, which also includes a set of exercises and breathing techniques to induce relaxation. [e]
- Ancient Egypt and History of Egypt - merge the 2nd into the 1st?
- https://pr.princeton.edu/pwb/05/0307/2a.shtml - a second obit for P'ton economist David Bradford
- Georgine Milmine - WP version does not mention the authorship challenge from 1993 onward; re: also Willa Cather and McClure's Magazine
- Martha Wells (author) and Witch King (novel)
- Henry Wellesley (1794–1866)
- 2012
- Osprey (plane/copter) history of deaths (plus 8 more as of Dec 2023)
- Humanities grads as a share of workforce in US (Oct 2023)
- Gun culture in the U.S. (US deaths vs. GB)
- Racism in the U.S.
- Jacksonville, Florida
- Houston, Texas
- Norfolk, Virginia
- Farmer, Jared. Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees. Picador, 2023.
- Dr. Farmer is the Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. He received the American Philosopical Society 2023 Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History to this book. (OMNIA, Nov 2023, under "Faculty Book Honors"). His temporal expertise is the long nineteenth century; his regional expertise is the American West. His recent work has turned to global environmental history across the modern period. Originally from Provo, Utah, Farmer earned his degrees from Utah State, the University of Montana, and Stanford. He has family roots in Bear Lake County, Idaho, and is a past and future resident writer at the Ernest and Mary Hemingway House in Ketchum. Prof. Farmer is the award-winning author of four books, most recently Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees. He’s on Instagram and Twitter @geohumanist. Learn more at jaredfarmer.net.
- need an article on Rosa Parks
- Larry McMurtry
- Betty Friedan and The Feminine Mystique
- Virginia Foster Durr
- missing the bibliography etc (and a video) from Wikipedia; needs rewriting generally
- Outside the Magic Circle
- Canadian people
- United States Coast Guard
- Jesus
- Secret Intelligence Service and MI6
- U.S. Federal Police agencies
- get rid of First Nations redirect to Native American (?)
- Alpha (letter) and Alpha (Greek letter), dumb intermediary redirect (along with much of the Greek alphabet)
- Acid rain - could this be made fit to be a front page article?
- Christian_Science_Monitor needs more cleanup
- Daniel_Everette_Hale had a duplicate ref
- move icebreaker to Icebreaker (boat) and disambiguate
- Martial arts needs expansion and cleanup
- Mary Baker Eddy needs more cleanup
- Radiation Units
- Roosevelt, New Jersey
- Paul Prestopino
- The Al Qaida Plan (film)
- CZ:The Article Checklist
- Richard Condon and Richard Condon/Citable Version - rename, relink?
Ben Tillman: (1847 - 1918) Governor of South Carolina, from 1890 to 1894, and U.S. Senator, from 1895 until his death; known as the foremost spokesman for white supremacy. [e]
- possibly rename, link appropriately to white supremacy ideas
- Texas,_history#Lynching - header levels probably all screwed up
- look at Ho Chi Minh
- complete the cities for National_Basketball_Association
Martin Nolan, starting early Aug 2023
U.S. Treasury downgraded
- Fitch downgrades Fannie and Freddie LinkedIn writeup
- Fitch Downgrades U.S. Credit Rating, but Businesses Don't Need to Worry Just YetEven JPMorgan Chase's CEO Jamie Dimon said the downgrade 'doesn't really matter that much.' by Melissa Angell on Inc.com, Aug. 3, 2023.
- Fitch downgrades U.S. long-term rating to AA+ from AAA by Darla Mercado on CNBC, Aug. 1, 2023
- Fitch downgrades Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac after US rating cut on Reuters, Aug. 2, 2023
presidential
- President_of_the_United_States_of_America/Related_Articles/Masterlist#List_of_Presidents_of_the_United_States_of_America
- John F. Kennedy/Related Articles
smart home
- Wireless mesh network
- Wireless ad hoc mesh network
- Z-Wave
- Apple Homekit
- Smart speakers (?)
Smart home: Refers to home automation devices that have internet access such as voice recognition (smart speakers), lighting, keyless door entry, security cameras, sensors (for temperature, motion, water, etc.), on/off switches, thermostats, streaming devices, smoke detectors, robotic vacuum cleaners, etc; home automation is a broader category that includes any device that can be monitored or controlled via wireless radio signals, not just those having internet access. [e]
- Philips Hue bridges originally use Zigbee Light Link and may have been upgraded, by now, to support Zigbee 3 (?). Philips Hue is committed to certify new products launched in 2018 using Zigbee 3.0 instead of Zigbee Light Link. Since Zigbee 3.0 is backwards compatible to Zigbee Light Link this change will not have an impact on the performance of the products. Philips Hue does not plan to software update our existing Philips Hue lights to be certifiable with Zigbee 3.0. Since Zigbee 3.0 is backwards compatible this does not cause any compatibility issues. Philips Hue does plan to software update the Philips Hue bridge 2.0 to be certifiable with Zigbee 3.0 during 2018.
Hitler : merge?
