This user honestly just doesn't care anymore about what shape the Earth is. Let it go, man.
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Hi! My name is Gerald Waldo Luis (/ˈdʒærəldwɒl.dəʊluːɪs/; Indonesian pronunciation:[ge'raldwal'dolu'wis]); but you can call me Gerald or simply GWL. You can find me online under the aliases gerald.90x or gerald-90x.[a] My main interests are aviation, films, and... a lot honestly, it's hard to squeeze it in a page. My editing activities frequent more towards film, Indonesia, aviation, as well as anything I'm in the mood for. I have language proficiencies in English (duh), Indonesian, Hokkien, and a tad Mandarin. Anything more to say? I have more on my infobox... None anymore? Aight, next up.
I started editing during the start of the COVID-19 pandemicin my country, despite creating this account in 2018. I've been doing lots of good articles and featured lists, and am on the way for a featured article. I first started with several GANs and a shit ton of GAN reviews. My main editing belief is that when doing so, you are must be aware of what you do. You are editing a website wherein thousands of people (or even millions) visit to receive accurate information. That being said, you are a volunteer! There is no deadline, and Wikipedia shouldn't have one! We will never be the sum of all human knowledge, and that's what makes Wikipedia the awesome project it still resists till now!
If you need any assistance regarding Wikipedia or outside, or if you need any help, I'm happy to assist you! If you need a video to be subtitled, I would be happy to use my experience and subtitle it. If you need to access paywalled sources, see the "Seattle Library" section here. Note that I am amid high school and lives in the UTC+7 region.(click[1]for live time) so please be patient in awaiting responses. If you also just want to talk generally and off-topic, oh hell am I happy to chat about shits! I am also on the Wikimedia Discord as gerald.90x#3467, if you see a pig profile picture you're on your way.
To see my contributions, click here, or here for a more detailed one. To see the pages I created, see this. For a record of my nominations and reviews, see this. My Linktree page: this.
Gerald is Germanic, Waldo is English, and Luis is Chinese (Indonesian-ized from Lei). Guess that's why my more-spoken language is English even though I'm Indonesian and am more experienced in Indonesian. I'm always told that the Brits are jerks.[FBDB] I'm not one, folks. But if I act like a jerk, just know that my name's British.
Something that I look forward to discussing with other Wikipedians (or Wikimedians!) is, first, the lack of attention towards peer reviews. Ironically, they are the platform everyone recommends for those trying to make an article to FA, and yet when someone puts an article on peer review, it mostly gets lost. An exception to this would be those in very communist WikiProjects like WPVG or Military history, or if an informal QPQ is made in GANs or FACs, of which those seeking peer review don't really think about, thinking that if it's so highly recommended, it gets the same traction as a FAC. We should put a lot of focus into peer reviews since they could affect the retention of valuable or potentially valuable editors, and finding more ways for new or frequent PR nominators to gain reviewers.
Another problem I see is with accessibility. First, closed captions or subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing. Although MediaWiki does provide the option to make TimedTexts, very little scrutiny was placed on the effectiveness of individual CCs. In other platforms like Netflix, specific guidelines were made on how to write CCs and time them to allow for readability for those using them. The most common examples are when to provide sound descriptors or how many characters per second is the minimum. There are many subtitles here that just don't help! With this in mind, I wish there is a guideline specific for WM projects on how to write CCs, or even just subtitles in general.
At last, there is audio descriptions. MediaWiki uses JS video player, which allows for multiple audio tracks in a video, and yet there is no option on WM projects? This is a very big part of accessibility we're missing; with CCs and alt texts being a must in FACs, ADs must be allowed too so that every readers' needs are met in order to allow anyone who wants to read Wikipedia, to be able to.
WP is not for your essays. Wikipedia is a mashup, not an undebatable reliable source for you to cite on your essays! Please, folks! Wikipedia can be a helper for your studies, but not a sole source.[2][3] You see those numbers? Click it, that's what we want you to use! If a statement you want to use is from The New York Times, instead of writing "According to Wikipedia...," write "According to The New York Times...." Do not even mention us! We are like your ghost writers; we help you, just don't say anything. Shhhh!
Vandals can change. Yes, vandals can change, you intolerant devils. Why do rehabs exist for druggers if otherwise?[4]
These platys are mating. They can do so because they know exactly what they're doing with their eyes. That's what VisualEditor is for some.
Keep VisualEditor. I use it, and apparently, that's something I'm allowed to say. Jokes aside, though,, VisualEditor is literally what made me stay on Wikipedia. Its facility allowed me to just be a salt and edit, which everyone should. It's not as if I don't learn the markup and that I don't use the source editor. I use them, and I know I have to, and I know that if I am not willing to learn it, it symbolizes how selfish and lazy I am in doing the things I'm interested in. It's just that I'm grateful there is a convenience. Wikipedia shouldn't be something only programmers can do, and it must never be. And by the way, just because someone loves something, doesn't mean they're a nerd. I hate saying tech nerd.
