User:The Keymaster

My approach to Wikipedia is pretty simple: if I happen to look something up and see a page that could use improving—which happens frequently—I edit it. I have a long history in English, with a BA in English with Writing Emphasis, and I was also a proofreader at one point in my life, so this is fun for me. I gravitate toward music and film pages, but sometimes I find myself editing a page on a subject that I have little to no interest in.

I don't tend to add content, unless I have something important to add and a good source to back it up. As such, most of my contributions here are of the clean-up variety: grammar, spelling, punctuation, organization, rewriting for clarity. If I find a page with errors on it, I consider it my duty to fix it. I also like taking what's already there and trying to improve it, such as placing complicated album track listings into tables for a better read. Lately, I've been enjoying adding personnel listings to album pages. I'm also working on creating a long overdue page for a ridiculous cult horror film.

I've been editing here off and on for many years now, with increasing frequency, and I find it's a continual learning process. I'm not perfect, but the more I edit, the better I get, and I am driven by the desire to at least leave every page in better condition than I found it. —The Keymaster; March 13, 2021


 * Full list of contributions.
 * My Talk archive (since the drop-down link under "More" doesn't work).

Significant contributions
Articles to which I have made major contributions, including adding a good amount of sourced information from research (sometimes even from books in my own library):


 * Aero Theatre
 * Blood & Chocolate
 * Boingo Alive
 * Boingo
 * Bouncing Off the Satellites
 * Come On Pilgrim
 * Cosmic Thing
 * Dirty Mind
 * Duty Now for the Future
 * Explode Together: The Dub Experiments 78–80
 * The Golden Age of Wireless
 * Hope Chest
 * Human Conflict Number Five
 * "Love Shack"
 * Mesopotamia
 * Mummer
 * New Beverly Cinema
 * New Traditionalists
 * Pixies
 * Secrets of the I Ching
 * Shaved Fish
 * Shout
 * Sports
 * Whammy!

Film articles to which I have contributed film plots:
 * I'm Dangerous Tonight
 * Paganini Horror
 * Ringo (TV special)
 * Silent Action

Articles to which I have made significant and/or extensive contributions, including clean-up, reorganizing, etc.:


 * Ralph Angel
 * The Best of the Art of Noise
 * The Birds, the Bees & the Monkees
 * Gerald Casale
 * Devo discography
 * Devo Live: The Mongoloid Years
 * Guero
 * Hardcore Devo: Volume One
 * Hardcore Devo: Volume Two
 * The Judybats
 * Let It Be... Naked
 * Manda Rin
 * A Map of the Floating City
 * The Mix
 * Modern Guilt
 * Monty Python Sings
 * The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads
 * Nude on the Moon: The B-52's Anthology
 * ''Oh, No! It's Devo
 * Plastics
 * Rag and Bone Buffet: Rare Cuts and Leftovers
 * Recombo DNA
 * Percy Rodriguez
 * Markus Sandlund
 * Skeletons in the Closet
 * Spookies
 * "The Super Bowl Shuffle"
 * Fiorella Terenzi
 * Tigerlily
 * Total Devo
 * Transistor Blast: The Best of the BBC Sessions
 * Stuart Whitman

Articles I created (mostly back when I didn't know what I was doing):
 * Devo Presents Adventures of the Smart Patrol
 * Hack-O-Lantern (still in draft stage)
 * Hot Potatoes: The Best of Devo
 * Mechanical Man
 * Simple Pleasures
 * XL1