User:Paul A
Paul A_______ lives in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia. He long ago abandoned any hope of getting people to pronounce and spell his surname correctly.
After a few days of anonymous browsing, I made my first contribution to the Wikipedia on January 18, 2003 at 11:53pm (WA time). Experienced Wikipedians will be able to guess how much sleep I got that night...
(For the record, my first contribution was to correct a couple of spelling and punctuation errors in an entry about an obscure British science fiction series, thus neatly encapsulating my two main fields of obsession.)
- It was a bad program, and I'm a huge fan of anything to do with time travel. Mintguy
- Well, I can't argue that - I've never actually seen Crime Traveller. It's obscure British science fiction series in general that I'm obsessed about. Plus, I'm the kind of person who worries about whether the plural of "series" is also "series", which is why most of my Wikipedia contributions to date have been spelling and punctuation fixes. :o)
- --Paul A
Articles to which I have made non-trivial contributions include:
- 101 Dalmatians (1996 movie)
- One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961 animated movie)
- Alistair Cooke (journalist, radio and television personality)
- Dodie Smith (playwright and novelist)
- The Hundred and One Dalmatians (1956 novel)
- Sir Galahad (figure in Arthurian legend)
- Rendezvous with Rama (novel)
- Arkham Asylum
- Star Wars (radio) (the radio versions of ANH and TESB)
- John Madden (director)
- Dark Horse Comics
- Watcher
- Captain Hook (fictional pirate)
- Michael J. Pollard (actor)
- Kim Newman (film historian and novelist)
- RSL
- Nightmare on Elm Street (series of movies)
- Marlee Matlin (actress)
- The Mask (comic book series)
- BBC Television Shakespeare
- The Phantom (comic strip)
- Mark Hamill (actor)
- Campbell Award
- Gandalf Award
- Prometheus Award
- Anno-Dracula series
Also, I untangled the web of redirect pages surrounding The Book of One Thousand and One Nights; at the time it had five redirect pages, of which only one was pointing at the actual article (the others were pointing at that one, or at a redirect page that was pointing at that one) - and that one was broken.