User:Gsimenas

I am just a simple university (previously, a gymnasium) student, who got interested in SAO after stumbling up on the anime sometime in late November or early December (of 2012). A short while after the anime ended, I moved on to reading the LNs, at first to see how they differed from the anime. I was planning to wait for confirmation on whether there would be a second season of the anime before continuing to read the novels after the Fairy Dance arc, but my curiosity got the best of me, and I decided to continue reading the novels anyway, spending all of my free time on it.

After finishing the last of the released and translated novels at the time and browsing the wiki, I stumbled on a few articles that seemed rather illiterate for an English wiki and, having some free time and wanting to help correct some of the errors in the article to make it easier to read, I ended up editing a few articles as an anonymous contributor. Even though I was initially planning to edit just one or two articles, after a few edits, I realized that I wouldn't be able to stop at just one or two article edits, so I thought it would be better to register, so that my changes would become more reliable, and here I am. I first only intended to do grammar changes, but later started working on more serious projects and later ended up being one of the only people who cover new content, as well as a feed camper, uniformity and quality nazi etc.

Right now, I'm an active member of the community, senior editor and can be found nearly every day on the chat.

Languages

 * Lithuanian - native
 * English - good
 * Russian - terrible
 * German - poor
 * Japanese - beginner

Light Novels
I haven't heard of LNs until I found the LN for SAO, so I haven't read that many LNs yet (a grand total of 1 atm :D). My current favourites are:


 * Sword Art Online - the best and only LN I've read. I've become so interested in it that I've become an active editor on this wiki and made it my first and currently only wiki project.

Anime

 * No Game No Life (ノーゲーム・ノーライフ) - 9.7/10
 * Valvrave the Liberator (革命機ヴァルヴレイヴ) - 9.3/10 - the second season picked up on the seriousness, but there are still some parts about the story that confuse me.
 * Accel World (アクセル・ワールド) 9.2/10
 * Shingeki no Kyojin (進撃の巨人) - 9.2/10
 * Shinsekai Yori (新世界より) - 8.9/10
 * Code Geass (コードギアス) - 8.8/10
 * Sword Art Online (ソードアート・オンライン) - S1: 8.5/10
 * Pandora Hearts (パンドラハーツ) 8.4/10 - the show was very good until the last few episodes. Then the anime messed up by diverging from the original plot and making it redundant. The manga's version is far more interesting and mindblowing.
 * K (anime) - 8.3/10
 * Log Horizon (ログ・ホライズン) - S1: 8.3/10 - the first half of the season was very interesting, but the second half became too mainstream.
 * Danganronpa: Kibō no Gakuen to Zetsubō no Kōkōsei (ダンガンロンパ 希望の学園と絶望の高校生) - 8/10
 * Black Bullet (ブラック・ブレット) - 7.5/10 - too average, not a fan of loli harems.
 * Captain Earth (キャプテン・アース) - 7.3/10
 * Tokyo Ravens (東京レイヴンズ) - 7.2/10 - nothing really amazing about the show. Rather average. The last few episodes made things more interesting, but not enough to change my opinion much.
 * Buddy Complex (バディ・コンプレックス) - 7.1/10
 * Gokukoku no Buryunhirude (極黒のブリュンヒルデ) - 7.1/10
 * Zero no Tsukaima (ゼロの使い間) - 7/10
 * Magi (マギ) - Overall:6.9/10 - the first season was interesting, but by the final episodes, the show became too much like DB.
 * Hamatora (ハマトラ) - S1: 6.3/10
 * Rail Wars! Nihon Kokuyū Tetsudō Kōantai (RAIL WARS! -日本國有鉄道公安隊-) - 6.1/10 - not enough action, too many fanservice shots.
 * Outbreak Company (アウトブレイク・カンパニー) - 6/10
 * Majin Bone (マジンボーン) - 5.3/10
 * Mahou Sensou (魔法戦争) - 5/10
 * Kanojo ga Flag wo Oraretara (彼女がフラグをおられたら) - 4.8/10
 * Witch Craft Works (ウィッチクラフトワークス) - 4.6/10
 * M3: Sono Kuroki Hagane (M3〜ソノ黒キ鋼〜) - pending
 * Break Blade (ブレイク・ブレイド) - pending
 * DRAMAtical Murder (ドラマティカル・マーダー) - pending
 * Shirogane no Ishi Argevollen (白銀の意思 アルジェヴォルン) - pending
 * Tokyo Ghoul (トーキョーグール) - pending
 * Seirei Tsukai no Blade Dance (精霊使いの剣舞) - pending
 * Aldnoah.Zero (アルドノア・ゼロ) - pending

Manga

 * Pandora Hearts (パンドラハーツ)
 * Shingeki no Kyojin (進撃の巨人)

Games
I mostly like strategy games, especially space-themed or at least sci-fi. I do fancy RPGs to some extent and like certain hybrid shooters.

