User:Postdlf

I sometimes work in Manhattan when I'm not going to law school in Washington, DC. I used to be an art student in Columbus, OH.

Strange.

I really like Wendy's cheeseburgers, Krzysztof Kieslowski, and the moon.

Todos are small, frog-like creatures. Have you seen them?

Sometimes I like to shoot, sometimes I like to scavenge.

My Big Fat Wikipedia Contributions

Feel free to yell at me if you like something or think I was smoking crack.

ON CRACK! LOL

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The following articles are ones that I created:

People: William A. Barstow Coles Bashford George Bellows William Levi Dawson (politician) Pieter de Hooch John Forrest Dillon Robert Drinan Samuel Francis du Pont Robert Frank Augustus Noble Hand Roger Hargreaves Jack Hanna Abner Louima Arthur MacArthur, Sr. Norman Mayer Rufus Wheeler Peckham (1809-1873) Rufus Wheeler Peckham Wheeler Hazard Peckham William Pierce (politician) John Russell Pope Napoleon Sarony William Sharpe (politician) Richard Smith (delegate) Thomas Smith (admiral) Thomas Smith (1745-1809) Thomas Smith (? -1846) Thomas Smith (1799-1876) Thomas Alexander Smith Thomas Francis Smith Thomas Vernor Smith William Smith (1728-1814) Charles Stewart (1729-1800) William Strong (1763-1840) James Thompson (jurist) John Walton (1738-1783) Dwight Watson (one of my personal favorites)

Places: Adams Morgan Anacostia Anacostia River Canal Street, Manhattan Capitol Hill, Washington, DC Clintonville Columbus Museum of Art Columbus Zoo Constitution Gardens Crystal City, Virginia Georgetown University Law Center German Village Golden Gate National Recreation Area Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden MCI Center National Museum of American History National Museum of Natural History Olentangy River Rosslyn, Virginia San Margherita The Short North Smithsonian Institute Building Tenleytown Turtle Bay, Manhattan West Potomac Park Wexner Center for the Arts

Things: Administrative Procedure Act The Americans (photography) Articles of Association Association of American Law Schools Blakely v. Washington Brief (law) (featured as a new article for one shining moment on wikipedia's front page...sigh) Burrow-Giles Lithographic Co. v. Sarony Changing New York Committee of correspondence Copyright misuse Cuban night lizard (Cricosaura typica) Desert night lizard (Xantusia vigilis) Dilution Fairness Doctrine Fischer's chameleon (Bradypodion fischeri) Flip book Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act General Services Administration Helter Skelter (book) How the Other Half Lives Jingle Bells Kaddish (poem) Lou Dobbs Tonight Lochner v. New York (anonymous, prior to current user name) Lost in Translation Maryland v. Craig Modern School Oral argument Parliament (cigarette) Peremptory norm Pink Lady and Jeff The Rainbow Res judicata Singles (movie) Slave Labor Graphics Strange-nosed chameleon (Bradypodion xenorhinum) SuicideGirls Terry v. Ohio Texas v. Johnson U.S. Court of Appeals, DC Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, First Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit United States Park Police United States v. O'Brien Vienna School of Fantastic Realism Virginia Slims Women in Love Yellow-spotted tropical night lizard (Lepidophyma flavimaculatum)

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I have also made substantial contributions to the following articles:

People: Drew Barrymore John Hessin Clarke Lou Dobbs Learned Hand Tibor Kalman Edward Terry Sanford William Strong (judge) Teri Weigel

Places: Columbus, Ohio Dupont Circle Eastern Market, Washington, DC Foggy Bottom The Mall (Washington, DC) National Gallery of Art New Rome, Ohio Pennsylvania Upper Arlington, Ohio Washington, DC

Things: Affirmative defense A Woman Peeling Apples Bradypodion Copyright Copyright infringement Custom (law) Due process Fair use Flag desecration Grand Upright Music, Ltd. v. Warner Brothers Records, Inc. Hamdi v. Rumsfeld Hesperides Hiibel v. Sixth Judicial District Court of Nevada Independent Agencies of the United States Government Intentional infliction of emotional distress International law Lawrence v. Texas Lawsuit Mr. Men National Archives and Records Administration National treatment Night lizard (family Xantusiidae) Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad Co. Planned Parenthood v. Casey Pro se Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States Seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution The Sweet Hereafter Trademark Treaty Tropical night lizard (genus Lepidophyma) United States copyright law United States trademark law Visions of Cody West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette Xantusia (a genus of night lizards)

My categorization philosophy/obsession

I also categorize things a hell of a lot, mainly because I don't want to see it done wrong. Doing it wrong is being too general, so that articles end up getting cluttered by a laundry list of redundant categories (which looks really dumb when you're reading an article, as if the author couldn't figure out the relationships), and categories get dumped indiscriminately with tons of articles that end up bearing little relationship to each other and look like a confusing mess. Doing it right is creating a sensible taxonomy that allows the information to be restructured and formed into new relationships by recategorizing categories, rather than having to go back and retag every article because you were too general the first time. Doing it right establishes groupings and series that help point out where new articles in wikipedia need to be filled in, and also can point out articles that need to be merged or made consistent with other articles on the same specific topic.

Categories are important because they function to classify the subjects of articles—they appear with an even greater claim of factuality and objectivity than the content of articles. They should be limited to what is somehow integral to understanding a subject, rather than something that simply happens to be true about it. Trivial information can be buried at the bottom of an article with no problem, but trivial categories bury the article itself.

I created nearly all of the subdivision organization of Category:Politics of the U.S. (separating it into branches, cataloging all the agencies, and getting started on many of the officials), Category:United States law (by topic), many in Category:United States history, and just about every last one of the U.S. states. You may also know me from such categories as Category:Continental Congressmen and Category:Continental Army officers, Category:International law, Category:Corporate subsidiaries by company, Category:New York City and Category:Washington, DC and their subdivisions, and many, many others.