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Vicki Rosenzweig is a native New Yorker, and would-be polymath.

In practice, "dilettante" might be closer, but I'm curious about most things, know at least a little about many, and enjoy answering questions and explaining things, so Wikipedia is a congenial project.

I'm also a professional copyeditor and proofreader, and enjoy being someplace where I'm encouraged to insert the missing "the"s, fix the spelling, and tidy up the commas.

My home page is http://www.panix.com/~vr.

I've been dropping in stubs on things I think ought to be covered--I started the light pollution article because it was requested, and just did a few paragraphs on whales because it seemed like an odd omission: there was already an article on ambergris.

  • An article on the Statue of Liberty, another to-me-obvious omission, with quotes from the National Park Service page, and Emma Lazarus's poem "The New Colossus." --VR
  • A brief sketch for an entry on Long Island
  • Ditto on oracles, especially Delphi
  • Short article on Jack Ruby, replacing one-sentence stub that mentioned only his birth name
  • Habeas corpus (probably too US-centric)
  • Added Pisistratos, lost comic epic, and "Homer: who was she?" to page on Homer
  • A couple of paragraphs about the Hudson River
  • Put the article on Benjamin Franklin into actual sentences, and expanded it a little, but a lot more needs doing.
  • Copyedited "Euskara" and redirected to Basque; the previous contributor had left a one-line link to (I think) the [Basque/Euskadi] wiki
  • Basic article on hurricanes, taken largely from NOAA Web site; I rearranged, copyedited, and added some material on damage outside the US
  • Stub on Tokyo, mostly population numbers and brief history
  • Short article on okapi (I went to the zoo today)
  • Article on Lascaux; more needed, either here or in a more general article on cave art and/or Neolithic culture
  • Short article on red panda; a public-domain photo would be good
  • Article on Louis Riel; based mostly on Web research
  • Galago: I seem to have taken on a general small-primate project, but help would be welcome. At the moment, there's almost nothing but lists of taxa, and the two short articles I've written.
  • Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11--both taken largely from NASA Website, but wikified
  • Edited and expanded dodo tree article
  • Once-through copyedit on Rome/foundation (author had requested help with English)
  • Ljubljana, by request of the most-wanted list
  • Quick-and-dirty bio of John Philip Sousa, based on NY Times obituary (when I came across an extremely stubby page while doing days of the year)

To Do:

  • Rewrite New York City entry, with much more history
  • Expand apple
  • More on Mississippi/Atchafalaya/Corps of Engineers
  • fill out Hudson River article
  • Rose, if nobody gets there first (just noticed that it's a very brief stub)
  • more on zoos, currently three sentences or so, from memory to replace stubbiest of stubs
  • article on Richard_I_of_England ends abruptly in mid-1191; need to fill out the rest of his life
  • fill out Slender loris entry (just read a good magazine article on the subject)
  • koala, currently a pathetic stub
  • finish editing the day-of-the-year entries for format
  • Voyager 2 and more on Voyager 1
  • de-stubbify zebra

Oh, and when I get bored I wander through the Wikipedia semi-randomly, inserting verbs into topic sentences.

Note to self: got to July 6, noticed conflict with July 5 (both claimed as publication date for Newton's Principia); check 7/5 talk page, then go on to 7/7 if not answered.

May 24 list of names is C'n'P from http://www.thisdaythatyear.com/May/people24.htm

through November 10; it's going more slowly as I use the "pages that link to" feature to find items to enter, and occasionally fix things on the pages that link to. (This would be simpler if I'd started at Jan. 1 and not skipped anything.) Oh, and I don't care how big a fan you are, not every detail of Bob Dylan's career belongs under "events."

In case anyone is wondering, I'm operating on the theory that singers, writers, philosophers and scientists belong to the world, but politicians and soldiers should be identified by country. I'm unlikely to add people I've never heard of unless they have Wikipedia entries: if someone cared enough to describe a life, it's worth giving dates of birth or death. I won't remove the entry for an athlete or entertainer just because I haven't heard of them, though. My non-wiki sources are US-biased; non-US Wikipedians are especially encouraged to add more data.


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