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Greetings. The name's Walkazo, as you may have guessed from this page's title. I'm a [[Special:Listusers/sysop|Sysop]] here on the Super Mario Wiki, so feel free to ask me anything (within reason) and I'll do my best to help you out. I used to share this account with my little brother, [[User:Pantaro Paratroopa|Pantaro Paratroopa]], but not anymore; so if you're looking for him, go there (but don't expect a response - he hasn't edited in months).
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Now about me... Well, I love ''Mario'' stuff, but I hate [[Mario]] himself. I dream of the day [[Nintendo]] creates a game in which [[Bowser]] is the titular character and finally gets his long-awaited victory over that accursed plumber. I also hope that some day the people at Nintendo will make sense of all the Marioverse/timeline issues they've cooked up over the years. Unfortunately, neither is likely to happen anytime soon, so I compensate with writing Bowser-centric [http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1187666/Walkazo fanfiction] and my own personal writeup of the ''Mario'' series (an ongoing project) which only truly be complete once I realize my dream of playing all the ''Mario'' games in existence (even the "bad" ones like ''[[Mario is Missing]]'').
Greetings. The name's Walkazo (big surprise there). I'm a [[Special:Listusers/bureaucrat|Bureaucrat]] here on the Super Mario Wiki, so feel free to ask me anything (within reason) and I'll do my best to help you out. I joined the wiki in 2007 along with my brother, who shared my account for a few months before I kicked him out. His name's [[User:Pantaro Paratroopa|Pantaro]], but he left the wiki years ago, so don't bother trying to call him up.
 
Another thing I'm working on is an evolutionary chart for all the Koopas, including Bowser's species which infuriatingly has not been given an official name and is therefore devoid of a page here on the Wiki (I call them [[Dragon Koopa]]s). One of the first steps towards this is a compete [[User:Walkazo/Koopas|taxonomy]] of the Koopas organized by family, genus, and species; and a [[User:Walkazo/Templates|template]] with links to ''all'' the Koopa Species. Like my timeline (which will eventually be posted [[User:Walkazo/Essays|here]]), it's a work in progress.
 
I'm not nearly as active here on the Super Mario Wiki as I'd like to be, thanks mostly to school. I mostly do gnomework and why I was promoted for it is beyond me; most of the time I italicize stuff, fix spacing, add semi-colons or inject big, posh words into articles. I also like sticking my nose in policy debates, mostly about [[MarioWiki:Chronology|Chronology]] and [[MarioWiki:Canonicity|Canonicity]]; call me strange (which I am), but I find these fascinating.


