User:Patrug

At the risk of revealing my not-so-secret identity, most of my efforts in Wikipedia and in Wikimedia Commons are for improving rarely-edited articles connected with music, math/science, mortgages, markets, Metro NYC, and/or untimely mortality. Some choice examples are:


 * "C'è la luna mezz'o mare" (created article)
 * "Lasst uns erfreuen" (created article)
 * "O Sanctissima"
 * "Prayer of St. Francis" (~250,000 page views per year)
 * "Ye Watchers and Ye Holy Ones"
 * European Magazine
 * List of flautists
 * List of Italian composers
 * Magnus Organ Corporation
 * Organ Reform Movement
 * Pipedreams
 * Siciliana
 * St. Wilfrid Club
 * Symphonic organ
 * Seth Bingham
 * Louis-Claude Daquin
 * Alexander McCurdy
 * John Scott
 * Ethel Smith
 * Ultraviolet index (~100,000 page views per year)
 * I-spread
 * Option-adjusted spread
 * Z-spread
 * Libyan Crisis (~100,000 page views per year)
 * List of countries by oil production (~500,000 page views per year)
 * OPEC (~1,000,000 page views per year)
 * OPEC Secretary-General
 * Petrodollar recycling (~100,000 page views per year)
 * Mohammed Barkindo
 * Abby Joseph Cohen
 * Meredith Whitney (~100,000 page views per year)
 * D'Agostino Supermarkets
 * New York Military Academy
 * Sayreville High School
 * First Church of Christ, Wethersfield
 * St. Clare's Church, Staten Island
 * Franklin Square station
 * Penns Neck station (created article)
 * Princeton Branch
 * Princeton station
 * Wesmont station
 * Zabriskie Farmhouse
 * Carl Heastie
 * Melissa Mark-Viverito
 * Sheldon Silver
 * 1918 Morgan Depot Explosion
 * 1991 Murder of Timothy Wiltsey
 * 2015 Pakistan heat wave
 * List of marathon fatalities
 * Sudden cardiac death of athletes

Recognized contributions
An of the high-traffic OPEC article successfully passed the review processes for  "Good Article" (top 1% quality rating) and for "Did You Know" on Wikipedia's Main Page (2016-05-13). An of the Petrodollar Recycling article also passed the reviews for "Good Article" and for "Did You Know" on the Main Page (2017-01-17), and a  on an old hymn tune was selected for "Did You Know" on the Main Page (Easter Sunday, 2017-04-16). An of the Prayer of Saint Francis article passed the review for "Good Article". Two updates about United Nations genocide convictions were nominated and selected for "Wikipedia: In The News" at the top of the Main Page (2014-08-08), and a major expansion of the biography of deceased organist John Scott also received a last-minute nomination. One update, about the Sicilian hymn "O Sanctissima" providing half the melody for "We Shall Overcome", was directly cited by The New York Times (2015-05-08) and The Atlantic (2015-05-09). I hope someday to earn a Wikipedia Music Barnstar.