User:Lupo/rechts

Just a collection of links. Lupo

My to-do-list.

Selected Contributions

These are selected contributions—it is not a comprehensive list, but a highly subjective selection of articles I have worked on that I consider worthy mentioning or remembering for some reason or another. If you want to see all my edits, go to User contributions.

Kitchen failed to become a featured article in July 2004, mainly because people thought it was too much focused on western kitchens.

Growth of the Old Swiss Confederacy became a featured article on Nov 8, 2004! (Was featured on Dec 5, 2004. The article was called "Old Swiss Confederacy" until August 29 2006.)

Krill became a featured article on July 15, 2005!

Shrimp farm became a featured article on August 29, 2005. Although it wasn't perfect yet, it apparently was good enough. (Was featured on Oct 12, 2005.)

Paul Kane became a featured article on January 10, 2006 and was featured on March 1, 2006.

Swiss peasant war of 1653 became a good article on February 25, 2007.

Swabian War became a good article on June 6, 2007.

I also had a hand in bringing the articles on Erich von Manstein (Nov 25, 2004) and on the Antarctic krill (June 26, 2005) to feature-worthy quality, and I put up the von Manstein article for removal as a featured article on January 8, 2006.

Did you know...

• ... that American primatologist Harold J. Coolidge, Jr. was the inaugural vice president of the International Union for Conservation of Nature as well as a founding director of the World Wildlife Fund? (2011-01-30)
• ...that Swiss balloonist Eduard Spelterini was acclaimed for aerial photography before the development and proliferation of aeroplanes? (2008-11-07)
• ...that the first complete map of Iceland, based on Björn Gunnlaugsson's 1831–43 survey, is mentioned in Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth? (2007-09-18)
• ...that the Swiss peasant war of 1653 was immediately caused by a currency devaluation in the canton of Berne? (2006-08-19)
• ...that Perry Greeley Holden was the first professor of agronomy in the United States? (2006-03-30)
• ...that Swiss artist Harald Naegeli spent several months in jail in 1984 for the graffiti he had painted in Zürich from 1977 to 1979? (2006-02-24)
• ... that Simone Niggli-Luder from Switzerland won all four women's competitions at the orienteering world championships 2005 in Aichi, Japan, repeating her performance of 2003? (2005-08-23)
• ...that Andrew Ellicott taught Meriwether Lewis the art of surveying? (2005-08-11)
• ...that shrimp farms are a serious threat to the environment because they cause widespread destruction of mangroves and disperse antibiotics through their wastewater? (2005-07-06)
• ...that Japan and Poland are the world's largest Krill fishing nations since Russia abandoned its operations in 1993? (2005-06-23)

  Actually that was true until 2000. By 2003, the largest producers were Japan, South Korea, and Ukraine. Hmph! That's what I get from working with a 1997 source without checking the FAO databases for newer trends. Lupo

• ...that Valerius Anshelm (1475–c. 1546), a Swiss chronicler, wrote a history of Berne from the Burgundy Wars to 1536 that remained buried in the municipal archives of the city for 80 years? (2005-06-09)
• ...that Carl Zuckmayer wrote the script for the 1930 movie Der Blaue Engel starring Marlene Dietrich? (2005-05-17)
• ...that the Swabian War of 1499 was fought between the Old Swiss Confederacy and the emperor Maximilian I and his Swabian League? (2005-05-13)
• ...that Telford Taylor, the U.S. Chief Prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials, was also an opponent of McCarthyism and an outspoken critic of the U.S. conduct in the Vietnam War? (2005-01-05)
• ...that the Egyptian numeral for 100,000 was the hieroglyph of a tadpole or a frog? (2004-11-10)
• ...that the Burgundy Wars led to the annexation of Burgundy by France? (2004-10-19)
• ...that the Roman era of the early history of Switzerland began when the armies of Julius Caesar drove the Helvetii back from Gaul? (2004-10-12)
• ...that the Frankfurt kitchen was the first built-in kitchen, and was designed with space efficiency in mind? (2004-06-30)
• ...that the famous horny toad of North America is not an amphibian but a reptile officially known as the Short-horned Lizard? (2004-04-21)
• ...and that Amerigo Vespucci was also on the main page before Dyk even existed, as the old main page had something similar: 2004-02-07.

