User:Sky Harbor

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You may view this user page in English or Tagalog.
Maaari mong tingnan ang pahina ng manggagamit na ito sa Ingles o Tagalog.


"I stare straight into the sun and I won't close my eyes."
— "Stare At The Sun" (from The Artist In The Ambulance) by Thrice


Welcome!

Well, let me quote my LiveJournal: "Welcome to Sky Harbor: a refuge from all of life's tortures, pains and sufferings." This may not be the band (where no article exists) or the airport, but the Wikipedian can surely do.

Anyway, I am James Joshua G. Lim (Josh or Joshua for short), a student at Colegio San Agustin-Makati in Metro Manila, a proud Filipino by birth, a debater and, if a userbox existed for one, an emo Wikipedian. However, I am also a proud bearer of Philippine and U.S. citizenships, which makes me more or less a Filipino American. I am also fluent in English and Tagalog, with partial fluency in Spanish, and as such is partly the reason why my user page is available in English and Tagalog.

I joined Wikipedia on April 7, 2005, and as a Wikipedian, I stand for what is right and what is the "middle way" between two extremes, something which I practice as a member of Filipino Wikipedia community and as an administrator on the Tagalog Wiktionary. I am an inclusivist as long as what is being included makes sense in the spirit of Wikipedia.

Well, enjoy the user page! You can leave a message if you want to, or you can continue browsing around.

To take note, the picture to the left is the picture of me, my sister and my mom taken before I returned to the Philippines on May 4, 2005. Although I live now in the Philippines full-time, I consider Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania my adopted home.

Achievements and projects

Achievements

In my over two years of service to Wikipedia, I have been able to leave some achievements which I deem quite noteworthy. I am the prime proponent of elevating two articles: the Manila Light Rail Transit System and the Manila Metro Rail Transit System, to featured article status, as well as elevating Philippine National Railways to good article status.

I also take responsibility for writing the vast majority of articles on Philippine banks and airports. Credit can also be attirbuted to me for authoring three Philippines-related image copyright tags: {{PD-Philippines}}, {{PD-PhilippinesPubDoc}}, and the controversial {{PD-PhilippinesGov}}.

Those achievements have also enabled me to earn some barnstars and other awards in the process. If you want to have a peek, you can do so here.

Projects

I am presently involved in establishing Wikimedia Philippines (WMPH), the official Philippine chapter of the Wikimedia Foundation, as well as the upcoming Tagalog Wikinews. I am also involved in English-to-Tagalog translation efforts, translating Wikipedia material from English to Tagalog.

With regard to articles, I am focused for the time being on elevating Iloilo International Airport at least to good article status.

Directory

As part of efforts to bring efficient service to the visitor, I have compiled all my subpages here.

Subpages

Take note that with the recent redesign of my user page, some services might as well be left blank for the time being.

Contacts

If you need to initiate private contact with me, you have various options to choose from:

Or, if you are a LiveJournal user, visit "Welcome to Sky Harbor". Blogger users may visit "Uniting Voices".
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