User:Jonyungk

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I formerly wrote music articles for The Flying Inkpot website based in Singapore, and though my main interest is music, I have a lot of other iterests as well—film, history (especially American and military), literature—and I'm open to learning more.

Many of the things I'd like to write articles about are already on WP in some form or another. The vast majority of my work has become researching and expanding articles when needed, as well as restructuring and streamlining articles when needed.

1 Picking nits with an elephant gun
2 Wikirage
3 Favorite Composers, Songwriters, Groups
4 Favorite Films
5 Wikipedia articles (ordered sequentially)
- 5.1 Created
- 5.2 Updated (rewritten)

[edit] Picking nits with an elephant gun

The biggest challenge has been getting used to Wikipedia style, which is much, MUCH different than my personal style. maybe someday I'll get used to it. (-:

The second-largest challenge is in some ways more difficult and more intractable. What makes them this is people. We all have egos, and I will be willing to admit that it is sometimes hard to "check it at the door," so to speak. There however are also agendas, sensitivities, strong preferences and opinions which can make collaboration difficult. And we are collaborating. That, I have gathered, is part of the nature of Wikipedia; it has also been a large part of my work as a writer and editor in professional publishing over a 13-year period separate from that of music criticism.

The third-largest challenge (though it technically should be first) is finding word-for-word plagarized material for sections of and sometimes entire articles. I have found it both disheartening and distressing to start editing or adding material to an article, only to find it looking familiar and, lo and behold, I find the same material on another site. Recently this included an article where the "writer" had stolen word-for-word something that was published by an authority in the area this article covered.

How much work does it really take to put something in your own words, then attribute the source you used to help you write it? It doesn't take me that much more time or effort than it would to simply type out someone else's words without attribution. Maybe I'm being overly-honest or overly-simplistic about the problem. Maybe people are actually afraid of working on these articles. )-:

Speaking of working, it's one thing to complain about something in an article. Lots of people do that, especially a lot of the people I mentioned above. Question: If you have an idea what is wrong with something, how about also suggesting what you think would make it right? You possibly have an idea what "right" would be; otherwise, you would not volunteer what makes what you are reading "wrong." Please let me know. The worst I can do is not agree with you, and that possibility isn't all that bad. Better still, you could actually fix the problem. Same thing goes here: the worst I can do is not agree with your solution. But maybe we can also work out some compromise that makes us both happy. Sound okay to you? (-:

[edit] Wikirage

I end up on Google a lot for what is calld "Wikirage"—the most edits on a single article within a certain period by one user. Are there a lot of edits? Yes. Am I an obsessive Wikirager? No.

Here's the story. I use an old computer with a dodgy dial-up Internet connection. Bad news, I know, but you use the tools that you have on hand. Between the computer crashing and the dial-up dropping me off the cyber-map, I got used to saving a lot. It was either that or retype a lot and do more a hopin'and a prayin'. Coincidentally, the ssame problem happened at every publishing job at which I worked. Go figure.