User:Gsimenas

I am just a simple gymnasium student, who got interested in SAO after stumbling up on the anime sometime in late November or early December. 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 currently released and translated novels 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. Aside from correcting various minor errors in articles that I come across, I also started adding more in depth details to some of the articles and plan on continuing to do so for awhile, when/while I have the free time.

99% of the time I have the novel open in another tab when editing an article (except when I am correcting grammar and other not plot related errors in the article), but it is possible that I could make a mistake here and there, especially when publishing edits at 02:00, in which case, I am sorry for that in advance and appreciate anyone who takes the time to correct the errors I make myself. Since I usually forget to add any references to the articles I edit, if you doubt any of the content I add, let me know and I will try to support my content with references or correct it, if I turn out to be wrong.

Common Mistakes

 * Any fan content is STRICTLY FORBIDDEN on any official pages. Any fan art, fan fics, fan cosplays or anything else of the sort can only be posted on personal pages, like your own profile or blog posts. Pictures of real life props (the weapons) are included in the "do not post on articles" category.
 * Kains and Caynz are DIFFERENT PLAYERS. Do NOT link them to each other and do not misspell Caynz, unless you are referring to the player who died a year before the story.
 * Agil is NOT spelled as Egil. Please see Official Naming for the spelling of the names used on this wiki and any official sources that support such a spelling. If you disagree with any name, please start a discussion about it in the forums for the decision to be made by the community.
 * The towers that connect the floors of Aincrad are called Labyrinths. A "dungeon" is an umbrella term for any adventuring location in an RPG.
 * An Aincrad floor =/= city. None of the floors have any official name and most floors actually have more than one settlement, so its incorrect to call a floor by its main settlement's name.
 * Player Killers in Sword Art Online have orange cursors despite being referred to as "red players". Only monsters have actual red cursors while "red player" is just a player-made term to signify that PKing is a much more serious crime than the ones that orange players usually commit.
 * ALfheim Online is capitalized as ALfheim (the first two letters are always capitalized, while the rest are not), NOT Alfheim or ALFheim. The official capitalization was provided in English in the raw. This only applies to the game. The land of Alfheim may or may not be capitalized like that (official version unknown), but it is usually written as "Alfheim" to make it easier to differentiate between the land and the game.
 * ---Spoiler line for anime viewers---
 * "Life" (first letter capitalized) refers to durability in PA. "life" (not capitalized) refers to the English word.
 * Underworld (UW) is not a game, but a virtual world (similarly to Aincrad), while Project Alicization (PA) refers to the actual "game" (it's not really a game, but a secret government project, hence the quotes). On this wiki, when we say PA, we mean the game/project, while when we say Underworld, we mean the virtual world created for PA. In other words, UW ~ Aincrad, PA ~ Sword Art Online.

Tips

 * When linking, try to use a direct link or a redirect, instead of using links with captions. Redirects make it a LOT easier to standardize things if we decide to change where the links/redirects link to, as editing 1 page is much easier than editing 100 pages every time we decide to change something.
 * When copy-pasting information from external sources to the editor, remember that pasting in visual will also paste the formatting (usually in complex codes), so avoid doing it on articles (pasting in source will only have the clean text pasted). On the other hand, pasting in visual may be useful for finding out the codes for a specific text format or colour.

Languages

 * Lithuanian - native
 * English - good
 * Russian - terrible
 * German - poor
 * Japanese - just started

Kanji
Currently trying to learn kanji, looking through and practising to write 8-10 new kanji a day (while it's easy enough at least...). I really can't get the logic of how Japanese decide when to use kun-yomi and when to use on-yomi, let alone how on earth do they figure out which reading to use when there's more than 1 kun/on...

User:Gsimenas/Kanji - notebook

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

 * Code Geass (コードギアス) - the first anime I've seen and got interested in. The ending was definitely unexpected.


 * Sword Art Online (ソードアート・オンライン) - the first series that I actually rewatched...3 times... and still enjoyed it nearly as much. I really like both Kirito and Asuna as the main characters and, as I like games, I also really liked the setting for the story. Though I wish the supporting characters actually had more screen time and more ad intense battle scenes.


