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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This editor is Supreme Gom, the Most Exalted Togneme of the Encyclopedia and is entitled to keep the floor plan of The Great Library of Alecyclopedias, including its cardboard carrying tube.
(>1 Million edits incl. >11,000 upl. images & incl. >500,000 bot edits during >18 years of service)

• 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
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  Johan Andreas Dèr Mouw
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  M. Februari

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  Genesis Potini
  (Dark Horse)
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  Roxane van Iperen
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  Alphonso Lisk-Carew

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  African studies journals
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  Newspapers in Zambia & some other countries
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  J. Spencer Trimingham

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  Leiden University
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  Bibliotheca Thysiana
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  Carel Stolker

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  Stedelijk Gymnasium Leiden
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  Levinus Warner
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  IISG

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  Jay Jordan
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  Wendingen
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  Nicholas Mynheer

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  Research4Life