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.

ugh!

This user dislikes the artist Morrissey.

ENG

This user's favourite subject is English.

M.D.

This user's leg always hurts because of a misdiagnosis.

This user is a part of WikiProject Alternative music.

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

Hello, I'm a recent college graduate (majored in English with a minor in History) and college radio layabout. I like to add information to subjects that interest me, but 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.)

Random things that interest me: Rock music (in general and in certain areas and time periods), Fantômas (the character, not the band), Hüsker Dü, Joy Division, Grant Morrison, Trainspotting, Golden Age of Comic Books, Futurama.

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.

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
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Vote for the next collaboration here.

1 Major contributions
2 Awards

[edit] Major contributions

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:

Alternative rock (Good Article) - The Smashing Pumpkins (Featured Article) - Smells Like Teen Spirit (Good Article) - Britpop - Green Day - Xorn - Batman - Sonic Youth - Blur (band) - Punk rock (helped pass Featured Article Review) - Grunge music - 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

[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] 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)