Other articles

• I think my first larger article was Amerigo Vespucci, and then I did a few more Tall ships: the Gorch Fock (1933), the Gorch Fock (1958), the Pamir, and the USCG Eagle, and also an article on the Flying P-Liners.
• I wrote various minor articles on music, amongst them Jazzkantine and Montreux Jazz Festival.
• I also wrote or improved a few articles on animals: all of the the North-American Eumeces, a genus of the family of Skinks, as well as the lizards in Canada: Short-horned Lizard - Northern Alligator Lizard. Other animal articles I worked on include California Tiger Salamander, Cicada, Cicada Killer Wasp, Cockchafer, Common Garter Snake, Magicicada, Neoseps, and the Spotted Quoll, for which I also prepared the blank map of Australia)
• I then started tracking down taxonomy authorities: hard work, and many of the resulting articles are just stubs.
• I cleaned up and improved the articles on the Sub-antarctic islands, for which I drew the Map of Antarctica, and the related articles.
• I refurnished Wikipedia's kitchen and equipped it with a new stove. Also see Frankfurt kitchen.
• I also installed a Geneva drive in Wikipedia...
• I filled in some of the early Supreme Directors of Argentina.
• I rewrote Korean Buddhism after its original author wanted it gone and started mutilating it. This resulted in some spin-off articles as well.
• I got involved in turning the poor article on the history of Switzerland into a whole article series, which also led to such esoteric things as the expanded coverage of the Golden Bull of 1356, or explaining what "Eidgenossenschaft" actually means.
• Erich von Manstein became a featured article on Nov 25, 2004. My contributions consisted mainly in research and in trying to make the article more balanced. See also the article's talk page.
• Writing about Telford Taylor, I realised that our coverage of the Nuremberg Trials was woefully inadequate, and so I set out to cover all of the Subsequent Nuremberg Trials.
• My ongoing project about the history of Switzerland brought me to the Swabian War.
• Somehow I got stuck a bit at the beginning of the 16th century and wrote a few articles about some cardinals (e.g. Domenico Silvio Passionei) and humanist Joachim Vadian. The red links there made me cover a few more, such as Georg Tannstetter or Peter Apian.
• I helped another user improve and clean up Antarctic krill. Having done that, I sat down and rewrote Krill from scratch and then set out to produce stubs for all the Euphausiacea genera.
• This led to my writing about Krill fishery.
• How I ended up researching for two weeks and then posting Shrimp farm I do not remember. Maybe the route Krill → aquaculture feed → shrimp farm?
• A question at the Reference desk on the precise location of the Ohio-Pennsylvania border drew my attention to Andrew Ellicott.
• The FAC on shrimp farm resulted in some big expansion of that article.
• Turned an ad-blurb into a real article on Dee Dee Bridgewater.
• A comment/question on the reference desk made me write USS Butte (AE-27). Man, what a bore!
• Wrote Wikipedia:Public domain.
• Randomly discovered Paul Kane, which at that time was a poor stub. Set out to find a photograph of the man and some references, and ended up rewriting it completely.
• Figured out the history of the Swiss motto.
• Got Template:PD-USSR deprecated after much discussion and lots of personal attacks.
• Got an external expert to write about Suzanne Bing and Jacques Copeau.
• William P. Benedict and Joseph O. Fletcher.
• Wrote about the Swiss peasant war of 1653.
• Filled in the battles of the Swabian War.
• Participated in the WikiProject Free book covers.
• Wrote a four-article series about Copyright in Russia. That was a major project that kept me occupied for several months, as everything needed to be meticulously sourced and the matter is complicated.
• A stray question over at the Commons got me to research and then write Björn Gunnlaugsson. Thanks to Haukur for his help!

Occasionally (usually when I can't concentrate enough to write an article), I do miscellaneous cleanup, I check images for copyvios, go through Special:Newpages, do a bit of RC patrolling, do the usual vandal fighting, maintain WP:PD, and so on.

Through the discussions about Soviet copyright, I also got more involved at the Commons.

Copyright issues

• http://chart.copyrightdata.com/ Pretty good, but needs to be backed by other sources (for instance, makes a broad claim that UN works were PD, which is true only for a narrow class of UN works.
• http://192.87.107.12/eva/uk/texts/wp41.pdf 1999 report, states (on "simple photographs") that "The situation is likely to vary from country to country." and indicates that this is indeed due to the interpretation of "the author’s own intellectual creation reflecting his personality" in 93/98/EEC.
• http://www.ulapland.fi/includes/file_download.asp?deptid=19687&fileid=9653&file=20061120132536.pdf&pdf=1 Koivuuma slides: Copyright Council of Finland: Finland has a high threshold of originality for photos (interpretation of "individual creation" in 93/98/EEC).
• http://www.clir.org/PUBS/reports/oakley/index.html#toc U.S. overview from 1990; a bit dated, but still good.
• http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/usc_sec_17_00000301----000-notes.html Revision notes on 17 USC 301
• http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mcopyright1.htm Straight Dope on Copyright

• ASCAP - URAA restorations Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Stravinsky, Khachaturian
• Undated commentary by Gavrilov #6, fourth bullet mentions the countries that had bilateral copyright treaties with the USSR before 1995
• Yugoslavia:
  • Kingdom of Yugoslavia member of the Berne Convention since 1930![1]
  • Signed the Berne Convention prior to 1968,[2] ratified 1975, entry in force: September 2, 1975.[3]
  • Apparently UCC member since May 11, 1966.Circular 38a
  • Croatian old laws, Croatia joined berne Convention on Oct 8, 1991. 2003 law at Unesco.

