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==About me==
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Interested parties may wish to visit my website, [http://www.gyrofrog.com Gyrofrog Communications].

In January 2012, I completed [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-01-09/WikiProject_report|a Wikipedia Signpost interview]] about [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Jazz|WikiProject Jazz]].

==Some articles I've started==
Many of these involved little effort on my part. This is more of an indicator as to where my interests lie, in case anyone's curious.
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*[[Adama]] (a.k.a. Nazareth), an [[Ethiopia]]n city (and my wife's hometown)
*[[Adriana Evans]], an [[Rhythm and blues|R&B]] vocalist
*''[[Aframomum corrorima]]'', or korarima, a spice used in [[berbere]]
*''[[After the Heat]]'', an album by [[Brian Eno]] and [[Cluster (band)|Cluster]]
*[[Ambersunshower]], an [[Rhythm and blues|R&B]] vocalist
*[[Amha Records]], an Ethiopian record label from [[1969]] to [[1975]]
*''[[Between Today and Yesterday]]'', an [[Alan Price]] album
*''[[Blue Serge]]'', a [[Serge Chaloff]] album
*''[[Boston Blow–Up!]]'', a Serge Chaloff album
*[[Buda (folk religion)|Buda]], the Ethiopian term for the [[evil eye]] and [[werehyena]]s
*[[Caravan of Dreams]], a performing arts center (which I never actually got to visit) in [[Fort Worth, Texas|Fort Worth]], [[Texas]].
*[[Chris Connor (album)|''Chris Connor'' (album)]]
*[[Cluster (band)|Cluster]], a [[Germany|German]] musical group
*[[Conference of the Birds (Dave Holland album)|''Conference of the Birds'' (Dave Holland album)]]
*[[Davina (R&B singer)|Davina]], an [[Rhythm and blues|R&B]] vocalist/musician
*[[Dennis González]], a jazz trumpeter
*[[Dukem]], an Ethiopian village
*[[Durba]] (aka Derba), an Ethiopian town
*[[Eskinder Nega]], an Ethiopian journalist convicted under [[anti-terrorism legislation]]
*''[[Ethiopiques]]'', a series of [[compact discs]] released by the [[Paris]]-based Buda Musique
*''[[Flowers of Romance (album)|Flowers of Romance]]'', a [[Public Image Ltd]] album
*[[Fred Jackson (saxophonist)]]. (An earlier version of that page was about [[Fred Jackson, Jr.]], until I figured out they were two different musicians.)
* [[Greenbelt Park]]
*''[[Halber Mensch]]'', an [[Einstürzende Neubauten]] album
*''[[The Ideal Copy]]'', a [[Wire (band)|Wire]] album
*[[I.M. Terrell High School]], a former high school (and [[Ornette Coleman]]'s ''alma mater'') in [[Fort Worth, Texas|Fort Worth]], [[Texas]]
*''[[In All Languages]]'', an [[Ornette Coleman]] album
*[[Jay Rosen (drummer)]], jazz musician
*[[Jazzyfatnastees]], an [[Rhythm and blues|R&B]] vocal duo
*[[Jiim Sheikh Muumin]], [[Somalia]]n musician and actor
