User:Turangalila
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Me
Hi.
I live on Long Island, New York, and my background is mostly in music.
I've also spent time in
Washington DC
.
My username refers to
this
.
Alleged diagnoses (personal / philosophical / political)
What I do on WP
So far I mostly edit articles on music and musicians: mostly classical composers, conductors, and pieces, but occasionally things that relate to other genres as well. The dividing lines aren't as clearly drawn as many of us think; after all, as Duke Ellington said, "If it sounds good, it is good." (quote stolen from Peter Schickele)
Occasionally I'll also do some
copy-editing
to whatever article I run into, on whatever subject, for grammar, clarity, heading-structure, redundancy, neutrality, citation, etc. etc. The article that can't be improved in these areas seems to be rare.
Stats
- Birthday: October, 1969 ...Scorpio / Earth Rooster, in case you wondered...
- Wikibirthday: 2007-03-05 ...i.e. that's when I signed up; I made a few anonymous edits previously...
- Edit count
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Other WP stuff
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Essays
- Why Wikipedia Must Jettison Its Anti-Elitism - interesting (though dated?) essay by Larry Sanger
- Ignore all credentials
...or maybe...
- Credentials matter (by User: Mangoe & others)
Fun
- Uncyclopedia
especially Wikipedia
Articles I've contributed to...
...alot
- Raymond Premru - created page 3/2007
- Robert Spano - radically expand stub
- currently in peer review; working on a radical revision to the radical expansion...
- Ballad (music)- created
- made the Howcheng
- made the
- Stravinsky's Symphonies of Wind Instruments – created stub
- Erich Leinsdorf - fairly subtantial revision 3/2007
- Rondeau (music)- created stub
...not so much
- George Szell - working (w/ others) on transforming unsourced hagiography into more encyclopedic article...
- Lutoslawski's Symphony #3 - updated & filled in some missing items.
- Brooklyn Philharmonic - expanded stub
- Cadenza - added some things
- Gustav Mahler - subtracted some things
- Josquin des Prez - actually I didn't contribute squat, but I did successfully nominate it for FA status so I feel kinda possessive...
- List of compositions by Ludwig van Beethoven - did some cleanup & dressup, and submitted a Featured List nomination
...hopefully soon
Images (plus a free bonus rant!)
- **This image has been deleted (along with its discussion, which I didn't think was supposed to happen) by the enthusiastic enforcers of Wikipedia's consensus of editors, but the board issued a (poorly-worded and contrafactual) statement, so I guess that's that.)
- **This image has been deleted (along with its discussion, which I didn't think was supposed to happen) by the enthusiastic enforcers of Wikipedia's
- You see, it's theoretically possible that an editor could run into a subject in an airport, or hide in their bushes, and snap a "mission of Wikipedia is not to produce a good encyclopedia, it's to preserve the sacred rights of hypothetical downstream users to Photoshop a WP image into fake porn, or to copy and sell what Wikipedia is already giving away. You've been warned. (see also linksabove)
- You see, it's theoretically possible that an editor could run into a subject in an airport, or hide in their bushes, and snap a "