PAK Man

{{User Age|21}}

'''PAK Man''' is a bureaucrat on Bulbapedia, and a fairly active member in the online Pokémon community.

I am also fairly active in the Pokémon online community. I was a member of the [[Serebii.net]] forums in 2001-2002, and I became a member of the [[PokéMasters forums]] in late 2002. I have also contributed to web sites such as Pojo.com and [[Dogasu's Backpack]]. On the former web site, I contributed several character bios under my real-life nickname at the time. I rejoined the Serebii.net forums in May 2006. In late 2006, I joined the [[Bulbagarden forums]] for the first time, although I had visited there many times prior. I consider myself a semi-regular poster. I usually only post in a topic if I feel it is necessary.

After more than a year as an administrator, I was asked to join the Editorial Board in October of 2008. I accepted the invite, and for about a year, I served on the Board. Although I am no longer a member, I continue to work very hard to support Bulbapedia.

In early 2009, I began what would turn out to be a year-and-a-half-long absence from Bulbapedia. Part of the reason for my departure was due to a lack of interest in Pokémon, and another reason was because academically I wasn't faring well in some classes I was taking and needed to dedicate more attention to that matter. That summer, I interned with a newspaper in Iowa, which took up most of my free time. In the fall, I once again spent more time focused on the real world and neglected my responsibilities on Bulbapedia. In early 2010, my grades were once again not looking well, so I again concentrated on raising them up. Recently, after being contacted by some other Bulbapedia members, and having a renewed interest in Pokémon, I have decided to, at least for now, rejoin the wiki. I can't promise that I won't mysteriously disappear again, but for the time being, I have returned to Bulbapedia.

Since joining Bulbapedia over two years ago, I have contributed to many different sections. My own personal area of expertise is the anime, which is where most of my edits have been. In fact, the very first article I ever created was that of [[Sean Schemmel]], a voice actor who worked on the [[4Kids Entertainment|4Kids]] dub of the series. Since then, I have created many more voice actor articles, countless [[character of the day]] articles, and have added character information for nearly all of the Master Quest episodes.

Among my proudest moments on Bulbapedia are when I went through the now-defunct Category titled Pokémon Missing Their Generation Number and classified nearly all of them. There were virtually no Generation IV Pokémon, but nearly all from Generations I-III were unclassified. More than 200 articles later, every single Pokémon ''should'' have the correct Generation number. Another proud moment was when the true titles of three English theme songs ([[Believe in Me]], [[Unbeatable]], and [[Battle Frontier (dub)]]) were revealed. I went through and fixed the links so they wouldn't go through redirect pages.

* Find screenshots for characters that are missing them.

As a general rule of thumb, I don't reveal too much personal information about myself online. However, there are a few details that I will reveal. I am from the Chicago suburbs in Illinois, and I currently attend college in Iowa. In the fall of 2010, I will be a senior, and if things go according to plan, I will graduate in May 2011.

Some people ask me about my username. The letters P.A.K. are my initials. Several people in the online community know my first name, and a select few know my last. Nobody, to my knowledge, knows my middle name. I received this nickname by my aunt when I was a child. As I became active in the online community, I adopted it as my username. It is the name I use in almost every online community I belong to, with the exception of two.