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.

My sandbox

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 ista þundea Quenya. This user is interested in linguistics.

This user has been on Wikipedia for 20 years, 11 months and 26 days.

This user pledges to return to Old-fashioned Wikipedian values.

Wikipedia stuff This user participates in WikiProject Biography. 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 participates in WikiProject Categories to improve Wikipedia categorization. {{Uncat}} This user is a member of the Uncategorized Task Force. This user participates in WikiProject Classical Greece and Rome. This user participates in WikiProject Wisconsin. This user is a participant in WikiProject Maine. This user is a member of WikiProject Science Fiction. 152 As of last count, this user is #152 of active Wikipedians. This user has made over 302,000 edits on Wikipedia. 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 participates in 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 JK.

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 --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) This user has earned the 100,000 Edits Award.