User:Vysotsky
I am a librarian working in
Leiden
(the Netherlands). I am interested in artists, rabble-rousers and universities. I started lemmata such as
Rudolf Breslauer
,
International Institute of Social History
,
Genesis Potini
,
Alphonso Lisk-Carew
,
Maxim Februari
,
Jay Jordan
,
Bibliotheca Thysiana
,
Carel Stolker
,
Johan Andreas Dèr Mouw
,
Stedelijk Gymnasium Leiden
,
Nicholas Mynheer
,
Roxane van Iperen
,
Research4Life
(and some more). I contributed considerably to other entries, like
Jan Broekhuis
,
Leiden University
,
J. Spencer Trimingham
& the art journal
Wendingen
.
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(>1 Million edits incl. >11,000 upl. images & incl. >500,000 bot edits during >18 years of service)
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The pseudonym Vysotsky is a tribute to the admired
Russian singer
Владимир Высоцкий
, poet, boozer and actor.
I occasionally write small stuff for
The Signpost
, about
female fighter pilots
,
Austrian pianists
,
Winnie the Pooh
,
Serbian chess players
,
Alamy
,
a lesbian Swiss auto racer
,
Print Wikipedia
and
war photographers
. An overview can be found
here
.
Wikipedia needs more references, bibliographies, notes & trustworthy external links.
A Wikipedia article is more attractive if images illustrate the text. That's why I added
more than 10,000 images to Wikimedia Commons
.
I also started a
Dutch
Wikipedians in Residence
project 2013-3014
with 12 participating special libraries in the Netherlands (amongst 10 others the EYE film institute and the Rijksmuseum).
I have never received any personal compensation (financial or otherwise) for contributions I made to Wikipedia.
Some of the articles I started (or contributed considerably to):
Rudolf Breslauer
Johan Andreas Dèr Mouw
M. Februari
Genesis Potini
(Dark Horse)
Roxane van Iperen
Alphonso Lisk-Carew
African studies journals
Newspapers in Zambia & some other countries
J. Spencer Trimingham
Leiden University
Bibliotheca Thysiana
Carel Stolker
Stedelijk Gymnasium Leiden
Levinus Warner
IISG
Jay Jordan
Wendingen
Nicholas Mynheer
Research4Life