User:Sergecross73

Stats

Editing

-1+This user has made more than -1 contributions to Wikipedia.

2This user is ranked 2 on the list of Wikipedians by number of edits.

12This user joined Wikipedia 12 years, 10 months, and 7 days ago as of October 19, 2024.

vn-90000This user page has been vandalized 90000 times.

This user has created 12 articles on Wikipedia.

Keep/Delete

DeleteThis user !voted Delete for 81 articles that were deleted at AFD.

KeepThis user !voted Keep for 27 articles that were kept at AFD.

88%This user's !votes match the ending decision 88% of the time at AFD.

AfDThis user has nominated 2 articles for AFD that were deleted.

PRODThis user has PROD'ed 5 articles that were deleted.

Serge Bio

Early

I first got into wikipedia because I liked looking up information, especially related to rock music and video games. However, 2 things made me want to start editing. One is that I wanted to correct wrong or unconfirmed information or help add to under-represented articles.

The other was the realization of how influential wikipedia is. When something is searched for on search engines like Google, Wikipedia articles are almost always the first hit. Considering the scale of people who check these articles, and the fact that more often or not, the reason they're searching is because they want to know more, I wanted to help make sure articles accurately portray the subject at hand.

Recent

I spend most of my time doing 2 different things.

Clean Up

I remove all sorts of vandalism, try to even out neutrality issues, remove unfounded editorials/opinions/"fan" commentary, remove information not understandable or interesting to the general reader, or just general clean up.

Major rewrites

I've found that I do enjoy major revamping of articles, typically complete messes, almost blank, or in-danger of being deleted. Some are ones that I loved from my childhood, like Ristar, that no one ever seemed to put any work into, where as others are articles in danger of being deleted at AFD. (Though don't get me wrong, I vote for Delete frequently as well, and some articles just aren't notable; it just depends on the article.)

My new thing has been taking it a step further and creating new articles, usually semi-obscure articles that don't exist because no one's ever put any real effort into finding sources for them (though they were in fact out there).

Anyways, I don't tend to get real fancy and make WP:GA and featured articles, as my attention is usually diverted to something else before I get that far, and I prefer just getting them closer to B Class, where they are well-written and sourced for the most part. Sergecross73 msg me 17:50, 2 March 2012 (UTC)