Forum:What is your area of expertise?
What is your area of expertise? Like for example, your area of expertise is with news parodies, religious humor/satire, photoshop manipulation, self-reference, internet humor, guides, biographies, political humor, humour, dry humor etc. It could be helpful, and it'll be easier to ask others for help if we know they're familiar with what you need help with. We all have something we're good at, so why put down what it is. If you're good at everything, then you're a jack-of-all-trades I suppose.
I think the individual header per user way of doing this would work out. I'll go first.
Witt,
Good with : Puns, parody, cliches, video gaming, little bit of satire, weaponry, wars and warfare and basic image manipulation.--Witt, 
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UNion Entertain me* 02:54, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
Insineratehymn
- Good with: extreme sarcasm, aspergian wit, heavy metal humor, parody of events. -- 02:57, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
- Way to totally copy me...go get your own areas! --The Zombiebaron 03:07, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
Zombiebaron
Awesome at: patrolling New pages and Recent changes, potatochop (aparantly), and making crap articles. --The Zombiebaron 02:59, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
- I also forgot "sig spamming". --The Zombiebaron 02:59, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
- Also, I forgot "coming up with amusing areas of expertise, and saying stupid things on IRC which are then stolen and reused by other poeople". --The Zombiebaron 03:26, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
User:One-eyed Jack
Good at using the adjective "deliquescent" and the noun "putrescence". If you want some deliquescent putrescence I'm yo' man. Also write doggerel (which has negative market value, ie, people pay me not to write it). I can use Paintshop Pro®™© to make piccies the way other people use a pail of yak droppings. Would appreciate hooking up with any female spider monkeys among Uncylopedians, no smokers, possible long-term relationship. ----OEJ 03:11, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
Jacques Pirat
I'm good at using the infomercial spiel to may advantage. But wait, there's more! I can even edit images in fireworks for your articles, all for the low low price of not $100, not $50, not even $25! I can do all this at the low low price of free! --~ 
Jacques Pirat, Esq. Converse : Benefactions : U.w.p.
03:15, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
User:Hinoa
Good at: maintenance, cleanup, vandal extermination/pest control, somewhat amusing block logs and edit summaries.
Bad at: actually sitting his ass down and writing, dealing with idiots in nice manner, being nice
The Divine Fluffalizer
Good at: Random, bizarre and ridiculous humor; silliness (puns, weird references, etc.) in general; a bit of sarcasm and satire; "aspie wit"; polishing text and making things look more high-brow.
And mostly when: The subject is one of my interests and/or when the article focuses on one of my favorite kinds of humor. (the latter is the most significant factor)
- -- 04:05, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
goshzilla
Good @: Spell check, voting for stuff, some formatting
Bad @: Actually writing articles.
goshzillacorrespondence 04:06, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
KWild
Good at: Something.
And mostly when: it doesn't get huffed
Bad at: Humour, at times formatting
Crazyswordsman
Good at, everything Hinoa is good at, plus being nice, and writing UnNews, bad at everything Hinoa is bad at, except being nice. --Crazyswordsman...With SAVINGS!!!! (T/C) 04:26, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
Savethemooses
Awesomeness. -- 
04:33, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
Uncyclon
Good at: Reading Uncyclopedia and creating UnTunes album art. --Uncyclon - Do we still link to BENSON? 02:10, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
BENSON
Good at: Writing one good article for every 4 bad ones, starting Internet cults, invasions, everything else. Benson 05:24, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
Cainad
Good at being mediocre, and writing articles that are coherent and (usually) follow English grammatical rules, yet remain incomprehensible and sometimes a bit depressing. I haven't come up with a word for this particular brand of humo(u)r, but there are people working on this as we speak. I'm also a level 6 Potatochopper, and I also have achieved a bit of notoriety for a hobby of mine.
Bad at not being self-deprecating. --
08:14, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
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Modusoperandi
Good at: Making fun of white people. Making fun of religion (specifically at least two of the three stooges of Abraham and fundamentalists therein). 'Chopping. Sneaking 80's references into pages that have little or nothing to do with that decade. Rambling randomly about whatever it is that we were talking about. Taking forums off topic. Scratching that spot that itches. Nudity.
Anyone
My area of expertise is in my pants region. Which is where I always keep my calculator at all times, for number crunching, because I'm waiting for the day when I save the day by doing some quick addition and/or subtraction, but not multiplication because who needs that crap. I'm also good at teh sex0rz, which are also in my pants. --Anyone 13:34, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
Jamtrousers
Writing in a vaguely plausible and serious/academic style 90% of the time and then throwing in the odd bit of absurdism. Seriously, that's all. --Sir Jam 14:26, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
Cs1987
Good at: Adding relevant jokes to articles about classic rock bands, making my own classic rock articles, making completely random articles, putting stuff on QVFD, welcoming noobs, adding stuff to Talk:Incompleteness Theorem.
