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I'm actually a nice Wikipedia user named Mr. Gonna Change My Name Forever, also called Mr. Gonna. My goal is to just improve articles for the sake of high quality.
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I'm actually a nice Wikipedia user named Mr. Gonna Change My Name Forever, also called Gonna and/or Mr. Gonna. My goal is to just improve articles for the sake of high quality. Born around 1990, I created this Wikipedia account on May 14, 2013.
I'm known for making Asteroids (video game) a good article (GA), as well as updating the overall quality of arcade/video game and Atari articles. Other articles I edit include music like Nine Inch Nails, Nigeria's enviromental/petroleum issues, and political/human rights events. I also like to thank users for great edits, because I like fun, niceness, and happiness.
And oh, my REAL identity will be kept secret.
If you're wondering "I can't hide your navbox template", that's just a glitch which I've kept because it allows the user to view the page firsthand without any necessities.
The images displayed in the header were done by GB ruleofgame.
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I'm actually a nice Wikipedia user named Mr. Gonna Change My Name Forever, also called Mr. Gonna. My goal is to just improve articles for the sake of high quality. Born around 1990, I created this Wikipedia account on May 14, 2013.
I'm known for making Asteroids (video game) a good article (GA), as well as updating the overall quality of arcade/video game and Atari articles. Other articles I edit include music like Nine Inch Nails and political events. I also like to thank users for great edits, because I like fun, niceness, and happiness.
And oh, my REAL identity will be kept secret.
The images displayed in the header were done by GB ruleofgame.
This is a Wikipediauser page. This is not an encyclopedia article or the talk page for an encyclopedia article. If you find this page on any site other than Wikipedia, you are viewing a mirror site. Be aware that the page may be outdated and that the user in whose space this page is located may have no personal affiliation with any site other than Wikipedia. The original page is located at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Gixce93/sandbox.
I'm actually a nice Wikipedia user named Mr. Gonna Change My Name Forever, also called Mr. Gonna. My goal is to just improve articles for the sake of high quality. Born around 1990, I created this Wikipedia account on May 14, 2013.
I'm known for making Asteroids (video game) a good article (GA), as well as updating the overall quality of arcade/video game and Atari articles. Other articles I edit include music like Nine Inch Nails and political events. I also like to thank users for great edits, because I like fun, niceness, and happiness.
And oh, my REAL identity will be kept secret.
The images displayed in the header were done by GB ruleofgame.
This is a Wikipediauser page. This is not an encyclopedia article or the talk page for an encyclopedia article. If you find this page on any site other than Wikipedia, you are viewing a mirror site. Be aware that the page may be outdated and that the user in whose space this page is located may have no personal affiliation with any site other than Wikipedia. The original page is located at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Gixce93/sandbox.
I'm actually a nice Wikipedia user named }I6ixce93IxI{, formerly known as Mr. Gonna Change My Name Forever, Gonna and/or }IMr*|(60nna)I{. My goal is to just improve articles for the sake of high quality. Born around 1990, I created this Wikipedia account on May 14, 2013. I mostly live at the west coast of the United States, so expect dates to be slightly different.
I'm known for creating userboxes, as well as making The Downward Spiral and Asteroids (video game)good articles (GAs) and updating the overall quality of music and arcade/video game articles. Other stuff I edit include stuff like anime, manga, art, et cetera. My userboxes involve uncommon techniques I discovered, had stolen, or found, and attempt to mimic whatever topic it focuses on. My interactions with templates feel more like building something out of existence. I also like to thank users for great edits, because I like fun, niceness, and happiness.
And oh, my REAL identity will be kept secret. When I was Mr. Gonna, I had (and still have) no relationship in any way to another user also named Gonna, an inactive registered account that just edited one article titled Battle of Monmouthsix times. Now, I am not Gixie, who edited Wikipedia for a short time and stopped doing so in 2011, all while dealing with restoring antique furniture. Despite the similarities between the two names ("Gixce93" and "Gixie"), we have never interacted together at all because I didn't see his name on this website until during the renaming process.
The logo for my Wikipedia journalism magazine, Sledgehammer, contains strong use of special characters and symbols. Image created in response to users' reactions to the Sledgehammer page's glitches.
