Professional librarian working with manuscripts, rare books, and other arcana.
Interests:
- Baroque music
- Science fiction and astronomy
- Languages and linguistics
- History
- Biographies
Current projects (in order of priority)
- Clearing the backlog of articles without living and listas parameters
- Aligning birth and death categories with text in biographies (trying to do it chronologically)
- Adding birth and death categories to articles missing them; also adding BLP tag in talk pages as needed
- Changing articles in the Possibly living people category to the Living people category if they are less than 90 years old
- Copyediting articles
- Shifting people in category Uncategorised pages and related categories to appropriate categories
- Improving Featured Articles through proofreading
Working on these projects much less often now (as of 2020)...
- Improving composer articles through proofreading
- Working on helping to proofread the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica entries, esp. the biographies
- Also doing the same for entries from the 1901-1906 Jewish Encyclopedia
- Adding authority control information to biography articles; helping to distinguish people with common names as well.
Linguistics
| qya-1 | Yuhtaro sina ista þundea Quenya. |
| This user has been on Wikipedia for 19 years, 9 months and 5 days. |
Musical interests
| Queen | This user loves Queen! |
| This user keeps the Electric light on E.L.O. |
| JK | This user loves the band JK. |
Other interests/Fun stuff
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