User:GerryYabes
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| Name | Gerry Yabes |
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| Born | October 18, 1983 |
| Nationality | Filipino |
| Country | Philippines |
| Current location | Taguig, Metro Manila |
| Languages | Local: International: |
| Time zone | UTC+08:00 |
| Current time | Current UTC is 03:22 Thursday, November 27, 2025 Current time for UTC+8 is 11:22 (Manila) () |
| Ethnicity | Ilocano |
| Handedness | Right |
| Blood type | A+ |
| Hobbies, interests, and beliefs | |
| Religion | MCGI |
| Interests | |
| Contact info | |
| Website | gerryyabes |
| Blog | gerryyabes |
| Account statistics | |
| Joined | November 2, 2005 |
| First edit | November 2, 2005 |
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About me
I am passionate about contributing to Wikipedia by creating and editing articles, particularly those related to the Philippines. My goal is to enrich the platform with accurate and comprehensive information about Filipino culture, history, and notable places, ensuring that English-speaking audiences have access to this knowledge. I believe in the power of collaboration and strive to maintain the highest standards of accuracy and neutrality in every article I contribute to.
Contributions
You may take a look on the list of articles I have contributed since November 2005. I am passionate to contribute to Wikipedia to publish true facts specially about articles related to the Philippines and keeps to improve articles. Also, I am reaching out to local government units in the Philippines to collaborate with available public information that may be use for the improvement of Filipino-related articles. Feel free to reach me via email or through may talk page here.
English Wikipedia
I contribute in the English Wikipedia majority in Philippine-related articles since November 2, 2005. I do a lot of things on Wikipedia by adding information on articles, creating articles, detecting spelling errors, enriching editing, including trivia, fighting vandalism, making lists, nominating deletions, providing sources, removing plagiarism, uploading logos and photos, and verifying citations. List of articles contributed.
Places
These are the places where I visited, lived, including my hometowns and current location.
Current
The current place where I am living, including my voting rights:
- West Rembo, Taguig City, Metro Manila (Since 2021, (formely part of Makati City), worked for Sutherland, Telus Digital, and iOpex Philippines, now working as an independent contractor.)
Hometowns
These places where I consider as my hometowns as I spent significant amount of years completing my education from elementary to college:
- San Enrique, Negros Occidental (where I started my elementary education)
- Ilagan, Isabela (my place of birth, where I completed my education from elementary to college)
- Apalit, Pampanga (where I studied AB Broadcasting as an scholar)
Lived
Places below where I spent few months and years of stay as my place of work were based on these locations:
- Cauayan, Isabela (Talavera Meganorth Holdings)
- Ilagan, Isabela (STI, Fashionista Boutique, MMOJ Enterprises)
- Makati, Metro Manila (West Contact Services)
- Pasig, Metro Manila (HKT Teleservices)
- Quezon, Metro Manila (IBM)
- San Fernando, Pampanga (Riders W.Shop)
Visited
Probably I spent approximately 1–2 days of stay in the following provinces:
Things to consider
- Articles for creation
- Wikipedia:Articles for improvement
- Copyright violations
- Donating copyrighted materials
- Manual of style
- Notability
- Policies and guidelines
- Requesting copyright permission
Projects
Newsfeed
Wikipedia newsfeed
- 26 November 2025 – Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- Israeli occupation of the West Bank
- The Israeli military announces a "broad counterterrorism operation" in the northern Samaria area in the occupied West Bank. (DW)
- 26 November 2025 – Holy See–Lebanon relations, Holy See–Turkey relations
- Visit by Pope Leo XIV to Turkey and Lebanon
- Pope Leo XIV begins his first papal trip, first to İznik and Nicaea in Turkey, then to Bkerké, the Monastery of Saint Maron, and the Port of Beirut in Lebanon. The trip will include an ecumenical commemoration of the 1,700th anniversary of the First Council of Nicaea and a mass in honor of the victims of the 2020 Beirut explosion. (AP) (Vatican News)
- 26 November 2025 – Economy of Ukraine
- Economic impact of the Russo-Ukrainian war