In 2014 I was working on the draft for my Wikipedia magazine, titled Sledgehammer, which would feature articles generally on less common subjects than those on The Signpost. The glitches that initially were in the Sledgehammer page caught the attention of users on Wikipedia's help desk and it was nominated for deletion by OrangeMike, claiming it was an advertisement and citing WP:NOT#WEBHOST as an issue. The page did not violate anything, although it did have disruptive glitches that I fixed, so the MfDentry was closed by Northamerica1000 with a Keep verdict on April 12, 2014. Deadline date is not April 2014 anymore, but it's now May 2014 on hold.
I don't use email for contact.
I use the {{navbox}} template for this userpage to make it look distinctively unique and to compress the text size. This eliminates the need for headers and tables of contents that appear on Wikipedia articles, with section names showing up left to others. Navbox has already been used in plenty of userpages for parts that travel longer than their main portions, even Tiptoety/Lowercase sigma (Σ)/Tomica-inspired ones contain it. I incorporated the Haettenschweiler font to further decrease the text size. There was just a glitch in the code which I've kept for a while because it allowed the user to view the page firsthand without any necessities, but I fixed it.
The images displayed in the header were done by GB ruleofgame.
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This user is a member of WikiProject Userboxes.
This WikiProject aims to organize, expand and improve all Wikipedia's userboxes. We want to make it easy for users to make their own, and to find others, as well as create a standard for all userboxes, including naming conventions and content standards.
"Well I, I just want to see the light And I, I don't want to lose my sight Well I, I just want to see the light And I need to know what's worth the fight"Green Day
Hello, I´m a Brazilianuniversity student with a lot of free time and a will to learn things - mostly by reading or being online until I feel bad about it. One day,I was searching in Google for Sonic the Hedgehog,and I´ve found Wikipedia´s page. I liked it - but my first edits were on the Portuguese Wiki. Since the mess there is worse than here, I stopped editing there for a while - and nowadays the edits are more numerous on EN Wiki (EN: over9500, PT: over 3200). The number might not be be too big, but my edits fit "quality over quantity" - sometimes I create whole sections, add images, etc in just one edit. (you don't want to see many tabs end up open) The articles edited by me might not be high culture or vital articles, but at least I'm doing my best to make the internet not suck.
Turning the rest of the Prime trilogy into FAs as well, though not as the primary editor - that honor is from User:Gary King. 24 edits on Metroid Prime 2: Echoes (somereallycrucial, and also fixing of the GAN requests and most of the FAC ones); Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, only 9... but doing "reception", requesting a WP:VG assessment and the first GA nomination must be enough.
Turned the Pirates of the Caribbean series into a Good Topic: nominated thefirstthree movies to the GA, then improved the series' article to make it pass as well. Then came a GT nom... and 3 years later, pushing the fourth movie to GA level before the topic got demoted.
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The Evil One himself. How long do you reckon the photo will last without an infobox ;-)?The world's earliest surviving motion-picture film
¡Hola! ¿Qué tal? I'm the founder of the Actors and Filmmakers project and was responsible for starting the development of a comprehensive guide to films by year and country on wikipedia back in 2007 with lists like American films of 1944 etc which I see as one of the best ways to overview film history on here. Fascinated in the Himalayas, Buddhism and the Far East, I founded the Tibetan project and also made the Slovenian project an independent one, one of the last European projects to do so. I also established WP:Intertranswiki which aims at least to highlight the importance of translating articles from other wikipedias and vice versa to address systematic bias. I'm generally involved in writing cinema, geographical, architectural and biographical articles on wikipedia, although I'm usually willing to edit anything other than mathematics, computer jargon and US football season articles.
My main objective on wikipedia, aside from ridiculing the silly time wasters who contribute nothing on here fussing about infoboxes and incivility and battling super arrogant know-it-alls with serious WP:OWN issues, is to address systematic bias. Eventually I want to be able to browse a google map anywhere in the world and the encyclopedia will have a decent and well sourced article, whether its a city, a mere hamlet, river, island or protected park in some obscure country, or a landmark in a city or town like a town hall, museum, theatre, park etc. Same goes for film-related articles, I'd like eventually to see a very good article on any notable film, actor, or director, not just in American and British cinema, but worldwide. Fortunately in the last few years google have scanned millions of books and more information than ever before can be gleaned from them to write articles on developing world countries, although they're currently only about 1/4th through what they intend scanning (about 130 million books); things can only get better. I hope that given time national archives and major newspapers will open up their resources to us. It's great to see a number of reputable institutions already getting involved with the project and seeing the potential of this resource. The potential is staggering, but this is just the beginning, I'm sure. But a number of problems stand in our way...
