User:Freak104

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Unfortunately, Freak104 has retired as a Wikipedia editor. Best wishes and good luck!

The recent changes to the Wikipedia Notability requirements for works of fiction means that many comic book articles will be merged into pointless list articles. This defeats the entire purpose of Wikipedia, in my eyes. I see no reason to stay around, because all of my effort will be for naught.

Contents 1 My interests 2 Pages I watch 3 Pages I created 3.1 Comic book pages 3.1.1 Pages created to help shorten the main article 3.2 CSI pages 4 My view on use of Wikipedia

My wife and I are both Ph.D. graduate students, but we are in very different departments. We both love animals, so we own a few:

• Nocturne and Skippy, the leopard geckos
• Peter, the hamster
• Sadie, the Wire-Haired Fox Terrier

[edit] My interests

I own over 3,450 comic books and most of my edits are to comic book articles. The majority of the comics I own were published by Marvel Comics, so my edits are focused on Marvel articles. On rare occasion I will also edit some television show articles. The shows that I might edit are: C.S.I., Heroes, Scrubs, The Spectacular Spider-Man, Blade: The Series, and Journeyman.

• My Top Five favorite bands are (in alphabetical order): Breaking Benjamin, Chevelle, Cold, Evanescence, and Fuel.
  • Other bands I like are: 3 Doors Down, Aerosmith, Audioslave, Breaking Point, Crossfade, Default, Finger Eleven, Godsmack, Hoobastank, Lacuna Coil, Letter Kills, Lostprophets, Live, Nickelback, Oleander, Our Lady Peace, Red, Revis, Saliva, Seether, Sevendust, Shinedown, Smile Empty Soul, Three Days Grace, The Who, and more.
• I am an active participant of "Where's George?".
• I am a former member of Wikipedia:WikiProject CSI franchise and Wikipedia:WikiProject Trivia Cleanup.
• I participate in multiple Fantasy sports; I usually play against friends and family, but I have joined a few leagues that are played against strangers. I participate in Fantasy Football, Pro-Football pick-em, Fantasy Baseball, March Madness pick-em, and Fantasy Hockey. But the one I am most concerned with is Fantasy HOCKEY.

Random Things About Me 44x43px This user is the biggest Spider-Man fan ever. This user is a fan of the Wheel of Time book series by Robert Jordan. This user thinks that registration should be required to edit articles. This user understands biological evolution. This user is interested in Evolution. This user is a Spartan. W This user is a Wisconsin Badger. This user is an academic. DET This user is a Detroit Red Wings fan. This user loves Rock Music. This user is Evanescence's biggest fan. So Cold This user is a fan of Breaking Benjamin. This user prefers cold weather. M This user reads Marvel Comics. This user has a secret identity. This user is mourning the death of The Star-Spangled Avenger This user plays games from The Legend of Zelda series. CIV This user plays one or more versions of Civilization. This user plays games in the Super Mario series. This user is an Eagle Scout. This user contributes using Mozilla Firefox. BIO This user's favourite subject is Biology. A, B, and C This user prefers the serial comma. their / there / they’re This user thinks that there are too many people who don’t know that they’re worse than their own children at spelling! its This user understands the difference between its (of it) and it's (it is). to/too/ two Too many people have no idea how to use words they should have learned in Grade Two. man- kind Regarding gender, this user will use the vernacular, not what is "politically correct". This user wears corrective contact lenses, without which they'd be blind as a bat! This user is mixed-handed. ! This user is a userbox kleptomaniac. END This user has no more userboxes.

[edit] Pages I watch

• Nocturne (comics)
• Exiles (Marvel Comics)
• Shadow-X
• X-Men: Die by the Sword

[edit] Pages I created

Pages are listed in chronological order of creation within each section.

[edit] Comic book pages

• Shadow-X
• X-Men: Die by the Sword
• Menace (comics)

[edit] Pages created to help shorten the main article

• Wolverine in other media
• Alternate versions of Hulk
• Alternate versions of Iron Man
• Alternate versions of Captain America
• Alternate versions of Daredevil
• Jean Grey in other media
• Alternate versions of Magneto
• Magneto in other media
• Alternate versions of Storm
• Alternate versions of Doctor Doom
• Doctor Doom in other media

[edit] CSI pages

• David Hodges
• Archie Johnson
• "Who Shot Sherlock?"
• "Snakes"
• "Pirates of the Third Reich"
• "Viva Las Vegas"

[edit] My view on use of Wikipedia

As I stated above, or if you check my contributions you will see that I primarily edit comic book articles. My other edits are usually television shows or movies. Even for the Trivia Cleanup project I mostly fixed only that type of article. In other words, I primarily edit articles about popular culture. In my opinion that is the only useful type of article on Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not allowed as a resource for any accredited university class. Anyone being able to edit Wikipedia allows the articles about popular culture/fictional topics to stay current (people can post a whole new article about a TV show episode immediately after it airs for the first time, or people update comic pages as soon as they have finished reading a new issue), but it also makes articles about factual topics unreliable. There is no single author, and there is no way you can prove that the current edit was proofread by someone who actually knows the topic.

"The standard for inclusion is verifiability, not truth." That is Wikipedia's standard for inclusion. I am not making that up; I am quoting. The truth can be (and often is) deleted for something false because it is easier to verify.

Wikipedia is useful for popular culture (comic books, movies, television, music, etc.). Wikipedia is not useful for research. PERIOD