User:Lupo/To do

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A list of various things I want to do. If you want to help me, jump right in!

Famous African Americans:

• Expand Coretta Scott King and David Dinkins.

History of Switzerland:

• Keep going with the articles linked from Template:History of Switzerland.
• Expand both Zürich#History and Grisons#History. The History of the Grisons is sufficiently complicated that it probably deserves its own article. de:Graubünden#Geschichte is a good, if a bit too concise, summary. See also [1] and [2].
• Bern#History and Canton of Berne#History also look rather shallow. Probably deserves a separate article History of Berne, with summaries with different emphasis in the two other articles, for the canton grew out of the city's tributary regions.
• History of the Valais from de:Geschichte des Wallis.
• History of Lucerne from de:Geschichte des Kantons Luzern.
• Rewrite Battle of Sempach, its current [14:27, 13 Oct 2004 (UTC)] style is just unbearable.
• Städtebund, with redirects from Städtebünde and maybe City alliances (I haven't found any exact translation of the German term), starting from e.g. [3] (a bit too Switzerland-centric) and de:Städtebund.
• Communal movement in medieval Europe. I have a preliminary print source, will need researching of on-line resources.
• Hintersassen: not all Eidgenossen were equal! Cf. [4].
• Basel#History is very short indeed.

Nazi Germany People

• Go through Special:Contributions/68.248.199.3 and verify/source these articles!
• Check any article on Nazi Germany people I come across for "hidden" (and typically apologetic or outright pro-Nazi) POV phrasing. Such as capitalizing on successes, not mentioning war crimes committed (or, in the case of military commanders, committed by their troops or in areas they were active), not mentioning convictions in post-war trials, putting terms like "war criminal" or "crimes against humanity" in quotes, biased references showing only one (usually the positive) side, etc.

Medieval Literature

• Fix Reynard the Fox and write Ysengrimus. (The former is derived from the latter, so there cannot be any talk of "most improbably"!) My research so far:

[5], Google cache of Britannica page, the 1911 Britannica, History of Reynard the Fox (PDF, 393kB), [6], [7], a literature fer for Ysengrimus, one for Reynard (pp. 155-166), comprehensive history of Reynard (in German), Dutch text, also mentioning the Ecbasis captivi, another precursor of Reynard, in which the beasts are unnamed, Isengrim @ Britannica, French Literature @ 1911.