User:Hbdragon88
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hbdragon88 (born September 11) is a male Wikipedian whose primary hobby is candid photography. His main interests on Wikipedia are mainly focused on video game articles, and on Nintendo-related articles in particular. He also does copyediting and wikifying, but not as a primary goal. He started editing on January 25, 2005. editcount
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I'm a strong believer in merging articles together when necessary. Minor characters should not be getting their own articles. This encourages cruft and wholly unnecessary details about that character. I think that most of my current productive work is creating "List of" articles and merging articles in, or using current articles and merging them back when they have unnecessarily been split. Some of my major work in this area includes the WarioWare, Inc. developers, Enderverse characters, and post-Zordon Power Rangers characters.
I also do a lot of image tagging, such as removing fair use image galleries and other unnecessary images (one image is enough to illustrate one character). My most popular tag is {{orfud}}, but {{rfu}} has gotten more action now in cutting down on fair use photographs of ordinary celebrities. I occasionally review OrphanBot's logs and once patrolled new images. Most of my image work doesn't show up in edit counters because, well, most of what I tag gets deleted.
For images themselves, I used to upload images here and release them into the public domain. Now I upload them to the Wikimedia Commons under the Creative Commons ShareAlike 2.5 license. Check my user page there.
I edit according to my interests, and these tend to go through phases. Major areas of concentration have included Power Rangers, Digimon, Pokémon, Enderverse, video games published by Nintendo, and Mario games. Currently, I'm most interested in Power Rangers. These tend to key into what I'm doing now. For instance, I focused on Pokémon after picking up Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire.
I've never bothered much with Good articles or Featured articles that much. I believed that raising five articles from a non-stub status or copyediting them to a decent level was better for Wikipedia than devoting a huge amount of time and effort needed to make a GA or FA. It wasn't until very recently that I made two attempts - Big Rigs (failed) and Super Princess Peach (passed). I also recently began initating Featured artcile reviews on the most blatant articles that clearly do not meet FA standards (the usual suspects are those that were featured on the Main Page in 2004).
I suffer from a bit of editcountitis. Since passing 5,000 edits though, AmiDaniel's quick tool has become useless, and Interiot's tool takes a long, long time to use. Instead, I focus on the makeup of my editcount. I currently have about 51% of edits in the mainspace. I'd like to keep it that way, and perhaps have it rise to 55% or so. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, and as such I think that my mainspace contributions percentage should be higher.
I also do talk page work. Tasks include rearranging the boxes (I like to see the WikiProject boxes up first), archiving talk pages, adding WikiProject banners, deploying {{unsigned}}, and adding {{skiptotoctalk}}. If an article has gone through multiple AFDs, I deploy {{multidel}}, and for multiple archives I deploy {{archivebox}}. I absolutely despise cut-and-paste talk page archival: I always move the page over.
What I hate the most: Fixing redirects. List of Super Smash Bros. series NPCs has been moved around more than I ever imagined, and it gets kind of tiring to fix the redirects. Especailly if they have talk pages attached to them. Just completed another round of weeding out useless and unused redirects after a brief page move conflict (User X moves to Y title, User Z moves it back to the original title).
[edit] Inspirational quotes
- A more active group of about 4,000 users made more than 100 edits per month, over half of these users having worked in the English edition.
- I don't understand the wikipedia bashing. Before/without wikipedia, you wanted to find information on Bob Dylan. You did a google/yahoo search on it, got 1 million hits, clicked on one of the first ones. It was a fan page. You hoped whatever was on there was accurate.
- With wikipedia, you find a lengthy, highly informative article, with links to related topics, and which lists about 100 sources, books, magazines, respected websites, etc.
chris20202 2006-08-12 12:55:05 PM Fark.com
- Despite how it may seem
- The trolls are not winning.
- Despite what they say, the vandals cannot break Wikipedia.
- Despite what and of them say or think, they do not have any power over Wikipedia.
- Despite the mountains of 'OMTOGHSERS SOANDSO IZ TEH SUCKERZ' reverted each day, the vandals are not winning.
- Despite the flaws in the system, the system itself is slowly moving. Slowly and painfully, yet still moving.
- The vandals only win when people like yourself leave.
- Don't give up the fight.
69.145.123.171 Hello! Wednesday, June 28, 2006, 19:11 (UTC) [1]
[edit] Barnstars
 For your major work with video game articles. OrbitOne 10:55, 26 March 2006 (UTC) |
[edit] Other pages
- /contrib - Contributions (forked off)
- /Temp (redirect) - For doing some test work
- /ref - Easy way to subst the <references /> tag with the small size font
[edit] Licensing
| Dual licensed with the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike License version 1.0 |  |
| I agree to dual-license my text contributions, unless otherwise stated, under the GFDL and the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license version 1.0. Please be aware that other contributors might not do the same, so if you want to use my contributions under the Creative Commons terms, please check the CC dual-license and Multi-licensing guides. | |
I did not write all of this content out and fight content battles so someone can take it and use it under a cc-by-nd or cc-by-nc license. I have to share, so whoever uses my contributions must also share alike.
