Rothorpe was created on 19 July 2006, when I typed in my email name only to see it shockingly capitalised—but I quite like it now. I'm a nocturnal retired EFL teacher born in the world's biggest city (well, that was on the 100th of the 50th of the 20th [1]), now living in a very small cidade in Portugal. In 2003, laryngeal cancer killed my voice, causing Harpomarxism.
Having corrected the English of students of many nationalities and handwritings, copyediting is a doddle/aesthetic imperative/primal urge. Many of my edits are difficult to spot in "diffs" as they involve inconspicuous punctuation changes, closing spaces before refs, etc., though I often feel the need to improve a lead (or "lede", from the Greek ληδης). I've also rescued a few good paragraphs discarded in the process of reverting vandalism; it's quite easy to paste from "diffs". And I expunge verbiage.
Articles I started: Language: Back-chaining, List of artworks known in English by a foreign title; Music: Ace Cannon, Adam Holzman (keyboardist), Bernard van Dieren, Betty Humby Beecham, Carl Perkins (pianist), Cecil Gray (composer), Charlie Parker's Bird Symbols and Bird Is Free, Denis Colin, Dolceola, Dominique Gaumont, Earl-Jean, Ebony Concerto (Stravinsky), Edward Greenfield, Géraldine Laurent, Jay Berliner, Josh MacRae, Lou Johnson, Lou Reed's Live at Montreux 2000, Martin Lovett, Médéric Collignon, Miles Davis's That's What Happened: Live in Germany 1987, New Morning (club), Piltdown Men, Robert Wyatt's Mid-Eighties, Steve Hunter, String-A-Longs, Terry Stafford; Record labels: Dimension, Herald, Palette, Spotlite, Warwick; List of HMV POP artists; Television: BBC-3 (TV series), Gerald Cross, Mezzo TV, Not So Much a Programme More a Way of Life, Ted Lune, Timothy Birdsall; Miscellaneous: Alan Odle, Figueira (Faro), Ivy Compton-Burnett's The Last and the First.