Buffy the Vampire Slayer as featured article

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I worked on building the 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' into a featured article at Wikipedia:Featured articles, and after it's featured status was accepted, I nominated the article so that it appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page on March 10, 2007 (ten years after the first episode originally aired).

I retired from from my Buffyverse editing in 2007 and in May 2008, the article lost it's featured status.

Articles created

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I chose to specialise on Buffyverse topics and created (and maintained) a large number of articles relating to this topic. Articles I had originally created and significantly contributed to, are found in a chart below. I started work in 2005 and retired from the work on these in 2007, creating hundreds of articles and making over 10,000 edits in the process.

Image Article
  Canonical issues in the Buffyverse
(Article ver. before others edited).

Relating to the canonical issues of the Buffyverse. Tries to explain what is officially accepted continuity?

  Buffyverse Chronology (+ parts 2 & 3)
The article was originally a simple list see article before any others had edited. This was worked upon and Lawrence King was a major help in correctly ordereing the materials. In April I ordered the article into a chart system with image-links, and mini summaries. The article was so big I split it into three parts.

A list of all the Buffyverse stories ordered by chronology.

  Index of Buffyverse Topics
(Article ver. before others edited).

I indexed all the wiki-Buffyverse articles.

  Complete tracklist of songs from Buffy/Angel
(currently removed from wiki for notability).

I used sources from the internet, and the episodes themselves to complile a comprehensive list of songs in Buffy and Angel episodes. Also created Live Fast, Die Never & Döf (who unknowingly introduced the Buffy theme 14 years early)

  Use of Music in Buffy & Angel
(Article ver. before others edited).

A guide to how music is used in the shows.

  Undeveloped Buffyverse productions
(Article ver. before others edited).

About productions from the Buffyverse that never were actually produced.

Also created the articles: Buffy the Animated Series (article before others edited), Spike movie (article ver. before others edited), and Corrupt (abandoned Angel script) (article ver. before others edited).

  Rare promos
There are various little-known additions to the Buffyverse such as these:

Created articles: Buffyverse rare promos (article ver. before others edited), BS6 UPN promos, History of the Slayer.

  Unaired Buffy pilot/Unaired Angel pilot
There are various little-known additions to the Buffyverse such as these:

Unaired Buffy pilot (article ver. before others edited), Unaired Angel pilot (article ver. before others edited)

  Buffyverse (Fan made productions)
(Article ver. before others edited).

Article about fan-produced materials focusing on the most notable (fan films and virtual seasons).

Created articles in association with this artilce for the specific fan films: Cherub, Consanguinity, Fluffy the English Vampire Slayer, Forgotten Memories, and Vangelis

  Buffy/Angel Magazines and Guidebooks
(Article ver. before others edited).

A list of the UK magazines, with summaries about the main features and interviews in each issue. The Guidebooks gives a brief summary of the main guides (see article before any others had edited).

  Buffy DVDs/Angel DVDs
([ Article ver. before others edited]).
  Buffy studies
(I didn't create this article but made major edits: Changing this version, to an improved version.)

I also created various articles for the academic books: The Aesthetics of Culture in BtVS | Bite Me | Blood Relations | BtVS and Philosophy | Buffy (BFI) | Fighting The Forces | Five Seasons of "Angel" | Joss Whedon: The Genius Behind Buffy | Reading Angel | Reading the Vampire Slayer | Seven Seasons of Buffy | Sex and the Slayer | Slayer Slang | Televised Morality | What Would Buffy Do? | Why Buffy Matters.

  Buffy novels
Nika Summers was a massive massive help for these articles by letting me use synopses from her site for many of the novel articles.

An article listing Buffy novels.

I also created the specific novel articles: Pretty Maids All in a Row, Blackout, Halloween Rain, Coyote Moon, Night of the Living Rerun, How I Survived My Summer Vacation, Keep Me In Mind, The Suicide King, Colony, Night Terrors, After Image, Carnival of Souls, Blooded, Sins of the Father, Child of the Hunt, Paleo, The Evil That Men Do, Doomsday Deck, Immortal, Prime Evil, Power of Persuasion, Revenant, The Gatekeeper, Resurrecting Ravana, Return to Chaos, Visitors, Unnatural Selection, Obsidian Fate, Deep Water, Here Be Monsters, The Book of Fours, Lost Slayer, Oz, These Our Actors, Tempted Champions, Little Things, Crossings, Sweet Sixteen, Wisdom of War, Blood and Fog, Wicked Willow, Apocalypse Memories , Mortal Fear, Spark and Burn, Queen of the Slayers, Sunnydale High Yearbook (Buffyverse), Go Ask Malice: A Slayer's Diary

  Buffy comics

An article listing Buffy comics.

I also created the specific comic articles: Created: Spike & Dru, The Origin, Viva Las Buffy, Slayer Interrupted, Staked through the Heart, Spike & Dru, Ring of Fire, Remaining Sunlight, Uninvited Guests, The Final Cut, Bad Blood, Crash Test Demons, Pale Reflections, Angel: The Hollower, Food Chain, Blood of Carthage, Oz: Into the Wild, Giles, Jonathan, Past Lives, False Memories , Willow & Tara, Autumnal, Ugly Little Monsters, 'Chaos Bleeds' comic prequel, Death of Buffy, Reunion, Note from the Underground, Creatures of Habit

  Angel novels

An article listing Angel novels.

