Hi, this is Michael Garcia, but please call me Mike. I changed this account to my real name instead of my old account, Michael. I'm 26-years old and was born on July 12, 1978 and live in Westchester (part of Los Angeles, California) right now.

For contact my e-mail is: Mike_garcia222003@yahoo.com

About Me

I was born in Los Angeles, California in Westchester on July 12, 1978 and I have a brother named Joseph (better known as Joe, born in 1980). On my school careers when I grew up, I was at Orville Wright Middle School from 1989 to 1992 and attended Westchester High School as of the same year I graduated, then Loyola Marymount University from 1996 to 2000. I discovered this website in fall 2002 and registered in March 2003. My recent work for Wikipedia as of 2005 is music related stuff (band, albums, etc.) and I listen to KROQ sometimes (just like AlexTheMartian, he lives in my city too, but we're not neighbors though).

The time I was banned

I've been banned since mid-2003 and now i'm not anymore as of August 2004. I just wanna say that being banned was the worst thing that ever happened to me.

See also: My old account (I was a banned user), User:Mike Garcia/List of albums

My other Wikipedia accounts at

• LiveJournal (my brother Joe has an account there too)
• Meta Wikipedia
• MusicWiki
• Music Tablature

[WikiEN-l] 'Michael' unbanned

As an experiment, I am going to unban Michael and place him under the mentorship of Danny and Guanaco, who will watch after him. He will edit only under his new Mike Garcia account, and promises to make only good edits.

I ask all other sysops and users to give him a try, and try to welcome him into the community. I would like to ask those who have been directly involved with dealing with his constant problem edits to please just steer clear of him for awhile, and let Danny and Guanaco or others try to mediate and deal with him.

Essentially, banning hasn't worked very well, because he's a persistent problem. Blocking him has been problematic because he comes in on an AOL proxy, which blocks lots of other people.

This is a unique situation, and it warrants a unique experiment, and we have people (Danny in particular) who have taken the lead in volunteering to try something new.

--Jimbo