User:Notmyhandle

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This user is an admin.
Image:NMH name.png
Current status Active
Registration date November 29th, 2006
Gender Male
Location USA (WA)
Age 21
Time Zone Pacific (GMT -08:00)
# of Edits ± 17,686
# of Watched Pages + 7,738
# of Image Contributions ± 500
Consoles in Possession
Games Currently Being Played
Date of AdminshipJune 28, 2007
Other Wikis I've Joined
Links

Hello, I am one of the many sysops at SW. I am excellent at persevering through criticism, which I hope is to the benefit of SW. I (and others) sometimes abbreviate my alias as NMH.

My ongoing goal is to produce game stubs for upcoming games, and improve the MapleStory guide (our most popular).

You can find some of my contributions through the extended toolbox links on the upper right hand side.

Need help?

Ask in either my talk page or the Staff Lounge. If you can, join me and the others in the #StrategyWiki IRC Channel (I try to be there, but I usually forget). Feel free to PM me on my talk page, or you can do so privately by using the email link in the toolbox in the right margin.

Contents

Profile

A shout out to Lunar Knight for the idea of a personal infobox.

I've protected my pages from being edited by non-sysops, but if you have an idea for making them better go ahead and discuss it with me on my talk page.

About me

I love and am addicted to video games, I love gathering data for them just as much (maybe even more).

I perform all of my edits by hand. The most automated processes I rely on are copy/paste, some regular expressions and the find functions within Firefox or IE. I am currently trying to experiment with AutoWikiBrowser using my bot, Notmybot.

History

In November, 2006, I was writing articles on Wikipedia for Gunster: Rain of Bullets and non-video game topics when I noticed that "game guide information" was not allowed on Wikipedia. I panicked and, seeking refuge for my work, found GameInfo at Wikia (where I dumped some of my contributions) and then later StrategyWiki. Since SW had an active community and a much more original skin and organization, it had me hooked.

Interaction with the wiki

I most often work with monitoring MapleStory edits. I also spend a lot of time copy editing the content of guides, creating new article pages, setting up guides for others, solving editing problems, and contributing what I can remember from playing games ("walkthrough dumps"). I also work with screenshots, image touch ups and transparency, content verification, inquiry (clarifications and suggestions), helping discuss community issues, and handling (pun intended) vandalism.

Other wikis

I rarely work on Wikipedia (unless a concept doesn't have an article), as SW takes up most of my time. I am also an administrator on a few Wikia wikis. I tend to stay away from video game related wikis on Wikia, however I am prone to supporting large, active communities such as WoWWiki, when I am playing the game(s) covered by the wiki.

Current studies

I am currently enrolled in a university where I am pursuing an undergraduate management degree program with a minor in information technology. I hope to grow in my ability to apply these concepts, especially to StrategyWiki.

My gaming history

Although I'm relatively young, I grew up playing NES and Atari games, and I still have many if not all of my NES carts (my brothers and I went through maybe 4 systems but none survived). PC games were also a big thing, since my brother purchased a Pentium 400 or something that I used to play Commander Keen games, Scorched Earth, and Warcraft: Orcs and Humans on. Eventually I killed that computer (probably by formatting it) and we got a newer one later which I used to play Ascendancy, Civilization, Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness, and The Secret of Monkey Island on (all of which I sucked at). I also remember watching my brothers play some of the first online video games, such as "Tomato Wars", an ascii dodgeball game that looked like a single room from Adventure (for Atari), but with stick figures.

I think I was 8 or so before I got my SNES (it was like $115 used with several games), which I still have (yet it's now broken, and I will soon find a FC Twin to replace it). I was given Shadow Run as part of the bundle, however because I was quite young and impatient, I went and traded it for Secret of Mana; a great trade indeed (although I had to pay an extra $20 or so during the exchange). I feel bad for getting rid of that game though. I have only traded/sold around five games in my life and I've regretted every single exchange. Unrelated: I remember writing an "essay" in the third grade where I wrote about skateboarding safety equipment themed from the sprites and items present in Secret of Mana... wow.

