Freak104

I can now be found editing as Spidey104 because in my anger as I retired I put a block on this account. The information below is being kept in the same state it was in when I retired as an archive of sorts.

My wife and I are both Ph.D. graduate students, but we are in very different departments. We both love animals, so we own a few:

• Nocturne and Skippy, the leopard geckos
• Peter, the hamster
• Sadie, the Wire-Haired Fox Terrier

My interests

This user is a participant in
WikiProject Comics.

I own over 3,450 comic books and most of my edits are to comic book articles. The majority of the comics I own were published by Marvel Comics, so my edits are focused on Marvel articles. On rare occasion I will also edit some television show articles. The shows that I might edit are: C.S.I., Heroes, Scrubs, The Spectacular Spider-Man, Blade: The Series, and Journeyman.

• My Top Five favorite bands are (in alphabetical order): Breaking Benjamin, Chevelle, Cold, Evanescence, and Fuel.
  • Other bands I like are: 3 Doors Down, Aerosmith, Audioslave, Breaking Point, Crossfade, Default, Finger Eleven, Godsmack, Hoobastank, Lacuna Coil, Letter Kills, Lostprophets, Live, Nickelback, Oleander, Our Lady Peace, Red, Revis, Saliva, Seether, Sevendust, Shinedown, Smile Empty Soul, Three Days Grace, The Who, and more.
• I am an active participant of "Where's George?".
• I am a former member of Wikipedia:WikiProject CSI franchise and Wikipedia:WikiProject Trivia Cleanup.
• I participate in multiple Fantasy sports; I usually play against friends and family, but I have joined a few leagues that are played against strangers. I participate in Fantasy Football, Pro-Football pick-em, Fantasy Baseball, March Madness pick-em, and Fantasy Hockey. But the one I am most concerned with is Fantasy HOCKEY.

Random Things About Me

44x43pxThis user is the biggest Spider-Man fan ever.

WOTThis user is a fan of the Wheel of Time book series by Robert Jordan

This user thinks that registration should be required to edit articles.

This user understands biological evolution.

This user accepts evolution as a biological fact.

This user is a Spartan.

This user is a Wisconsin Badger.

This user is an academic.

DETThis user is a fan of the
Detroit Red Wings

This user loves rock music.

This user is Evanescence's biggest fan.

So ColdThis user is a fan of Breaking Benjamin.

This user prefers cold weather.

This user reads Marvel Comics.

This user has a secret identity.

This user is mourning the death of The Star-Spangled Avenger

This user plays games from The Legend of Zelda series.

CIVThis user loves to play Civilization.

This user plays games in the Super Mario series.

This user is an Eagle Scout.

This user contributes using Mozilla Firefox.

BIOThis user's favourite subject is Biology.

A, B, and CThis user prefers the serial comma.

their
there
they'reThis user thinks that there are too many people who don’t know that they're worse than their own children at spelling!

itsThis user understands the difference between its (of it) and it's (it is or it has).

to/too/ two

Too many people have no idea how to use words they should have learned in Grade Two.

man-
kindRegarding gender, this user prefers the vernacular, not what is politically correct.

This user wears corrective contact lenses, without which they'd be blind as a bat!

This user is mixed-handed.

!This user is a userbox kleptomaniac.

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Pages I watch

• Nocturne (comics)
• Exiles (Marvel Comics)
• Shadow-X
• X-Men: Die by the Sword

Pages I created

Pages are listed in chronological order of creation within each section.

Comic book pages

• Shadow-X
• X-Men: Die by the Sword
• Menace (comics)

Pages created to help shorten the main article

• Wolverine in other media
• Alternate versions of Hulk
• Alternate versions of Iron Man
• Alternate versions of Captain America
• Alternate versions of Daredevil
• Jean Grey in other media
• Alternate versions of Magneto
• Magneto in other media
• Alternate versions of Storm
• Alternate versions of Doctor Doom
• Doctor Doom in other media

CSI pages

• David Hodges
• Archie Johnson
• "Who Shot Sherlock?"
• "Snakes"
• "Pirates of the Third Reich"
• "Viva Las Vegas"

My view on use of Wikipedia

As I stated above, or if you check my contributions you will see that I primarily edit comic book articles. My other edits are usually television shows or movies. Even for the Trivia Cleanup project I mostly fixed only that type of article. In other words, I primarily edit articles about popular culture. In my opinion that is the only useful type of article on Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not allowed as a resource for any accredited university class. Anyone being able to edit Wikipedia allows the articles about popular culture/fictional topics to stay current (people can post a whole new article about a TV show episode immediately after it airs for the first time, or people update comic pages as soon as they have finished reading a new issue), but it also makes articles about factual topics unreliable. There is no single author, and there is no way you can prove that the current edit was proofread by someone who actually knows the topic.

"The standard for inclusion is verifiability, not truth." That is Wikipedia's standard for inclusion. I am not making that up; I am quoting. The truth can be (and often is) deleted for something false because it is easier to verify.

Wikipedia is useful for popular culture (comic books, movies, television, music, etc.). Wikipedia is not useful for research. PERIOD