Userboxes en-au This user is a native speaker of Australian English. el-3 Αυτός ο χρήστης μπορεί να συνεισφέρει σε ανωτέρου επιπέδου ελληνικά. This user lives in the U.S. State of California.

An amused monkey once said:^[1]

"If the news is fake, imagine history."

A nobody historian once said:^[2]

"Periodisation is among the most prominent and least scrutinised theoretical properties of history. Scholars assert that history constitutes a seamless garment, but they cannot render the past intelligible until they subdivide it into manageable and coherent units of time. Once firmly drawn and widely accepted, period frontiers can become intellectual straitjackets that pro foundly affect our habits of mind—the way we retain images, make associations, and perceive the beginning, middle, and ending of things."

You used to have to write a book^[3] read Wikipedia articles to understand something. Now, you need to edit them -- well, more specifically: survive Talk, read copious amounts of scholarship, explain the scholarship few others read, reflect because even the scholars are confused, understand policies, and write to a best practice.^[4]