Nelson Ricardo 2500

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en-N This user has a native understanding of English. pt-4 Este utilizador tem um nível quase nativo de português. es-3 Este usuario tiene un conocimiento avanzado del español. it-2 Questo utente può contribuire con un livello intermedio in italiano.
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Biography

I'm Nelson Ricardo. My parents immigrated to the U.S. from a small farming village in the municipality of Caldas da Rainha, Portugal. I was born and raised in Yonkers, Westchester County, New York, and have been living in Brooklyn for 20 years. I have a B.A. in economics from New York University (NYU). I have worked at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and at Columbia University.

Although European Portuguese is technically my "first language" and "mother tongue", American (New York City metro) English is my "native language", the one I best understand, speak, read, and write. If this doesn't make sense, reread the preceding paragraph.

I won't say how old I am, but the 1980s had the best music.

Like most people, I started out on Wikipedia, but I now spend most of my time at Wikivoyage.

Background regarding username change

When I first created my Wikipedia account many moons ago, there were more limitations on usernames, so I ended up with Nricardo. I think I had typed it as nricardo, but the system decided that the first letter needed to be uppercase. Having an uppercase N but lowercase r has always bothered me. I tried changing it to my real name, but a steward at Meta decided that it was too close to an existing username, so I added some non-random numbers at the end.

English Wikivoyage

Docent

I am a docent for the following articles. If you wish to speak with me about these, please add a message to the article's Discussion page or contact me on my Wikivoyage user talk page.

• Caldas da Rainha — a city in Portugal
• Oeste — a region in Portugal
• Portugal — a country in southwestern Europe
• Portuguese phrasebook — a Portuguese-language primer for travellers

Contributions

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Portugal

• Caldas da Rainha ⭐ – Featured on the Main Page as Off the Beaten Path in October 2016. Was promoted to Star article status in January 2021.
• Wikipedia:Portugal Expedition — Launched this collaboration project.
• Portugal — Many improvements throughout the country, region, and city articles.
• Portuguese cuisine — Started article and improved it to Guide status.
• Portuguese phrasebook — Added numerous pronunciations, added section explaining pseudo-phoneticization.
• Lisbon – Improved to Guide status.
• Lisbon Airport – Created article and improved it to Guide status.
• Porto – Improved to Guide status.
• Évora — Improved to Guide status.
• Serra da Estrela Natural Park — Created article and improved it to Usable status.
• Oeste – Created article for this Portuguese region and some of its municipalities:
  • Alcobaça – Improved to Usable status.
  • Alenquer – Started article and improved it to Usable status.
  • Arruda dos Vinhos – Started article and improved it to Usable status.
  • Bombarral – Started article and improved it to Usable status.
  • Cadaval – Started article and improved it to Usable status.
  • Lourinhã – Started article and improved it to Usable status.
  • Nazaré – Improved to Usable status.
  • Óbidos – Improved to Usable status.
  • Peniche – Improved to Usable status.
  • Sobral de Monte Agraço – Started article and improved it to Usable status.
  • Torres Vedras – Started article and improved it to Usable status.
• Angra do Heroísmo – Started article and improved it to Usable status. One of the main cities of the Azores (Açores) lacked an article, so I fixed that.
• Covilhã — I started this article and improved it to Usable status. I can't imagine why we were missing this fascinating city.
• Matosinhos – Started article and improved it to Usable status.
• Santarém – Started article and improved it to Usable status.
• ...and many more!

Others

• Derry – I became interested in this Northern Irish city after watching Derry Girls.
• Margate – I became interested in this English seaside town after watching Edge of Heaven.
• Star articles – Replaced outdated static map with dynamic map.
• Southwest Brooklyn – My neighborhood.

Places I've been

These lists include places I visited but did not sleep in. Besides tourism, they include business trips and college study trips.

United States

• Arizona — Phoenix, Scottsdale, Tempe
• California — San Francisco, San Diego, Palm Springs
• Connecticut — Hartford
• Florida — Miami Beach, Walt Disney World, Key West, Tallahassee, Boca Raton
• Illinois — Chicago
• Massachusetts — Boston
• New Jersey — Newark, Atlantic City, Long Beach Island
• Nevada — Las Vegas
• Texas — Dallas
• Washington, D.C.
• Wisconsin — Oshkosh

Abroad

• Italy — Rome, Florence, Pisa, Pompeii
• Portugal — Caldas da Rainha, Lisbon, Óbidos, Nazaré, Peniche, Fátima and many others.
• Spain – Madrid, Seville, Granada, Córdoba
• Thailand — Bangkok

Travel wishlist

• London (again), plus more United Kingdom
• San Francisco (again)
• Porto and Coimbra, which I managed to miss on prior trips to Portugal
• Tokyo
• Los Angeles
• Montreal
• Copenhagen
• Barcelona
• Nashville, even though I'm not a huge country music fan. I don't seek it out, but I often enjoy it when I stumble across it. I do love Dolly Parton, though...
• And many more, but let's keep the list feasible...

English Wikipedia

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• Caldas da Rainha – I managed to get it promoted to Good Article status. Perhaps one day I'll get it up to Featured articles quality...
• Edge of Heaven – 2014 British romantic sitcom that I've tried to improve.
• List of CHiPs episodes – created.
• Nav Sidhu – British actor that I discovered when watching the aforementioned Edge of Heaven
• Nick Hendrix – Actor in British Midsomer Murders, a British police detective drama TV series on ITV.
• Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics — created
• Servant of the People – Ukrainian political satire comedy television series available on Netflix. (Volodymyr Zelensky, the actor who portrayed the President of Ukraine, became the country's president in real life.)

Portuguese Wikipedia

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• Comunidade Intermunicipal do Oeste – Region of Portugal. (created)
• Mystic Pizza – Film featuring Portuguese-American characters. (created)

Portuguese Wikivoyage

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• Caldas da Rainha – Created outline. I need to add listings and such...

Wikidata

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Wikimedia Commons

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Lingua Libre

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Lingua Libre is a project of the association Wikimédia France which aims to build a collaborative, multilingual, audiovisual corpus under free licence. I have contributed numerous recordings (which are exported to Wikimedia Commons) in Portuguese. Many of these will be added to Wikivoyage's Portuguese phrasebook.