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“ | I will become the King of the Pirates! (海賊王に俺はなる! Kaizoku-ō ni Ore wa Naru!?) | ” |
I am Greg, a semi-professional editor, rollbacker, expert copy-editor and reviewer. I'm also a 25-year old graduate of University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, and also a composer, orchestrator, arranger and musician. I have Diabetes mellitus type 1. My main purpose is, and will always be, to create, expand, and improve articles to the highest degree since I first joined Wikipedia in December 2006 and I truly love writing as well as composing. In the last seven years or so, I have helped contribute significantly to various Good Articles and Featured Articles, as well as significantly contributing to the main Kingdom Hearts articles, which are now Featured Status. I am a member of various WikiProjects, including the Star Wars WikiProject, the Anime and Manga WikiProject, the Dragon Ball task force, the Television Game Shows WikiProject, the Video game WikiProject and the Square Enix WikiProject.
My main contributions in Wikipedia are copy-editing prose, cleaning up articles, reverting vandalism when needed, creating articles, expanding information when needed, and participating in the featured article process, the requests for comment process, the dispute resolution process, the good article process, the articles for deletion process, the peer review process, as well as the adminship requests process. While I have had my share of issues and detractors, as well as stepping on some people's toes, I always improve various articles to the highest degree possible, as improving Wikipedia is everyone's main goal. User:Darthgriz98 adopted me as a user a few months before her eventual retirement from Wikipedia. From there, I became a more experienced editor, participating in noticeboard discussions and improving articles as well as policies and guidelines. I have learned a lot through my work here, from the history of a Japanese video game that never made it to America until 2010 to learning the history behind an anime licensing company that I have admired for so long to discovering country singers to learning about the history of one of England's popular rock bands as well as a rock band that originated in the 1960s that I have admired to learning about a popular video game franchise that started back in 1987 to rediscovering a popular magical girl anime series that I watched as a young boy to finding out about the history behind a popular series that I have loved since I was a child to learning about a Japanese tokusatsu TV series which served as the basis for that series to finding out about how a popular opera cycle by a composer that I have admired to discovering a 20th century composer that I now admire for his work. I work on a range of topics from magazines to anime films to manga and anime series to character lists to episode lists to superhero films to thriller films to film directors to video games to composers to game shows to television shows to live-action films to animation companies to musical instruments and everything in between. I know at times I have been intending to become an administrator, but I have also occasionally lost my temper and stepped on some toes. In one particular edit war, I foolishly attempted to deal with one of them by putting an "indef semi-protection" suggestion at RFPP, but alas, to my own stupidity, I was blocked once for it. I hope that never happens again...
While I think I am gaining more supporters here than not, I have also had my share of detractors during my ongoing tenure here, such as IPs or registered users (including sockpuppets of blocked or banned users) who often disrupt or vandalize articles; harass, threaten or wikistalk other users in the worst possible ways; contradict official polices and guidelines (such as what Wikipedia is not); and also vandalizing other users' pages (this also includes my user page, which has been semi-protected by an administrator). My comments have been labeled combative and sometimes abrasive more than once and I have occasionally lost my temper and got upset with a few users. Unfortunately, over the last couple of years, the harassment has gone beyond just arguments with other users. I have been repeatedly stalked and harassed by more than one person here during my ongoing tenure. While most of these folks were eventually blocked indefinitely, there are other users that displayed the signs of psychosis, particularly engaging in cyberstalking me both on and off Wiki. I tried protecting my user pages from vandalism, attacks and sockpuppetry, and that has worked with every case. However, some of these users that have harassed and stalked me over the years have not been content to sticking with the policies and guidelines, and have also taken it to multiple other social networking sites, forums and blogs to harass and insult me there. Sometimes, even normal issues that are still occurring on Wikipedia such as vandalism, disruptive editing, personal attacks, harassment, forum shopping, incivility, conflicts of interest, link spamming, Wikilawyering, sockpuppets, legal threats, violations of the biographies of living person policies or edit warring can be very overwhelming, and after a long time, it gets to be too much. Dealing with those issues can be both physically and emotionally stressful at the same time, and some of them are just not something that I signed on to do here. Things can sometimes go from bad to worse, and this has lead to very real concerns that users will no longer be content with the Internet activities and try to find ways to take it offline or even drive out productive editors. I took a temporary semi-retirement from Wikipedia back in August 2013 because of these issues as well, and that helped.
In the end, Wikipedia is not only just a website, but also a free encyclopedia where anyone can edit collaboratively. It is also a fun place to work with, as long as we obey our policies and guidelines and concentrate on research and writing without being stressed out. However, my editing went down significantly during my studies. The real world can be stressful enough without having a hobby add to it eventually.
Over eight years, over 60,000 edits to the project (about 3/4 to articles), 1 did you know, 11 good articles, 10 featured articles, created 25 articles, and numerous other articles significantly improved. All in all, it has been a good run so far. While I may regret some issues of the past, I don't regret the rest.
My thoughts on today
Happy Easter, everybody! Lord Sjones23 (talk - contributions) 23:58, 27 March 2016 (UTC)
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The current date and time is 29 March 2016 T 16:24 UTC.