Sold games
Lost games ='(

When I turned 11, 5th grade, I rented an N64 and had a party with a couple of friends, playing GoldenEye 007 and Star Fox 64 throughout the night. That December my cousins and my brothers received an N64 to be split between us. After several years of swapping my family ended up with the system (which I still have).

Around the age of 14 I got a GameCube for my birthday with Luigi's Mansion.

At the age of 16 I got a student Visa with a low limit. Thus the ability to purchase things online was now mine. I went on a Genesis rampage and now have 2-3 consoles, about 10 controllers, several crazy adapters, a 32X without a connector cable, a Menacer Rifle, about 8 Sonic the Hedgehog 2 cartridges, and many other games.

I recently acquired a PlayStation, and am borrowing (for a very long time) a PlayStation 2 (one that can't play PSX games, so I'm glad to have both systems).

Now I spend most of my time playing free games, or games on Steam.

Favorite games

ActRaiser ActRaiser 2 Castlevania: Symphony of the Night Chrono Trigger Counter-Strike
Devil May Cry Diablo II & LOD Drakengard E.V.O.: Search for Eden Final Fantasy IV, V, VI, MQ
Flash Flash Revolution Gauntlet Dark Legacy Heroes of Might and Magic III Killer Instinct Legend of Mana
Master of Magic Mega Man 1-8, X1-6 Rogue Squadron Secret of Mana StarCraft & BW
Stepmania Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars Viking: Battle for Asgard Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness Warcraft III & TFT
World of Warcraft/TBC/WotLK

PC Specs

PC 1
  • 1.75GHZ AMD Sempron 2500+
  • ASUS A7V8X-X Motherboard
  • 1GB Rosewill (2x512MB, PC2700) SDRAM
  • 80GB Seagate Barracuda (PATA)
  • 200GB Seagate Barracuda (SATA with Rosewill bridge)
  • 450W Power Supply
  • ASUS GeForce MX 4000 V9400 64MB AGP GFX Card
  • Additional USB/Firewire port PCI card
PC 2
  • AMD Athlon XP 2000+ (1.66GHZ)
  • PCChips M811 V3.1 Motherboard
  • 512MB (2x Modules) SDRAM
  • MSI NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT 128MB w/ Zalman VF700-Cu heatsink, AGP GFX Card
  • 160GB SATA Seagate with Rosewill bridge.
  • 80GB Seagate Barricuda
  • Rosewill 500W RE501 Extreme Edition Powersupply
  • APEVIA (ASPIRE) X-Pleasure BK Case
PC 3
  • AMD Athlon XP 1900+ (1.6GHZ)
  • 1GB DDR SDRAM
  • Radeon 9800 PRO 128MB AGP Gfx Card
  • SB Live! Wave Device Sound Card

Notebook 1
  • Intel Celeron 995MHz.
  • 240MB (16MB Shared Memory) of RAM
  • Windos XP Pro SP2.
  • Trident Video Acceleator CyberBlade XP Ai1 16MB integrated video card.
  • ALi Audio Wave integrated sound card.
  • DVD Drive
Notebook 2 (Primary)
  • Acer Aspire 5739G
  • 15.6" HD LED LCD, 16:9 ratio
  • Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit SP1
  • Intel Core2 Duo T6500 2.1Ghz
  • 4.00GB of RAM
  • NVIDIA GeForce GT 130M Cuda (1GB RAM)
  • 216GB HDD (advertised as 250)
  • CD/DVD RW DL Drive

Thank yous

Example mario image
A little thank you...
For cleaning up SSBM.
hugs, DrBob (Talk) 04:25, 14 April 2007 (CDT)

High scores and other stats

Batman III
100,863
Mega Man
  • 256,400
  • No powers used
  • Gutsman destroyed
  • Fireman destroyed
Mega Man X
  • Best Speed Run w/o powers: 2:30
  • Best Speed Run w/ powers: N/A
  • Completed Sigma stages without leg upgrade.
Star Fox 64
Normal
  • 1325 Downed
  • 5 Medals
Expert
Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Cruel Brawl21 KO's w/ Pit.
Super Mario Bros.
Final Score556,450
TimeN/A

