Things that are possibly interesting about me:

• I am originally from Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada.
• As a teenager I lived in London, Ontario.
• In 2003 I graduated with an honours BA in history from the University of Western Ontario.
• I was also in classical studies at UWO for a year, as a "special student" ("Ralph, you're on special teams!"), but I didn't stay to get a second BA.
• I've essentially finished an MA at the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto, which is world-renowned and very intimidating, but on the other hand they have Latin Scrabble. I'll be starting the PhD program there in September.
• According to the Centre I can read French, German, and Latin (although strictly speaking this is of course Medieval Latin).
• I work in the library at the Toronto Sun newspaper, and formerly I did essentially the same job at the London Free Press. What that job is exactly is hard to explain, but I should say that my job thankfully does not require me to actually read or even look at the Toronto Sun (I get to work with Le Journal de Montréal, Le Journal de Québec, and a bunch of little local newspapers instead).
• My other webpage consists mostly of guitar tablature.

I think I first came across this place through Quizbowl, and my first contribution was the Alexius IV article in January, 2003, although I didn't have a user name at that point. In June, 2003, I started contributing more regularly.

On the Wikipediholic test I once scored 116. I'm a Wikipediholic! I'm just can't get enough Wikipedihol!

I usually contribute to historical stuff - my interests are mainly medieval history, especially the Byzantine Empire and the Crusades, and also medieval England and France. I am also interested in Canadian history, ancient history, linguistics, and mythology. I sometimes contribute to some popular culture stuff too. I also like to work on those addictive lists, and add stuff to all those year articles. I try to avoid controversial articles, which is pretty easy when I'm working on obscure figures from the Fourth Crusade, or whatever.

I have been an administrator since September 2, 2003. First you get the admin status, then you get the power, then you get the women...right?

Sandbox

If you want to see something I'm working on, you could look at my sandbox. Right now it's some fiddling around with tables for political succession boxes, and a partial list of Crusader castles.

I also did a sample of occurrences of Gdansk and Danzig in a few newspapers, which someone may find interesting.

Articles

Since this was getting unwieldy, and I'm sure no one really cares, I'll move the the articles I have worked on (that I feel are worthy of mentioning) or created to a separate page, User:Adam Bishop/articles.

Some sort of license thingy

I don't understand any of this but supposedly I need to put it on my page:

I agree to multi-license all my contributions to any U.S. state, county, or city article as described below: