User:Ira Leviton

Ira Leviton
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Name	Ira Leviton
Born	Brooklyn, New York
Nationality	American
Country	United States
Current location	New York, New York (it's so nice you have to say it twice)
Race	4 × 400 meter relay
Hair	yes
Eyes	only two
Hobbies, interests, and beliefs
Hobbies	genealogy, Wikipedia, and correcting my wife
Religion	Jewish
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Joined	May 2, 2015
First edit	May 2, 2015
Edit count	← click on the blue words
Signature	Ira Leviton (talk)
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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.

Recognized for

WP:Typo Team member

Notable works

25 articles including List of hospitals in New York City

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The basics

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

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.

Articles created

Category pages created
Bronx County District Attorneys John Dewey High School alumni Kings County District Attorneys

Templates created

Photos uploaded to Wikimedia
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Endless lists of things to fix

CS1 maintenance	CS1 errors
numeric names: authors list	unsupported parameter	dates	duplicate parameters
PMC format	invisible characters	empty unknown parameters	infoboxes with thumbnails
extra punctuation	missing pipe‎	unrecognized parameter
unrecognized language		extra text: edition

About me via userboxes

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This user is from Brooklyn, New York, United States of America.

NYC

This user lives in New York City.

This user is proud to be a resident native citizen of the United States.

6'3"

This user is 6 feet, 3 inches tall.

en

This user is a native speaker of the English language.

US

This user uses American English.

This user is interested in his family history.

This user is currently near geocoordinates
40°46′58″N 73°58′40″W / 40.782690°N 73.977740°W

NYC
51

This user thinks New York City should secede from New York State.

This user enjoys walking.

This user doesn't know the difference between a doughnut and a cup of coffee.

This user is of Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry.

גאליציאנער

This user is a Galitzianer.

This user is a Levite לוי.

landsmanshaft

This user is a member
of a landsmanshaft.

This user is an identical twin, but is also their very own person. So there.

This user is interested in Genealogy and has started plotting his family tree.

This user knows that a politician is lying if his mouth is open.

This user believes it is every citizen's duty to vote.

This user is interested in
DNA and genetics.

POEM

This user has had one of his poems published.

c~~Rap~~

This user can't stand rap music.

This user supports recycling.

This user prefers
non-fiction.

This user is interested in history.

This user is interested in
World War II

This user deeply and utterly loathes people who deny the Holocaust.

This user remembers using
a rotary dial telephone.

NI

This user remembers when telephone numbers began with exchange names, such as Nightingale.

This user has no cell phone.

TV-0

This user has no television set.

BS

This user has a Bachelor of Science degree in Biochemistry.

SB

This user is an alumnus of the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

MD

This user has a Doctor of Medicine degree.

This user is a graduate of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

OCD

This user lives with obsessive–compulsive disorder.

A+

This user got a perfect
score on his blood test.
His blood type is A positive.

This user is a blood donor.

This user loves thunderstorms.

:-]

This user is polite and expects others to act accordingly.

This user is against smoking.

This user maintains a Facebook profile.

This user reads The New York Times.

This user uses public transit.

This user rides the New York City Subway on a regular basis.

This user rides MTA NYC Bus.

This user supports the use of wind power, solar power, and electric vehicles.

YUE

This user drinks beer crafted by
D. G. Yuengling & Son

FDR

"I think this would be a good time for a beer."^[12]^[13]
– Franklin Roosevelt, March 12, 1933.

Let's Go
Mets!

This user does not know how to drive a car.

AE

This user wears shoes made only by Allen Edmonds.

This user is an advanced mathematician.

${\frac {?}{0}}$

This user can divide by zero.

This user likes Pi(e).

This user speaks with proper grammar.

1

’s

Thi's user know's that not every word that end's with s need's an apostrophe and will remove misused apostrophe's from Wikipedia with extreme prejudice.

their
there
they're

This user thinks that there are too many people who don’t know that they're worse than their own children at spelling!

its & it's

This user understands the difference between its and it's. So should you.

less & fewer

This user understands the difference between less & fewer.

This user is proud to be a
New Yorker !

This user enjoys something, but will not tell you.

error

This space intentionally left blank.

to/too/
two

Too many people have no idea how to use words they should have learned in grade two.

This user is highly... um... What's that word again?

sar-N

This user is a native speaker of sarcasm. Isn't that just great?

A, B, and C

This user prefers the Oxford comma.

<html>

This user can write HTML.

This user is highly sensitive to the oil found in poison ivy plants.

This user is a mammal.

This user likes jokes and humor.

This user will find the humor in anything with a funny side.

In Soviet Russia, Wikipedia reads you.