Sysop info

AliasAccount Creation Date or Date of First EditAdminship Date# of Edits
0-172 (talk · contribs)August 10, 2006January 8, 20074,154
Arrow (talk · contribs)November 28, 2007August 23, 20084,247
Blendmaster (talk · contribs)January 16, 2006July 30, 2007954
Bmuig (talk · contribs)September 8, 2007March 8, 20083,452
Dan (talk · contribs)January 5, 2006January 12, 2006 (Sysop & Bureaucrat)812
DrBob (talk · contribs)April 21, 2006June 17, 2006 (Sysop)
July 9, 2006 (Bureaucrat)
20,440
Dukeruckley (talk · contribs)June 2, 2006July 5, 20064,246
Echelon (talk · contribs)December 3, 2005
December 17, 2007 (First Edit)
December 17, 20051,593
Garrett (talk · contribs)June 2, 2005March 11, 2006 (Sysop & Bureaucrat)19,267
Hack (talk · contribs)December 21, 2005December 28, 2005 (Sysop)
January 6, 2006 (Bureaucrat)
616
Inarius (talk · contribs)March 9, 2006October 18, 2006406
IsaacGS (talk · contribs)December 11, 2006July, 29 20076,972
Koweja (talk · contribs)July 14, 2006March 8, 20083,237
Mason11987 (talk · contribs)January, 2 2006June 23, 20062,478
Melon247 (talk · contribs)March 26, 2008September 12, 20093,920
Najzere (talk · contribs)October 3, 2008November 21, 200824,276
Notmyhandle (talk · contribs)November 11, 2006June 28, 200717,694
PowerMatt (talk · contribs)July 21, 2006January 11, 200833
Procyon (talk · contribs)January 9, 2006September 5, 2006 (Sysop)
November 30, 2007 (Bureaucrat)
29,452
Prod (talk · contribs)December 3, 2005October 18, 2006 (Sysop)
May 10, 2008 (Bureaucrat)
27,295
Rocky (talk · contribs)February 4, 2007April 11, 200710,814
RobJ1981 (talk · contribs)August 3, 2006April 24, 20082,436
Ryan_Schmidt (talk · contribs)May 10, 2006March 6, 2007 (Sysop)
September 17, 2008 (Bureaucrat)
5,069
Sakurina (talk · contribs)December 27, 2005December 28, 2005161
Sigma_7 (talk · contribs)January 28, 2009April 7, 20094,185
Teddy (talk · contribs)February 19, 2008February 20, 2008109
Zaiqukaj (talk · contribs)June 11, 2007November 30, 20073,798

Sysop bots

AliasOwner# of Edits
Auto Prod Bot (talk · contribs)Prod (talk · contribs)13,135
Boothby (bot) (talk · contribs)DrBob (talk · contribs)4,430
Garrbot (talk · contribs)Garrett (talk · contribs)3,038
HAL (bot) (talk · contribs)Echelon (talk · contribs)1
NajBot (talk · contribs)Najzere (talk · contribs)9,363
Notmybot (talk · contribs)Notmyhandle (talk · contribs)1
Sigmabot (talk · contribs)Sigma_7 (talk · contribs)139
Vandalbot (talk · contribs)Ryan_Schmidt (talk · contribs)161

Misc

Edit Stats
Last Run Friday November 6, 2009
Main:10337
Talk:421
Category:486
Category talk:14
StrategyWiki:659
StrategyWiki talk:451
Template:680
Template talk:61
User:790
User talk:1424
Image:2339
MediaWiki:10
MediaWiki talk:10
Total17686

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July 12, 2009
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game cover
Congratulations!
Notmyhandle is the winner of the Walkthrough competition!
Your guide, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game, was the winning walkthrough!