Adolf Hitler: (1889–1945) Politician in Germany; became 1921 Nazi Party leader, 1933 Reichskanzler (Chancellor), then 1934 as der Führer dictator before and during World War II. [e]
Historiography of Hitler: The approaches taken by historians and groups of historians in analyzing the life of Adolf Hitler [e]
Hitler and his youth: Ancestry, boyhood and adolescence of Adolf Hitler [e]
Political beginnings of Hitler: Adolf Hitler's 1919 entry into politics, his developing the Nazi Party and taking into government, and his negotiations before becoming Weimar Chancellor [e]
Hitler in Vienna: Adolf Hitler's formative years, between 1907 and 1913, in Vienna, Austria [e]
Hitler as soldier: Adolf Hitler's military service in World War I, and his postwar work for the Army that led him to the predecessors of the Nazi Party [e]
Hitler and his personal life: Adult friendships, possible sexuality and spirituality of Adolf Hitler [e]
Political beginnings of Hitler: Adolf Hitler's 1919 entry into politics, his developing the Nazi Party and taking into government, and his negotiations before becoming Weimar Chancellor [e]
Hitler as military leader: Background for, and direct decisions of, Adolf Hitler in military matters, 1938-1945 [e]
- Hitler Youth ------------------------------> Combine this into Nazi Party
Subtopics
- Heinrich Bruening: (1885-1970) Chancellor of Germany (Zentrum) (1930-1932) during the Weimar Republic; known as the "hunger chancellor" in dealing with economic crises [e]
Joseph Goebbels: German propaganda minister under Adolf Hitler; Gauleiter of Berlin (1929 - 1945) [e]
Alfred Hugenberg: (1865–1951) German publisher, financier and right-wing politician who co-founded the DNVP, help fund the early Nazis, went into coalition with them, but lost his power and publishing empire when they took control [e]
Paul von Hindenburg: (1847-1934) German Field Marshal in WWI, Chief of Staff and then Chief of the Army with Erich Ludendorff as principal deputy; told Wilhelm II he had to abdicate; President of Germany 1925-1934, replaced by Adolf Hitler only after death due to his popularity [e]
Otto Meissner: (1880-1953) Head of the Office of the President in the Weimar Republic, then a Minister without Portfolio when Adolf Hitler combined the President and Chancellor into the Fuehrer [e]
Franz von Papen: (1879 - 1969) Ex-Reichswehr, Catholic Center Party, Herrenklub, Chancellor (1932-33), Vice Chancellor; under house arrest during Night of the Long Knives; Ambassador to Austria before Anschluss; acquitted of war crimes in Nuremberg Trials [e]
Ernst Roehm: (1887-1934) Career military officer; early Nazi and closest friend of Adolf Hitler, and the operational leader, in the 1930s, of the Sturmabteilung ("Storm Troops"; “Brownshirts”, SA); revolutionary who emphasized socialism in National Socialism; purged and killed 1934, as part of the Night of the Long Knives [e]
Kurt von Schleicher: (1881-1934) WW1 Staff Officer, Reichswehr general, Chancellor of Germany (1932-33); killed, with his wife, during Night of the Long Knives Purge [e]
Gregor Strasser: (1892-1934), elder brother of Otto Strasser; leftist National Socialist, head of 1925 Political Organization) then rival of Adolf Hitler; WW1 officer, Gauleiter of Niederbayern-Oberpfalz (1925-1929), Reichsorganisationsleiter (1929-1932); killed during Night of the Long Knives [e]
Karl Doenitz: German naval officer who rose to head the submarine forces of Nazi Germany, then the overall naval command (Oberkommando der Marine), and was briefly Adolf Hitler's successor as President of the Reich. Sentenced to 10 years imprisonment by the International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg) [e]
- Nazism Subgroup
- Germany
- Weimar Republic
- Nazi Chancellery (disambiguation)
- Nazi Germany/Definition
- Nazi Party
- Nazi SS and military ranks/Definition
- Nazi concentration camps
- Nazi epidemic jaundice experiments
- Nazi euthanasia program
- Nazi racial and biological ideology
- SS
- Third Reich
- National-Socialist German Workers Party
- National Socialism
- Lebensborn
Pan-German nationalism: Add brief definition or description
- Antisemitism: Add brief definition or description
Related articles
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Major camps:
- Auschwitz Concentration Camp
- Auschwitz main concentration camp
- Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp
- Auschwitz-Monowitz Concentration Camp
- Buchenwald Concentration Camp
- Dachau Concentration Camp
- Majdanek Concentration Camp
- Treblinka Concentration Camp
Other Camps:
- Flossenburg Concentration Camp
- Mauthausen Concentration Camp
- Mauthausen-Gusen Concentration Camp
- Nordhausen Concentration Camp
WITH DEFINITIONS:
Auschwitz Concentration Camp: The largest Nazi death camp, in which more than two million people died, located in Poland; first commanded by Rudolf Hoess. [e]
- Auschwitz main concentration camp: Variously refers to the original camp, the overall direction of the three subcamps (Main or I, Auschwitz-II or Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, and Auschwitz-III or [[Auschwitz-Monowitz Concentration Camp}} [e]
Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp: An subcamp of Auschwitz Concentration Camp, also called Auschwitz II; principally for killing with Zyklon B but also for Nazi medical experiments [e]
Auschwitz-Monowitz Concentration Camp: A spinoff of Auschwitz Concentration Camp, also known as Auschwitz III, built primarily to provide slave labor to nearby I.G. Farben and other factories [e]
Perpetrators at Auschwitz:
Rudolf Hoess: (1900-1947) SS-Obersturmbannfuhrer; Commanded Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp (1938 -1940); first Commandant of Auschwitz Concentration Camp (4 May 1940 to 10 November 1943); testified extensively at the International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg); executed by a Polish court in 1947 [e]
- Arthur Liebehenschel: Add brief definition or description
- Richard Baer: Add brief definition or description
Other camps:
Buchenwald Concentration Camp: Add brief definition or description
Dachau Concentration Camp: Add brief definition or description
Flossenburg Concentration Camp: Add brief definition or description
- Mauthausen Concentration Camp: Add brief definition or description
- Mauthausen-Gusen Concentration Camp: Add brief definition or description
Nordhausen Concentration Camp: Add brief definition or description
Other:
World War I: Add brief definition or description
World War II: Add brief definition or description
- https://citizendium.org/wiki/Category:Citizendium_Subgroups
Fossil_fuel: Add brief definition or description
Executive Schedule (U.S. government): Add brief definition or description
- Cricket_(sport) - batsman, batsmen and batswoman/women --> batter
- also the associated Glossary of terms, but we could use an explanation for the change
Bill Clinton: Add brief definition or description
Panthera tigris (Tiger): Add brief definition or description
Jacques Goudstikker: Add brief definition or description
- Norway_Debate - rename? (see it's Talk page)
- Geothermal power
Martial arts: Add brief definition or description
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Add brief definition or description
- needs a lot of work
- 32 Names of Durga, Mantra, Markandeya Purana and Om Jayanti Maṅgalā Kālī
- Arizona_(U.S._state) needs more
- Manumatavai Tupou-Roosen practically unlinked to anything
- History_of_the_United_States_of_America/Related_Articles
- https://citizendium.org/wiki/index.php?title=Special:WhatLinksHere/New_York&limit=500 - pages that link to New York
- look at subpages of User:Daniel_Mietchen/Sandbox
- [[1]] - cities needing renaming
- United States of America/Related Articles
- All pages beginning with United States
- All pages beginning with U.S.
- Government_of_the_United_States_of_America/Related_Articles - listing the executive branch agencies (cabinet positions often at the head of each)
These still link to Delaware, preventing me from making Delaware (disambiguation).
