User:Charles Edward

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I spend more time reading than editing. I learn much more from Wikipedia than I contribute. I don't consider myself to be an authority on much of anything, I am more of a well informed bystander than anything else. I used to just browse and edit without a user account for over a year - watching this place grow has been amazing. It was not until I actually wanted to create an article in 2006 that I created this account, and then I pretty well stopped using it until 2007, going back to my anonymous habits. I decided to start editing articles more frequently in 2008, and began using this account regularly then. I am on the commons now too, but I am only ever there to upload stuff. Contacting me here is best.

I have managed to help author a few FAs now, of which I am proud. Copy editing is my biggest challenge, and it was thanks to the help of some good copy editors that the FAs I have worked on were accepted. I have a couple more FAs in the works that hopefully will develop fairly soon. From time to time I make a peer review, patrol new pages, review good articles, keep an eye on RFA, and occasionally participate in important discussions. But most of the time, I just edit!

I consider editing on Wikipedia a hobby, and I really detest drama and stress. While there have been a few times I have spoken out, I generally prefer to stay out of the drama\politics\vitriol that is, quite unfortunately, rather common on the fringes and occasionally at the heart of this project. Instead I enjoy working with the few editors around me who are actually more interested in writing a good article, than enforcing their will on others. Live and let live.

The quality discourse

I am also a firm believer in quality over quantity. It is my opinion that one line, unsourced, inaccurate, and otherwise useless articles do in fact harm Wikipedia. While it can be argued that we are not paper, etc; having worthless articles, and particularly having (100s of?) thousands of inaccurate articles that no one patrols allowing all sorts of gradual creeping vandalism, harms the credibility of Wikipedia. The harm caused to our reputation as a project because of poor article quality far outweighs, in my opinion, the value of having such articles. At a minimum, I believe we should prevent low quality articles from being indexed by search engines. In no way do I advocate the wholesale deletion of such articles, just removing them, somewhat, from the public eye. We have entered a phase were article quality is important and attracting subject matter experts is critical to the further improvement of the project.

Wikipedia needs to become more accepted as a quality source of information if we are going attract a significant number of badly needed experts, a cadre of new dedicated editors and admins. This can only be accomplished, in my oh so humble opinion, by focusing on quality to improve our public image to make those experts consider Wikipedia a reputable place to publish knowledge.

The advertising discourse

I am opposed to operating Wikipedia on charitable donations. With some simple ads, we could more than pay for all the financial needs of the foundation. I oppose the use of charitable funds on moral grounds. There are many other worthy charities that cannot operate without charitable contributions. By soliciting donations, we are drawing charitable funds that could be spent elsewhere on critical causes.

If an orphanage could guarantee funding of its operations by placing a billboard on its property, we would consider that organization to be negligent if it failed to do so. If a feed the poor program could reach thousands of more starving people by selling advertisements in its newsletter, we would be startled at their refusal to do so.

To solicit donations when we are completely capable of funding ourselves is simply a wrong thing to do. Because of that reality, I view our donation and charitable giving campaigns as dishonest and misleading to our donors. We have no true need to accept charitable donations, therefore it is unethical to do so and is misleading to our donors to make them think we require their donations to operate.

My pages

• My Sandbox
• My Library
• AFDs being saved
• My Book
• Diffs that am still laughing over
• My Watchlist

Notes

Kind Words from Wikipedians

The Original Barnstar For your work on adding historical information to Indiana articles, I hereby award you this barnstar. Omnedon (talk) 05:45, 12 March 2008 (UTC) The Resilient Barnstar For you rapid improvement on Davis Floyd after my WP:Indiana review alerted you to areas for improvement. Jahnx (talk) 09:47, 21 March 2008 (UTC) The Indiana Barnstar For excellent work on Harrison County topics, and on other Indiana articles I started, meaning I could concentrate on other things, I hearby make you the first to attain the Indiana Barnstar. Enjoy.--Bedford 15:46, 15 March 2008 (UTC) The Indiana Barnstar I was going to award you with an Indiana Barnstar for all your work on the History of Indiana article, but I see you already have one. At any rate, good work on the article, and congratulations on the GA review. That article came a long way in a short amount of time! Mingusboodle (talk) 11:57, 2 May 2008 (UTC) The Barnstar of Diligence For helping out with those accuracy improvements to South Bend Watch Company, a task that I was too lazy busy to do, I award you the Barnstar of Diligence! Keep up the great work, my expatriate Canadian friend. –xenocidic (talk) 14:07, 8 July 2008 (UTC) The Copyeditor's Barnstar For copyeditting again and again until you get it right, and in the process making several articles GA's, most recently Benjamin Harrison, I present unto you the Copyeditor's Barnstar. King Bedford I Seek his grace 22:43, 3 August 2008 (UTC) User:Charles Edward has been identified as an Awesome Wikipedian, and therefore, I've officially declared today as Charles Edward's day! For being such a beautiful person and great Wikipedian, enjoy being the Star of the day, dear Charles Edward! Peace, Rlevse ~~~~~ A record of your Day will always be kept here. The Guidance Barnstar The Guidance Barnstar For all your work on bringing William Henry Harrison, a very important article to the history of the US Presidency, through a FAC, I hearby award you, Charles Edward, this Barnstar. Thanks for all you do here. Congratulations! — Rlevse • Talk • 15:02, 7 March 2009 (UTC) The Tireless Contributor Barnstar With the promotion of Eli Lilly to FA, I want to thank you for all of your great work in Indiana history-related articles! Without you WP:INDIANA and all of Wikipedia wouldn't be as good. Keep up your excellent effort! Reywas92Talk 21:26, 22 April 2009 (UTC) The Barnstar of Diligence For your tireless contributions and improvements to Indiana-related articles, I award you this barnstar. -- Cuppysfriend (talk) 22:41, 24 June 2009 (UTC) The Reviewers Award To Charles Edward, for high quality reviewing at FAC Karanacs (talk) 13:51, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

