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Name | Sjones23 | |||
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Born | Lake Havasu City, Arizona, U.S. | September 29, 1990|||
Nationality | American | |||
Country | United States | |||
Current location | Buffalo, New York, U.S. | |||
Languages | English, Japanese | |||
Time zone | Eastern Time Zone | |||
Current time | Current time for UTC-4 is 19:27 | |||
Education and employment | ||||
Occupation | Freelance musician | |||
University | University at Buffalo | |||
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Joined | December 28, 2006 | |||
First edit | December 27, 2006 | |||
Pending changes reviewer | June 14, 2010 | |||
Rollbacker | February 21, 2008 | |||
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“ | I will become the King of the Pirates! (海賊王に俺はなる!, Kaizoku-ō ni Ore wa Naru!) | ” |
— Eiichiro Oda, One Piece |
“ | Arguments have no chance against petrified training; they wear it as little as the waves wear a cliff. | ” |
— Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court |
I am Greg, a semi-professional editor, rollbacker, expert copy-editor and reviewer. Outside of Wikipedia, I'm also a 31-year old graduate of the University at Buffalo, and also a composer, orchestrator, arranger, and musician. I have Diabetes mellitus type 1. My main purpose has been, and always will be, to create, expand, and improve articles to the highest degree since I first joined Wikipedia in December 2006 and I truly love writing as well as composing. In the last thirteen years or so, I have helped contribute significantly to various good articles and featured articles, as well as the main Kingdom Hearts articles, the Final Fantasy articles and the main Sakura Wars game articles, most of which are now Good or 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 Sega task force, the Television game shows task force, the Video game WikiProject, the James Bond WikiProject and the Square Enix WikiProject.
My main contributions in Wikipedia 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 requests for comment process, the dispute resolution process, the good article process, the articles for deletion process, the sockpuppet investigation process, the peer review process, as well as the adminship requests process. While I have had my share of issues and detractors, I always improve various articles to the highest degree possible, as improving Wikipedia is everyone's main goal. User:Darthgriz98 adopted me as a user a few months before her eventual retirement from Wikipedia. From there, I became a more experienced editor, participating in noticeboard discussions and improving articles as well as policies and guidelines. I have learned a lot through my work here, from the history of a Japanese video game series that never made it to America until 2010 to learning the history behind an anime licensing company that I have admired for so long to discovering country singers to learning about the history of one of England's popular rock bands as well as a rock band that originated in the 1960s that I have admired to learning about a popular video game franchise that started back in 1987 to rediscovering a popular magical girl anime series that I watched as a young boy to finding out about the history behind a popular series that I have loved since I was a child to learning about a Japanese tokusatsu TV series which served as the basis for that series to finding out about a popular opera cycle by a well-known German composer to discovering a 20th century Japanese composer that I now admire for his work. I work on a range of topics from magazines to anime films to light novels to manga and anime series to character lists to episode lists to superhero films to thriller films to film directors to video games to composers to game shows to television shows to science fiction 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, upset a few users and some of my comments have been labeled "combative" and "abrasive" more than once. I foolishly attempted to deal with an edit war by putting an "indefinite semi-protection" suggestion at RFPP, but to my own stupidity, I was blocked once for it.
While I have met several excellent editors and administrators which I consider friends, I have also had my share of detractors during my ongoing tenure here, such as IPs or registered users (including sockpuppets of blocked or banned users) who often disrupt or vandalize articles; harass, threaten or wikistalk other users in the worst possible ways; contradict official polices and guidelines (such as what Wikipedia is not); edit war on articles; and also vandalizing other users' pages including my own. I have been repeatedly stalked and harassed by more than one person here during my ongoing tenure. While most of these folks were eventually blocked indefinitely, there are other users that have been engaging in cyberstalking me both on and off Wiki. I tried protecting my user pages from vandalism, attacks and sockpuppetry, and that has worked with almost every case. However, some of these disruptive users over the years have not been content to sticking with the policies and guidelines, and have also taken it to multiple other social networking sites, forums and blogs to harass and insult me there. Sometimes, even normal issues that are still occurring on Wikipedia such as vandalism, disruptive editing, personal attacks, harassment, incivility, conflicts of interest, link spamming, wiki-lawyering, sockpuppetry, legal threats, violations of the biographies of living person policies or edit warring can be very overwhelming, and after a long time, it gets to be too much. Dealing with those issues can be both physically and emotionally draining at the same time, and some of them are just not something that I signed on to do here. Things can go from bad to worse at times, and this has led to very real concerns that users will no longer be content with the Internet activities and try to find ways to take it offline or even drive out productive editors. I took a two-month long semi-retirement from Wikipedia back in August 2013 because of these issues as well, and that helped.
