User:Masamage

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Hi! My pseudonym is Masamage. I am a college student, and was majoring in Computer Science until I took a slew of writing, literature, and political science classes all in a row. This blended catastrophically with the discovery of Wikipedia—I quickly realized that, if I'd rather sit around writing essays for fun all day, English might well be a better major. XP So now I just have a bunch of programming electives. (Though I love combining the two. Interactive fiction, anyone?)

I'm really sensitive to grammar and wording problems, so the ability to just reach in and just fix them is completely addicting and kind of joyful. I keep wanting to do it to newspapers and such—which has recently become a reality, in the sense that I am now a writer for a local newspaper! As a rule, I edit pretty much anything I see on WP that seems to want it. Grammar, spelling, style, and clarity are big things for me; I usually tackle such problems any time I see them.

I also work a lot on Sailor Moon articles, because I was crazy about it as a young teenager and this justifies the absurd amount of trivia still in my brain. :) I founded WikiProject Sailor Moon, and am really enjoying the experience. This puts enough things on my watchlist that I don't usually keep an eye on the other things I edit, unless they're extremely interesting to me (such as The Be Five).

Contents 1 Pages I have created: 2 SM project stuff 2.1 Pages to which I've made significant contributions 3 Other projects I am involved with 3.1 Other stuff I do 3.2 Projects I wish I was involved with: 4 Happy thoughts

[edit] Pages I have created:

(Does not include redirects, disambiguation pages (five so far), or splits)

• Peirene - A fountain in Greek myth
• Hilda Conkling - My favorite poet
• Sailor Moon (manga)
• Sailor Moon (anime)
• Cats (Sailor Moon)
• Sailor Moon (arc)
• Sailor Moon R
• Sailor Moon SuperS
• Takanori Arisawa (featured on Did You Know)
• User:Masamage/NaNoBox

Deleted:

• Princesses (Sailor Moon). Topic is now covered here.
• List of Sailor Moon actors
• List of Sailor Moon locations

[edit] SM project stuff

Factoid: I have consistently and accidentally misspelled the word 'consistent' all over these articles. I find this strangely self-referential fact both embarrassing and hilarious. They've mostly been found and fixed, but if you see another, sweep the thing up and I'll cheerfully take the blame.

[edit] Pages to which I've made significant contributions

• Sailor Moon (writing, maintenence, organization—now GA status!)
• Sailor Mercury (gradually rewrote—now GA status!)
• Sailor Mars (gradually rewrote—now GA status!)
• Sailor Jupiter (gradually rewrote—now GA status!)
• Sailor Venus (gradually rewrote—now GA status!)
• Sailor Senshi (mostly rewrote, created diagram)
• Shadow Galactica (massive merge, cleanup)
• Dark Kingdom (merge, cleanup)
• Silver Millennium (merged and rewrote)
• List of Sailor Moon episodes (repeated reformatting, lots of Japanese, mini-summaries for first series)
• Sailor Starlights (reorganized, rewrote some, made the infobox)
• Princess Kakyuu (lots of cleanup)
• ChibiChibi (lots of cleanup)

[edit] Other projects I am involved with

• Haibane Renmei (created the episode list and adaptation history)
• Megatokyo and its subpages (yay! It got featured! :D)
• WikiProject Dragonlance, to a much much lesser extent

[edit] Other stuff I do

I work on images when I see a need. I've categorized somewhere between 50-100 orphaned ones, and uploaded some 50+ images to Wikipedia to date, plus two song samples. I also like writing fair-use rationales.

I've just become an admin, which is pretty awesome. Thanks, everybody! So now I'll be working on some of those responsibilities too. I try very hard to be polite and encouraging to new editors, and I try not to be disgruntled when people are uncivil. Not perfect at that, but I'm getting better. So far, my favorite admin activity is cleaning out the speedy deletions. It's surprisingly therapeutic (and frequently hilarious).

For those duly interested: my edit count and my edit summary usage.

I also have a sandbox, which I should have thought of a long time ago.

[edit] Projects I wish I was involved with:

• WikiProject Babylon 5. The show is enormous but so awesome.

I have a good friend named Courtney Jones. Note the link is red! That's because she's an up-and-coming performer, and is juuuust short of being ready for Wikipedia. Look at her website, though—she's getting darn close. I want to write the article eventually, for three reasons: a) I want her to be that successful, b) it would be so much fun to tribute her like that, and c) it would be an entertaining challenge to be as neutral as possible. ^_^ So, yeah. Not a page I've created yet, but one I fondly hope to. I'm mentioning that here so that when I do, y'all can hold me accountable for being unbiased. :P

Okay! I think that's it for now. Thanks for coming, and feel free to drop me a line!

[edit] Happy thoughts

		The Original Barnstar
		For your work on the Sailor Moon articles:) Danny Lilithborne 18:28, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

		BarnSakura for excellent edits
		I ditto the above and give you this: The Anime and Manga BarnSakura Lego3400: The Sage of Time 17:02, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

		BarnSakura for excellent edits
		I, Tohru Honda13, award you this BarnSakura for your EXCELLENT edits to Sailor Moon related artices. Keep up the good work!. —Tohru Honda13Sign here! 23:41, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

		The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
		I award you this Barnstar because you work your butt off contributing and fixing Sailor Moon related articles! Keep up the good work! Tohru Honda13Sign here! 23:41, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

		The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
		Thanks for sticking up for me with that IP hopping vandle and helping me on wikipida :} ♥Eternal Pink-ready for love♥ 23:46, 24 February 2007 (UTC)