User:Miloluvr

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Greetings.

Nothing complicated or special or formatted just yet.

As of this writing (7th February 2008), I am a brand new Wikipedian. I joined for the initial purpose of creating English Wikipedia pages for the most successful (in terms of awarded medals at Olympics, Alternate Olympics (1980 and 1984), World Championships, World Cups, European Championships, and European Cups) artistic gymnasts, male or female, in history, who have not yet had English language Wikipedia pages made for them. Many recently and currently competing gymnasts or gymnasts from the USA who are less accomplished along lines related to the aforementioned have had web pages created for them, so I decided that it would be appropriate to honour those in less recent memory not yet honoured along these lines. Also, as English is by far the most dominant of all the Wikipedias, this increases exposure over what they would have on any pre-existing pages in other languages. Please note that my bottom-line intention is merely to get these gymnasts' page started and on Wikipedia with basic information about the gymnast as well as to establish their complete medal tables. Those pages are not at all intended to be complete and I eagerly welcome any improvements or additions to those pages.

Also, although this might be technically against the rules of Wikipedia, I have done a lot of work to synthesize pre-existing facts, in terms of medal counts, in many different ways in order to come up with a wide array of quantifiable records and rankings for individual gymnasts based on their medal results at these games. Although this probably technically qualifies as original research because it is a synthesization of pre-existing facts, it really doesn't take much leg-work to establish the facts that I have. So, from time to time, especially for the most successful gymnasts, I may add statements revealing interesting bits of metadata that distinguish individual gymnasts (e.g. Lavinia Milosovici is one of only 3 woman gymnasts to have ever won an Olympic or World Championship title on all 4 individual apparatusus). It's always possible that I could have made minor errors. However, the vast, vast majority of the things I will say along these lines will be correct and can either be proven or disproven. I invoke the spirit of "innocent until proven guilty" as well as the Wikipedia:Assume Good Faith clause in Wikipedia to justify this aim. Again, if anybody can disprove any of these sorts of statements I make, then I will gladly delete or correct them.

I am aware that Wikipedia does not exist for the purpose of honouring, however the entries are bolstered by facts. And after all, deeming any fact worthy of any sort of encyclopaedic entry is, essentially, honouring the subject with noteworthiness, whether complimentarily or otherwise. Moroever, at least any individual gymnast who has ever won an individual medal at a World Championships or Olympic Games already has inactive hyperlinks on the medal pages for the individual games of either of those competitions, so by virtue of creating these pages, I am also merely activing pre-existing hyperlinks, making each of those pages more fully cross-referential.

I have many other interests that might spur me to create more articles as I deem worthy, and as are not deleted by strict uber-Wikipedians.

Pages I have created thus far, in order of creation (and not necessarily in order of importance), are:

I have also done a lot of editing for and keep watch over the 'main entry for Gymnast'.

I have also created templates and footers (copying and pasting from pre-existing ones and merely editing content,not code) relating to some of the aforementioned games in order to hyperlink competitions in gymnasts' medal tables to pages for those competitions, whether pre-existing or waiting to be created. I desire to greatly elevate the standard of cross-referentiality regarding individual gymnasts' Wikipedia articles, their corresponding medal tables, and the articles detailing the competitions they competed in themselves, among other ephemera.

Thank you for viewing, and I invite your commentary.

Miloluvr (talk) 18:08, 7 February 2008 (UTC)