User:YellowYoshi398

"A little thought can usually totally convince me to believe something completely opposite of my initial belief..."

- User:YellowYoshi398

What? Can't a user have a quote, too? Oh, right! Me! Yeah...

Hello! Thanks for visiting my user page... I'm YellowYoshi398. I've been a member of the Super Mario Wiki ever since November 26, 2006, which hasn't been that long, I suppose...

Anyway, I really enjoy editing the Super Mario Wiki. I usually correct any mistake I happen to see while reading a page, but my favorite thing to do here is add new content and create pages of my own (most of which seem to be about trivial events/characters/places in the RPGs). The Super Mario Wiki is really fun... and addictive. Anyway, I also write in on talk pages when necessary, and I try to upload an image here and there... Yeah.

I find the Super Mario Wiki superior to other sites (such as Wikipedia) because of the friendly people on it. Sure, it sounds weird, but the good ol' SMW seems a lot more... social then the rest. Pretty shortly after I joined (or at least after I wrote the article on the Aurora Block), I was bombarded (in a very, very good way) with compliments and encouragements of all sorts. Everyone here is awesome.

I once dreamed that Dora the Explorer was part of the tertiary focus of the Super Mario Wiki... Maybe I should get a little more organized before I ramble on into randomness.

Me
Well, my actual name is Branden (which happens to be my internet pseudonym in a few places, such as my unimpressive Mario fansite). I'm a devout Christian, and I live... on Earth. Okay, I don't really like to give much personal information away, but I will tell you that I live in the United States of America. I'm also male, and thirteen years old. I play the piano and saxophone and I'm outfitted with glasses and braces, but other than that I'm boring and normal. On to more specific, exciting things!

My History With Mario
Ah, Mario... One of my favorite subjects. There we were: six cousins, and a NES (which is practically a family member, too). Okay, I'll explain. In those glory days of toddlerhood, back when my mom and dad went to work but I wasn't old enough for school, my grandma would babysit me. She'd also babysit my brother, and... all those cousins. Anyway, tons of things went on in those days... We watched a lot of Nick Jr.... But the real exciting thing was my grandma's three (maybe four? =P) NESs. Some of them belonged/were claimed by us cousins, but the "main" one, the one that worked the best and was loved the best, was that of my cousin Tyler. Tyler was the oldest cousin, and I was downright afraid of him back then, but it was so worth it just to watch a play session of Super Mario Bros. Ah, those days of simple n00bishness... Toad was known as "diaper baby", Hammer Bros. had sinister grins rather than helmet straps, and so on and so on. How we loved those days of SMB, SMB2, and SMB3 (not to mention Dr. Mario, and... well, you get the point). Needless to say, I always had a love of Mario. However, this love wasn't enhanced to its current point until around fourth grade (three years ago), when I purchased Super Mario Advance 4 for my GBA (which used to be one of my most prized possessions...). The names and whatnot that I knew were those left over from my toddlerhood n00bism, but, with a little research (which includes my discovery of Wikipedia), I was soon very familiar with everything Mario. More research, and I became a downright nerd. And I'm proud.

My History At the Super Mario Wiki
My wiki experience started at Wikipedia, where I learned the basics of that wiki code thing. I also went through my n00b stage there (under my IP address). Ah, yes... Back then, not all of my edits were helpful. I'd change or even remove things due to my own personal beliefs, and I'd do it a LOT. When I look back on my old Wikipedia contribs, I've just gotta think... WOW. I did do helpful stuff there, though, and I was no vandal. After stopping Wikipedia edits for a whole year (due to wanting to keep my IP address private), I eventually officially joined under "YellowYoshi398" and became a LOT more helpful. I'd learned... But this paragraph isn't supposed to be about Wikipedia! It should be about the Super Mario Wiki... Anyway, my first encounter with the SMW was a long time ago... I can't quite remember how I found it, but I believe it had something to do with Wikipedia... (Don't worry, I won't ramble on about it anymore.) Anyway, this one, first visit... wasn't quite... good. I don't know if I came at a bad time or anything, but there were two articles (that are both now deleted) that dissappointed me: "Mario and the Koopa Family" (whose talk page still exists), which was about some made-up Mario movie (that not only featured Bowser Jr. and Mama Koopa, but all the Koopalings), and Jumping Green Lui, which was about an item from a fangame (of all things) called Mario Forever. As shameful as it is to admit, these annoying articles made me stay away from the Super Mario Wiki for quite some time. However, after joining Wikipedia under a username, I soon returned to the SMW... and immediately looked up "Mario and the Koopa Family" and "Jumping Green Lui". They had been deleted! Perhaps the Super Mario Wiki wasn't so bad. Well, whether it was or whether it wasn't, I didn't join until much later. I did, however, have it constantly in mind, probably due to how much I enjoyed Wikipedia. I didn't make that decision until one day... One day when I was replaying Mario and Luigi: Partners in Time (which is the game that a lot of my older edits were based around), and Toadsworth the Younger told Toadsworth that he "looked like he had a Bristle in his britches". That was it. Enough. I turned the game off, tossed it to my side, and rushed to the computer. I quickly became a SMW user, and made my first edit to Bristle. A discovery like this just couldn't go unnoticed.

However, my story doesn't end there. I continued making small, mostly grammar-related edits and putting in some new content here and there, but I just didn't have much enthusiasm about the wiki yet. Then, there was one more night when I was playing M&L:PiT (I owe a lot to that game)... I heard that gate mention a place called the "Star Realm", which aroused my curiosity. What game was that from? The next day, Sunday, I was reviewing that thought... when the Super Mario Wiki popped into my head. "I bet they have an article on it!" I thought, "and if not... I could make it!" I soon managed to look "Star Realm" up, and, almost to my fortune, there was no article on it. I logged on, and, well, made it! My first article! Later, I noticed my link to Aurora Block was missing. I made that, too! And then it happened... The article soon got an edit, and in its summary Monty Mole complimented me. Knife agreed in a similar manner. Knife even left me a thanks in my talk page! Later, Mariofan132 sent tons of encouragement, and that sent it over the top. I was here to stay, and I want to thank everyone I mentioned, as well as everyone else on this wiki, for that. I probably wouldn't be typing this if it wasn't for them.

Articles I've Started

 * Star Realm
 * Aurora Block
 * Gramma Red and Gramma Green
 * Monchee
 * Army Hammer Bro
 * Vibe Scepter
 * Goomez
 * Eddy the Mask
 * Business Bro.
 * Delfino Emergency Broadcast System
 * Rogueport Direct Mail Service
 * Rogueport Restoration Committee
 * Mushroom Sea
 * Pot Cannon
 * Johnson
 * Drill Bit
 * Superball
 * Foppish Gourmet Weekly
 * Headless Snowman
 * Hand-it-Overs
 * Para-Goom
 * Hen
 * Spear-bot
 * Mask-Guy