Sunday, June 7, 2026

My contributions to Wikipedia

It's hard to believe now, but I was a contributor to Wikipedia in its early years. I created these articles:
  • Anne Strieber
  • CTR ring
  • Gadianton robbers
  • Gazelem
  • J. J. Dewey
  • List of code names in the Doctrine and Covenants
  • Master Mahan
  • Robert Matthews (religious figure)
  • Ted R. Kurts (a.k.a. Ted Jesus Christ God, sadly no longer considered notable and thus deleted)
  • Three Nephites
These articles already existed, but I greatly expanded or rewrote them:
  • Cain
  • Gene Ray
  • Korihor (also deleted for some reason)
  • Moroni (Mormonism)
  • Nephi
  • Sandra Good
  • Temperance (Tarot card)
  • Uziel Gal
  • Whitley Strieber
Almost all of these reflect long-term interests of mine: Joseph Smith and Mormonism, Whitley Strieber, Tarot, net.kooks. The one exception is the guy named Gal, designer of the Uzi submachine gun. I still can't remember how exactly I ended up creating such an article. (It technically already existed, but it was just two sentences in a mixture of English and Italian.)

Of course my most significant contribution has been to Hebrew Wikipedia, where (ironically given my current appearance) some anonymous Israeli selected my likeness to illustrate the article on "Hair."
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