- Thomas McKean --> this is a hot mess of bad, duplicated links
- John McKinly
- Caesar Rodney
- John Dickinson
- User talk:Jim Earl
These need to be reconciled and cleaned up:
- Florida (U.S. state) and Spanish Florida; main article needs work + merge Spanish Florida into it
- California, history (disambiguation) may not be helpful
states project
United_States_of_America/Catalogs/States_and_Territories
- rename
- fix links
- disambig page
- dambigbox on all links
- table contents
- info boxes?
articles from Wikipedia
Birth control article cluster needs major re-org
Contraception_(disambiguation)
- Birth control: Add brief definition or description - redirected
Contraception (medical methods): Add brief definition or description
Sterilization_(human,_elective_procedures): Add brief definition or description
Natural family planning: Add brief definition or description
Social:
Animals:
Another reorganization coming
If no one objects, I'm going to break this article into smaller articles. IUD's, birth control pills/patches, cervical caps, condoms, etc. each have a very different record of effectiveness, and I think the reader ought to be able to see clearly on the disambiguation page which methods are more vs. less effective. It's going to be a lot of work. And really, I think the top-level article ought to be called "birth control" and not "contraception". Why use a great big word that only doctors use, when the rest of the planet uses the everyday words? Maybe when this was all first written, people were trying to avoid controversy, but it can't be avoided. Let's just tell the facts, then separate out the controversy part into separate articles or at least sections.Pat Palmer (talk) 12:13, 22 January 2023 (CST)
- In the process of doing this, it means this article will need to be "unapproved", which in a way is a shame, because the bulk of the information has not changed. But I don't agree with having all these many different medical approaches lumped into one article; it's a disservice to women, who cannot quickly and easily decide which topic they want to read about but are instead exhausted with a deluge of technical information. Thus, I will "unapprove" this article, not because it's out of date per see, but because I don't agree with the structure.Pat Palmer (talk) 12:16, 22 January 2023 (CST)
ordering
- create a draft of a new version of Birth control intended to be the top level article
- what needs to be disambiguate, and why?
- break the unapproved Contraception (medical methods) into its constituent parts, with a good opener and /Definition for each part showing the effectiveness of that method
- work in Abortion (which itself is lame right now) somewhere
- create a separate article about "the abortion pill" or (is it distinct?) "the morning after pill", including efficacy, politics and availability struggles
Pages with Reference errors
Templates to study
To read (policy)
- CZ:Managing_Editor/2013/001_–_Modifying_the_Functionality_and_Policy_of_Signed_Articles
- CZ:Naming_conventions
Examples
- Civil_society: Add brief definition or description
- admin info at bottom about subpages morrass
Flue_gas_desulfurization: Add brief definition or description
- See section on "Facts and Statistics" for how to give open credit
Solomon_Islands: Add brief definition or description
- REFERENCES DONE WELL with named {{cite}} templates
Papacy: Add brief definition or description
- Redirection: #REDIRECT [[Papacy]]
Hilary_Davidson_(historian): Add brief definition or description
- uses the tweet template
United States of America: Add brief definition or description
- example of expandable / collapsible element
Move for disambig
- Penguin
- Thomas Jackson and disambiguation (see its Discussion page)
- And now, Michael Brown (youth)/Definition and Michael Brown (youth) won't do either
- Also, John_Shaw
- Bruce_Jackson
- Gary Schmitt
- Richard Perle
- Bruce Jackson/Definition
- Lisa_Jackson
- Frederick_Jackson_Turner
- Sheila Jackson-Leev
- Jesse Jackson, Jr.
- Jackson Street Railway
- Michael Jackson/Definition
- Charles Gittins
- Vanessa Guillen
- Benjamin B. Dailey
- Mike Cabana
- Henry Larsen
- Norman Lubbock Robinson
articles maybe to rename
- George_Farmer
- John_Mark_Dougan and Maxim Grigoriev and Daria_Dugina
- Kiva_Reardon simple name as title
- Curtis Dagenais another murderer article
- Mohamed Abdulkarim Ali
- Bright Leaves needs TLC
- Shannon Bohle also still designated as "from WP"
duplicate articles now exist about the Bright Leaves documentary film
Please see the note at Talk:Bright_Leaves. Of the two articles, Bright Leaves and Bright Leaves (documentary), please tell me which to keep and which to delete. And after that's done, I think the one that remains should be Bright Leaves (documentary), with Bright Leaves being a redirect to Bright Leaf (disambiguation).Pat Palmer (talk) 14:52, 21 December 2022 (CST)
consider Bot Ton for deletion
Hi George, I see you created Bon_Ton here 6 months ago and gave it {{WPattribution}}, but nothing links to it, nor does it say you wrote it yourself. Thus, I propose deleting it. Please let me know if there is some reason it should NOT be deleted. I'm trying to clear out things from Wikipedia that are not in the act of being improved. If you wrote it over in WP, please make a note on the Talk page here and let me know. Pat Palmer (talk) 13:15, 27 December 2022 (CST)
Kali mantra
DEVI ARGALĀ STOTRAM Hymn to Goddess to Remove Impediments From the Devī Mahātmyam [Mārkendeya Purana]
Kalika Mantra, below -- that is a wonderful mantra for the first three days of Navatri. Helps to clear out the old, transform whatever muck lies in the subconscious, and integrate all aspects of our being -- even those aspects we try hard to pretend are not there. It makes space for the new, unveils our beautiful inner light, and supports our evolution, as individuals and as a community!
With love, and prayers for all good things, Ananya
Om Jayanti Mangalā Kālī Bhadra Kālī Kapālinī Durgā Kshamā Śivā Dhātrī Svāhā Svadhā Namostute
From WP: (Kali article)
Kali could be considered a general concept, like Durga, and is primarily worshiped in the Kali Kula sect of worship. The closest way of direct worship is Maha Kali or Bhadrakali (Bhadra in Sanskrit means 'gentle'). Kali is worshiped as one of the 10 Mahavidya forms of Adi Parashakti. One mantra for worship to Kali is:[32]
सर्वमङ्गलमाङ्गल्ये शिवे सर्वार्थसाधिके । शरण्ये त्र्यम्बके गौरि नारायणि नमोऽस्तु ते ॥ ॐ जयंती मंगला काली भद्रकाली कपालिनी । दुर्गा क्षमा शिवा धात्री स्वाहा स्वधा नमोऽस्तुते ॥
Sarvamagalamāgalyē śivē sarvārthasādhikē. Śaraṇyē tryambakē Gauri nārāyaṇi namō'stu tē. Oṃ jayantī mangala kālī bhadrakālī kapālinī . Durgā kṣamā śivā dhātrī svāhā svadhā namō'stutē.
In fact, chanting of Mahishasura Mardhini is a daily ritual in all Hindu Bengali homes especially during Navratri / Durga Pujo as it is called.[citation needed]
The chant of the first chapter of Durga Saptashati is considered a very important hymn to Sri Mahakali as Devi Mahatmyam / Durga Saptashati dates back to the Upanishadic Era of Indological literature.
