User:Loeba

This user has been on Wikipedia for 13 years, 4 months and 29 days.

This user is a female contributor.

This user lives in London.

31	This user is 31 years old.

This user participates in
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Actors and Filmmakers.

This user has written or significantly contributed to 4 Featured articles on Wikipedia.

This user has helped promote 3 good articles on Wikipedia.

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This user thinks the best rule on Wikipedia is Ignore All Rules.

What is a "Loeba"?

I'm not sure but it's my username. What do I do here? Truthfully, not a whole lot these days. I was fairly active between 2011 and 2013 but it's been intermittent since then, and I can't say editing Wikipedia is a priority for me now. I still think it's an amazing resource, and contribute gradually/periodically. As another user said, I "come and go as [I] please!" The thing that I'm obsessed with is films, of all eras and regions, and my major contributions have all been related to that (actors or directors, as you'll see below). Most of my minor edits and articles I've created are film-related as well. In 2016 I was the joint-subject of a Wikipedia interview, which was nice.

I try to stay out of the administrative/"behind the scenes" side of Wikipedia as much as possible, since it just gets frustrating and we're meant to be here for fun, right? Many editors get far too caught up in this stuff though. Having some distance from the site really makes you see that a lot of the policies and practices here are silly; most readers won't even notice these specifics. Let's all lighten up :) A perfect summary of how I regard this strange place has been written by another user – I think everybody should read The Wikipedia Bible.

Work

Featured articles

Good articles

Not reviewed (cba anymore)

Wong Kar-wai
Gilmore Girls

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Featured articles

Katharine Hepburn The main reason I signed up to wikipedia (after just using it casually for years) was to improve this page. I love Kate. I'm sure she would've driven me mad in real life, but she was so unique and charismatic; I find her fascinating. Her article was rather inadequate, so I started contributing towards it in the summer of 2011. I ended up rewriting the whole thing, and then carried on perfecting it until—somehow—it got promoted to featured article status in February 2012. I am very proud of this achievement. I get so much joy out of watching and reading about Kate, that it was a pleasure to give her a top-class article.

—Today's Featured Article, 12 May 2012 (Hepburn's 105th birthday), 82k views.

—Article before expansion

Julianne Moore This lady is my favourite working actress. I'll watch her in anything, even her dodgy films, because she's always good and just so likeable. Her article was far from great, so I started overhauling it in July 2012. Eventually (with two long wikibreaks inbetween) it was rewritten from top to bottom, and it was promoted to FA in September 2013.

— Today's Featured Article, 3 December 2013 (Moore's 53rd birthday), 70k views.

—Article before expansion

Charlie Chaplin Collaborative effort with User:TrueHeartSusie3. Boy was this a big undertaking! We began overhauling it in April 2012, and worked on it intermittently for...well, ages, eventually seeing it promoted to FA in January 2014. It was worth doing though, because Chaplin was an absolute genius and his life is fascinating. Very pleased to have given him the sort of article that he deserves.

—Today's Featured Article, 2 February 2014 (centenary of his film debut), 69k views (should have been more!)

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Philip Seymour Hoffman Joint project with User:Dr. Blofeld. We were gutted when he died, he was such a marvellous actor, so decided to give him a proper article (it was pretty much useless before). We settled with GA for a while, but then decided to push for FA and it was promoted in January 2015. Cool beans!

—Today's Featured Article, 2 February 2015 (first anniversary of his death), 47k views.

—Article before expansion

Good articles: Spencer Tracy This page was pathetically brief, so once Kate's article was finished (late 2011) I began on ST. You can't have a full Katharine Hepburn page and leave his so empty. He was a damn good actor as well. Promoted in June 2012.; —Article before expansion; Emma Thompson Who doesn't love Emma Thompson? She's so lovely, and, as far as I'm concerned, her performance in Wit (2001) is the single greatest piece of acting ever committed to film. Began a complete overhaul in October 2013. Some content by Dr Blofeld, who took it through GAN when I was absent. Promoted in April 2014.; —Article before expansion; Carole Lombard Wonderful comedy actress. I consider her sudden death at the age of 33 to be one of Hollywood's greatest tragedies. Began a complete overhaul in September 2013. Some content by Dr Blofeld, who took it through GAN when I was absent. Promoted in April 2014.; —Article before expansion

Not reviewed: Wong Kar-wai Truly a brilliant filmmaker, he's become one of my absolute favourites. 2046 is one of the greatest films ever made IMO, and I love virtually all his stuff. Decided to start working on it early in 2015 and slowly made my way through (delayed by a big wikibreak) until it was all re-written. International film personalities (ie, not American/British/Indian) are severely neglected on here so I'm happy to counter the bias a bit.; —Article before expansion; Gilmore Girls This is my comfort show, I love it to bits! If you ever need some charming and easy viewing, this is the one. There was some good content here already, but it needed a lot of adding/removing/organising. I also made some edits as an IP during a wikibreak. Overhauled in mid-2017.; —Article before expansion

Kind stuff

	The Teamwork Barnstar
	For your excellent work on Charlie Chaplin. The interview we did with you and Susie is now published on the blog! :-) Ed Erhart (WMF) (talk) 22:27, 16 April 2016 (UTC)

		The Teamwork Barnstar
		For all the help you gave me with Marilyn Monroe and for being an amazing editor! TrueHeartSusie3 (talk) 17:52, 10 February 2016 (UTC)

