User:Scrooge200

Hello, and welcome to my userpage! I'm an archivist and programmer. I've been on Wikipedia since June 2018. My main editing focuses are children's literature and television shows. Specifically, the Diary of a Wimpy Kid books, Arthur TV series, SpongeBob SquarePants, and The Simpsons. I mainly write plot summaries, but I also like adding reception or development information if I can find reliable sources. In October 2020, I became a member of WP:AFC.

Interesting articles

 * 4′33″: Music piece without the music.
 * Action Park: Also known as Traction Park and Accident Park.
 * Adolphe Sax: Inventor of the saxophone. Had over nine near-death experiences as a child.
 * "A Perfect Day for Bananafish": I can't even think of a summary for this one.
 * Barnum effect: Ever take a personality test and think "wow, that's so me" once you get your results? Here's why!
 * Bring Me the Head of Charlie Brown: Very violent Peanuts parody.
 * Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo: Yes, this is a logical sentence.
 * Buttered cat paradox: Cats always land on their feet. Toast lands buttered-side down. What if you combine the two?
 * Capitol Hill's mystery soda machine: Soda machine with a mystery button.
 * Colorless green ideas sleep furiously: Yes, it's grammatically correct, but what does it mean?
 * Cool Spot: 7 Up had a video game?
 * Cute aggression: Harmless anger upon seeing something cute.
 * Disney bomb: Who's never wrong and always right? Who'd never dream of starting a fight?
 * DK Rap: If you know the words, you can join in too!
 * Empire: Eight hour movie that consists of one shot of the Empire State Building.
 * Epiousios: Nobody knows what this word means!
 * Faxlore: Truth is evasive, though you might have the fax...
 * Flash fiction: Very short writing.
 * Gävle goat: Gävle, Sweden had a straw goat, E-I-E-I-O! And it's been subject to multiple arson attacks year after year.
 * Hexspeak: Are you a cafe dude, dead beef, or bad food?
 * Inherently funny word: Gongoozle.
 * Impossible object: One step further than an improbable object.
 * Ironic process theory: Don't think about white bears!
 * James while John had had had had had had had had had had had a better effect on the teacher: There are two ways to make this grammatically correct, can you guess what they are?
 * Kenneth Lamar Noid: Domino's Pizza-related hostage incident.
 * Leck mich im Arsch: One of Mozart's lesser known works, "Kiss my ass!"
 * List of common misconceptions: I learned a thing or two from this list.
 * List of controversial album art: Don't judge an album by its cover.
 * List of English words containing Q not followed by U: Scrabble, anyone?
 * List of English words without rhymes: "Orange" is not one of them.
 * List of Google April Fools' Day jokes: You can play Pac-Man, Snake, and Where's Waldo? on Google Maps!
 * List of Hallmark Channel Original Movies: This is the second-longest page on English Wikipedia (the longest is not as funny).
 * List of music considered the worst: No Ed Sheeran on here?
 * Longest word in English: I wasn't disappointed.
 * Lorem ipsum: Quite a fancy name for placeholder text.
 * Love is in the Bin: Art piece that got destroyed just moments after being sold.
 * "Mairzy Doats": And dozy doats and liddle lamzy divey!
 * McDonald's urban legends: The McNuggets are what?
 * Missing square puzzle: A mathematical optical illusion.
 * Mondegreen: Misheard word or lyric in a song.
 * Mojave phone booth: Phone booth miles from civilization.
 * The Mousetrap: Don't spoil this ending!
 * Mozart and scatology: Yes, you read that right.
 * Nesh: Word with no synonyms.
 * No soap radio: Practical joke where the point is that there is no joke.
 * No wave cinema: Anti-mainstream filmmaking.
 * Nord and Bert Couldn't Make Head or Tail of It: Interactive fiction game based on a bunch of wordplay. I've played it before, it's super fun!
 * Not sold in stores: Advertising phrase.
 * Objects in mirror are closer than they appear: And now you know why!
 * Pal (dog): Lassie, come home!
 * Pangram: The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.
 * Pantone 448 C: This is the ugliest color in the world. Seriously, psychologists have researched it and everything. Be warned!
 * Perfect game (bowling): These have to be certified!
 * Phonaesthetics: How nice a word sounds.
 * Pictures for Sad Children: Webcomic with a strange history.
 * "Pink Shoe Laces": And a big Panama with a purple hatband!
 * Popular psychology: Fake psychology.
 * Scare quotes: Putting unusual "quotes" can make things sound ominous.
 * Scrabble 2007 Edition: Scrabble DS game with some bad language.
 * Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark: One of the most infamous musicals of all time!
 * Teen Talk Barbie: First you're struggling with math class, then you're seeking vengeance. Average teen stuff, really.
 * That that is is that that is not is not is that it it is: Syntactic ambiguity!
 * The Umbrellas: Environmental art. Someone died.
 * Unusually shaped vegetable: Exactly what it sounds like.
 * Waiting for Godot: Two men wait in one place until they get bored and decide to hang themselves. This is a Broadway performance that lasts two hours.
 * Yule Lads: A cast of Icelandic Christmas characters including Sausage-Swiper, Spoon-Licker, Window-Peeper, Sheep-Cote Clod...

