User:WesleyDodds

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en	This user is a native speaker of English.

This user lives in or hails from the state of California.

This user enjoys rock music.

This user likes alternative rock.

ENG

This user's favourite subject is English.

This user is a part of WikiProject Alternative music.

Hello, I'm a recent college graduate (majored in English with a minor in History) and college radio layabout. Areas of general interest: Rock music (in general and in certain areas and time periods; a general list of what I'm into can be found here), comic books (particularly the works of Grant Morrison and items relating to the Golden Age of Comic Books), History (particularly the Gilded Age and the Belle Époque), television, animation, and film (ranging from German Expressionism to Trainspotting to action movies as good as or better than Die Hard; man that movie is fucking awesome.)

Invariably my work on Wikipedia is primarily focused on music-related articles (that's just how it's turned out). However, I also offer my services for those seeking cleanup or copyediting on articles. So if you want me to clean a page up, just let me know. Although if a page requires extensive assistance, my abilities will be limited by how much I actually know about the topic. Additionally, a list of sources I have access to can be found here.

I've met and shook hands with Henry Rollins and Roger Miller of Mission of Burma after their respective performances, but the best show I've ever been to is still Iron Maiden in 2005. Go figure. Oh, I also once temporarily blinded Peter Hook when taking a flash picture. He played my request anyway.

I have set up a Wikiproject devoted to alternative rock. You can visit and/or join the project at Wikipedia:WikiProject Alternative music.

The current Alternative music collaboration of the week is
''I Should Coco''
Vote for the next collaboration here.

1 Major contributions
2 Some favorite articles
3 Awards

[edit] Major contributions

This user helped promote the article The Smashing Pumpkins to featured article status.

This user helped promote the article Smells Like Teen Spirit to featured article status.

This user helped promote the article Be Here Now (album) to featured article status.

This user helped promote the article Loveless (album) to featured article status.

This user helped promote the article Joy Division to featured article status.

This user helped promote the article R.E.M. to featured article status.

This user helped promote the article Just Like Heaven (song) to featured article status.

These are pages I've made substantial contributions to. Pages I've personally been involved in promoting to Good or Featured status are indicated below in bold text:

Alternative rock (Good Article) - The Smashing Pumpkins (Featured Article) - Smells Like Teen Spirit (Featured Article) - Just Like Heaven (song) (Featured Article) - R.E.M. (Featured Article) - The Cure (Good Article) - Be Here Now (Featured Article, with Ceoil) - Loveless (album) (Featured Article, with Ceoil and Brandt Luke Zorn) - Joy Division (Featured Article, with Ceoil) - Losing My Religion (Good Article) - Ten (Pearl Jam album) (Good Article, with Brandt Luke Zorn and -5-) - Heavy metal music (helped pass Featured Article Review) - Britpop - Green Day - Xorn - Batman - Sonic Youth - Blur (band) - Punk rock (helped pass Featured Article Review) - Grunge music (helped pass Featured Article Review) - Alternative metal - Nu metal - List of alternative rock artists - List of New Wave bands and artists (basically removing artists that don't belong) - Timeline of alternative rock - Zen Arcade - Pearl Jam - Jason Todd - Hey Jude (helped pass Featured Article Review) - Bauhaus (band) - The Sandman (Vertigo) - Nightswimming - Chronic Town

[edit] Articles knowledgeable editors should look at

Art rock - Noise pop - Heroes Reborn - New Romantic - German Expressionism (specifically, it you could make a highly comprehensive list of films, that would be nice)

[edit] Some favorite articles

Here's some articles not featuring heavy contributions from me that I think are pretty swell:

Evolution - Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916 - Lion - Mutual Broadcasting System - Stereolab - Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion - Vampire - Sinestro Corps War

[edit] Awards

		The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
		I, Reaper X, give you this barnstar for your work with articles of the alternative rock genre (most notably WikiProject Alternative music), and other music articles. Reaper X 22:09, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

		The Barnstar of High Culture
		I, Dsims209, give you this barnstar for your work on the Britpop article for attending it daily, keeping it in check from other editors and turning it into a first class well-kept article. Dsims209 19:18, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

		The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
		For your wonderful work and, in some cases, complete revitalisation of several music articles, especially Alternative rock, I, Switch, hereby award WesleyDodds The Tireless Contributor Barnstar and offer you my thanks and congratulations. Switch 11:00, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

I award this Comics Star to WesleyDodds for his great efforts work in improving Batman and other comic-book related articles. Fantastic work improving encyclopediac standards of the article. Keep it up! ~CS 19:51, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

I award this Comics Star to WesleyDodds for impressive contributions editing and monitoring Batman-related articles. (I'm not letting ~CS's star stop me from posting the one I came here to give you. You deserve two stars!) -- Doczilla 19:59, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

I award this Barnstar to WesleyDodds for his work maintaining the Batman article at FA. Wiki-newbie 17:32, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

		The Working Man's Barnstar
		For your amazing contributions to The Smashing Pumpkins and, somehow, rising the article to Featured Status, I hereby award you this Working Man's Barnstar for...everything! NSR77 ^{(Talk\|Contribs)} 20:41, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

		The Music Barnstar
		For your extensive work with music articles, especially with alt rock articles and WikiProject Alternative music. Congrats again on getting Smells Like Teen Spirit to featured status. ShadowHalo 00:35, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

		The Comics Star
		I see you've gotten this before, but damn it, I've been watching you slowly, methodically, clean up the Batman article, making what seem to be minor improvements that actually are majorly wonderful. That's just well done, my man! Thank you! Ipstenu (talk • contribs) 13:42, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

		The Editor's Barnstar
		I, Grim-Gym hereby award you this barnstar for your relentless commitment to the Alternative Music Collaboration of the Week; and for fanatically editing the project's chosen article, devoid of any reluctance or prejudice whatsoever. Grim-Gym 04:59, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

		The Comics Star
		For your extraordinary work in WikiProject Comics, for your outstanding edits all around, for your ongoing efforts shaping and protecting pages like Batman, and for so much more, I want to make sure that your work is noted. It's nice to see that we have some real heroes here at Wikipedia. Doczilla 18:24, 10 October 2007 (UTC) (UTC)

		The Wise Guy Award
		I, Ceoil, award you this barnstar for making me laugh every second day or so, and for all the youtube links that made my day(s).