User:Revriley

Update, 02/20/2020: As of yesterday I have sent my laptop off for repairs (hopefully just a matter of shorted-out keys), so I’ll be relying on my tablet at home for the next several days/next week or so for things like wiki editing and monitoring (don’t think I’m not monitoring! An admin’s work never ends). Of course, there are always the computers at the library and faculty buildings as well... In any case, this is just a minor PSA in case I end up taking longer to react to vandalism or inaccurate edits (or to any contact on my Talk Page).

Hi. For those of you who have noticed me around the wiki... Well, I'm a huge fan of Baccano!, obviously, and I talk about it on agallimaufryofoddments. A lot. Like most western fans, I was introduced to the series via the anime, but then I read the light novels (years before the YP license) and long story short Baccano! and the Naritaverse now occupy my brain 24/7. My Baccano! collection's grown quite a bit over the years, and I hope for it to grow more.

As of January 10, 2016 I was elevated to admin/bureaucrat status by Farewellfire (Publicdomain). I appreciate the gesture and hope to continue contributing to this wiki with detailed and useful edits.

As of April 24, 2017 (give or take a day) I became a moderator of r/Baccano over on Reddit.

My Fatal Flaw, Wiki-Wise: Too much detail! No admin is perfect, and my main shortcoming is that I can go into far too much detail when adding content--particularly Chronology. This habit was particularly bad when I was starting out as a wiki editor + admin--when tackling pages severely lacking in content/information, I suspect I was overcompensating by adding all the information. So, if you see contributions of mine you find overlong and want to cut down into something more succinct--I assure you I will not take offense. Detail is good, but in this case "too much of a good thing" is a reality.

Favorite Baccano! characters, you ask? I hate ranking favorites, but if you pressed me for a top three I'd have to go with Maiza, Elmer, and Keith. I want to emphasize that I love the entire cast, but I guess some others that I'm especially fond of include: Tick, Nile, Upham, Angelo, The Poet, Begg, Carla, Ronny Schiatto, Nick, Elean... No, I'm sorry, I'll end up listing them all at this rate.

Priority/To-do List
Edit: When I first started editing, one of my main priorities was to add various missing pages that really needed to be added. It's necessary work, but it's also come at the expense to adding information to the main/popular pages that really desperately need info. However! I'm very close now, I think, to a temporary 'end', there are only a few more in-universe pages I have enough info to create pages for, and possible a few more media/merchandise articles that can still be added.

I feel like if I can whittle down the remaining wanted pages as far as they can go (not counting chapter articles), I'll then be able to focus on rewriting/adding information to existing articles. (I have no doubt that 2003 will give me more characters to create - probably Jessica Sullivan, potentially Paul if he shows up again...)


 * Revamp popular character pages (e.g. write chronologies, personalities, etc) URGENT
 * Create pages for characters/locations/organizations that don't have them MID-HIGH
 * So many light novel chapters still lack pages, and those that do more often than not don't have anything substantial in them MID-LOW
 * Rename articles to reflect official translations AS NEEDED
 * Add NavBox to chapters; get rid of all image files where F.T. text is visible
 * Upgrade stub articles to actual articles MID-HIGH


 * Fix typos/grammar/spelling/poor sentence structure & stiltedness of older character articles ALWAYS
 * Fix my own contributions wherein I went into entirely too much and often too minute detail. (And when I continue to do it...)


 * IMAGES: Properly categorize/index all images on the wiki - come up with naming standard? - replace low res with high res WISHFUL THINKING
 * Actually I went and categorized the existing 2015 manga images under "2015 Manga Images"
 * Also: eventually ensure that all light novel images are uploaded to wiki CONCURRENT W/LN CHAPTERS
 * Also: track down and deal with duplicate images
 * Continue adding quotes to the Random Quote Template NEAT BUT INFO TAKES PRIORITY
 * Continue adding alt. images to character infoboxes NEAT BUT INFO TAKES PRIORITY
 * Forum promotion TRICKY
 * Reference/Citation System SLOWLY BUT SURELY
 * Devise and implement wiki policies ...AT SOME POINT

Completed from Above

 * Create pages for remaining 2015 manga chapters that need them COMPLETE
 * Write summaries for remaining chapters COMPLETE
 * Add images for remaining chapters... Not actually complete, but not high priority
 * Rewrite summaries of the 2007 anime episodes COMPLETE
 * Have rewritten all 16 summaries, currently in middle of uploading screenshots, reorganizing diff sections, adding previews. DONE but still worth going back to revise/tweak pages
 * Related; need to do something about cast lists on Baccano! (2007 Anime) page.
 * Replace Light novel cover Images with high quality versions. COMPLETED EXISTING ONES
 * 2006 manga covers too. COMPLETED