User:ChrisStansfield

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1 Christopher Stansfield
- 1.1 Biography
- 1.2 Articles Stansfield has put a lot into
2 For my use (For me! For me! For me! For me! Foooor meeeeeeeeee!)

[edit] Christopher Stansfield

[edit] Biography

Christopher Stansfield lives in New York, NY (though he spends several months of the year visiting friends and family in California). While struggling to succeed as a writer, he posts essays and reviews at The Writing of Christopher Stansfield (catchy name) and The Unofficial Chris Stansfield Blog at Myspace (link not provided due to block.) Embarrassingly, neither blog has been updated in several months. He has written for both print and online publications, including the Philadelphia Daily News, the Washington Square News, Fanzing, and others, and contributes to several wikis, under the name ChrisStansfield, including Wikipedia, Wookieepedia (the Star Wars wiki), the DC Comics Database,and Muppetwiki. He is also a semi-regular presence on the forums of Outpost Gallifrey (a Doctor Who fan board) and TheForce.Net(a Star Wars fan board), under the username "phaedrusnyc," and used to participate in discussions on the DC Comics and Jeopardy message boards before he realized that he had to get a life.

Stansfield is a relatively recent contributor to the wiki world. His main efforts have been to clean up entries, making them more readable and grammatically correct. He is also an ardent fact-checker, citer, and clarifier, and works hard to make entries more neutral. He is an inclusionist,believing that Wikipedia is no better than a search engine unless it is a repository of everything a person would want to know on any given subject. He is aware that not everyone agrees with this point of view.

Chris Stansfield is also an experienced proofreader and editor, and has worked at a wide variety of companies and jobs. He has also been a performer, and in December of 2003 was seen on two episodes of the game show Jeopardy. Contrary to some recent allegations, Chris Stansfield is nobody's paid stooge.

Claiming ownership of articles is bad form. Then again, watching "To-Do" articles sit on lists for months without lifting a finger and then swooping down like a vulture upon them once someone has actually put in an effort on them is also rather tacky.

Chris Stansfield finds that writing about himself in the third-person comes remarkably easily to him.

[edit] Articles Stansfield has put a lot into

Chita Rivera: The Dancer's Life (Created from scratch!)
The Kinsey Sicks (Re-wrote to eliminate copyrighted and self-promotional writing, and to add history beyond the present day).
The Mystery of Edwin Drood (musical) (Major expansion helped bring it up from Start-Class to Grade-B).
Shoot 'Em Up (Re-structuring, major citations, NPOV, and a lot of drama).
The Wild Party (LaChiusa musical) (The first article I ever created!)
Popeye (Major grammatical and formatting revisions)
PlayMania (Major grammatical revisions and restructuring)
Comic-Con International (Tedious alphabetizing)
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Maverick (TV series)
Rob Mariano