User:Ranma9617

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Ranma9617(who prefers to keep his real name a secret and is obviously talking on his user page in

warn
such vandals though infrequently. Of course, an anon vandal has struck this user page once or twice (even including personal attacks with it, unfortunately), but another fellow Wikipedian was kind enough to fix it...

A staunch inclusionist, he finds it alarming and disturbing that many deletion nominations(regardless of method)are

to exercise good faith
though not all users follow it...

As U.S. television station articles are just one of his areas of focus, he can't quite comprehend some of the

revert wars
(i.e., counter-reverts, a.k.a. two users reverting each other's edits and sometimes even unilaterally accusing the other of vandalism)that have surfaced in some of those articles...

Occasionally, he'll edit foreign Wikipedias(ones not in English or Spanish)anonymously, manly to add interwiki links or to fix typos.Once he seriously learns a language or two,he'll consider registering on more foreign Wikipedias, though he has since registered on French, Spanish and Japanese Wikipedias(see below)...

Though he admits to being fairly rusty since being out of high school for over a decade, he did take 5 years of Spanish from 8th to 12th grade.He also longs to seriously learn the Japanese language if he ever has the time...

As you can tell, he's learned how to embrace

Ipod or not, as well as specific ones for there models such as the ZEN Vision W which he currently uses and occasionally watches downloaded fansubs on). Of course, whenever he does have the urge to listen to old-fashioned radio, it's usually either Jack FM/adult hits or sports radio. He'd love to see userboxes created for people who enjoy Japanese snacks and/or beverages(i.e., Pocky, Pretz, Milky, ramune, Calpis, etc.) and/or ones for fans of J-pop
and/or specific Japanese musicians...

As much as he loves the Energizer Bunny commercials and its fake products(and wishes all the commercial were made available on DVD even though he hasn't seen all of them nor does he quite remember all the ones he has seen), he is thankful not to be a fan of Saturday Night Live after having the misfortune of accidentally catching some tasteless parody commercials within an episode or two(i.e., the fortunately non-existent Tylenol BM)...

Speaking of commercials(and though he's no beer drinker), he sometimes wonders if the oddball "Let's watch both!" TV sports made famous in the Miller Lite TV commercials(i.e., gourmet wrestling, full-contact golf) actually existed...

Some odd facts: He swears by

Société de Produits Nestlé S.A.(successors to the original trademark owners, Rowntree Mackintosh)sublicenses the U.S.-only rights to The Hershey Company, he wisely believes that American-made Kit-Kats are bogus
imitations...

Back to the subject of video games, he considers that the one game having the right to be truly called Super Mario Bros. 2 is the one known in North America as Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels which was only available domestically on Super Mario All-Stars and as a hidden bonus in Super Mario Bros. Deluxe. Transversely, he does not consider the game known in Japan as Super Mario Bros. USA a true canonical Super Mario game and avoids it with a passion...

Other stuff

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