Featured articles
I have contributed to 22 FA articles with a varying degree of input, and several more which were promoted at a later date which I wasn't involved in. One of my articles, Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, has also been translated into Danish and is a featured article on Danish wikipedia.
Articles which I contributed to which were later taken to FA
Brad Pitt (still contains a lot of text I wrote years back in the original expansion)
Good articles
Officially I have contributed significantly to 134Good Articles (not including articles which were promoted from GA to FA), but I never used to keep track of these "officially" so the figure is actually higher than this. I have begun listing the articles I've contributed to in passing GA since March 2010.
I consider GA to be one of the most important steps in wikipedia development, articles which have formally been reviewed and some form of quality has been met. From July 2011 I have begun reviewing the occasional good article to help with the growing log of articles needing a review. My feeling is that we should be aiming to get every article up to GA status, even if not FA standard. We should be aiming for at least 1 in 50 articles being a good article, At least one in 10 really. 1 in 100 for GA and FA combined I think should be the first milestone to get across, we're currently about 1 in 170. Wikipedia should be largely about trying to make every single article in the encyclopedia of a decent quality. As a reader, I believe there is nothing more important than reading an article which at least indicates it has been reviewed and read over and fully sourced so the information can at least be verified if you doubt it. According to the GAN bot tool I have reviewed 134 articles to date, although I can't recall the 40 odd articles I reviewed before July 2011 when I started this list.
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Every time when I visit the User Page Hall of Fame, I expect innovation in any user page listed there like User:Damërung, User talk:Foxj, and User:Tiptoety. I added some good ones into the page, but unfortunately, not much activity has been put into it. As of the time this article got published, only nine requests stand on the UPHF's Review subpage, three received reviews (Damërung, Pashtun Ismailiyya, User:WheresTristan). Nonetheless, editors add user page designs without the need of reviews.
Most of the designs found in the UPHF look less avant-garde than mine, which is just a navbox. The white section names are over a dark red-brown color. Speaking of sections, headers of the biggest ones go left, smallest go right. To evade strong usage of normal Wikipedia fonts, the typefaces Century and Haettenschweiler are used for the text (excluding the userboxes) often seen right of the sections headers. My current signature, }IMr*|(60nna)I{, with green, yellow, and black shades, and Times New Roman, is enlarged in the main header that shows photos by GB ruleofgame, a Wikimedia Commons user. To me, putting a user page on a navbox resembles compression.
Σ (also known as Lowercase sigma) made an excellent template with three layers: an image, transparent userboxes/text, and other content. It feels influenced by post-August 5, 2009 Tiptoety, text and userboxes over a photo; Tiptoety's userpage pre-August 5, 2009 was derived from Phaedriel, whose Sebmol-and-Kylu-inspired techniques were put on pages of Wikipedians including Dangerous Panda, Floydian, and Casliber. Webclient101's design, an altercation of Lowercase sigma's, was expanded by Tomica. Tomica's user page has since been imitated by users like Earthh. I think of averting that in favor of originality.
However, before we get into my ideas, on Wikipedia many user pages are simple. I'm not saying I hate them all since plenty start that way. You'll usually find userboxes, awards, lists of tasks/achievements/useful pages/et cetera, text, simple templates, and/or no extras. Sometimes you see a stylized signature at the top of something such as User:Discospinster.
A featured article exemplifies Wikipedia's very best work and is distinguished by professional standards of writing, presentation, and sourcing. In addition to meeting the policies regarding content for all Wikipedia articles, it has the following attributes.
It is:
well-written: its prose is engaging and of a professional standard;
comprehensive: it neglects no major facts or details and places the subject in context;
well-researched: it is a thorough and representative survey of the relevant literature; claims are verifiable against high-quality reliable sources and are supported by inline citations where appropriate;
stable: it is not subject to ongoing edit wars and its content does not change significantly from day to day, except in response to the featured article process; and
a lead: a concise lead section that summarizes the topic and prepares the reader for the detail in the subsequent sections;
appropriate structure: a substantial but not overwhelming system of hierarchical section headings; and
consistent citations: where required by criterion 1c, consistently formatted inline citations using footnotes—see citing sources for suggestions on formatting references. Citation templates are not required.
it contains a list of all references (sources of information), presented in accordance with the layout style guideline;
reliable sources are cited inline. All content that could reasonably be challenged, except for plot summaries and that which summarizes cited content elsewhere in the article, must be cited no later than the end of the paragraph (or line if the content is not in prose);
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