 * K (anime)  - got interested in it because of the setting and because of the detective feel of the series (detective genre comes 2nd after Sci-fi and fantasy to me; a combination of them is even better :D) I did like the characters and setting, but I found the series to be too short. The ending didn't touch me as much as I would have expected.


 * Shinsekai Yori (新世界より) - an anime that I randomly decided to watch and continued to watch due to its serious nature and because I like nearly anything related to telekinesis and the kind. The anime was rather good, but the ending was a bit anticlimatic in my opinion.


 * Zero no Tsukaima (ゼロの使い間) - after I heard via a blog post that the author of the original LN died, I looked up the anime and got interested in it due to its setting. The anime wasn't that bad, though I'm not exactly a fan of fanservice. I mostly watched it for the plot, setting and sometimes for the humor.


 * Pandora Hearts (パンドラハーツ) - accidentally came across it while browsing a wiki about Alice in the Wonderland (while looking something up for the SAO wiki) and got so interested in it that if I hadn't retained my sanity, I would have marathoned in just 1 day instead of 2. I'm a sucker for mysteries and I do like all the references to Alice in the Wonderland.


 * 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) - I'm a sucker for detective stories and this one was quite interesting. Though the last episode was a bit dull...


 * Log Horizon (ログ・ホライズン) - started watching this one as I like the VR theme. It's a rather nice anime and, although I hate to admit it, does better than the SAO anime production-wise (mostly because Log Horizon has a more coherent plot and the SAO anime adaptation cut out/changed a lot of things that made the book interesting). Though the plot of the 2 series differs quite a lot, so I regard both as being equal independent series.


 * Outbreak Company (アウトブレイク・カンパニー) - started watching this one out of nothing to do while waiting for new episodes of other series that I am watching.


 * Shingeki no Kyojin (進撃の巨人) - interesting plot and people battling giants with grappling gear... what else could I need? Marathoned it in 2 days (I had school and had plans to go the the cinema on the first day).

Manga

 * Pandora Hearts (パンドラハーツ) - started reading it after watching the anime. Another marathon, but with some seriously unexpected plot twists.


 * Shingeki no Kyojin (進撃の巨人) - although I tried to read this one in healthy doses, after I reached the part where the anime stopped, I ended up marathoning the rest.

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 - currently playing it.


 * Deus Ex


 * Fallout 3

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

 * Blackwyrm Coat - stretches out the infobox.
 * Fragrant Olive Sword - most of the sword is not visible.
 * Conflagrant Flame Bow - empty space in the middle.

Things to do

 * Finish up standardizing guild member lists already.
 * Create game mechanics pages.
 * Make a guideline for the timeline use.
 * Make a guideline for images.
 * Make FAQs for episodes.

Issues to solve

 * Minions
 * Recto naming
 * Standardization template

Nihongo to find

 * Sacred Arts elements.

Things to review

 * http://swordartonline.wikia.com/wiki/Sword_Art_Online_Episode_01?diff=63348&oldid=62710
 * Volume 13, Chapter 11, Part 2 summary
 * http://swordartonline.wikia.com/wiki/Sword_Art_Online_Episode_15?diff=69832&oldid=69831　- needs to be rephrased in a way that it makes sense.

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

 * Asuna - planning to add more details to the ALO section.
 * 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

Secondary projects

 * Sword Art Online - Progressive - Chapter 1, 2 and 3 synopsis (more like retelling) done. Awaiting translation of the next 2 chapters.
 * SAO Survivor School - draft in progress. Will finish up soon.

Pages that I am planing to create
No standalone projects in queue.

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.

Under revision

 * Bercouli (Bercouli Synthesis One) - page done and chronology up to the end of vol 13 done.


 * Taruken


 * Thatch


 * Nori


 * Accuracy International L115A3 - done. Hopefully, I didn't leave anymore mess ups...


 * Yamikaze - done. Didn't really get much spotlight, even though he's supposed to be one of the best players.


 * Time Piercing Sword - done. Though Chudelkin mentioned that the sword has some "other side". Don't know what that's supposed to mean.


