User:GK

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Introduction

I started by anonymously editing a few wikipedia articles that I thought needed some work. That work spun out to visiting and editing related articles. I finally decided that I needed to sign up so that I can have a Watch List, get proper credit (or blame) for my edits, etc.

Right now, I'm working on a number of the Japanese poetry topics, such as haiku, senryu, renga, waka, and kigo, plus the pages for the associated poets such as Matsuo Basho and Masaoka Shiki. I'll also probably be doing some revisions for some of the wikipedia webpages for cities in my area, including Long Beach, Signal Hill, and Seal Beach, California (besides the minor fact correction that I've already done).

For most of my other interests (genealogy, gardening, computers, etc), there should be people that should know much more than me, so if I add anything on those topics, it would be mostly digesting and regurgitating various print and internet sources.

Still, it surprises me all the places that I can do even small changes. I recently added an IMDB link template to a movie ("Pull My Daisy") that Jack Kerouac worked on, for example. [[User:GK|gK ¿?]] 13:51, 10 Oct 2004 (UTC)

subpages

Some of these pages are essentially notes to myself, and some of the other pages are me working out ideas that may or may not eventially end up somewhere in the "real" Wikipedia

• User:GK/Tanka poets
• User:GK/Comments & Crittercisms on Wikipedia
• User:GK/What is wrong with the Book Sources ISBN lookup page and why there will probably never be anything better
• User:GK/Diacriticals for use with transliterated/romanji Japanese text, especially vowels with macrons
• User:GK/Sandbox
• User:GK/Fancruft A list of fancruft that probably should be merged and/or then deleted.
• User:GK/Japanese names
• User:GK/Working Projects
• User:GK/Collaborations
• User:GK/Lists vs. Categories
• User:GK/Old Contributions
• User:GK/Criteria for inclusion of individuals in the Wikipedia

Contributions

New wikipedia articles none yet, the first will probably be Yosa Buson or possibly Yosano Tekkan Large changes Signal Hill, California Seal Beach, California waka List of Japanese Anthologies Unisex name List of English words with diacritics Large changes to stubs kigo Tsubouchi Shoyo Small changes to stubs Tommy's Small changes several Japanese haiku and tanka (waka) poets haiku various List of Japanese authors File 770 KSCI List of poetry anthologies renga Asahi Shimbun Death poem (still needs more work)

Minor changes and External link additions Los Angeles, California Long Beach, California See's Candies Pope Zosimus The Tale of Genji Lafcadio Hearn List of diarists ToDos - changes/addition to: Death poem kigo haibun haiku renga waka pen name Envoi Votes for Deletion initiated Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Saishu Onoe failed