User:Howard the Duck/About

The tasks that I do here at Wikipedia vary. Sometimes, I'll clean up the articles in the Category:Filipino television series and articles pertaining to Filipino pop culture (probably because these articles are the ones with the most Wikipedia policy violations, LOL). I also participate in editing of Filipino news articles, most notably the 2006 Southern Leyte mudslide and the 2006 state of emergency in the Philippines articles. Or, probably update some Filipino sports articles.

How I discovered Wikipedia

 * This is the story of my life in cyberspace. This doesn't hold true in my offline life.

Howard was born at the internet forum polsciexchange.tk (now inactive). That was the internet message board for Political Science students of the University of Santo Tomas (UST). A short while after that, Howard decided to register at USTExchange (USTEx) on August 7, 2003. A friend of mine recommended Manila Tonight (MTC). He also joined the PinoyTVCentral] forum (whoa, it's active again LOL), where is a present moderator, and the UAAPForums] in which he is a frequent poster.

USTEx
Howard was at first an inactive member of USTEx. In fact, his first post was a rant pertaining to the online classroom system of UST. Howard grew fond of USTEx, until his post grew by the hundreds. Due to his addiction to USTEx, he volunteered himself to be a forum moderator. He moderated the Flicks, TV and Music forum, and later on the Sports, Health and Beauty forum. He even participated in eyeballs (wherein the moderators meet up), in this case, Howard went to the Blast 4 consortium where he and his co-mods participated in the so-called "Big 4" school-based internet message boards.

Howard had a pleasant experience in USTEx until he was accused of being constantly off-topic. Although Howard admits that he may be off-topic, he was even accused of having a sock puppet (unproven, up to now), a serious accusation especially in the world of the Internet. The final straw was when he replied in a flamebait post, wherein he was engaged in a vicious exchange of replies and was ultimately banned from the website (he was previously stripped of his moderating powers without his consent) on 22 December 2005.

MTC
Howard, at the advice of his friend, registered in MTC. Although his intentions of registering were of carnal nature, MTC quickly developed into a reputable website wherein anyone can talk about anything. He is now presently an active member of the Sports and Hobbies and of the TV, Movies and Plays fora. He also posts several pictures at the VIP Pictures forum.

Wikipedia
Howard, was a lurker at the Wikipedia, perhaps from mid-2005. He made random edits on articles. He registered on 19 December 2005, with his first edit on the University Athletics Association of the Philippines article. He has since strived to clean up Philippine-related articles for them to be a Featured article someday.

Howard enjoys writing about himself in the third person. This gives an air of objectivity to what might otherwise seem subjective or even boastful. By writing in this style, Howard gives tacit permission to others to edit his user page - something that is otherwise considered as "badform" in Wikipedia.

Articles
These are some of the articles I've spent time editing:

Featured lists:
 * List of Vice Presidents of the Philippines
 * List of Presidents of the Philippines
 * List of members of the ASEAN

Good articles:
 * University of Santo Tomas
 * Key (basketball)

Did you know selections:
 * España Boulevard - July 24, 2006
 * The Varsitarian - August 4, 2006
 * Judicial and Bar Council - August 13, 2006
 * World Cup of Pool - August 30, 2006
 * Arch of the Centuries - September 3, 2006
 * National team appearances in the FIBA World Championship - October 11, 2006
 * Key (basketball) - April 14, 2007
 * Basketball at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Men's qualification - October 8, 2007
 * UAAP Season 70 men's basketball tournament - October 15, 2007

Others:
 * 2006 state of emergency in the Philippines - appeared on the Main Page's In the news section
 * 2006 Southern Leyte mudslide - appeared on the Main Page's In the news section
 * 1872 Cavite mutiny - upcoming
 * Philippine Basketball Association series of articles
 * List of Philippine men's collegiate basketball champions
 * Adding Category:Living people wherever appropriate.
 * Philippine Idol
 * UAAP Season 69
 * The Pinoy Big Brother series of articles (cleanup, for these are a few of the most spammed Philippine-related articles)
 * 2006 Central Mindanao bombings

Templates
Templates I've created:


 * Air 21 Express
 * Alaska Aces
 * Basketball in the Philippines
 * Coca Cola Tigers
 * Eheads
 * Executive Departments of the Philippines
 * FIBA Asia teams
 * FIBA World Championship
 * Idol series
 * Infobox sports league
 * Infobox PBA team
 * OP-Philippines
 * PBA25
 * PBA seasons
 * Philippine collegiate team
 * Purefoods Chunkee Giants
 * Red Bull Barako
 * San Miguel Beermen
 * Sta. Lucia Realtors
 * Talk N' Text Phone Pals
 * UST
 * Welcoat Dragons
 * WHS-Philippines

Images

 * See: User:Howard the Duck/Images for a list of free images I've uploaded. For a complete list, see the upload log

Philosophy

 * I do not vote at RFAs, nor do I intend to be an admin.
 * I edit war when I believe I'm absolutely correct, and the respondent doesn't want to respond to communication I send.
 * I believe that this page was bull.
 * All reality show contestants should be deleted and/or merged to the appropriate season/TV program article, even if that page becomes long and even if they win, except when the WikiProject recommends for a separation of contestants' articles.
 * All barangay articles should be merged to the mother city, and all mention of them in dab pages and redirects should be deleted.
 * Filipino names should not have diacritics except:
 * When the person himself says it is correct.
 * An expert on a specific person says adding diacritics to a that person's name is correct.
 * The letter "ñ"
 * Historical Filipinos born before the 19th century.
 * Collages are not fair use images when they are composed of at least one copyrighted image. In order for a collage to be fairly used, all pictures must be on the public domain.

Subpages

 * Click here

Blog

 * Howard the Duck's blog - newly updated