User:WhisperToMe

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WhisperToMe is an American citizen and legal resident of Houston, Texas who worked in Shenzhen in southern China, near Hong Kong, from 2016 to 2020. He has an affinity for computers and world cultures, and has traveled throughout Asia during his time working there. He speaks English, some Mandarin Chinese, very little Spanish, and very little French.

He is currently a coordinator for the Wikimedia Hong Kong user group; feel free to send an e-mail to him if you need to contact him.

He was a sysop from 2003 to 2023.

Want to request Houston-area pictures for Wikipedia? Leave a request at my talk page - I do not guarantee that I will take the picture.

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Books to write about

  • Make reviews of: https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/the-last-ships-from-hamburg-review-voyage-to-the-golden-land-c637f449
  • Make reviews of: https://www.wsj.com/articles/barons-of-the-sea-review-rigging-the-market-1532050707
  • Make reviews of: https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/the-money-kings-review-after-success-an-uneasy-feeling-e3965b81
  • "The Warrior's Camera: The Cinema of Akira Kurosawa"
  • ru:Розничная торговля КНР
  • https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-elusive-story-of-the-bread-and-butter-pickle-sandwich?utm_source=pocket-newtab
  • ms:Senarai sekolah swasta di Malaysia
  • Lycée International de Houston https://france-amerique.com/en/the-lycee-international-de-houston-starts-its-first-semester/
  • Meten English https://finance.sina.com.cn/tech/2020-12-21/doc-iiznctke7612987.shtml
  • https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/18/books/review/the-first-day-of-spring-nancy-tucker.html
  • https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/the-enslaved-families-who-went-to-court-to-win-their-freedom/2020/12/11/d126577a-2d94-11eb-bae0-50bb17126614_story.html
  • Bissonnet Road https://www.chron.com:443/bellaire/news/article/Bissonnet-carries-a-long-history-3993739.php
  • A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/03/stabbing-crucifixion-eaten-by-eels-learn-all-about-murder-the-roman-way/?utm_source=pocket-newtab
  • https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520272743/coming-to-terms-with-the-nation and https://journals.openedition.org/chinaperspectives/5586
  • Pierre Rosegger (poet) https://archives.saltresearch.org/bitstream/123456789/129372/552/PFSIF9180718A381.jpg
  • http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/10/AR2008011003462.html
  • Stalin's Last Crime: The Plot Against the Jewish Doctors, 1948-1953.
  • Frederick Stewart and the Education of Colonial Hong Kong https://www.cefc.com.hk/article/gillian-bickley-the-golden-needle-the-biography-of-frederick-stewart-1836-1889/ and https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/japc.11.2.12che http://caes.hku.hk/hkjalonline/issues/?guest_id=6247700e95be106e7b62b6a2dce3ab9213b569255f89aad8cf3db02f169405cd&file=1998_v3_2_evans.pdf https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/china-quarterly/article/abs/golden-needle-the-biography-of-frederick-stewart-18361889-by-gillian-bickley-hong-kong-david-c-lam-institute-for-eastwest-studies-hong-kong-baptist-university-1997-1350-isbn-9628027085/5F1BDFFB0B48418C89F8D9982F4F38DC
  • https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu:443/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1239&context=jil
  • https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691133386/paths-out-of-dixie
  • Books discussed in https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/1/9/14207302/authoritarian-states-boring-tolerable-fascism-trump
  • True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee - https://slate.com/culture/2021/02/stan-lee-biography-true-believer-excerpt-jack-kirby-marvel-comics.html?utm_source=pocket-newtab
  • Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain.
