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User:Simmaren edit
Simmaren was born in 1949, lives in Chicago, Illinois, and is an attorney with a large law firm specializing in state and local government law and finance, corporate finance and banking. He has interests in science fiction (has been reading actively since 1960); the works of Jane Austen; Samuel Johnson and Enlightenment England generally; the history, culture and society of ancient Greece and Rome and ancient and modern China and Japan; renaissance and Baroque music; jazz; anime; science and technology; and contemporary culture and politics. Simmaren studied French and Chinese and majored in East Asian Studies/History in college. Simmaren likes to hike and (formerly) to backpack in the mountains of the Western United States. He also paddles canoes and sea kayaks with his family. He became a WP:User on February 14, 2007. Simmaren does not have as much time to spend on WP as he would like.
Editing edit
Articles I started edit
Articles to which I contributed edit
Ancient Rome -- Military
Jane Austen with Awadewit
Reception history of Jane Austen with Awadewit and Maria
Timeline of Jane Austen with Awadewit
Userboxes I created edit
Current projects edit
- Working with Awadewit on revising the Jane Austen article to bring it up to FA status. See:
- Working to revise the article on Haibane Renmei to improve content, clarity and style and to add critical material.
Jane Austen article "to do's" edit
Add material re popular reaction to Reception history of Jane Austen
Fill in "citations needed"
Determine the correct number of contemporary reviews ["Reception History"]
Work with Mike Christie on Jane Austen family tree
- Complete research and notes for "Style"
- Write/rewrite/consult/argue about "Style"
Future projects edit
Revise the individual articles on the novels of Jane Austen
Clean up and perhaps extend Martha Lloyd
An article on the concept of a "living" for members of the Anglican clergy
Rewriting the sections of Ancient Rome dealing with government and law
Contributions to the article on Courtship Rite
Articles on two novels by Jack McDevitt: Polaris and Seeker
Contributions to biographical articles on Samuel Johnson, Edmund Burke, John Evelyn, William Hazlitt, Lise Meitner, Samuel Pepys, John Day, Maria Edgeworth
Contributions to the following articles: Encyclopedie [with Awadewit, WillowW and a player to be named later], Anti-Jacobin Review
Useful tools edit
- Who is watching an article?
- To create proper blockquotes when a left-aligned image would normally eliminate the left margin of the text:
- Proper use of templates and infoboxes:
- Show/hide text template:
- Column templates:
- [citation needed] template:
- Tool to show contributions to any page sorted by editor:
- To count words of readable prose in article text:
Talents and Gifts edit
- Maps:
- Charts:
- Taste in Type, Graphics:
Resources for Writing edit
- Writing Guide:
- Proper use of templates and infoboxes:
Work Pages edit
Jane Austen Article Research Notes
Userboxes edit
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Wiki-Projects edit
 | This user is a participant in WikiProject Classical Greece and Rome. |
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This user is a member of WikiProject Science Fiction. |
 | This user is a participant in WikiProject Anime and manga. |