User:ElfLady64

My name is Fiona, and I know more about Stephen Sondheim, William Finn musicals, Sammy Davis, Jr., Motown, and the folk, soul, rock, pop, and jazz scenes of the 1960s and 1970s than is really necessary. The depth of my trivial knowledge is largely irrelevant though, as I mainly make cosmetic edits. You can usually find me on pages in those subjects systematizing and contributing to the trivia sections, collating lists, and editing infoboxes, or making general grammatical, technical, and organizational edits on pages across many subjects.

I really did not expect anyone to actually read this so feel free to stop now if you don't care about my life and love of wikis. Basically, if I could do anything better, please tell me. I'm new to having an actual account and making substantial edits on Wikipedia, and I have spent a lot of time on other wikis as an admin (and thus doing more hierarchical organization, vandalism/spam control, and inter-user conflict work than actual page edits), so bear with me because I'm probably doing things wrong that I don't realize are different here.

Articles/Templates I've Created/Developed

 * George Rhodes (musician): I need help on this! I'm not super familiar with the jazz scene in the 40's/early 50's, and I think most sources discussing his early work are print-only, I've gleaned as much as I can from online sources, might be more in some jazz encyclopedias. Most of my background knowledge of George is from reading too many Sammy Davis Jr. biographies, so the biog is very Sam heavy right now...
 * The World Only Spins Forward: The Ascent of Angels in America
 * Sam's Song (song)
 * Make Me a Song (musical)
 * What Kind of Fool Am I and Other Show-Stoppers
 * Template:Sammy Davis Jr.
 * Angel in the Wings
 * Berlin to Broadway with Kurt Weill

Wikipedian Experience
I started casually editing Wikipedia around 2006, and did so anonymously for years, until I made an account on a whim in September of 2014. Prior to finally making this account, I had been an active member, administrator, and moderator of several other wikis. Those experiences made my decision to stop lurking here feel like finally coming back home to join the family business after going off on my own and gaining experience working for independent start-ups.

That being said, please let me know if you have any concerns or comments regarding my contributions, or any advice for me.

Vinyl Cast Recordings I Own

 * 1776 (musical)
 * 1776 (film)
 * A Little Night Music (film)
 * All American
 * Anyone Can Whistle
 * Anything Goes
 * Applause
 * Aspects of Love
 * At the Drop of a Hat
 * At the Drop of Another Hat
 * Bells Are Ringing (film)
 * Cabaret
 * Camelot
 * Carnival
 * Carousel
 * Company
 * Dames At Sea
 * Damn Yankees
 * Do I Hear A Waltz?
 * The Fantasticks
 * Follies
 * Gigi
 * Golden Boy
 * Guys and Dolls
 * Gypsy
 * The Happy Time
 * Hello, Dolly!
 * How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying
 * I Do! I Do!
 * In Trousers
 * Into the Woods
 * Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris
 * Johnny Johnson
 * Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
 * The King and I
 * Kismet
 * Mack & Mabel
 * Mame (musical)
 * Man of La Mancha
 * March of the Falsettos
 * Me and My Girl
 * Merrily We Roll Along
 * The Mikado
 * Monty Python Live At Drury Lane
 * Nine
 * On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
 * Pacific Overtures
 * The Pajama Game
 * Purlie
 * Show Boat
 * Side By Side By Sondheim
 * Sondheim: A Musical Tribute
 * South Pacific
 * Stop the World - I Want to Get Off
 * Sunday in the Park with George
 * Sweet Charity
 * Sweet Charity (film)
 * Together With Music
 * West Side Story (film)