		The Biography Barnstar
		For your excellent work on Philip Seymour Hoffman, one of our greatest actors. You and Dr. Blofeld have done work that rivals a professionally published biography, and you should be (and hopefully are) very proud. Great work! Sock (~~tock~~ talk) 14:46, 13 January 2015 (UTC)

	The Special Barnstar
	For all of the great work you did on helping promote Emma Thompson and Carole Lombard to GA!! Miss you about on here and discussing films like The Elephant Man and Julia with you! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:20, 3 April 2014 (UTC)

	The Original Barnstar
	It can't have been easy to bring Emma Thompson to GA-status, so nice job! It's a nice complement to her seminal project, Sense and Sensibility. Keep up the great work! Ruby 2010/2013 14:01, 3 April 2014 (UTC)

	The Civility Barnstar
	Just a heads up for your decency on the talk page over the Hoffman article given the hostility. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:26, 11 March 2014 (UTC)

	The Original Barnstar
	Thanks for reviewing Pinocchio (1940 film). Koala15 (talk) 15:47, 27 February 2014 (UTC)

	The Writer's Barnstar
	For your excellent work on the Chaplin FA. Cheers! GabeMc ^{(talk\|contribs)} 01:26, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

The Teamwork Barnstar

I wish there was a barnstar of courage and dedication that I could award to you! You have been the real driving force in the Chaplin project. I'm sure that many Chaplin fans had thought of overhauling the article before (incl. myself) but had been discouraged knowing the gigantic effort it would take – therefore this barnstar is not only for the actual collaboration but also for inspiring others to believe that if we work together, everything is possible! TrueHeartSusie3 (talk) 10:38, 20 January 2014 (UTC)TrueHeartSusie3

	The silent cinema award of excellence
	For your fantastic work on Charlie Chaplin which has recently been promoted to featured article status. Your research, resilience, determination and commitment is to be both admired and applauded. Congratulations! Cassianto ^Talk 20:29, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

		The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
		For your tireless contributions. Span (talk) 15:02, 3 January 2014 (UTC)

film actresses
Thank you for quality articles on intelligent performers such as Katharine Hepburn Julianne Moore and Charlie Chaplin to the pleasure of millions of readers, for your love of your subjects (shown in your first username), for reviewing, clean templates and diplomacy, - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:22, 3 December 2013 (UTC)

		The Feather Barnstar
		That was a great work on Chaplin sir's article! Keep up your hard work! -- L o g X 19:48, 13 November 2013 (UTC)

		The Million Award
		For your contributions to bring Charlie Chaplin (estimated annual readership: 2,336,000) to Good Article status, I hereby present you the Million Award. Congratulations on this rare accomplishment, and thanks for all you do for Wikipedia's readers. -- Khazar2 (talk) 19:42, 12 November 2013 (UTC)

	The Original Barnstar
	Congratulations on the Chaplin GA - excellent article and I hope you take it forward to FA in the future. Please drop me a line when you do. Cheers - SchroCat (talk) 17:38, 12 November 2013 (UTC)

	The Editor's Barnstar
	For great work on Julianne Moore and your success at her FAC. Congratulations! Cassianto ^Talk 10:24, 21 September 2013 (UTC)

	The Special Barnstar
	For being a constant source of inspiration for editors working on biographies of film actors and actresses. smarojit ^HD 10:40, 20 September 2013 (UTC)

		The Million Award
		For your contributions to bring Katharine Hepburn (estimated annual readership: 1,236,000) to Featured Article status, I hereby present you the Million Award. Congratulations on this rare accomplishment, and thanks for all you do for Wikipedia's readers. -- Khazar2 (talk) 13:55, 8 September 2013 (UTC)

		The Quarter Million Award
		For your contributions to bring Spencer Tracy (estimated annual readership: 470,000) to Good Article status, I hereby present you the Quarter Million Award. Congratulations, and thanks for all you do for Wikipedia's readers! -- Khazar2 (talk) 13:55, 8 September 2013 (UTC)

	The Special Barnstar
	Excellent work on both Julianne Moore‎ and Charlie Chaplin: two very different figures, but two very, very high-quality articles as a result of some great work. A pleasure to PR the first and I hope to comment on both of them at FAC. - SchroCat (talk) 13:13, 27 March 2013 (UTC)

	The Golden Hollywood Award of Excellence
	For your excellent work on Katharine Hepburn. BTW if you want to help me get Clint Eastwood up to FA status let's work together! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:55, 3 August 2012 (UTC)

	The Special Barnstar
	For making Katharine Hepburn, feature on the main page today! Great work buddy! —Vensatry _{(Ping me)} 06:59, 13 May 2012 (UTC)

	The Original Barnstar
	Today's featured article, Katharine Hepburn ... brilliant Gareth Griffith-Jones (talk) 09:31, 12 May 2012 (UTC)

	The Original Barnstar
	For all of your contributions.... Srikar Kashyap (talk) 16:29, 4 May 2012 (UTC)

	The Barnstar of Diligence
	I just got finished reading the Katharine Hepburn article, and I was just blown away. You did an amazing job on the article! Keep up the magnificent work! :)—DAP388 (talk) 05:04, 4 March 2012 (UTC)

		The Editor's Barnstar
		Lobo512 is hereby awarded "The Editor's Barnstar" for her incredibly impressive efforts on the Katharine Hepburn article, which—thanks to her—is now a true example of what a great Wikipedia article about an actor should be like. Your dedication, patience and hard work are greatly appreciated. Congratulations and please keep it up. Shahid • ^Talk2me 13:38, 3 December 2011 (UTC)