User:Invertzoo

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This is Invertzoo (Susan J. Hewitt)'s user page on the English language Wikipedia. My user name reflects a life-long interest in invertebrate zoology. I am a citizen scientist, a naturalist, specifically a serious amateur malacologist; I have 60 published scientific papers. Some people call me "The Snail Lady", or "The Shell Lady". Since 2014 I have been very active as both an observer and identifier on the global citizen science platform iNaturalist, https://www.inaturalist.org/people/50920.

Here is a Wikipedia fund-raising video that featured me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:What%27s_a_Love_Dart%3F.webm

I am interested in all mollusks, and indeed in all of nature. I am happiest on some far-flung island in the tropics, with my field notebook and backpack of collecting equipment, sitting on a flat sandy beach on a rocky bay with a coral reef, on a calm day after stormy weather. I live in NYC. I am a Volunteer Emeritus at AMNH where I worked starting in 1999, first in Malacology and then in Invertebrate Paleontology.

Here on Wikipedia I have enjoyed research, writing, re-writing, improving prose, clarifying, organizing, and adding images to articles. I believe that Wikilove, aka Aloha, is a very important concept here. ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

I don't relish routine cleanup on thousands of stub articles, but I have done a great deal of that.

I was born in and lived the first half of my life in England, and after that in the USA, first on the West Coast and then on the East Coast. Every year since 1991 I have visited the Lesser Antilles, West Indies, where I am currently investigating the marine mollusk fauna of several of the Leeward Islands, especially  Saint Kitts and Nevis.

I started here in the summer of 2007. I have given over 100 images to Wikimedia Commons. My Meta account is here. I have made over 89,000 edits, all by hand (none by automated software). During March 2010 I was number 317 on the Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of recent edits, (and a much higher rank if you don't count the bots and the sysops.) By February 2013, I was number 401 by total number of edits: [1] And... yes, I am well aware that editcountitis is a serious disease! [2].

The first time that I had the pleasure and honor of meeting HRH Jimmy Wales, our handsome and somewhat mysterious founder, was at the first Wiki-Conference New York, 25th July 2009, where I gave a talk on the growth and development of Wikipedia:WikiProject Gastropods. I also conversed with Mr. Wales on Oct 6th and 7th, 2010. I saw Jimmy, but did not get the chance to talk to him, at the Wikipedia Spring Fundraising Party in NYC, on April 19 2017.

My user page is long, so you are welcome to ignore it, or only look at the sections you are interested in.

Best wishes to you all, Invertzoo (talk).

A lot of my work is as a member of the Gastropod Project. Note that we have no unassessed articles and none unrated for importance.

New articles[3]Project talk page Project page Popular pages Random gastropod article function Bouchet & Rocroi Update data, Orphaned articles, Recent changes

Started in January 2012, for a short time there was also an active Bivalve Project: New articles, Project page, Project talk page.

Gastropods articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 1 1 2 FM 49 49 GA 1 2 3 12 18 B 6 8 13 46 1 74 C 20 73 101 438 1 633 Start 13 301 328 7,170 1 7,813 Stub 1 472 1,577 26,752 2 28,804 List 10 4 119 57 2 192 Category 2,621 2,621 Disambig 27 27 File 13 13 Portal 84 84 Project 57 57 Redirect 31 77 1,471 533 2,112 Template 5,356 5,356 Other 2 2 Assessed 51 891 2,219 35,947 8,742 7 47,857 Unassessed 1 1 Total 51 891 2,219 35,947 8,742 8 47,858 WikiWork factors (?) ω = 214,679 Ω = 5.75

Bivalves articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA Total FA 1 1 FM 6 6 GA 1 1 3 5 B 2 6 5 13 C 8 13 26 77 124 Start 5 46 78 294 423 Stub 3 63 194 1,125 1,385 List 2 108 46 156 Category 378 378 Disambig 10 10 File 5 5 Project 16 16 Redirect 1 19 83 103 Template 939 939 Assessed 19 126 413 1,569 1,437 3,564 Total 19 126 413 1,569 1,437 3,564 WikiWork factors (?) ω = 10,970 Ω = 5.62

For a list of what events, appeals and media coverage I have contributed to, see User:Invertzoo/List of WP/WM events.

If you are curious about this, please see this page and this page too.

They were: Byne's disease, Kerry slug, Lobatus gigas, Love dart, Socorro springsnail, Laevistrombus canarium, Theodoxus fluviatilis, Scotch bonnet (sea snail), and Amphidromus.

...although User:Daniel Cavallari did most of the work!

		DYK
		Invertzoo has contributed 46 Did you knows? to the Main Page of the English Wikipedia, including the second most popular ever up to that point, which was Love dart, on October 9th 2008.

For a list of the DYKs I worked on, see User:Invertzoo/List of DYKs.

List of top DYK contributors is here. DYK statistics are here.

If you would like to see my awards, they are now on this page.

		The Original Barnstar
		For your amazing work on gastropods and your lovely presentation at Wiki NYC 20009!Jimbo Wales (talk) 21:07, 25 July 2009 (UTC)

My real life identity is Susan J. Hewitt. Where I have spent my life so far, spelled out in flags...

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/Barnstars and other awards, /List of DYKs, /My background, /Gallery, /Gastropods Project commercial ideas, /Subpage 4 Publications, /Subpage for drafting, /Another subpage for drafting, /Draft

• MichaelDOwen here
• Discipulus perpetuus here
• FoCuSandLeArN, here
• Shellnut, here
• Ganesh, here [4]
• Enviromet, aka Al, here: [5]
• Peter Woodard aka Poyt448, NSW [6]
• SuperHamster [7]
• Antarctic-adventurer [8]
• Chicoreus [9]
• Daniel Cavallari, São Paulo State, Brazil, [10]
• Seascapeza, Cape town area, S. Africa, [11]
• Moonriddengirl, here: [12]
• Anna, Hainan, China, [13]
• Paul Diamond, Nevis, User:Pdiamondnevis [14]
• Snek, the Czech Republic [15]
• Epipelagic, previously known as Geronimo20, NZ, [16]
• Martin, western Canada Martin
• JoJan, Belgium..[17]
• GrahamBould...talk blocked indefinitely
• Turbonilla...[18]
• Abyssal leviathin... [19]
• Mila... now blocked via her own request, (talk)
• Philcha... [20] RIP

• [21] Individual page count
• [22] WP Graphic Lab

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