Maintenance
Of Mice and Men: Add brief definition or description
California (U.S. state): Add brief definition or description
- Related Articles
Civil Rights Movement: Add brief definition or description
Troy (ancient city): Add brief definition or description
Ivy_League: Add brief definition or description
- Odyssey AND Odysseus - duplicative, only one links to Ithaca; both linked TO
- Ithaca, New York - needs a better image; also, links to above, which might need renaming
- Cornell_University - needs subpages and fleshing out a bit
- Finger Lakes region - needed
- Bureau_of_European_and_Eurasian_Affairs/Related_Articles - delete all those? add more and enhance?
- Fokker and Anthony Fokker, little linked; Fokker needs renaming or something
- Harold Denny is unlinked
- write an article on ESPN diversity problems, and maybe, Rachel Nichols incident?
- North American Newspaper Alliance needs references and more work
- Jèrriais - unlinked, and questionable name
- is it really a romance "language"? or just a dialect?
- Juneau (disambiguation) is sparse
- URGENTLY NEED TO BRING THIS UP TO DATE: Wikipedia
- California,_history_to_1845/Related_Articles - add bot-suggested to top, and organize it
- Philia (Aristotle's philosophy) - Aristotle does not even link to it
- PMID and PubMed could use cleanup and maybe consolidation
- Essential_oils - WP import with many problems
- Privacy Act of 1974 needs the amendments clarified
- CZ cleanup
- mantras
- Plain Folk of the Old South
- Ashram_system, Mysticism, Faith healing, Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
- turn Patriot_Act (now empty and status "from WP") into a real stub
Jan_Mayen: Add brief definition or description
- Mohamed_Abdulkarim_Ali
- on CZ:Workgroups, how to add yourself as Editor or Author, and when to do either
- Mariana_Vishegirskaya
- move Andrea Pitzer to Andrea Pitzer (journalist), or maybe just delete it
- Molten_chloride_fast_reactor/Definition has no definition
- Plural could use new attention
- Connect of combine Smog with Urban heat island - see also German "DunstGlocke"
- https://citizendium.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Fahrenheit
- Rock music/Catalogs/Rock bands, Rock music/Catalogs and Rock music
- Fast_neutron_reactor - D. MacQuigg
- no subpages, and external links right in the article; WP attribution at top (move to bottom?)
- [2]
- President_of_the_United_States_of_America#Admin:_subpages_of_this_article
- check out the Master List subpage, work with it, figure out how to incorporate it?
Germany: Add brief definition or description
- needs stats update with references; also bibliography recheck
- and is there section on reunification?
- needs stats update with references; also bibliography recheck
New York, New York: Add brief definition or description
- has ref error(s)
Buddhism in the United States: Add brief definition or description
Anti-spam techniques: Add brief definition or description
- links twice directly to Wikipedia; maybe just delete the whole thing?
0 (number): Add brief definition or description
Zero (mathematics): Add brief definition or description
- Association/Definition
- also Association and its messy disambiguation page
- Cleanliness and its unruly, unlinked subpages
- Cholera has subtle ref error; how to reuse a ref with different page number?
- See also Bone_tools
- Tennessee/Related_Articles is a hot mess
- Kansas
- needs Kansas (disambiguation) and Kansas (state), with all links to it fixed
- existing pages beginning with Kansas: Special:PrefixIndex/Kansas
- Special:WhatLinksHere/Conjunction
- Conjunction_(logical_and): Add brief definition or description
- needs subpages template
- Kansas City (metropolitan area): Add brief definition or description
- Kansas City, Kansas: Add brief definition or description
- Kansas City, Missouri: Add brief definition or description
- see list of cities at Federal_Reserve_System#The_Federal_Reserve_Banks
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge: Add brief definition or description
- add writing samples of the matters mentioned in the description
Rainer Maria Rilke: Add brief definition or description
- add the 5 main works
- Inferno_(disambiguation) needs work
- Inferno (novel) needs renaming
- Chicago (disambiguation): Add brief definition or description
- Life
- For additional uses of the word Life, see Life (disambiguation); see User:Pat_Palmer/sandbox/Life_disambig_from_WP
- rename John_Baker to John_Baker (slave) or some such
- Civil society
- Civil society: Add brief definition or description
- CZ:Introduction_to_CZ_for_Wikipedians - needs rescue
Home-based records: Add brief definition or description
- should be moved to Personal Health Record
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK557757/
African American: Add brief definition or description
Atlanta, Georgia: Add brief definition or description
- should be moved to Toronto, Ontario prolly
- Kansas City (disambiguation)
Major League Baseball: Add brief definition or description
Mayor Thomas D'Alesandro Jr. (fireboat): Add brief definition or description
- look at Metadata of above
Moss Park (Toronto): Add brief definition or description
Arthur_Wellesley,_1st_Duke_of_Wellington: Add brief definition or description
Academy: Add brief definition or description might ought to be a disambig page instead
Phoenix, Arizona: Add brief definition or description
Rebecca_Gordon: Add brief definition or description
Red dwarf (star): Add brief definition or description
Slavery_in_Canada: Add brief definition or description
Turkey: Add brief definition or description
- above needs disambig and other things, see Talk:Turkey
- PLACEHOLDER: rpl template above this line
- CZ:We_aren't_Wikipedia and Wikipedia's We aren't Citizendium
- input box to make a template
- check out the rest of the articles listed at User_talk:George_Swan#articles_about_living_people_known_to_the_public
- [[File:SaraMoonvesWMagazine.jpg]] - license?
