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I will become the King of the Pirates! (海賊王に俺はなる!)

Arguments have no chance against petrified training; they wear it as little as the waves wear a cliff.

I am Greg, a semi-professional editor, rollbacker, expert copy-editor and reviewer. Outside of Wikipedia, I'm also a 33-year old graduate of the University at Buffalo, and also a composer, orchestrator, arranger, and musician. I have Diabetes mellitus type 1. My main purpose has been, and always will be, to create, expand, and improve articles to the highest degree since I first joined Wikipedia in December 2006 and I truly love writing as well as composing. In the last sixteen years or so, I have helped contribute significantly to various good articles and featured articles, as well as the main Kingdom Hearts articles, the Final Fantasy articles and the main Sakura Wars game articles, most of which are now Good or Featured status. I am a member of various WikiProjects, including the Star Wars WikiProject, the Anime and Manga WikiProject, the Dragon Ball task force, the Sega task force, the Television game shows task force, the Video game WikiProject, the James Bond WikiProject and the Square Enix WikiProject.

My main contributions in Wikipedia are copy-editing prose, cleaning up articles, reverting vandalism when needed, creating articles, expanding information when needed, and participating in the featured article process, the requests for comment process, the dispute resolution process, the good article process, the articles for deletion process, the sockpuppet investigation process, the peer review process, as well as the adminship requests process. While I have had my share of issues and detractors, I always improve various articles to the highest degree possible, as improving Wikipedia is everyone's main goal. User:Darthgriz98 adopted me as a user a few months before her eventual retirement from Wikipedia. From there, I became a more experienced editor, participating in noticeboard discussions and improving articles as well as policies and guidelines. I have learned a lot through my work here, from the history of a Japanese video game series that never made it to America until 2010 to learning the history behind an anime licensing company that I have admired for so long to discovering country singers to learning about the history of one of England's popular rock bands as well as a rock band that originated in the 1960s that I have admired to learning about a popular video game franchise that started back in 1987 to rediscovering a popular magical girl anime series that I watched as a young boy to finding out about the history behind a popular series that I have loved since I was a child to learning about a Japanese tokusatsu TV series which served as the basis for that series to finding out about a popular opera cycle by a well-known German composer to discovering a 20th century Japanese composer that I now admire for his work. I work on a range of topics from magazines to anime films to light novels to manga and anime series to character lists to episode lists to superhero films to thriller films to film directors to video games to composers to game shows to television shows to science fiction films to animation companies to musical instruments and everything in between. I know at times I have been intending to become an administrator, but I have also occasionally lost my temper, upset a few users and some of my comments have been labeled "combative" and "abrasive" more than once. I foolishly attempted to deal with an edit war by putting an "indefinite semi-protection" suggestion at RFPP, but to my own stupidity, I was blocked once for it.

While I have met several excellent editors and administrators which I consider friends, I have also had my share of detractors during my ongoing tenure here, such as IPs or registered users (including sockpuppets of blocked or banned users) who often disrupt or vandalize articles; harass, threaten or wikistalk other users in the worst possible ways; contradict official policies and guidelines (such as what Wikipedia is not); edit war on articles; and also vandalizing other users' pages including my own. I have been repeatedly stalked and harassed by more than one person here during my ongoing tenure. While most of these folks were eventually blocked indefinitely, there are other users that have been engaging in cyberstalking me both on and off Wiki. I tried protecting my user pages from vandalism, attacks and sockpuppetry, and that has worked with almost every case. However, some of these disruptive users over the years have not been content to sticking with the policies and guidelines, and have also taken it to multiple other social networking sites, forums and blogs to harass and insult me there. Sometimes, even normal issues that are still occurring on Wikipedia such as vandalism, disruptive editing, personal attacks, harassment, incivility, conflicts of interest, link spamming, wiki-lawyering, sockpuppetry, legal threats, violations of the biographies of living person policies or edit warring can be very overwhelming, and after a long time, it gets to be too much. Dealing with those issues can be both physically and emotionally draining at the same time, and some of them are just not something that I signed on to do here. Things can go from bad to worse at times, and this has led to very real concerns that users will no longer be content with the Internet activities and try to find ways to take it offline or even drive out productive editors. I took a two-month long semi-retirement from Wikipedia back in August 2013 because of these issues as well, and that helped.

Still, Wikipedia is not only just a website but also a free encyclopedia where anyone can edit collaboratively. It is also a fun place to work with, as long as we obey our policies and guidelines and concentrate on research and writing without being stressed out. However, my editing went down significantly during my academic studies. The real world can be stressful enough without having a hobby add to it eventually.

Over 17 years, over 97,000 edits to the project (about 72% to articles), 1 did you know, 48 good articles, 21 featured articles, created 36 articles, and numerous other articles significantly improved. All in all, it has been a good run so far. While I may regret some issues of the past, I don't regret the rest.