User:JackofOz

Let me go quietly on with my work; if it is that of a madman, well, so much the worse - I can't help it
- Vincent van Gogh

I have known the inexorable sadness of pencils
Theodore Roethke

Shut your eyes and open your eyes

Recently created articles etc

A	C	D	L	M	P	R	T
Article	Category	Disambiguation page	List	Merge	Page move	Redirect	Template

	2021
R 467	31 Jan	Christoph von Gluck >> Christoph Willibald Gluck
L 34	9 Feb	Members of multiple Australian legislatures
R 468	12 Feb	Kennedy (violinist) >> Nigel Kennedy
R 469	15 Feb	Charles F. Berlitz >> Charles Berlitz
A 683	28 Mar	Robert Gard (tenor)
R 470	3 Jun	Patrick Hartigan (poet) >> John O'Brien (poet)
R 471	11 Jun	Lady Desborough >> Ettie Grenfell, Baroness Desborough
R 472	12 Jun	Aleck Woollcott >> Alexander Woollcott
C 642	4 Aug	Books by Peter Goldsworthy
R 473	25 Oct	Mike Hudson (admiral) >> Michael Hudson (admiral)
R 474	26 Oct	Kathryn C. Hulme >> Kathryn Hulme
R 475	12 Nov	Ludmila Zykina >> Lyudmila Zykina
C 643	27 Nov	Films based on The Bread Peddler
R 476	13 Dec	Bernhard Breitkopf >> Bernhard Christoph Breitkopf
C 644	31 Dec	Films based on Little Dorrit
	2022
R 477	8 Feb	Raymond Isidore >> Trencadís
R 478	10 Mar	Percival Lindsay >> Percy Lindsay
L 35	20 Mar	Mozart Requiem discography
C 645	20 Mar	Mozart Requiem
R 479	11 Apr	Patrick Brazil >> Pat Brazil
R 480	15 Apr	Nikolai Anosoff >> Nikolai Anosov
R 481	15 Apr	Frederick Baker (bass-baritone) >> Frederick Federici
R 482	15 Apr	Bernadette Harvey Balkus >> Bernadette Harvey
R 483	16 Apr	Kath Taperell >> Kathleen Taperell
R 484	18 Apr	Clarence Harders >> Clarrie Harders
R 485	8 May	Peter S. Feibleman >> Peter Feibleman
R 486	25 May	Alf Conlon >> Alfred Conlon
R 487	28 May	Romulus Gaita >> Raimond Gaita

My wiki-oeuvre

For a complete catalogue of my (mis)deeds, see:

So little done, so much to do ...

• Research Notes: Research redlinks

The sinister world of Jack of Oz (who is right-handed)

• The Sinister World of Jack of Oz

Honours, awards & DYKs

• Honours, awards and DYKs

When all else fails: the Ozatorium (aka site map)

The Ozatorium

Bragging

• Alpha Index: A-B • C-D • E-H • I-L • M-O • P-R • S • T-end

• Chronological Index: 2004-08 • 2009-10 • 2011-12 • 2013-14 • 2015-16 • 2017-18 • 2019-20

• Thematic Index

WIP & research notes

• Research notes: User:JackofOz/Research redlinks

• Unresolved questions
• Anagrams
• Arthur Benjamin
• Dedications
• Funereana
• Ministers not in Parliament
• Monuments to composers
• Related classical musicians
• Surname-related film titles
• Cool names of real people
• Poems for remembrance

Style/spelling issues

• Music style issues
• Musical styles
• Spelling errors

Favourites

• Favourites
  • Timeless Tunes for Tuneless Times
  • Well-loved films

Personal

• The Sinister World of Jack of Oz
• My Wikipedia interests and activities
• Honours, awards and DYKs
• User:JackofOz/PENISS
• User:JackofOz/LIKEMINDED
• Ref Desk questions
• Family connections
• People I've met or wish I had
• Published Letters to Editors
• Synchronicity

• Who would I be?
• Things I must have
• Sandbox
• Bits and Pieces

	Anyone's individual contributions to this project are drops in the ocean, BUT the ripple effect of just one drop is unknowable and unstoppable, AND without all those drops, there would be no ocean and no ripples. ALSO All know that the drop merges into the ocean, but few know that the ocean merges into the drop. (Kabir) AND You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in one drop (Rumi)

This user comes from the Land Down Under. This user is proud to be Celtic. This user has studied Russian at the graduate University level and his progeny are of Russian ancestry (not to mention Serbian, Polish, American, Jewish, Irish, English and Scottish). But they're all true blue Aussies. This user is proud to be Gay This user is immensely proud of having written "one of the most horribly written statements in Wikipedia history" [1] pno-3This user is an advanced pianist. I never play requests - unless, of course, I am asked to do so. (Victor Borge) This user is a member of WikiProject Days of the year. This editor is a Grand High Togneme Vicarus and is entitled to display the Book of All Knowledge: 2nd Edition.

This user has been awarded the 100,000 Edits award. 203,210+This user has made more than 203,210 contributions to Wikipedia. 201This user is ranked 201 on the list of Wikipedians by number of edits. This user has created 688 ++ articles on Wikipedia. This user has been on Wikipedia for 18 years, 5 months and 24 days. This user has been editing Wikipedia for more than fifteen years. This user is a Reference desk regular. My son has taken up meditation - at least it's better than sitting doing nothing (Max Kauffmann) If you come to a fork in the road, take it (Yogi Berra) Imagination is intelligence with an erection. (Victor Hugo) A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother We are all born mad. Some remain so. (Samuel Beckett) Arguments are fatal. One always forgets what they are about. (Bruce Chatwin) Tread softly, for you tread on my dreams (W. B. Yeats} Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible. (Dalai Lama) Silence is the language of God. All else is poor translation. (Rumi) Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is exhausting for children to have to provide explanations over and over again. (Antoine de Saint-Éxupéry) What the world needs is more geniuses with humility. There are so few of us left. (Oscar Levant) This editor is a Vanguard Editor and is entitled to display this Unobtainium Editor Star with the Neutronium Superstar hologram. A bit more stuff