Hello, my name's Justin and I live in the Metro Vancouver area. I joined Wikipedia in 2005, started editing (with trial and error) in 2006, and regularly by the end of the year. Besides working on articles related to consumer electronics, I contribute with some home-polished editing skills (as in grammar, spelling, sentence structure, layout, adding citations and references etc.) skills, and an eye to spot out any irregularities. For more information, check out the userboxes I've selected.
[edit] But first, a little something to fend'em off...
And if nothing fits you (yet)...
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[edit] Contributions to Wikipedia
Maintains the following pages on a regular basis: (I make sure these articles don't go to chaos with my free time... by free time I mean the whole day, or barely a minute!)
And of course...
Founded the following pages:
Contributes and checks the following pages: AMV video format • Archos Generation 5 • Creative MediaSource • Creative MuVo • Creative MuVo player models • Creative NOMAD • Category:Digital audio players • Final Crisis • iriver • iriver E100 • iriver plus 3 • List of Legion of Super Heroes episodes • M6 miniPlayer • M8 miniOne • Meizu • Sonic X • USB mass storage device class • Walkman A810 • Yepp • Zune 30 • Zune 80 • ZEN V • ZEN Vision W
If I have a little more time, I would contribute/proofread/edit on the following kinds of articles:
- Popular music - Checking for the accuracy of chart statistics
- Celebrities - Adding refs, removing biased/opinionated content, in accordance to WP:NPOV
- Other user-generated userboxes - Sucking the amateurish odour out of them, no offence to beginners and newbies. And it's now absolutely consensual, if anyone's wondering. ;)
- ...and any other articles with typos, bad Engrish, or various types of irregularities.
Misunderestimated Nucular Power Pants A-visor of the Internets for the following pages:
[edit] Hand of Judgement... well, fingers for now.
I have been a part-time debater and initiator for such Wiki-discussions like selecting articles for creation, deletion, and those regarding templates.
[edit] Parallel universes...
I am a member of the frivolously honourable Order of Uncyclopedia, creating articles like iriver and Official iPod Clone, and brought funny back to Impossible! (and yes, it was huffed though...) Let's spread some Wilde!
...I'm also a member of Wikimedia Commons (saved images from deletion by personally contacting their authors, and uploaded my own too), Wikiquote, Test Wiki, and wikis outside the Wikimedia spectrum, like Bulbapedia, LyricWiki and Conservapedia (it may be a biased... or a more fair and balanced encyclopedia, but it still needs to be kept in check. And, yeah I also go there for the lulz!)
[edit] Achievements
This editor is a Yeoman Editor, and is entitled to display this Service Badge.
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Thanks for helping out my students! You made a lasting impression on them! Thelmadatter ( talk) 17:11, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
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[edit] Member of the following projects...
[edit] ... Interest-based
- Wikipedians Against Censorship - What's the point? Children will know, sooner or later (especially in today's media). You're just delaying the inevitable. So don't hate on me because I just typed out fuck! (Of course, I use it rationally, unlike some people...)
- WikiProject Computing - As an avid fan of computers, computer lingo, computer-related technologies and whatnot (and with all those USB-compliant devices...)
- WikiProject Electronics - Involved with articles concerning consumer electronics... but since most of them, especially DAPs and PMPs, support digital media (related to computing) and USB (also related)... I think there should be new WikiProjects for articles related to those players, and consumer electronics in general.
- Wikipedia Torrent Project - Basically, I host the enormous torrent so you can have a nice, vandalism-free offline version of this encyclopedia!
- WikiProject Userboxes - Improving them, patrolling for derogatory ones, and as a fellow userbox creator...
[edit] ... Method-based
- WikiProject Categories - Well, that's really the only efficient way to sort Wikipedia's loose articles. And it's getting messed up.
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- WikiProject Spam - Those annoying external links... By the way, has anyone just been wishing to have an enlargement of their zuccinis?(That was a intentional parody of spam. Do not edit... unless you have a better analogy...)
- Wikipedia Typo Department - YA, mE n0.s its zI11y. bUttt sum1's g0t 2 do Itt!!11!1!!11!!(That was purposely misspelled. Do not edit... unless you can bend it even further...)
[edit] Story of my life... in userboxes.
Why is this box black?
- Because I am mourning the loss of civility and and the loss of too many good editors from the Wikipedia.
- Because the Wikipedia has become a victim of its own success and its internal mechanisms for helping maintain civility have not scaled well.
- Requests for comments now generates more heat than light.
- Even some members of the Mediation Committee admit that it is not working and skip Requests for mediation and go on to the next step.
- Finally there is Requests for arbitration, which takes forever to make decisions, and seemingly refuses to take on the bad behavior of some administrators unless the admin's behavior is so egregious that it can't ignore it.
- I will not even attempt to enumerate the other dysfunctional areas of the Wikipedia, such as Articles for deletion.
Just one part of the solution: There are some editors who don't necessarily need to be banned, but just need a time out, which is why the Wikipedia has a temporary blocking process. Well admins are editors too, and they also occasionally step over the bounds of appropriate behavior for editors. What is worse is that they can use their admin tools to do their misbehavior.
Right now there is no quick and effective way to punish a misbehaving administrator or even stop their misbehavior. If another admin blocks them, they can unblock themself. If an article is protected, they can edit it anyway. If they are in a revert war, they can continually use their rollback tool. And they can do all of this basically with impunity.
Because admins are trusted members of the Wikipedia community I feel that their misbehavior must be taken more seriously than those actions of other editors. There needs to be a small group of trusted supervisor administrators who have the ability to temporarily block misbehaving admins from doing any editing for periods of time up to a week and removal of admin powers for at least a month based upon the severity of the misbehavior. Any further misbehavior would be grounds for permanent removal as an administrator and they would have to reapply at Requests for adminship.
- (Also, the number of admins is growing so large, and the Wikipedia is growing so complex, that it would be a very good idea to have volunteer "mentor" admins to help show the newbie admins the lay of the land.)
Look at the Requests for adminship page. It says, "Admins...are held to high standards, as they are perceived by some users as the "official face" of Wikipedia." Unfortunately the first part of that statement is not true. Instead, because they are admins, they can do practically anything they want without facing any consequences in almost all cases of admin misbehavior. Because they are admins they are given much more slack than other Wikipedia editors for any of their misbehavior. This needs to be changed.
- The original writer of this rant is Silensor. If you believe that the Wikipedia community is losing its integrity, please click on "edit this page", and then copy and paste this box onto your userpage. I assure you, this is NOT spam, but a way to make our voice heard. I would not claim any credit for the content, but for the distribution of it. Thank you. --Jw21/PenaltyKillah(discuss•edits) 00:32, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
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