User:IllaZilla

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31	This Wikipedian is 31 years, 3 months, and 15 days old.

	This contributor to Wikipedia is a male.

It is approximately 2:57 PM where this user lives. (California)

	This user is an alumnus of the University of California, San Diego

SDSU	This user attends or has attended San Diego State University.

BA	This user has a Bachelor of Arts degree in History.

	This user is an Eagle Scout, class of 1998.

	This user has been helping the Internet not suck since April 28, 2006.

	This user has been on Wikipedia for 5 years and 9 months .

	This user has made over 47,600 edits on Wikipedia.

	This user wastes far too much time editing Wikipedia.

	This user is a member of WikiProject Albums.

	This user is a member of WikiProject Musicians.

	This user is a member of WikiProject Punk music.

	This user is a member of WikiProject Alien.

	This user is a member of WikiProject Emo.

	This user does not like GENRE WARRIORS.

I joined Wikipedia in April 2006 under a previous account.^[*] I've created something like 200 articles (complete lists here & here). My primary interests and areas of contribution are punk rock, emo, and the Alien films. I also do a lot of behind-the-scenes stuff involving WikiProjects, templates, categories, files, etc. I created WikiProject Alien and revamped WikiProjects Punk music and Emo. I helped advance Alien vs. Predator to FA, and Aliens and Alien Resurrection to GA. I completely rewrote Alien top-to-bottom and was primarily responsible for getting it to GA.

My username comes from an old song by The Vandals. This may be the funniest edit I've ever seen.

^ * Now located at User:IllaZilla2. I made about 1,200 edits before creating this account in January 2007, not being aware at the time of how to change usernames

“	Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subjects only in outline, but that every word tell.	”
—William Strunk, Jr. and E. B. White, "Elementary Principles of Composition". The Elements of Style. Pearson Education. 1918. http://www.bartleby.com/141/strunk5.html.

Did you know? Every time an improperly used non-free image is deleted from Wikipedia, an angel gets its wings.

Did you know? Every time you add trivia to a Wikipedia article, a puppy dies.

Articles

Here's an abbreviated list of articles I've contributed to in a major capacity, meaning I either created them or pretty much rewrote them completely. Generally if I've worked on an article about a musical artist then I've also worked on all of the album articles associated with that artist, but I won't list all of those.

Bands/Artists

People

Discographies

Films

Other

Current projects

Emo [1] [2] [3] [4]
cleanup talk archives for WP:ALBUMS [5] & Infobox musical artist [6]
User:IllaZilla/sandbox3 (sources for improving Tin Man
User:IllaZilla/Beehive & the Barracudas
User:IllaZilla/Darby Crash
User:IllaZilla/Germs (band)
List of Black Flag band members

Images

Since becoming a Wikipedian, I've noticed that one of the more difficult tasks is finding freely-licensed images to use of living persons and active bands, particularly ones that aren't extremely notable. Since I go to a lot of concerts/gigs, I've taken to bringing my camera along and snapping away. I have an account at Wikimedia Commons through which I release the least awful photos under free licenses. I'm no photographer, and I'm armed only with a simple digital camera, but I do have a fondness for Wikipedia and a willingness to share my photos freely. I hope to illustrate articles on bands and musicians where I can. Here are some of the images I've contributed that are/have been used in Wikipedia articles:

Bands

Individual musicians

Karl Alvarez of the Descendents and All
Milo Aukerman of the Descendents
Aaron Barrett of Reel Big Fish
Tony Cadena of the Adolescents
Chuck Dukowski of Black Flag
Warren Fitzgerald of The Vandals
Josh Freese of The Vandals
Tom Gabel of Against Me!
Derek Gibbs of Reel Big Fish
Derek Grant of Alkaline Trio
Trever Keith of Face to Face
Scott Klopfenstein of Reel Big Fish
Lux of Nekromantix
Francisco Mesa of Nekromantix
Scott Shiflett of Face to Face
Bill Stevenson of the Descendents, All, and Only Crime
Lee Ving of Fear
Jay Weinberg of Against Me!

Notables' graves

Ray & Gwendolyn Bolger
John Candy
Jackie Coogan
Darby Crash
Bing Crosby
Bing & Wilma Crosby
Jimmy & Margaret Durante
Bonita Granville
Jack & Florence Haley
Rita Hayworth
Bela Lugosi
Fred MacMurray & June Haver
Tate family: Sharon, Paul, Doris, and Patti
Jack Wrather
Jack Wrather & Bonita Granville

Miscellaneous

Awards

I hereby award this barnstar for such great work in the field of hardcore punk! Cheers! Bubba hot ep 22:36, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
I award you another barnstar for your excellent work on greatly improving the 'Greatest Hits (The Offspring album)'.
The Skeleton 22:26, 15 May 2008
For working with an even temperament to explain things to 68.18.220.174/201. --EEMIV (talk) 07:12, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
Awarded for your work on Alien (film), a Wikipedia 0.7 article, which you brought from B to GA-class. Most gratefully, Girolamo Savonarola (talk) 03:44, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
I can't thank you enough for your contributions to WT:BH. Thank you! --Avant-garde a clue-hexa Chord² 06:15, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
For fantastic work on List of emo artists and Talk:List of emo artists, required tenacious skills and Hard Work. tedder (talk) 03:26, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
Thanks so much for helping me decide what to do with Appeal to Reason promotional tour. Thanks for encouraging me to be bold and nominate the tour page for deletion! cymru lass ^{(hit me up)}⁄_{(background check)} 15:10, 15 June 2010 (UTC)
For your decisive application of the general notability guideline, both in saving notable articles by adding sources and in removing non-notable articles by demonstrating the lack of possible sources, I award you this barnstar. You are an editor par excellence. Neelix (talk) 14:17, 10 June 2011 (UTC)