User:IllaZilla

I joined Wikipedia in April 2006 under a previous account. I've created something like 200 articles (complete lists here & here). My primary interests and areas of contribution are punk rock, emo, and the Alien films. I also do a lot of behind-the-scenes stuff involving WikiProjects, templates, categories, files, etc. I helped advance Alien vs. Predator to FA, and Aliens and Alien Resurrection to GA. I completely rewrote Alien top-to-bottom and was primarily responsible for getting it to GA.

My username comes from an old song by the Vandals. This may be the funniest edit I've ever seen.


 * Now located at User:IllaZilla2. I made about 1,200 edits before creating this account in January 2007, not being aware at the time of how to change usernames

"Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subjects only in outline, but that every word tell. –"

Articles
Here's an abbreviated list of articles I've contributed to in a major capacity, meaning I either created them or pretty much rewrote them completely. Generally if I've worked on an article about a musical artist then I've also worked on all of the album articles associated with that artist, but I won't list all of those.


 * Bands/Artists
 * Agent 51
 * The Aquabats
 * Back Off Cupids
 * Big Black
 * Counterfit
 * Drive Like Jehu
 * Further Seems Forever
 * Government Issue
 * Groovie Ghoulies
 * Guttermouth
 * The Hippos
 * Home Grown
 * Hot Snakes
 * The Lawrence Arms
 * Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
 * Love Equals Death
 * The Mr. T Experience
 * Nekromantix
 * New Years Day (band)
 * Obits
 * Pitchfork (band)
 * Reeve Oliver
 * Rocket from the Crypt
 * Dan Sartain
 * The Suicide Machines
 * Sultans (band)
 * Unwritten Law
 * The Vandals
 * Weep


 * People
 * Joe Escalante
 * Rick Froberg
 * Doc Hammer
 * Frank Portman
 * John Reis


 * Discographies
 * Against Me! discography
 * Alkaline Trio discography
 * All discography
 * At the Drive-In discography
 * The Bronx discography
 * BYO Records discography
 * Cursive discography
 * Descendents discography
 * Fat Wreck Chords discography
 * Fugazi discography
 * Good Riddance discography
 * Me First and the Gimme Gimmes discography
 * Misfits discography
 * The Mr. T Experience discography
 * No Use for a Name discography
 * Rocket from the Crypt discography
 * [[File:LinkFA-star.png]] Smoking Popes discography
 * Unwritten Law discography
 * The Vandals discography
 * The Weakerthans discography


 * Films
 * Symbol_support_vote.svg Alien (film)
 * Symbol_support_vote.svg Aliens (film)
 * Symbol_support_vote.svg Alien Resurrection
 * [[File:LinkFA-star.png]] Alien vs. Predator (film)
 * Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem


 * Other
 * Before You Were Punk
 * Before You Were Punk 2
 * Emo
 * The Emo Diaries
 * Kung Fu Records
 * List of Misfits covers
 * Psychobilly
 * The Show Must Go Off!


 * Current projects
 * Emo
 * cleanup talk archives for WP:ALBUMS & Infobox musical artist
 * User:IllaZilla/Beehive & the Barracudas
 * User:IllaZilla/Darby Crash
 * User:IllaZilla/Germs (band)
 * List of Black Flag band members
 * User:IllaZilla/T.S.O.L.
 * User:IllaZilla/Disappear (album)
 * User:IllaZilla/Divided We Stand (album)
 * User:IllaZilla/Who's Screwin' Who?
 * User:IllaZilla/Live from Long Beach
 * User:IllaZilla/Life, Liberty & the Pursuit of Free Downloads

Helpful links I frequently use

 * Citation templates
 * Cite album-notes
 * Unreferenced
 * Orphaned non-free revisions
 * Web colors
 * Warning templates
 * The 1.0 assessment bot