User:Wwwwolf
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This website's procedures may be confusing or unclear even for long-time users such as this one. However, we wolves are so very cute, especially when we're confused, and we actually rather like to be confused too-oo! Awwww. (Left: a wolf quoted as saying "what's going on?")

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I don't want to waste precious Wikimedia disk space with my pictures, so here's Konrad from Wesnoth. (Not an exact lookalike, but unlike me, he has a sword, which has to count for something.)
Name	Urpo Lankinen
Gender	Male
Birth date	May 28, 1979
Location	Oulu, Finland
Occupation	Student
Contact info
E-mail	wwwwolf@iki.fi
Jabber	wwwwolf@jabber.com
IRC	WWWWolf at freenode
Interests
Video games Geek Stuff
Userboxes
Rändöm Äffiliätiöns This user comes from Finland. This user enjoys reading anything. This user enjoys writing. This user contributes using Debian GNU/Linux. This user contributes with GNOME. This user contributes using Mozilla Firefox. This user contributes using The GIMP. This user hacks happily with Emacs. This user writes everything with jEdit. cvg-3 This user is an advanced gamer. This user plays games on the Nintendo GameCube console. This user plays games on the Nintendo DS portable console. This user has a thing for meeple. This user plays the Ultima series of computer games. This user plays the Metroid series. This user is a furry. This user wants to believe. And plans to on July 25th 2008. Verifiability is policy. CG This user's alignment is Chaotic Good: the "Rebel." This user is a bi male. This user's favourite animal is the Grey Wolf. Röjects This user is a member of the Video Games WikiProject. Sign up for the VG Newsletter. This user is a member of the Final Fantasy WikiProject This user is a member of WikiProject Furry. mer This editor is a mergist. even This editor is an eventualist. This editor is a WikiGnome. This user is an administrator on the English Wikipedia. (verify) This user reads The Wikipedia Signpost. Do you? (single-page edition) This user tunes in to Wikipedia Weekly whenever it comes out. This user tries to do the right thing. If they make a mistake, please let him or her know. 2,000+ This user has made over 2,000 contributions to Wikipedia. Wikipedia Osallistun suomenkielisen Wikipedian kehittämiseen. I support the Finnish language Wikipedia with my contributions. This user scored 614.0971870000001 on the Wikipediholic test. Babble fi Tämä käyttäjä puhuu suomea äidinkielenään. en-4 This user is able to contribute with a near-native level of English. ru-1 Этот участник владеет русским языком на начальном уровне. tlh-1 loQ tlhIngan Hol jatlh lo'wI'vam. sv-1 Denna användare har grundläggande kunskaper i svenska. FGN This user uses Weird Mutated Foreign Spelling due to school teaching Brit spelling and pop culture the American spelling. Häksöring Perl This user is just another Perl hacker. This user is a Rubyist. Lisp (lambda (user)     (setf (lisp-p user) t) ). Java This user can program in Java. php This user can program in PHP. py This user is a Python programmer. Where else? LJ This user maintains a LiveJournal  as wwwwolf. dA This user is a deviantART deviant as wwwwolf last ·fm This user tracks what they listen to on Last.fm-(wwwwolf). /. This user has a Slashdot account. E2 This user is a noder at Everything2.

Welcome to my Wikipedia user page. I am Urpo Lankinen, often going in the 'net by the username WWWWolf or Weyfour WWWWolf. I'm a student, computer geek, writer and often an artistic person. This page is meant to focus on stuff I've done or I'm doing in Wikipedia; you can see pointers below for non-Wikipedia-related stuff.

I mostly do minor edits here. I also have tried to make sense of our gigantic, incomprehensible mess of policies, which may confuse newbies; if you have any questions along the lines of "why did they do this?", please contact me and I'll try to make sense of it. I'm an administrator at Wikipedia, which just means I may delete articles and see deleted versions.

Current status

WikiLoneliness Rating: Kind of good. Not bad at all really. I'm feeling pretty decent. Honest. (09:32, 19 March 2007 (UTC))

Please leave a new message.

