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As the userboxes to the right might imply, I am a software engineer. Most of my current work involves C++ on OpenVMS. In my spare time, I also compose music, although not extremely well.
Finally, I am also a mild gamer. I used to do so heavily until high school, but time constraints and other factors led me to cut back. Traditionally, I have favored role-playing games (the earlier Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest/Warrior games, as well as Chrono Trigger, in particular) and puzzlers. However, I have played (and enjoyed) many action games. I have traditionally avoided first-person shooters, although I do know a bit about Halo, initially by way of Red vs. Blue.
Incidentally, Red vs. Blue also pulled me into Wikipedia, as I was looking for more information about the series back in late 2005. So I made my first edit here in early December 2005. In October 2006, I decided, after much thought, to nominate myself for adminship and was entrusted with a mop. If you need anything, please don't hesitate to let me know. I visit WP:AIV and CAT:CSD periodically.
[edit] My Wikipedia interests and contributions
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To date, most of my focus on Wikipedia has been on machinima articles, particularly those concerning Rooster Teeth Productions. However, I also copyedit other articles on fiction that I find, and I occasionally engage in recent change patrol. I do accept copyedit requests, but I am usually busy in real life; lead time may be a week or more.
[edit] Wikipedia philosophies and hints
[edit] Blocking
I firmly believe that blocks should be preventative only. You'll see me around WP:AIV, but I'll tend to be conservative. If it's simple vandalism and the user has only a {{test3}}, I'll often wait for a couple of minutes to see whether the problem stops. Don't assume that vandalism right after you gave the user a warning was done after the vandal actually received that warning. I have no problem watching a user's contributions for a few minutes to see whether the vandalism stops. I'll be more receptive to blocking for vandalism after a {{test4}}. Remember, if a warning makes a vandal stop, it's better than a block; of course, repeated warnings are less likely to work if the vandal has had a history of previous blocks, so in that case quicker action may be warranted. Other factors that will cause me to be more receptive to blocking are speed of editing and whether the vandalism is malicious.
Regarding 3RR: For merely four reverts in 24 hours, a warning is usually enough for a first offense. I'll probably only block if it's heavy-scale edit warring or if a user persists in attempting to wikilawyer the rule.
[edit] Article size and mergism
I am basically a mergist. I believe that, within reason, one or two larger articles are more helpful than a dozen smaller articles. If those large articles start to become excessive in size (greater than 50 KB), then it is worthwhile to break them up logically, but, before breaking a 50 KB article into 10 5 KB articles, strongly consider whether 2 25 KB articles are better. And don't blindly split as in binary fission; see whether one article makes more sense as an an auxiliary article of the other. This way, you preserve the context of the original article and avoid a size issue.
The 30 KB warning is merely advice; many featured articles have been well in excess of that guideline. Before resorting to splitting, check for redundancy and verbosity. If you can shave off 4 KB of an article by tightening up the prose, do that first, and then re-evaluate where the article stands. You don't have to remove information, but do consider picking up a writing style manual (The Elements of Style, for American English), and seeing how much verbosity you can eliminate while preserving the article's flow. In particular, the fact that is a phrase that is almost never necessary.
[edit] Templates
Templates are useful not only for nice-looking infoboxes, footer templates, and boilerplate text, but also for injecting consistent formatting or providing shorthand. See {{rvbchar}} and {{machinima episode}} for two templates that I've created simply to help with typing reduction (in the first case) and formatting consistency (in the second).
[edit] Categories
A few tips when putting articles into categories
- Remember that a category must be useful to the reader. This means that a category with only 2 potential articles is probably not worth creating, and, if you see such a narrowly defined category, feel free to list it on categories for deletion.
- Be extra careful when creating categories. The "move" button doesn't exist for them, so, if you don't get it right the first time, you'll have to resort to {{cfr}}.
- Remember to choose sort keys wisely. Many articles begin with "List of", but this is not useful as a sort key. Instead, use a custom sort key that omits the "List of". If a category is about X, and you have articles about "X Ys", "X in Y", or similar, sort on Y rather than X.
- Articles that serve as a "main" article for a category (often, these have the same name as the category) should have a sort key that begins with " " or "*"; this forces that overview article to the top of the category.
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[edit] Personal to-do
[edit] Short-term
[edit] Medium-term
- This is in no particular order.
[edit] Long-term
- Read the Halo novels so that I can help to clean up Master Chief (Halo) and the novel articles.
- Rewrite the rest of machinima from reliable sources. We need info on production techniques more than examples.
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The Barnstar of High Culture |
| For your excellent work on Diary of a Camper, which is certain to get FA status. Drat (Talk) 06:48, 29 August 2006 (UTC) |
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Red vs. Blue, with several others
Donut (Red vs. Blue) (split from List of characters in Red vs. Blue)