need subpages
- Michael Patrick Mulroy
- Duchy_of_Normandy: Add brief definition or description
E. J. White: Add brief definition or description
- need subpages and maybe renaming
- George_R._Ariyoshi: Add brief definition or description
ToDo items and notes
- Hakeem Jeffries
Academy_of_Natural_Sciences_of_Drexel_University: Add brief definition or description
American Civil War: Add brief definition or description
- nominated by Pat Palmer, 12/28/2021
- written and revised by a variety of authors; see Talk page; removed from Ready to Read
- work on headers, generally needs updating
- see Peter Jackson's comments at bottom of its Discussion page
Antonin Wagner (sociologist): Add brief definition or description
- shorten the definition
- Boat_nerd: Add brief definition or description
- prolly needs renaming
Bug_(software): Add brief definition or description
- above could use some fleshing out; the WP version is IMO overkill
- Concentration camp: Add brief definition or description
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Conjunction (grammar): Add brief definition or description
- semantics
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- Hydrogen_fusion: Add brief definition or description
John Keats: Add brief definition or description
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Knee-on-neck_restraint: Add brief definition or description
- see Discussion page on above article
Marbles: Add brief definition or description
- maybe move and disambiguate
- Message (disambiguation): Add brief definition or description
Nancy_Pelosi: Add brief definition or description
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Pali: An ancient Indic language from the Indian subcontinent, closely related to Sanskrit, in which the Pali Canon is written. [e]
- references for the three different grammarians
Panis: Add brief definition or description
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- above: is messy (and lacks a Definition page)
Phycology Section of the Patrick Center for Environmental Research: Add brief definition or description
Poverty: Add brief definition or description
Prime_Minister_of_the_United_Kingdom: Add brief definition or description
Queen Street (Toronto): Add brief definition or description
- cross-link, maybe, with Moss Park station or maybe Moss Park (Toronto)
Rainer Maria Rilke: Add brief definition or description
Regards ring: Add brief definition or description
- merge into Ring (jewellery) or Ring (disambiguation)
- Ring (disambiguation): Add brief definition or description
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Ruth Patrick: Add brief definition or description
Shabdrung_Ngawang_Namgyal: Add brief definition or description
- above: headers need fixing?; check in WP, check sources
Shortest_path_routing: Add brief definition or description
- above getting some hits around end of 2021
- Signal (disambiguation): Add brief definition or description - needs a lot of fleshing out
Slavery in Canada: Add brief definition or description
- Sonnets to Orpheus: Add brief definition or description
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- ABOVE ALPHABETIZED
Alaric A. Piette: Add brief definition or description
John Baker: Add brief definition or description
High Arctic Haulers: Add brief definition or description
Curtis_Dagenais: Add brief definition or description
- above: another killer article brought from WP by GS
Monitor_theory: Add brief definition or description
- above mostly by John S., this also got search engine hits around the end of 2021
Dimorphos: Add brief definition or description
- above needs its references fixed (and message Mark)
Thorstein Veblen: Add brief definition or description
Oswald Veblen: Add brief definition or description
Metadata: Add brief definition or description
The elimination of metaphysics: Add brief definition or description
- consider what to do with this, if anything; it got search engine hits around the end of 2021
- What_is_language?: Add brief definition or description
- in parallel with Language (general)
Zophar Mills (fireboat): Add brief definition or description
- PLACEHOLDER: rpl template above this line
- House_of_Commons_(United_Kingdom)/Catalogs/Political_parties - maybe move or rename; used in various pages as a resource
- Nellie_Bly - ship needs disambig and renaming; also definition and change link on Fireboat/Related Articles
- Fireboat and 9-11 Attack would benefit from some TLC
- Fireboat/Related_Articles - list needs completing; and, article naming convention needs to be applied
- Roy S. Kelley - fireboat, needs subpages
- Procedural programming language could use links to it from Stack frame, Stack and other prog. lang. articles
- Charles Eymundson needs fleshing out; what three books did he write?
- Ursa Major and Ursa Minor - Definitions and Related_Articles are screwed up for both articles
- Rebecca_Gordon - needs stuff
- Small,_Stupid_and_Insignificant film
- USCGC_Joseph_Gerczak
- Social_legislation_(U.S.) - see Related Articles (ERA)
- The_Elder_Scrolls - orig. from WP in 2009; remove?
- Fireboats_of_Duluth - should this even be an article?
- Scientific_visualization and Data visualisation - merge?
- Need to complete update of CZ:Active_Users and get emails for all of these
- Save a copy of MediaWiki:Common.js somewhere
- User:Howard_Arvi_Hughes/Pictures_to_be_deleted
- Forum_Talk:Technical_Issues#Google_Search - look into this
- Schloss Neunhof - barely more than a stub
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugeilio%27r_Gwenith_Gwyn - rather poor
- (Redirected from Watching the white wheat)
- Bugeilio'r Gwenith Gwyn
- Breathwork - needs subpages, a definition, a bit more
- i.e., holotropic breathwork (Google it)
- CZ:Personnel - needs some cleanup
- CZ:Friends_of_Citizendium
- Deus ex machina
- Relative_volatility
- Probability_blindness - was this in the Kahnemann book?
- evaluate Prince_Philip,_Duke_of_Edinburgh for "Ready for Read" list
- Gutenberg_(disambiguation)
- Keats's_poems_of_1820
- Jane Austen
- Charcoal
- Numismatics - possible new article
- Medieval_English_Mystics
- Tennessee
- could use a list of ship, or lists or different kinds of ships; who can I ask?
- Christian Science
- USS_Wakefield_(AP-21) - do something with the testimony at the top
- Fix this link to look better and open in a new tab: https://en.citizendium.org/wiki/USS_Wakefield_(AP-21)/External_Links
- Should we disambiguate Endemic_species from Endemic disease?
- Galaxy
- Andromeda Galaxy vs. Milky Way - naming convention?
- New General Catalogue
- Constellation
- Titania, Oberon and Titan - disambig the latter?
- are Titania and Titan related?
- there is a grammatical ambiguity in Titan_(mythology) and its definition; research to resolve
- Per WP: the fairy queen has no name; Shakespeare took the name "Titania" from Ovid's Metamorphoses, where it is an appellation given to the daughters of Titans
- Per WP: In a Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare altered the spelling of Auberon (King of the fairies) to Oberon
High Priority
COVID-19: Add brief definition or description
Digital library: Add brief definition or description
- has undesirable direct external link; also just a stub
Pali_Text_Society: A registered charity in the United Kingdom, founded in 1881 to foster and promote the study of Pali texts. [e] - revise sections?
Ptolemy: Add brief definition or description
- needs disambig
- The_Idler_(disambiguation): Add brief definition or description
- User:Michael_J._Formica and Buddha
- Government_of_the_United_States_of_America is a hot mess; I think I can do better
- https://en.citizendium.org/wiki/CZ:FAQ shows up in Google! REVISION NEEDED
- Nonprofit_corporation - read this!
Football_to_1900: Add brief definition or description
- history? maybe could benefit from some images
Medium Priority
- https://en.citizendium.org/wiki/CZ:Why_Citizendium%3F
- search on "science fiction magazine"
- search on "anglo saxons"
- ZRRIFLE either needs refs or must be removed
- Andromeda Galaxy and Milky Way - naming conventions?
- Planet
- Orbit
To do, interests, bookmarks
Cryptography
HB stuff to check
- Signals intelligence collection, ship-based
- Signals intelligence before the Second World War
- Signals intelligence from 1954 to 1979
- Snake oil (cryptography)
- CZ:Security_Subgroup
- Talk:Cryptanalysis/Draft
Computers
- IoT (Internet of Things)
- Ajax
- Algorithm is in pretty bad shape
- BIOS and EFI, and the related IBM_compatible_PC - BIOS need work, urgently
- Boolean algebra - see the ref in History section; how does it work??
