User:JoshG

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Personal Info



 * Name: Josh G.
 * Location (when not at studying computer science at UIUC): a suburb of Chicago
 * Nicknames: Andr&eacute; (French)
 * Instant Messanger Username (AIM): jcompwhiz
 * Instant Messanger Username (YM): jcompwhiz
 * Things that annoy me: Internet slang, improper spelling or grammar, and the number and difficulty of calculus, chemistry, and physics courses that I must take.

Licensing
The following three statements apply to all pages in the article ("main") or template namespaces and only those pages:

To Do List

 * Improve InuYasha enough so that it can be a featured article. (See the featured article objections for information on what needs to be fixed.) Status: Minor changes made, added an experimental 'animation quality' section. Will continue sporadically. (It's too hard to address too many of the issues at once.)
 * Implement the consensus decision about the usage of Tetsusaiga vs. Tessaiga. Status: Done, now that searching finally works again.
 * Draw pictures of InuYasha characters in Adobe Illustrator to use for their respective articles. Status: Cancelled in favor of the task below.
 * Upload DVD screenshots of InuYasha characters to use for their respective articles. Status: In progress. Finished Shippo, Kirara, and Kagome, although I would prefer a happier picture for Kagome. It's hard to find a full body shot though.
 * Add citations to InuYasha articles. Status: Unsure if this is necessary, may seek community opinions.
 * Correct uses of 'comedic relief' and 'comedy relief'. (They should both be 'comic relief'.) Status: Done. Apparently there were not as many of these mistakes as I had thought.
 * Correct uses of 'seiyuu' and 'seiyu'. Both of them should be 'seiy&#363;' in Hepburn. I am also moving articles in Category:Seiyuu to Category:Seiyu. Status: Done. Thank you to Ranma9617 for his help and to anyone else who helped move articles.
 * Find or draw an artistic rendering of a Phoenix to use in that article. Status: I found a picture, but it needs to be cropped.
 * Add an original summary to Eragon to replace the book flap summary that is currently there. Status: Not started.
 * Expand the Hany&#333; article, which is only a stub. Status: Having trouble finding reference materials on the subject.
 * Add article about Timeline, one of my favorite books. Status: Not started.
 * Add article about The Cat Who Came For Christmas, another of my favorite books. Status: Not started.
 * Add article about Cleveland Amory, one of my favorite authors. Status: Not started.

Articles

 * I tend to work mostly on InuYasha articles and other articles related to anime or Japan.
 * However, I sometimes do edit other articles that I come across, mostly doing copyediting.
 * My first edit as a registered user was on June 27, 2004, although I did make a few anonymous edits before that.

Added Content

 * S&#333;ta Higurashi
 * K&#333;ga
 * The 10th Kingdom
 * Probably some others that I forgot.

Standards Crusade
Whenever I browse Wikipedia, I try to correct mistakes in Japan-related articles, especially by: On the InuYasha page and on related character pages, I have also added kanji for the names of many of the minor characters.
 * Making sure that articles use Hepburn romanization and macrons.
 * Adding kanji for Japanese concepts, where appropriate.
 * Following the Manual of Style for Japan-related articles.

Languages Known
(Learning languages is one of my favorite pastimes.)
 * English (native)
 * French (near-fluent, I took it for four years in high school and some in middle school as well)
 * Japanese (still learning, I only know a little of it)

Favorite Books
(in no particular order, but Timeline is definitely first)
 * Timeline by Michael Crichton
 * Eragon by Christopher Paolini
 * The Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen Hawking
 * The Cat Who Came For Christmas by Cleveland Amory (and related books)
 * The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (and related books)

Favorite Movies

 * Clue, directed by Jonathan Lynn
 * Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, directed by Leonard Nimoy
 * Spirited Away, directed by Miyazaki Hayao (name in Japanese order)
 * Kiki's Delivery Service, also directed by Miyazaki Hayao
 * The 10th Kingdom, directed by David Carson and Herbert Wise

Favorite TV Series
I don't watch TV much these days, but when I do, these are the shows that I watch:
 * Inuyasha, created by Takahashi Rumiko
 * Stargate: SG-1