I also created the specific book articles: Not Forgotten, Close to the Ground, Soul Trade, Redemption, Shakedown, Hollywood Noir, Avatar , Bruja, The Summoned, Haunted, Image, Stranger to the Sun, Vengeance, The Longest Night, Endangered Species, Impressions, Fearless, Sanctuary, Dark Mirror, Solitary Man, Book of the Dead , Love and Death, Monolith, Nemesis.

Also there were several Buffy/Angel crossover novels: Unseen, trilogy, Monster Island, Cursed, Seven Crows, Heat, Tales of the Slayer.

  Angel comics

An article listing Angel comics.

I also created the specific comic articles: Earthly Possessions, Hunting Ground, Past Lives, Strange Bedfellows, Surrogates, Autumnal, Long Night's Journey, Spike: Old Times, Spike: Old Wounds, Spike: Lost and Found, The Curse, Old Friends, Illyria: Spotlight, Gunn: Spotlight, Wesley: Spotlight, Spike vs Dracula

  Buffyverse Characters
I've created several articles about minor characters:

Abner, Lucy Hanover, Hoopy the bear, Lydia Chalmer, Merrick, Old Ones, Pike, Dalton

  Buffyverse Mythology
I have created two articles about mythological compnonents in the Bverse:

Werewolf (article ver. before others edited), Witch (article ver. before others edited).

  Buffy video games
(Originally the article I created featured all the games in this article. Ace of Sevens sensibly split the article into individual articles for each game.)

Article on officially licensed Buffygames.

  Buffyverse Makers
People involved with making Buffy/Angel:

Mutant Enemy members: Jeffrey Bell, Steven S. DeKnight, Drew Goddard, Drew Greenberg, Rebecca Rand Kirshner, Doug Petrie, Mere Smith.

Composers: Thomas Wanker, Robert Duncan (composer), Douglas Romayne Stevens, Robert J. Kral.

Authors: Pierce Askegren, Laura J. Burns, Denise Ciencin, Scott Ciencin, Cameron Dokey, Craig Shaw Gardner, Ray Garton, Laura Anne Gilman, Alice Henderson, Nancy Holder, Dori Koogler, Robert Joseph Levy, Ashley McConnell, Elizabeth Massie, Melinda Metz, Yvonne Navarro, Mel Odom, Paul Ruditis, Josepha Sherman, Thomas E. Sniegoski, John Vornholt.

Other Contributions to Wikipedia

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Significant contributions

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  This user significantly contributed to the article Buffy the Vampire Slayer to get it featured status.
10 000 This user has over 10 000 edits on the English Wikipedia.




Articles expanded from stubs to proper articles: Buffyverse, Tales of the Slayers, Tales of the Vampires, (& numerous Angel episode articles from Seasons 3-5).

I have also made many edits to numerous Buffyverse-related pages that I did not create.

Uploaded Images

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I have uploaded hundreds of images - mostly Buffyverse comic/novel/episode images (see here)

Templates

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For full list of templates designed (see here). These include Buffyverse chronology templates, Buffyverse navigation template (seen below at the bottom of this page). Code =

   {{Template:Buffyversenav}}

Edit counter

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My edits were found at an edit counter here (no longer working). But can be seen below (as of mid 2006 before the edit counter stopped updating):

File:Beware of Evil Bunnies (Buffyverse fan film).jpg
Screenshot from Beware of Evil Bunnies V.

Videos Created

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My first try at Machinima. I apologise for wasting your time in advance :)

Proudest Wikimoments

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The Barnstar of High Culture

In recognition of the hundreds of Buffy and Angel articles that you have created for us.ßlηguγΣη

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The Oddball Barnstar

For your vast improvements to Buffy studies.. --Nlu (talk) 16:12, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

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  The Original Barnstar
For your contributions Buffyverse-releated articles. I am aware that you already got one, but you deserve another. You truely are a Buffy fan. Michaelas10 (T|C) 21:30, 20 October 2006 (UTC)



Articles in progress

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User:Paxomen/Consanguinity (Buffyverse) User:Paxomen/Vangelis (Buffyverse) User:Paxomen/Cherub (Buffyverse) User:Paxomen/Hoopy the Bear User:Paxomen/Hoopy the bear (Buffyverse) User:Paxomen/Night Terrors (Buffy novel) User:Paxomen/"Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (BFI TV Clasics S.) User:Paxomen/"Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and Philosophy: Fear and Trembling in Sunnydale User:Paxomen/Forgotten Memories (Buffyverse) User:Paxomen/Buffy Season 6 UPN promos User:Paxomen/Buffyverse rare promos User:Paxomen/Buffyverse chronology (3) User:Paxomen/Buffyverse chronology (2) User:Paxomen/Buffyverse chronology