===Useful Things===
Now about me... Well, I'm a 24-year-old girl from Toronto, Canada, and I'm currently studying at university to be an [[wikipedia:Ornithology|ornithologist]] - although I'm interested in many other branches of zoological science as well, like genetics and evolution. I also love ''Mario'' stuff (obviously), although I sympathize with {{fake link|Bowser}} much more than the titular plumber himself, and split my computer time between editing the wiki and writing Koopa-centric [http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1187666/Walkazo fanfiction]. Around the wiki, I try my best to keep track of [[MarioWiki:Proposals|Proposals]] and other such policy debates, and while most of my edits are maintenance work, if I come across poorly written articles on my rounds, I usually sit down and try to fix it. One pet-project I have on the go is to mash as many of the games as I can into one comprehensive timeline that goes along with my fanfiction. I already made {{plain link|1=[http://walkazo.deviantart.com/art/Mushroom-World-Map-381271109 a (partial) world map]}}, although I had to tweak or completely ignore quite a few in-game maps to make it work. Another thing I'm working on is an evolutionary chart for all the Koopas, including Bowser's species (which I call {{fake link|Dragon-Koopas}}, seeing as an ''official'' name hasn't actually been made yet).
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*[[Help:Color_codes|Colour]] [[Wikipedia:Web_colors#X11_color_names|Codes]]
Between my editing, writing, work and my education, I don't have as much time as I'd like to play the actual video games themselves, but I manage to squeeze a few in here and there, and I'm always on the lookout for new titles to add to my collection. My favourite games are ''Super Mario World'', ''Super Mario Bros. Deluxe'', ''Super Paper Mario'' and ''Mario Kart: Double Dash!!''
*[[Special:Upload|Helpful]] [[Help: Image|Image]] [[Help:License|stuff]]
*[[MarioWiki:BJAODN|Bad Jokes]]
*[[Help:Template|Templates]]
*[[Help:Editing|Editing Help]]
<blockquote>Ahhh! A Quote Block! Run for your lives!</blockquote>
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===Spritework===
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The [[Paratroopa]] sprites at the top of the spritesheet are my brother, Pantaro Paratroopa, and the Dragon-Koopa is me, Walkazo. The image is actually a simplified version of my idea of [[Bowser]]'s wife (who I call Bowselta, as opposed to [[Clawdia Koopa|Clawdia]]); however, I included a recolour of my sprites to be brighter and have purple-tinted hair like Bowselta. The other pallete swap was inspired by an unpublished fanfiction of mine too elaborate to describe here and now. I included alternative expressions for both PP and I, as well as spritework of PP's [[Shroob]] laser. He also used a special effect from (I think) [[User:Max2|Max2's]] sprite sheet for the blue tornado, but he used outdated sideways-shell sprites (bad ones he made before I made good ones). I've included 8-bit versions of us, as well as ''[[Super Mario Bros. 3|SMB3]]''-styled images (the rest of PP's sprites come from ''[[Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island]]'', and I designed mine from scratch to match that scale). Also at the bottom, I've included sprites of my pet Shovelnose Catfish, Biggles, and of my local [[Wikipedia:Common Grackle|Grackles]] (a species of North American Blackbird), which my family has been monitoring for the last four years.
==Useful Things==
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[[Image:WalkazoSpriteSheet.png]]
*Colour [[wikipedia:Web_colors#X11_color_names|Codes]]
*[[MarioWiki:Navigation templates|Navigation Templates]] (also works for brackets)
*For cut-and-paste ease...
**Instruction manual: 「{{hover|説明書|せつめいしょ}}」<ref name=Dude>Reference.</ref>
*#Vowels with macrons: ''ā ī ū ē ō''
*#&nbsp; <- That space brought to you by '''&nbsp<b></b>;''' - it is ''very'' handy<ref>[[:File:BowserMM294.png|Another Reference!]]</ref>.
**<u>x</u>800px makes images the desired height (800 or otherwise)
*[[Template:Multiple image|Helpful]] [[Template:Multiframe|Image]] [[Help:License|stuff]]
*{{color-link|User:Walkazo/Essays|black|Secret Work Page (shhhh)}}
*Restricted [[mb:posts/213258|Forum thread]] (skipped to a good bit) and a public [[mb:forums/57|board]]<ref name=Dude/>.
<blockquote>A blockquote is a block of quotes.</blockquote>
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This is yet another work in progress. I had hoped to include more sprites of Biggles (who, in reality, is only about a foot long, not giant like I have made him here), as well as some sprites of PP and I as our chameleon namesakes. But my glitchy, old computer doesn't handle Photoshop very well anymore, and I don't have the time for spritework even if it did. So that's about all anyone will get for quite a while.
==Fun Projects==
[[File:XCIX_Walkazo4.png|thumb|300px|Self-portrait, with Japanese.]]
As well as my aforementioned fanfiction, I've also done some writing for [[The 'Shroom:Main Page|The 'Shroom]] over the years. So far, I've written four special sections discussing the science of the Koopas (listed below), and hope to do a couple more someday. I also have an ongoing "[[userpedia:Mario's Boombox|Mario's Boombox]]" column, wherein I recommend videogame-inspired/derived music, and am doing a one-year run of a comic called ''[[userpedia:The Adventures of Little Mario|The Adventures of Little Mario]]'', about Mario and his friends running amok as kiddies. I've also done a few awards presentations and co-authored the comic "''[[userpedia:I heard you have a dragon problem|I heard you have a dragon problem?]]''" - my one and only foray into user fiction.


===School Project===
*[[The_'Shroom:Issue_64/Theoretical_Macroevolution_of_Koopas|Theoretical Macroevolution of the Koopas]]
[[Image:BowserMM294.png|thumb|300px|In case you couldn't read my atrocious handwriting, the title was "Bowser and the Transformation of MM294".]]
*[[The_'Shroom:Issue_LXIX/A_Genetic_Analysis_of_the_Koopas|A Genetic Analysis of the Koopas]]
My Grade 12 Biology class once did a lab where we put plasmids containing jellyfish DNA (as pGLO plasmids) into ''E. coli'' bacteria (a strain called MM294), making them able to glow green under UV light. Instead of doing a monotonous lab report, our teacher had us use a creative medium to explain what we did in the lab and our results; I chose to do a fanfiction, and this is the title page:
*[[The 'Shroom:Issue LXXXVIII/Evolutionary Taxonomy of the Koopas|Evolutionary Taxonomy of the Koopas]]
*[[The 'Shroom:Issue XCIII/A Phylogenetic Analysis of the Koopas|A Phylogenetic Analysis of the Koopas]]
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<gallery>
File:XCIX_Walkazo3.png|My partial Mushroom World map.
File:Sketch01March12.png|An older bunch of Koopalings.
File:BowserMM294.png|"Bowser and the Transformation of MM294"
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==Trivia==
==Stupid Stuff==
*I beat (in my and PP's opinions) the hardest level of ''[[Super Mario Sunshine]]'', [[Sirena Beach|Sirena Beach 6]] on April Fools Day, leading Pantaro Paratroopa to believe I was just joking about it when I told him.
Some stuff that I found funny at the time. YMMV.
*Both PP and I are named after lizards (Walkazo was a [[Wikipedia:Veiled_Chameleon|Veiled Chameleon]] and Pantaro was a [[Wikipedia:Furcifer_pardalis|Panther Chameleon]]); both of them died in my arms, which was rather poignant.
*"Name in other languajes" - {{color|Irony.|red}}
*"Shadoo could also be [[Dark Link]]." - {{color-link|Wikipedia:Speculation|goldenrod|Or not.}}
*"In ''[[Mario Party 6]]'', Wario and [[Toadette]]'s team name is named ''Secret Friends''. This may refer that Wario and Toadette were once friends, secretly." - {{color|nowai|magenta}}
*"In ''Super Mario 64 DS'', the star is the same as if it was gotten in the original version of the game that can be gotten in the original way." - {{color|It's not so much funny as it is painful.|limegreen}}


