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About Me
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"I always feel that I've just started. The work to be, the work that's yet to come … it will remain there, to be done, no matter what happens. If the reviews of a play of mine are the best in the world, my work remains to be done. If a book of mine wins all the prizes in the world, the work remains to be done."
Maya Angelou (1973)
I'm currently working on:
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I am Eric S. Piotrowski, a high-school English teacher and writer living in Madison, Wisconsin USA. For more details please read my life story.
My Wikipedia work revolves mostly around working to make imperfect pages (usually about people and Balzac's work) into Featured Articles, and copyediting others' work. You can read my fascinating insights about the Wikipedia experience at my wikithoughts page. I've also shared some wikithoughts about copyediting on a podcast. Although I can't imagine why anyone else would want to see them, I also have a sandbox and another sandbox and a drawing board and a canvas. If you'd like to leave me a message, click here.
I also do some video-mashing in my spare time. My most recent project is a blockbuster documentary film about a journey I took with my wife around the southeastern United States in July 2008. One of my better videos is I, Neo, which mixes together Massive Attack, Mos Def, and The Matrix.
I designed this page – with lots of trial and error – using tables. Feel free to swipe code if you like, but a link is appreciated.
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Significant Contributions
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Userboxing Ring
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Honoré de Balzac
Important Women Whose Names Begin With Emm-
People Who Are Not Honoré de Balzac
Movies That Challenge Our Perceptions of Reality and Examine the Chaotic Meshugaas of the Writing Process
East Timor
Organized Labour
Other
Templates
Miscellaneous Junk of Interest to No One
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Wikilove
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I thank Awadewit and JayHenry for their continuing support and guidance, particularly with regard to Honoré de Balzac. I also thank Bookandcoffee for help and wisdom at WP:UNION. Qp10qp is another fine editor, and WillowW is my best friend. To spread the 'love, I like to give people donuts.
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Egoboo
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It gives me great joy to award this Imperial Napoleonic triple crown for exceptional mainspace contributions. Thank you very much for your generous time and diligence on behalf of the project. You are a Napoleon among editors. Cheers, Casliber (talk · contribs) 11:57, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
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Scorpion0422's Not-so-Golden Woodpecker Award |
| For your excellent help with Sideshow Bob, which probably would have failed its FAC had you not come along. Thanks once again. -- Scorpion0422 19:23, 10 February 2009 (UTC) |
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The Copyeditor's Barnstar |
| You deserve this barnstar for your recent efforts in copyediting FACs. Keep up the great work! BuddingJournalist 18:58, 7 February 2009 (UTC) |
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"Soldiers in Petticoats" Award |
| Thank you for all of your hard work on Emmeline Pankhurst! It is a wonderfully engaging article, but, really, don't you think we should add an audio file to the article from the Mary Poppins "Sister Suffragette" song?! :) Awadewit (talk) 14:34, 26 October 2008 (UTC) |
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The Copyeditor's Barnstar |
| Isn't there a gold-plated copyeditor's barnstar to top the other ones I've given you for prepping my articles before they go to FAC? Someone should make one. But then I would need 15 others to top that... This one, specifically, is for Stonewall riots. You rule. Moni3 (talk) 16:19, 4 October 2008 (UTC) |
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The Everglades Barnstar |
| "It's curious that the ignorance about the Everglades has persisted all these years"—Marjory Stoneman Douglas, 1987. Thank you, Scartol, for helping in our small wiki-corner, to right that wrong. Your very helpful copy edits were obviously needed and very appreciated. Please accept this limited-edition barnstar as a token of my gratitude. --Moni3 (talk) 13:23, 21 July 2008 (UTC) |
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The Barnstar of Diligence |
| For diligently moving all their userboxen properly into their userspace. xenocidic (talk) 15:20, 16 April 2008 (UTC) |
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For Scartol, master of copyediting |
| Thank you for your massive copyediting skills in To Kill a Mockingbird. I would not have been able to feature it without your support, suggestions, and help. --Moni3 (talk) 22:15, 30 March 2008 (UTC) |
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The Copyeditor's Barnstar |
| Thank you, Scartol, for swooping in and saving my laptop from certain disposal out the window and into a nearby body of water out of frustration in the FAC process for Everglades National Park. --Moni3 (talk) 17:08, 11 February 2008 (UTC) |
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The Copyeditor's Barnstar |
For your patience and outstanding precs preserverence perseverance in helping me through my first foray into the world of Wikipedia academia, I offer you this shiny Barnstar. As Emily said, "The Brain — is wider than the Sky". That goes for your kindness, as well. María (habla conmigo) 13:23, 2 January 2008 (UTC) |
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The Copyeditor's Barnstar |
| This Copyeditor's Barnstar is a token of my appreciation for your willingness to copy edit Jimmy McAleer at the height of the holiday season. Thanks for your help! Best, twelsht (talk) 03:49, 30 December 2007 (UTC) |
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The Copyeditor's Barnstar |
| I award you this barnstar for your precision and professionalism in copyediting the Yasser Arafat article and bringing it to a higher level of reading. Cheers! --Al Ameer son 03:20, 15 November 2007 (UTC) |
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The Barnstar of Peace |
| Please accept this both as laurels for your Chinua Achebe piece and as an olive branch. --ROGER DAVIES TALK 15:55, 27 October 2007 (UTC) |
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The Template Barnstar |
| What a wonderful template tutorial! I am so happy that it is being featured on the community portal - now more editors can benefit from your excellent teaching skills! Awadewit | talk 03:17, 27 October 2007 (UTC) |
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The Template Barnstar |
| Awarded for the extremely useful {{GAList2}} template. VanTucky Talk 00:54, 27 September 2007 (UTC) |
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The Barnstar of High Culture |
| Wikipedia thanks you for all of the hard work you lavished on the now-featured Honoré de Balzac. Your wonderfully readable article will inform millions! Awadewit | talk 02:43, 20 September 2007 (UTC) |
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The Tireless Contributor Barnstar |
| For your excellent work on articles such as Cripple Creek. Well done :) Pursey Talk | Contribs 08:34, 17 September 2007 (UTC) |
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Did you know? has been updated with facts from the following articles, which you created or substantially expanded:
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My Pictures at Wikimedia Commons
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23 January 2008
Gravestone of Sebastião Gomes in the Santa Cruz cemetery, site of the Dili massacre
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15 November 2007
A map of significant locations in the life of Harriet Tubman
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15 September 2007
The Arco di S. Antonio, leading into the Italian town of Maida
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17 August 2007
The Works of Honoré de Balzac Volume XV
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Pages I Will Attack Someday
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