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''Welcome'' to my Wikipedia user page. It has a little information about my background and the projects I'm working on or might be available to help with. Then there's a whole bunch of useless userboxes.

''Some explanation about using my real name.'' Many Wikipedians prefer anonymity and making their contributions with no recognition by name.  That would be my preference too, but I've chosen to obey a different imperative: namely transparency in order to avoid conflict of interest.  So, I'm here under my own name.  I respect those who've made the other choice and in many ways agree; I hope they'll respect my choice and my reasons.

''Please do not edit my user page.''
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==Wikipedia Accomplishments==
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==Background==
===Day job===
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In my day job, I'm a professional biostatistician -- interested in in applications of statistics, mathematics, and artificial intelligence to clinical trials, outcomes, and medical decision making, as well as to healthy communities and sustainability. For some years, I have not been university-affiliated, but have a small [http://www.wpcmath.com consulting business] that is independent, one-man and intended to stay that way. I have taught philosophy, mathematics, and statistics at the university and postgraduate level, been an investigator or coinvestigator on several academic research projects, and a consultant to numerous industrial firms. I've held a peer-reviewed grant from NASA to develop telemetric medical decision support for the space station. I was a designer of the largest multi-center clinical trial ever held in spinal cord injury, and am a member of an NIH clinical study section. [http://www.wpcmath.com/wpc_cv.pdf My CV] can be downloaded as a pdf.

===Arts===
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Otherwise, I've written several screenplays, a stage play, some short stories and a novella. I have a novel about half finished. I also like to write essays about the visual arts. I take [http://williampcoleman.smugmug.com/ photographs].

===Philosophy, Ancient Greece===
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Before turning to getting a PhD in computers and statistics as a way of making a living, I studied classics in high school and philosophy as an undergraduate and graduate in college.  I'm deeply interested in ancient Greek philosophy and literature.

===Ancient China===
I study Tai Chi (both Yang Style and Chen Style), and I work on translating the Tao Te Ching and classical Chinese poetry. Lately, I'm especially fond of the poems of [[Su Shi| Su Tung P'o]].

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==Blog==
Almost all of the above-mentioned, varied topics are also represented in [http://williampcoleman.wordpress.com/ my blog], which is intended as a non-profit source, reusable under a [[Creative Commons]] "by-nc-nd" license.  My basic plan is to contribute factual reporting to Wikipedia -- and original research and opinion to the blog.

==Contact==
wpc at wpcmath dot com

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Yes, I realize I've joined a lot of projects. But, that reflects the reality.  I'm actually interested in all these things, and active in them in various ways.  I hope to make at least some contribution to each project and to be available to other users who might want my advice or help in these areas.  If you need me, please leave a message on my talk page.

In all these projects, of course, my basic plan is to keep checking with the project talk page and finding grunt work to do.  In some, though, I have specific ideas about contributions I'd like to work on.
===Arts===
'''I'm currently very active on''' [[Nausea (novel)]], which was the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels|Novels WikiProject]] [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels/Collaboration|Collaboration of the Month]] in January.
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!colspan="1"| <div style="text-align:left"> work-in-progress: [[Modernist poetry]]</div>
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|In the [[Portal:Arts/Things you can do]], it's mentioned as an open task to expand [[Modernist poetry]]. I would like to work on this. The existing article is a 1-paragraph stub that has remained unedited and undiscussed since first written by [[User:Stirling Newberry]] 00:32, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC). 

[[Modernist poetry]] has a [[Modernist poetry#See also|See also]], several of whose references to national schools are themselves are not yet even stubs but would need to be created.  

It also cites two perhaps unnecessarily competing lists: [[List of modernist poets]] and [[List of English-language first and second generation modernist writers]]. Both of these lists are exclusively English-language, and both indiscriminately mix precursors, high modernists, late modernists, and post-modernists.  They should be reorganized into list(s) that are international and that give the reader some idea of chronology and of specific movements.

I think the main article should be international and make general comparisons and contrasts, while the national articles should describe chronology and movements within each country.