- Byte needs to spawn other articles (and thus be shortened)
- Closure
- Email system
- From User:David MacQuigg https://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Talk:Email_system/Draft is the plan for the cluster of articles as whole
- He also wrote: "Looks to me like this basic structure is still valid. Some of the subtopics, like SenderID, may be no longer needed, Others, like Authentication Methods could be greatly expanded. The one thing I would most like to retain is a clear separation between the overview article Email Systems, and the technical details in the subtopic articles. I am open to suggestions on what should be added or deleted in the overview."
- Convergence of communications
- Military Intelligence Program
- National Security Agency and Southeast Asia, 1954-1961
- Cryptome
- Stafford Tavares and cryptographer
- Cryptography in 2008 draft mostly by me before others came in
- One-way encryption - I contributed most or all of this (but it overlaps same content in Cryptography
- Two-way encryption
- Revision as of 03:53, 20 January 2008 by Pat Palmer (Talk | contribs | block) (→Private-key encryption: grammar) (diff) ← Older revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)
- https://en.citizendium.org/wiki?title=Cryptography&oldid=100254226
- See also the discussion at User_talk:Sandy_Harris#Revoke_some_approvals_that_are_perhaps_questionable.3F
- Cryptography and Cryptographer
- https://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Category:Security_Subgroup
- Asymmetric_key_cryptography
- Symmetric_key_cryptography
- Tactical_and_Technical_Intelligence_Subcommittee
- Operations security
- Standards:
- Advanced Encryption Standard
- Data Encryption Standard
- RSA algorithm and various related topics
- Plaintext
- Alice and Bob
- Paul and Carole/Definition
- Active attack
- Passive attack
- Operations security
- Ciphertext
- Cypherpunk
- Cryptology
- Alice and Bob
- Cipher
- Cryptanalysis
- Cryptographic key
- Steganography
- NOTE: Go through all the articles and compile a list of related topics, some of which need to be combined, or at least reorganized; it's a hot mess right now
- Design_pattern_(disambiguation)
- various design patterns probably need their own article
- ECMAscript or JavaScript
- History of computing - I want to restore the Strowger switch sections of this history ( http://en.citizendium.org/wiki?title=History_of_computing&oldid=100104262#Strowger_switch_and_telephone_dialing_.28.7E1920.29 ) to the timeline, now that the persons who deleted it (over my loud protests) have left the project; making a note to remind myself to go back and do it
- And while I'm at it, I might also restore my totally crushed (but formerly lucid) sections to Cryptography, especially those on one-way vs. two-way, after they were inundated in ununderstandable verbiage by a certain pushy author/editor no longer with the project; sigh
- IBM PC and related articles
- IEEE and ACM
- Java_(programming_language)/Related_Articles
- NoSQL
- Operating system could use updating; e.g., adding mobile phone OS list
- REST - article does not even exist yet
- Remote Procedure Call and RPC - these formerly existed; what happened? Can they be found again?
- SOA exists, but not Service Oriented Architecture (needs to exist and be redirected, maybe)
- SOAP: need to disambiguate SOAP (protocol) from SOAP (encoding), and perhaps other definitions of "soap"
- Software engineering
- Service_Oriented_Architecture_/_Service_Orientation sometime very soon.
- see Ajax for an example of how to disambiguate
- Web services or SOA
- World Wide Web - start article on RIA (see "Web 2.0" at bottom ?
- XML, HTML5, HTML and XHTML all could use some TLC
Disambig
- Rook (chess) and Rook (card game); maybe also the bird (?); Rookery?
- staff (music, as in 'abc notation') vs. staff (military)
- CZ:List_of_words_with_multiple_uses - disambiguation articles (complex style)
- CZ:Disambiguation
- CZ:Proposals/Disambiguation_mechanics
To work on:
- Phoneme
- Nebula Awards and Hugo Awards - possibly
- Organizer
- South Pacific
- Theatre (disambiguation) - also AE vs BE spellings
- Email (per User:Roger A. Lohmann, who wrote: "There is a lot of very interesting and useful history here, but there also seems to be a lot of overlap in the various articles. This could be a major project for someone...A quick search of the key term (and variable spellings) identified these major pages (there are dozens of others (related pages, bibs, redirects, definitions, etc.) The numbers in parenthesis after each term are the listed word lengths."
- Email (2758)
- Email abuse (92)
- Email agents (524)
- Email authentication (822)
- Email forwarding problem (610)
- Email gray listing (22)
- Email history (730)
- Email security (2320)
- Email spoofing (redirect)
- Email system (1673)
- Email user programs (39)
- E-mail (redirect)
- E-mail spoofing (124)
- Phishing (1975)
- Spam (e-mail) (541)
- Webmail (definition) (23)
General
- Railway_history#Geographic_histories
- it's links and related articles are a mess
- Santa_Fe_de-Luxe - add to U. S. railway history
- Special:Contributions/Phil_Hermanns
- all the articles he created need subpages
- need an over-article Realism that disambiguates to various fields
- need Realism (literature)
- Rivers in N America - catalog?
- https://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Dublin/Catalogs/Suburbs is a Dublin orphan of some sort
- Abc_(music_notation) needs an update (use my workshop notes from last fall); brought over from WP on 8/18/08 and completely overhauled by me
- Association_(disambiguation) - business? non-profit?
- Automobile - for the "See Also" box in the History section
- Bell Laboratories - needed
- Brittany
- British_Islands/Related_Articles
- Coal mining - I helped start this article, and it could probably use yet more attention
- Cruise_book - Catherine Jie Brown?
- DNA - look at the text of the disclaimer on the Editable version
- Einstein biographies - is there a list?
- Ellen Gates Starr - needs images
- Exile_on_Main_St - music album
- Fur_trade - redirect, and partially moved to User:Russell_D._Jones/Fur_trade
- Bibliography, Related articles and other subpages (and metadata?) possibly left orphaned
- Greek_alphabet - compare to WP? still flagged as almost identical, though it's probably now vastly worse
- Grounds_for_Sculpture needs fleshing out; it is still a stub. Can I recruit a local friend to work on this?
- Khost and Khost Province
- Jo Davidson (sculptor) sculptor (now just a stub)
- Joe Biden
- Johannes_Gutenberg - link Computers to Printing press
- Korea - Ron Stevenson?
- Lincoln biographies - is there a list?
- Military doctrine (Howard) and Military strategy (Mietchen) - are these parallel?
- Pi_(Greek_letter) - and Princeton's Pi Day
- President_of_the_United_States_of_America
- Project_Gutenberg
- Proof_(mathematics) - for Mark?