Stress level QotD: "You can now flame me, I am full of love, and will ignore any insults, because that is how good my Gnus filter is." Currently working on: I'm not doing much in en.wikipedia right now, but you may see me doing stuff sporadically. I'm still mostly more active in Wikia wikis and with my own projects, sorry. Trying to work on CVG articles and doing some light translations/stubs to fi.wikipedia. Sporadically reading AfD, but don't expect miracles. A while back, I felt "people should quit arguing and go back to the content", well, here I am, trying to work on my content (just not that much in Wikipedia). =) Admin stuff: Not done much recently (summer and all), but will return to speedy deletions soon... When and if my head can take them. Pretty soon. 16:26, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

First things first

• The most important thing first: Let me know if I annoy you. It sometimes happens. Sorry about that.
• This is an important thing to remember: I'm not perfect. Far from it. In fact, I suck at just about everything I do. Sorry about that.
• I try to seek clarity in my communications. Yet, at times, I'm not as clear as I should be, especially if I get carried away. Sorry about that.
• I try to stick to the point. Yet, sometimes I get carried away and get rambling. Sorry about that.
• I try not to be an idiot. I sometimes, okay, all the time, fail in this noble goal. Sorry about that.
• I also wish to be kind and caring. I sometimes have noted that I don't come across as a kind and caring person, and tend to be a bit too stern with my opinions, warnings and instructions. It's never my intention, however, to be harsh, or bite newbies or anything. I just have this small failure to inject too much politeness, because it tends to get overboard. Sorry about that.
• Some say I'm humourless. Well, I just tend to keep the humour where it's supposed to be kept - humour pages, essays, random sarcastic comments when things get too flamy. Wikipedia is supposed to be a serious encyclopaedia, so I tend to not take humour too far. Sorry about that.

Then, some practical admin considerations

• Deletions are not to be taken personally. As said above, feel free to contact me if things appear to go wrong.
• I will not touch anything that even remotely resembles a biography of a person that appears to have even a modicum of Actual Fame, good or bad. The policies about biographies are a giant mess - I blame the human nature for that. I will only delete biographies or like if they very clearly meet CSD criterion A7. I especially run away screaming if someone mentions WP:BLP. Likewise I'll only G10 open and shut attack pages.
• I tend to interpret CSD rather strictly; if I have to squint and interpret, I usually won't delete the article. However, I only completely decline the deletion (and remove the delete tag) if it's patently clear that the page doesn't meet any criteria - if I leave the tag on or even tag article myself, it doesn't mean I'm lazy, I just want a second opinion. I also rarely relist articles immediately on AfD unless I have very serious doubts about the article. I tend to be strict about spammy tone: If the article subject appears to spend its entire informative stretch to (e.g.) develop best-of-breed methods for leveraging synergies, it's G11 time, but if it's an article about a product that has maybe one small congratulatory phrase, I won't act on it.

Wikipedestrian activities

As far as Wikipedia goes, I've edited... tons of... stuff... every now and then... and then some... and... uh... well... Yeah, I suppose I have been of help here and there. I've written a few articles, expanded considerably some others, and tweaked things here and there. I've made a smallish pawprint, I think. My one problem is that I'm not overly ambitious or anything, so nobody tends to remember me, and I usually don't remember myself why I should be remembered for, anyway. Yet, I think people might notice if I somehow disappeared. I think. I hope.

I'm generally just another geek. Most of my hobbies include video games (WikiProject) in their most forms - I hope this will be a job for me in the future, too. I particularly focus on CRPGs, but I'm not really stranger to any of other games. Expect the Editations on These Topics, or Something:

• Ultima articles
• Some other western CRPGs, particularly Neverwinter Nights and perhaps some DOS-era relics
• Many Nintendo topics
• Final Fantasy (of which there's also a Wikiproject) and some other JRPGs (though I admit my relationship with them is kind of a love-hate one, though I've softened lately...)
• Usual geek topics: computers, Linux, programming, etc
• Art, movies, animation
• Zillions of tweaks on whatever the heck I happen to stumble upon
• ...do I do anything else??? Humph. I hope I will.

I don't know what I'm doing, I just do it.

According to the Meaningless Indication of Editing Enthusiasm, I currently clock some 2000+ edits; my first edit was in 2004-05-10, though I'm pretty sure I got the account wayyyy earlier, probably some time in the fall/winter 2003.

Accomplishments

I'm a firm believer in the Finnish proverb "only lazy people list the things they've done", which is funny because I am lazy. =) Which has kind of also lead to the fact that I don't think I've made much really big things, or if I have, they have happened while I've not paid much attention. It has also lead to the inevitable thing that... um...

...well, let me put it this way: I'm too damn lazy to list what I've done - it doesn't really matter. I'm a 75% tweaker and a 25% researcher, so I'm better at tweaking things and adding random factoids. Look at my edit summaries and find articles I've created or marked with "expanded" or "greatly expanded" or whatever. There's a few articles like that out there.

Let's see: I've started a few articles, mostly game-related, and expanded a few articles from stubhood to full articles. Most often this has happened in Finnish Wikipedia (Ultima and Final Fantasy, for instance - and I'm particularly proud of the fact that I managed to make an Ultima article months and months before FF article was even stub'd. Take that, FF fan hordes =)

Anyway, some articles that I have contributed tons to would be along these lines - I'll update this as soon as I find this stuff. The following list is probably really really silly and frequently unupdated.

