User:Leahtwosaints

User rights This user has pending changes reviewer rights on the English Wikipedia. (verify) This user has rollback rights on the English Wikipedia. (verify) This editor is a Veteran Editor III and is entitled to display this Silver Editor Star. Awards The Photographer's Barnstar. For your exceptional help in obtaining a photo for the John Fullbright article! Kmzundel (talk) 14:54, 23 October 2012 (UTC) The Photographer's Barnstar. For finding images, and for recruiting photographers to supply images and the rights to use them, of musicians in concert. These have greatly enhanced a number of articles on those artists and and their concert tours. Wasted Time R (talk) 03:10, 1 April 2010 (UTC) The Music Barnstar. For improving the aesthetics and utility of numerous music articles by sourcing and securing permission for illustrative photos. Keep up the excellent work! It's certainly appreciated Catfish Jim and the soapdish (talk) 18:44, 21 June 2010 (UTC) The Photographer's Barnstar. I award this barnstar to Leah for her tireless work getting permission for getting more photographs on wiki. Thanks to her, wiki is a more colorful place. Suede67 (talk) 13:36, 14 June 2009 (UTC) The All Around Amazing Barnstar'. Just reminding you that we all think your Amazing Moxy (talk) 02:20, 20 July 2010 (UTC) The Music Barnstar. Hey Leah, Here's a musical star in recognition of all your contributions to the musician articles. We have crossed paths on Derek Trucks, Shawn Colvin and Chris Whitley, I look forward to working together more in the future! (PS I just joined the Musicians Project) Cheers! Keithbob (talk) 13:28, 4 March 2012 (UTC) The The Tireless Contributor Barnstar. For all the valuable work you do for the improvement of musician's articles. Thanks, Agadant (talk) 17:17, 13 April 2012 (UTC) The The Resilient Barnstar. Hope all is well. Amazing to see that no matter what is going on in your life you still have time for this Wiki project. Simply amazing fortitude - Get well soon. Moxy (talk) 22:18, 4 July 2013 (UTC) The The Valued Picture Barnstar. Again, thanks for all the images you insert into WP articles... they really make a difference. Catfish Jim and the soapdish 11:19, 25 July 2013

My Username in all Wikipedias, and their sister projects worldwide is Leahtwosaints.
I am frustrated by editors who merely begin article stubs and then just move on!! I try not to create new articles, except when necessary. Why do editors encourage so many new editors with Barnstars and praise for doing only that, and then, instead of developing the article, just moving on, sometimes without any references or just one or two! Those thanks belong to those who do the more difficult and thankless work: adding references, checking them with clarity, and completion of all the little stubs left behind. I urge each editor to revisit their initial work (or those of others) on all those backlogged articles. Yes, it's thankless work and you won't get all the flashy Barnstars, but if you really are here to make a difference, I hope to meet you. If you need my help with any work, I will help. If the help is beyond my knowledge, I will try to find someone else who can assist you. The number of unreferenced articles appears to be astronomical. I urge you, please help and join the Wikipedia:WikiProject Unreferenced articles group here on Wikipedia! See the little box listed in my WikiProjects with whom I participate here on this userpage!!.

Editing statistics This user has been on Wikipedia for 17 years, 3 months and 19 days. This user is one of the 4000 most active English Wikipedians of all time. This user wastes far too much time editing Wikipedia. 17,400+ This user has made over 17,400 contributions to Wikipedia About me This user is a WikiFaerie. This user supported Barack Obama for President. This user is a student or alumnus of the University of Maryland. This user supports the ban on smoking in public places. V This user is a vegetarian.

I'm interested in other cultures, countries, languages, and a wide variety of music. This includes the storied lives of many musicians. I've chosen to edit their biographies. I believe music is more than entertainment, and those musicians who leave a strong impact on culture, politics, society as a whole, and the way we view the world are those who most often are the ones I choose, although I have edited biographies begun by others about musicians I don't particularly like. In 2010 I began contributing to other-language Wikipedias.

Languages en-5 This user can contribute with a professional level of English. pt-3 Este usuário/utilizador pode contribuir com um nível avançado de português. es-2 Este usuario puede contribuir con un nivel intermedio de español. Eu contribuo para a Wikipédia portuguesa. Wikiprojects This user participates in WikiProject Biography. This user is a participant in WikiProject Alternative music. This user is a participant in WikiProject Rock music. This user is a participant in WikiProject Images and Media This user is signed up for the Feedback Request Service. This user is a member of the WikiProject Unreferenced articles. This user is a participant in WikiProject Irish music.

I find, email, and ask each photographer (every time) to remove the copyright from each photo I request, and explain how they can adapt a Creative Commons license instead. If they agree and allow us a license CC-BY-SA, they maintain the right to have their names and a photostream to be attached to each photo, no matter where it is used. I am what is called a Wikifairy or Wikignome; alongside editing, I create infoboxes, find photographs, copyedit, and clean up a lot of work left by others who came before me. As often as not, I'm not just an editor, but a cleaning lady here Wikignome.

		Photos I've uploaded to Wikimedia Commons
		I used to maintain a list of photos of musicians that I uploaded via Creative Commons to Wikimedia Commons on my user page, but after uploading about 625 (very few are multiple pictures of the same person) I decided to place them on their own special page Currently, the list stands at more than 2,000.

Here lies a tiny glimpse of great photos I uploaded who tend to be favorites of mine. However, I upload photos to illustrate the musicians' biography articles, including those who I do not like. Click the link above and you should find a very long list of names of people whose photos I uploaded and placed.

• For names of photographers of the following, and how to contact them, click their photos. We appreciate their generosity.

• Flickr2Commons