User:Showers

Hometown: Burnsville, MN

Religion: Buddhist

I am Showers. I am a proud Minnesotan and I am a naturally curious person. I have started editing on Wikipedia since 2006. I am an American of mainly Norwegian, Swedish, and German ancestry. I have some English and Irish ancestry as well.

Interests/Hobbies
My hobbies include reading, and learning as much as I can about the world.


 * History (Pretty Much Any Era)
 * Learning (I read textbooks for fun. yeah, yeah I know. I'm a nerd.)
 * Reading (Science Fiction, Mysteries, Fantasy, Non-Fiction, Historical Fiction)
 * Some of my Favorite Books (I have a huge library numbering in the thousands. I read alot)
 * Candide by Voltaire
 * Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein
 * Wolf Pack by Robert N. Charette
 * The Caves of Steel by Issac Asimov
 * The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
 * Anime/Manga (City Hunter, Cowboy Bebop, Full Metal Panic, Great Teacher Onizuka, Inuyasha, Kaze no Stigma, Ranma ½, Urusei Yatsura)
 * Cooking (I suck at at it but I still enjoy it and that's what counts right?)
 * Baseball (I love basesball. I don't really play anymore but I still watch. Favorite team is the Minnesota Twins of course.)
 * Martial Arts (I'm a practioner of Karate. Thinking of taking up Tai Chi)
 * Music (Classical especially, but Ill enjoy anything)
 * Poetry (Yeah, I write poetry and read it too. I love Kipling and Basho especially)

Articles I Edit

 * Augustus
 * Bleach (manga)
 * Burnsville, Minnesota (my hometown and favorite place in the world)
 * Final Fantasy IX
 * Full Metal Panic (and various other minor Full Metal Panic articles)
 * George Washington (One of my personal heroes)
 * Germany
 * Timber Wolf (my favorite animal.)
 * Inner Sphere
 * InuYasha (and various other minor Inuyasha articles)
 * Japan
 * Minnesota (I am a member of WikiProject Minnesota)
 * Ranma ½ (and various other minor Ranma ½ articles)
 * Sherlock Holmes
 * Star Wars: Dark Forces (the first video game I ever owned. still one of my favorites)
 * Ōoka Tadasuke

Helpful Bookmarks

 * User:Showers/sandbox
 * WP:5P 5 Pillars of Wikipedia
 * WP:LOP List of Policies
 * WP:REF Reference
 * WP: LEAD Lead
 * WP:MOS Manual of Style
 * WP:MOS-ANIME Manual of Style-Anime
 * WP:NPOV Neutral point of view
 * WP:FURG Non-free use rationale guideline
 * WP:AIV Administrator intervention against vandalism
 * WP:NOTE Notability
 * WP:FICT Notability (fiction)
 * WP:BRD Bold, Revert, Discuss Cycle