*[[Kaifa Records]], an Ethiopian record label from [[1973]] to [[1977]]
*''[[Lenox Avenue Breakdown]]'', an [[Arthur Blythe]] album
* [[List of Core Collection albums in The Penguin Guide to Jazz|List of "Core Collection" albums in ''The Penguin Guide to Jazz'']] (''deleted: [[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Core Collection albums in The Penguin Guide to Jazz|AfD discusion]]''. See [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/List of notable albums]].)
* [[List of Crown albums in The Penguin Guide to Jazz|List of "Crown" albums in ''The Penguin Guide to Jazz'']] (''deleted: [[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Crown albums in The Penguin Guide to Jazz‎|AfD discussion]]''. See [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/List of notable albums]].)
* ''[[Live at Newport '58]]'', a [[Horace Silver]] album
*[[Loose Ends (band)|Loose Ends]], an [[Rhythm and blues|R&B]] band
*[[Mahmoud Ahmed]], an Ethiopian singer
*''[[Metal Box]]'', a [[Public Image Ltd]] album (the ''Metal Box'' page history doesn't show my [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Metal_Box_%28album%29&action=history early edits], due to a re-direct along the way)
**''[[Second Edition]]'', the double-[[Vinyl record|LP]] version of ''Metal Box''
*''[[A Modern Jazz Symposium of Music and Poetry]]'', a [[Charles Mingus]] album
*''[[More Soul]]'', a [[Hank Crawford]] album
*[[Mulatu Teshome]]
*[[Old Hickory Lake]] and [[Old Hickory Lock and Dam]]
*''[[Passion - Sources]]'', an album [[compilation album|compiled]] by [[Peter Gabriel]] (I split this off from ''[[Passion: Music for The Last Temptation of Christ]]'')
*[[Percy Priest Lake]] and [[J. Percy Priest Dam]]
*''[[Peter Gabriel (III)|Peter Gabriel]]'' (1980 album)
*[[Prince Lasha]], a jazz saxophonist (his album ''Firebirds'' with [[Sonny Simmons]] is one of my favorite albums in any [[Music genre|genre]])
* [[The Rance Allen Group]], a [[gospel music]] group who recorded for [[Stax Records]]
* [[Ron Wynn]], an [[allmusic]] critic
*[[Sodere]], a spa resort in Ethiopia
*[[Space Is the Place (soundtrack)|''Space Is the Place'' (soundtrack)]], a [[Sun Ra]] album
*[[Stanley Marsh 3]]
*[[Taj Mahal Travellers]]
*[[Tanbūra]], a [[Lyre|bowl lyre]] of the [[Middle East]] and [[East Africa]].
*''[[Tears for Dolphy]]'', a [[Ted Curson]] album
*[[Texas State Highway Spur 580]]
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== Awards ==
[[Image:Afrika award.jpg|thumb|150px|Gyrofrog is presented this Africa Award for his excellent contributions to Africa-related articles, particularly his work on [[East Africa]]-related coverage. Presented by [[User:Dvyost|Dvyost]] from the [[Wikipedia:Africa-related regional notice board|Africa-related regional notice board]]]]

