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I am Greg, a semi-professional editor, rollbacker, expert copy-editor and reviewer; outside of Wikipedia, I am a 21-year old university undergraduate studying for a bachelor of music degree in music performance, and also a composer, orchestrater, arranger and musician. My main purpose is, and will always be, to create, expand, and improve articles. I have edited Wikipedia since December 2006, and since then, I have made over 30,000 edits to the project (mostly to articles). In the last four years or so, I 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 and the Square Enix WikiProject.
My main contributions 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 articles for deletion process, the peer review process, as well as the adminship requests process. While I have had my share of issues and stepped on some people's toes, my main focus is to improve the articles. User:Darthgriz98 adopted me as a user months before her retirement from Wikipedia. From there, I became a more experienced editor, participating in noticeboard discussions and improving articles to the highest degree possible. I have learned a lot through my work here, from the history of a game that never made it to Japan until recently to learning the history behind a popular tokusatsu series that I admire and a classical composer that I now admire for his work. I work on a range of topics from magazines to anime films to anime television series to video games to composers to game shows to television shows to 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 a particular edit war, I foolishly attempted to deal with one of them by putting an "indef semi-protection" suggestion at WP:RFPP, but alas, to my own stupidity, I was blocked once for it. I hope that never happens again....
Some of my efforts to help Wikipedia, however, have been met with resistance from time to time. I have also had my share of detractors during my ongoing tenure here, such as IP users and other users (whether they are IPs or registered users) who vandalize articles by adding false information, harass, threaten and wikistalk others (also including myself), contradict official polices and guidelines, and basically deface articles that I sometimes help edit and also other users' pages. Some users and IPs, however, wrongly attack me for edits that I did not do. Also, there are also quite a few mentally ill people who have edited Wikipedia. I have been repeatedly stalked and harassed more than once here during my ongoing tenure, and after awhile, it gets to be too much. Unfortunately, some of the users that have harassed me over the years have not been content to sticking with the policies and guidelines. Sometimes, even normal issues that are still occurring on the website such as vandalism, disruptive editing, personal attacks, harassment, conflicts of interest, link spamming, sockpuppets of blocked or banned users, violations of the biographies of living person policies or edit warring can also get to be too much. Dealing with those things can be both physically and psychologically draining at the same time, and some of them are just not something that I signed on to do here.
In the end, Wikipedia is not only just a website, but a a free encyclopedia where anyone can edit and a fun place to work with, as long as we obey our policies and guidelines and concentrate on research and writing.
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The current time and date is: 07:36, Wednesday March 7, 2012 (UTC)
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My drafts and rewrites for articles can be found in my sandbox here.
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For awards that I have received, please see User:Sjones23/Barnstars.
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