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I write a lot about the history of Los Angeles, my hometown, and about Mexico City, also
on Spanish Wikipedia. I used to write and edit a lot about Atlanta and its history... there's a lot 'under the hood' in that city.
I also write about a few other random things... and a couple articles on Dutch wikipedia.
Pictures I uploaded to Wikimedia Commons
Topics about which I was amazed there wasn't already a Wikipedia article
FOCSA Building - tallest building in Cuba (858 views per month as of 2013-02-17)
Asa G. Candler, Jr. - the alcoholic, eccentric, tycoon son of Coca-Cola's
Asa Griggs Candler - had a zoo at his mansion (549 views per month as of 2013-02-17)
Rand McNally Building - world's first all-steel-framed skyscraper (642 views per month as of 2013-02-17)
Roma in the United States (gypsies) - an ethnic group numbering about 1,000,000 and no article! (7864 views per month as of 2013-02-17)
Streetcars in Atlanta - there was partial info about current planned streetcars, but not the old extensive network (1010 views per month as of 2013-02-17)
Trolleybuses in Atlanta - city once had the world's largest network of buses which used overhead wires for electric power - and this was not documented in Wikipedia! (182 views per month as of 2013-02-17)
Atlanta Daily World - Atlanta's oldest black newspaper and the only long running black daily (493 views per month as of 2013-02-17)
Deltalina - spokesperson on the Delta Air Lines safety videos (3657 views per month as of 2013-02-17)
Music of Atlanta - based on material from "Culture in Atlanta", then vastly expanded - Atlanta is the capital of one genre, hip-hop, and this had gone unacknowledged (hmmmm, wonder why)
Victorian Downtown Los Angeles - about the central business district of the 1880s and 1890s and the history of the area through the mid-1950s when it was virtually all demolished to make way for the Civic Center
its architect
Louis John Gill, who also designed the San Diego Zoo in 1916 and whose research inspired the 1933 California earthquake codes (the Field Act (for schools) and the Riley Act (for all buildings))
Shopping center and
shopping mall - separated the articles, because a mall is one type of shopping center, there are many other kinds of shopping centers.
Atlanta
Atlanta (major additions, cleanup, and structuring) major achievements
moving away from text which appears to be a Chamber of Commerce-type brochure: replacing continuous lauding of virtues with neutral POV
identifying what makes the city unique and characteristic (e.g. city is a capital of hip hop) - not just "checking the boxes" on what would go into a traditional encyclopedia (e.g. fine art, ballet, opera)
ensuring sub-articles like History have good content and good summary sections at the top; transferring these summaries to the main
Atlanta article, i.e. making the article/subarticle system work
History of Atlanta
History of Atlanta (major additions, cleanup, and structuring; black side of history was mostly missing)