User:Softlavender





 This user has been identified as an Awesome Wikipedian.

About me:

I'm female, born in 1955, and live in the U.S.

I have a degree in English and History from Duke University.

Among other things, I have been a professional editor for over 17 years, in New York City (1985–1992) and in San Francisco (1992–2001). Editing in all fields: journalism, nonfiction, textbooks, medical, legal, fact-checking, copyediting, proofreading, etc.

I started editing Wikipedia in mid 2006, and created an account in early 2007.



Invaluable resources for researchers:

BookFinder.com

AddAll.com

On those sites you can find any book, and at the very cheapest prices.

To add an invitation to WP:The Wikipedia Adventure to someone's talkpage, use  

The Wikipedia Library

Twinkle



Help:Searching
WP:Advanced source searching


 * WP:Advanced source searching
 * Research
 * Google News Search Archives
 * Google News Search
 * Google News Timeline Search
 * Google Books Search
 * Google Scholar Search
 * Google Book Citation Tool
 * Google Ngram Viewer
 * World Cat
 * The Free Library
 * Magazine Search
 * Pub Med Search
 * PDF Search
 * Legal Search
 * Wiki Search
 * Web Page Archive search
 * US State Archives search
 * TV News Archive
 * Rolling Stone mag search
 * News Library
 * New York Times
 * Bloomberg Businessweek profiles
 * Forbes
 * Fortune
 * WSJ
 * Bloomberg
 * Businessweek (quotation marks don't seem to work)
 * Barron's
 * HighBeam
 * Questia
 * Financial Times
 * Guardian
 * Telegraph
 * Independent
 * BBC
 * BBC News
 * The Times
 * The Sunday Times
 * The Economist
 * TIME
 * Newsweek
 * Answers.com
 * Books about companies
 * Books About Companies (main)
 * Films
 * Indian English Newspaper Custom Search Engine
 * http://www.filmreference.com/ + Notable Bios; Fashion bios; Business bios
 * http://www.referenceforbusiness.com/history/index.html
 * http://hanlib.sou.edu/instruct/business/Company_Research.html
 * 1) WP:MEDRS about referencing
 * 2) WP:MEDMOS about language usage and ordering of sections
 * 3) WP:MEDHOW about formatting refs

Tip of the day/July 18

Cricket (musical)

Exploring Music

Bill McGlaughlin

Saint Paul Sunday

Compositions by Bill McGlaughlin

Gianna Rolandi

Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts

Cosmopolitan (film)

Leon Jessel

Hans Brinker

The Nasty Bits

Barnstars
  The Sorcerer's Apprentice

Thank you, soft professional editor with a user page full of help, for quality articles on music and theatre, such as The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Jack Lowden and the list of compositions by Bill McGlaughlin, for redirects and a firm, - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:11, 13 January 2015 (UTC)

Tip of the day

/test

To delete old userpages:

User:Dispenser/Reflinks

WikiProject Films/Style guidelines

WikiProject Films

Your first article

/tutorials

Stuff to look at later:


 * https://tools.wmflabs.org/makeref/
 * WP:RS
 * Template messages/Cleanup/Verifiability and sources
 * 
 * http://www.wbur.org/npr/15597620
 * help boxes on 's Talk page

"To reply, this is how it should go:

Original post "What cars do you like?"
 * First reply "I like Volkswagens!"
 * Reply #1 to first reply "I think Volkswagens are stupid.."
 * Reply to reply #1 to first reply "No, they're great!"
 * Reply #2 to first reply "Me too!"
 * Second reply "I like Hyundai!"
 * Reply #1 to second reply "I think Hyundai cars break down easy"
 * Reply number three "I like Honda!"
 * Reply number four "I like Saab"

Of course those would all use ~~~~ after them to sign"