Professional librarian working with manuscripts, rare books, and other arcana.
Interests:
Current projects (in order of priority)
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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 -1Yuhtaro sina ista þundea Quenya.
This user has been on Wikipedia for 19 years, 10 months and 14 days .
Wikipedia stuff
This user has made over 302,000 edits on Wikipedia.
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
Awards
I award you this barnstar for the much-appreciated research and other efforts regarding the EB1911 and other missing topics projects. --DanielCD 16:25, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
The Special Barnstar
I hereby award The Special Barnstar to you for your great contributions to the first half of WikiProject Biography Spring 2008 Assessment Drive. Keep doing well in second half of it. :) Solar -Poseidon 22:17, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
For your role in Biography WikiProject's Spring 2008 drive , these chips for you.