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| Name | sjones23 | |||
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| Born | (1990-09-29)September 29, 1990 (age 35) | |||
| 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 15:31 | |||
| 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!) | ” |
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I am Greg, a semi-professional editor,rollbacker, expertcopy-editor andreviewer. Outside of Wikipedia, I'm also a 35-year old graduate of theUniversity at Buffalo, and also a composer, orchestrator, arranger, and musician. I haveDiabetes 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 eighteen years or so, I have helped contribute significantly to variousgood articles andfeatured articles, as well as the mainKingdom Hearts articles, theFinal Fantasy articles and the mainSakura Wars game articles, most of which are now Good or Featured status. I am a member of various WikiProjects, including theStar Wars WikiProject, theAnime and Manga WikiProject, theSega task force, theTelevision game shows task force, theVideo game WikiProject, theJames Bond WikiProject and theSquare 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 thefeatured 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 asthe 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, fromthe history of a Japanese video game series that never made it to America until 2010 tolearning the history behind an anime licensing company that I have admired for so long to discoveringcountrysingers to learning about the history of one ofEngland's popular rock bands as well asa rock band that originated in the 1960s that I have admired to learning abouta popular video game franchise that started back in 1987 to rediscovering apopular magical girl anime series that I watched as a young boy to finding out aboutthe history behind a popular series that I have loved since I was a child to learning abouta Japanese tokusatsu TV series which served as the basis for that series to finding out abouta popular opera cycle by a well-known German composer to discoveringa 20th century Japanese composer that I now admire for his work. I work on a range of topics frommagazines toanime films tolight novels tocomic strips tomanga andanimeseries tocharacterlists toepisodelists tosuperhero films tothriller films tofilm directors tovideo games tocomposers togame shows totelevision shows toscience fiction films toanimationcompanies tomusical 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 atRFPP, 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; contradictofficial policies and guidelines (such aswhat 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 incyberstalking me both on and off Wiki. I triedprotecting 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 asvandalism,disruptive editing,personal attacks,harassment,incivility,conflicts of interest,link spamming,wiki-lawyering,sockpuppetry,legal threats,violations of the biographies of living person policies oredit 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 19 years, over100,000 edits to the project (about 71% 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.
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Hoping everything will go well for the upcoming year.sjones23 (talk -contributions) 00:49, 28 November 2025 (UTC)
The current date and time is28 November 2025 T 19:31UTC.
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Some mostly my work and others as part of a team:
Benjamin BrittenFinal Fantasy VIFinal Fantasy VIIFinal Fantasy VIIIFinal Fantasy IXFinal Fantasy XFinal Fantasy X-2Final Fantasy XIFinal Fantasy XIIFinal Fantasy XIIIFinal Fantasy XIII-2Kingdom Hearts (video game)Kingdom Hearts IINarutoSonic AdventureSonic the Hedgehog (2006 video game)Some mostly my work and others as part of a team:
Captain America: The First AvengerFinal Fantasy IVIron Man 3One PieceSnow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 film)Spirited AwaySakura WarsSakura Wars (1996 video game)Sakura Wars 2: Thou Shalt Not DieSakura Wars 3: Is Paris Burning?Sakura Wars 4: Fall in Love, MaidensSakura Wars: So Long, My LoveSummer WarsSuper Mario RPGThe Avengers (2012 film)Thor (film)Wheel of Fortune (U.S. game show)Yuffie KisaragiYuna (Final Fantasy)| Article name | Current rank | Target rank | Possible TFA Date | TFA Rationale |
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| Sakura Wars |  GA | FA | N/A | N/A |
| Sakura Wars (1996 video game) | GA | FA | September 27, 2026 | 30th anniversary of release |
| Sakura Wars 2: Thou Shalt Not Die | GA | FA | N/A | N/A |
| Sakura Wars 3: Is Paris Burning? | GA | FA | March 22, 2026 | 25th anniversary of release |
| Sakura Wars 4: Fall in Love, Maidens | GA | FA | N/A | N/A |
| 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 | FL | N/A | N/A |
| Sailor Moon | C | FA | December 28, 2026 | 35th anniversary of premiere |
| Kirby's Dream Land | GA | FA | April 27, 2027 | 35th anniversary of release |
| Kirby (series) | C | FA | N/A | N/A |
| Arthur Fiedler | Start | FA | N/A | N/A |
| Sonic the Hedgehog (1991 video game) | GA | FA | June 23, 2026 | 35th anniversary of release |
| Lee Ann Womack | B | GA | August 19, 2026 | 60th anniversary of birth |
| Emily Neves | C | GA | N/A | N/A |
| 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 | N/A | N/A |
| Academy Award | B | FA | N/A | N/A |
| Ludwig van Beethoven | B | FA | N/A | N/A |
| The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006 film) | C | FA | July 15, 2026 | 20th anniversary of premiere |
| The Price Is Right | B | FA | September 4, 2027 | 55th anniversary of premiere |
| Valkyria Chronicles (video game) | B | FA | April 24, 2028 | 20th anniversary of release |
| Spirited Away | GA | FA | July 20, 2026 | 25th anniversary of premiere |
| Arrietty | C | FA | July 17, 2025 | 15th anniversary of premiere |
| Princess Mononoke | B | FA | July 7, 2027 | 30th anniversary of premiere |
| Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (film) | GA | FA | N/A | N/A |
| List of Fairy Tail characters | B | FL | N/A | N/A |
| From Up on Poppy Hill | C | FA | July 16, 2026 | 5th anniversary of premiere |
| Krzysztof Penderecki | B | FA | N/A | N/A |
| Giuseppe Verdi | GA | FA | N/A | N/A |
| Polish Requiem | Start | FA | N/A | N/A |
| My Neighbor Totoro | GA | FA | April 16, 2028 | 40th anniversary of premiere |
| Castle in the Sky | C | FA | August 2, 2026 | 40th anniversary of premiere |
| Ponyo | C | FA | July 19, 2028 | 20th anniversary of premiere |
| Howl's Moving Castle (film) | GA | FA | N/A | N/A |
| Porco Rosso | C | FA | N/A | N/A |
| Kiki's Delivery Service | C | FA | N/A | N/A |
| Grave of the Fireflies | C | FA | April 16, 2028 | 40th anniversary of premiere |
| List of Sailor Moon characters | List | FL | N/A | N/A |
Please see myuserboxes sub page if you want to know more about me as a Wikipedian.
My drafts and rewrites for articles can be found in my sandboxhere.
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For awards that I have received, please seeUser:Sjones23/Barnstars.
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