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.
  This user has been on Wikipedia for 19 years, 11 months and 30 days.
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