User:Keizers
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Hey! I write a lot about Mexico City, where I live now, also on Spanish Wikipedia, and about the history of Los Angeles, my hometown. I used to write and edit a lot about Atlanta and its history... there's a lot 'under the hood' in that city. And retail history pretty much everywhere: department stores, malls, shopping streets, food halls. I also write about a few other random things... and some articles on Dutch, German, French and Spanish Wikipedia. Pictures I uploaded to Wikimedia Commons
I tend to edit in spurts. So this list goes newest first, spurt by spurt, back to when I started.
October 2026: Colonia Roma, Tijuana, Cuba and Dutch stores
[edit]A big month. Lots of Mexico City, mostly Colonia Roma and around it, a lot of it in English and Spanish at the same time. Also the gay and lesbian scene in Mexico City and Tijuana, Tijuana people and institutions, the Cuban independent press, and old Dutch and German retailers.
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Mexico City
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LGBTQ
Tijuana
Cuba
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Netherlands and Germany
Other
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Also on Spanish Wikipedia this month: Conjunto Aristos, José Luis Benlliure Galán, Brick Hotel, Grupo Habita, Gabriela López Cruz, Tiendas Six, GOmart, Diversidad sexual en Tijuana and Spanish versions of a lot of the above.
2025 – summer 2026: odds and ends
[edit]Not much. Some banknotes and currency history, a few music articles, and the Dutch Caribbean.
- Státní tiskárna cenin - the Czech state banknote printer
- Hungarian pengő, Paper money of the Hungarian pengő, Austro-Hungarian krone, Austro-Hungarian gulden - additions
- Makana Ferry Service - ferry between Sint Maarten, Saba and Sint Eustatius
- Paul Scheurich - German painter, sculptor and porcelain designer
- Oscar Athié - Mexican ballad singer
- Siilawy - Jordanian singer
- Anna mulle tähtitaivas - Katri Helena album
Late 2023 – 2024: department stores everywhere, L.A. street grids, Israel and Palestine
[edit]A long one. I went through department stores and malls country by country, especially Turkey and Latin America, and built street-grid templates of old downtown L.A. In between, a lot of work on Israel and Palestine, mostly demographics.
2021–2022: Mexico City malls and Istanbul
[edit]Quieter years. Mostly malls and shopping streets in Mexico City and Tijuana and Istanbul.
- Mexico City: Plaza Insurgentes (first Sears in Mexico), Plaza Universidad, Multiplaza Aragón, Mexipuerto Cementos Fortaleza Cuatro Caminos, Encuentro Oceanía, Pasaje Jacaranda, Samara (Mexico City), La Parisina, París-Londres, and List of shopping malls in Mexico
- Península Tijuana
- Istanbul: Istanbul Central Business District, Akasya, Beymen, MSGSU Istanbul Museum of Painting and Sculpture
- Doelen Hotel, Amsterdam, and La Tagliatella
- Criticism of IKEA - additions
2020: the big shopping center year
[edit]I wrote about almost every old mall and department store in Southern California I could find sources for, and reworked the general articles on shopping centers and shopping malls. Also South Africa, Washington, D.C. and L.A.'s civic buildings.
2019: L.A.'s department stores and Victorian Downtown
[edit]The spurt where I did L.A.'s old downtown stores one by one, plus the lost 1880s-90s downtown that got bulldozed for the Civic Center.
2016–2018: Mexico City, the BeltLine, and voice assistants
[edit]- Mexico City: History of Colonia Roma, Colonia Narvarte, Universidad de Londres, Miyana (Mexico City), Former Aeroméxico Headquarters Building, Torre MAPFRE, Portal San Ángel, Manacar, Artz Pedregal, Plaza Carrousel, Basurto Building, Churrería El Moro, Toks, Coppel, Miguel Alemán Magnani, Javier Sordo Madaleno, E-commerce in Mexico, Linio
- Plaza Viva Tijuana, Toreo Parque Central (Naucalpan), and the cumbia band Los Ángeles Azules
- Atlanta: Eastside Trail, Timeline of the BeltLine, Bolton, Atlanta, Proctor Street Greenway, Rodney Cook Sr. Park, 725 Ponce, North Highland Mile, Atlanta Zero Mile Post
- Chat and voice: Conversational commerce, Amazon Lex, Actions on Google, M (virtual assistant), NPR One, Reply (Google), Yalo (company)
- Strijp-S (Eindhoven), OFF Piotrkowska (Łódź), Time Out Market Lisboa, K Street (Sacramento), Hale Bros., Leather and LGBTQ Cultural District
2010–2015: where it started (Atlanta, then Mexico City)
[edit]I started out on Atlanta and its history, then moved on to Mexico City, Cuba, Tijuana and the Netherlands. Stats are views/month as of 2013-02-17.
