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Hi, I'm Ira Leviton. Even if I were to try to keep my name a secret, I realize how easy it is to find out, and since I haven't done anything wrong and I'm not paranoid, I make no effort to hide.
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Ira Leviton |
Editor of the Week for the week beginning March 25, 2018 |
Since 2015, Ira's New York focus works at disseminating knowledge and information in all the spheres of the Wiki. Over 43000 edits with 97% to mainspace: uses edit summary 99% of the time. Constantly adding facts, links, references and correcting errors. |
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25 articles including List of hospitals in New York City |
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Name | Ira Leviton | |||||||||||||
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Nationality | American | |||||||||||||
Country | United States | |||||||||||||
Current location | New York, New York (it's so nice you have to say it twice)[2][3] | |||||||||||||
Race | 4 × 400 meter relay | |||||||||||||
Hair | yes | |||||||||||||
Eyes | only two | |||||||||||||
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Hobbies | genealogy, Wikipedia, and correcting my wife | |||||||||||||
Religion | Jewish | |||||||||||||
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Joined | May 2, 2015 | |||||||||||||
First edit | May 2, 2015 | |||||||||||||
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I became a Wikipedian to create a page for Disco Freddy as a personal challenge. Shortly afterward, I noticed an obvious error on the page for Hans Schmidt, the only priest to be executed for murder in the U.S. – it stated that he was buried at Mount Zion Cemetery in Queens. I knew that was impossible, because it's a Jewish cemetery, although because the cemetery is still active, I called to confirm that he wasn't there. (Yes, I know, no original research allowed...) After that, I continued to fix grammatical and occasional factual errors that I noticed, add references when they were needed, and occasionally create new pages. I believe in disseminating knowledge and information, and that whenever possible, knowledge and access to it should be free. (I'm not saying that teachers or professors shouldn't be paid, or that students should be able attend any school they want to, or that books should be free, but I think it's always a good thing when knowledge can be created or distributed at no cost.) I add facts, links, and references, correct errors, and try to improve the delivery of information on pages I read.
You can find all my user subpages by clicking here: see Ira's subpages.
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