User:DutchTreat/Journal/2015
2015 January
[edit]- Using WP:WORKS on John Joseph Lalor draft to format works, note usage of {{cite book}} parameter authormask
- Youth America Grand Prix and critic Clive Barnes (8 Jan)
- Share my story about infobox on Opera stars at Wikipedia:WikiProject X/Stories? See more on Disinfoboxes at Wikipedia:WikiProject Opera/Article guidelines (16 Jan); Story posted at Wikipedia:WikiProject X/Stories#WikiProject Opera Documentation and Consistency of Style (31 Jan)
- Joachim Wtewael article by Walter Liedtke, PUP book (25 Jan)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Thompson-Reuters most cited scientists#Missing woman scientists (26 Jan)
- Erlang (programming language) add {{about}} from guide Wikipedia:Hatnote (31 Jan)
2015 February
[edit]- Symphony add ref templates for article for improvement of the week which spawned a debut and vote on the matter. (1 Feb)
- Peter Eisenman improve refs on Yale, Cooper-Union (4 Feb)
- Spanish Riding School improve ref on female riders (26 Feb)
- François Jullien ref to MIT Press (27 Feb)
2015 March
[edit]- Martin Suter Swiss author, added his latest novel Montecristo (2015) (2 Mar)
- Reading up on Wikipedia:RefToolbar (12 Mar)
- Samir Amin footnotes (29 Mar)
2015 April
[edit]- Robert Boyle add WS wikilinks (3 Apr)
- Reviewing Perpetual copyright and De Docta Ignorantia translated by Jasper Hopkins (5 Apr)
- Compagnons du Tour de France (22 Apr)
2015 May
[edit]- Wikipedia:VIAF/errors for Helen Stratton, improve listing of works (9 May)
- xtools-article info from WP:PAGEHISTORY (17 May)
- Cults (band) add disambig link (29 May)
2015 June
[edit]- Jean Baudrillard French philospher quoted by Sam Harris, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden director Melissa Chiu appoints chief curator Stéphane Aquin who reads Charles Baudelaire. "Hirshhorn Museum's New Curator Brings a Different Perspective". (6 June)
- Michel Foucault influenced by Friedrich Nietzsche, same generation as Baudrillard. See his Collège de France Course Lecture series including The Hermeneutics of the Subject (2005, Picador). (29 June)
2015 July
[edit]- Sartre's The Wall contains story "Erostratus" related to Herostratus (3 July)
- OSv fix link (9 July)
2015 August
[edit]- Researching artistic director Anne Pasternak (11 August)
- Absurdism and Albert Camus's The Myth of Sisyphus (13 August)
- Researching Ramon Fernandez (in French), no English page; Pierre Drieu La Rochelle and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon; John Dos Passos's U.S.A including 1919 critiqued in essay by Jean-Paul Sartre (14 August)
- Reading up on Theatre of the Absurd (16 August)
- Standard of review Arbitrary and capricious (18 August)
- Speed-the-Plow (20 August)
- Patidar reservation agitation and Hardik Patel (29 August)
2015 September
[edit]- Orientalism by Ewdard Said, public intellectual and his daughter Najla Said (6 September)
- Symphony improvements, Talk:Symphony about citation style vote from February, Harvard style to footnotes (12-16 September)
- Reviewing Portal:Philosophy/Selected_philosopher (16 September)
- More from Wikipedia:The Wikipedia Library and project newsletter. (26 September)
- Georges Bataille, French intellectual criticized by Sartre for his tilt toward mysticism. (26 September)
- Gérard de Nerval, French poet, "El Desdichado" from Les Filles du feu (29 September)
- High-intensity interval training and "Tabata regime" (30 September)
- Carl Emil Schorske professor studied cultural history of Vienna. (30 September)
2015 October
[edit]- "La donna è mobile" aria and Un ballo in maschera Opera by Verdi, "Verdi baritone arias" (3 October)
- Svalbard Global Seed Vault (3 October)
- Edmund Morgan (historian) needs some help with references (3 October)
- Antoine-Élisabeth-Cléophas Dareste de la Chavanne add ws references for EB1911 and CE (6 October)
- Léon Bazille Perrault check spelling of name with only one 'l', entry in Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings (1887) (7 October)
- Encomium from French Éloge, Louis-Sébastien Mercier's Éloge de Descartes from Google Books, others by Gabriel-Henri Gaillard Franc̜ois Antoine Étienne de Gourcy, Claude Henri Couanier Deslandes, Fabre de Charrin (7 October)
- Eusociality of humans and ants from E. O. Wilson (7 October)
- Kees van Dongen, Dutch-French painter (8 October)
- The Historians' History of the World by Henry Smith Williams, with sources including Histoire de France by Antoine-Élisabeth-Cléophas Dareste de la Chavanne (10 October)
- Noblesse oblige (noble obligation) and seeking the definition from Dictionnaire de l'Académie française (12 October)
- Wittgenstein-Preis link from Carl Emil Schorske (13 October)