• Still to read (on Films by Jove v. Berov); Case documents; related info from 2002, [4]
• temp, disc, cat

• Copyright term and the public domain in the United States (chart)
• WIPO Collection of Laws for Electronic Access (CLEA)
• Collection of about 100 copyright laws from around the world by the UNESCO.

• Copyright term for images in Canada. Bottom line: if created before January 1, 1949, the image is in the PD in Canada. Unsure about its status in the U.S., probably also PD if created before 1946.
• Copyright FAQ from CENDI (U.S.)
• Copyright terms in Germany
• Effect of EU directive: previously expired copyrights may become effective again (Spain has 80 years p.m.a. since 1879). More detailed discussion.
• High-quality blog on copyright issues (U.S.)
• urecht is a high-quality German mailing list on copyright issues. Unfortunately not searchable, and browse access is by week only.

• NIEs:
  1. May 1, 1996, 61 FR 19371
  2. August 30, 1996, 61 FR 46133
  3. December 27, 1996, 61 FR 68453
  4. April 25, 1997, 62 FR 20211
  5. August 22, 1997, 62 FR 44841
  6. December 19, 1997, 62 FR 66765
  7. 63 FR 5141, January 30, 1998
  8. 63 FR 19287, April 17, 1998
  9. 63 FR 43830, August 14, 1998

• Fair use - Fair dealing

• Berne Convention - text

• EU Copyright Directive - text

• WIPO Copyright Treaty - text

• Argentina: Ley 11.723 (in Spanish).
• Austria.
• Australia: Fact sheets. See in particular G-23: Duration of Copyright (changed on January 1, 2005). Also see Copyright Act 1968.
• Canada: Copyright Act, C-42. [5]
• France: Doits d'auteur (in French).
• Germany: Urheberrecht (in German).
• Switzerland: Urheberrechtsgesetz (in German, also available in French and Italian).
• UK: Copyright, Design and Patents Act 1988, c. 48
• U.S.: 17 USC
• New Zealand
• Russian copyright law of 1993, with changes up to 2004. In Russian. CIPR and UNESCO have English translations. UNESCO translation of 1993 law without amendments has unfortunately been removed.

• "Non-commercial" or "Permission-only" images uploaded after May 19, 2005, are to be deleted on sight — Statement by Jimbo Wales. Lupo 13:54, 19 May 2005 (UTC)

Image catalogs

• Library of Congress - Prints & Photographs (Rights & restrictions; Copyright info)
• LoC master images
• DVIC (U.S. DoD)
• ARC (NARA)
• NARA mirror with uncompressed TIFFs
• Library and Archives Canada

• Food images from the U.S. National Cancer Institute (PD).

• ULAN

Historical encyclopedias

• Swiss Historical Encyclopedia
• Encyclopedia of Austria
• Berner Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Heimatkunde, all issues from 1997 on in full text.
• DigiBern - Berner Kultur und Geschichte im Internet.

Other stuff

• Kluwer, IEEE and Oxford University Press journals (on a Japanese server)
• Taxonomic authorities (marine)

Things to check from time to time

Search for "Blakeley" "Blakely" "Bleakeley" "Bleakley" "Bleakly" "Juan de Leon" "Pedro de Leon" "Hacienda Toscana" "Hacienda Tuscana" "Hacienda Tuscany" "Villa Tuscana" "Villa Toscana" "Villa Tuscany" "Thunderstorm Corporations". C.f. Special:Undelete/Fortress Blakeley, Special:Undelete/Fort Bleakeley, Special:Undelete/Blakeley Fortress, Special:Undelete/Hacienda Toscana, Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Fortress Blakeley, Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Fort Bleakeley, and Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive14#The Fort Bleakeley vandal.

Check image uploads: Special:Contributions/Napoleon12; Special:Contributions/Winkipedia

Known hoaxsters

• Involved in the "Fort Bleakeley" incidents: Special:Contributions/Kaschner (created "Hacienda Toscana"), Special:Contributions/Wellmann (created "Fortress Blakeley"), IPs 84.154.*.* (unfortunately an awful lot, from "Fort Bleakeley"), Special:Contributions/Alksentros (created "Blakeley Fortress").
• Highly suspect are also Special:Contributions/Dobermann, Special:Contributions/Pyrite, Special:Contributions/Aquarius, and Special:Contributions/Beagle (all from this nonsense at the VP, where the same IPs re-appear). Note that Kaschner (see above) is also involved in this. Aquarius, Beagle, and Pyrite are obviously dormant accounts. IPs 84.154.*.* are from the German Telekom. Also see Special:Contributions/Jake0618 (from User talk:Plek) and maybe User:JakeGHz (collateral damage?). Also Special:Contributions/Aquatic. Also Special:Contributions/Jake013, see Project Prometheus (JPL) (first version). And of course Special:Contributions/Jake007...
• Trinity College, Dublin: Special:Contributions/134.226.1.136, see User talk:134.226.1.136 (IP has acquired many good edits, seems to be shared by many people at the college); and Special:Contributions/Paulfitz. Also Special:Contributions/Brianreddy.