A whole lot tweaks: Betrayal at Krondor Commodore DOS Exult Alternate character Abuse (computer game) The Final Cartridge III Ultima VII Shots to kill: Barbarian (computer game) Blue Moon Rendering Tools GtkRadiant The Black Sword Golgotha (computer game) PCGen Good pushes to right direction: Rake (software) Rampage Puzzle Attack Why's (poignant) Guide to Ruby ()

And I'm also responsible for originating the Final Fantasy VII StrategyWiki article which originated as a project in Wikibooks.

In two cases, I've heard people reading my words from Wikipedia, without even asking for that; both were pretty fascinating situations. Okay, one of them was a spoken article (and the text was one of them In Popular Culture® things, now mercifully culled), but another was a definition of "ubuntu" from fi.wikipedia as a part of speech on Ubuntu Linux... It's odd to hear someone else read your meager scrawlings, no? =)

Okay, so what's really going on???

	Contributions log - If you see an error here, go ahead and fix it
	Deletion log - If you seen an error here, please complain on the talk page and I'll see what I can do (or explain my deletion better).

Mysterious Edit Summaries

I tend to be quite brief what comes to my edit summaries. Especially if I need to revert. "rv reason" or "rv - really long reason" is usually all I give as explanation. You probably won't see me writing "Reverting the previous edit on the account that this particular edit was complete and utter rubbish." I generally only revert vandalism, complete rubbish, and information that's redundant and doesn't add anything to the article.

Some other weird abbreviations you may spot in the edit summmaries: ita (italicifying titles), dab (link fix to avoid disambiguation or a needless redirect page), and some other self-evident things.

The following things you see aren't acronyms, merely codewords: "ewg", "augh", "eep" and such, when applied to minor edits, can be roughly translated as "I'm an idiot" or "Should have Previewed first, honestly" and, quite recently, "SnipSnap rots your brains". (I don't think "Preview" doesn't exist; I merely sometimes have thoughtless bugs in markup and such.)

WikiPolitical Leanings

The price of brilliant prose is eternal vigilance.

"In Favor of Keeping The Interesting Stuff, At Least Somewhere."

A wise oriental gentleman on a mountain (or possibly a random hermit loon in middle of Lapland's vast nothingness) said: "You don't really get the idea of Wikipedia until you're ready to say Keep, unfortunately, Merge, unfortunately... even Delete, unfortunately.

I'm mostly a mergist, though in many cases, I believe stuff should better just stand, and there's also many cases when stuff just has to go, at least until it does become even moderately significant or important. One might describe me as leaning toward deletionism, though that moniker is a bit misleading. "Mergist with a chainsaw" might be a better description.

Wikipedia is meant to be an encyclopaedia, and encyclopaedias are meant to be "sums of human knowledge" (as the ad for the good old shelf-waster says). I believe Wikipedia should give an overview of even obscure topics for the uninitiated. However, I also believe we should a) keep that at overview and not go into excessive detail in topics that don't warrant it, and b) always consider the relevancy of the topics we cover.

So here's what I favour:

• General details (So what the heck is that thing?)
• Wide coverage (So the hardcore fans about the topic talk about this side, too? Fascinating. Spare me from the details though.)
• Big picture (So that thing had an impact too?)
• Facts. (Even if I say some trivial bit stuff should be deleted, it's usually at least footnote-worthy somewhere.)

And here's what I do oppose:

• Trivial details (Details are good, but we need to decide which of them are important)
• Trivial trivia ("X in popular culture" is good, but needs heavy-handed trimming to get rid of all extremely trivial bits, like "that guy in that movie mentioned it once".)
• Excessive length (The articles shouldn't be too short, but not too long either...)

Okay, that's at least how the theory goes.

Wikipedia is succeeding because...

• ...we allow everyone to work together with us, unless they prove we shouldn't let them.
• ...we have a community – great work can't be done without a critical mass.
• ...we're as transparent as possible.
• ...we have a goal.
• ...we have some standards – lax where it counts, strict where it counts.
• ...we're reinventing the wheel, true, but we're only reworking what is necessary due to copyright considerations, and once we're done, we make sure that no one else needs to do that horribly difficult thing again, by letting our work to be freely used.

Wikipedia is failing because...

