User:IllaZilla

This user has been on Wikipedia for 18 years, 6 months and 6 days. This user is a recipient of the Editor of the Week award. This user has been helping the Internet not suck since April 28, 2006.

I joined Wikipedia in April 2006 under a previous account.^[*] I've created something like 200 articles (complete lists here & here). My primary interests and areas of contribution are punk rock, emo, and the Alien films. I also do a lot of behind-the-scenes stuff involving WikiProjects, templates, categories, files, etc. I helped advance Alien vs. Predator to FA, and Aliens and Alien Resurrection to GA. I completely rewrote Alien top-to-bottom and was primarily responsible for getting it to GA.

My username comes from an old song by the Vandals. This may be the funniest edit I've ever seen.

^ * Now located at User:IllaZilla2. I made about 1,200 edits before creating this account in January 2007, not being aware at the time of how to change usernames

Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subjects only in outline, but that every word tell. –Strunk, William Jr. (1918). "Elementary Principles of Composition". The Elements of Style. Pearson Education. {{cite book}}: External link in |chapterurl= (help); Unknown parameter |chapterurl= ignored (|chapter-url= suggested) (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)

Did you know? Every time an improperly used non-free image is deleted from Wikipedia, an angel gets its wings.

Did you know? Every time you add trivia to a Wikipedia article, a puppy dies.

Here's an abbreviated list of articles I've contributed to in a major capacity, meaning I either created them or pretty much rewrote them completely. Generally if I've worked on an article about a musical artist then I've also worked on all of the album articles associated with that artist, but I won't list all of those.

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  I hereby award this barnstar for such great work in the field of hardcore punk! Cheers! Bubba hotep 22:36, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
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  I award you another barnstar for your excellent work on greatly improving the 'Greatest Hits (The Offspring album)'.
  The Skeleton 22:26, 15 May 2008
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  For working with an even temperament to explain things to 68.18.220.174/201. --EEMIV (talk) 07:12, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
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  Awarded for your work on Alien (film), a Wikipedia 0.7 article, which you brought from B to GA-class. Most gratefully, Girolamo Savonarola (talk) 03:44, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
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  I can't thank you enough for your contributions to WT:BH. Thank you! --Avant-garde a clue-hexaChord² 06:15, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
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  For fantastic work on List of emo artists and Talk:List of emo artists, required tenacious skills and Hard Work. tedder (talk) 03:26, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
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  Thanks so much for helping me decide what to do with Appeal to Reason promotional tour. Thanks for encouraging me to be bold and nominate the tour page for deletion! cymru lass ^{(hit me up)}⁄_{(background check)} 15:10, 15 June 2010 (UTC)
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  For your decisive application of the general notability guideline, both in saving notable articles by adding sources and in removing non-notable articles by demonstrating the lack of possible sources, I award you this barnstar. You are an editor par excellence. Neelix (talk) 14:17, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
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  Thanks for the help--I'm learning.Rob.D. Bobdugmore (talk) 10:39, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
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  I award you this barnstar for your amazing work on Tom Gabel's page. You have done such great work in such a short amount of time. Keep it up :) Basilisk4u (talk) 08:29, 19 May 2012 (UTC)
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  I won't let them get me down, thanks for the support. Darkwarriorblake (talk) 10:46, 27 May 2012 (UTC)
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  For your help maintaining Prometheus and going to the effort of looking up info in a real world book for me. Darkwarriorblake (talk) 19:32, 16 June 2012 (UTC)
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  For your outstanding help with combating TheMetallican's sockpuppetry and vandalism. Friginator (talk) 22:12, 24 September 2012 (UTC)
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  Because you deserve it ;) Redalert2fan (talk) 05:16, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
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  ...to thank you for your awesome expansion of San Diego Zoo Global. As you indicated on the talk page, there is more to tell, and I look forward to your continued contributions there. MelanieN (talk) 15:16, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

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