Very, very bad at: Everything else. Actually, the above stuff should probably be in this catergory too.
NeedABrain
Powers: polished encyclopedic text, Science, History, anti-religious jokes, self-referential jokes. I'm very good at irony and very bad at open sarcasm (I always spoil the sauce when I try being harsher).
Weaknesses: slangs, TV, pop music and celebrities in general, Internet memes (hell, I discovered what was goatse yesterday), unnews (I'm a reporter in real life, so this looks too much like work to me, nah). It seems people tend to forget I'm a big Johnny Foreigner, but sometimes I come up with spelling/grammar mistakes or weird truncated prose. -- herr doktor needsAgear 
[scream!] 16:47, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
Todd_Lyons
Jack of all trades, but master of none. Kind of a handyman type, I guess. I miss "the good old days" of Uncyclopedia, even though Famine says they never existed. Kind of like the cabal, I guess... --Sir Todd GUN WotM MI UotM NotM MDA VFH AotM Bur. AlBur. CM NS PC (talk) 16:16, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
Codeine
Anything music or sound fx related. Does your Unnews need a sound collage of Iraqi tanks running over a bunch of squeaky toys on a Caribbean beach whilst 300 wildebeest look on and bray? I'm yer man. I'm also pretty good at ad-hoc spontaneous comedy, but that tends to be more impressive down the pub than on a wiki. Damn. -- Sir Codeine K·H·P·B·M·N·C·U·Bu. · (Harangue) 17:59, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
- Comment "Iraqi Tank" is an oxymoron, all we have are roadside bombs made purely with bottle of Dettol. NeoZidane 18:24, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
Braydie
Doing stuff that no one else wants to do. —Braydie at 18:04, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
Tom mayfair
Good: Amateur Potatochop, Article maintenance, religious & political, protectin' Communist related articles, sarcasm, creatin' templates & userboxes, greetin' new users.
Bad: Edit wars, temper, offensive, rude. 
18:15, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
keitei
Reskins. Not finishing things. Deleting things. Leaving abruptly and for long periods. Not finishing anything. Returning just as abruptly. Starting things and never finishing them. Starting or fanning the flames of meme-type fads which last far too long (c.f. sigs, fisher price, nobody cares, welcome templates, others...). Reminiscing about the old days of Uncyc. Not doing anything. Complaining. Self-deprecating. Badass Appleworks paint drawings. Photoshopping Hitler's head onto things. Not doing anything. Procrastinating.
And other stuff. --KATIE!! 18:21, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
ynnaD
I can make images pretty well if I put some effort into them. Otherwise I'm a fantastic lurker. Yes, I'm watching you. --ynnaD 18:25, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
Kalir
Reverting stupid shit, rewrites of shit articles so as to provide a base for other users to add funny. --Ж Kalir, Awesome Author(alliteration affords additional awesome) 18:26, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
Dawg
I'm a master at crushing the hopes and dreams of the well-meaning but misguided n00bus maximus. As my bio says, I lurk in the shadows and strike with such ferocity that nobody could see it coming, and that's pretty much how I work. I don't do much because real life takes precedence lately. I also miss the good old days, when things were different and less fruitbat loonies roved around our site grinding our humour to a crawl like it is now.
Basically, I suck. 
2007.01.25.18:28
Atomik Spongeface
Good: Making quality articles. I don't often make articles but when I do, I think they're pretty classy. This is my newest one, Please; I can also rewite articles pretty well.
Bad: Finding and/or making images for articles. I don't have Adobe Potatochop, so I rely on the caption for the humour, or users like NeoZidane to somehow find my article and add a photoshopped picture. Atomik Spongeface • Ⓣ Ⓒ 18:40, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
MelvanaInChains
I'm good at joking about things that people don't know much about (like obscure bands and games). I also add some quotes to numerous articles, and I'm also hugely sarcastic (even when my friends get kind of pissed off at me when I'm doing it).
I fail at actually being funny, at least when I try to. --MelvanaInChains 18:49, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
Bradaphraser
- Um, I think I'm kinda like Todd, only I don't do nearly as much. And by that, I mean I do about half the stuff Todd does around here, and also I've never really started a project at Uncyc that worked very well, and if I dropped off the face of the wiki, I wouldn't be missed as much as many others. So, maybe... IRC?--<<
>> 22:48, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
Tooltroll
Noise. When I don't have the time or mood for noise, I troll the recent changes looking for noobs (and QVFDing crap found along the way), fix double redirects, check the dump for currenth-ish events, seek out damsels (and others) in distress. . . meh. . . Just go read UnTunes:The Uncyclopedian's Song. It's pseudo auto-biographical.