- Reading and Speed reading - possibly need to be combined
- Richard Stallman
- Roman Emperor
- Rosetta_Stone
- Spanish missions in California
- virus or viruses (computer vs. biological or medical) disambiguation needed (see Ajax for example)
- Volleyball
Religion, Spiritualism, etc
- Hebrew_Bible
- Hebrew language
- move External Links to the tab
- Herodotus - diff from WP
- Pali Text Society
- Puritanism and not Puritan
- Quakers - could use major work
- sin - add something to the Talk page(?) about how Buddhism has a similar concept (so-call karmic actions, which can include thoughts and intentions as well as speech or actions; in fact, the intention behind acts changes the seriousness of an act, according to the writings in the Pali Canon); could make for an interesting article in the future, if I could gather my thought
- Swami Rama - Andrea S.?
Eduzendium articles 2009
Group 1 - article: Mashup
- User:Anita_Banser - Special:Contributions/Anita_Banser
- User:Oluwabusola_Oladapo - Special:Contributions/Oluwabusola_Oladapo
Group 2 - article: Online document services, including Google_Docs_vs._Microsoft_Word
- User:Roopkumar_Kalimuthu - Special:Contributions/Roopkumar_Kalimuthu
- User:Gaurav_Banga - Special:Contributions/Gaurav_Banga
- User:Youjun_Wang - Special:Contributions/Youjun_W
Group 3 - article: speech recognition
- User:Samuel_C._Smith - Special:Contributions/Samuel_C._Smith
- User:Sean_Plankey - Special:Contributions/Sean_Plankey
- User:Nora Apsel - Special:Contributions/Nora Apsel
Group 4 - article: Online dating and possibly several smaller, related articles as needed
- User:Anas Faisal - Special:Contributions/Anas Faisal
- User:Joshua_Beckerman - Special:Contributions/Joshua_Beckerman
- User:Suva Shrestha - Special:Contributions/Suva Shrestha
Group 5 - article: Digital Rights Management (DRM)
- User:Ryan Tarrant - Special:Contributions/Ryan Tarrant
- User:Luke_Cheng - Special:Contributions/Luke_Cheng
- User:Anthony_Schreiner - Special:Contributions/Anthony_Schreiner
Group 6 - article: Adaptive learning (forwarded from Intelligent tutoring)
- User:Brian Caputo - Special:Contributions/Brian Caputo
- User:Yitzchak_Novick - Special:Contributions/Yitzchak_Novick
- User:Chad_Jackson - Special:Contributions/Chad_Jackson
Group 7 - article: Web browser media plugins, in particular Silverlight vs. Flash
- User:Paul Nikolas Phoa - Special:Contributions/Paul Nikolas Phoa
- User:Ziang Song - Special:Contributions/Ziang Song
- User:Ganggang_Hu - Special:Contributions/Ganggang_Hu
Group 8 - article: Google Android, plus a brief introductory article: Smartphone and enhancements to existing article IPhone
- User:Geraud_Campion - Special:Contributions/Geraud_Campion
- User:Surya_D._Bhattacharyya - Special:Contributions/Surya_D._Bhattacharyya
- User:Ashwath_Ravichandran - Special:Contributions/Ashwath_Ravichandran
Group 9 - articles: Ajax and Ajax framework
- User:Dhawal_Sehgal - Special:Contributions/Dhawal_Sehgal
- User:Michael_Bonanno - Special:Contributions/Michael_Bonanno
- User:Abhinav_Gaiha - Special:Contributions/Abhinav_Gaiha
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about Paris, Tennessee
- Her Family Owned Slaves; How Can She Make Amends?
- Confederate Statue vs. Black Troops statue in Franklin, TN Oct 2021
- https://www.payscale.com/research/US/Location=Paris-TN/Salary
- https://www.payscale.com/about
- The Chickasaw Nation: A Short Sketch of a Noble People
- by James H. Malone
- John P. Morton & Company, Inc.
- Louisville, KY 192
- SEARCH on ""Paris Tennessee map" in Wikimedia Commons, can download entire PDF history books
about slavery
- HRK, who lives out of his car a lot and moves about from place to place, was backpacking in 2020 out West as he does every summer. He made it to Utah, but before that, for my amusement, he stopped over in Paris, Idaho, and sent me a bunch of photos of that place, which is actually quite interesting. From those photos, I got to reading about Paris, Idaho (small, unincorporated), which was founded by a Mormon named Charles Coulson Rich. He was born in Kentucky and after converting to Mormonism, tried living for a while in Missouri. And then the local population in Missouri fought a war (okay, illegally and unsanctioned, but not hindered either) to drive Mormons out of Missouri. The local non-Mormon population really got riled with hatred of the Mormons, possibly because their daughters were in danger of being married off to a Mormon extended family. After being chased out of Missouri, Rich and friends tried to go to Utah and make that place pretty much their own. But they accidentally founded Paris over in Idaho because nobody knew in those days exactly where the state line was. Charles Coulson Rich, this highly successful early Mormon who had six wives, also owned, as it turned out, six slaves--which might be another reason people in Missouri were trying to drive the Mormons out. I hadn't realize how much violence was against the Mormons back in the 1800's. And Mormonism itself is such a mixed bag of Goodness and Badness, with the polygamy thing being again both good and bad. And these ultra religious ultra righteous seeming folks owned slaves. Yep, it's a huge mess. [ I emailed this to Randall in 2020 ]
- The following is from Petra Vaughn's Facebook post on Sept. 22, 2020
“In 1866, one year after the 13 Amendment was ratified (the amendment that ended slavery), Alabama, Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi, Florida, Tennessee, and South Carolina began to lease out convicts for labor (peonage). This made the business of arresting Blacks very lucrative, which is why hundreds of White men were hired by these states as police officers. Their primary responsibility was to search out and arrest Blacks who were in violation of Black Codes. Once arrested, these men, women and children would be leased to plantations where they would harvest cotton, tobacco, sugar cane. Or they would be leased to work at coal mines, or railroad companies. The owners of these businesses would pay the state for every prisoner who worked for them; prison labor. It is believed that after the passing of the 13th Amendment, more than 800,000 Blacks were part of the system of peonage, or re-enslavement through the prison system. Peonage didn’t end until after World War II began, around 1940.
The 13th Amendment declared that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." (Ratified in 1865) Lawmakers used this phrase to make petty offenses crimes. When Blacks were found guilty of committing these crimes, they were imprisoned and then leased out to the same businesses that lost slaves after the passing of the 13th Amendment. This system of convict labor is called peonage.
