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BrokenSphere

French Imperial eagle with the Napoleonic cypher, ca. 1805
Nickname	"Sphere"
Place of birth	Earth
Allegiance	English Wikipedia
Years of service	October 2006 -
Rank	Yeoman Editor #802 on the WP:WBE as of 5/23/08
Unit	Multiple Wikiprojects
Battles/wars	Recent Changes Patrol WP:Bio Summer 2007 Assessment Drive WP:Milhist Tag & Assess 2007
Awards	A few here and there

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1 About Me
2 Interests
3 Current projects
4 Ideas/To Do
5 Wikiphilosophy
6 Anti-vandal fighting tips
7 Tips to reduce Wikistress
8 Name etymology
9 Travels

[edit] About Me

After a few random edits here and there to clean up articles I was reading for my further enlightenment, I decided to go ahead and register in late October, 2006 to contribute in a more organized and systematic fashion. My primary objective in article creation is to fill information gaps.

[edit] Interests

Primarily anime and manga as can be seen from the majority of the articles I've created.
In real life I have a keen interest in military history. On Commons a lot of the PD photos I seem to be looking for and uploading are military-related.

[edit] Current projects

I am currently attempting to limit my time here in order to focus on other activities in real life that would in the end, enable me to spend more time on here, limiting my activities to watchlist maintenance and other activities that don't require much time editing or researching. Confused? I am also attempting to get the massive backlog of photos I have taken that are Commons-eligible reduced, slowly but surely, so I may spend more time there now and then.

Priorities tend to shift depending on how I feel about certain projects. I typically tend to focus on a particular anime and fill in missing information or pictures, but lately have been bouncing around as soon as something new or in need of workup catches my eye. However I don't completely abandon projects, as I keep tabs on what's going on with my watchlist.

[edit] Ideas/To Do

Not in order of priority.

Set up list of Ranma ½ albums.
Split off Ranma ½ OVAs and movies into their own respective article spaces from episodes.
Add profiles for Battle Angel Alita characters still outstanding.
Add profiles for Battle Angel Alita: Last Order characters still outstanding.
Create more userboxes:

Anime: Slam Dunk, Ranma ½...

History: Andrew Jackson, First French Empire, Golden Age of Piracy, Age of Discovery, 100 Years' War...

Create Starship Troopers, Gainax templates

[edit] Wikiphilosophy

I have developed the following ideas over time based on my experience here, which reflect my own personal viewpoint.

Don't do something in expectation of getting recognition or an award, as most of the time you will be disappointed. Surprises are the best.
After a while, you stop caring about your edit count as much as you did when you started out.
I don't consider the following to be Wiki awards, in part because they get thrown around a lot for good reason, but don't necessarily reflect an individual's efforts towards furthering the project or assisting other editors in some way: Wikithanks and Wikismiles.
Wikipedia is not Myspace. As with any other online venue, editors place personal information about themselves in their user pages at their own risk. I've seen a few examples that turned ugly for certain editors, causing them to leave. Unless you're prepared to take some flak, don't do it, it's not worth it.

[edit] Anti-vandal fighting tips

Vandals on the attack.

I don't use any of the tools yet, so this is based on the old school method. Things to look out for:

Edits by registered users who have their names in red (they haven't created a user page yet) with large drops in text; from what I've seen, many of these turn out to be vandalism-only accounts.
Edits by said users or IPs to a registered user's user page.
Large drops in text size of an article are obvious, but smaller changes (+/-) can also be vandalism, especially by IPs.
If you have enhanced recent changes (requires Javascript) activated, the "N" indicating a new page can aid in catching speedy deletion candidates.

[edit] Tips to reduce Wikistress

Take a genuine vacation to a location where you will not have Internet access.
Turn off the following in your watchlist: minor edits, bot edits, your own edits.

[edit] Name etymology

See Sphere Break#Sphere Break. I was playing Final Fantasy X-2 when I registered. The term "broken sphere" is not actually used in relation to this minigame, but I wanted to use something Final Fantasy related that was new and other than another online username I have used in several places relating to Final Fantasy VIII.