Mhaille
I consider myself to be a renaissance man, able to turn my hand to most things, writing, image manipulation, dancing (not jazz), philosophy, mopping up. I'd struggle to name one specific area I would consider myself an expert in, hopefully if anything I'm an expert in having fun. :)
Ladies, an announcement: I am up for it, all the time. That is not a boast or an opinion, it is bone hard medical fact. I put it round you know. And you will watch me putting it round and sigh for it. And so on and so forth.... -- Sir Mhaille 
(talk to me)
ENeGMA
The Areas of my Expertise are Residence Experting and John Hodgman references. --Sir ENeGMA (talk) GUN WotM PLS 23:12, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
Mr. Briggs Inc.
- Strength: Ideas, brainstorming.
- Weakness: Getting off my ass and putting it on paper.
Mr. Briggs Inc. 23:24, 25 January 2007 (UTC) Eh?
Squiggle
Good at: Being witty (according to ENeGMA), making articles with really long titles, and using bizarre Greek characters in my name.
Bad at: Everything else. -- §. | WotM | PLS | T | C | A 00:08, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
Orion Blastar
I am really a geek or nerd, so articles on technology, computers, science, math, etc are funny for me to work on. I also have good documentation skills and I can fix up articles and correct HTML and Wiki code problems. Using sarcasm and satire I can even make fun of politics, mostly liberals, but I make fun of conservatives as well just not as much. Liberals are easier to make fun of, because I don't have to be that creative to show their hypocrisy, and turn their hypocrisies into funny stereotypes. I find it funny that the conservatives are more about liberty, rights, and freedoms than the liberals really are when you think about it. Conservatives are more liberal than liberals are. FDR and Truman for example put Japanese-Americans into concentration camps and did more things worse (warentless wiretaps, throwing protesters in jail without trials, dropping hydrogen bombs on an enemy nation, etc) than George W. Bush ever was accused of doing, yet FDR and Truman are heroes to Liberals and Bush is a villain. What's up with that? --Lt. Sir Orion Blastar (talk) 19:33, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
Composure1
Good at: database software engineering, C++/C/perl, juggling, UnNews articles - especially parodies & political articles
Bad at: Keeping up to date with forums; writing things that are not parodies or essays; Wiki syntax
Hardwick Fundlebuggy
My area of expertise is a small fleshy nodule under my enlarged frontal lobes. When I write, it glows and scientists from Sweden poke at it with fondue forks.
My much larger area of inexpertise is commonly referred to as my "house". I often drop bread and jam on the floor and trip over chairs and fall out the window. I compensate for this by listening to light jazz and writing complete bollocks on web sites. --Sir Hardwick Fundlebuggy - (Ring for service) 20:24, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
Hindleyite
Strengths: Obscure Angolan sports, carpet weaving, eating a banana in under 10 seconds, walking like a sheriff.
Weaknesses: Losing out to Fundlebuggy on everything, including humour in this post. -- Hindleyite Converse • ?pedia 20:56, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
BarryC
Good at: Coming up with humourous concepts and witticisms.
Bad at: Committing these to paper or wikitext. --The Rt. Hon. BarryC MUN (Symposium!) Sigh. Double Sigh. 21:07, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
DiZ
I'm good at writing sarcastic often cynical HowTo's and UnBook type articles commmenting on the silliness or absurdity of Uncyclopedic and other lifestyle, and at writing long-winded essays that often stray off-topic. I'm bad horrible at basically everything else. --Señor DiZtheGreat 
CUN AOTM ( Worship me!) (Praise me!) (Join me!) AMEN! 01:17, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
gwax
Good at: being consistent, deleting things, hating fun, coming up with ideas
Bad at: being around, implementing ideas
Goodyfun
Good at: Drooling, tickling rats, talking out my ass, licking sticky stuff off the palms of my hands, making people mad
Bad at: Sewing hats, tickling potatos, yelling at potatos, anything much that has to do with potatos, disciplining my pet brick
The Bardiephraser
Good at: Being a sockpuppet, boasting about being a sockpuppet in the Village Dump.
Bad at: Well, I don't really do anything else, so I guess I'm bad at everything else.
--The Bardiephraser 
13:52, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
Famine
Good at: Science; Biting, in-depth satire that nobody really gets; Vaporizing things which potentially damage uncyclopedia; Saying things that people aren't comfortable hearing.
Bad at: Caring about wtf you n00bs think you are doing, because it's crap. Caring about people who haven't been useful contributors for at least a year. Communicating with non-deities. 
Sir Famine, Gun ♣ Petition » 02/8 23:33