Professional librarian working with manuscripts, rare books, and other arcana.

Interests:

• Baroque music
• Science fiction and astronomy
• Languages and linguistics
• History
• Biographies

• 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.