My favourite games would be:


 * Starcraft
 * Starcraft II - taking a break from it.
 * Command & Conquer series
 * Firefall
 * Deus Ex
 * Fallout 3
 * XCOM: Enemy Unknown
 * Payday 2

Daily Use

 * Special:UncategorizedFiles
 * Special:BrokenRedirects
 * Special:DoubleRedirects
 * Special:WantedPages
 * Category:Citations needed
 * Category:Under Construction Articles
 * Category:Article stubs

Other

 * Sword Mastery Academy - a lot of work put into the article and currently the largest location article I've worked on... and the largest location article on the wiki too :D.
 * Project Alicization - put in the most work on this article and it is 1 of my most favourite arcs and concepts.
 * Soul Translator - put in quite a bit of work on it.

Pages that need new images

 * Fragrant Olive Sword - most of the sword is not visible.
 * Conflagrant Flame Bow - empty space in the middle.
 * Beater needs a more distinctive image.

Pages that need tab images

 * Silica

Things to do

 * Create game mechanics pages. - in progress
 * Make FAQs for episodes.
 * Check on Sakuya's katana length to see if sun is the same as inch.
 * Make a UC main page.

Saturday's to-do list

 * Update episode page to say that the episode aired.
 * Write a summary for anime
 * Find an image for the episode infobox.
 * Update Sword Skill pages.
 * Update the images of new characters or avatar debuts.
 * Remove no longer needed warning templates.

Nihongo to find

 * -Cleared-

Things to review

 * Volume 13, Chapter 11, Part 2 summary
 * C9's edits on Kirito's page
 * File:IMRubyPalace.png

Timed reference requests

 * -Cleared-

Projects
Just to make it easier to track which pages I am planning to work on/working on, I've decided to list them here (in random order). I will work on other random pages as well (probably without even making a note of working on them, if I do a single edit on the spot), usually the ones that show up on the wiki activity feed, when I have the time... or just read the article and have the urge to edit it right away. Whichever comes first (most likely the latter).

Pages that I am planning to work on

 * Higa Takeru - planning to expand the article, when I have the time.

Alicization arc
(Draft)
 * Working on multiple articles, related to the arc, at the same time:

''Work on UW in progress. Updates published as sections are done to make editing and proofreading easier.''
 * 1) Project Alicization - published. Will add more information as it becomes available with the new novels.
 * 2) Soul Translator - published. Still planning to do some improvements. Grammar and spelling checks by other editors would also be useful.
 * 3) Underworld - in progress

Game Mechanics

 * Weapon Enhancement system
 * Relationship system
 * Inventory and Trading system
 * Housing and Merchanting system

Secondary projects

 * Sword Art Online - Progressive - waiting for chapter 10, 10.5 and 11 translation.
 * Volume 12

Pages that I am planing to create

 * Articles for quests.

Completed major projects

 * SAO locations - did articles for most settlements (that were missing articles) and all missing floors (all except 1st and 2nd).
 * UW locations - did/improved the articles for all currently known Underworld locations that had enough content.


 * Sword Skills - created pages for 24 Sword Skills, as well as revamped one existing page. .gifs were provided by Insanemaster while 1caiser helped with Starburst Stream's description.

Useful links

 * Sword Art Online Wiki:New Page Templates (for creating certain types of pages on the wiki; unused headings should be deleted for that page.)
 * Official Naming - list of all character, location and guild names used on the wiki, their official or wiki-use name spelling, all known sources for the given spelling, as well as katakana and romaji for the names.
 * Image Guideline - guidelines for image use on the wiki.
 * Tap's (translator) blog (new link)
 * Progressive Manga
 * Girls Ops Manga

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