{"id":11008,"date":"2016-12-20T10:33:04","date_gmt":"2016-12-20T17:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/?p=11008"},"modified":"2016-12-20T10:33:04","modified_gmt":"2016-12-20T17:33:04","slug":"my-first-wikipedia-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/?p=11008","title":{"rendered":"My First Wikipedia Article"},"content":{"rendered":"

I generally use Wikipedia<\/a> to look up pub dates for books I am reading and to keep track of series orders etc. Imagine my surprise when I looked up Blake Charlton \u2014 who has three books published by Tor \u2014 and there was no entry. While I have occasionally edited a Wikipedia article, I have never attempted to write one from scratch so this looked like a good opportunity.<\/p>\n

I did a brief bit of research and outlined a brief entry (see below). Then I submitted it without creating an ID. This puts it into a hold queue waiting for review from more senior Wikipedians (Wikipediaites?) to review, approve or reject.<\/p>\n

The interface is surprisingly easy to maneuver at first but it becomes increasingly more complex and arcane as you get down to details. Which is as it should be I suppose.<\/p>\n

The queued entry can be seen here: https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Draft:Blake_Charlton<\/a><\/p>\n

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Blake Charlton<\/h2>\n

Blake Charlton (1979-) is an American science fiction author. He is the author of the Spellbreaker series published by Tor books and currently a cardiology fellow at the University of California San Francisco. As boy Charlton had to deal with severe dyslexia but has he managed to overcome his condition and learned to read fluently by the age of 13.<\/p>\n

Blake\u2019s non-fiction has appeared in the Journal of the American Medical Association Internal Medicine<\/em>, The British Medical Journal<\/em>, and The New York Times<\/em>. and his science fiction short stories have appeared in the Seeds of Change<\/em> and the Unfettered<\/em> anthologies.<\/p>\n

Charlton graduated summa cum laude from Yale University studying English Language and Literature and went on to graduate from Stanford Medical School.<\/p>\n

The Spellwright<\/em> trilogy is set in a world where languages for the basis for magic. Nicodemus Weal is a cacographer (similar to Charlton\u2019s own dyslexia), who nonetheless is talented in magical languages. But his disability that causes misspelling in any text he touches.<\/p>\n

Bibliography<\/h3>\n

Series fiction<\/h4>\n

Spellwright<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n