  • The Backlash: Right-Wing Radicals, High-Def Hucksters, and Paranoid Politics in the Age of Obama https://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/14/books/14book.html
  • The Second Founding
  • http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1993-01-03/entertainment/9303150591_1_stella-goldschlag-peter-wyden-berlin
  • Addiction By Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas
  • Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
  • Reaganland: America’s Right Turn 1976-1980
  • In the Ruins of Neoliberalism: The Rise of Antidemocratic Politics in the West,
  • https://www.jstor.org/stable/23731886?seq=1
  • https://www.asu.edu/mpa/Bartels.pdf
  • Rudy Giuliani: Emperor of the City
  • Quebec Schools https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/high-school-boy-s-dress-code-protest-arrives-1.5760467 and https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/montreal-area-boys-stage-brief-protest-against-short-skirt-rules-1.5755570
  • https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2020/06/china-west-portugal-macau-taiwan/612379/
  • Africa since 1940: The Past of the Present
  • Beatrice S. Bartlett. Monarchs and Ministers: The Grand Council in Mid-Ch'ing China, 1723–1820. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1991.
  • Cape May County, New Jersey: the making of an American resort community
  • Fault Lines: Portrait of East Austin https://www.texasmonthly.com/the-culture/photos-east-austin-before-boom/ http://tupress.org/books/fault-lines
  • Why Hitler Came into Power: An Answer Based on the Original Life Stories of Six Hundred of His Followers (1938)
  • Maestro (book about Alan Greenspan)
  • Mating in Captivity
  • For Better: The Science of a Good Marriage
  • Will Our Love Last? - Sam R. Hamburg
  • http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/18/AR2005061801105_pf.html
  • Fortunes of Africa: A 5,000 Year History of Wealth, Greed and Endeavour.
  • https://search.proquest.com/openview/f1e079597948442c34210d2aff2dbbbf/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=48346 and https://megalodon.jp/ref/2020-0815-0317-16/https://s3.amazonaws.com:443/crawl.prod.proquest.com/fpcache/f1e079597948442c34210d2aff2dbbbf.pdf?X-Amz-Security-Token=FwoGZXIvYXdzEOT%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2FwEaDAFmLIRyE8m%2BkwVTGiKrAXSzWLcKnk%2Fx7o5b530xjoc8VxvT%2BgiBXwAMlSBzEao61NSV0d5jiC4kPv2KwhLspAWldCKNCEpaZw0unlUX0r8Hg2hcFtv31zk0a6lDiTXtKggP5JKai7W4x6Ahp9atkOkOo8ljrbNVihEk1GtDt0Hessc6y33%2F%2BlBJI0i9Bw3D3XIT598r%2FtZk61tF%2FshAQefiFKdt24fZuD1WOQ%2FvGqQMChKvJfWrYa3dzSiSptv5BTItaswRpfuaEhkDJrKXUkq%2B6PlcS4HOpuFwH9Evr34mR4Am7R4puK8axWzCpwZw&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Date=20200814T181550Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Expires=3600&X-Amz-Credential=ASIAXRL7BHBKZHX7HIH5%2F20200814%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Signature=46a8e3438889117c4979344f27f3c15077aa4825f261197c5346f44cef3a8221
  • Francophonie and the Orient: French-Asian Transcultural Crossings (1840-1940)
  • "The last stand of Chinese conservatism;: The T'ung-chih restoration, 1862-1874" by Mary Wright
  • Swastika Nation by Arnie Bernstein
  • Faith and Doubt https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/01/30/a-theology-of-power-mike-pence-and-the-dominionists/
  • The World in Guangzhou: Africans and Other Foreigners in South China’s Global Marketplace
  • https://academic.oup.com/ahr/article-abstract/118/5/1621/20574
  • Possible movie to https://iffr.com/sites/default/files/iffr_2017_catalogue.pdf?ct=t(Tiger_Alert_Pro_January_2017_4_1_23_2017)
  • https://online.ucpress.edu/phr/article/48/4/501/76578/The-Forgotten-Occupation-Peking-1900-1901
  • http://www.dartmouth.edu/~qing/WEB/LIU_K'UN-I.html
  • https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/871920
  • http://www.dartmouth.edu/~qing/WEB/LIU_K%27UN-I.html
  • https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20130930-did-hollywood-help-the-nazis (also https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20150206-the-most-racist-movie-ever-made)
