User:Rick_Jelliffe References

Editing activity

In 2023/2024 I have been working to improve the articles related to Erasmus:

Erasmus
- Portrait of Erasmus
Novum Testamentum Omne
On Free Will
Adages
his other books.

Plus improvements to articles related to him or his times:

Thomas More & John Fisher
- Portrait of Thomas More
Tyndale & Tyndale Bible
Wycliffe & Wycliffe's Bible
Luther & Luther Bible
- On the Bondage of the Will
Complutensian polyglot
De_heretico_comburendo & Suppression_of_Heresy_Act_1414
Thomas_Hitton & John_Tewkesbury
Reformation & Counter-Reformation
Pre-Tridentine_Mass
Ernest of Bavaria
Analogy

I am preparing a page on analogia entis in my Sandbox, a major area in Catholic theology which has absolutely no visibility on Wikipedia, partly because the term is so often appropriated by specialists and contorted as a form of torture to humble readers.

Articles:

My draft of Australian Synthesizer Manufacturers was not accepted as an article, for being not notable enough by a non-Australian editor. If the same criterion was applied to every US article by non-US editors, there would not be much left. The article was compiled to try to stop the US-centric view of the world that Wikipedia often gives. Spilt milk.

My draft article on Australian poet Robert Harris was rejected because it hit some plagariasm or excessive quotation flag: I believe this was because it used the titles of his poems which sources also used.

My article on the Ploughboy Trope was accepted from draft to be an article now: Plowboy trope

My pet peeve is where speculative material is quoted or used as if it were factual, especially where has been uncritically passed down: even a Reliable Source can have dodgy passages: famous last words, pop psychologizing someone, or quotes which don't kinda fit or have generic rather than specific locations flash red lights.

Disclosure

As the time of writing (Oct 2023 ~~2009~~) I (and any company I work for) don't have any work arrangements with MicroSoft.

Old news

Microsoft kindly sponsored me for total four days in early to mid 2007 to try to get articles relating to ISO, OOXML, ODF and standards improved. See my blog.

This turned out to be quite controversial, and utterly misleading articles were circulated in the world press. These give the idea that there was some hidden scandal, whereas all the information came from my blog. MS wanted no editorial control or approval, just a less bad article. Various Wikipedians gave me great assistance in the correct way to do things in thus situation: in my case to make non-anonymous, specific comments in the talk page for OOXML rather than editing directly; most were accepted.

In mid 2007, Microsoft hired a training/systems/conferences company, Allette Systems (whom I have worked for on and off since the early 1990s, including several years as Senior SGML Consultant) to provide seminars in Asia/Pacific on the subject of Open XML, for which I was usually be the main trainer. (I have frequently taught courses in standards such as SGML, XML, XSLT, XML Schemas and Schematron over the years, as well as publishing technologies such as the OmniMark document programming language and the FrameMaker SGML/XML publishing environment, including in Asia.) This slightly changed in scope to also include addressing some standards committees too; this is not surprising because of my long and sporadic involvement with SC34. This ended up being about 2 to 3 weeks work, excluding travel: MS is not a major customer of Allette Systems or Topologi Pty. Ltd.