Semi-retired
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Welcome, I am Darkknight2149.
Notable work
- Hellraiser: Judgment
(Today's Featured Article) - Leatherface (2017)
- Jerome and Jeremiah Valeska
- Professor Pyg
- Halloween (2018 film)
- List of Batman Family adversaries (Before / After) - I've been rewriting this one for a while now. If I do say so myself, I believe it has greatly improved since I started working on it, but I still have a long way to go. Rewriting and citing it is an incredibly slow process, as there are so many characters listed. My ultimate goal is to get the entirety of the article up to Wikipedia standards at some point.
- Wikipedia:Templates do not excuse citations - Essay on disruptive users adding "citation needed" templates with their own uncited claims to avoid it from getting removed. As someone who used to primarily monitor comic book articles for disruption, poor editing, and uncited additions (including a vast number of articles that had less than 30 watchers), this became common particularly for anonymous users who persistently added original research, refused to leave edit summaries, and who started using creative maneuvers to avoid being reverted. Another common maneuver was to use decoy citations (I.E. copying and pasting a random citation from somewhere else that has nothing to do with the claim being made). This sort of thing also sometimes led to IP-hopping to avoid detection and various games of "whack-a-mole". It definitely kept me on my toes.
Current goals and ongoing article projects
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Assist Paleface Jack with getting Leatherface draft to FA quality
- Status: In Hiatus.
Get Professor Pyg to FA quality
- Status: Soon to nominate.
- Status: Fetal stage.
- Status: Work in progress.
Sidelined projects
- Jigsaw (2017 film) - Lack of available sources and behind the scenes information. I haven't been paying much attention to it, now that other users have done a pretty good job of keeping an eye on the page.
- User:Darkknight2149/The Onania Club - I don't think I'll have time to work on this. Moved to Draft:The Onania Club.
- User:Darkknight2149/Child's Play (2019 film) - Similar reasons to Draft:The Onania Club. Nothing was really done with this draft, so I had it deleted.
Stray thoughts
- Wikipedia's philosophy on incivility
- Everyone's thoughts after staying at ANI for too long without taking a break.
- Administrators who frequently work there should be commended, as it can be rather exhausting.
- Consumption of Tide Pods - This exists. Enough people swallowed tide pods to warrant a Wikipedia article.
- 1 in 5 Wikipedia Checkusers is a serial killer. Beware...
- If you have ever considered using a decoy citation to disguise an uncited claim, don't. Really, don't. (Though in fairness, most of my experiences encountering this were from monitoring multiple articles without a lot of watchers from users trying to insert speculation/personal analysis without getting caught. Usually it was with random citations copied from somewhere else. IP hopping was also an issue. Always check the source to verify in situations like that.)
Recognition and accolades
This section is mainly for archival purposes, so that I may be able to look back on this in the future. I do not edit Wikipedia for awards, though they are appreciated.
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The Original Barnstar | |
| For being nice to me and offering such sweet words of encouragement. <3 Kailey 2001 (talk) 18:42, 31 March 2016 (UTC) |
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The Quarter Million Award |
| For your contributions to bring Hellraiser: Judgment (estimated annual readership: 455,000) to Featured Article status, I hereby present you the Quarter Million Award. Congratulations on this rare accomplishment, and thanks for all you do for Wikipedia's readers! Reidgreg (talk) 19:04, 6 December 2019 (UTC) |
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The Good Article Barnstar | |
| For your contributions on Professor Pyg. Jhenderson 777 00:56, 11 April 2020 (UTC) |
Precious
horror films
Thank you for quality articles around horror films, such as Hellraiser: Judgment, Leatherface (2017 film), Jerome and Jeremiah Valeska and Professor Pyg, receiving external recognition, for being on your toes fighting original research, for "moving slowly but ongoing", - you are an awesome Wikipedian!
You are recipient no. 2471 of Precious, a prize of QAI. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:18, 7 November 2020 (UTC)
Off-Wiki recognition
- An article I worked substantially on, Hellraiser: Judgment, was seemingly helpful to the professional news site Forbes. In their review for the Judgment film, they prominently referenced sections from the article. It's this sort of thing that reminds us why we do what we do to provide a well-researched, and well-cited encyclopedia for thousands of readers. The Forbes article also goes on to say about the page "I presume [it] was written by the filmmakers themselves...", which is probably a testament to how closely I followed the film and the filmmakers in order to flesh out the article. I guess I'll take that as a compliment, though this is probably the funniest indirect WP:COI accusation you will ever see.
- Media organisation Birth.Death.Movies also commended the work done on Hellraiser: Judgment (in which I was the top contributor), stating "A look at the film's Wikipedia page reveals that this installment's been in the works for hot minute, and that whoever's keeping tabs on the Hellraiser series for Wikipedia is doing a bang-up job."
- I added a section to the Pyramid Head article after mining the creature designer's Twitter (which is filled with meaty information on Silent Hill), and he unexpectedly noticed: "I have no idea who wrote this portion of the article about Pyramid Head in Wikipedia. I'm so happy! Thank you so so much for emphasizing this point all the way!"Archive