User:DyluckTRocket
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-Dyluck T. Rocket
About Me
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Those who wish to know what my real name is know where to look. I used to be known on here as LichYoshi, but after some years of not actively contributing to the site due to a change in personal priorities, the sleeping behemoth has awoken and I'm now back under my new moniker. Call me Dyluck, for short. I have a tendency to disappear for a while and re-surface as my other commitments allow.
That aside, I live in the city of
I have travelled somewhat extensively, most notably an eight-month stint during 2009 in parts of the United States (and Vancouver), followed by a three month stint through summer and fall of 2015 in Virginia and Florida where I married my partner of many years. It is my intent to move to the United States permanently.
I came onto Internet in 1997 with a
Wikipedianess
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I was introduced to Wikipedia some time in late 2004 or early 2005 (I forget). I signed up as a Wikipedian in April 2005 after I had made a few minor contributions and fixed a few linguistic errors here and there anonymously for some time beforehand. My contributions made under my former LichYoshi moniker mainly lie in entries related to the
I love to learn about things, so I use Wikipedia as a source of general knowledge about the topics I'm interested in, which predominantly revolve around history, geography and chemistry. It is because I continue to use this site that I've popped up here and there on pages I've come across in my reading projects that have needed some copyediting. It was after I discovered a string of poorly written and neglected articles in my U.S. Highway project that I decided in mid-2012 to make a come-back of sorts, update this page and be more active in fixing errors, or at least highlighting the things that I am not confident enough to fix, in the hope that someone else will.
I believe in unconventional knowledge and respecting the positive contributions of editors. This is pertinent especially in articles about towns and cities where local knowledge is the primary source. I will tend to ask for verification rather than delete material; however, if something has been left unverified for years, I will tend to remove it from the article proper.
Wikipedia Projects and Reading List
Current Project: U.S. Highways
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Paired with
After discovering a bunch of poorly written or unwritten highway articles in Montana and improving or writing them, I am currently revisiting U.S. Highway 1 and trying to bring the intersecting highways' articles up to at least a "C standard" according to the
Highway | Stopping Point | Junction | Location | |
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Furthest | US 2 | 48°08′24″N 103°46′37″W / 48.140039°N 103.776823°W | North Dakota Highway 1804 | West of Williston, ND |
Current | US 1 | 25°59′48″N 80°08′34″W / 25.99674°N 80.142764°W | Florida State Road 824 | Hallandale Beach, FL |
Revising | US 1 | 25°42′27″N 80°17′08″W / 25.70757°N 80.2855°W | Florida State Road 959 | South Miami, FL |
A list tracking my State Highway article editing can be found here.
Note to self: Commonly used references for editing highway articles
South Florida SR review for listicle inclusion
Other Projects
- World History: 1801 to the present by year in Notable Events and Science and Technology
- Progress: 1914 ≈53%
- Reason: Because I thought it was shameful that I didn't understand how the modern world formed. I also want to study geopolitics for the sake of my fantasy novel. I will probably revisit this from the beginning as I started this project over ten years ago and many more articles have been written during that time.
- Countries of the World: History and Depiction, A-Z
- Progress: Afghanistan '≈'0.4%
- Reason: Something that I've tried to do for a long time, since I got the first micronations).
- Note to self: List of country name etymologies.
- Note to self:
- National Capital Cities of the World, A-Z
- Progress: 0%
- Reason: Doing national capitals by country alphabetically is easy enough. One would start with Kabul (or Sukhumi) and end with Harare. But wouldn't it be more interesting if countries were listed alphabetically according to their capitals? So, I am starting with Abidjan and going to Zagreb instead. I'm also pairing this with having a look at each city in Google Earth.
- Chemical Elements and Isotopes
- Progress: Boron ≈4%
- Reason: Another project from my Encarta days, I wish to know more about the chemical elements and their isotopes. While I feel a lot of the articles go over my head, it's still interesting to learn about the fundamental parts of the Universe and how they differ from one another.
To Do List
- You -> the player project - The use of "you" in video game articles is one of my biggest pet peeves; if video games are to be taken as a serious medium the way one would take fine art, and not with the attitude of ephemerality that is commonplace, then the articles need to be as professional as possible. If I come across an instance of the second person being used outside of quoting text, I will leap on it like a hyper WP:CVG/GL. Wish me luck.
Vandal Log
vn-1 | This user page has been vandalized once. |
Whoo, I must be a real Wikipedian now. Someone's taken the trouble to vandalise this page.
1. 31/10/05 15:13 (AEST) - Anon. IP
- Corrected 31/10/05 15:13 (AEST) - Ixfd64. Thank you!
Subpages
- Old Secret of Mana Plot Summary
- This is the old (as of 1st March, 2007) plot summary from the Secret of Mana article, saved here because it's well-written, but just too long for the article.
- Old userboxes
- Until I find more relevant/interesting userboxes, all of the old ones are here. Some are still current. Some aren't.
- My sandbox
- Enough said.
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