User:Johan Elisson

Hi! My name is Johan Elisson. I am a Gothenburger working as an information architect at Aleido (formerly Semcon), a global product information consultancy. I got my job in part thanks to my long-time dedication to Wikipedia. I have studied engineering physics at BSc level and engineering mathematics and computational science at MSc level at Chalmers University of Technology. I started out as a technical communicator, a profession one of my favourite authors (Kurt Vonnegut) once described—also quite fitting for a Wikipedia editor—as [...] trained to reveal almost nothing about themselves in their writing. This makes them freaks in the world of writers, since almost all of the other ink-stained wretches in that world reveal a lot about themselves to readers. I rarely write about subjects related to my work or education, my main interests on Wikipedia are history and sports, focusing on Swedish military history and Swedish football. I follow the football club IFK Göteborg, and since 2016 I work extra as a supporter liaison officer for the club. I have also been a board member of the official supporters' club Supporterklubben Änglarna, of which I am now part of the nominating committee. My first edits to Wikipedia were made in July 2004 and I became an administrator in October 2006. I once upon a time created the WikiProject on Football and the Football Portal. I have been mostly inactive here for some years with only a handful of edits per month or less, and I am no longer an administrator due to my inactivity. I semi-regularly check my watchlist and talk page though, and occasionally do major work on expanding/rewriting articles or creating new articles. I have a slight problem with recentism on Wikipedia and as such focus my efforts mainly on expanding or creating articles about not-so-recent, or timeless, stuff. Sure there are positive sides to recentism, but when e.g. 90 % of a club history section deals with the 10 most recent years, while the first 90 years of existence gets 10 % of the space ... Come on, expand at the early end of that section instead of adding some trivial fact about a match last week. In regard to writing outside Wikipedia and my job, I was blogging for the—at the time—largest (and best, according to an Aftonbladet award) Swedish sports blog for a number of years. I have subsequently co-authored the book Vi som är från Göteborg åker aldrig hem med sorg (published in 2014)—a fan culture history of IFK Göteborg—, and contributed text to the official 110th anniversary book IFK Göteborg 2004–2014. I am aware of WP:SELFCITE and avoid it whenever I can. I am dreaming of publishing a book about IFK Göteborg in European football, and a biography on Carl "Ceve" Linde. My current edit count is not really interresting for anything but the adminship nomination process, and seeing I actually passed that one, the edit counts have no value at all. I feel I can make useful contributions to Wikipedia no matter if I have admin privilegies or not. I think of myself as a delusionist, but closer to being a deletionist than an inclusionist. I like using, and may overuse, em dashes in my texts. But I am not using AI to create content.

Selected sports contributions Related to IFK Göteborg: IFK Göteborg Torbjörn Nilsson The Last Proletarians of Football Carl Linde (football manager) Gamla Ullevi IFK Göteborg (sports club) IFK Göteborg (women) List of IFK Göteborg seasons List of IFK Göteborg chairmen IFK Göteborg in European football Snart skiner Poseidon Kamratgården Karlsrofältet Idrottsplatsen Walhalla IP Gunnar Larsson (sports administrator) Related to football: List of Sweden international footballers List of top-division football clubs in CONMEBOL countries Swedish football champions Göteborgs BK Kalle Svensson Swedish football (code) Nordic Football Championship Supporter liaison officer Fyrkantserien Big Three (Sweden) P19 Allsvenskan List of Swedish youth football champions Other: Centralföreningen för Gymnastik- och Idrottssällskapen i Göteborg Gothenburg Sports Hall of Fame Nordiskt Idrottslif

Selected misc contributions Related to Boden: Boden Fortress Boden Fortress Radio Bunker English Canal Boden Garrison Related to (military) history: Allotment system För tapperhet i fält Vaberget Fortress Other: Roffe Ruff LOK (first article ever!) Peter Englund Pirate Party (Sweden) Gothenburg tram network Gothenburg dialect Serneke Todo list IFK Göteborg (/sandbox4) List of IFK Göteborg players (/sandbox12) Boden Fortress Football in Gothenburg (/sandbox6) Evenemangsstråket Poseidon med brunnskar Änglagårdsskolan Anders Bernmar Swedish football league system (/sandbox5) Gothenburg humour 51-percent rule Sport in Sweden (general cleanup) Föreningen Göteborgsidrott

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Countries where I've seen IFK Göteborg play:

svDen här användaren talar svenska som modersmål.	göDenna goa tjommen tjötar göttebosska himla bra, de va la görkäckt änna?	en-4This user can contribute with a near-native level of English.
de-2Dieser Benutzer hat fortgeschrittene Deutschkenntnisse.	no-2Denne brukeren/brukaren har god kjennskap til norsk.	da-2Denne brugers kendskab til dansk er på mellemniveau.

Useful links and WP shortcuts: WP:POL WP:MOS WP:MOSLAYOUT WP:ARTDEV WP:TITLE WP:FCT WP:CITE WP:CITET WP:AFD WP:RFA WP:PJ Parser functions

Links related to my adminship: My RfA My admin actions WP:ADMIN WP:ADMINGUIDE WP:ARL WP:AN WP:AN/3RR WP:AN/I WP:AIV WP:BLOCK WP:PROTECT WP:DEL WP:DGFA WP:CUTPASTE WP:USETEMP WP:BACK

Links that have no use: WP:UNUSUAL WP:LAME WP:BJAODN WP:STUPID WP:FREAKY WP:ASS WP:WPDNNY WP:LOC WP:CABAL

My various sandboxes: Sandbox Sandbox 2 Sandbox 3 Sandbox 4 Sandbox 5 Sandbox 6 Sandbox 7 Sandbox 8 Sandbox 9 Sandbox 10 Sandbox 11 Sandbox 12 Swedish victory names

User .css and .js: common.css common.js monobook.css monobook.js

Assorted Wikipedia quotations: Wikipedia is a paradox — it doesn't work in theory, only in practice. – CatherineMunro Vandalizing Wikipedia is like masturbating. It feels good to you, but not to anybody else, and it results in a sudden spurt of useless information that needs to be cleaned up. – DragonflySixtyseven When you start accusing everyone of being in on a conspiracy, you shouldn't be surprised if they decide to confirm your paranoia by banding together against you. – Khaosworks If enough people act independently towards the same goal, the end result is indistinguishable from a conspiracy. – Extreme Unction Editing Wikipedia is a privilege, not a right. – Alhutch I wish I could read Wikipedia as fast as it's being written... – Fundraise donator comment

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