User:Drat

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en This user is a native speaker of English.
This user comes from Australia.
This user's time zone is GMT+10.
Firefox This user contributes using Mozilla Firefox.
G This user uses Google as a primary search engine.
8000+ This user has over 8000 edits
vanity This user supports the removal of vanity pages with extreme prejudice.
linkspam This user despises linkspam, and will terminate it on sight, as well as any other spam by the contributor.
ATS This user believes real articles don't need trivia sections
This user is addicted to video games.
This user contributes using Microsoft Windows XP.
This user prefers to play games on a PC.
System Shock This user remembers Citadel.
Deus Ex This user wears sunglasses during night operations.
@ This user plays NetHack.
Nin This user is a Nintendo gamer.
fan
trekkie
trekker		 This user is a Star Trek fan, but refuses to be labeled as a Trekkie/Trekker.
mach This user watches machinima.
This user is a member of the Machinima WikiProject.
rvb This user is a Red vs. Blue fanatic.
Caboose This user likes food-nap time.
This user helped promote the article Red vs Blue to featured article status.
Durnt This user lives on Strangerhood Lane.
Dr. Who "I say...would you like a Jelly Baby?"
RD This user knows that "they're all dead, Dave".
Goody Goody
Yum Yum		 This user is a fan of The Goodies.
Needle
Nardle
Noo		 This user listens to The Goon Show on the modern-type, steam-driven cardboard wireless.
This user is an Ed Head.
This user drinks Bourbon and Cola.
ath This user is interested in atheism.

Contents

[edit] Subpages

  • User:Drat/Images - Images I have uploaded.
  • User:Drat/Image resizing - Help reduce unnecessary white space in infoboxes that contain images.
  • User:Drat/Listen to the article - You'd be surprised how easily a speech synthesizer can help you pick up article errors. Not to be confused with making voice recordings of articles.
  • User:Drat/Userboxes - Userboxes I make. At the moment, just new ones. Later I guess the old ones will have to got here per WP:GUS.

[edit] About me

Well, I'm 25 years old, male, and I like computer games. I'm from Gosford, Australia.

I particularly like Doom, Doom II, System Shock, System Shock 2, Quake, Quake II, Thief, Thief II, Deus Ex, Half-Life, NetHack and the Flight Unlimited series, etc. If I ever get a chance to play Half-Life 2, I guess I will like that too. Graphics have no real effect on me, and I almost never use graphical enhancement mods for games. Gameplay is everything.

I like video game music and remixes centred on my favourite games.

I have an interest in Linux, but need to get around to putting it back on my computer.

I registered on Wikipedia under the name DooMDrat in late November, 2004. Almost exactly a year later, I had my username changed to Drat.

I AFD the odd article I find to be severely non-notable. If you can only realistically write two lines about something, its not really worth dedicating a seperate page to it. Of course, once an article starts to get quite large (eg. Red vs Blue), it can be a good idea to split up some sections. Take for example RvB episode guides and the character pages.

I'm also somewhat of a mergist. I feel that one large article is better than several crappy little ones. It's easier to edit one article than it is to edit eight. That's part of the reason I merged all the of the Doom enemies into one article.

I've also got this real big thing about optimising image filesizes. In fact, most of my image uploads are files I've done some sort of optimisation on. I may write a section with some image optimising tips.

[edit] Some guidelines for editors

Some of this is pretty obvious, but there are some things people don't think of.

[edit] Check your edits

The preview button is there for a reason. Use it. Be sure to check any wikilinks and external links you create or modify, that you are unsure of. This will help eliminate unintentional redlinks and redirects, and bad external links. It can also cut down on having to do multiple edits to make the same amount of changes. This makes things easier for people doing version comparisons.

[edit] Should you make a new page for something related to a bigger topic?

For example, an item in a game.

Weigh up the following:

  • How big (filesize) and/or long (vertically) is the main article? Can you write about the item there without making the article too big or long?
  • How much can realistically be written about the item? I don't mean necessarily right now, but where do you see the article in six months? If you can only really write two sentences without waffling, is it really worth putting it in a separate article?
  • Is it important enough to the main subject to justify a separate article? Also, is it important enough to other subjects? A topic related to more than one subject may warrant a page more than a topic related to just one subject.
  • How many other of these items are there? Maybe you could make an article covering all the items. One big article is better and takes less time to read and edit than twenty little ones. That said, the article could end up being something akin to a game manual, something which Wikipedia is not.--Drat (Talk) 13:26, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Dealing with vandals

When you spot vandalism, revert or fix it. Be sure to warn the user. Check the vandal's contributions for other vandalism, and revert/fix them if needed. If there are lots of contributions, you don't need to check them all, just recent ones. If it is an IP user, edits made a few weeks ago or earlier are much less likely to be the same person, and any really old vandalism has likely been spotted and fixed (not always the case, of course). If you have to revert multiple instances of vandalism, only warn the user again for vandalism they cause after you previously warned them.