User:Adam Bishop

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Me, in December 2004, hoping my picture will be taken as soon as possible so I will no longer have to sit there having my picture taken

Things that are possibly interesting about me:

I am originally from Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada, but I moved to London, Ontario in 1993 when I was 13. In 2003 I graduated with an honours BA in history from the University of Western Ontario. For various reasons I stayed at UWO for another year, where I was in classical studies as a "special student" ("Ralph, you're on special teams!"), but I didn't stay to get a second degree. Now I have essentially finished an MA at the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto, which is world-renowned and very intimidating, but on the other hand they have Latin Scrabble. I'll be starting the PhD program there in September.

According to the Centre I can read French, German, and Latin (Medieval Latin, anyway). I've only officially had two years of German and even less Latin, but I took French for about 14 years and I've absorbed it pretty well (I can't speak it fluently, but I can read it).

I work in the library at the Toronto Sun newspaper, and formerly I did essentially the same job at the London Free Press. What that job is exactly is hard to explain, but I should say that my job thankfully does not require me to actually read or even look at the Toronto Sun (instead I get to work with Le Journal de Montréal, Le Journal de Québec, and a bunch of little local newspapers: the various 24 Hours papers, the Simcoe Reformer, and the Woodstock Sentinel-Review).

My "real" webpage, if you want to call it that, is here, and consists mostly of guitar tablature.

I think I first came across this place through Quizbowl, and my first contribution was the Alexius IV article in January, 2003, although I didn't have a user name at that point. In June, 2003, I started contributing more regularly.

On the Wikipediholic test I once scored 116. I'm a Wikipediholic! I'm just can't get enough Wikipedihol!

I usually contribute to historical stuff - my interests are mainly medieval history, especially the Crusades and the Byzantine Empire, and also medieval England and France. I am also interested in Canadian history, ancient history, linguistics, and mythology. I sometimes contribute to some popular culture stuff too. I also like to work on those addictive lists (especially lists of rulers of medieval territories), make redirects, and add stuff to the year articles. I try to avoid controversial articles, which is pretty easy when I'm writing about some obscure noble from the Kingdom of Jerusalem, or whatever.

I have been an administrator since September 2, 2003. First you get the admin status, then you get the power, then you get the women...right?

Sandbox

If you want to see something I'm working on, you could look at my sandbox. Right now it's some fiddling around with tables for political succession boxes, and a partial list of Crusader castles.

I also did a sample of occurrences of Gdansk and Danzig in a few newspapers, which someone may find interesting.

Articles

Since this was getting unwieldy, and I'm sure no one really cares, I'll move the the articles I have worked on (that I feel are worthy of mentioning) or created to a separate page, User:Adam Bishop/articles.

Some sort of license thingy

I don't understand any of this but supposedly I need to put it on my page:

I agree to multi-license all my contributions to any U.S. state, county, or city article as described below:

enThis user is a native speaker of the English language.

fr-2Cet utilisateur peut contribuer avec un niveau intermédiaire en français.

la-2Hic usor media latinitate contribuere potest.

de-1Dieser Benutzer hat grundlegende Deutschkenntnisse.