User:Walkazo

Greetings. The name's Walkazo, as you may have guessed from this page's title. I'm a 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, 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).

Now about me... Well, I'm 19 years old, I live in Toronto, Canada, and I'm currently studying 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 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 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, Mario Kart: Double Dash!! and Yoshi's Safari (I love my Super Scope).

Useful Things
"Ahhh! A Quotation Block! Run for your lives!" References
 * Colour Codes
 * Templates
 * For cut-and-paste ease...
 * From 「日本語」 Nihongo (Japanese).
 * Quotation marks: 「」
 * Vowels with macrons: ā ī ū ē ō
 * Katakana and Hiragana (Use Google and the dictionaries for Kanji)
 * Helpful Image stuff
 * <- That space brought to you by &nbsp; - it is very handy.
 * Bad Jokes.
 * Editing Help

School Project
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:

BJAODN stuff
For the record, this is the stuff (highlighted with the boldface) that I found funny.
 * "World 4: Tropical rain forest with intoxicated waters." -
 * "Tolstar and the guards live." -
 * "Shadoo could also be Dark Link." -
 * "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." -
 * "[The] Nipper Plant ... spoke in a very deep town reminiscent of a drill sergeant." -
 * "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  mission... It's not so much funny as it is painful.