User:EVula/Contributions

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EVula is dealing with real-life crap (see the links). I'll be around, but not doing much more than WP:CHU patrols.


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Minor Barnstar
The Kombatant's Barnstar
Barnstar of Good Humor
Barnstar Star Award
Uruguay Barnstar
Working Man's Barnstar
Defender of the Wiki Barnstar
RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
The Original Barnstar
The Special Barnstar

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Of course, the most comprehensive list of my contributions would be Special:Contributions/EVula, but then you don't get my commentary...

Contents

[edit] Major contributions

Green dot - Current focus Current focus
Yellow dot - Still edit on occasion Still edit on occasion
Red dot - Not really edited that much anymore Not really edited that much anymore
Featured article! Featured Article!
Mortal Kombat WikiProject (Green dot - Current focus)
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 (Green dot - Current focus)
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 (Green dot - Current focus)
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 (Yellow dot - Still edit on occasion)
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 (Yellow dot - Still edit on occasion)
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 (Featured article! + Yellow dot - Still edit on occasion)
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 (Yellow dot - Still edit on occasion)
Numerous changes, just to keep this article from going down the drain.
Wampa (Yellow dot - Still edit on occasion)
Nothing fancy, I've just done a lot of fixing on this particular page.
Hannah's Gift (Red dot - Not really edited that much anymore)
In response to this article's AfD, I performed a complete overhaul of the article.[2]
Asajj Ventress (Red dot - Not really edited that much anymore)
Numerous copy-edits
Rancor (Red dot - Not really edited that much anymore)
Numerous copy-edits
X-Men: The Last Stand (Red dot - Not really edited that much anymore)
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(Red dot - Not really edited that much anymore)
I redid the headings. Not an easy task.[3]

[edit] Personal projects

Manual of Style application (Green dot - Current focus)
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 (Green dot - Current focus)
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}} (Yellow dot - Still edit on occasion)
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}} (Yellow dot - Still edit on occasion)
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

This section is about barnstars I've created. For barnstars I've been given, see User:EVula/awards.
{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Mortal Kombat/Award}} (Green dot - Current focus)
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}} (Red dot - Not really edited that much anymore)
Okay, so I took a much more generic approach for the Uruguay Barnstar. So sue me. :P

[edit] Images

[edit] Created images

Other, less impressive images I've made:

[edit] Photography

Rather than maintain a separate gallery here, you'd be better off checking out my photographic contributions at commons:User:EVula#Gallery.

[edit] Uploaded images

Can't have a gallery on these because of Fair Use concerns. Poo.

[edit] Non-content contributions

For my admin contributions, you'd be better off looking at my admin page. Lots of goodies there.

FA patrolling (Red dot - Not really edited that much anymore)
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 (Red dot - Not really edited that much anymore)
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 (Yellow dot - Still edit on occasion)
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] Haiku

My contributions to Wikipedia:Haiku about Wikipedia policy:

No copy and paste
Google is not a good source
Tempting it may be
RfA causes
People to freak out about
silly little things.

[edit] Other stuff

[edit] Edit count

I currently have over 26,000 edits, though you can also check out my specific edit count (local or off-site, or see it with deleted edits). Feel free to see my edits compared to everyone else.

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 6,600 mainspace edits, more than 6,500 edits in the accumulated talk namespaces, and that I've edited more than 9,000 different pages. That doesn't make me better than anyone else (heh, it isn't that that makes me better :P), it just makes me happy.