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Biography
I'm Nelson Ricardo. My parents immigrated from a small village in the municipality of Caldas da Rainha, Portugal. I was born and raised in Yonkers, New York, and have been living in Brooklyn for almost 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.
English Wikivoyage
Docent
I am a docent for Caldas da Rainha. If you wish to speak with me about this destination, please contact me on my Wikivoyage user talk page.
Contributions
(voy:Special:Contributions/Nricardo)
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.
- Portugal — Many improvements throughout the country, region, and city articles.
- Oeste – Created this Portuguese region.
- Bombarral – Created and improved to Usable.
- Lourinhã – Created.
- Nazaré – Improved to Usable.
- Óbidos – Improved to Usable.
- Torres Vedras – Created and improved to Usable.
- Angra do Heroísmo – One of the main cities of the Azores (Açores) lacked an article, so I fixed that.
- Lisbon – Improved to Guide.
- Matosinhos – Created and improved to Usable.
- Porto – Improved to Guide.
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- Star articles – Replaced outdated static map with dynamic map.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.
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, but often enkoy it when I stumble across it. I do love Dolly Parton, though...
- And many more, but let's keep it feasible...
Places I've been
These lists includes 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
- 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.
Abroad
- Italy — Rome, Florence, Pisa, Pompeii
- Portugal — Caldas da Rainha, Lisbon, Óbidos, Nazaré, Peniche, and many others.
- Spain – Madrid, Seville, Granada, Córdoba
- Thailand — Bangkok
To do
Rome wasn't built in a day. There's lots of work to get done...
Star articles
Done Dead links- Missing coordinates:
- See
- Sleep
- Eat
- Drink
- Buy
Done New York City
San Francisco
London
Westchester County
- Done Dead links
- Missing coordinates:
- Done Add {{mapframe}}{{mapshape}} to all articles.
- Done Change "township" to "town", with edit summary: New York State has towns, not townships.
Portugal
- Done Dead links
- Missing coordinates:
- Review articles for plain text that should be listings.
- Move listings out of region articles into correct city articles:
- Add municipal mapshapes to region articles:
- Add mapshapes to non-municipal, non-freguesia articles (unless merged):
- Review mapshapes to find listings outside municipal borders. Move listings to correct municipality. Create articles if needed.
Articles to create
- voy:Alcácer do Sal
- voy:Almeida
- voy:Alvito
- voy:Arraiolos
- Done voy:Belmonte
- voy:Câmara de Lobos
- voy:Campo Maior
- voy:Covilhã
- Done voy:Ílhavo
- voy:Mangualde
- voy:Murtosa
- voy:Odemira
- voy:Oeiras (Portugal)
- voy:Oliveira do Hospital
- voy:Proença-a-Nova
- voy:Redondo
- voy:São Brás de Alportel
- voy:Sernancelhe
- voy:Vila do Bispo
- voy:Vila Viçosa
Mergers to consider
- voy:Alvor into voy:Portimão
- voy:Comporta into voy:Alcácer do Sal
- voy:Ericeira into voy:Mafra
- voy:Paul do Mar into voy:Calheta
- voy:Salema into voy:Vila do Bispo
- voy:Vilamoura into voy:Loulé
- voy:Zambujeira do Mar into voy:Odemira
English Wikipedia
(w:Special:Contributions/Nricardo)
- 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
(pt:Especial:Contribuições/Nricardo)
- Comunidade Intermunicipal do Oeste – Region of Portugal. (created)
- Mystic Pizza – Film featuring Portuguese-American characters. (created)
Portuguese Wikivoyage
(pt:voy:Especial:Contribuições/Nricardo)
- Caldas da Rainha – Created outline. I need to add listings and such...