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About me

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Interested parties may wish to visit my website, Gyrofrog Communications.

In January 2012, I completed a Wikipedia Signpost interview about WikiProject Jazz.

Some articles I've started

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Many of these involved little effort on my part. This is more of an indicator as to where my interests lie, in case anyone's curious.

Awards

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Gyrofrog is presented this Africa Award for his excellent contributions to Africa-related articles, particularly his work on East Africa-related coverage. Presented by Dvyost from the Africa-related regional notice board
The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
For warning my ip for its persistant vandalism.—Phoenix-wiki 21:43, 3 January 2008 (UTC)


The Citation Barnstar The Citation Barnstar
You are hereby awarded the citation barnstar for your extraordinary (and expensive) efforts on digging out sources for the Kerry Wendell Thornley article, arriving to the point of paying a subscription to the The Atlanta Journal-Constitution magazine just to be able to cite the only sources that could support his existance as a real person. Enric Naval (talk) 08:41, 26 March 2008 (UTC)


The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
For your vigilant work and efforts over the last few years on the Eritrean–Ethiopian War article. -- PBS (talk) 10:27, 9 January 2011 (UTC)


The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
Such a marvelous contributions for creating Wikipedia the wonderful place for everyone your edits are amazing, I highly appreciated your work for Wikipedia therefore I would like to award you with a The Tireless Contributor Barnstar. I wish we will have more editors like you in our Wikipedia Family. --Faizanalivarya (talk) 20:25, 4 January 2012 (UTC)

Note(s) to self

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Useful stuff

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"Only a primitive would believe a word of Wikipedia." -- Tom Wolfe[1]

  • 10th ed. {{cite book|last1 = Cook|first1 = Richard|author-link1 = Richard Cook (journalist)|last2= Morton | first2=Brian | author-link2 = Brian Morton (Scottish writer)|title = The Penguin Jazz Guide: The History of the Music in the 1001 Best Albums |origyear = 1992|edition = 10th | series = [[The Penguin Guide to Jazz]]|year = 2010|publisher = Penguin|location = New York|isbn = 978-0-14-104831-4|pages = xxx}}
  • 9th ed. {{cite book|last1 = Cook|first1 = Richard|author-link1 = Richard Cook (journalist)|last2= Morton | first2=Brian | author-link2 = Brian Morton (Scottish writer)|title = The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings|origyear = 1992|edition = 9th|series = [[The Penguin Guide to Jazz]]|year = 2008|publisher = Penguin|location = New York|isbn = 978-0-14-103401-0|pages = xxx}}
  • 8th ed.: {{cite book|last1 = Cook|first1 = Richard|author-link1 = Richard Cook (journalist)|last2= Morton | first2=Brian | author-link2 = Brian Morton (Scottish writer)|title = The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings|origyear = 1992|edition = 9th|series = [[The Penguin Guide to Jazz]]|year = 2008|publisher = Penguin|location = New York|isbn = 978-0-14-103401-0|pages = = xxx}}
  • All Music Guide to Jazz (1st ed.): {{Citation | last=Wynn | first=Ron | authorlink=Ron Wynn | editor=[[Ron Wynn]] | others=M. Erlewine, V. Bogdanov | year=1994 | title=[[All Music Guide to Jazz]] | place=San Francisco | publisher=Miller Freeman | page=xxx | isbn=0-87930-308-5}}
  • Cadence Magazine
  • (old) {{cite journal | last= | first= | year= | month= | title= | journal=[[Cadence Magazine]] | volume= | issue= | pages= | publisher=Cadnor Ltd. | location=[[Redwood, New York|Redwood, NY]] | issn=01626973 }}
  • (new) {{cite journal | last= | first= | year= | month= | title= | journal=[[Cadence Magazine]] | volume= | issue= | pages= | publisher=Cadence Media LLC | location=[[Portland, Oregon|Portland, OR]] | issn=01626973 }}
  • Jazz for Dummies (2nd ed.): <ref name="jfd">{{Cite book | title=Jazz for Dummies | last=Sutro | first=Dirk | page=240 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tqkRibY3RHoC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&lpg=PA240&pg=PA240#v=onepage&q&f=false | series=[[For Dummies]] | edition=2nd | year=2006 | isbn=9780471768449 | accessdate={{Date|2020-03-29}} }}</ref>
  • [[Wikipedia talk:Neutral point of view/Archive 42#Isn't it iconic?|Isn't it iconic?]]
  • [[Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Noticeboard/Archive_179#Ethiopianorthodox.org]]
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