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I took a "surprise" wikibreak about a month back, and I'm just now returning (albeit slowly). I'll be responding to the shitloads of backlogged talk page comments in due time...
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Of course, the most concise list of my contributions would be Special:Contributions/EVula, but then you don't get my commentary...
[edit] Major contributions
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- Mortal Kombat WikiProject ()
- I am heavily involved in the Mortal Kombat WikiProject. Some of the things I've done include discussing and implementing broad changes to the character infobox, creating MK templates (such as the stub and faction templates), implementing the aforementioned faction template on all relevant articles, creating the project's (first) userbox, creating (and maintaining) the Style Guide, and creating the project's style guide warning. I also designed both the project's logo and barnstar. I also went hog-wild in editing the project page, too... [1]
- Mortal Kombat: Armageddon ()
- Trying to keep the crap out. Specifically, I hunted down a source and have since been making great strides to make sure incorrect/speculative claims about Khameleon don't stay for very long (discussion).
- Mortal Kombat: Devastation ()
- Kicking ass and taking names, I've been aggressively removing all the unsourced drivel that has been added to this article. This primarily means a lot of destructive edits, but I also implemented the References section to quickly, easily, and efficiently tell what belongs on the article and what doesn't.
- List of Mortal Kombat arenas ()
- While this article still requires a substantial amount of work, I have done a lot of editing to bring everything into a very unified and standardized look and feel. While it will never be an FA, I'm still proud of the work I've done to it.
- The Zombie Survival Guide ()
- I'm especially proud of this one, as I wrote about 95% of the article (although it was done fairly early in my Wiki career).
For those that are curious: Before and After.
- Palpatine ( + )
- Various minor edits. While I'm not the one who got the article up to FA status, I still like to think that I had at least something to do with it, what with MoS-related edits and removing extraneous crap.
- Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords ()
- Numerous changes, just to keep this article from going down the drain.
- Wampa ()
- Nothing fancy, I've just done a lot of fixing on this particular page.
- Hannah's Gift ()
- In response to this article's AfD, I performed a complete overhaul of the article.[2]
- Asajj Ventress ()
- Numerous copy-edits
- Rancor ()
- Numerous copy-edits
- X-Men: The Last Stand ()
- Lots of general work, usually in the form of keeping it in line immediately before the movie was released. After that, it calmed down a lot.
- Lego Star Wars: The Video Game()
- I redid the headings. Not an easy task.[3]
[edit] Personal projects
- Manual of Style application ()
- To be honest, most of my edits involve bringing articles in-line with the Manual of Style (apparently making me a WikiGnome). This includes uncapping headings where applicable, removing periods in captions, and italicizing game, movie, and book titles.
- Random surfing ()
- I generally try to edit about thirty random articles over the course of the weekends, time permitting (though I haven't been able to in a few weeks). In these random searches, I've tagged articles with much-needed flags[4][5][6], found copyvios[7][8], and done various formatting cleanups[9][10].
[edit] Template work
- {{Marvel Comics films}} ()
- I'm fairly proud of what I did for this template. I took a massive list of links and organized it very clearly, drawing up specific rules for future additions as well. For those that are curious: Before and After. I even got a "nice" comment from the template author.
- {{Piratescaribbean}} ()
- This is another template that I converted from a vertical layout to a horizontal one (using the exact same template, actually). For those that are curious: Before and After. I also did some major reformatting just prior to the restructuring.[11]
Other templates I've made:
[edit] Barnstars
- {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Mortal Kombat/Award}} ()
- The Kombatant's Barnstar, official award of the Mortal Kombat WikiProject. I'm very proud of this template, as it is semantically proper, in the sense that it is a highly formatted definition list (I loves me some valid XHTML and CSS tag-team action). I was rather restricted in what I could do; originally, it was going to have an excellent subtle background image, but Wikipedia doesn't allow for certain CSS tags to be used, much to my dismay. On top of that, there was some default styling that I just could make happen, which also changed it from my original concept. Oh well, I'm still mighty pleased with the result.
- {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Uruguay/Award}} ()
- Okay, so I took a much more generic approach for the Uruguay Barnstar. So sue me. :P
[edit] Images
[edit] Created images
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Barnstar for the MK WikiProject
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Other, less impressive images I've made:
[edit] Photography
[edit] Uploaded images
Can't have a gallery on these because of Fair Use concerns. Poo.
[edit] Non-content contributions
- FA patrolling ()
- I generally try to help out with anti-vandalism efforts on whatever the current Featured Article is. I also make tiny little edits here and there, mostly tied to my usual Manual of Style enforcing.
- Wikipedia:Templates for deletion ()
- I generally try to comment on as much as possible, if my schedule allows for it. Usually I pay attention to TfDs in bursts.
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion ()
- I generally try to spend a lot of time here. I've also nominated several articles, and had almost every one of them successfully deleted. My AfD track record: admirable or dreadful? You make the call! See also: User:EVula/AfDs
[edit] Other stuff
[edit] Edit count
I currently have over 15,000 edits, though you can also check out my specific edit count (local or off-site). Feel free to see my edits compared to everyone else (other editors or other admins).
While I don't suffer from (or encourage) editcountitis, I do like tracking my progress from day to day, to see where I've been active. For example, I'm very proud of the fact that I've got more than 5,100 mainspace edits, and that I've edited more than 7,000 different pages. That doesn't make me better than anyone else, it just makes me happy.
