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• Name: Josh G.
• Location (when not at studying computer science at UIUC): a suburb of Chicago
• Nicknames: André (French)
• Instant Messanger Username (AIM): jcompwhiz
• Instant Messanger Username (YM): jcompwhiz
• Things that annoy me: Internet slang, improper spelling or grammar, and the number and difficulty of calculus, chemistry, and physics courses that I must take.

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• Improve InuYasha enough so that it can be a featured article. (See the featured article objections for information on what needs to be fixed.) Status: Minor changes made, added an experimental 'animation quality' section. Will continue sporadically. (It's too hard to address too many of the issues at once.)
• Implement the consensus decision about the usage of Tetsusaiga vs. Tessaiga. Status: Done, now that searching finally works again.
• Draw pictures of InuYasha characters in Adobe Illustrator to use for their respective articles. Status: Cancelled in favor of the task below.
• Upload DVD screenshots of InuYasha characters to use for their respective articles. Status: In progress. Finished Shippo, Kirara, and Kagome, although I would prefer a happier picture for Kagome. It's hard to find a full body shot though.
• Add citations to InuYasha articles. Status: Unsure if this is necessary, may seek community opinions.
• Correct uses of 'comedic relief' and 'comedy relief'. (They should both be 'comic relief'.) Status: Done. Apparently there were not as many of these mistakes as I had thought.
• Correct uses of 'seiyuu' and 'seiyu'. Both of them should be 'seiyū' in Hepburn. I am also moving articles in :Category:Seiyuu to :Category:Seiyu. Status: Done. Thank you to Ranma9617 for his help and to anyone else who helped move articles.
• Find or draw an artistic rendering of a Phoenix to use in that article. Status: I found a picture, but it needs to be cropped.
• Add an original summary to Eragon to replace the book flap summary that is currently there. Status: Not started.
• Expand the Hanyō article, which is only a stub. Status: Having trouble finding reference materials on the subject.
• Add article about Timeline, one of my favorite books. Status: Not started.
• Add article about The Cat Who Came For Christmas, another of my favorite books. Status: Not started.
• Add article about Cleveland Amory, one of my favorite authors. Status: Not started.

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• I tend to work mostly on InuYasha articles and other articles related to anime or Japan.
• However, I sometimes do edit other articles that I come across, mostly doing copyediting.
• My first edit as a registered user was on June 27, 2004, although I did make a few anonymous edits before that.

• Sōta Higurashi
• Kōga
• The 10th Kingdom
• Probably some others that I forgot.

Whenever I browse Wikipedia, I try to correct mistakes in Japan-related articles, especially by:

• Making sure that articles use Hepburn romanization and macrons.
• Adding kanji for Japanese concepts, where appropriate.
• Following the Manual of Style for Japan-related articles.

On the InuYasha page and on related character pages, I have also added kanji for the names of many of the minor characters.

(Learning languages is one of my favorite pastimes.)

• English (native)
• French (near-fluent, I took it for four years in high school and some in middle school as well)
• Japanese (still learning, I only know a little of it)

(in no particular order, but Timeline is definitely first)

• Timeline by Michael Crichton
• Eragon by Christopher Paolini
• The Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen Hawking
• The Cat Who Came For Christmas by Cleveland Amory (and related books)
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (and related books)

• Clue, directed by Jonathan Lynn
• Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, directed by Leonard Nimoy
• Spirited Away, directed by Miyazaki Hayao (name in Japanese order)
• Kiki's Delivery Service, also directed by Miyazaki Hayao
• The 10th Kingdom, directed by David Carson and Herbert Wise

I don't watch TV much these days, but when I do, these are the shows that I watch:

• Inuyasha, created by Takahashi Rumiko
• Stargate: SG-1