User:Jonathanischoice

Interested in classical music, trombones, wine, cuisine, memetics, philosophy, combating various forms of codswallop (in particular, spurious health claims on food and supplement articles), cosmology and its problems, detractors and alternatives, geochemistry, botany, conifers, the quarterstaff, complexity, nonlinear systems, international relations, Open Source, and pretty much everything else too.

Articles I've enjoyed working on

 * Contrabass trombone GA DYK
 * Cimbasso GA
 * Serpent (instrument) GA
 * Soprano trombone GA
 * A-flat clarinet GA
 * Saxophones: soprillo, sopranino, contrabass, subcontrabass, tubax
 * Ophicleide
 * New Zealand wine
 * Marlborough wine region
 * Hawke's Bay wine region
 * An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand
 * Anthony Whitaker
 * John Psathas
 * Orchestra Wellington
 * Dunedin Symphony Orchestra

Reviewed/Reviewing

 * Music of The Lord of the Rings film series GA
 * Monotron GA
 * White Diamonds GA1 (August 2023 Backlog Drive)
 * Tellico Dam GA (August 2023 Backlog Drive)
 * Matiu / Somes Island GA (August 2023 Backlog Drive)
 * Nausicaa (opera) GA

Current projects and preoccupations

 * Musical instruments
 * I said I wouldn't, but the trombone-related articles were in a bad state, so I fixed them up; the types of trombone article should never have happened, so its material was moved to sensible places: back to trombone, or to new articles: contrabass trombone, bass trombone, cimbasso, alto trombone, valve trombone, soprano trombone, and superbone; tenor trombone can mostly defer to the main trombone article. I suspect that a lot of the sackbut article should be reduced/cited/corrected, and even largely moved back to the history section of the main trombone article.
 * Articles about New Zealand, helping out on WP:NZ, and participating in Meetups/Wellington
 * New Zealand conductors, composers and orchestras; there is no article for SOUNZ (Toi te Arapūoru / Centre for New Zealand Music), and it needs to be an authority control source for New Zealand classical and contemporary music; many articles are incomplete and need photos/infoboxes.
 * Wine articles, particularly New Zealand wine and rare or unusual (often Italian) grape varieties, for example Sagrantino or Corvinone
 * Hooking things up in Wikidata
 * Contributing photos to Commons
 * Buffing references and citations in general wherever necessary
 * Reviewing article ratings, using the ORES predicted ArticleQuality score as a rough guideline (up to class B at least)
 * /sandbox