I, Eurodog, am in my twenty-first year (since January 2006) as an active Wikipedian. My nom de plume is a nod to Dogs of the Dow (repurposed with a European twist), an investment term that happened to be on my mind when I began.[a]
Over the years, I've contributed to a range of topics and worked alongside others to build and refine content. One of the most remarkable changes since I started has been the explosion of online bibliographic access from great libraries, globally – those of higher education, public, private, museums, national, boutique, rare materials, even withdrawn books – and the digital means of accessing the material or location(s). I have a particular passion for music, especially jazz, and am committed to improving bibliographies to strengthen sourcing across Wikipedia.
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My username, Eurodog, predates Belarusian writer Alhierd Bacharevič's 2017 novel, Сабакі Эўропы [be; de; ru] [Dogs of Europe]. ISBN 978-6-0982-1321-8 OCLC 1055318013 (all editions), which was banned in Belarus on May 17, 2022, under Alexander Lukashenko's regime, including in schools by order of the Belarus Ministry of Education [be; be-tarask; ar; az; el; ru; uk]. It's a dystopian novel that explores authoritarianism, cultural repression, and resistance, and was deemed "extremist" by the state.
