Vicki Rosenzweig

Vicki Rosenzweig is a native New Yorker, and would-be polymath.

In practice, "dilettante" might be closer, but I'm curious about most things, know at least a little about many, and enjoy answering questions and explaining things, so Wikipedia is a congenial project.

I'm also a professional copyeditor and proofreader, and enjoy being someplace where I'm encouraged to insert the missing "the"s, fix the spelling, and tidy up the commas.

My home page is http://www.panix.com/~vr.

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Hi Vicki, I'm the one who wrote the article about el Cid. My name is Jorge Tamayo, from Madrid Spain. Even if I tried a free-style translation of the last sentence, I'm not native in english and it shows. Your version is better. Thank you for editing, the article needed it.

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Oh, Vicki! Welcome to Wikipedia! We need your skills! I've already admired a submission or two (e.g., saint). --MichaelTinkler

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Welcome aboard, Vicki! Polymaths and editors are the backbone of Wikipedia. -- Claudine

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Hi Vicki --

There is in fact, some belief that Charlemagne caused Carloman's death, but I'd be kinda careful. There isn't a lot of evidence for it. We do know through extant sources that Carloman made very large grants to religious foundations and seems to have demonstrated sincere piety. Also, by entering a monastery, Carloman would have given up any right to inheritance (although he may have had some control over how lands he held were dispersed). Because of this, I tend to disregard those rumors. Now Grifo, the half-brother of Charles and Carloman ....

would you mind terribly if I removed the reference? J Hofmann Kemp

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Sure, rephrase or remove. I based that on something that I think was written in the 1950s, so may well have been disproven by now.

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Vicki,

Just put back Orange, the telecoms company. They are a major player in the UK, and are moving globally. They are probably worth an article in their own right once we get bracketed headings - their rise has been mercurial. sjc

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Hi Vicki - just wanted to say welcome and hello. I never knew where "Bronx" came from - thanks for that. Regards Manning

--Wow! Great work on the senses. I'm a medical doctor by training and I'd never heard of "umami", so I went and looked it up. Re the spelling, "Nature Neuroscience" spells it "umami" and I couldn't find any medical references to "umame" (which only means that "I" couldn't find them) so I chose that spelling as the primary one. You also (properly) pointed out my humano-centricity so I went and looked up electroception and magnetoception. Cheers- MB

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Hi Vicki, I've been admiring your work, and I wanted to give you a much-belated welcome to the project, and sorry it wasn't sooner. There are so many good people who have arrived in the last few months, it's hard to keep up! --Larry Sanger

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Hi Vicki -- I listed the fat, stupid, ugly pages on TB deleted already... thanks for noticing them, too, because I thought i must have been hallucinating! JHK

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I've been dropping in stubs on things I think ought to be covered--I started the light pollution article because it was requested, and just did a few paragraphs on whales because it seemed like an odd omission: there was already an article on ambergris.

• An article on the Statue of Liberty, another to-me-obvious omission, with quotes from the National Park Service page, and Emma Lazarus's poem "The New Colossus." --VR
• A brief sketch for an entry on Long Island
• Ditto on oracles, especially Delphi
• Short article on Jack Ruby, replacing one-sentence stub that mentioned only his birth name
• Habeas corpus (probably too US-centric)
• Added Pisistratos, lost comic epic, and "Homer: who was she?" to page on Homer
• A couple of paragraphs about the [Hudson River]?
• Put the article on Benjamin Franklin into actual sentences, and expanded it a little, but a lot more needs doing.
• Copyedited "Euskara" and redirected to Basque; the previous contributor had left a one-line link to (I think) the [[Basque/Euskadi]] wiki
• Basic article on hurricanes?, taken largely from NOAA Web site; I rearranged, copyedited, and added some material on damage outside the US
• Stub on Tokyo, mostly population numbers and brief history
• Short article on okapi (I went to the zoo today)

To Do:

• Rewrite New York City entry, with much more history
• Expand apple
• More on Mississippi/Atchafalaya?/Corps? of Engineers
• fill out Hudson River article

Oh, and when I get bored I wander through the Wikipedia semi-randomly, inserting verbs into topic sentences.

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hi Vicky I´m the starter of the wikipedia in basque. what can I do for you? I´m eager to contribute. Did I do something wrong? Not really, but I wanted something local and in English. Please check anything I write about Basque language or culture for accuracy

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Thanks Vicki for your recent contribution to Masculism. It was a point essential to bring up and I hope I flushed it out OK. QIM

I would say "thank you," except that I don't think I've written anything there. VR?

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Oh, in case anyone is wondering, I did just update Aleutian Islands about five times; I ran into an edit conflict, so wound up putting my bits in a paragraph or two at a time, to avoid trouble. (The other person editing was working on a different chunk of the article, so it was a database conflict but not a disagreement._