Topics about which I was amazed there wasn't already a Wikipedia article
[edit]...and for which I created an article
- Food hall
- FOCSA Building - tallest building in Cuba (858 views per month)
- 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)
- Rand McNally Building - world's first all-steel-framed skyscraper (642 views per month)
- Roma in the United States (gypsies) - an ethnic group numbering about 1,000,000 and no article! (7864 views per month)
- Streetcars in Atlanta - there was partial info about current planned streetcars, but not the old extensive network (1010 views per month)
- 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)
- Atlanta Daily World - Atlanta's oldest black newspaper and the only long running black daily (493 views per month)
- Deltalina - spokesperson on the Delta Air Lines safety videos (3657 views per month)
- Seismic code
- Street vendors in Mexico City
- Trouble with the Curve - the Clint Eastwood movie, which was already being filmed - still no article - except in French!
- Walter Schroeder, Milwaukee insurance and hotel magnate - I heard his life story and about his ghost on NPR
Topics I was amazed what improvement was needed
[edit]I helped clean these up:
- History of Atlanta - great coverage of the Civil War and Gone with the Wind premiere, but very little "black history" (the city is >50% black)
- Martin Luther King, Jr., National Historic Site
- Market (place)
- 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 (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 (major additions, cleanup, and structuring; black side of history was mostly missing)
- created and added the Template:Atlanta timeline
- List of former Atlanta street names
- merged "North Atlanta, Georgia" into Brookhaven, Georgia
- Rich's (department store) - added photo gallery and info about original buildings
- Virginia-Highland (1734 views/mo)
Atlanta
[edit]- Arts in Atlanta - based on material from "Culture in Atlanta", then expanded
- Street art in Atlanta
- 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)
- Media in Atlanta
- Sports in Atlanta - based on material from "Culture in Atlanta", then expanded
- Museums in Atlanta - based on material from "Culture in Atlanta", then expanded
- Nicknames of Atlanta
- Film industry in Georgia (U.S. state)
- Intown Atlanta
History of Atlanta
[edit]- Atlanta freeway revolts (507 views per month)
- Gentrification of Atlanta
- Racial segregation in Atlanta (1186 views per month)
- Template:Atlanta timeline
- Atlanta Empowerment Zone
Buildings
[edit]Historic districts
[edit]- Emory Grove Historic District
- Fox Theatre Historic District
- Hotel Row
- Howell Interlocking Historic District
- Knox Apts. (et al.) Historic District
- Means Street Historic District
- Roscoe-Dunaway Gardens Historic District
- Southern Railway North Avenue Yards Historic District
- Sunset Avenue Historic District
Miscellaneous
[edit]- Black mecca (1720 views per month)
- Invest Atlanta
- List of inductees to the International Civil Rights Walk of Fame
- Living Walls (conference) (312 views/mo.)
- Utoy Cemetery, oldest in Atlanta
Neighborhoods extant and extinct
[edit]...plus some districts/areas and a couple small towns around Atlanta
Streets
[edit]Parks and trails
[edit]People
[edit]I have created pages for a few architects who were active in "old" Atlanta (roughly 1880s-1920s)
- George W. Adair, Jr.
- Cameron L. Alexander - civil rights leader
- Edwin P. Ansley - developer of Ansley Park and the Hotel Ansley
- A. Ten Eyck Brown - architect
- Max Corput - architect
- Willis F. Denny - architect
- Thomas G. Healey - developer et al.
- Enrico Leide
- Lucy Beall Candler Owens Heinz Leide
- G. Lloyd Preacher - architect
- Damon Russell
- Francis Palmer Smith (architect)
- Mable Thomas - civil rights leader
- Richard Copeland Todd - pioneer
Sculptures
[edit]Templates
[edit]Mexico
[edit]- Baja Med cuisine
- Club Premier (loyalty program) and its part-owner Canadian company AIMIA
- Coordinadora Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación (CNTE, radical teachers' union)
- Gossip Girl: Acapulco (tv show)
- Javier Sánchez (architect)
- Koreans in Mexico (article renaming and expansion)
- Torre KOI in Monterrey, which is planned to be the tallest building in Mexico 2015-2018
- Mexico City megalopolis
Mexico City
[edit]- Acuario Inbursa
- Condesa pocket park
- Ecobici, a bike sharing system
- Edificio México, art deco building in the Condesa
- Eduardo García (Mexican chef)
- Lalo García (chef)
- Ernesto Buenrostro, art deco architect in the Condesa
- Ex Temple of Corpus Christi
- Francesco Saverio Cavallari
- Francisco J. Serrano (architect, list of works)
