User:JackofOz

Wikipedia

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
- Jack of Oz

La vie s'arrange, mais autrement.
(Life works out, but not in the way you expect.)
- Sebastian Faulks

Recently created articles etc
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2025
R 50618 FebJulian Jacobson Maurice Jacobson
C 69817 FebAustralian people wrongfully convicted of murder
R 50511 FebJill Bolte Henry Bolte
A 7227 FebTough Guy Book Club
2024
A 72119 NovThe Warriors (Grainger)
C 69727 JulAustralian men centenarians
R 50419 JulHoffnung Festival Hoffnung Music Festival
C 6968 JunConcertos completed by others
R 5031 JunMulgray Twins The Mulgray Twins
M 6330 MayWilliam de Heytisbury William of Heytesbury
C 69521 MayAdaptations of works by Thomas Nashe
C 69420 MayWikipedia categories named after American First Ladies
R 50219 MayGerman Edward Jones Edward German
C 69117 MayMusic based on works by French writers
C 69217 MayMusical settings of poems by French writers
C 69317 MayCompositions by Sergei Prokofiev published posthumously
C 6908 MayCompositions by Antonín Dvořák published posthumously
C 6897 MayNovels by Jon Courtenay Grimwood
R 50114 AprCategory: Academic staff of Tokyo the College of Music [sic] Category: Academic staff of the Tokyo College of Music
C 68814 AprAcademic staff of the Tokyo College of Music
C 6875 AprAustralian rules football players who died while playing
R 5003 AprLe testament d'Orphée Testament of Orpheus
C 6862 AprLists of people by city in New Zealand
R 49929 MarAnanda Krishna D. K. Chowta
R 49828 MarFletcher Franks Frank Fletcher (baseball)
R 49722 MarBuster Noble Trisha Noble
C 68514 MarWorks by Edith Sitwell
C 68413 MarLists of awards received by Mexican actor
R 49614 FebJoseph Labor Josef Labor
R 49519 JanBrenda Lucas John Ogdon
C 6833 JanCompositions by Felix Weingartner
My wiki-oeuvre

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

So little done, so much to do ...
The sinister world of Jack of Oz (who is right-handed)
Honours, awards & DYKs
When all else fails: the Ozatorium (aka site map)
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"
pno-3This user is an advanced pianist.
I never play requests - unless, of course, I am asked to do so. (Victor Borge)
This editor is a Grand High Togneme Vicarus and is entitled to display the Book of All Knowledge: 2nd Edition.
This editor is a
Vanguard Editor
and is entitled to display this
Unobtainium Editor Star with
the Neutronium Superstar hologram.
This user has been awarded the 100,000 Edits award.
214,860+This user has made more than 214,860 contributions to Wikipedia.
201This user is ranked 201 on the list of Wikipedians by number of edits.
This user has created 720 articles on Wikipedia.
Icon This user has been on Wikipedia for 21 years, 10 months and 29 days.
This user has been editing Wikipedia for more than twenty 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)

A bit more stuff