Still, Wikipedia is not only just a website but also a free encyclopedia where anyone can edit collaboratively. It is also a fun place to work with, as long as we obey our policies and guidelines and concentrate on research and writing without being stressed out. However, my editing went down significantly during my academic studies. The real world can be stressful enough without having a hobby add to it eventually.
Nearly fifteen years, over 90,000 edits to the project (about 73% to articles), 1 did you know, 48 good articles, 21 featured articles, created 36 articles, and numerous other articles significantly improved. All in all, it has been a good run so far. While I may regret some issues of the past, I don't regret the rest.
68.3% completed
26 June 2022 |
My thoughts on today
I'm still keeping myself busy with music. Lord Sjones23 (talk - contributions) 06:07, 17 July 2021 (UTC)
Current time and weather
The current date and time is 26 June 2022 T 23:27 UTC.
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- Mass shootings (location pictured) during LGBT pride celebrations in Oslo, Norway, leave two people dead and twenty-one others injured.
- The United States Supreme Court determines that abortion is not a protected constitutional right, overturning Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey.
- A 6.2-magnitude earthquake in Afghanistan kills at least 1,100 people and injures more than 1,600 others.
- Gustavo Petro wins the Colombian presidential election, defeating Rodolfo Hernández Suárez in the runoff.
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Wikipedia contributions
Featured articles
Some mostly my work and others as part of a team:
- Benjamin Britten
- Final Fantasy VI
- Final Fantasy VIII
- Final Fantasy IX
- Final Fantasy X
- Final Fantasy X-2
- Final Fantasy XI
- Final Fantasy XII
- Final Fantasy XIII
- Final Fantasy XIII-2
- Kingdom Hearts (video game)
- Kingdom Hearts II
- Naruto
- Sonic Adventure
- Sonic the Hedgehog (2006 video game)
Good articles
Some mostly my work and others as part of a team:
- Captain America: The First Avenger
- Final Fantasy IV
- Final Fantasy VII
- Iron Man 3
- One Piece
- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 film)
- Spirited Away
- Sakura Wars
- Sakura Wars (1996 video game)
- Sakura Wars 2: Thou Shalt Not Die
- Sakura Wars 3: Is Paris Burning?
