User:JakeWallace

I've been a professional editor and writer for over 20 years now, mostly in various scientific and technical fields. Wikipedia seems to me, however, to have excellent coverage of scientific and technical subjects already, and I doubt I'll have much to contribute in those areas.

My hope is that I'll be able to contribute information on other topics that I have a lot of interest in and that I'd love to see covered in greater depth, including queer culture, religion and spirituality, and the performing arts, including theater (both spoken and musical), classical music, and dance. My professional work keeps me very busy, but I hope to have time to make some contributions in those areas, and maybe some others.

I live in the San Francisco Bay Area, which is a major center for queer culture and for the fusion of religions and spiritual traditions from around the world. We also have a lot of really good theater, music, and dance. I will admit up front that I'm an enthusiast about these things, and it is because I love them that I hope to be able to contribute some information about them. But I will try my best to keep my enthusiasm reined in and to stay within the bounds of objectivity.

My immediate motivation for opening up an account with Wikipedia is noticing this morning that the California Shakespeare Theater article seems not to have been updated since 2009 and still refers to some things as being future plans when in fact they happened over a year ago. A number of other fine, innovative companies in the Bay Area that are doing work worth knowing about and that have been around for years or even decades don't have any entries at all. I see similar gaps in the coverage of Bay Area music, opera, queer culture, and religion. I hope I can help fill in at least a few of those empty spaces.