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 twitter feed or my blog.

News

• 1 March 2015 - I finally moved the Joan Dillon page out of my sandbox and into the article main space.

• I am experimentally organizing a D.C.-Baltimore area Railroad edit-a-thon / treasure hunt hybrid. Call it a wiki-hunt, if you will. I am thinking about 18 or 25 October 2014 for dates.

• In cooperation with DC Wikimedia I am organizing an edit-a-thon at the University of Maryland Library to focus on Chronicling America and the 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 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

• The Sixteenth Century Price Revolution
• The article on the History of the British national debt is too twentieth century-oriented. I'm working on some additional sections.
  • As long as I'm adding to the History of the British national debt article, the Crowding out and Gibson's paradox articles could use history and literature reviews.
• Coinage Act of 1853
• Great Depression of 1873–1896
  • Or do I edit the article on The Great Deflation
• Financial Crises of the National Banking Act Era
• Latin Monetary Union
• Biographies of economists and other important economic actors:
  • O.M.W. Sprague
  • George F. Warren
  • James Harvey Rogers
  • Ferdinand Ward
  • Gustav Cassel
  • League of Nations Gold Delegation
  • Committee for the Nation for Rebuilding Purchasing Power and Prices
  • The article on Henry Morgenthau, Jr. could use a lot of work
• I am interested in economic thinkers of bimetallism vs. the gold standard from the late nineteenth century through the New Deal:
  • Monometallists: Samuel B. Ruggles, Horace White, Edward Atkinson, Henry Linderman
  • Bimetalists: S. Dana Horton, F. A. Walker, George Walker, Key Pittman
• Keynesian fine-tuning
• an article on the stagflation / great inflation of the 1970s (I don't even know what to title it for now) — The Great Stagflation for now.
• Lois Green Carr, founder of the Chesapeake school of early American history

Diplomatic and military history and strategy

• Albert Wohlstetter
• Revolution in Military Affairs
• Fiscal-military state
• Stability–instability paradox

Politics

• Chennault Affair
• Moorer-Radford affair
• ITT affair

Alexandria and Virginia

Well, I don't live in the district anymore: I live in Virginia now, so I guess I should get used to working on Virginia topics:

• Geology of Virginia
  • Atlantic Seaboard fall line
• Second Empire architecture in Virginia
• Buildings in Alexandria, Virginia
• National Register of Historic Places in Alexandria, Virginia
  • National Register of Historic Places listings in Alexandria, Virginia

Washington, D.C.

• District of Columbia WikiProject
• Alexander Robey Shepherd
• Washington, D.C. buildings
  • Demolished buildings in Washington, D.C.
  • Beaux-Arts architecture in Washington, D.C.
  • Second Empire Architecture in Washington, D.C.
    • Alfred B. Mullett
    • Eisenhower Executive Office Building
  • Art Deco Architecture in Washington, D.C.
  • National Baptist Memorial Church
• National Register of Historic Places WikiProject

Disability issues

Pages I'm working on for WikiProject Disability:

• Pennsylvania Association for Retarded Children (PARC) v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 334 F. Supp. 1257 (E.D. PA 1971)
• Mills v. Board of Education of District of Columbia, 348 F. Supp. 866 (D.D.C. 1972)
• O'Connor v. Donaldson, 422 U.S. 563 (1975)
• Youngberg v. Romeo, 457 U.S. 307 (1982)
• Board of Education of Hendrick Hudson Central School District v. Rowley, 458 U.S. 176 (1982)
• Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. Halderman, 465 U.S. 89 (1984)
• The Oregon District Court Case, Lane v. Brown, concerning sheltered workshops
• Roland Johnson
• Jane B. Schulz
• Katie Beckett Medicaid waiver

Science

• Allegheny Plateau
• A significant rewrite and expansion of the aeroplankton entry
• An article on prospection
• A subsection on transient hypofrontality for the Creativity article

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.

• Lone Rock
• Big Beef Bay
• Anderson Creek
• United States v. Washington (1974), the "Boldt Decision"
• United States v. Washington (2017)

Other

• Africa WikiProject
• Heterotopia (space)
• Building novel
• Rétif de la Bretonne
• Affective labor, Emotion work and Emotional labor
• Reliable Consultants, Inc. v. Earle
• Campari, my favorite amari
• Rutherford Platt

Contributions to date

See my 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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  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
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  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
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  DIY fermentation fetishist Sandor Katz, giving a fermentation workshop at the Monticello Heritage Harvest Festival, 12 September 2015
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  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, Economic Liberty and Human Flourishing, 1 October 2015
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  Eric Jarosinski discusses his twitter persona and book, Nein. A Manifesto (2015), at Nein Regrets to Inform You – A Ruined Evening With @NeinQuarterly at the German Embassy in Washington D.C., 8 October 2015
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  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, "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, "Debate: U.S. Nuclear Weapon Modernization", Washington, D.C., 29 June 2017
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  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

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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  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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  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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  Massachusetts State Representative George Walker, 1868; Legislators' Photographs, State Library of Massachusetts
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  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.
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  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.
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  Gunnar Dybwad at the TASH Annual Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, December 1997
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  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).

Contemporary images

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

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