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{{Personbio
|image = Avatar_Antonio.png
|Title = Lead Community Manager
|Hobby = Watching Netflix, HBO. Playing videogames. Reading Star Wars comics. His scout group.
|Home = Granada, Spain
|Start = May 2007
|Username=Antonio R. Castro
|Site= [[w:c:es.gta|Grand Theft Encyclopedia]], [[w:c:hieloyfuego|Hielo y Fuego Wiki]] and [[w:c:adventuretime|Adventure Time Wiki]]
}}Antonio is Lead Community Manager and part of the Community Experience team at Fandom. Also know as ''[[w:c:user:bola|bola]]'', he has spent most part of his wiki-life working in Spanish communities. In the last 3 years he has been working on The English TV/Movies communities, Gaming wikis and finally Data Analysis and Internal policies for Community Experience. He combines that work with the representation of Community Org in Product/Engineering meetings (It means you can blame him if any bug is not correctly prioritized...)

==History==
He can't remember when all this started, but he did in 2001 probably, playing to GTA III. He was looking for mods because he wanted to add new tanks to the game. That's because he started to collaborate in a famous Spanish website about GTA. After that? Well, he reached the status of moderator, collaborator, admin, webmaster, and whatever, he was almost the owner of the web after some years.

In the meanwhile, he started to edit in Wikipedia. That was the beginning of the end, because after a year, he thought could be a good idea to create a wiki about GTA, and that's the reason because he started to collaborate like bureaucrat in the wiki created by a friend, [[w:c:es.gta|Grand Theft Encyclopedia]]. We are talking about May 2007, and a year later he was recruited as helper -volunteer-. Three years collaborating in the Spanish communities, and after that, he was hired by Fandom (2011).

He has been supporting the Spanish communities for more than 11 years (as user, helper, Community Development Manager, etc) and finally, he was promoted to Community Manager for English communities too, focussed on TV/Movies wikis. The rest is history: TV/Movies -> Gaming -> Data Analyst/Product coordination.

==Trivia==
*He loves wikis, in any form: wiki-dramas, super complex templates, designs, more wiki-dramas, stats... or just reading, because best way to understand a community is reading the articles and seeing how they pamper their pages.
*Antonio always tries to be creative in all his projects and never repeat same program twice. He is in constant evolution, so if you have any crazy idea that you would like to apply to the wikis, please, tell him, it's easy to convince him to obtain his support.
*Fan of GTA, Star Wars, Song of Ice and Fire and any TV series ''pre'' or ''post'' Breaking Bad.
*He LOVES Adventure Time.
*He is a scout leader at the scout group of his town. Because he thinks we can leave this world a little better than we found it.

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