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Bulbapedia
Games
PAK Man is an administrator on Bulbapedia, and a fairly active member in the online Pokémon community.
History with Pokémon
The first time I had ever heard of Pokémon was when I was watching an episode of Beast Wars. One of the commercials I had seen was for the series, complete with the Gotta Catch 'em All! slogan. Initially, I didn't want to watch it, because I believed it to be childish. At that point, I had no idea that it was based on a Japanese video game of the same name.
Anime
That would change in July of 1999 when I was on vacation with my family. I wanted to watch TV, and the only thing remotely interesting that was on was Pokémon. I was apprehensive about watching the series at first, not just because I thought the series looked childish, but because I had read in a now-defunct magazine that the series caused seizures.
Nevertheless, I decided to sit down and watch the series. This was not the first episode of Pokémon I had seen, though. Prior to this, I had seen the tail-end of Primeape Goes Bananas and Pokémon Scent-Sation!, but I had never seen a full episode until that point. As luck would have it, the episode that happened to air was the first one. I was hooked from day one. I saw the first four episodes, and when I arrived home, I immediately went to my local video store to rent the videos of the series that had been released at that point.
Although I stopped watching the series on a regular basis when it moved to Cartoon Network, I still pay attention to the latest goings-on in order to remain up-to-date with the it.
Games
For Christmas 2000, I received Pokémon Silver, my very first Pokémon video game. For the longest time, I failed to get anywhere in the game, and after restarting my game several times, I finally moved foward and defeated the Elite Four in May of 2001. I still remember the night I defeated Lance, and then proceeded to defeat every Kanto gym leader within an hour of that event. Around the time that happened, I bought Pokémon Blue. However, I stopped playing that game after I caught Missingno. and it messed up my Elite Four statistics.
In the subsequent years, I picked up Crystal, Sapphire and Emerald. Crystal I stopped playing as well, because of some odd glitch that happened with an ID number that to this day, I can't figure out. I have defeated all gym leaders and Elite Four members in Sapphire, and am currently working on completing the Pokédex. For Emerald, I just recently defeated Tate and Liza, and when I get back home for break, I may try and get to Juan.
TCG
I began collecting the Trading Cards around the same time I started watching the anime. However, after the year 2000, I stopped buying them for reasons that I am unsure about. As a result, the TCG is the one part of the Pokémon meta that I know the least about, which is unfortunate when it comes to TCG articles that need to be created for Bulbapedia.
Online
I am also fairly active in the Pokémon online community. I was a member of the Serebii.net forums in 2001-2002, and I became a member of the PokéMasters forums in late 2002. I have also contributed to web sites such as Pojo.com and Dogasu's Backpack. On the former web site, I contributed several character bios under my real-life nickname at the time. I rejoined the Serebii.net forums in May 2006. In late 2006, I joined the Bulbagarden forums for the first time, although I had visited there many times prior. I consider myself a semi-regular poster. I usually only post in a topic if I feel it is necessary.
Bulbapedia
I joined Bulbapedia in April 2006, after visiting a few times prior to that. I was a little nervous about making contributions at first, because I didn't want to get in trouble for making any mistakes. After my first edit to the Who's That Pokémon? article, I took a few months break from Bulbapedia. I returned in July 2006 and have been a regular contributor since that point.
Contributions
Since joining Bulbapedia over a year ago, I have contributed to many different sections. My own personal area of expertise is the anime, which is where most of my edits have been. In fact, the very first article I ever created was that of Sean Schemmel, a voice actor who worked on the 4Kids dub of the series. Since then, I have created many more voice actor articles, countless character of the day articles, and have added character information for nearly all of the Master Quest episodes.
Likewise, anime-exclusive songs featured in the dub is another area I am familiar with. When Cartoon Network began to rerun late-Kanto and Orange Islands episodes, I would use those to add which song was featured on Pikachu's Jukebox, and in which episodes. However, since I have been away at college, I am unable to record the episodes on my DVR to view them, and I have not contributed to that particular section in a several weeks.
Among my proudest moments on Bulbapedia are when I went through the now-defunct Category titled Pokémon Missing Their Generation Number and classified nearly all of them. There were virtually no Generation IV Pokémon, but nearly all from Generations I-III were unclassified. More than 200 articles later, every single Pokémon should have the correct Generation number. Another proud moment was when the true titles of three English theme songs (Believe in Me, Unbeatable, and Battle Frontier (dub)) were revealed. I went through and fixed the links so they wouldn't go through redirect pages.
When I'm bored, I sometimes look through the disambiguation pages to make sure no articles link to them.
For a full list of my contributions, click here, and if you have any questions or comments, feel free to leave a message on my talk page.
Project Anime & Project COD
Recently, I signed on as a member of Project Anime and Project COD. As a part of these projects, I hope to improve many, if not all, of the episode and character of the day articles on Bulbapedia. I'm planning on adding character of the day information to most, if not all, of the CotDs from all the seasons up until Battle Frontier (mostly because I have seen none of those episodes).
I am in the process of creating a list of what all of the characters of the day need (ie: Japanese name, English/Japanese VA, Screenshots). Once I have retrieved all of the data, I will add it as a sub-page for my own personal reference.
Other areas of interest
Although Pokémon is one of my main interests, it is not my only one. I am a HUGE Legends of the Hidden Temple fan, and I am a member of a well-known message board. Another interest of mine is writing, and I hope to become a journalist when I am older. I served as one of four news editors on my high school newspaper during my senior year, and I was also responsible for creating their new web site. I am currently a college freshman, and I am very excited to be writing for the newspaper. I also used to be a big part of the now-defunct Animorphs community, contributing to several web sites there.
Personal
I try not to reveal too much personal information about myself online. However, I will say that I live somewhere in the Midwest. I am currently enrolled in a college which is about six hours away from my home, and so far I am enjoying it very much.
Another item I will reveal is where my name comes from. The letters P.A.K. are my initials. I won't reveal what they stand for, but my aunt gave me this nickname when I was younger. I use this nickname for almost every online community that I am a member of, although I do use other ones which I don't feel like revealing at the moment.
