User:Almost-instinct

My contributions might suggest that I'm no longer terribly active on WP, but I do look in every day to keep an eye on vandalism, and to respond to questions about my contributions. I occasionally create short new BLP articles and, more often, shove what is intended to be a helpful oar into talk page discussions

• almost-instinct joined Wikipedia because a-i thought the Philip Larkin page ought not look like this
• almost-instinct is proud to have help the Philip Larkin look more like this
• almost-instinct felt a sense of pride once a-i had finished typing in this
• almost-instinct dreams of a whole series of Larkin pages, but has the sense to realise that a-i isn't the editor for the job
• almost-instinct very rarely edits in the field in which a-i is truly knowledgeable; is there an obverse to ignorance is bliss?
• almost-instinct thinks that be bold need not mean be ignorant and hasty [this is a cute example]

Lord, I am not high-minded : I have no proud looks.
I do not exercise myself in great matters : which are too high for me
But I refrain my soul, and keep it low, like as a child that is weaned from his mother : yea, my soul is even as a weaned child.
O Israel, trust in the Lord : from this time forth for evermore.

• almost-instinct has a sense of irony; do you?
  

	The Original Barnstar
	For four fucking years of dedication and vigilance at Philip Larkin, from a humble new small-time editor. Leonxlin (talk) 02:56, 10 April 2012 (UTC)

		The Working Man's Barnstar
		For services at the coalface, for not turning the old tenantry away, and for avoiding soundless damage

almost-instinct's sandbox.

I created the following handful of pages:

1. Stanford Olsen - American Rossini tenor
2. Grant Doyle (baritone) - young Australian baritone
3. Gary Lehman - American Heldentenor
4. Artur Ruciński - young Polish baritone
5. Nicholas Sharratt - young British tenor
6. Anna Karenina (Hamilton) - forgotten modern opera
7. La romanziera e l'uomo nero - forgotten Donizetti opera
8. Neil Howlett - British Verdi baritone
9. Greek (play) - the source for Mark Anthony Turnage's opera
10. Anna Christy - American soprano
11. Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award
12. The North Ship - early volume of Larkin's poetry
13. Collected Poems – 2003 edition (Philip Larkin)
14. Collected Poems – 1988 edition (Philip Larkin)
15. List of poems by Philip Larkin