User:Sykko

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This user is strongly opposed to intellectual property theft.
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Hi, I am Sykko. I am a former editor here

Here is my Sandbox and here are my user Templates

Click here to see my first Editor Review

This editor is an
Apprentice Editor
and is entitled to display this Service Badge.

Me on Wikipedia

I have really enjoyed my time getting involved around here. I have also had some times that weren't all so great, but all in all I would say it has been a positive experience. I am grateful for that experience that I had.

How I got started

Well, one day I read WP:Be bold and a few other policies, and decided to make my first edit in the sandbox so that I could make my first real edit (which was to add a non-reliable reference that I fixed later).

Later, I found a subject that didn't have a Wikipedia article on it yet and got the chance to start/create my first article! Advanced_Electron_Forum(RIP) unfortunately the article didn't really have the ability to verify notability and eventually deleted (rightfully so). All the same, it was pretty much the thing that got me started and interested in Wikipedia. Shortly after I started working on my user page here where I have learned most of the technical basics. Soon after I got involved in a couple of projects and started trying to improve a few articles. The rest is history I guess.

My Current Interests

I started over. I removed myself from every wikiproject that I had joined (there werent that many of them anyway) and cleared my entire watchlist with the exception of my user space. I am finding new articles to become interested in and new things to do here on Wikipedia. The reason I am doing this is because I found myself stuck in a rut and getting fed up with a few of the articles I was focusing on and feeling a touch of wp:own hitting on my bones.

If you used to see me around at some article or another and I am not there it is because I am not interested in working on any of the articles I have been previously working on. If, though, you would like one time help on something to get some kinda thing done or another I will be willing to help out. Just give me a shout on my talk page.

What I am doing now

I am currently focusing on New Pages Patrol this means I am pretty much a drive by tagger. Yes I will tag someone's article without making any attempt to improve it myself and without leaving messages on talk pages. The reason I do this is because there are hundreds of new articles started each day, but only a few people checking them out to make sure they have a good start. By tagging an article I am able to make a quick suggestion, or perhaps tag the talk page to attach it to a wikiproject. If I were to stop and edit each article to fix the problems that I see, I would not be able to keep up with how many come in. So I do apologize for being a drive by tagger, but I find it to be better than just marking pages patrolled simply because they are not vandalism and moving on.

Me Personally

I am a former-full-time-semi-pro-musician-and-artist who got fed up with the instability of it all and decided to get a desk job.

I am addicted to internet forums. I own my own forum which has been rather successful and will always come first before any other internet interest I may have in the future.

I consider myself to be diversity-sensitive. Essentially I am very good at avoiding being politically incorrect, but I do not feel people who say things that are considered to not be PC to be offensive. I guess that goes along with my interest in diversity as a subject since technically even the matter of not being careful about those things is a matter of diversity and something that I appreciate in people. Although I admit flat out biggotry easily offends me.

Me Professionally

I am currently employed by one of the top cable television providers in the US as a coordinator for a department that investigates cable theft and administers Quality Assurance Inspections. my job is very project and planning intensive and I do a lot of data mining and analytical work.

In my job, even though I am not an employee of the IT department I have tools at my disposal which give me the opportunity to do part time Information Technology work. I am at a advanced level of skill with Ms Access and have done a bit of research and practice with database normalization. I very much appreciate the opportunity to do this type of work since it is the type of thing I enjoy doing during my off-work time.

Barnstars

I got this from Mifter who's page got blanked while I was in the middle of doing old-fashion RC patrol :)

		The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		Is awarded to Sykko for his great contributions in fighting vandalism and in reverting vandalism to my userpage. Keep up the Great work, Mifter (talk) 01:51, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Hidden Barnstars

(yeah I know they arent really the same as real barnstars, but I am going to display them anyway :p)

		The Hidden Page Barnstar
		I award you one for finding User:Trekphiler's page for people who always think that "new message" bar is real. Aren't you glad you checked your mail? TREKphiler 08:03, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

	The Super Secret Barnstar
	This user has found RyRy's Secret Page! Who will be next? Can you find my Secret Page? Ver. 2.5

My POV on Copyright

As of 8/11/2008

for anything I do on Wikipedia: I hereby release to be used by anyone for any reason. commercial, personal, or otherwise (to the extent allowed here on wikipedia and by law). I know this is kinda informal way to say this but all the same essentially I just want to say the reason I am here, is to contribute in very public ways and I have no interest in holding any of my work here back from anyone.

To put this statement in a nutshell. Any of my intellectual property that I myself have contributed to any Wikimedia site is available to any person for any non-exclusive use.

The reason that I wanted to type my own copyright message

Because I work in the business of essentially stopping intellectual property thieves and as a result I feel very strongly about IPR

Last Note

Feel free to leave me a message on my talk page if you think I have done something the right/wrong way or have any advice! as a fellow editor on Wikipedia I would very much appreciate the help