I'd start by researching names of poets suggested by Marjorie Perloff in the course of [http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/perloff/anth.html an article on anthologies] that mentions which modernist poets she feels belong where: 
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there was little doubt as to the position of the Great Modernist Precursors. True, one could quarrel as to the relative merits of [[Robert Frost]] or of [[E. E. Cummings|e. e. cummings]], true such forgotten women poets as [[Mina Loy]] and [[Laura Riding|Laura Riding Jackson]] had not yet been rediscovered. But whose list did not include [[T. S. Eliot|Eliot]] and [[Ezra Pound|Pound]], [[Wallace Stevens|Stevens]] and [[William Carlos Williams|Williams]], [[Marianne Moore|Moore]] and [[H.D.]], [[Gertrude Stein]] and [[Hart Crane]]? Add to these the English poet [[W. H. Auden|Auden]], the French [[Paul Valéry|Valéry]] and [[Pierre Reverdy|Reverdy]], [[Guillaume Apollinaire|Apollinaire]] and [[Blaise Cendrars|Cendrars]], the German [[Rainer Maria Rilke|Rilke]], [[Georg Trakl|Trakl]], and [[Bertolt Brecht|Brecht]], the Spanish [[Federico García Lorca|Lorca]], and Argentinian [[Pablo Neruda|Neruda]], and you have a pretty fixed notion of what Modernism-in-Poetry would look like. . . . such 'forerunners' of Modernism as [[William Blake|Blake]], [[Friedrich Hölderlin|Hölderlin]], [[Emily Dickinson|Dickinson]] and [[Arthur Rimbaud|Rimbaud]] through the [[Futurism (art)|Futurisms]], [[Dada]], [[Surrealism|Surrealism]], and [[Objectivist poets|Objectivism]] . . . 
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Others:
* Russians: [[Marina Tsvetaeva]], [[Russian Symbolism]], [[Valery Bryusov]], [[Maximilian Voloshin]], [[Osip Mandelstam]], [[Acmeist poetry]], [[Boris Pasternak]], [[Anna Akhmatova]]
* Americans: [[Fugitives (poets)]] 
* English: [[Yvor Winters]], [[Cecil Day-Lewis]], [[Cecil Day-Lewis#A New Anthology of Modern Verse 1920-1940 (1941)]], [[Cecil Day-Lewis#The Chatto Book of Modern Poetry 1915-1955 (1956)]], [[Louis MacNeice]], [[Stephen Spender]]
* French: [[Rimbaud and modern culture]], [[Paul Verlaine]], [[Stéphane Mallarmé]], [[Charles Baudelaire]]
* Spanish and Latin American: 
* Italian:
* Polish:
* German: [[Hermann Hesse]], [[Paul Celan]], [[Expressionism]]
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!colspan="1"| <div style="text-align:left">work-in-progress: [[Poetics]]</div>
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|Expand it.
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!colspan="1"| <div style="text-align:left">to-do: [[Andre Gide]]</div>
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|See plans for work on [[Andre Gide]], mentioned under [[#LGBT]].
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===Classical Greece===
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===Classical China===
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===Clinical Trials and Medical Decisions===
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===LGBT===
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!colspan="1"| <div style="text-align:left">to-do: Andre Gide</div>
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| I would like to work on building up the coverage of the gay French novelist [[Andre Gide]], a major figure in [[Modernism]].  Right now there are only stubs on his most important books [[The Immoralist|L'immoraliste]], [[The Counterfeiters|Les faux-monnayeurs]], and [[Corydon (book)|Corydon]].
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!colspan="1"| <div style="text-align:left">to-do: LGBT youth in trouble</div>
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|  Wikipedia should be more helpful to LGBT youth in trouble, who are likely to come here for solace and information, even though it's "supposed to be" a cold-hearted encyclopedia.  We aren't social workers, but we could pass troubled kids along to people who are.  These articles don't have to be preachy or comforting -- but they could describe and make available sources that help -- and they could allow teens to see (in fair perspective) that a world exists in which their problems are real, widespread, and can be coped or dealt with.  Such articles should be easy to find and invitingly worded.
** ''Gay teen suicide.''  There's currently an article [[teenage suicide]] that has problems, IMHO.
*** It's far too cold and impersonal, even for an encyclopedia article. No teenager thinking of suicide would be even slightly deterred.
*** Its mention of LBGT teens is too buried to be very noticeable.
*** I don't know how good the chances are that any suicidal teenager, LGBT or not, would happen to stumble on it.
** ''Homeless LGBT youth.'' My search doesn't reveal anything about thise topic, although there are reputable studies in the past year showing an "epidemic." 
*** The Task Force study shows "LGBT youth: epidemic of homelessness — Of 1.6 million homeless American youth, 20-40% are LGBT. Why do they become homeless? 26% of gay teens who come out to parents/guardians are told to leave home. More suffer physical, sexual, or emotional abuse."
*** A newer study by Empire State Coalition says 3,800 people under 25 live on streets of NY, and 30% are LGBT. This is 3 times the % of NY’s LGBT community. 42% sleep on streets, in subways or empty buildings. Some turn to prostitution to spend the night.
** I don't know if we have findable articles that give information about and access to the many services ''helping gay teens or empowering them to help themselves against abuse or discrimination'' at home, in school, or in later life.
** A more subtle problem is that -- even without overt abuse or discrimination -- ''it's emotionally hard growing up LGBT'': figuring yourself out, coming to have a sense that you can build an emotionally fulfilling life in this world.  We could have articles that are not recruitment and not counseling -- but that (within the boundaries of factual reporting) let teens know that they're not alone, that others feel these things and that there is a variety of possibilities and opportunities for a variety of people.
** I'd be glad to help out with these social service issues (I do know links to a number of resources) but I would need collaborative help, due to the following deficiencies:
*** I'm not exactly super-proficient as a Wikipedia editor.
*** I'm not experienced in fending off the local variety of homophobes.
*** I don't know zip about social work or counseling in any formal way.
*** Although I was once a teenager, it was back around the year 1810 and I'm a little out of touch.
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!colspan="1"| <div style="text-align:left">to-do: Edgar Z. Friedenberg and Paul Goodman</div>
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| Back in the '60s, there was a group of theorists about freeing people and radically transforming education.  One of the leaders was [[Paul Goodman]], a bisexual, represented now on Wikipedia only by a very incomplete stub. Another eloquent voice was Edgar Z. Friedenberg, a gay who happened to teach at the university where I was a student: SUNY at Buffalo.  Friedenberg does not appear to be represented on Wikipedia at all.     ---Are we talking about the same guy quoted in Wars on Campus as having said: "failure to establish adherence to conventional forms of patriotic observance, or uncritical acceptance of authority (in childhood education)...is not tolerable" ?? -- lisaf106@gmail.com

In some ways, their message now seems out-of-date, with changing conditions and changes in the attitude of youth.  However, there's also something timeless in their call for respecting the freedom of the individual and the dignity of young people.

Although I'm not a sociologist or educator, I would like to work on expanding coverage of the publications of both these men, and I'd be grateful for any help.
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===Logic===
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* Philosophy
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===NY State===
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