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This user is associated with the Mexican capital of Ciudad de México.
This user lives in, or hails from, Los Angeles.
This user is associated with the Netherlands.
This user does not work in but appreciates Architecture.
This user is interested in history.
en-5This user can contribute with a professional level of English.
nl-4Deze gebruiker spreekt vloeiend en foutloos Nederlands.
es-4El nivel de este usuario corresponde al de un hablante casi nativo del español.
tr-3Bu kullanıcı ileri düzey Türkçe ile katkıda bulunabilir.
de-3Dieser Benutzer hat sehr gute Deutschkenntnisse.
fr-3Cet utilisateur peut contribuer avec un niveau avancé de français.
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هذا المستخدم يستطيع المساهمة بالعربية بمستوى متوسط.
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ru-2Этот участник неплохо знает русский язык.

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

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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.

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

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Not much. Some banknotes and currency history, a few music articles, and the Dutch Caribbean.

Late 2023 – 2024: department stores everywhere, L.A. street grids, Israel and Palestine

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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

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Quieter years. Mostly malls and shopping streets in Mexico City and Tijuana and Istanbul.

2020: the big shopping center year

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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

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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

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2010–2015: where it started (Atlanta, then Mexico City)

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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

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...and for which I created an article

Topics I was amazed what improvement was needed

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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)
  • 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

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History of Atlanta

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Buildings

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Historic districts

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Miscellaneous

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Neighborhoods extant and extinct

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...plus some districts/areas and a couple small towns around Atlanta

Streets

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Parks and trails

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People

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I have created pages for a few architects who were active in "old" Atlanta (roughly 1880s-1920s)

Sculptures

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Templates

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Mexico

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Mexico City

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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

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Cuba

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Netherlands

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Other places

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Other stuff

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