- Recent change logs for articles: director/actor Mirrah Foulkes, Template:T Third Street for San Francisco Muni route map; talk pages: painting "Heraclitus and Democritus" by Rubins (15 October)
- Mary and Matthew Darly add EB1911 link to WS (16 October)
- Francis Ponge quote "Man is future of man" unsourced (16 October)
- Arthur Koestler wrote of imprisonment in Seville in 1930s after capture in Spanish Testament (1937) (16 October)
- Le Château des cœurs by Gustave Flaubert (20 October)
- Fin-de-siècle Vienna by Schorske (21 October)
- Invisible hand by Adam Smith (22 October)
- Richard Rorty, philosopher on Pragmatism, bio also at Plato.stanford.edu (29 October)
2015 November
[edit]- fr:René Berthelot (philosophe) needs English translation (14 November); started draft in my sandbox (24 November)
- prompter would benefit from German page de:Souffleur (14 November)
- Jodorowsky's Dune (16 November)
- Protestant work ethic fix ref, researching better reference for work of Joseph Alois Schumpeter (1883-1950) on history of capitalism in 14th century Italy. (17 November); WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/List of notable books, part 2 with Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy by Joseph Schumpeter (22 November 2015); improved references for Schumpeter using History of Economic Analysis. (23 November) improve ext links (10 December)
- Joseph Moxon's Mechanick Exercises precursor to user guide, related to Vitruvius’s De architectura also known as Ten Books on Architecture, claim the earliest manual? (20 November)
- House of Montmorency from s:Page:The inequality of human races (1915).djvu/61 (20 November)
- EB1911 templates update to use volume and page based on Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/1911 verification (24 November)
- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord fix references, bio by Cooper Talleyrand (1932) (2015-11-25)
- Richard Francis Burton bio by Rice, Edward (2001) Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton: A Biography (2015-11-25)
- Alistair Horne wrote A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954–1962 (2015-11-25)
2015 December
[edit]- Dutch courage what is the history? two different alternatives (4 December)
- The Wombats improve other uses (5 December)
- Bosco Verticale improve ref (7-8 December)
- Rudolf Baumbach written/translated by Otto Heller (8 December)
- History of capitalism consider if I can improve early 12th century Italy using Schumpeter, Joseph A., "Part II From the Beginning to the First Classical Situation (to about 1790), chapter 2 The scholastic Doctors and the Philosophers of Natural Law", History of Economic Analysis (10 December)
- The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism improve ref (10 December)
- In Search of Lost Time by Proust (10 December)
- Murray Rothbard wrote "Catholicism, Protestantism, and Capitalism" (1957) (10 December)
- An American Dilemma by Myrdal may refer to "American's Creed by Page (11 December)
- Geometric Shapes from Unicode block might be useful for my design of improved Recent Change log (12 December)
- List of buildings in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador looking at improvements using column layout and images of select buildings (12 December)
- Vae victis meaning "woe to the vanquished", interesting phrase from Roman history, see Book V, sections 34–49 from Ab Urbe Condita Libri by Livy (18 December)
- Exekias and Black-figure pottery, see samples Browse Dionysus vases at Tufts Perseus (18 December); Douris (20 December)
- Vayu word used in yoga related to the wind blowing, from Sanskrit for wind God. (19 December)
- Improvement of Week Scandal, no changes yet, add lottery? (21 December)
- Charles de Marillac from de Gobineau's The inequality of human races (1915) page 41, Christophe de Beaumont (22 December)
- NGC 3324 Gabriela Mistral nebula (22 December)
- Learning about User Talk page archiving with Help:Archiving a talk page and {{Yearly archive list}} (24 December)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Philosophy/New articles automatically listed my new Otto Heller (author) page as possibility within scope, with a scope (25 December)
- Otto Heller (disambiguation) created, improve other disambig pages like National Front (Italy) (25 December)
- Juliana Berners chronicled early hunting terms used by Normans (26 December)
- LLVM compiler and ACM Software System Award (26 December)
- Panchala improve hatnote (31 December)
- Gaudeamus igitur "De Brevitate Vitae" (Latin: "On the Shortness of Life"), more commonly known as "Gaudeamus Igitur" ("So Let Us Rejoice"); Banausos from Greek used in modern German (31 December)