The majority of White Southern farmers and business owners hated the 13th Amendment because it took away slave labor. As a way to appease them, the federal government turned a blind eye when southern states used this clause in the 13th Amendment to establish laws called Black Codes. Here are some examples of Black Codes:
- In Louisiana, it was illegal for a Black man to preach to Black congregations without special permission in writing from the president of the police. If caught, he could be arrested and fined. If he could not pay the fines, which were unbelievably high, he would be forced to work for an individual, or go to jail or prison where he would work until his debt was paid off.
- If a Black person did not have a job, he or she could be arrested and imprisoned on the charge of vagrancy or loitering.
- In South Carolina, if the parent of a Black child was considered vagrant, the judicial system allowed the police and/or other government agencies to “apprentice” the child to an "employer". Males could be held until the age of 21, and females could be held until they were 18. Their owner had the legal right to inflict punishment on the child for disobedience, and to recapture them if they ran away.
This (peonage) is an example of systemic racism - Racism established and perpetuated by government systems. Slavery was made legal by the U.S. Government. Segregation, Black Codes, Jim Crow and peonage were all made legal by the government, and upheld by the judicial system. These acts of racism were built into the system, which is where the term “Systemic Racism” is derived.
sources
- http://paristn.gov/visitors/activities-and-events/worlds-biggest-fish-fry/ history of Mule Day and Fish Fry as now told
- https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_MANUSCRIPTS/tennessee/henryTN1925/Soil_map.pdf (1925 soil map online - contours, waterways also there
- Google '"Paris, TN" history'
- Google "Geology of Sulfur Well, Henry County TN"
- population profile data
- Henry Co population history
- History of Lee School
- School Desegregationin Tennessee 2008
- PDF contains extensive history of school segregation in the state
- Henry Co Web Archives
- https://textarchive.ru/c-2650048-pall.html (can order the following docs from)
- https://archive.org/details/populationschedu1282unix
- Population schedules of the eighth census of the United States, 1860, Tennessee [microform] including slave schedules
- African Amer Geneology has link to:
- Slaves in Henry County, TN with names of owners from wills 1848-1864 on ancestry.com
- Online book fr UTX: The Negro in Tennessee, 1790-1865 - sad, important; published in 1922, author Caleb Perry Patterson (prof. of government, UTexas)
- Capitol Theater - this was around during my childhood
- scroll an inch from the bottom, and there is a personal testimony about segregation back in the day: edalch on January 27, 2014 at 3:00 pm wrote:
- In the two pictures I posted, there are the main doors to the left of the box office. In those days, the 50s and 60s, white patrons used those doors to enter the theater and were seated on the ground floor. Black patrons, because of segregation, were forced to use the doors to the right of the box office, and to sit in the balcony.
- scroll an inch from the bottom, and there is a personal testimony about segregation back in the day: edalch on January 27, 2014 at 3:00 pm wrote:
- https://www.radionwtn.com/2020/02/20/gray-to-speak-about-local-integration/
- here was a DAR meeting in Feb. 2020 where Barbara Tharpe Gray spoke about school integration
- Vocational school "TN College of Applied Tech"
- list of public schools now and their grade levels
- PARIS, TN: Former Lee school building gets name change Aug 28, 2020
- Robert E. Lee School (Paris, Tennessee) in Wikipedia
- Arts and Heritage page by Chamber of Commerce
- Landmark Hunter listings for Henry Co., TN
- History of Paris Special School District (since 1919)
- 8-577 Geology of Sulfur Well, Henry County TN
- http://friendsnas.org/findingAids/rg142-890185.html
- TVA Project Histories and Reports
archaeology
- [https://capone.mtsu.edu/kesmith/TNARCH/CRITA/CRITA_Abstracts.html
- Bissett, Thaddeus (University of Tennessee, Knoxville). 2013. RE-ASSESSING BIG SANDY, AN EARLY MIDDLE ARCHAIC SHELL MIDDEN IN HENRY COUNTY, TENNESSEE. Big Sandy was one of several Archaic shell middens excavated in the lower Tennessee Valley during the Great Depression. In the decades since, it has been mostly relegated to footnote status, but recent work suggests that Big Sandy is unique among Middle Archaic shell-bearing sites in the Midsouth. New radiocarbon dates and analyses of artifacts and original field documentation indicate that intact strata at the site (previously thought to represent sequential occupations) were in fact contemporaneous, and that Big Sandy contains clear evidence for both residential occupation and an associated, but spatially segregated, cemetery during the early Middle Archaic period.
intro ideas
The history of this town and this county is missing. Oh, we know a few random facts, but most of what heppened in the past has been deliberately forgotten, not recorded, actively discouraged from being talked about, or plain old ignored. And that ignoring happened so consistently that most of it can now no longer be recovered. Still, I want to try to find out what there is that can still be determined. Because without knowing what was, we're basically living a kind of lie, that pretends that things in the past were okay, things in the present are okay, and things in the future will be okay without our needing to make any course corrections.
It's not just this town and this county where that happened. It happened in lots of towns and counties all over the country, and nowhere was history buried and forgotten and glossed over more fully, with more active enthusiasm, than in the Southern United States.
In American, the history of racism is taught like this: "There was slavery and then there was Jim Crow and then there was Martin Luther King Jr. and now it's done." (from Trevor Noah's "Born a Crime", p. 183)
notes
NOTES for this article: (I *think* from the Van Dyke article, but must verify all facts)
- even before the Civil War, there were pockets of free negroes in the county
- 1/2 the population were slaves before the war (?)
- 33% of the local farms had slaves
- tobacco and cotton farm work were almost all done by slaves
- by 1860: $5,000,000 of slaves were in Henry Co.
- Nat Turner insurrection (Aug 31 - what year?)
- 1855: first bank
- 1825: first Masonic Lodge #55
- 3 general stores, 3 hotels, courthouse
- "Free and Accepted Masons" #108 in 1845 #96, #130 (???)
- 1833: 800 people; 12 lawyers, 12 doctors, 2 clergy, 1 church etc
- Paris historical markers
- From Chamber of Commerce website: Henry County History
- Per TN River Valley (w/NatGeo), Paris is a historic site
- Per the hospital ("Medical Center"), here is the hospital history
Native Amers
- From McClung Museum of Nat'l Hist & Culture: Prehistoric American Indians in Tennessee (2009)
- TN history link from on McClung site: Tennessee4me
State refs
- From TN SOS (Sec'y of State) site, here's a Bibliography of Tennessee Local History Sources > Henry County
Major sources
- google "Paris, TN" history and look at what-all pops up
More notes
- Cottage Grove: 10 mi NW
- Buchanan: 11.5 mi NE
- 1850's: Henry, 8.5 mi SW of Paris
- Henry Station
- Memphis and Ohio railroad
Tosh says there were lots of:
- Tharpe names
- There were also Palmer names