Playbills I Own (not acquired by attending)
William Finn Sondheim Strouse Other Favs Misc aka Why Did I Buy/Take These
 * March of the Falsettos x3 (both original locations)
 * Falsettoland x3
 * Falsettos original x4 (2 casts), revival x15 (....)
 * A New Brain original, Encores!
 * Make Me A Song off
 * In Trousers (in storage)
 * Little Miss Sunshine (musical) (well I did attend this one)
 * Merrily We Roll Along original, regional, Encores!
 * Passion (musical)
 * Road Show (musical)
 * A Little Night Music revival, regional
 * Follies original, revival
 * Into the Woods original, revival
 * Pacific Overtures original x2, revival, London (ripped in half lol)
 * The Frogs (musical) x2
 * Company revival, regional
 * A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum Whoopi, David Grier, Nathan Lane
 * Sweeney Todd London 1993, regional
 * Side by Side by Sondheim London, off-off
 * Sunday in the Park with George regional, revival
 * Applause (musical) original, Encores!, OBC souvenir program, original sheet music
 * Golden Boy original, Encores!, OBC souvenir program, original libretto
 * Nick & Nora
 * 1776 (musical) original, revival x2, tryout
 * Angels in America: Millenium Approaches (replacement orig cast)
 * Angels in America: Perestroika (orig cast)
 * I Do! I Do!
 * Love! Valour! Compassion!
 * Elaine Stritch At Liberty
 * Grey Gardens
 * LoveMusik x2
 * At the Drop of a Hat
 * At the Drop of Another Hat
 * Nine
 * Woman of the Year Lauren Bacall
 * Damn Yankees revival
 * 69th Tony Awards
 * 25th Tony Awards
 * La Cage aux Folles original x2, regional
 * Jesus Christ Superstar original, revival
 * Romance Romance
 * A Chorus Line revival
 * An Evening with Jerry Herman
 * Five Guys Named Moe London
 * I Love My Wife
 * Grand Hotel
 * I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change
 * Everybody Rise: A Celebration of Elaine Stritch
 * Movin' Out (musical)
 * Me and My Girl original
 * Crazy for You
 * On the Town revival x4
 * Memphis (musical)
 * Mamma Mia (musical)
 * Mummenschanz
 * All's Well That Ends Well (musical)
 * Beehive (musical)
 * Shenandoah (musical)
 * Gigi (musical) original, revival
 * Little Shop of Horrors (musical) off-off
 * Chess (musical)
 * Curtains (musical)
 * Rodgers & Hart (musical)
 * The Pajama Game Encores!
 * It's Only a Play
 * The Visit
 * A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
 * Skylight
 * Phantom of the Opera
 * On the 20th Century
 * On the Town
 * Mamma Mia
 * The Lion King
 * Les Miserables
 * Kinky Boots
 * Matilda
 * It Shoulda Been You
 * Hedwig and the Angry Inch Darren Criss
 * Hand to God
 * Finding Neverland
 * The Book of Mormon
 * Beautiful
 * The Audience
 * An American in Paris
 * An Act of God
 * Aladdin (musical)
 * Airline Highway
 * Fun Home
 * The Little Foxes
 * The Merry Widow
 * Inacent Black
 * This Was Burlesque
 * Duke Ellington's Sophisticated Ladies
 * Children of a Lesser God
 * Fifth of July
 * Dream Girls
 * The Life & Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
 * Grown Ups
 * Cloud 9
 * Jerry's Girls
 * Misalliance
 * The Judas Kiss
 * Forever Tango
 * Labor Day
 * Forbidden Broadway Strikes Back
 * High Society
 * Honour
 * Once in a Lifetime
 * Side Man
 * Twelfth Night
 * Unzippin' My Doodah
 * You Can Never Tell

Off-Broadway & Broadway Shows I've Seen
That I Love & Cherish the Memories of Don't Remember Enough and/or Care Enough to Contribute
 * Falsettos x10
 * A New Brain Encores!
 * Motown: The Musical x3
 * Fun Home x3
 * Hir (play)
 * First Daughter Suite
 * Hamilton
 * In the Heights (Bway and tour)
 * Into the Woods Original Cast Reunion
 * Sunday in the Park with George (regional: Signature)
 * Something Rotten!
 * Anastasia
 * Allegiance
 * Daddy Long Legs
 * Burning off-off
 * Cabaret
 * On the Town
 * The King and I
 * Hedwig and the Angry Inch
 * Into the Woods 2015 revival
 * Jersey Boys
 * Memphis
 * Little Miss Sunshine
 * Wicked
 * Spring Awakening (revival, I misplaced my playbills)

Why I Wiki
I absolutely love research, databases, information science, typography (especially page and text formatting), statistical and theoretical analysis, linguistics, library science, and data analysis. I make far too many spreadsheets for it to be considered healthy. I own far too few books and records to justify the extensiveness of my personalized library classification system (a pointlessly complex combination of LCC and DDC). Ultimately it all boils down to two major passions: data and structure. The way we organize, distribute, access, and display information, and how information systems are arranged and operated is endlessly fascinating to me. That is why I love being a part of Wikipedia (in addition to the whole "freely accessible information by the people for the people" deal).

My data systems obsession also might partially explain why I am in the field of psychology. I think there are many psychological components in information science, and many instances in psychology where information science can inform our knowledge of how the human brain functions, internally and in conjunction with the external world. To me, they are very interrelated (as are most seemingly distinct fields, especially with psychology, as human knowledge and thought is a part of psychology, no matter how much some philosophers want you to believe there is such a thing as complete objectivity).

