User:Markdr

Hello! My name's Mark and I decided to become a member of Wikipedia to really try to improve resources available on subjects and issues that are most important to me, and add my knowledge of these things to the pool of information already available here. In short, I want to make Wikipedia a better place.     Leave me a message     Email me     View my contributions     View my edit counter

Wikipedia Wikistory I can remember my first visit to Wikipedia. I was looking up my favourite band, Metallica, when I stumbled upon its Wikipedia article. I was amazed to find such a comprehensive amount of information all in one place. My eyes were inevitably drawn to the edit button. I hit it and changed something, I can't remember what. When I realised this actually changed it for good, I was amazed. I did some research and found out what Wikipedia was, and became a member on 10 January 2006. The rest is history. On 28 December 2006, I celebrated my 250th mainspace edit. Wikiethos As previously mentioned, I particularly enjoy creating and/or editing small, specific articles that mean something to me particularly. If I see vandalism, I will always revert it. I also don't like seeing badly or outright studpidly written articles and will usually strive to fix these, as well as blantant POV and other such nasties. This user tries to do the right thing. If they make a mistake, please let them know. I try and do the right thing on Wikipedia all the time, but I'm new here so I don't know about all the complex procedures and regulations. Please do let me know if I make a mistake. Vandalism More recently I've started to actively patrol the Recent Changes list and revert vandalism using a combination of Popups and VandalProof. Me Well, I'm a 16 year old student from Hertfordshire in England. I've completed my GCSEs and have just begun four A Level courses. I'm a bit of a geek and I'm really interested in all things to do with computers, but I'm also really into music. I'm especially into metal, rock and classic rock music, but I'm not aversed to jazz or classical music either. Countries visited In order of first visiting: England (residence) Wales France Greece Cyprus Egypt Albania Belgium China/Hong Kong Australia Switzerland Italy Austria Favourite bands In vague order: Metallica Iron Maiden Megadeth The Darkness Led Zeppelin Foo Fighters Pantera Motörhead Red Hot Chili Peppers Tokyo Dragons Hobbies and interests In no particular order: Surfing the web Listening to music Playing drums Coding for the web Graphic and web Designing Watching TV Eating Reading books or magazines Playing computer games Sleeping