Wikiproject Indiana

This user is a participant in
WikiProject Indiana.

• Rufus!

What I have done to help out our project: I try to bring all new Indiana articles onto my watchlist, and work to assess and reassess articles in the project. I try to keep our categories tidy, and tag and assess articles belonging in the project as I find them. I have worked extensively on the project's history articles. I have also did considerable work on our government articles. In our biographical area, I significantly expanded the articles on our governors and senators, and several other prominent political and historical figures in the state.

To do

Important Indiana articles that needs to be expanded, worked on, or otherwise cleaned up. (My to-do list)

• The Underground Railroad in Indiana
• Albert J. Beveridge
• Gus Grissom

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Top Ten Hoosiers

According to me, in no particular order

1. Oliver Hazard Perry Morton
2. William Henry Harrison
3. George Rogers Clark
4. Eli Lilly
5. Jonathan Jennings
6. Benjamin Harrison
7. Levi Coffin
8. Isaac Blackford
9. Samuel Woodfill
10. Elwood Haynes

Things I spent a lot of time working on

• Portal:Indiana

(As opposed to a little time)

History

History History of Indiana History of slavery in Indiana Indiana in the American Civil War Indian removals in Indiana (created) (That really took the Indian out of Indiana, pun intended) Indiana Mammoth Improvement Act (created) Indiana Klan (created) Bank of Indiana (created) Indiana Canal Company (created) Indiana Territory Indiana Gas Boom (created) Underground Railroad in Indiana (created) Indiana White Caps (created) Black Day of the Indiana General Assembly (Created) (Do you see a pattern yet?) Battle of Tippecanoe Tecumseh's War Battle of Corydon Corydon Historic District Beaver Wars (There is something worth fighting for) La Salle Expeditions (Created) Yellow Jackets (Indiana) (Created) Tecumseh's Confederacy (Created) Indianapolis Street Car Strike of 1913 (Created) Tucker v. State of Indiana (created) Wabash River

Places
Corydon, Indiana Harrison County, Indiana Indiana

Some maps I made

DYKs from me

On July 12, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Isaac Blackford, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits your article got while on the front page (here's how) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. On June 10, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Warren T. McCray, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. On May 28, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Isaac P. Gray, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. (Some of them with a little help) On April 12, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Colonel Eli Lilly, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. On April 7, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Indianapolis Street Car Strike of 1913, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. On April 4, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Samuel M. Ralston, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. On April 2, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Elwood Haynes, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. On March 24, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article On the Banks of the Wabash, Far Away, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. On March 20, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Tecumseh's Confederacy, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. On March 13, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Treaty of Fort Wayne (1809), which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. On March 8, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Underground Railroad in Indiana, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. On March 6, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Yellow Jackets (Indiana), which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. On February 12, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. Dravecky (talk) 09:32, 12 February 2009 (UTC) On 5 June, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Hardy Lake, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. --BorgQueen (talk) 13:55, 5 June 2008 (UTC) On 6 June, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Christopher Harrison, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. On 6 July, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Polly v. Lasselle, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. On 8 July, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Indiana Canal Company, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. On 10 July, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Bank of Indiana, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. On 14 September, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Indian removals in Indiana, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. On 14 October, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Indiana Klan, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. On 18 October, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Indiana Mammoth Internal Improvement Act, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. On 23 October, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Indiana Gas Boom, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. On 1 November, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Ghost Legends of Indiana, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. On 23 November, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article La Salle Expeditions, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. BorgQueen (talk) 07:00, 23 November 2008 (UTC) On May 7, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Levi Coffin, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. On May 17, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Chicago Times-Herald race, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Images I uploaded that I find interestng

Some of the better photos I took

• A Full List

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