User:Ira Leviton
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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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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 may be a NY Mets fan |
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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Notable works |
25 articles including List of hospitals in New York City |
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The basics
[edit]- I'm the only Ira Leviton in the world.[citation needed][according to whom?][4]
- I was born July 22, 1959 in Brooklyn, N.Y.[1]
- I was named יצחק מאיר for my father's father,[5][better source needed] who was born the year after the death of the first Gerrer Rebbe, Yitzchak Meir Alter,[6] and named for him,[7] so I can trace my name back to 1799.[6]
- I've lived in New York City for my entire life and am proud of that. Twenty years in Brooklyn, sixteen years in the Bronx, and currently in my twenty-eighth year in Manhattan.[8] (Perhaps it's time to move to Queens or Staten Island? Nahhhhh...)
- I'm a medical doctor specializing in infectious diseases.[9] I work for Montefiore Hospital[10] and am on the faculty of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.[11]
- Some of my information, philosophy, and outlook is summarized in the user boxes below. I'll make more user boxes for other things that I think are important... some day. Feel free to contact me via my talk page.
Why I became a Wikipedia editor
[edit]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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References
[edit]- ^ a b Index to Births in the City of New York — 1959. New York City Department of Health. Accessed in room 109 at the main branch of the New York Public Library, Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, N.Y., prior to 1 January 2016.
- ^ Russell, George. "Manhattan (lyrics)". songmeanings.com. Retrieved June 10, 2022.
- ^ Winter, Johnny. "New York, New York". Retrieved June 10, 2022.
- ^ This probably cannot be proven, even if I knew everybody in the world.
- ^ My parents told me, so it must be true.
- ^ a b "Search Our Database". jri-poland.org. Jewish Records Indexing Project - Poland. Retrieved 1 January 2016.
- ^ This probably can't be proven either, but considering Ashkenazi naming practices, it makes sense.
- ^ "People Search". intelius.com. Intelius. Retrieved 1 January 2016.
- ^ "Search for a Physician". New York State — Physician Profile. New York State Department of Health. Retrieved 1 January 2016.
- ^ "Find a Doctor". montefiore.org. Montefiore Hospital. Retrieved 1 January 2016.
- ^ "Faculty Profile". einstein.yu.edu. Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Retrieved 1 January 2016.
- ^ "Post". fdrlibrary.tumblr.com. Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum. Retrieved 18 February 2016.
- ^ Smith, Jean Edward (2007). F.D.R. New York, N.Y.: Random House. pp. 305, 316. ISBN 978-0-8129-7049-4. Retrieved 18 February 2016.
- ^ Rodgers, Mark (2015). Persuasion Equation - the subtle science of getting your way. Multiple: American Management Association. p. 46. ISBN 978-0-8144-3417-8. Retrieved 18 February 2016.
- ^ Fogerty, John (May 28, 1968). "Working Man (lyrics)". lyricsfreak.com. Retrieved June 10, 2022.
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