User: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
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 WikiProject CSI franchise and 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.

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