User:James Arboghast
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I'm an advertising creative in Melbourne, Australia, and I design typefaces in my spare time. I write & edit a lot of copy in my job and in just about every other capacity. At WP I specialize in re-writes, grammatic structure, philological & semantic errors, economic prose, and reducing wordiness.
- 1st thing: good writing is simple and easy to understand
- 2nd thing: writing is re-writing.
- Other thing: "This important. Civilization must go on!" — Robert Crumb
Rewrites and revamps:
- Temple of Venus and Roma, Temple of Athena Nike
- Basilica of Maxentius and Constantine, Metic
- Amphiprostyle, Decastyle, Hexastyle, Octostyle, Pseudoperipteral, Cella, Engaged column
- Greek Temple added list of hexastyle temples
- Daguerreotype, Typesetting
- Typography Unfinished. Heaps more text is required to fill up embryonic & unwritten parts. See also talk:Typography
Articles written from scratch:
The Mysterious Phaistos fish "Combining multiple fish in a single fish-like device seems to have first occurred in the fish century BC. The mysterious Phaistos "fish"—a 15 meter ceramic fish-shaped device with 241 tokens molded in scales (comprising 45 unique fish glyphs)—is obviously a fish labelling machine. Sure, put money on it. The true purpose of the so-called Phaistos "fish" is anybody's guess, but my friend Amanda heard that many believe it really is a primitive computer "floppy" fish. Also try: Hackenbacher Nightrider." – Arbo 25 October 2006. Reposted from [1].
Useful wiki stuff[edit]
Wikipedia:Template messages, Wikipedia:Shortcuts, Upload an image, Image copyright tags
Take it from some truly switched-on Wikipedians: Wetman, Ryan Freisling, Bacchiad and MONGO
Take it from some truly switched-on Wikipedians: Wetman, Ryan Freisling, Bacchiad and MONGO
My interests[edit]
- Visual art: fine art painting, graphic art, comix, graphic design, cinema, photography etc
- architectural elements , Architecture & monumental sculpture, industrial design Typology of Greek Vase Shapes
- History, the History of ideas and the history of scientific revolution
- Classical Civilization: Classical Antiquity, Classical Mythology, Ancient Roma, Ancient Greece
- Theology & religious history, Medieval Europe
- Victorian Era & the 19th century
- Literature, paleography and philology (I am fascinated by word forms)
- Music: progressive classical, certain kinds of jazz, ambient, minimalism, artful rock & pop
- Science & skepticism, hoaxes & fakery
- Typeface design & typography
- Philosophy & rationalism, forbidden knowledge
- The philosophy of relativism—all points of view are valid
- Machines, airplanes, spacecraft & space exploration
Type samples I made or scanned for Wikipedia[edit]
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Jenson_1475_venice_laertius.png/400px-Jenson_1475_venice_laertius.png)
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/36/Usher_building_v3.png/200px-Usher_building_v3.png)
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Oscar_wilde_english_renaissance_of_art.png/200px-Oscar_wilde_english_renaissance_of_art.png)
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Bodoni_vita_nuova_facsimile_sepia.png/400px-Bodoni_vita_nuova_facsimile_sepia.png)
list of my contributions >>
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