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|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | For your vigilant work and efforts over the last few years on the [[Eritrean–Ethiopian War]] article. -- [[User:Philip Baird Shearer|PBS]] ([[User talk:Philip Baird Shearer|talk]]) 10:27, 9 January 2011 (UTC) 
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|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" |Such a marvelous contributions for creating Wikipedia the wonderful place for everyone your edits are amazing, I highly appreciated your work for Wikipedia therefore I would like to award you with a '''The Tireless Contributor Barnstar'''. I wish we will have more editors like you in our Wikipedia Family. --[[User:Faizanalivarya|Faizanalivarya]] ([[User talk:Faizanalivarya|talk]]) 20:25, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
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==Note(s) to self==
*[[Hagerstown Regional Airport]]
*[[Metallic K.O.]]
*[[Pangaea (album)]]
*[http://www.nai.uu.se/library/resources/dossiers/local_history_of_ethiopia/C/ORTCA.pdf Chancho] (8,321/3,797m/4,524f)
*[[Misa Criolla]]
*[[Wesha]] ([http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/imw/txu-oclc-6654394-nb-37-4th-ed.jpg or Sole?])
*https://www.academia.edu/2035441/The_Legendary_Fate_of_Pontius_Pilate

==Useful stuff==
'''<big>"Only a primitive would believe a word of Wikipedia."</big> -- [[Tom Wolfe]]'''<sup>[http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118436667045766268-email.html]</sup>
*<nowiki>{{subst:</nowiki>[[:User:Gyrofrog/Notables]]<nowiki>|xxx|2=[[WP:V|Citations]] demonstrating that these individuals are members of this group would also be helpful. Thank you.}}</nowiki>
*<nowiki>{{subst:Uw-unsor1|xxx|2='''See also:''' [[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Somalia#Clan lineage]], [[:Category talk:Somali clans#RFC]]. Thank you.}}</nowiki>
*[[WP:ICT|Image copyright tags]]
*[[Wikipedia:Cite sources]]
*[[Wikipedia:Extended image syntax]]
*[[Wikipedia:Picture tutorial]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Albums]]
* ''Penguin Guide to Jazz''
{{WikiProject cleanup listing|Jazz}}
:* '''10th ed.''' <nowiki>{{cite book|last1 = Cook|first1 = Richard|author-link1 = Richard Cook (journalist)|last2= Morton | first2=Brian | author-link2 = Brian Morton (Scottish writer)|title = The Penguin Jazz Guide: The History of the Music in the 1001 Best Albums |origyear = 1992|edition = 10th | series = [[The Penguin Guide to Jazz]]|year = 2010|publisher = Penguin|location = New York|isbn = 978-0-14-104831-4|pages = xxx}}</nowiki>
:* '''9th ed.''' <nowiki>{{cite book|last1 = Cook|first1 = Richard|author-link1 = Richard Cook (journalist)|last2= Morton | first2=Brian | author-link2 = Brian Morton (Scottish writer)|title = The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings|origyear = 1992|edition = 9th|series = [[The Penguin Guide to Jazz]]|year = 2008|publisher = Penguin|location = New York|isbn = 978-0-14-103401-0|pages = xxx}}</nowiki>
:* '''8th ed.''': <nowiki>{{cite book|last1 = Cook|first1 = Richard|author-link1 = Richard Cook (journalist)|last2= Morton | first2=Brian | author-link2 = Brian Morton (Scottish writer)|title = The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings|origyear = 1992|edition = 9th|series = [[The Penguin Guide to Jazz]]|year = 2008|publisher = Penguin|location = New York|isbn = 978-0-14-103401-0|pages = = xxx}}</nowiki>
* ''All Music Guide to Jazz'' (1st ed.): <nowiki>{{Citation | last=Wynn | first=Ron | authorlink=Ron Wynn | editor=[[Ron Wynn]] | others=M. Erlewine, V. Bogdanov | year=1994 | title=[[All Music Guide to Jazz]] | place=San Francisco | publisher=Miller Freeman | page=xxx | isbn=0-87930-308-5}}</nowiki>
* ''Cadence Magazine''
:* (old) <nowiki>{{cite journal | last= | first= | year= | month= | title= | journal=[[Cadence Magazine]] | volume= | issue= | pages= | publisher=Cadnor Ltd. | location=[[Redwood, New York|Redwood, NY]] | issn=01626973 }}</nowiki>
:* (new) <nowiki>{{cite journal | last= | first= | year= | month= | title= | journal=[[Cadence Magazine]] | volume= | issue= | pages= | publisher=Cadence Media LLC | location=[[Portland, Oregon|Portland, OR]] | issn=01626973 }}</nowiki>
* ''Jazz for Dummies'' (2nd ed.): <nowiki><ref name="jfd">{{Cite book | title=Jazz for Dummies | last=Sutro | first=Dirk | page=240 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tqkRibY3RHoC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&lpg=PA240&pg=PA240#v=onepage&q&f=false | series=[[For Dummies]] | edition=2nd | year=2006 | isbn=9780471768449 | accessdate={{Date|2020-03-29}} }}</ref></nowiki>
* <nowiki>[[Wikipedia talk:Neutral point of view/Archive 42#Isn't it iconic?|Isn't it iconic?]]</nowiki>
* <nowiki>[[Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Noticeboard/Archive_179#Ethiopianorthodox.org]]</nowiki>

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:* [[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Albums/Archive 36#Allmusic's genre sidebar]]
:* [[Free funk]]
:* [[:Category:Jazz articles needing infoboxes]]

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