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My approach to Wikipedia is pretty simple: if I happen to look something up and see a page that could use improving—which happens frequently—I edit it. I have a long history in English, with a BA in English with Writing Emphasis, and I was also a proofreader at one point in my life, so this is fun for me. I gravitate toward music and film pages, but sometimes I find myself editing a page on a subject that I have little to no interest in.

I don't tend to add content, unless I have something important to add and a good source to back it up. As such, most of my contributions here are of the clean-up variety: grammar, spelling, punctuation, organization, rewriting for clarity. If I find a page with errors on it, I consider it my duty to fix it. I also like taking what's already there and trying to improve it, such as placing complicated album track listings into tables for a better read. Lately, I've been enjoying adding personnel listings to album pages. I'm also working on creating a long overdue page for a ridiculous cult horror film.

I've been editing here off and on for many years now, with increasing frequency, and I find it's a continual learning process. I'm not perfect, but the more I edit, the better I get, and I am driven by the desire to at least leave every page in better condition than I found it.<br>
—The Keymaster; March 13, 2021

* [[Special:Contributions/The Keymaster|Full list of contributions]].
* [[User_talk:The_Keymaster/Archive_1|My Talk archive (since the drop-down link under "More" doesn't work)]].

==Significant contributions==
An ever-growing list, and your mileage may vary, of course. 

'''Articles to which I have made major contributions'''<br>
These are articles that I worked on that I'm particularly proud of, in one way or another. Most of them are far from perfection but are in much better shape than when I found them. With many of these, I added a good amount of sourced material from my own research (sometimes even from books in my own library), which can be very time-consuming.

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! style="background:lightsteelblue" | Major contributions
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| style= "text-align:center; font-size:95%;"| {{Nowraplinks}}[[Aero Theatre]]{{•}}''[[Blood & Chocolate]]''{{•}}''[[Boingo Alive]]''{{•}}''[[Boingo (album)|Boingo]]''{{•}}''[[Bouncing Off the Satellites]]''{{•}}''[[Come On Pilgrim]]''{{•}}''[[Cosmic Thing]]''{{•}}[[Cruel World Festival]]{{•}}''[[Dirty Mind]]''{{•}}''[[Duty Now for the Future]]''{{•}}''[[Explode_Together%3A_The_Dub_Experiments_78-80|Explode Together: The Dub Experiments 78–80]]''{{•}}''[[Freedom of Choice (album)|Freedom of Choice]]''{{•}}''[[The Golden Age of Wireless]]''{{•}}''[[Hope_Chest%3A_The_Fredonia_Recordings_1982–1983|Hope Chest]]''{{•}}''[[Human Conflict Number Five]]''{{•}}"[[Love Shack]]"{{•}}''[[Mesopotamia (EP)|Mesopotamia]]''{{•}}''[[Mummer (album)|Mummer]]''{{•}}[[New Beverly Cinema]]{{•}}''[[New Traditionalists]]''{{•}}''[[Pixies (EP)|Pixies]]''{{•}}''[[Secrets of the I Ching]]''{{•}}''[[Shaved Fish]]''{{•}}''[[Shout (Devo album)|Shout]]''{{•}}''[[Sports (Huey Lewis and the News album)|Sports]]''{{•}}''[[Whammy!]]''{{•}}[[Yakov Smirnoff]]{{Nowraplinks end}}
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'''Articles to which I have made significant and/or extensive contributions'''<br>
Again, in my opinion. This often entails a lot of clean-up, reorganizing, etc.

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| style= "text-align:center; font-size:95%;"| {{Nowraplinks}}[[Ralph Angel]]{{•}}''[[The Best of the Art of Noise]]''{{•}}''[[The Birds, the Bees & the Monkees]]''{{•}}[[Gerald Casale]]{{•}}[[Devo discography]]{{•}}''[[Devo Live: The Mongoloid Years]]''{{•}}''[[Guero]]''{{•}}''[[Hardcore Devo: Volume One]]''{{•}}''[[Hardcore Devo: Volume Two]]''{{•}}[[The Judybats]]{{•}}''[[Let It Be... Naked]]''{{•}}[[Manda Rin]]{{•}}''[[A Map of the Floating City]]''{{•}}''[[The Mix (Kraftwerk album)|The Mix]]''{{•}}''[[Modern Guilt]]''{{•}}''[[Monty Python Sings]]''{{•}}''[[The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads]]''{{•}}''[[Nude on the Moon: The B-52's Anthology]]''{{•}}''[[Odelay]]''{{•}}''[[Oh, No! It's Devo]]''{{•}}[[Plastics (band)|Plastics]]{{•}}''[[Rag and Bone Buffet: Rare Cuts and Leftovers]]''{{•}}''[[Recombo DNA]]''{{•}}[[Percy Rodriguez]]{{•}}[[Markus Sandlund]]{{•}}''[[Skeletons in the Closet (Oingo Boingo album)|Skeletons in the Closet]]''{{•}}''[[Spookies]]''{{•}}"[[The Super Bowl Shuffle]]"{{•}}[[Fiorella Terenzi]]{{•}}''[[Tigerlily]]''{{•}}''[[Total Devo]]''{{•}}''[[Transistor Blast: The Best of the BBC Sessions]]''{{•}}[[Stuart Whitman]]{{Nowraplinks end}}
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'''Film articles to which I have contributed film plots'''<br>
This requires actually watching the entire film from start to finish and transcribing the plot. It's as tedious as it sounds but is an ideal undertaking for someone of my disposition. FYI, [[WP:FILMPLOT|film plots should be between 400 and 700 words]].

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! style="background:lightsteelblue" | Film plots
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| style= "text-align:center; font-size:95%;"| {{Nowraplinks}}''[[I'm Dangerous Tonight]]''{{•}}''[[Paganini Horror]]''{{•}}''[[Ringo (1978 film)|Ringo]]'' (TV special){{•}}''[[Silent Action]]''{{Nowraplinks end}}
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'''Articles I have created'''<br>
Mostly back when I didn't know what I was doing.

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! style="background:lightsteelblue" | Created articles
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| style= "text-align:center; font-size:95%;"| {{Nowraplinks}}''[[Devo Presents Adventures of the Smart Patrol (album)|Devo Presents Adventures of the Smart Patrol]]''{{•}}''[[Draft%3AHack-O-Lantern|Hack-O-Lantern]]'' (still in draft stage){{•}}''[[Hot Potatoes: The Best of Devo]]''{{•}}''[[Mechanical Man (EP)|Mechanical Man]]''{{•}}''[[Simple Pleasures (Bobby McFerrin album)|Simple Pleasures]]''{{•}}''[[XL1]]''{{Nowraplinks end}}
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