- Insurgentes 300
- Jardín Edith Sánchez Ramírez
- Jardín Ramón López Velarde
- José Luis Cuevas (architect)
- Mercado de Medellín
- Mercado Roma
- Museo Archivo de la Fotografía
- New Mexico City international airport
- Parque Lira
- Parques Polanco mixed-use development
- Street vendors in Mexico City
Skyscrapers: Punto Chapultepec, Torre BBVA Bancomer, Torre Diana, Torre Mitikah
Streets: Avenida Bucareli, Avenida Álvaro Obregón, Avenida Presidente Masaryk (overhaul)
Freeways: Arco Norte, Autopista Chamapa-La Venta, Autopista Peñón-Texcoco, Avenida Río San Joaquín, Circuito Exterior Mexiquense, Circuito Interior, Supervía Poniente
Neighborhoods: Arcos Bosques, Bosques de las Lomas, Condesa (overhaul and combination of multiple overlapping articles), Interlomas edge city, Jewish neighborhoods in Mexico City, Lomas de Chapultepec (overhaul), Mixcoac former independent municipality, Nuevo Polanco, Pequeño Seúl (Little Seoul), San Jerónimo Lídice, San Lorenzo Xochimanca, San Miguel Chapultepec, Tecamachalco, State of Mexico
Shopping centers: Centro Santa Fe, Metrópoli Patriotismo, Paseo Interlomas, Plaza Carso, Toreo Parque Central
Tijuana
[edit]- Corredor Tijuana-Rosarito 2000 (freeway in NW Baja California)
- Dorian's a former Tijuana-based department store
- Downtown Tijuana
- Javier Plascencia (chef)
- Otay Mesa East Port of Entry
- Plaza Río Tijuana
- revamp of articles on boroughs (Zona Río, lists of boroughs)
Cuba
[edit]- Candyman (reggaeton singer)
- CMQ (Cuba) radio and tv network before the Revolution
- Coppelia (ice cream parlor)
- cleanup and expansion of Template:Cuba topics
- Embassy of Russia in Havana
- El Encanto department store (Spanish)
- Orestes Ferrara, independence hero and editor of El Heraldo de Cuba
- Fuente de la India fountain
- Osmani García, Cuban reggaetón singer (2275 views/mo)
- Haitian Cuban
- Havana Psychiatric Hospital - infamous conditions both before and after the Revolution
- Hermanos Ameijeiras Hospital - Cuba's premier hospital and the one that Michael Moore showed in Sicko
- Italian Cuban, translated from Spanish
- Template:Media in Cuba
- Napoleon Museum (Havana)
- Paseo del Prado, Havana
- RHC-Cadena Azul
- Aleksandr Rochegov, architect of the Russian Embassy in Havana
Netherlands
[edit]- Albert Cuyp Market - translated the Dutch version and curated
- Alexander Klöpping - internet journalist - translated Dutch article to English
- Jan Mesdag translated article about singer
- NDSM
- Nieuw Binckhorst, mixed-use development in The Hague
- Overhoeks new neighborhood in Amsterdam
- Haarlemmermeer railway lines
Other places
[edit]- Georgia (country): Georgian Parliament Building (Kutaisi), Green Lisi Town
- Saint Petersburg & Russia: DLT (department store), Esders and Scheefhaals building, Karelian Cyrillic alphabet, Lyubov Uspenskaya
- San Diego: El Pueblo Ribera, Coromar Motel, Heilman Villas, Hollander Court, Islenair, Babcock Court, San Diego County Administration Center and its architect Louis John Gill, who also designed the San Diego Zoo in 1916 and whose research inspired the 1933 California earthquake codes, United States Custom House (San Ysidro, California), Asian Pacific Thematic Historic District, Chinatown, San Diego, East Otay Mesa
- Washington, D.C.: Downtown Washington, D.C.
- Europe: Eurometropolis Lille–Kortrijk–Tournai, Trinational Eurodistrict of Basel
- Food halls: Anaheim Packing House, Platea Madrid, Union Market (Washington, D.C.)
- Mixed-use: Block 21 (Austin), Mohammed bin Rashid City (Dubai)
Other stuff
[edit]- The Audience (band)
- Billy Reid (fashion designer)
- Birgit Kronström - Finnish actress and singer - curated auto-translate from Finnish
- Brooklyn Film Festival
- Clutch (magazine)
- Dubai-Sharjah-Ajman metropolitan area
- German language in Namibia
- Honduran airlines: CM Airlines, EasySky, Lanhsa Airlines
- James Whelton, Irish programmer and co-founder of CoderDojo, computer clubs for kids
- Las Americas Premium Outlets
- List of U.S. cities by Spanish-speaking population
- List of U.S. cities by foreign-born population
- Metástasis, Spanish-language remake of Breaking Bad.
- Mennonite Heritage Center
- Minhocão (São Paulo) - road closed to traffic on Sundays
- Oppilia region in Ukraine
- Orgullosamente Latino Award
- Puerto Rico: English in Puerto Rico (2031 views/mo), Residente
- PWA Moderne architectural style
- Ritmoson Latino
- Spišská Sobota translation to English
- Teleset, Colombian producer of i.a. the Spanish version of Breaking Bad
- Tierra Santa (theme park)
- Vitameatavegamin (1334 views/mo)
- West of India Portuguese Railway
- Merged Shona sculpture with sculpture-related detail from Art of Zimbabwe to Sculpture of Zimbabwe