User:Sceptre

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Happy New Year Summer, all! I've got an eye on actually doing some article writing soon, although I doubt that it'll actually come to fruition.

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User:Sceptre

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About Me

Hello, I'm Will. I'm 21 years old, and I come from Leeds, England. My username comes from the Tintin book King Ottokar's Sceptre, a series of which I have been a lifelong fan. I'm a native speaker of British English, which is regrettably the only language I can speak with any degree of understanding. I know an odd smattering of French and German, having taken (but not done particularly well) both subjects during my secondary education. Currently, I am studying for a degree in mathematics at the University of Leeds.

I'm an audiophile, particularly being a fan of indie, alternative, and progressive rock such as Death Cab for Cutie, Bright Eyes, Sigur Rós, Pink Floyd, Nine Inch Nails, and 70s-era Genesis, and such soundtrack composers such as Howard Shore, Murray Gold and John Williams. My interests in television are mainly comedy, drama, science fiction, and psychological thrillers, such as Doctor Who, Peep Show, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Fringe, and House. My interest in films takes a similar vein, with a bookcase full of DVDs in that genre. With literature, I am a fan of fantasy novels, most notably J.R.R. Tolkien's writings such as The Lord of the Rings, which I also own on DVD.

Outside of Wikipedia, I am an advocate for atheism, skepticism, and liberalism, and am currently serving as the secretary for Leeds University Union's Atheist Society. However, I will not attempt to unduly represent these viewpoints, or use Wikipedia as a platform for activism; instead, I aim to use my knowledge of these areas to improve the encyclopedia.

My email provider is Gmail (and I have Google Talk), and my ISP is Be Unlimited. I contribute mostly using Google Chrome, but sometimes use Internet Explorer if I am in a public location. My computer runs Windows 7 Ultimate. I also have a blog, but I update it rarely and I'm more active on Twitter.


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Wiki

From January 2006 to August 2006, I was an administrator of Wikipedia. You are free to look at my logs of my tenure as an editor and administrator. I currently possess the automatic rollback ability, which I have possessed for several periods of time since its introduction in January 2008, the "reviewer" right, which allows me to mark any pending edits to some articles as legitimate, and the "autopatrolled right, which marks all of my edits as legitmiate. I also have contribute to Wikiquote and the Wikimedia Commons sporadically.

I have over 59000 edits. As of 9 July 2011, I am 343rd on List of Wikipedians by number of edits. I formerly ran a bot, which regularly did tasks too tedious for the human hand. It is currently down, and I have no intention of running it in the near future.

I value the quality of Wikipedia articles over the quantity. I support merging related articles that aren't particularly well-written or not notable, and deleting articles that violate policies and guidelines. If someone suggests that content in areas I'm active in is of a low quality, I will attempt to fix it, but will not be stubborn to retain it if it can't be. I also feel that Wikipedia is too optimistic with regards to article quality, electing to keep articles which have no chance of ever following our policies.

With regards to my actions, I do what I think is best for the encyclopedia. This means that I will ignore policies if they hinder progress and that I will, on occasion, do something unorthodox, such as remove nearly the entire content of a page that's very badly written. I also attempt to be completely neutral with any topic I edit on Wikipedia, leaving my personal feelings about the subject at the proverbial door. I feel this is the only way to edit controversial pages, which are often full of institutional bias of all kinds.

If you like this design, use it. Most of the page is taken from the Portal skeleton. The small links were inspired by Kyoko, and the icons at the top were inspired by Riana. Conversely, I am always available to do a userpage redesign for you if you ask.


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This user is vehemently against the censorship of legal content anywhere.
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WikiProject Articles for Creation contributor
WikiProject Doctor Who contributor
WikiProject Alternative music contributor
Triple crown recepient
This user has written 7 FAs
This user has written 1 FL
This user has contributed towards 1 GT
This user has written 19 GAs
This user has written 18 articles that have appeared on Did you know...?

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FA Featured content (8)


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Workspace

My current target is to slowly get Doctor Who's fourth series as a featured topic (very slowly):

Episode Synopsis Continuity Production Reception Status Target
Update table
Series 4 YesY Done YesY Done YesY Done YesY Done B FL
"Time Crash" YesY Done YesY Done YesY Done YesY Done GA GA
"Voyage of the Damned" YesY Done YesY Done YesY Done YesY Done GA FA
"Partners in Crime" YesY Done YesY Done YesY Done YesY Done FA FA
"The Fires of Pompeii" YesY Done YesY Done YesY Done YesY Done GA GA
"Planet of the Ood" YesY Done YesY Done YesY Done YesY Done GA GA
"The Sontaran Strategem" YesY Done YesY Done YesY Done N Not done B GA
"The Poison Sky" N Not done N Not done N Not done N Not done C GA
"The Doctor's Daughter" N Not done N Not done N Not done YesY Done B GA
"The Unicorn and the Wasp" N Not done N Not done Working N Not done B GA
"Silence in the Library" N Not done N Not done N Not done N Not done C GA
"Forest of the Dead" N Not done N Not done N Not done N Not done C GA
"Midnight" N Not done N Not done N Not done N Not done C FA
"Turn Left" YesY Done YesY Done YesY Done YesY Done GA FA
"The Stolen Earth" YesY Done YesY Done YesY Done YesY Done FA FA
"Journey's End" YesY Done YesY Done N Not done YesY Done B FA
"Music of the Spheres" YesY Done YesY Done YesY Done YesY Done GA GA
"The Next Doctor" N Not done N Not done N Not done N Not done C GA
Completion 11/18 11/18 10/18 11/18 5 GAs, 2 FAs 7/18

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FA creation process

This is my process for creating good and featured episode articles, modelled after The Stolen Earth:

Handwritten notes for Confidential and...
...the BBC7 podcast
  1. Before transmission: Create article
  2. Transmission time: Watch the media in question.
  3. The night after transmission: Listen and watch to companion media to media, and take notes. (See right and below)
  4. The morning after transmission: Start editing synopsis
  5. A day or two after transmission: Add production details
  6. A few days after transmission: Add ratings
  7. A few days after transmission: Visit review sites and include reviews in one fell swoop.
  8. Copyedit and remove original research inserted by other editors
  9. As time progresses, steadily add new information while continuously copyediting:
    Add some reviews, a cast member's theory about his character, and some filming locations
    Add some more filming locations
    Add new review
  10. After the FAC, keep adding information when you can find it:
    Add some microformats
    Add information from a new book by writer of the episode
    Add public reception
    Add info from DVD commentary
    Add info from an analysis book
    Add new interview
    Add more filming locations and group them into a reference class
    Add new section about public hype
    Add new review, minor information, and group another reference class
    Done? There may still be improvements to make!

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