User:Kosboot

Copied from Eddie891: "We choose [these things], not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win" - John F. Kennedy I remember something I read, once, in Opera News about the great Tatiana Troyanos. Here was a woman that had every right to complain at the Fates over her lot in life...she was abandoned by her parents to an orphanage, and she battled health issues for many years before dying of cancer at 55. (I remember reading that selfsame article about her and being amazed at what she had overcome.) And yet she remained ever gracious in her career and her professional dealings. The writer of the article, I remember, recalled assisting in a Metropolitan Opera performance of Giulio Cesare in Egitto, in which Kathleen Battle was singing. Battle was then in the throes of some of her worst behavior, and she was really letting people have it over trivial matters. And the writer said that when the curtain fell, he was about ready to tell her off, when he felt a tug at his elbow. It was Troyanos - she took him aside, smiled, and said, "Don't. It doesn't matter." It can be so tempting to get wound up over the least little thing around here. But every time I do, somewhere in the dark recesses of my mind...so deep that I feel her presence rather than hear it...I'm sure Troyanos is reminding me, too: "It doesn't matter." If she, with all that she overcame, could say it, then I damn well can, too –"What is history but a fable agreed upon?" --Napoleon

Born, raised, and still living in New York City. Music is my avocation, my hobby, and my profession. I'm a music librarian at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.

Conflict of Interest Statement

I, Kosboot, am an employee of the New York Public Library, a non profit library dedicated to serving the New York City and global communities, and helping to provide broad access to library resources. I will not make any edits that would not be beneficial to the goals of Wikipedia. While my editing is sort of all over the map, I do like to improve access to important, free, scholarly sources held in libraries and archives.

I do, from time to time, insert links or create articles based on library resources.

I will modify my editing behavior based on problems cited by other editors or if my editing conflicts with other Wikipedia guidelines. I ask that other editors do not hesitate to contact me, via my user talk page, if I appear to be going against this declaration. kosboot (talk) 22:07, 27 June 2014 (UTC)

= Useful links =


 * URL Shortener: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UrlShortener
 * https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Evaluation/Learning_modules/1Wikimetrics_Training_Overview
 * http://wikiconferenceusa.org/wiki/Main_Page
 * m:Research:Analyzing_sources_on_Wikipedia

This is my User:Kosboot/Sandbox. Sandbox2 User:Kosboot/listeria User:Kosboot/listeria2


 * Template:Sfn : Template:Citation
 * Prep Bio - jump start biographical entries
 * page view analysis
 * Template:Archival_records <-- Alex Jung's template
 * WikiProject Music theory
 * WikiProject Music theory/Assessment
 * Music encyclopedia topics
 * New musicals page
 * The Mordecai Bauman papers in the Music Division of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.


 * Wiki College Education Network
 * WP:ACST -- Academic studies of Wikipedia
 * Systemic bias:
 * Wikipedia
 * Criticism_of_Wikipedia
 * Expressions of dominance
 * Global account info: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ACentralAuth&target=
 * Category:Stub-Class_Opera_articles
 * SPARQL query examples: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_query_service/queries/examples
 * m:Research:Analyzing_sources_on_Wikipedia
 * ALA-LC romanization for Russian

= Articles I've created =


 * Andromache (opera)
 * Julian Work
 * Lucius R. Wyatt
 * James Morgan (set designer)
 * Thomas L. Riis
 * Mayer Schorr
 * Joseph Muller (collector)
 * Edith Furmedge
 * Renée Gilly
 * Cécile Gilly
 * Polifemo
 * Ziegfeld Follies of 1919
 * Deolus W. Husband
 * In Circles (musical)
 * The Haunted Tower
 * Francesco Fanciulli
 * Phoebe Jacobs
 * Cesare Bossi
 * Carleton Sprague Smith
 * Richard Rychtarik
 * Drexel 3976
 * List of women music publishers before 1900‎


 * Richard Rifkind
 * Carole Rifkind
 * Naturally Obsessed
 * Bandanna Land
 * List of songs written by Blanche Merrill
 * Blanche Merrill
 * Edward Laufer
 * Ernst Oster
 * Barbara Howitt
 * Miriam Shomer Zunser
 * If Love Were All (play)
 * Helen Arthur
 * Agnes Morgan
 * Emanuel Balaban
 * Drexel 5611
 * Last Grave at Dimbaza
 * Frederick Douglass (Ulysses Kay opera)
 * Drexel 5856
 * Kathryn Meisle
 * Hulda Lashanska
 * Gerald Busby
 * Florence Sutro
 * Herman Timberg
 * Louise Hunter
 * Drexel 4180—4185
 * Bernhard Ziehn
 * Robert O'Hearn
 * Drexel 4302
 * Aleksandr Yurasovsky


 * Charlotte Salomon (opera)
 * Thayer's copy
 * Beethoven (Mähler, 1804-05)‎
 * Susan T. Sommer
 * Drexel 4175
 * Dina Abramowicz
 * Jewish Big Sisters
 * Irénée Berge
 * Julia Gerity
 * Southold Free Library
 * Drexel 4041
 * David Chan
 * Drexel 4257
 * Insertion aria
 * Drexel Collection
 * Minetta Creek
 * The Monks of Malabar
 * Edwin F. De Nyse
 * Jerzy Fitelberg
 * Adele T. Katz
 * Israel Meyer Japhet
 * List of music theorists
 * Le dernier sorcier
 * Ludwig Engländer
 * Robert Stoepel
 * Marc-André Dalbavie
 * Madame Butterfly (1932 film)
 * Woolson Morse
 * Lost, Strayed or Stolen


 * 1492 Up To Date
 * Santa Maria (operetta)
 * Tuxedo (vaudeville)
 * I've Got the Tune
 * Julian Klemczyński
 * Inno delle nazioni
 * Voodoo (opera)
 * Della Fox
 * Panjandrum (musical)
 * New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
 * Paula Szalit
 * Harold R. Atteridge
 * The Wicklow Postman
 * R. H. Burnside
 * Metropolitan Male Quartet
 * The Idea (musical)
 * Manuel Klein
 * William Furst
 * Wang (musical)
 * Sinbad (1891 musical)
 * Wm. J. Scanlan
 * La Région Centrale
 * Mapleson Cylinders
 * Mordecai Bauman
 * List of fictional literature featuring opera
 * The Cocoanuts (musical)
 * Columbia Workshop
 * Broadway Rose

= Existing articles to which I've made substantial contributions =
 * Francis Tregian the Younger
 * Catalogues of classical compositions‎
 * Heinrich Schenker
 * Slide (musical ornament)
 * Retrograde (music)
 * The Fall of the City
 * Yakov Kreizberg

= Other = Editorial: Why the year 2019 is so important

I currently participate in:
 * Wikimedia_New_York_City
 * GLAM/US/Consortium

I participated in:
 * Women of Jazz edit-a-thon (May 30, 2015)
 * RBMS edit-a-thon 2014
 * Meetup/NYC/Women in Jewish History
 * Wikipedia Goes to the Movies Wikipedia Goes To The Movies.jpg
 * Wikimania 2012
 * Meetup/NYC/Wikipedia Day 2012
 * Wikipedia: The Musical WIKILPA.jpg


 * World of Wikipedia by Jon Robson.png