  • https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/azeenghorayshi/salt-in-my-soul-cystic-fibrosis-memoir
  • https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/tmr/article/view/16554
  • https://www.houshamadyan.org/mapottomanempire/vilayet-of-edirne/sandjak-of-rodosto/education-and-sport/schools.html
  • The History of Sexuality, Michel Foucault
  • Women With Mustaches and Men Without Beards: Gender and Sexual Anxieties of Iranian Modernity
  • Wahhabi Islam: From Revival and Reform to Global Jihad (2004)
  • Let All of Them Take Heed": Mexican Americans and the Campaign for Educational Equality in Texas, 1910-1981
  • http://web.archive.org/web/20030210095645/http://www.boston.com/globe/spotlight/abuse/betrayal/
    • http://web.archive.org/web/20030203190934/http://www.boston.com/globe/spotlight/abuse/stories2/070702_betrayal_review.htm
    • http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/14/books/review/14APPLEBT.html
  • Book about Fiat-Ford race
  • Radicalism in American Silent Films, 1909-1929: A Filmography and History
  • Final Voyage: A Story of Arctic Disaster and One Fateful Whaling Season
  • "Sesame Street" and the Reform of Children's Television.
  • https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/books/6-books-to-help-kids-young-adults-learn-about-racism
  • https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/movies-tv/review-beautiful-day-isnt-really-about-mister-rogers-and-thats-why-it-works
  • Jews of Egypt: From Prosperity to Diaspora
  • Spreading Misandry: The Teaching of Contempt for Men in Popular Culture
  • The Red and the Black: American Film Noir in the 1950s
  • Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/about-us/cidrap-staff/michael-t-osterholm-phd-mph
  • The Way of the Strangers: Encounters with the Islamic State https://features.texasmonthly.com/editorial/the-convert/
  • The Terror Years: From Al-Qaeda to the Islamic State
  • A Southern Family in White and Black: the Cuneys of Texas
  • Brands, Trademarks and Goodwill: The Story of the Quaker Oats Company. McGraw-Hill, 1967, p. 154.
  • The Plantation Mistress: Woman’s World in the Old South
  • Slave in a Box
  • The Myth of Aunt Jemima
  • Where I Come From: Life Lessons of a Latino Chef by Sanchez - https://www.texasmonthly.com/podcast/aaron-sanchez-memoir-mexican-restaurants/
  • Languages of China by S. Ramsey
  • History of Modern Chinese by Chen Ping
  • Norman, Jerry (1988). Chinese. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-29653-3.
  • “Secession on Trial: The Treason Prosecution of Jefferson Davis,” - from https://www.law.virginia.edu/news/201710/was-secession-legal and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awU7PIojVvE&feature=youtu.be
  • https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2010/jul/16/favourite-medical-graphic-novels
  • The Last Dinosaur Book: The Life and Times of a Cultural Icon
  • Jesse Jones, Capitalism, and the Common Good by Steven Fenberg
  • Going Back to Galveston by Killingsworth
  • Houston: The Unknown City, 1836–1946 by Marguerite Johnston
  • https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/23739770.2020.1765581?journalCode=rifa20
  • Not Quite White: White Trash and the Boundaries of Whitness
  • The Stab-in-the Back Myth and the Fall of the Weimar Republic
  • Year of the Rabbit by Tian Veas seen at https://www.booklistonline.com/Year-of-the-Rabbit-Veasna-Tian/pid=9731531
  • Bullying Scars https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-being-bullied-affects-your-adulthood?utm_source=pocket-newtab
  • Modern Japanese Thought by Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi
  • Mad Wives and Island Dreams: Shimao Toshio and the Margins of Japanese Literature by Philip Gabriel
  • The Bridegroom was a Dog by Yoko Tawada
  • More Than a Momentary Nightmare: The Yokohama Incident and Wartime Japan by Janice Matsumura