• ...we worship the Process too much. (A fickle and terrible deity who rewards everyone when He works on correct premises, unobstructed by Bureaucracy, and when angered, crushes the guilty and innocent alike and turns the onlookers into shells of their former selves, slaves to adherence to its cryptic and confusing dogma.)
• ...we let emotions take over way too often. ("Be nice" I can understand, but "Be nice or you'll be sorry" I can't. Specifically, BLP is a good idea in principle, scary in practice.)
• ...we focus on wrong things at times. (We're an encyclopedia, not a scandal rag. We only succeed building an encyclopaedia because we have a goal of building one.)
• ...we let ourselves be gamed. (In a logical world, "It's sourced information" isn't the only criterion for keeping stuff. "It's unsourced information" isn't the only criterion for deleting stuff. Ask yourselves: What does an encyclopaedia need? We had a goal to build one, right?)
• ...we think this is too serious business. (Well, having fun isn't that hard; enjoying oneself when other people are refusing to do likewise is what kills this thing. Relax, people.)

Admin stuff

Yep, I do the deletion recovery thing too. As the usual disclaimer these days goes:

Spam me a message through my user talk page (link above), and I can do this. I need the original article title (note: I preferrably need the exact capitalisation and spelling; if unsure, you can provide me a with a link to the smoking crater where the article - until recently - used to be, or the article's log), and preferrably also the name where you want it copied to (if you don't provide this, I'll usually put it around User:YourUserName/OriginalTitle.)

Languages

I'm a native Finnish speaker. While some loud critics disagree, I think this is the most euphonic language ever. Observe: "Puhutaan hiljaa silloista. Elä, vaurastu, osta pullo jaloa, karvasta - valmistettua Lapualla. Eloisa kuningas! Jo halkaise vattu, heitä leppäkeihäs, valita kunnanvaltuustolle! Velaton - tilanne olomuotona mahdoton." (hear me!) Beautiful, no?

As the first foreign language in school, I picked Russian, which I studied henceforth for about 7 or 8 years, but I can't say I picked too much of vocabulary so I absolutely suck at speaking it (Я ленивец, я ничего не научал, так что я очень плохо говорю по-русски!). If you give me a dictionary and let me work on the text a long time, I may be able to make sense of it, just the stuff I write is probably wrong.

Swedish was a mandatory subject here. I may be able to read and understand it a bit, just don't make me write it, or I will just produce nonsense like "Jag kan sjunga bröllopmusik i hamnen!"

English was actually third-level language for me, but I did study it on my own for a long time, got eximia cum laude in the matriculation examination as the first-level language, and unlike other foreign languages, I've had to use it almost every day in various ocassions. Some say I write better English than Finnish. (Just don't ask me to speak it, I have a horrible accent and I tend to stutter unless I speak very slowly to let my lips catch up with the brains =)

I've ocassionally tried to make sense of some constructed languages, the only one I've actually made a lot of sense out of was Klingon. ghItlhlu'meH QaQ jajvam!

Copyright stuff

Just for clarification, my Wikipedia contributions will be licensed under Whatever License Wikipedia Happens To Be, that is, GFDL. I have licensed my Everything2 contributions (well, a large part of them, see the user page there) so that people can appropriate the contents to Wikipedia.

Barnstars etc

People seem to note me occassionally. That's always fun. Some say hi, some say good stuff, some say not so good stuff, and then there's people who think I do good job, hearing of which warms my heart.

I award this Barnstar to Wwwwolf for helping me with St. Gummarus and saving me a lot of aggravation. --evrik 22:05, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

		The Minor Barnstar
		I went looking for your contribs for some unknown reason, and found that you do a lot of edits which are small in quanity, but high in quality. I award you the Minor Barnstar for all the little things you do around Wikipedia to help improve it, but not in the name of seeking recognition - akin to Wikignomes :D —Killfest2—Daniel.Bryant 10:59, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

		The Tasty Baked Goods Award
		Wwwwolf is granted this award in recognition of their efforts battling silly arguements and perservering in the face of lunacy. --Brian (How am I doing?) 14:52, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

What else...

Subpages

• Bookmarks which I don't use a whole lot.
• To-do which is just as disorganised and unupdated as my head.
• Blogstuff, listing my various Wikipedia-related thoughs, mostly from my LiveJournal. Also frequently unupdated.
• Wikilawyering rambling
• Classics, my collection of pointers to fascinating cases.
• Funny, Funny WikiStuff!
• MediaWiki Usability, random things I've noticed

Other s'ffut... stuff... and External links

• Email
• Home page
• Wikipædia contribulations
• Me in the "Vikipetia 'Me Puhua Suami!' Edition"
• Wikicities user page
• WWWWolf @ Everything2
• LifelessJournal
• Article about me in Wikifur (Userpage)