Projects

 * Get Persona 3: Dancing in Moonlight to GA status. See my progress at my sandbox.
 * Review WP:AFC drafts.
 * Clearing out unassessed article backlogs. If you've got time, click here for an article to rate.
 * Adding short descriptions to articles. If I'm not familiar with the topic, I'll use the lead sentence, infobox, and categories to help figure out a good description.
 * Working on Category:Arthur (TV series) episode redirects to lists. Last done: season 18 (working backwards).
 * Removing citations to unreliable sources, especially TV Tropes. That one pops up a lot because of its "no such thing as notability" guideline. It's an entirely fan-run wiki made by random people.
 * Adding redirects for tracks on albums: have finished MEGA, Robot Face, Blank Banshee 0, Chronologic, and Panic.

Plot summaries

 * SpongeBob SquarePants: This show doesn't have many episode pages, but the summaries seems a bit sub-par. There's been a WP:TV notability discussion, so I'll hold off on doing these for a while.
 * "Extreme Spots": I think the structure of this summary is a bit repetitive, but I didn't want to shrug off the entire episode either.
 * "Pizza Delivery": Turns out ESB had plagiarized this summary. I didn't want it to look like Wikipedia copied theirs, so I redid this one.
 * "Squid Noir": I don't think I described the comic store scene well enough and the opening is sub-par, but the rest is okay.
 * The Simpsons: A lot of this show's earlier episodes are GAs, so I use those as examples for rewriting summaries. I tend to choose episodes from seasons 14-18 for summarizing.
 * "Regarding Margie": The opening for this episode is pretty long, so I hope I explained it sufficiently enough.
 * "Bart Has Two Mommies": I'm proud of this one.
 * "Springfield Up": A big part of the appeal of this episode is the flashbacks that show how the characters have changed, but a casual reader wouldn't really care about those, so I omitted them. They'd make the summary too long, anyways.
 * "Moe'N'a Lisa": Pretty simple summary.
 * "The Seemingly Never-Ending Story": This one is still really long, but I did the best I could and the episode itself moves really fast.
 * "Barting Over": I'm proud of this one too.
 * "The Last of the Red Hat Mamas": I'd say this is my best Simpsons summary.
 * "Fat Man and Little Boy": I think I did good here. I also added a mostly-unsourced cultural reference section, I actually recognized most of the references here but I don't have the DVD to cite the commentary.
 * "'Tis the Fifteenth Season": A relatively quick one.
 * "You Won't Believe What This Episode Is About – Act Three Will Shock You!": I did this a few weeks after the episode came out.
 * "Bart the Cool Kid": Another recent summary.
 * Diary of a Wimpy Kid: I loved this series as a kid, but I think it's been going really downhill since The Long Haul. These are usually more time-consuming, since I read the book as I type up the summary so I don't get any details wrong. I'm not going to make articles for books past Wrecking Ball since I've lost interest in the series. Currently, User:Microwavedfork has created The Deep End (thank you), Awesome Friendly Adventure is in draftspace, I don't think Spooky Stories will be notable enough for an article, and Big Shot has an article (although it's not out yet).
 * Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The original summary was just awful before I fixed it. It was exaggerated and the events were out of order. It felt like someone had read the book once seven years ago and wrote the plot from what they remembered.
 * Dog Days: Long summary, I'm not very happy with this one.
 * Hard Luck: I guess it's fine since it got GA status.
 * The Long Haul: Another long summary. I could probably shorten it, but I don't like the book.
 * Old School: Not happy with using an entire paragraph to describe the toothpaste cap incident, but I don't really know how to shorten it. I think writing like "a chain of events leads to..." or "things go wrong and..." is lazy and kind of frustrating. It's a major scene in the book that completely changes the direction of the plot.
 * Double Down: My original draft at this summary was awful, and I had to cut it down a lot. I think it's okay now.
 * The Getaway: Another one I think I did okay on.
 * The Meltdown: The original summary was Wikia plagiarism, but I'm glad with how I redid the summary.
 * Wrecking Ball: I like how I handled this one.
 * Diary of an Awesome Friendly Kid: Rowley Jefferson's Journal: I dare say this is one of the worst pieces of literature I've ever read. The summary isn't good either, but in my defense, this was one of my earlier ones. Besides, this book is mostly a series of random anecdotes and doesn't have an overarching plot.
 * Other:
 * I Want a Dog for Christmas, Charlie Brown: I think this summary gets a bit repetitive, but I am happy with how I wrote the opening line.
 * Garfield Gets a Life: Exactly one paragraph. This is another one that used to be plagiarized, but as I rewrote the summary, I noticed that the special doesn't really have a plot. A majority of it is just jokes around a central theme.

Other

 * Improved quality on screenshots for Paper Mario: Sticker Star
 * Left comments on the FA review for Paper Mario: The Origami King.
 * Worked on the SpongeBob season pages to remove WP:COPYVIO in the short summaries.
 * Rewrote the short summaries on the Arthur season pages.
 * Cleaned up the list of Garfield and Friends episodes to remove fluff.
 * Created an article for "Arthur Takes a Stand."
 * Got Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hard Luck, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Wrecking Ball, and Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Meltdown to GA
 * GA reviewed Flight 714 to Sydney