Information science is like anticipating the way the human mind's internal systems will attempt to connect to the external world, and then implementing systems in that world which are compatible with organization of mental systems. Psychology is like utilizing and understanding those internal systems which comprehend and interpret data received from external systems, and how the mind's internal organization uses and arranges that new data within its existing framework. To misquote Telly Monster, "It's all data systems, man! It's great..."

Goals
As I mentioned, I'm studying psychology, and don't even have my degree yet, so I'm hardly qualified in anything I just spoke about. I have a deep passion for many subjects, but I'm nowhere near as knowledgeable on them as I'd like to be, nor am anywhere near having expertise in them. Except, possibly William Finn musicals... it is very possible I am close to becoming one of the world's leading experts on that subject.

Uniformity in formatting is my life blood. Lately, I have also been hung up on fixing time relative references in low traffic pages, and adding temporal templates. I also find myself automatically text editing for brevity, clarity, typos, and uniformity of grammar within the article, which is what the majority of my anonymous edits have been historically. Nothing gets my goat more than an accidental tense change, or nonuniform orthography of proper nouns.

Also, I want to take this opportunity to apologize to prose purists for my gratuitous list-making, but finding different ways to say the same thing over and over again does not help anyone, in my opinion. Also I just really love lists. And infoboxes. Probably because at times I have a very difficult time focusing on too much information at once because of my ADHD, which is definitely a reason I love clear and effective formatting and uniformity: so I know where to look and what I am looking at.

I'm not sure what the point of user pages are here, but I almost definitely missed it... Especially seeing as I really am irrelevant to almost everyone else at this point. But I wanted to get down my thoughts on why I'm here and what my goals are, for myself.

Personal to-do
Feel free to comment here if you have specific concerns about a page I've listed, are currently in the process of heavily editing one of them and want to give me a heads up, or have already completed one of my specific goals
 * Interested in getting Stephen Sondheim to GA-Class status! (tell me how!)
 * Check out Noel Coward and Cole Porter and W. S. Gilbert for ideas. -- Ssilvers (talk) 05:35, 20 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Determine needed changes: Al Green, Don McLean (and discography), William Finn and related pages, Tighten Up (Archie Bell & the Drells song), 1776 (musical), 1776 (film), The Message (Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five song)
 * Class assessments: Merrily We Roll Along (musical), Passion (musical), Assassins (musical)
 * Applause (musical), expand, organize, reformat cast list
 * List of songs written by Paul Simon, reformat if necessary
 * At the Drop of Another Hat, what Ssilvers said on the talkpage
 * Mary Testa, expand, organization, figure out theatre credits list necessity and format
 * Chip Zien, organize, housekeeping, expand if necessary, find a free use image of Chip if it kills you
 * Michael Rupert, sources, expand if necessary, organize
 * Jacques Brel is Alive and Well, generally fix and expand
 * Brandon Victor Dixon, expand with your bookmarked sources, organize, add IMdB external link
 * In Trousers, organize, expand, check NPOV and informallity
 * WP:MT Stub topics I'm knowledgeable on (that are not already listed): Elaine Stritch at Liberty, Falsettoland, Finishing the Hat, Five Guys Named Moe (I have the original program, might be useful), John Weidman, The King and I (1992 studio cast), Little Miss Sunshine (musical) (saw it OB), People Are Wrong!, The Rat Pack: Live from Las Vegas, Romance in Hard Times, The Sondheim Review (maybe), Sung-through, Lonely Room, Soliloquy (song) (maybe)
 * WP:MT Start topics I'm quite knowledgeable on:
 * not already listed: A New Brain, Assassins (musical), Charles Strouse, Damn Yankees, Falsettos (haha it's not even funny how knowledgeable I am on this show...), George Abbott, Golden Boy (musical), Harold Prince, In the Heights, James Lapine, Lin-Manuel Miranda, LoveMusik, March of the Falsettos, Marry Me a Little (musical), Motown: The Musical (I've seen it three times...), Once on This Island, Pacific Overtures, Putting It Together, Side by Side by Sondheim, Sondheim on Sondheim
 * already listed: Applause (musical), Chip Zien, Infinite Joy, In Trousers (I've read everything about it online (and some in print), own 3 copies of the vinyl recording, the CD, the digital album, 3 different OB and OOB playbills... I'm a little obsessive), Jacques Brel is Alive, William Finn
 * Not page specific:
 * fix your years active em dash errors, dummy
 * list playbill and musical theatre vinyl collections inventory on page, so you can determine if information from those materials would enhance any articles
 * check Commons and Wikipedia uploads to see if licensing for all images was cleared, double check about Carnivals in Flanders poster.jpg being PD