Don't act stiff. Have some fun. Editing Wikipedia should be something fun and valuable. Don't be too focused on the project but with no interaction and love towards the fellow editors you collaborate with. If something bothers you whilst editing, vent about it to an editor that is willing to hear it (I am one of them, of course). Lack of place to vent is the main cause of the editor crisis. A lot of things are flawed here; if you have one please speak out!
I have a decent amount of sources not everyone can access, either due to paywall or region lock. Below are the list of those, from books, websites, encyclopedias, whatever. If you need one of them, just inquire me at the talk page and I'll ask you to wikimail me. After that I'll provide you with the source you need; keep in mind I can't provide an entire book, just the specific places you need.
Adrian, J.; Kustaman, Albi; Ramadhani; Rahmat, A. (2017). Kustaman (ed.). Apakah Bumi Itu Datar? [Is the Earth Flat?] (in Indonesian). Yogyakarta: Narasi. ISBN9789791685238. For you who wants some resources about flat earth.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
Endah, Albretine (May 2016). Merry Riana: Mimpi Sejuta Dolar [Merry Riana: The Million Dollar Dream] (in Indonesian) (19 ed.). Jakarta: Gramedia Pustaka Utama. ISBN9789792274813A biographical book about Merry Riana, if you need one.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
This is a list of articles that I plan to improve in the long run. Mostly likely I won't be able to complete all of them. If you have any offline/paywalled sources on one of them, please message me on the talk page.
As I AWB through COVID-19 articles, I notice very few {{orphan}} and {{underlinked}} tags going up. Having articles that link to each other well may seem minor, hence my choice of barnstar, but I've noticed that having articles that are well-linked to each other tends to increase the quality of said articles. This particular correlation means that well-linked articles are a bigger deal than people sometimes think. Everyone actively participating in this Wikiproject, particularly the wikilink gnomes, deserves a barnstar. I dream of horses(Contribs) Please notify me after replying off my talk page. Thank you. 07:12, 9 September 2020 (UTC)
Thank you for the huge amount of work you put into the Plandemic article! It was greatly improved by your steady hand. Robincantin (talk) 15:16, 7 October 2020 (UTC)
By the authority vested in me by myself it gives me great pleasure to present you with this barnstar in recognition of your classy and engrossing user page. I am sure that I am only one of very many who have spent an enjoyable fifteen minutes browsing through it. Gog the Mild (talk) 20:52, 28 November 2020 (UTC)
User:Gerald Waldo Luis
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Order of the LAX Airport
For your welcoming spirit, I, TheLAXPlanespotter, hereby award you the Order of the LAX Airport, the highest award given only to those who truly go beyond in the field of aviation, bestowed upon by The LAXPlanespotter Council of Awards. Thank you for your contributions! TheLAXPlanespotter (talk) 20:44, 8 December 2020 (UTC)
Order of the LAX Airport
For your welcoming atmosphere, I hereby confer upon you the Order of the LAX Airport, the highest award bestowed upon Wikipedians under the directive of TheLAXPlanespotter Awards Council. Enjoy your time in the spotlight and thanks for your contributions! -That person that you responded to in my talkpage TheLAXPlanespotter (talk) 20:56, 8 December 2020 (UTC)
Congrats dude! The article you were working on, Ave Maryam, has passed the GA-criteria, becoming a good article on February 1, 2021. Great job on the improvements! For you're hard work, I award you this interesting image of a dog. Enjoy!
Your GA, To Fly, was was a well written article and a pleasure to read. Keep up the good work and hopefully you produce more high quality articles. Rlink2 (talk) 21:18, 5 March 2022 (UTC)
^The suffix '90x' is taken from the Boeing 777X's green engine GE9X, which some misspelled it as 'GE90X.' Having the prefix 'GE' also being my name's 'prefix,' I decided to make my usernames 'gerald.90x.'
^"Cite This Page". English Wikipedia. 2001. Archived from the original on February 20, 2022. Retrieved 2020-11-14. Wikipedia articles should be used for background information, as a reference for correct terminology and search terms, and as a starting point for further research. As with any community-built reference, there is a possibility for error in Wikipedia's content—please check your facts against multiple sources and read our disclaimers for more information.
^Rosenzweig, Roy (2018). "Wikipedia: Credible Research Source or Not?". Teachinghistory.org. Archived from the original on April 11, 2021. Retrieved 2020-11-14. Wikipedia should not be used as a credible source (especially as they enter college), even though some of the information is factually accurate. [...] Jimmy Wales [even stated], "No, I don't think people should cite it, and I don't think people should cite Britannica, either... People shouldn't be citing encyclopedias in the first place. Wikipedia and other encyclopedias should...give good, solid background information to inform your studies for a deeper level."
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