FeanorStar7

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)

• 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

enThis user is a native speaker of the English language.

de-1Dieser Benutzer hat grundlegende Deutschkenntnisse.

grc-2Ὅδε ὁ χρήστης δύναται συμβάλλεσθαι μετρίᾳ γνώσει τῆς ἀρχαίας ἑλληνικῆς.

la-2Hic usor media latinitate contribuere potest.

qya-1Yuhtaro sina ista þundea Quenya.

This user is interested in linguistics.

This user has been on Wikipedia for 19 years, 10 months and 14 days.

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

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 Wikipedia categorization.

{{Uncat}}This user is a member of the Uncategorized Task Force.

This user is a participant in WikiProject Classical Greece and Rome.

This user is a participant in WikiProject Wisconsin.

This user is a participant in
WikiProject Maine.

This user is a member of WikiProject Science Fiction.

140As of last count, this user is #140 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 is a participant 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.

RUSHThis user has no heart to lie.

QueenThis user loves Queen!

EJThis 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.

JKThis 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.

FGThis 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 editor is a Veteran Editor II, and is entitled to display 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.