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This user is a Filipino.
USTProud student or alumnus of the Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas.
BAThis user has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science.
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ESC This user wants to lessen the amount of articles related to Eurovision Song Contest to once a month at Template:Did you know.
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This user was born in the year of the Ox.
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This user is interested in environmentalism.
This user believes it is every citizen's duty to assess every candidate and abstain from voting if none is found fit for office, unless he or she wants to vote anyway.
This user believes that the NCAA, UAAP and other collegiate leagues be merged.
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Things that make me go whoa: hotdogs, silly discussion and girls with yellow headbands.
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Howard
Duck

The tasks that I do here at Wikipedia vary. Sometimes, I'll clean up the articles in the Category:Filipino television series and articles pertaining to Filipino pop culture (probably because these articles are the ones with the most Wikipedia policy violations, LOL). I also participate in editing of Filipino news articles, most notably the 2006 Southern Leyte mudslide and the 2006 state of emergency in the Philippines articles. Or, probably update some Filipino sports articles.

How I discovered Wikipedia

This is the story of my life in cyberspace. This doesn't hold true in my offline life.

Howard was born at the internet forum polsciexchange.tk (now inactive). That was the internet message board for Political Science students of the University of Santo Tomas (UST). A short while after that, Howard decided to register at USTExchange (USTEx) on August 7, 2003. A friend of mine recommended Manila Tonight (MTC). He also joined the PinoyTVCentral] forum (whoa, it's active again LOL), where is a present moderator, and the UAAPForums] in which he is a frequent poster.

USTEx

Howard was at first an inactive member of USTEx. In fact, his first post was a rant pertaining to the online classroom system of UST. Howard grew fond of USTEx, until his post grew by the hundreds. Due to his addiction to USTEx, he volunteered himself to be a forum moderator. He moderated the Flicks, TV and Music forum, and later on the Sports, Health and Beauty forum. He even participated in eyeballs (wherein the moderators meet up), in this case, Howard went to the Blast 4 consortium where he and his co-mods participated in the so-called "Big 4" school-based internet message boards.

Howard had a pleasant experience in USTEx until he was accused of being constantly off-topic. Although Howard admits that he may be off-topic, he was even accused of having a sock puppet (unproven, up to now), a serious accusation especially in the world of the Internet. The final straw was when he replied in a flamebait post, wherein he was engaged in a vicious exchange of replies and was ultimately banned from the website (he was previously stripped of his moderating powers without his consent) on 22 December 2005.

MTC

Howard, at the advice of his friend , registered in MTC. Although his intentions of registering were of carnal nature, MTC quickly developed into a reputable website wherein anyone can talk about anything. He is now presently an active member of the Sports and Hobbies and of the TV, Movies and Plays fora. He also posts several pictures at the VIP Pictures forum.

Wikipedia

Howard, was a lurker at the Wikipedia, perhaps from mid-2005. He made random edits on articles. He registered on 19 December 2005, with his first edit on the University Athletics Association of the Philippines article. He has since strived to clean up Philippine-related articles for them to be a Featured article someday.

Howard enjoys writing about himself in the third person. This gives an air of objectivity to what might otherwise seem subjective or even boastful. By writing in this style, Howard gives tacit permission to others to edit his user page - something that is otherwise considered as "badform" in Wikipedia.

Articles

These are some of the articles I've spent time editing:

Featured lists:

Good articles:

Did you know selections:

Others:

Templates

Templates I've created:

Images

See: User:Howard the Duck/Images for a list of free images I've uploaded. For a complete list, see the upload log

Philosophy

Reality TV contestants who haven't asserted notability outside the YV show and network that airs it should be mopped up by Wikipe-tan.
  • I do not vote at RFAs, nor do I intend to be an admin.
  • I edit war when I believe I'm absolutely correct, and the respondent doesn't want to respond to communication I send.
  • I believe that this page was bull.
  • All reality show contestants should be deleted and/or merged to the appropriate season/TV program article, even if that page becomes long and even if they win, except when the WikiProject recommends for a separation of contestants' articles.
  • All barangay articles should be merged to the mother city, and all mention of them in dab pages and redirects should be deleted.
  • Filipino names should not have diacritics except:
    • When the person himself says it is correct.
    • An expert on a specific person says adding diacritics to a that person's name is correct.
    • The letter "ñ"
    • Historical Filipinos born before the 19th century.
  • Collages are not fair use images when they are composed of at least one copyrighted image. In order for a collage to be fairly used, all pictures must be on the public domain.

Favorites

Now you know why I watch tennis.
This user politely asks:
Who are you working for?!
This user is a fan of Friends.
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on Neptune, CA.
GG This user knows who Gossip Girl really is.
d'oh!This user thinks The Simpsons is simply... excellent.
This user demands you
respect my authoritah!
HTF fanThis user is a Happy Tree Friends fan and would die like its characters if this show didn't exist.
CCSThis user is like Tomoyo, and likes Sakura to bits.
This user eats sufficient quantities of Hot Dogs to positively qualify as an Honorary Hot Dog in their own right.
ドラえもんThis user has a robot cat from the future.
This user is a Pokémon fan.
IdolThis user watches American Idol.
This user does not like getting Philiminated from the Race.
This user enjoys heavy metal music.
MH This user is a fan of the
Magnolia Hotshots.
CRI This user reminisces of the
Crispa Redmanizers.
This user yells Go USTe! at the UAAP games.
LC This user yells Arriba! Arriba! Arriba Letranista! at the NCAA games.
BOS This user is a Boston Red Sox fan.
ANAThis user is a fan of the
Anaheim Ducks
DALThis user is a fan of the
Dallas Mavericks
NYKThis user is a fan of the
New York Knicks
CFC This user supports Chelsea
GBThis user is a fan of the
Green Bay Packers
This user plays badminton.
This user loves to eat pizza.
RCThis user drinks RC Cola.
This user eats at KFC.

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