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These days, I'm a freelance nonfiction editor. I also have a lot of experience as a professional copyeditor and proofreader, and enjoyed
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earlier today, partly because it needed a once-over (basic polishing of
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211:: I seem to have taken on a general small-primate project, but help would be welcome. At the moment, there's almost nothing but lists of taxa, and the two short articles I've written.
338:--the previous was from the 1911 encyclopedia, and after modernizing the language, I realized it had lots of irrelevant stuff, and not the information that should be there
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