"Surely this user can't be serious?"

This user doesn't invoke conspiracy as explanation, when ignorance and incompetence will suffice.

Katz's Law

This user knows that men and women will act rationally when all other possibilities have been exhausted.

This user believes Groupthink is the most dangerous aspect of the human psyche. Who's with me?

This user is from Uranus.

This user is an advanced toilet user.

This user has a Rubik's Cube,
and it looks very similar to
←— that one (unsolved)!

This user often makes mistakes while typing, and like take oppurtunity to aoplogiae.

.....

This user is a professional procrastinator.

one too many

This user currently has
one too many spouses.

Don't click this userbox.

Who

This user knows Who's on First.

Today is 21 November 2024

"Watch it, sucker." -
'Aunt Esther' Anderson (LaWanda Page), Sanford and Son

"Missed it by that much." - Maxwell Smart, Secret Agent 86 (Don Adams), Get Smart

"Baby, you're the greatest." - Ralph Kramden (Jackie Gleason), The Honeymooners

"I know nothing, I see nothing, I was not even here!" – Sgt. Hans Schultz (John Banner), Hogan's Heroes

Just one more thing...

"People Are Strange."^[14]
- Jim Morrison

"Don't take me on Friday, Lord, 'cause that's when I get paid."^[15]
- John Fogerty

This user is a Wikidee.

This user is a member of
WikiProject New York City
assessments | recent changes | talk

This user is a member of
WikiProject New York City Public Transportation.

tyop
typo

This user is a member of the
Wikipedia Typo Team.

THIS USER HATES ALLCAPS!!

This user has created 36 articles on Wikipedia.

This user has created 3 categories on Wikipedia.

This user has created 7 templates on Wikipedia.

This user's mind-reading skills are not so good. Please leave an edit summary.

9Y

This Wikipedian joined Wikipedia on May 2, 2015 (9 years, 6 months, 2 weeks and 5 days ago).

15%

This user has been a Wikipedian for 14.6% of his life.

[[redlink]]

This editor adds useful red links to articles to encourage content creation.

This user was identified as an awesome Wikipedian on January 19, 2018.

This user edits on Wikipedia under his real name.

This editor is a WikiGnome.

This user has earned the
250,000 Edits Award.

This user has given 22 barnstar(s) to others.

This user has been awarded 15 Barnstars on Wikipedia.

This user likes to steal wikimarkup code for use on their own userpage.

<ref>

This user would like to see everyone using inline citations. Please...

This user has created a global account.

311,000+

This user has made more than 311,000 contributions to Wikipedia.

This user thinks you can learn a lot by editing an Encyclopedia.

This user believes that anyone who thinks Wikipedia is an unreliable source should continue their quest to find a better website.

This user likes to use the thank button.

This user is being watched by 1,463,538 other editors.

This user believes userboxes are a form of expression.

This user userboxes userboxes.

This user likes to use redundant userboxes that are redundant.

This user has created 18 userboxes, including this one.

123 ubxs

This user has 123 userboxes.

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This user has no more userboxes.

Views of this page

Currently, this editor has earned the Master Editor III service award.

To get to the next level, Master Editor IV, he needs to meet the time requirement.

Progress towards the next level (by edits): [ 251796 / 18000 ]

1398.9% completed

Progress towards the next level (by time): [ 569 days / 730.4 days ]

77.9% completed

References

^ ^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.

[nycbi-1] 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.

[2] Russell, George. "Manhattan (lyrics)". songmeanings.com. Retrieved June 10, 2022.

[3] Winter, Johnny. "New York, New York". Retrieved June 10, 2022.

[4] This probably cannot be proven, even if I knew everybody in the world.

[5] My parents told me, so it must be true.

[JRI-P-6] "Search Our Database". jri-poland.org. Jewish Records Indexing Project - Poland. Retrieved 1 January 2016.

[7] This probably can't be proven either, but considering Ashkenazi naming practices, it makes sense.

[8] "People Search". intelius.com. Intelius. Retrieved 1 January 2016.

[9] "Search for a Physician". New York State — Physician Profile. New York State Department of Health. Retrieved 1 January 2016.

[10] "Find a Doctor". montefiore.org. Montefiore Hospital. Retrieved 1 January 2016.

[11] "Faculty Profile". einstein.yu.edu. Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Retrieved 1 January 2016.

[12] "Post". fdrlibrary.tumblr.com. Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum. Retrieved 18 February 2016.

[13] 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.

[14] 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.

[15] Fogerty, John (May 28, 1968). "Working Man (lyrics)". lyricsfreak.com. Retrieved June 10, 2022.

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