Other stuff

  • École Française Internationale de Djeddah I found an article in the Arab News. https://www.arabnews.com:443/node/383762
  • Japanese School of Jeddah https://www.arabnews.com/node/2030016/saudi-arabia
  • zh:生活在树上
  • Sayun (film) - https://scholars.ln.edu.hk/en/publications/不一樣的月光-尋找沙韻-台灣首部原住民導演院線電影的教育意義-よる台湾初のチェーン興行映画における教育意義それぞれの月明かりサユン - https://web.alcd.center/aew/book.php?id=56 - https://alcd-web.s3-ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/03/ca0888e8badbfd16eae17865248e3ba0.pdf
  • https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2013/02/22/american-teacher-in-japan-under-fire-for-lessons-on-japans-history-of-discrimination/
  • https://fbaum.unc.edu/teaching/articles/AJPS-2006-Taber.pdf
  • https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/the-brazil-series-by-bob-dylan-new-series-of-paintings-suggests-he-shouldnt-give-up-day-job-10273643.html

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The username award
I love your username! Elsa Enchanted (talk) 16:56, 12 April 2016 (UTC)
The Brilliant Idea Barnstar
Thank you for writing up an improvised guideline for citation best practices. I hope we can share this far and wide. Viriditas (talk) 05:01, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
The Writer's Barnstar
I've come across numerous articles you wrote and am amazed by the amount of contribution you've made. Just want to drop a note to let you know that your hard work is greatly appreciated! Cheers, Zanhe (talk) 09:09, 5 February 2015 (UTC)
The Citation Barnstar The Citation Barnstar
For your efforts to combat linkrot. Rlink2 (talk) 02:39, 3 March 2022 (UTC)
For contributing such a large body of work without sacrificing quality, I, ClockworkSoul, award you the Tireless Contributor Barnstar.
Another Tireless Contributor Barnstar, For being such an active admin (sysop). Sgt_Pikachu5 14:08, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
I, Geg, hereby award you the Anime and Manga BarnSakura for your excellent edits in anime and manga-related articles.
For keeping a cool head during the Hercule move discussions--SUIT
The Original Barnstar
For having made 117324 edits as I write this, I, Majorly give WhisperToMe The Original Barnstar. Congratulations! Majorly (talk) 13:58, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
This barnstar is for your tireless efforts in creating and improving Taro Kagami, and Shinigami (Death Note)#Ryuk. Please, keep up the great work. Thanks! Dwilso talk 04:52, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
The Copyeditor's Barnstar
Well done WhisperToMe! Jazyfko (talk) 21:20, 16 April 2013 (UTC)
For creation of the Mirmo! article. User:122.54.93.104
The Working Man's Barnstar
For your work on Joe Murray and related articles. Yngvarr 22:39, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
For extensive work on Ages of consent in the United States -- you've turned a basic redirect into an encyclopedic article. Well done! Etamni | ✉   07:11, 14 September 2015 (UTC)
The Pakistan Barnstar of National Merit
For your work on creating articles on Pakistani international schools! Mar4d (talk) 05:13, 5 November 2015 (UTC)
The Photographer's Barnstar
Thanks for all of the images you have contributed (and inserted into articles) from Austin, Texas. EagleAg04 (talk) 16:37, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
The Barnstar of Peace
For an editor who always keeps a cool head in heated dicussions and has always served as the beacon of light for civility. Good job! I hope you stick around for another 5 years! Utan Vax (talk) 21:28, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
The Schools Barnstar
Awarded to User:WhisperToMe for outstanding work in various US based international schools.Lenticel (talk) 01:39, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar
For your excellent work on multiple ethnicity-related articles! It's wonderful! Articles like that (e.g. Japanese community of São Paulo, Maghrebian community of Paris) are very interesting! And, maybe they can be good ways to show people diversity. I hope they can make people become less intolerant. :) Haha maybe I'm a dreamer... Anyway, it's delightful to see your work on it. My best regards. Gabriel Yuji (talk) 20:00, 4 June 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for resolving our dispute over the PRISM AP story in a civil manner! And thanks for taking the initiative by conducting research and finding the alternative source! Nstrauss (talk) 17:29, 13 June 2013 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar
Thank you for your all-around contributions to Wikipedia, sometimes big, sometimes small, always appreciated! Zad68 03:23, 9 December 2012 (UTC)
The Schools Barnstar
For contributions to school articles across Wikipedia, I award WhisperToMe the schools barnstar! --Jh12 (talk) 17:18, 8 December 2008 (UTC)|}
The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
Thanks for your efforts on various Philadelphia neighborhood articles! SummerPhD (talk) 04:37, 9 November 2011 (UTC)
WhisperToMe is awarded this Tireless Contributor Barnstar for continually correcting and editing Wikipedia Pages related to any place in Texas including Manvel High School Manvel,Texas and many other cities and places I do herein award you this barnstar. -- Mayorofrosharona05:36, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
100,000 Edits
I, Bugboy52.4, award you for reaching 100,000 edits according to the List of Wikipedians by number of edits generated 11:45 pm, 24 February 2009. Keep up the good work!________________________________________________________________
The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
This barnstar is for your tireless efforts in reverting vandalism on wikipedia great work. Thanks! South Bay (talk) 02:42, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
For your contributions to Wikipedia and humanity in general, you are hereby granted the coveted Random Smiley Award.
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Hey! I decided to edit the Blog del Narco page and I saw that you have contributed a lot to the article! I've been seeing your name around articles of my interest; good job with your work. Here's a pie for you. Thanks! ComputerJA (talk) 02:45, 20 April 2012 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar
For writing Mouloud Mammeri University of Tizi-Ouzou - a short article, but a good'un :) Ironholds (talk) 12:27, 7 October 2012 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar
You have been here helping out since mid-2003. Great job. But I must not be so loud, so I'll shall "WhisperTo You" Good job. WorldTraveller101BreaksFixes 01:12, 7 June 2013 (UTC)
The Rosetta Barnstar
For your excellent work on Wikipedia all these years. Vrysxy! (talk) 04:56, 27 May 2016 (UTC)
The Tiny Town Award
Thanks for creating a wiki page on my town I'd been delaying for months. Every single article is important to someone! BattlePig101 (talk) 07:23, 20 February 2020 (UTC)
The Schools Barnstar
Thank you for your continuing contributions to school articles! It's a tireless task to write or contribute to this many articles about schools, and it shouldn't go unnoticed. ChillyBlanket (talk) 00:04, 6 September 2021 (UTC)
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