User:XtraJovial

I come here occasionally.
 * Update: I came around more often than I originally anticipated.

I try my best to improve articles and add sources where need be. It's not easy (the fact that most of the sources I use are Japanese-language and Google Translate doesn't do that great of a job makes it a lot harder), but it's definitely worth it.

I've been formally editing wikis since around 2015, even though I've been reading them since 2011.

I've also been assessing several WikiProject Trains in Japan articles recently, albeit too optimistically. Many of them, in my opinion, were either rated inaccurately or haven't been assessed for a lengthy period of time and now poorly reflect the article's current state.

Occasionally I'll patrol recent changes, often looking for vandalizing, unsourced, or otherwise non-constructive edits that go against the purpose of Wikipedia.

Drafts in the making

 * Odakyu 2600 series (somewhat abandoned)
 * DEC700
 * Yokohama Minatomirai Railway Y000 series
 * Sustina
 * KiYa 141 series
 * Hankyu 2000 series (2024)
 * Fukuoka Subway 4000 series
 * Kintetsu 8A series
 * Keio 2000 series (2026)
 * Iyotetsu 7000 series
 * Keisei 3200 series (1964)
 * Keisei 3200 series (2025)

To do

 * Update H100 series
 * Finish drafts

Created articles

 * DEC741
 * Tokyu 9000 series
 * Izukyu 3000 series
 * Osaka Metro 400 series
 * 737 series (JR Hokkaido)
 * Osaka Municipal Subway 10 series
 * Semboku 9300 series
 * Tobu N100 series
 * 385 series
 * Tobu 80000 series
 * Hankyu 2300 series (2024)

Significantly expanded articles

 * Seibu 6000 series (~3x)
 * Keikyu N1000 series (more than 20 sources added to it within a year)
 * Kintetsu 22600 series (made it a proper start)

Expansions in the making

 * User:XtraJovial/JRC 315 background → 315 series
 * User:XtraJovial/NR 9500 background → Meitetsu 9500 series
 * User:XtraJovial/sandbox2 → Seibu 6000 series
 * User:XtraJovial/JRH 721 → 721 series
 * User:XtraJovial/Deuce dropper → Keikyu N1000 series
 * User:XtraJovial/sandbox3 → Odakyu 3000 series
 * User:XtraJovial/sandbox4 → Hankyu 9300 series
 * User:XtraJovial/sandbox5 → 207 series (JR West)
 * User:XtraJovial/sandbox6 → 681 series
 * User:XtraJovial/sandbox7 → HC85 series (won't be very significant)
 * User:XtraJovial/sandbox8 → Seibu 101 series
 * User:XtraJovial/sandbox9 → 789 series (won't be very significant)
 * User:XtraJovial/sandbox10 → 521 series
 * User:XtraJovial/sandbox11 → 227 series
 * User:XtraJovial/sandbox12 → Sotetsu 10000 series
 * User:XtraJovial/223 series expansion → 223 series

Car tables (for diesel multiple units)

 * User:XtraJovial/KiHa 281 car table → KiHa 281 series
 * User:XtraJovial/KiHa 283 car table → KiHa 283 series
 * User:XtraJovial/KiHa 85 car table → KiHa 85 series

Resources

 * User:Femke/crime against significant digits
 * User:Trainsandotherthings/Tables and citations
 * User:Trainsandotherthings/The problem with galleries
 * WP:CIRCULAR
 * WP:PAYWALL (because I use paywalled sources)
 * User:Tony1/Redundancy exercises: removing fluff from your writing
 * Internet Archive Bot
 * Wikipedia is not a reliable source
 * No original research
 * Manual of Style
 * Reliable sources
 * Verifiability

Essays
I write essays now.


 * 1) "But it says so on this foreign-language Wikipedia!"