User:Jonathanischoice

Jonathanischoice
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Name	Jonathan
Country	New Zealand
Current location	Wellington
Time zone	NZST
Account statistics
First edit	30 July 2004
Edit count	28,841
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20Y	This Wikipedian joined Wikipedia on July 30, 2004 (20 years, 10 months and 4 days ago).
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	This user was identified as an awesome Wikipedian on 2 May 2023.
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This user is a participant in; WikiProject New Zealand.
	This user is a member of WikiProject Musical Instruments.
	This user tunes in to Wikipedia Weekly whenever it comes out.
	This user is from Wellington.
	This user plays the bass trombone.
	This user plays the contrabass trombone.
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it-2	Questo utente può contribuire con un livello intermedio di italiano.
mi-1	He tapepa rawa te reo Māori o tēnei tangata.
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	This user has publicly declared that he has a conflict of interest regarding the Wikipedia article Mahara (software).

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Interested in lots of things.

Articles I've enjoyed working on

Contrabass trombone GA DYK
Cimbasso GA
Serpent (instrument) GA
Soprano trombone GA
A-flat clarinet GA
Saxophones: soprillo, sopranino, contrabass, subcontrabass, tubax
Ophicleide
New Zealand wine
Marlborough wine region
Hawke's Bay wine region
An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand
Anthony Whitaker
John Psathas
Orchestra Wellington
Dunedin Symphony Orchestra

Good Article reviews

Music of The Lord of the Rings film series GA
Monotron GA
White Diamonds GA1 (August 2023 Backlog Drive)
Tellico Dam GA (August 2023 Backlog Drive)
Matiu / Somes Island GA (August 2023 Backlog Drive)
Analog revival GA
Nausicaa (opera) GA
Wellington Botanic Garden GA

WANZ photography grant

In 2024 I got a grant from Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand to take new photos of uncommon instruments not well represented by freely-licensed images, which are now on Commons and illustrate several instrument articles. It was lots of fun and I hope to do more.

Media related to WANZ 2024 instrument photography grant at Wikimedia Commons

Current projects and preoccupations

Musical instruments. I said I wouldn't, but the trombone-related articles were in a bad state, so I fixed them up; the types of trombone article wasn't working well, so I moved it back to trombone, or to new articles for contrabass trombone, bass trombone, cimbasso, alto trombone, valve trombone, soprano trombone, and superbone; tenor trombone can mostly defer to the main trombone article. I think most of the sackbut article does not reflect modern scholarship on the instrument and should be reduced, cited and corrected, and even largely moved back to the history section of the main trombone article.
Articles about New Zealand, helping out on WP:NZ, and participating in Wikipedia:Meetups/Wellington
- New Zealand conductors, composers and orchestras; there is no article for SOUNZ (Toi te Arapūoru / Centre for New Zealand Music), and it needs to be an authority control source for New Zealand classical and contemporary music; many articles are incomplete and need photos/infoboxes.
Wine articles, particularly New Zealand wine and rare or unusual (often Italian) grape varieties, for example Sagrantino or Corvinone
Hooking things up in Wikidata
Contributing photos to Commons
Buffing references and citations in general wherever necessary