User:Jeffrey Scott Maxwell

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Welcome
Welcome to my page. Please feel free to leave a message.

My name is Jeffrey, and I have been editing here on Wikipedia since December 2010.

Things I do here
I generally work on articles about collecting, collectables, collections, and collectors. I spend a lot of time updating information on prizes and premiums from food, snack, and drink products; and adding information and editing articles on licensed products, such as licensed merchandise and toys from television, film, video game, fiction, and comic book properties. I am also interested in articles on snack and soft drink products and their producers, advertising, and marketing. Having been an English major in college, I also like personal communication and language topics. As a four-year resident of Peru, I have picked up enough Spanish to start translating Spanish language articles that are of interest to me into English.

My story
I am a collector of promotional items (prizes and premiums) from soft drink, snack, and food products including commemorative labels, pin-back buttons, stickers, tattoos, tazos, small injection molded plastic toys, and trading cards. The items I collect come from various sources like cereal boxes, Cracker Jack packages, bags of Frito-Lay brand chips, bubble gum wrappers, and soft drink labels. These are the things that interest me, along with other collectables, and other retail and marketing related topics. Most of my contributions to Wikipedia fall within these areas — or any other area that I stumble upon in my daily reading that interests me.

I live with my wife Meche and her daughter Irina in Tarapoto, a trade center in the foothills of the Andes Mountains in the high jungle plateau of the Amazon Rainforest of Peru, where we sell soft drinks and snacks in our two stores. I am originally from the United States (Tulsa, Oklahoma); am a native speaker of English; and also understand (still learning to speak) Spanish.

Timeline

 * December 5, 2010 — Registered as a user on Wikipedia when I was a resident of Peru.
 * December 8, 2010 — Submitted Corporación José R. Lindley S.A., my first article on Wikipedia.
 * December 22, 2010 — Corporación José R. Lindley S.A. finally moved from AFC to Wikipedia.
 * December 26, 2010 — Added Premium (marketing) and Prize (marketing), my two favorite articles to date.
 * March 22, 2011 — Completed 1000 edits on Wikipedia.

My contributions
Here is a list of some articles I have spent a lot of time working on:

Collectables topics

 * Template:Collecting Hobby - a template I created.
 * List of collectibles - an existing list I have spent a lot of time editing.
 * List of hobbies - a list I created.
 * List of toys - an existing list that lacked a lot of important entries.
 * Nosco Plastics - the newest article I have written.
 * Premium (marketing) - a new article I created.
 * Prize (marketing) - a new article I created.

Communications

 * Word of mouth - a personal communications topic on which I have worked.

Soft drink topics

 * Corporación José R. Lindley S.A. - a new article I created.
 * Inca Kola - an existing article that I have edited.
 * Perú Cola - an existing article that I edited.

Marketing topics

 * List of McDonald's ad programs - an existing article to which I added; translated numerous Spanish phrases into English.
 * Loyalty marketing - an existing article that I have rewritten.
 * Mail order - an existing article to which I have added.
 * Premium (marketing) - a new article I created
 * Prize (marketing) - a new article I created
 * Word-of-mouth marketing - a new article I created.

Articles I have translated from Spanish to English

 * América Televisión, a Peruvian TV network
 * Adobo, a Latin method of food preparation
 * Chifle, fried sliced plantains from Peru and Ecuador
 * Pocras, an ethnic group indigenous to Peru
 * Sport in Chile
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My "to do" list
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