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In the news
- EgyptAir Flight 181 (aircraft pictured) is hijacked shortly after takeoff and forced to land at Larnaca International Airport in Cyprus.
- A suicide bombing in Lahore, Pakistan, targeting Christians celebrating Easter, kills at least 69 people and injures more than 300.
- The Syrian Army recaptures Palmyra from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
- In rowing, Cambridge win the 162nd Boat Race and Oxford win the 71st Women's Boat Race.
- Denis Sassou Nguesso is re-elected President of the Republic of the Congo for a third term.
- The ICTY finds former Republika Srpska President Radovan Karadžić guilty of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide during the Bosnian War.
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Wikipedia contributions
Featured articles
Some mostly my work and others as part of a team:
Benjamin Britten
Final Fantasy VI
Final Fantasy VIII
Final Fantasy IX
Final Fantasy X
Final Fantasy X-2
Final Fantasy XI
Final Fantasy XII
Final Fantasy XIII
Final Fantasy XIII-2
Kingdom Hearts (video game)
Kingdom Hearts II
Good articles
Some mostly my work and others as part of a team:
Captain America: The First Avenger
Final Fantasy IV
Final Fantasy VII
Iron Man 3
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 film)
Spirited Away
Summer Wars
The Avengers (2012 film)
Thor (film)
Wheel of Fortune (U.S. game show)
Yuffie Kisaragi
Yuna (Final Fantasy)
Articles created
- Anime Sound Production
- Tetsurō Araki
- Characters of Final Fantasy XIII
- Delta Dreamland
- Gingamen
- Yasunori Honda
- Junya Ikeda
- List of Fairy Tail episodes (season 1)
- List of Fairy Tail episodes (season 2)
- List of Fairy Tail manga volumes (1–15)
- List of Fairy Tail manga volumes (16–30)
- List of Fairy Tail manga volumes (31–current)
- List of Lord Marksman and Vanadis characters
- List of Lord Marksman and Vanadis light novels
- List of One Piece episodes (season 14)
- List of Sailor Moon Crystal episodes
- List of Toriko episodes
- Hiroshi Masuoka (voice actor)
- Nami (One Piece)
- Akio Nojima
- Ryota Ozawa
- Sailor Moon (anime)
- Space Pirates Barban
- Kazuki Shimizu
- Hideki Tasaka
- Trouble in Paradise
- Yuki Yamada
- Seiji Yokoyama
Projects
Current
Article name | Current rank | Target rank | Possible TFA Date | TFA Rationale |
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Characters of Final Fantasy XIII | C | ![]() |
N/A | N/A |
Ludwig van Beethoven | C | ![]() |
December 17, 2015 | 245th anniversary of birth |
Antonín Dvořák | B | ![]() |
N/A | N/A |
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006 film) | C | ![]() |
N/A | N/A |
The Price Is Right (U.S. game show) | B | ![]() |
N/A | N/A |
Valkyria Chronicles | B | ![]() |
N/A | N/A |
Rio (film) | Start | ![]() |
N/A | N/A |
Spirited Away | ![]() |
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July 19, 2016 | 15th anniversary of premiere |
Arrietty | C | ![]() |
July 17, 2015 | 5th anniversary of premiere |
Princess Mononoke | C | ![]() |
July 7, 2017 | 20th anniversary of premiere |
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (film) | Start | ![]() |
N/A | N/A |
List of Fairy Tail characters | B | ![]() |
N/A | N/A |
From Up on Poppy Hill | C | ![]() |
N/A | N/A |
Tadeusz Kościuszko | C | ![]() |
October 15, 2017 | 200th anniversary of death |
Krzysztof Penderecki | Start | ![]() |
N/A | N/A |
Giuseppe Verdi | B | ![]() |
N/A | N/A |
Polish Requiem | N/A | ![]() |
September 28, 2014 | 30th anniversary of Stuttgart premiere |
My Neighbor Totoro | B | ![]() |
N/A | N/A |
Castle in the Sky | C | ![]() |
August 2, 2016 | 30th anniversary of premiere |
Ponyo | C | ![]() |
N/A | N/A |
Howl's Moving Castle (film) | C | ![]() |
September 5, 2014 | 10th anniversary of premiere |
Porco Rosso | C | ![]() |
July 18, 2017 | 25th anniversary of premiere |
Kiki's Delivery Service | B | ![]() |
N/A | N/A |
Grave of the Fireflies | C | ![]() |
N/A | N/A |
List of Sailor Moon characters | List | ![]() |
N/A | N/A |
Sailor Moon | C | ![]() |
December 28, 2016 | 25th anniversary of publication |
Future
Article name | Current rank | Target rank | Possible TFA Date | TFA Rationale |
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Monkey D. Luffy | C | ![]() |
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Frédéric Chopin | C | ![]() |
October 17, 2014 | 165th anniversary of death |
Studio Ghibli | C | ![]() |
N/A | N/A |
Academy Award | B | ![]() |
TBA | TBA |
Hector Berlioz | B | ![]() |
March 8, 2013 | 145th anniversary of death |
Userboxes
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Sandbox
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Guestbook
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Barnstar Awards
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