User:Wickethewok

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WickeThEwok en This user is a native speaker of English. This user [1] an administrator on the English Wikipedia. This user is part of the WikiProject Electronic Music . This user is a member of the WikiProject Baseball. This user is a member of WikiProject Albums 9 000 This user has more than 9 000 edits on the English Wikipedia. This user is a member of the Counter-Vandalism Unit. This user is a newpage patroller. CWRU This user attends or attended Case Western Reserve University. prog This user is a programmer. This user comes from the United States of America.

I'm a Wikipedia editor who contributes mainly to articles involving electronic music, though I also do a lot of work with WP:AFD and New Page Patrol. Feel free to leave me a message if you would like an opinion on a specific article nominated for AFD or other deletion procedure. For user edit counts, I recommend Essjay's Tool, which is what I use.

[edit] Articles I've contributed to significantly:

• Sasha (DJ) - GA
• The Orb - GA
• Ambient house
• Hooj Choons
• Ableton/Ableton Live/Ableton Operator
• Tilt (producers)
• Bruce Dickinson
• John Graham (producer)
• Low End Specialists
• Blue Room (single)
• Sasha & John Digweed
• Global Underground series
• Many, many artist/label stubs.

[edit] Miscellaneous stuff I've done:

• Template:User WikiProject Electronic music
• Template:User CWRU
• Image:Sasha2.jpg - Awesome photos I got from Sasha's management that they
• Image:Sasha3.jpg ---agreed to let me use under Creative Commons license

[edit] Current projects

• Sasha
• The Orb - /The Orb - If you have any quality sources for info on The Orb, drop 'em here!
• Chill Out

[edit] Future projects

• Electronic dance music
• John Digweed
• /projects

[edit] A brief aside

I am a strong believer in making Wikipedia a more trustworthy source of information. While vandals certainly bring down Wikipedia's legitimacy, articles about your friends' garage band and lists of Street Fighter moves don't help much either. While I admit I am rather demanding with respect to verifiability and no original research, I believe it is best for Wikipedia. While Wikipedia certainly is home to some fantastic articles you wouldn't see anywhere else, this does not mean there need to be articles for every Yu-Gi-Oh card, every unit in StarCraft, or every forum meme. Many times on AFD, I've seen people ask for newly created articles to be allowed time for "organic expansion". This is a bad idea. Allowing for "organic expansion", if there actually happens to be any, just means that when the article is nominated for deletion a month later, its editor(s) will be upset about losing hours of work instead of minutes. The most important piece of information I can offer regarding deletion is this: third-party reliable sources trump all. If you have non-trivial reliable sources on a subject, it is most likely verifiable, notable, and not original research. If you don't have these sources, then chances are it fails those respective policies. So, please, when adding information to Wikipedia, always cite your sources.

All that said, Wikipedia has greatly improved its standards for reliability over the past year and continues to every day. With more admins and editors taking a hardline approach to nonsense, original research, unverifiable information, and those who purvey it, I am highly optimistic about the future of Wikipedia.

[edit] Barnstars

		The Working Man's Barnstar
		I present you this working man's barnstar in recognition and appreciation to your tireless efforts in the cleanup of List of weapons in Halo 2 Note: Content has since been merged to Halo 2 Oni Ookami AlfadorTalk