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)[edit]

• 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
• Improving composer articles through proofreading
• Copyediting articles
• Adding categories to the category Uncategorised people, including birth and death dates as I find them
• Shifting people in category Uncategorised pages to appropriate categories
• Improving Featured Articles through proofreading

Working on these projects less often...

• 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 en This user is a native speaker of the English language. de-1 Dieser Benutzer hat grundlegende Deutschkenntnisse. grc-2 Ὅδε ὁ χρήστης δύναται συμβάλλεσθαι μετρίᾳ γνώσει τῆς ἀρχαίας ἑλληνικῆς. la-2 Hic usor media latinitate contribuere potest. qya-1 Yuhtaro sina ná sundo hanyo quenyanen. This user is interested in linguistics.

This user has been on Wikipedia for 14 years, 3 months and 10 days.

Wikipedia stuff This user is a member of the Association of Categorist Wikipedians This user is a member of the Guild of Copy Editors. [[wiki]] This user is part of the wikification drive. This user is a member of WikiProject Categories to improve article categorization. This user is a member of WikiProject Classical Greece and Rome. This user participates in WikiProject Wisconsin. This user is a member of WikiProject Maine. This user is a member of WikiProject Science Fiction. 88,000+ This user has made over 88,000 contributions to Wikipedia articles. This editor is not an administrator and does not wish to be one. This user is a member of the Astronomy WikiProject This user participates in WikiProject U.S. Congress. This user is a member of WikiProject Classical music. This user scored 4550 on the Wikipediholic test. This user was a participant in the Biography Wikiproject's Spring 2008 Assessment Drive. This user was a participant in the Biography Wikiproject's Summer 2007 Assessment Drive.

Musical interests This user enjoys classical music. RUSH This user has no heart to lie. Queen This user loves Queen! EJ This user has electric boots and a mohair suit. This user keeps the Electric light on E.L.O. This user is a member of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. JK This user loves the band Jamiroquai.

Other interests/Fun stuff This user enjoys Star Trek. BSG This user is a fan of the reimagined Battlestar Galactica series. This user is interested in astronomy. This user politely asks: Who are you working for?! SHIELD This user watches The Shield. FG This user thinks Family Guy is freakin' sweet. This user is a bibliophile. This user is a student or alumnus of the University of Minnesota.

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) this Bronze Editor Star. --awarded to me by User:BrokenSphere on 5 July 2007 The Original Barnstar I hereby award The Original Barnstar to FeanorStar7 in recognition of assessing over 1270 articles for WikiProject Biography's Summer 2007 Assessment Drive. Psychless 01:01, 20 September 2007 (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. This user has earned the 100,000 Edits Award.