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About Me

Hello, I'm Will. I'm 17 years old (I was born on 3 March 1991), and I come from the Calder Valley in West Yorkshire, England. My username comes from the Tintin book King Ottokar's Sceptre, a series of which I have been a lifelong fan.

I'm a native speaker of British English, which is regrettably the only language I can speak without looking like an idiot. I know an odd smattering of French and German, having taken (but not done particularly well) both subjects in my GCSEs.

I do have a sense of humour, however, it is rather off-colour. I often refer to popular culture, like the Tenth Doctor from Doctor Who, but with a personality more like the Ninth Doctor - I even have the Northern accent because, after all, lots of planets have a north. But be warned, I am rather sarcastic or sneering at times, especially when I am annoyed. I'm normally very nice, though, but I won't be if you're not.

I'm a fan of music, especially bands such as Death Cab for Cutie, Bright Eyes, Sigur Rós, Pink Floyd and 70s-era Genesis, and such soundtrack composers such as Howard Shore, Murray Gold and John Williams. My interests in television are mainly comedy, drama, and science fiction, such as Peep Show, Heroes and Battlestar Galactica My interest in films takes a similar vein, with movies like The Matrix and V for Vendetta. With literature, I am a fan of fantasy novels, most notably J.R.R. Tolkien's writings such as The Lord of the Rings (which I also own on DVD).

My email provider is Gmail (and I have Google Talk), and my ISP is Be Unlimited. I contribute mostly using Mozilla Firefox, but sometimes use Internet Explorer if I am in a public location. My computer runs Windows Vista Ultimate.

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Wiki

From January 2006 to August 2006 I was an administrator of Wikipedia. You are free to look at my logs of my tenure. Between January and August 2008, I had the automatic rollback ability. I also have accounts on the Commons and on Wikiquote, although I edit them very infrequently.

I have over 50000 edits. As of 23 July 2008, I am 160th on List of Wikipedians by number of edits. My wikiholic score is 18528, as of revision 174211397. I also run a bot, which sporiadically does tasks too tedious for the human hand, but is currently down.

I value the quality of Wikipedia articles over the quantity. I support merging related articles that aren't particularly good, and deleting articles that violate policies and guidelines. If someone suggests that content in areas I'm active in is of a low quality, I will attempt to fix it, but will not be stubborn to fight if it can't be.

With regards to my actions, I do what I think is best for the encyclopedia. This means that I will ignore policies if they hinder progress and that I will, on occasion, do something unorthodox, such as remove nearly the entire content of a page that's very badly written. I also attempt to be completely neutral with any topic I edit on Wikipedia, leaving my personal feelings about the subject at the proverbial door. I feel this is the only way to edit controversial pages, which are often full of institutional bias.

If you like this design, take it. Most of the page is taken from the Portal skeleton. The small links were inspired by Kyoko, and the icons at the top were inspired by Riana. Conversely, I am always available to do a userpage redesign for you if you ask.

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