==BJAODN stuff==
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For the record, this is the stuff (highlighted with the boldface) that I found funny.
[[Category:User_fr|2]]
*"'''[[World 4 (NSMB)|World 4]]:''' Tropical rain forest with '''intoxicated''' waters." - [[New Super Mario Bros.|?]]
[[Category:User_ja|2]]
*"Tolstar and the guards live." - [[Tolstar|That's sorta creepy.]]
*"Shadoo could also be [[Dark Link]]." - [[Shadoo|Um... no.]]
*"In ''[[Mario Party 6]]'', Wario and [[Toadette]]'s team name is named ''Secret Friends''. This may refer that Wario and Toadette were once friends, secretly." - [[Wario|Bad grammar ''and'' stating the obvious... Nice.]]
*"[The] Nipper Plant ... spoke in a very deep '''town''' reminiscent of a drill sergeant." - [[Nipper Plant|Typos are fun.]]
*"In ''Super Mario 64 DS'', the star is the same as if it was gotten in the original version of the game that can be gotten in the original way." - I had to replace this for almost every ''[[Super Mario 64]]'' mission... It's no much funny as it is painful.

Latest revision as of 10:25, September 16, 2022

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 This user can speak un peu de français et 日本語が少しわかります。
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Greetings. The name's Walkazo (big surprise there). I'm a Bureaucrat here on the Super Mario Wiki, so feel free to ask me anything (within reason) and I'll do my best to help you out. I joined the wiki in 2007 along with my brother, who shared my account for a few months before I kicked him out. His name's Pantaro, but he left the wiki years ago, so don't bother trying to call him up.

Now about me... Well, I'm a 24-year-old girl from Toronto, Canada, and I'm currently studying at university to be an ornithologist - although I'm interested in many other branches of zoological science as well, like genetics and evolution. I also love Mario stuff (obviously), although I sympathize with Bowser much more than the titular plumber himself, and split my computer time between editing the wiki and writing Koopa-centric fanfiction. Around the wiki, I try my best to keep track of Proposals and other such policy debates, and while most of my edits are maintenance work, if I come across poorly written articles on my rounds, I usually sit down and try to fix it. One pet-project I have on the go is to mash as many of the games as I can into one comprehensive timeline that goes along with my fanfiction. I already made a (partial) world map, although I had to tweak or completely ignore quite a few in-game maps to make it work. Another thing I'm working on is an evolutionary chart for all the Koopas, including Bowser's species (which I call Dragon-Koopas, seeing as an official name hasn't actually been made yet).

Between my editing, writing, work and my education, I don't have as much time as I'd like to play the actual video games themselves, but I manage to squeeze a few in here and there, and I'm always on the lookout for new titles to add to my collection. My favourite games are Super Mario World, Super Mario Bros. Deluxe, Super Paper Mario and Mario Kart: Double Dash!!

Useful Things

Who's online: Nightwicked Bowser, Remembered Old Buddy, Kwonunn, Raffina Higashikata, KingOllie8, Raymond1922A, Joe Trivio, DingoHazel, Sdman213, BredofdaWild, GlobinGoblin, Kingrs, SuperLuigiDude, Dorsal Axe, Taemei, TheRaoul1992, Mariofan12ify, Blhte, Mikan-chan, Jdtendo, Maluzuheyyds, Pinwin, NINTENDOBRO 2007, C.thegamerboy, Starluxe, CaXaP

A blockquote is a block of quotes.

References
  1. ^ a b Reference.
  2. ^ Another Reference!

Fun Projects

Self-portrait, with Japanese.

As well as my aforementioned fanfiction, I've also done some writing for The 'Shroom over the years. So far, I've written four special sections discussing the science of the Koopas (listed below), and hope to do a couple more someday. I also have an ongoing "Mario's Boombox" column, wherein I recommend videogame-inspired/derived music, and am doing a one-year run of a comic called The Adventures of Little Mario, about Mario and his friends running amok as kiddies. I've also done a few awards presentations and co-authored the comic "I heard you have a dragon problem?" - my one and only foray into user fiction.

  • My partial Mushroom World map.

    My partial Mushroom World map.

  • An older bunch of Koopalings.

    An older bunch of Koopalings.

  • "Bowser and the Transformation of MM294"

    "Bowser and the Transformation of MM294"

Stupid Stuff

Some stuff that I found funny at the time. YMMV.

  • "Name in other languajes" - Irony.
  • "Shadoo could also be Dark Link." - Or not.
  • "In Mario Party 6, Wario and Toadette's team name is named Secret Friends. This may refer that Wario and Toadette were once friends, secretly." - nowai
  • "In Super Mario 64 DS, the star is the same as if it was gotten in the original version of the game that can be gotten in the original way." - It's not so much funny as it is painful.
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