User:JFletcher

I am an Administrator of Grand Theft Wiki. Ask me if you have any problems or suggestions, or if you spot anything bad

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Hi fellow GTA fans,

I'm James Fletcher and I live in Liverpool (near Sydney), NSW, Australia.

I am a fan of the PlayStation series of consoles and my favourite video game series is the Grand Theft Auto series.

A few years ago I wanted a game where I was given a city and a person to do whatever I wanted. I found this in GTA III.

Since then I have owned every GTA game that has been released on a PlayStation console. While I still like the sandbox aspect of gameplay, I now like the storylines alot more.

I like to consider myself an expert of GTA Vice City, but I can also help with the rest of the GTA III era games, as I have played them all.

I have also played GTA 1 and GTA 2. I am yet to play GTA Advance, or any of the London expansion packs for GTA 1. I have also not played GTA Chinatown Wars as I do not own a Nintendo DS.

I have recently completed both the Deal and Revenge endings of the storyline of GTA IV for the second time, this time without cheats. I primarily chose the Revenge ending and just played the Deal ending to see what happened. I preferred the Revenge ending. After completing the Revenge ending I simply saved on another file so that I could go back and complete the Deal ending without replaying the entire game. I am 108 pigeons away from 100% completion in my no cheats save game.

I like to consider myself a good resource for information about GTA IV and am becoming an expert. I have not played any of the DLC for GTA IV as I do not own an Xbox 360, and my brother, who does own a 360, doesn't have the Internet, so he can't download the DLC. I am hoping that what Microsoft has paid for is "time-exclusivity", and that the DLC will eventually be released on PlayStation 3, as Rockstar Games have said that DLC for the PS3 is "likely".

I discovered Grand Theft Wiki in July 2008 when I was searching the Internet for a source of information on the wanted level system of GTA IV, as I noticed that it was very different to that of the past.

I then decided to help make this site the biggest GTA resource on the web. I have used this site to get alot of information and have added alot as well. I initially had no intention to stay, but I'm happy that I did, and I now have no intention to leave anytime in the future. The fact that I initially had no intention to stay explains my username. I just put in the first thing that came to my head, giving no consideration for the future. I have since tried to have my username changed to something more personal but Wikia staff won't change it, saying that only specific circumstances qualify for a username change.

I used to help Wikipedia but don't any more. The people here are much more friendly and I enjoy it here. I think we all have the same idea of putting the information on the page, then we can fix it up, something is better than nothing.

My first GTW friend was Eganio. Ironically that friendship started with him correcting my edits. He explained what I did wrong and we became friends (like I said earlier, the people here are much friendlier than Wikipedia). He taught me the power of actually reading and adding to talk pages.

I became an Administrator of Grand Theft Wiki in October 2008. When I got the email that Gboyers had edited my talk page, I had no idea what he was going to say, and the last thing that I thought he was going to say was that I had been promoted. In fact, I was busy and hadn't been on the wiki for three days when I read that email. I however did know that it was something good, as he had also added me as a friend. Confusing me further was the fact that someone had edited my userpage (I didn't yet know who it was). I later found out that it was Gboyers, adding the {{Admin}} template. When I reached my talk page, before I knew that it was about a promotion, my Internet was acting slow, so the extra tools at the top of the page didn't load straight away, meaning that I didn't notice anything until after I read the message.

To-do list for User:JFletcher:

edit · history · watch · refresh

I help anywhere I can on the wiki. I use Recent Edits to find pages that I can help on. I also use Tasks and the list of special pages to find any job that needs to be done. These are just my main projects. Grand Theft Auto IV - As time passes without the possibility to play my old Grand Theft Auto games because my PlayStation 2 no longer works, I lose my knowledge, but with GTA IV still in my memory, I help there content wise wherever I can. Enforcing the Policy - Keeping the wiki running smoothly by enforcing the Rules and fixing pages to follow all Policy. Mainly Consistency and mainly in the form of page name capitalisation, page names in general, but also consistency within pages. Categorisation - An easy, "fun", yet important job that needs to be done on the wiki. I mainly help by renaming categories and deleting unused categories, but I also categorise pages when I see them needing it. Helping Other Users - If I find something that needs to be fixed, I don't just fix it, I use the page history to see who did it and tell them, so that they don't make the same mistakes in the future. I also like to help users with their problems by reading talk pages, and I like them to come to me. Patrolling - My goal at the end the day (Australian time zone) is to have all edits in that day patrolled using the staff patrolling system (excluding talk page edits and user page edits, though I do go to the talk pages to help out). I do this by marking a few each Grand Theft Wiki session.