User:SpartHawg948

About Me
My name is William, I am 25, and I am a Staff Sergeant (SSgt) in the US Air Force Reserve. I live in Santa Clara, California, and I LOVE Mass Effect (and can't wait for #2)!!! I aim to do whatever I can to improve this site, as I feel it's a great resource. Also, I am an admin, so if anyone has any questions or needs help with anything, please just let me know!

Also, not to put too fine a point on it, but I have no patience whatsoever with crybabies, whiners, speculators, and boors. If you are going to be rude to someone else, plant purely speculative info, or insult others but then start crying when someone calls you on it, you WILL be hearing from me.

Now that the seriousness is taken care of, it's my goal to make this the most informative site possible, while also keeping it a nice, friendly environment for users. Any assistance in furthering that goal is, of course, greatly appreciated, and I try to acknowledge people for their efforts as much as possible. So I hope you all enjoy the site, and hopefully you'll be hearing from me (for something good, of course!)

Projects

 * Work on cleaning up/beefing up Port Hanshan
 * Keeping an eye on anything military related. (As a servicemember I take a great deal of interest in all thing military, so it's kind of my pet project!)
 * Keeping an eye on Mass Effect 2 and all related pages. Word to the wise- Speculators beware! If new tidbits aren't sourced, I WILL remove them! If they reappear, still not sourced, they're gone again! It's a waiting game, and I've got nothing but time! :)

Tongue-in cheek thought of the, ah, who am I kidding? I'm not gonna change this daily...

 * Please realize people that you can't make judgment calls about the way a Mass Effect race/culture does things based on how you do things. So what if their system of naming their people seems odd to you? Your method probably seems weird to them, too. Even if you don't like the method the writers at BioWare came up with for the race to name their people, this is an encyclopedia which is based off of precisely that, and not your own personal preferences. SpartHawg948 03:10, December 1, 2009 (UTC)
 * Please people, don't call someone else WRONG for expressing an opinion. That's just rude. Oh, and it can also get you blocked, too!
 * If you make lots of mistakes, I'm going to correct you a lot. Don't get all bitchy about it. Maybe work on making less mistakes, instead. If you don't make mistakes, or do douchey things like calling other people wrong for expressing their opinions, or make lots of typos and factual errors, I won't have to correct you. And if I don't have to correct you, you won't have to get all butt-hurt and whiney and start using bold words to express your annoyance and try to make me look like a jerk! (In point of fact, I do quite well making myself look like a jerk, I don't require assistance) :P SpartHawg948 00:58, December 7, 2009 (UTC)
 * Also, the official SpartHawg948 word of the month for December- VINLIFYING. Please don't ask me what it means, as I have no clue. I suspect it was intended to be "vilifying" but it would appear an N crept in there too, which brings me to my next point- SPELLCHECK. Use it people, it's here for you! (In much the same way I am, actually!) SpartHawg948 01:58, December 7, 2009 (UTC)
 * Also, not to sound preachy or anything, but the best way to keep a resolved, but still somewhat contentious, dispute from becoming an issue again is to just move on. Simple as that. Of course, it's pretty hard to move on when uninvolved parties keep bringing it up after it's already been resolved. Just saying... SpartHawg948 21:27, December 7, 2009 (UTC)
 * Really people? Really? When I ask if we can just let an issue go and not re-hash unpleasantness, it is NOT an invitation to go over all the details again! I don't care if you want to tell me what you thought about it! You have a talk page too, you know! Please, if someone asks to have an issue like that dropped, respect their wishes! Is that really so much to ask? SpartHawg948 23:25, December 7, 2009 (UTC)
 * Also, in an aside that by it's very nature may sound rude and jerky (even though that is not my intent). If you wish to interject points about an argument between two people, and want them to be taken seriously and impartially, it helps to not say, "oh, and I'm ___'s cousin" (blank being one of the parties in the hypothetical dispute). The reason for this is, no matter how many times you protest that you are not just sticking up for family or fighting their battles for them, the doubt will always be there. It will pretty much always be viewed as you fighting family battles, and not speaking as a neutral observer. Just saying... SpartHawg948 23:28, December 7, 2009 (UTC)
 * One more thing to tack onto that last point. It also looks rather fishy if you state openly that you have no intention of making edits to this wiki, but just happen to pop over from another wiki to re-open old debates and throw in your two cents. I was a little confused by that at first, till it became known that the individual in question was a relative of the other party to the dispute. That, combined with the familial relationship, makes it pretty hard to not see it as someone come to fight his cousin's battles. Also, if you aren't at this wiki to edit and improve the site, is it too much to ask that you don't leave rants/messages/whatever on my talk page? SpartHawg948 23:38, December 7, 2009 (UTC)