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180:"Controversy" is a word that needs to be used carefully here. A common product recall, a known rule, or something overhyped by one thing while the others just think of it as routine...that's not a controversy. I remove headings titled '"Controversy" when appropriate because it's needlessly provocative and usually used in a non-neutral way; say, certain parents getting annoyed by something only because some pressure group told them to, not because of natural and universal outrage. 56:. Back in 2005 I didn't know that Knowledge capitalized the first letter of titles, so at times I was called Mrs. Chimpf by unknowing users. I did find humor in it, but I finally bit the bullet in 2022 and had that "S" capitalized with a name change request, just in case you're wondering why over seventeen years of messages redirect that way. 718:, but most of the time I don't care for credit or anything. I say I lay the foundation and you bring the bricks. My major contributions were to the Paris article of course, at least before it got merged into one GG character article (since broken out with better sourcing), and since then to the Eastern Wisconsin radio and TV articles). 148:
I do disagree with some of the fair-use picture policies, but that's for the lawyers to fight out. Suffice to say if it's from a photo agency, it should be gone, but I think fan pictures and many historical logos are fair game (really, is Nickelodeon going to throw a fit because you dredged up their
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I usually edit a little bit of everything, mainly pop culture topics, television shows, and television/radio stations, along with local roads and expressways. After so much time here though, you get bored editing the same things, so I've broadened my horizions to do minor spelling and grammar edits,
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As a Wikipedian, you are under no legal obligation to update a company's name that changes every few months (this is especially annoying with media companies) for the sake of editing. If you have to update a subsidiary of a division of an LLC of a tax shelter S.A. or whatever, do so, but just know
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editors. There is nothing worse than someone who knows their local community left to right somehow being overruled in their edit by someone 1,000 or 10,000 miles away who has never come close to being in that area and just believes whatever the press says about something, rather than confirming it
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episodes upside-down revolving around the theme of Carlton wearing a green sweater and featuring the 'world premiere' of a 13 second SpongeBob SquarePants Switch video game ad to be the most earth-shattering event in the history of mankind. Nor does it need an article.
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Nor does a block which everybody else except you, "Mr./Ms. Obsessed Fan with a restraining order filed by (current Nick actor)", a marketing exec, an announcer, or graphics guy at Nick calls '4pm-6pm and/or Mommy's calm-down time'. Really, as long as the kids see
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I have been editing here since May 2005, (a month of my editing time under an IP), so I should probably give you an idea of who I am beyond what's been here as a placeholder just so my name isn't red. So I'm finally getting around to adding userboxes (which are
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However, yes, I have made a few enemies out of some serial vandalizers and their sockpuppets (one created a "Sucks" account on Twitter even! I feel honored by that). But eventually they get worn down, you just have to ignore their threats and push on against
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Though this was before #ChangeTheChannel happened in March 2018 and exposed a whole lot of garbage behind the scenes. I still follow many of the ex-CA'ers, but boy, the site has the template for How to Crash a Brand In 30 Days down to a
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I do deal with vandalism also, but it's not my life. Just enough to discourage them from doing it again, but not flying off the handle because someone added immature content that can easily be reverted. Hey, it is
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or SpongeBob on-screen, they don't care if it's named "The importance of hydro generation response resulting from the new thermal modeling -and required hydro modeling improvements...on Nick!".
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whenever I don't find anything to do on regular article patrol. I also have file-mover privileges, which I mainly use to change picture names to something that can actually be understood.
743:; I don't care for political and sports talk. I also hate local radio monopolies which suck locality out of radio so they can carry shows you can hear on big city radio stations anyway. 852:'s background music and commercial playlists down to knowing Glen Park at Lake Metonga is where you can just sit on the deck and drink your coffee in the morning to about 7.23 seconds). 68:
I still stubbornly edit the same way I did in 2007; on the MonoBook skin, without Visual Editor, and with pop-ups. So if I'm not up on the latest 'in' thing here, that's probably why.
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and after awhile we'll just say the one company and be done. We're not employees of major media companies, but volunteers. Focus on editing, not on being a fan of a corporation.
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I'm also heavy into voting on AfD's and creating them occasionally, and though I am personal with why I choose my article decisions, it's always for the good of the project.
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My watchlist might be thin, but I do monitor plenty of articles and WikiProjects. My goal is to keep articles clean and concise to read, and hopefully entertaining as well.
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As much as I'd like to use an external WP editor, I hate IE (which most of them use as an engine) and try to never use it if I don't have to, so I'm content with popups.
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Automation also really bugs me. It somehow ends up malfunctioning and a station has dead air for an hour because some engineer 1,000 miles away forgets to flip a switch.
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I am liberal, but here I'm neutral to anything political. If someone vandalizes an article about someone from another party, I still revert. It's the right thing to do.
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have an account on Fandom or Wikia (or CLG Wiki, which was thankfully blocked as an impersonator sock); if you do see someone under my username there, they're not me.
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If I can stay out of a content fight, I will. 3RR is an important rule and I feel it's better to come to a consensus than to make new enemies if I don't have to.
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here and will take caution editing articles for the cooperative members I support, along with not editing any article for NRTC (currently not existent) itself.
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superfan. I watched almost every episode and had videos of reviews up on YouTube before Comcast got all DMCA on G4/TechTV fans and deleted them all. Now that
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I use ip-exempt due to issues with some IPs I've used over the years, along with surveys requiring me to use their VPN to track things while I travel the web.
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My editing style is simply this; whatever I write needs to be easily understandable to an average person. If it isn't, I've failed them. So I try to keep the
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obviously some children were scarred for life viewing the cold, dead green eyes gazing at them like she would rise from the logo and kill them
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Which is why I love podcasts. Unless the server's down or your MP3 player is broken, no technical difficulties. I have been a
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Currently I work as a support agent for the National Rural Telecommunications Cooperative. Because of this, I am declaring
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Never mind, they got bogged down in dumb sales of stations to used car salesman. Is that Nexstar lurking around though?
