Wikipedia editor
My name is David Gorsline and I live in Reston, Virginia. I am a software engineer, recently retired from NPR.
Currently working on
Articles I've started or expanded
Articles I've reworked
COI declarations and information
From time to time, I will suggest edits to the page for NPR, where I was employed as a software engineer. As with all of my edits, I try my best to take a neutral point of view, free of marketing and advertorial content. I provide third-party citations needed for verification to the extent possible. I welcome any edits and feedback from the Wikipedia community in regards to my edits and suggested edits.
Things to do
- Generally fill in gaps and build out the pages for American ornithologists, botanists, and other naturalists, especially women.
- Get a definitive spelling of John Livzey Ridgway's middle name.
- Master the layout of my userboxes.
Periodic maintenance and wikignoming
- Clean up the references to "Smithsonian Institute." Most recent check: 25 August 2023
- Clean up the references to "Brookings Institute." Most recent check: 14 September 2023
Worklists
See also Wikipedia:ZSL London Zoo editathon, 12 August 2014
Edit-a-thons and Meetups
Sketchbook
- Articles on my Trello backlog
- Resources
- In Memoriam at The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson
- Bird Phenology Program observer bios
- Smithsonian Bird Division Hall of Fame
- Online resources about Women in Science
- Flickr photoset from the Smithsonian of Women in Science
- BHL Notable Women in Natural History
- Bonta, Marcia Myers (1991), Women in the Field: America's Pioneering Women Naturalists, College Station, TX: Texas A&M Univ. Press
- Bailey, Martha J. (1994), American Women in Science: A Biographical Dictionary, Denver, Colorado: ABC-CLIO, ISBN 0-87436-740-9