User:Ssilvers

Hello, fellow editors.

About me
I live in the U.S., and my interests include light opera, musical theatre, global warming, environment, literature, history, films, astronomy, health issues, U.S. politics, and U.S. law. I am a lawyer and writer by trade, an amateur singer and actor (performing with some frequency both in the U.K. and the U.S.), and I enjoy snow skiing, swimming, snorkeling and sailing.

My contributions to WP
My first edit on Wikipedia was on April 20, 2006, and I established this username on April 27, 2006. By April 2021, I had made over 165,000 total edits on Wikipedia. I have created several hundred articles on Wikipedia, and more than 185 of them have been featured on the "Did You Know" section of the Main Page.

I have edited a wide range of articles here, but I spend most of my time on articles about musical theatre, especially from about 1860 to about 1925, including shows, composers, lyricists, dramatists, and producers of, and performers in, Victorian musical theatre and Edwardian musical comedy. I have created or expanded articles on every Victorian and Edwardian-era musical of which I am aware that enjoyed an original London or New York run of at least 400 performances and many other successful or notable musicals, composers, lyricists, book writers and performers of the period. I have also expanded many musical theatre and related articles from more recent eras, and I am a member of WikiProject Musical Theatre. In the past, I have been a Wikipedia Online Ambassador, mentoring university students.

I am an active participant in WikiProject Gilbert and Sullivan, having created or expanded articles on most of the important Gilbert and Sullivan performers and People associated with Gilbert and Sullivan included in Wikipedia. In addition, I have created or expanded articles on many of W. S. Gilbert's plays, and I have added to nearly all of the other articles within the scope of the G&S project. I encourage anyone interested in Gilbert and Sullivan to join the WP:G&S project. There is still plenty more to do!

My WP:FA and WP:GA articles
I have been a major contributor to the following articles that are now rated Featured Articles or Good Articles:
 * Featured Articles (15):
 * [[Image:Featured article star.svg|15px]] Carousel
 * [[Image:Featured article star.svg|15px]] Noel Coward
 * [[Image:Featured article star.svg|15px]] Creatures of Impulse
 * [[Image:Featured article star.svg|15px]] Flower Drum Song
 * [[Image:Featured article star.svg|15px]] W. S. Gilbert
 * [[Image:Featured article star.svg|15px]] H.M.S. Pinafore
 * [[Image:Featured article star.svg|15px]] Her Majesty's Theatre
 * [[Image:Featured article star.svg|15px]] Joseph Grimaldi
 * [[Image:Featured article star.svg|15px]] The King and I
 * [[Image:Featured article star.svg|15px]] Dan Leno
 * [[Image:Featured article star.svg|15px]] André Messager
 * [[Image:Featured article star.svg|15px]] South Pacific
 * [[Image:Featured article star.svg|15px]] Arthur Sullivan
 * [[Image:Featured article star.svg|15px]] Thespis
 * [[Image:Featured article star.svg|15px]] Trial by Jury


 * Rescued Featured Articles (1):
 * [[Image:Featured article star.svg|15px]]His Majesty's Theatre (by the late, with )


 * Good Articles (30+, including FAs that were first GAs):
 * [[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|15px]] "The Absent-Minded Beggar"
 * [[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|15px]] Rutland Barrington
 * [[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|15px]] Jessie Bond
 * [[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|15px]] Richard D'Oyly Carte
 * [[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|15px]] Rupert D'Oyly Carte
 * [[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|15px]] D'Oyly Carte Opera Company
 * [[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|15px]] Edward Scissorhands (dance)
 * [[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|15px]] Jackie Evancho
 * [[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|15px]] Gilbert and Sullivan
 * [[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|15px]] George Grossmith
 * [[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|15px]] Hair
 * [[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|15px]] Stanley Holloway
 * [[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|15px]] Kinky Boots
 * [[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|15px]] Love, Loss, and What I Wore
 * [[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|15px]] Henry Lytton
 * [[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|15px]] Jacques Offenbach
 * [[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|15px]] Bernadette Peters
 * [[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|15px]] Joseph J. Romm
 * [[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|15px]] Malcolm Sargent
 * [[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|15px]] Themes in Avatar

Reliability of Wikipedia

 * Wikipedia at 20
 * Psychology Today
 * "Grading Wikipedia" (2007)
 * Editorial oversight and control

Tools:

 * WP:DISINFOBOX




 * Musical of the month at NYPL
 * Over the Footlights - London theatre site
 * Images: User:Nikkimaria
 * WP:AIV
 * Warning/vandal templates
 * WP:DR
 * List of Wikipedians by number of edits (As of November 2012, #227)
 * Editor's index to Wikipedia
 * Victorian currency Inflation calculator


 * This will prevent premature copying to Commons.
 * Pre-1978 publicity photos: See this.
 * Pre-1978 publicity photos: See this.
 * Pre-1978 publicity photos: See this.

Footlight Notes site

Wikipedia's servers are within the U.S. jurisdiction, files must follow U.S. copyright law in order to be used on Wikipedia. Overviews of U.S. copyright law can be found at User:Quadell/copyright and Cornell University's factsheet. Official documents from the U.S. Copyright Office are at: "Duration of Copyright" and "International Copyright Relations".

Favorite Wikipedia talk page reply to a disruptive editor, which made me smile: "Please don't tag the regulars. I have been editing this page for years.  You've just come back from being banned for editwarring - perhaps you should calm down and take a break?"

Administrators:
 * User:Drmies anti-vandalism
 * User:Shell Kinney for WP:OTRS issues
 * User:Snowolf speaks Italian
 * User:Steve Smith
 * User:Antandrus - anti-vandalism (Great article!)
 * User:Keegan
 * User:BrownHairedGirl
 * Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents

Stub for musicals: musical-theat-stub

For Proposed deletion (for articles whose deletion is expected to be uncontroversial), you put reason at the top of the article. If it is controversial, WP:DELETE will walk you through what to do. It's not hard, and they've set it up to be pretty painless: put at the top of the article, click on the preloaded debate link, and fill it out, then go back to the article, copy the text given, and click on the link for the next step and paste the text in, to link the debate.

Requests for comment/Art, architecture, literature and media

Citation template for web cites: cite web

Wikipedia's fair use criteria: WP:FU.

Barnstars and other bling
On behalf of WP:CHICAGO, I would like to thank you for editorial efforts that helped Georg Solti become a WP:FA.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 22:17, 24 June 2012 (UTC)



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