User:Master Thief Garrett
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One Blog to Bore Them All
Well, today in a moment of intense boredom I created a blog, called Wikis and Warriors. I have absolutely no clue what I'm really going to do with it, but if you want to know more about what I'm like that's probably a good place to start.
Languages I understand
I like languages, languages are cool, and the more you learn the better you understand the origins of English :)
- I am a native speaker of English (and speak it a lot better than most natives I might add)
- I have an excellent knowledge of the Latin volcabulary, enough to translate inscriptions and jokes (tu es caudex!) on-the-fly, but ask me about declensions beyond the third and I'm done for!
- I have a pathetic knowledge of Old English, only enough to get by. I can get the gist of something, but little more than that I'm afraid. There's always night school...
- I hope to add Greek to my abilities, if only Massey would offer it again...
- I might learn Japanese if I can fit it in somewhere...
- Oh and I took some Maori, how could I forget? Pathetically easy to learn... compared to Latin that is...
Cruftwatch
I'm getting tired of contstantly crawling the 'pedia looking for rubbishy cruft to merge, so I've started the all-new Cruftwatch portal thing. Feel free to contribute. Um, please? I'm begging you... the cruft is stronger than I am... :)
Images and pages to watch
Here goes the stuff where I don't know what it's doing on WP, or I want to follow its growth or improvement, and if I get around to it I'll label it or something... If you wanna jump in and do one for me, feel free to remove it from this list :)
- Image:Christiandenominations.png, ASCII>PNG flowchart conversion.
- Image:Jessifer.jpg, looks suspiciously like some dude's girlfriend...
- Image:Pokeballs.jpg, this not only needs the source indicated, but I'd also like to cut out the individual balls to illustrate the list with.
- Image:Character education.jpg, WTF?!?
- decide what should be done with these now that Image:Chamscript.png has been created.
- Image:Normalpb.gif, if Wikipedia:Pokeprosal template changes, this will become an orphan
- Image:Superpb.gif, orphan
- also "fair use" legality of fan-made graphic representations of copyrighted medium is open to debate
- WorldVision, inconclusive Googles (i.e., coming up with World Vision instead) - expanded and added links;search for: WorldVision Enterprises Inc. / WorldVision Home Video Inc and you will find more info --Omniwolf 17:33, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
- Scarlet Crusade, WP:FICT?
- Image:DSCN0048.JPG vs. Image:Hamster.JPG, one must go!
- Turku Student Village, um, interesting, but, is it notable...? I can't tell...
- W54 real but needs categorising or something - expanded info and added links --Omniwolf 17:33, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
- Will Smith (football player), WTF?
- Detroit Safari, ?
- Ini file, um, not encyclopedic? Dunno.
- Poovarany, is a town with 80 Googles notable enough for WP, or are all towns auto-notable like schools *sound of suppressed laughter*
- The Ring of Charon, nn?
- Jotun Hein, JuntungWu says he'll expand it...? Should become an interesting read.
- Highland Railway Strath Class, 0 Googles, but I know nothing about trains...
- Azamgarh Division + Basti Division + Bareilly Division + Agra Division + Allahabad Division, ???
- CliffsNotes, *cough*Wikibooks*cough* (I hope I recognise the purpose of my coughing when I clear this list...)
- Image:Skinhead Crosstar.jpeg, get this on IFD once it's orphaned.
- Image:Easycreditautosfixed.JPG, get this on IFD soon!
- SMOP, transwiki to Wiktionary?
Off-site media to import later
You know when you spot something and think "that'd be GREAT to use on WP at some point!" and then you lose the link and search in vain for it? ...you don't? Well, anyway, I do, so here they are...
- Apricorns
Pages I'm particularly proud of
These are the pages I've either heavily contributed to, or was the sole author of.
- Zelda LCD games, sole author (so far)
- BS Zelda: Kodai no Sekiban, sole author (so far)
- The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, made some fairly good contributions there... but give it a month after its release and my groundwork will look insignificant!
- Grand Theft Auto Advance, (re?)wrote most of it, I forget...
- The Legend of Zelda series enemies, characters, and races. I am particularly proud of these, and it's even been referred to as an example in the similar Wikipedia:Pokeprosal! I took about a hundred splintered and obscure stubs and united them into useful and flowing articles. I hope that some day all fan works can have their obscure parts united like this.
- Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories, gave this updates at almost a twice-hourly rate. Despite not knowing a crap of a lot about the game, I still think it gives a good idea of the content to expect now. In retrospect I maybe should have found/started a Wikinews post or something and contributed there... hmmm...
My Wikibooks contributions
I have authored several guides in the Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Wikibook; some were just vague and brief stubs when I started on them, others didn't exist at all, and now they're virtually GameFAQ's quality!
My Wikicities contributions
Better check out my user page there for the latest updates.
Things I need to do/finish
I used to use my Watchlist to remind myself, but now it's got like 350+ pages in it...
- Dark World, either rewrite to make useful as separate or merge to The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past#The Two Worlds.
- Image:Satellaview system.png, AC Adapter >> AC adapter
Crush more PNGs using the pngrewrite> optipng> pngcrush> pngout chain suggested by... um... someone...
Images I've contributed
This list got unGainly, so can now be found at User:Master Thief Garrett/Images.
Other users' cool projects
- BDAbramson's Wiki-Hell. Great article, encompasses everything that gets Vfd'd/Speedy'd. He is now officially my hero.
- User:SWAdair/2Bchecked, kinda like my little list. Only more organised.
- BEEFSTEW, the School-Damnation System(TM)
- User:Kelly Martin#Primary & secondary school articles, another cool school rating project.
- User:CryptoDerk/CDVF, not sure what it does, but looks hella cool for "later" (read: mid-July)
I am a "Mergist"
I am a "mergist". I don't believe in mercilessly deleting, but I don't believe in allowing 5000+ splintered eternal stub articles to exist either. Look at my work on merging the Zelda characters/races/enemies into core pages. They are still as useful and valid as they ever were, and indeed are made *more* useful by listing them together. Why? With a separate page structure, a user has to click through to each and every related thing. If they are all on the same page, the user merely scrolls up/down to see related things. This is certainly a goal that should be aimed for, in this and all other Wiki projects.
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Picture of the Moment
Copyright rubbish
At some point before the sun turns into a lump of coal Wikipedia may need to change licenses. I really don't give a damn what free license we're under as long as it isn't the Open Gaming License. ;)
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