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Yup, and they fired him. Thankfully he's got a podcast now and I can ignore WGN as it is now; like every other station.
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and am finally thankful Fox is putting it out on DVD in the States, though I can admit it hasn't aged that well.
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since Leo first recorded that post-MacBreak 2005 roundtable, though less so as the podcasts got waaaay too long.
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But I was very unhappy about WGN's 'old shock jock retirement home and convicted felon' host direction in the
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episodes stuck on loop...oh, and Esquire Network died in June 2017 because nobody wanted to watch
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Yes, I'm a guy. No, I don't care for most male-targeted shows or science fiction, and I'm lost on
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used to be my favorite network, until GG ended and they replaced it with 192 hours of reality,
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and am a middling weather geek. I even bought a DTV receiver so I could get the local weather
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Ah, never mind about the convicted felon, he's gone, thank goodness. Now if only we can get
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after the spectrum auction where WMLW moved back to WBME), and the article for the actress
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What I do hate is overly crufy information from extreme fans of something such as those of
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era. Really, can we have one station that's just truly and stubbornly middle of the road?
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that we aren't going to get mad because a company has more former names in a year than
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limited on even the most esoteric topics. This isn't hard to do at all for any editor.
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Though the last two seasons were terrible. Don't get rid of people to cut costs.
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I am also somewhat proud to say I am among the 292 Americans who have adopted
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a removal of not-needed information for my #30,000th edit on Sirius XM Hits 1
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Let's do it in bullet-point form (because I can get verbose...very verbose).
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industry (really?!; though that show brought me another favorite actress in
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Yes, I do know I'm using my real name to edit. I'm uncreative like that.
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this edit to Liza Weil's article updated a film title for my 20,000th
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I won't state my feelings regarding what happened in the finale. 😒
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I learned about the project from reading an article about it from
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to watch (and watch and watch...let's just say I have memorized
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from A-SP for it's wonderful writing and LW's character (also,
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film series). I fell for the awesomely talented and beautiful
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has the most alliterative actress name in history). I expect
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adding newscast information to the WFNA article for #40,000
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was the only time I can watch reality television, because
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And he has! And the terrible management is gone! Hooray!
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ad with the image description "Our fearless leader")...
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is the only one who made it sane to me. I also watched
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She did! But six seasons in, who knows what'll happen?!
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a minor Nickelodeon template tweak for my 35,000th edit
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Although I did receive rollback in July 2010 and use
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as a future-dystopian based CGI series, along with a
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and constant weird news dateline out of your system.
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yet another source add to the LW article for #45,000
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New management helped though. 678:I've started quite a few articles (like 243:65k being a minor text change on KARZ-TV 187:, the former television critic for the 41:I'm a 44 year-old guy from Wisconsin... 262:, even the last annoying season with 7: 802:it was deleted) was totally the new 461:...and I'm back to the CW thanks to 905:Knowledge pending changes reviewers 757:much more presence on the station. 381:I also watched all five seasons of 297:Of course I also naturally enjoyed 277:through the show and her character 915:Wikipedians who use Microsoft Edge 253:)...not so much with the scoffing. 25: 251:2020 Major League Baseball season 231:Saturday morning preview specials 702:, the new Two Rivers version of 543:, though after what they did to 394:has. The first season of her in 269:(and I have pre-planned for the 239:a fair-use pic violation cleanup 233:and the 55,000th edit involving 225:...and then for the 50k edit, a 100:the encyclopedia anyone can edit 256:I watched all seven seasons of 89:Whenever possible, I listen to 804:can't sleep, clown will eat me 156:. Sorry, but I don't consider 1: 430:with redundant deja-vu titles 326:To my chagrin, Pat Robertson 798:(and now sadly gone because 294:reboot over them at first!). 63:, sorry to disappoint there. 796:thankfully short-lived logo 716:How to Get Away with Murder 359:How to Get Away with Murder 131:And call me a supporter of 931: 607:moved on to be awesome on 570:Also since I got an HDTV, 443:in 2014, so I'm watching 673:. Please don't judge me. 149:hideous old 1979 logo?). 487:Super Bowl XLV Champion 342:gets renewed, I guess? 810:and combine it with a 456:Multimedios Television 452:2015 Cricket World Cup 447:. It's oddly soothing. 160:hosting a marathon of 910:Knowledge file movers 900:Knowledge rollbackers 547:, I stopped watching. 508:. I'm proud to do so. 484:Of course I like the 267:Amy Sherman-Palladino 197:The Steve Wilkos Show 439:My cable system got 284:And then she was on 846:digital subchannels 814:EXTREME CLOSE-UP!!. 500:. 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Index

User:Mrschimpf
here
Sheboygan
Walla Walla
I am a man
Sam Dekker
those conflicts
jargon
Erica Kane
WP:2FA
Nickelodeon
Miranda Cosgrove
The Loud House
Aaron Barnhart
Kansas City Star
this one for The Steve Wilkos Show being the 10,000th
this edit to Liza Weil's article updated a film title for my 20,000th
#25,000 reverted some vandalism on the Sundance Channel article
a removal of not-needed information for my #30,000th edit on Sirius XM Hits 1
a minor Nickelodeon template tweak for my 35,000th edit
adding newscast information to the WFNA article for #40,000
yet another source add to the LW article for #45,000
minor MOS tweak
Saturday morning preview specials
multiple moves of television spectrum in Milwaukee
a fair-use pic violation cleanup
65k being a minor text change on KARZ-TV
'nice' edit
2020 Major League Baseball season
Gilmore Girls

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