 * Jink - page done. Not really much material to work with.


 * Þrymheimr - page done. Here's hopping I didn't miss anything.


 * Thor - page done. Here's hopping I didn't miss anything.


 * Legrue Corridor - finished up the page. Not really much is known about it.


 * Lugru - did the page for the city. Not really much is known about it.


 * Þrym - jumbo article created. I'm too lazy to check Caliber SS if it has any other information about him.


 * Eugeo - did appearance, added a few illustrations and started personality. Will update if I find something else to add.


 * Rulid Village - finished revamping the article.


 * Ocean Turtle - article completed and updated with most available information.


 * Valet - page done. Might need some more sub headings.


 * Charlotte - page done. Not sure if anyone proofread it yet.


 * Urðr - article creation project done. The "Rock Giant Tribe" and Beast-type Evil God thing is confusing though, so I can't guarantee that I got that part right.


 * World Tree - article overhauled. Caliber chronology is a bit short though, but I'll leave that for someone else to do. Proofreaders would be nice.


 * Fanatio (Fanatio Synthesis Two) - article creation project completed. Needs proofreading.


 * Heaven Piercing Sword - article creation project done. Not sure if I should do chronology. Could use a bit of proofreading.


 * Conflagrant Flame Bow - article created, but I couldn't find much info on appearance (why so stingy this time Reki?). Not sure if I should do a chronology.


 * Floria - published the article. Not much info as expected, but that's not surprising, considering other SAO locations. Not sure if I should do chronology. Made a gallery so that we could let pictures speak instead of word. Only images depicting unique parts of the settlement should be added.


 * Deusolbert - article creation project done.... over 9,500 bytes... I should have known... I do hope I got most of the typos and errors out, as I am not going to reread the whole thing for anything that I missed.


 * Ballistic Prediction Line - article creation project done. Currently attempting to find unambiguous evidence how the sniper advantage actually works.


 * Bullet Hit Prediction Circle - article creation project completed. Currently attempting verify why the term in Vol 5 and Vol 6 is named differently.


 * The Four-Armed Giant - article creation project done. Hope I didn't miss or mess up anything.


 * Zakkaria - article creation project done. Not sure what else to include in the article.


 * Integrity Knight - article creation project completed, article published, but might need some rearranging and/or grammar and transition corrections/changes.


 * Centoria - article created and mostly done. Not sure if there is any point in making a chronology for Volume 11.


 * Divine Instrument - article created. Not sure if a category page for this should also be created.


 * Frost Scale Whip - article completed, but there is an issue with the reach of the whip. It is mentioned that the reach of the whip can be extended up to 5 Mel with armament full control, but it can, for some reason reach Kirito 15 meters away.


 * Forest of Wandering - article created. Grammar check to be done. I'm not 100% sure that the Forest of Wandering and the Lost Forest are one and the same. Should be changed if proven that they are separate.


 * Behemoth - article expansion project done. Grammar check to be done.


 * Project Alicization - overhaul project published. Possible minor grammar and similar errors; more information could always be added (if it comes available). Currently planning to add more things to it.


 * Dungeon - corrected a fact error by separating dungeons into labyrinths and sub dungeons, added a list of known sub-dungeons. Did not add a reference though (Vol 2 Black Swordsman part 1).
 * Boss Room - section overhauled.


 * Extra Skills - due to a user making changes on skills, which reminded me that they weren't categorized properly, which led me to create a new category with, basically, only Unique Skills, I had to speed up my work on this article. Generally speaking, it should be finished, as there isn't much of anything else to add to the article, but I'll keep this listed here, in case of any mistakes or new information appearing later on.


 * Yggdrasil City - finished creating the article, but couldn't find much information on it. Might scout around the novels to find any other information I could add.


 * Aincrad Liberation Force - finished on expanding the article. Still needs reviewing.


 * Knights of the Blood - expanded the article with background information from "The day before" and corrected a few errors, as well as added a few minor details. Don't know if a chronology/history section should be done, as I don't really know what to add to such a section in this case.

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.
 * Tap's (translator) blog (new link)
 * Progressive Manga
 * Girls Ops Manga

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