- The International Monetary Fund announces a staff-level agreement with Ukraine on a proposed Extended Fund Facility worth more than US$8 billion, outlining fiscal and monetary policies intended to support macroeconomic stability, debt sustainability, and external financing amid the ongoing war with Russia. (AFP via CTV News)
- 26 November 2025 – 2025 Tai Po apartment fire
- A fire at a housing estate in Tai Po, Hong Kong, leaves at least 44 people dead and 45 more injured. Police arrest three men for suspected manslaughter in the fire. (AFP via The Business Times) (Reuters)
- 26 November 2025 – Cyclone Senyar
- The death toll from the floods in southern Thailand increases to 33 people. (Reuters)
- 26 November 2025 –
- Eleven people are killed when a UV Express van collides with a truck in Camalig, Albay, Philippines. (Manila Bulletin)
- Five people are killed in an explosion at a weapons depot in Idlib Governorate, Syria. (AFP via Arab News)
- 26 November 2025 – Cyprus–Lebanon relations
- Cyprus and Lebanon sign a long-delayed maritime boundary agreement. (AP via ABC News)
- 26 November 2025 – Dominican Republic–United States relations, War on drugs, 2025 United States naval deployment in the Caribbean
- The Dominican Republic permits the United States to use the Las Américas International Airport in Punta Caucedo, Santo Domingo, and the San Isidro Air Base to support Operation Southern Spear targeting alleged drug traffickers linked by the U.S. to Venezuelan authorities. (AFP via France 24)
- 26 November 2025 – Foreign relations of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Foreign relations of Hungary
- Bosnian defence minister Zukan Helez denies approval for Hungarian foreign minister Péter Szijjártó to land his military aircraft in Banja Luka, Republika Srpska, citing Hungary's support for former Srpska president Milorad Dodik, whom Helez accuses of undermining Bosnia and Herzegovina's sovereignty. (Reuters)
- 26 November 2025 – South Africa–United States relations, 2026 G20 Doral summit, South African farm attacks
- U.S. president Donald Trump announces that South Africa will not be invited to the 2026 G20 summit in Doral, Florida, and that U.S. payments and subsidies to the country will cease, citing South Africa's refusal to transfer G20 hosting responsibilities to a U.S. embassy representative at the 2025 Johannesburg summit and criticizing its treatment of Afrikaners, among other reasons. (AFP via Arab News)
- 26 November 2025 – 2025 deployment of federal forces in the United States
- 2025 Washington, D.C. National Guard shooting
- Two members of the National Guard are shot in Washington, D.C., United States. (AFP via France 24)
- 26 November 2025 – Corruption in Peru
- A Peruvian court sentences former president Martín Vizcarra to 14 years in prison for accepting bribes from construction companies while serving as governor of Moquegua between 2011 and 2014. (AFP via TRT Afrika)
- 26 November 2025 – Murders of Yuna and Minu Jo
- Justice Geoffrey Venning of New Zealand's High Court sentences 45-year-old mother Hakyung Lee to life imprisonment with a minimum non-parole period of 17 years after convicting Lee of murdering her two children in 2018. (DW)
- 26 November 2025 – Myanmar protests
- The Tatmadaw grants amnesty to over 3,000 political prisoners, drops charges of over 5,500 others, and grants conditional release to 724 prisoners ahead of the general election in December. (AP)
- 26 November 2025 –
- Georgia's Tbilisi Appeal Court sentences opposition leader Nika Melia to an additional 18 months in prison for contempt of court after he threw water at a judge during a hearing, adding to the eight-month term he has been serving since May for refusing to appear at a parliamentary inquiry. (Reuters)
- 26 November 2025 – 2025 Guinea-Bissau coup d'état, 2025 Guinea-Bissau general election
- Bissau-Guinean president Umaro Sissoco Embaló is detained following a coup d'état one day before provisional election results were expected to be released. (BBC News) (Jeune Afrique in French)
- 26 November 2025 – Kidnapping in Nigeria, Religious violence in Nigeria
- Nigerian president Bola Tinubu declares a nationwide security emergency and orders the recruitment of 20,000 additional police officers and the deployment of specialised units in response to recent killings and kidnappings. (AFP via TRT World)
- 26 November 2025 – Women's rights in Italy
- The Italian parliament approves a bill to punish femicide with life imprisonment. (AP)
- 26 November 2025 – Chess World Cup 2025
- Javokhir Sindarov of Uzbekistan wins the Chess World Cup, at the age of 19, becoming the youngest player to win the event. (FIDE)