- Sakura Wars 4: Fall in Love, Maidens
- Sakura Wars: So Long, My Love
- Summer Wars
- The Avengers (2012 film)
- Thor (film)
- Wheel of Fortune (U.S. game show)
- Yuffie Kisaragi
- Yuna (Final Fantasy)
Articles created
- Anime Sound Production
- Tetsurō Araki
- Characters of Final Fantasy XIII
- Delta Dreamland
- Gingamen
- Yasunori Honda
- Junya Ikeda
- List of Fairy Tail episodes (season 1)
- List of Fairy Tail episodes (season 2)
- List of Fairy Tail manga volumes (1–15)
- List of Fairy Tail manga volumes (16–30)
- List of Fairy Tail manga volumes (31–current)
- List of Lord Marksman and Vanadis characters
- List of Lord Marksman and Vanadis light novels
- List of One Piece episodes (season 14)
- List of Sailor Moon Crystal episodes
- List of Toriko episodes
- Hiroshi Masuoka (voice actor)
- Nami (One Piece)
- Akio Nojima
- Ryota Ozawa
- Sailor Moon (anime)
- Space Pirates Barban
- Kazuki Shimizu
- Hideki Tasaka
- Trouble in Paradise
- Yuki Yamada
- Seiji Yokoyama
Projects
Current
Article name | Current rank | Target rank | Possible TFA Date | TFA Rationale |
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Sakura Wars | GA | FA | September 27, 2021 | 25th anniversary of release |
Sakura Wars (1996 video game) | GA | FA | September 27, 2021 | 25th anniversary of release |
Sakura Wars 2: Thou Shalt Not Die | GA | FA | April 4, 2021 | 23rd anniversary of release |
Sakura Wars 3: Is Paris Burning? | GA | FA | March 22, 2021 | 20th anniversary of release |
Sakura Wars 4: Fall in Love, Maidens | GA | FA | March 21, 2022 | 20th anniversary of release |
Sakura Wars: So Long, My Love | GA | FA | N/A | N/A |
Sakura Wars (2019 video game) | C | FA | N/A | N/A |
List of Sakura Wars media | List | FL | N/A | N/A |
List of Sakura Wars characters | Start | GA | N/A | N/A |
Sailor Moon | C | FA | December 28, 2021 | 30th anniversary of premiere |
Kirby's Dream Land | GA | FA | April 27, 2022 | 30th anniversary of release |
Kirby (series) | C | FA | April 27, 2022 | 30th anniversary of release |
Arthur Fiedler | Start | FA | July 10, 2021 | 42nd anniversary of death |
Sonic the Hedgehog (1991 video game) | GA | FA | June 23, 2021 | 30th anniversary of release |
Future
Article name | Current rank | Target rank | Possible TFA Date | TFA Rationale |
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Monkey D. Luffy | C | GA | N/A | N/A |
Studio Ghibli | C | FA | TBA | TBA |
Academy Award | B | FA | TBA | TBA |
Hector Berlioz | B | FA | N/A | N/A |
Ludwig van Beethoven | B | FA | March 26, 2022 | 195th anniversary of death |
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006 film) | C | FA | N/A | N/A |
The Price Is Right (U.S. game show) | B | FA | September 4, 2022 | 50th anniversary of premiere |
Valkyria Chronicles (video game) | B | FA | N/A | N/A |
Spirited Away | GA | FA | July 20, 2021 | 20th anniversary of premiere |
Arrietty | C | FA | N/A | N/A |
Princess Mononoke | C | FA | July 7, 2022 | 25th anniversary of premiere |
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (film) | GA | FA | March 11, 2024 | 40th anniversary of premiere |
List of Fairy Tail characters | B | FL | N/A | N/A |
From Up on Poppy Hill | C | FA | N/A | N/A |
Krzysztof Penderecki | B | FA | N/A | N/A |
Giuseppe Verdi | GA | FA | October 10, 2023 | 210th anniversary of death |
Polish Requiem | Start | FA | N/A | N/A |
My Neighbor Totoro | B | FA | April 16, 2023 | 35th anniversary of premiere |
Castle in the Sky | C | FA | August 2, 2021 | 35th anniversary of premiere |
Ponyo | C | FA | July 19, 2023 | 15th anniversary of premiere |
Howl's Moving Castle (film) | GA | FA | N/A | N/A |
Porco Rosso | Start | FA | N/A | N/A |
Kiki's Delivery Service | B | FA | N/A | N/A |
Grave of the Fireflies | C | FA | April 16, 2023 | 35th anniversary of premiere |
List of Sailor Moon characters | List | FL | N/A | N/A |
Userboxes
Please see my userboxes sub page if you want to know more about me as a Wikipedian.
Sandbox
My drafts and rewrites for articles can be found in my sandbox here.
Guestbook
If you want to sign my guestbook, please see User:Sjones23/Guestbook
Barnstar Awards
For awards that I have received, please see User:Sjones23/Barnstars.
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