User:Riffsyphon1024

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Riffsyphon1024
Steven in his natural habitat
Steven in his natural habitat
Conservation status

Critically endangered, possibly extinct
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Family: Hominidae
Genus: Homo
Species: H. sapien
Subspecies: dorkus
Binomial name
Homo sapien dorkus

Hello fellow Wikipedians, my name is Steven. Pardon the mess.

I am a college student in Clarksville, Tennessee, born roughly 200 years after its founding. I currently attend Austin Peay State University and see something along the lines of geology, planetary geology, areology, mineralogy, extrasolar planets, or other related stuff for a career. The only problem is that my mind changes faster than I can catch up to it, and I'm suddenly into something else, however I seem quite interested in these things as a whole.

I also have a fascination with space exploration in general, which would make me an advocate for space and I have created both a timeline and a Solar System Terrestrial Body Comparison Chart, within my subpages at Wikipedia:

I was there the day we lost Pluto.

I need to look into making a geological/archao/historic timeline of some sort.

Contents

[edit] History

Where I was in summer 2006 (not my image)
Where I was in summer 2006 (not my image)

I became a Wikipedian on January 4, 2005, after my obsessive-control-freakishness took over and I became instantaneously addicted. However, this conflicted with my studies and threatened to shut me down altogether. I contributed whenever, but there was no given time or date I would be around.

I tried to be as loyal to Wikipedia as I could, giving information as accurate as possible. I've created articles, and performed some major contributing to some, while on others, maybe only a minor addition, subtraction, or other kind of edit was needed. If I saw a spelling or grammatical error, or just flat out typo, or need for a change on wording or to prevent plagiarism, I edited it also. I also graded and voted on certain articles submitted for deletion.

I have awarded Kaldari the Tireless Contributor Barnstar for his relentless work on all things Nashville, Tennessee.

When I'm not submitting information here, I can be found as an co-founder/administrator on Wookieepedia.

I was the primary contributor to the Clarksville, Tennessee until more recent edits have occurred, Myspace (early on), and formerly Planets of Star Wars.

And because I was nuts about Star Wars (and still am), I also linked all the main Star Wars lists together, including: Planets of Star Wars, List of Star Wars races, and my created articles: Sectors of Star Wars, Systems of Star Wars, and Cities of Star Wars. The goal was to have everything grouped as one entity but different subjects go to different articles. On March 9, 2005, a particular Wikipedian decided to engage in Vfd tactics against minor Star Wars articles, known as the Great LucasCruft Purge, in which I desperately attempted to keep them all alive. Since Wookieepedia was created just hours after this event, and just in time (however totally oblivious to the Purge), those particular articles were moved into the new Wiki where they now live carefree lives without persecution or fear of deletion. Furthermore I would cease to help Wikipedia with its Star Wars articles in favor of the new wiki and its specialized treatment of them. However, I still do work on many other subjects on Wikipedia.

See Also: My User Page at Wookieepedia.

NOTE: Wookieepedia has taken much more of my time away from Wikipedia, so that I could concentrate on it. I may not reply to all messages or upkeep at the same pace that I used to. Much focus is still needed on Wikipedia's assortment of Star Wars articles. May The Force Be With You Wikipedians.

Another side project I started is the Back to the Future Wiki

[edit] Vacation

In June 2006, I went on a vacation up north to Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Along the way I visited these places in Illinois: Peoria (during massive road construction), the Quad Cities, and Galena. In Iowa: Dubuque. In Wisconsin: Platteville and The Mining Museum, Dodgeville, Wisconsin Dells, La Crosse and Grandad Bluff, Onalaska, Sparta, Adams-Friendship and Friendship Mound and Roche-A-Cri Mound, Wisconsin Rapids, Stevens Point, Oshkosh, Appleton and Lake Winnebago, Green Bay and Lambeau Field, Crivitz, and Florence. In Minnesota: La Crescent. In Michigan: Iron Mountain, Crystal Falls, Iron River (although by accident), L'Anse, Baraga, Houghton and the Arthur E. Seaman Mineral Museum, Hancock and the Quincy Mine, Ishpeming, Marquette, Munising, Sault Ste. Marie and the Soo Locks, and Mackinac Bridge.

In August, I went on another trip to Franklin, North Carolina to find some corundum varities: rubies and sapphires.

In October, I went to Magnet Cove, Arkansas to find titanium oxides, magnetite, and aegirine. Also visited was Hot Springs, the Crater of Diamonds State Park, and Texarkana, Texas.

In November, I went to Dahlonega, Georgia, by way of Chattanooga, Tennessee, and Dalton, Georgia. On the way back, the road north to Blairsville went onto Blood Mountain, and afterward, U.S. Highway 64 paralleled the Ocoee River.

In December, Christmas Vacation took me along Interstate 40 from Nashville, Tennessee to Raleigh, North Carolina and U.S. Highway 70 from Raleigh to New Bern.

In early May 2007, I went to the Black Hills of South Dakota and Devils Tower National Monument in Wyoming. From the Quad Cities, the trip passed the newly-visited cities of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Albert Lea and Blue Earth in Minnesota, past Sioux Falls, to Mitchell and the Mitchell Corn Palace, out to Chamberlain, South Dakota along the Missouri River, to Wall along The Wall of the Badlands, and finally Rapid City. I visited my paleotologist friend at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. Within the Black Hills, I visited Keystone, Hill City, Custer, Deadwood, and Lead. Around the Hills, I visited Sturgis (during offseason of course) and Spearfish. Landmarks within the Hills visited include Mount Rushmore, Custer State Park, Homestake Gold Mine, Spearfish Canyon, and the Needles Highway. Into Wyoming, I saw the location of the Vore Buffalo Run atop the Spearfish Formation. We pulled off Interstate 90 at Sundance and headed for Devils Tower.

After the trip out west, I flew even farther out west to Los Angeles, California for the Star Wars convention Celebration IV on May 23, 2007. I stayed in Pasadena, and visited downtown Los Angeles, Hollywood, West Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Echo Park, Bel Air. Particular locations included the La Brea Tar Pits, UCLA, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. I rode on the Santa Monica Freeway and the San Bernardino Freeway ("The 10"), "The 405", the Hollywood Freeway ("The 101"), the Glendale Freeway, and the Pasadena Freeway ("The 110"), as well as Santa Monica Boulevard, Sunset Boulevard, Wilshire Boulevard, and Colorado Boulevard.

I sure do get around.

[edit] Wikipedia Quotes

This is from a VFD of Septenquinquagintillion.

10174 equals 2578.015 so if the number of articles in Wikipedia doubled every day, it would take about one year and seven months to reach a septenquinquagintillion articles. If a disk drive can store 200 gigabytes and an average article consumes 2000 bytes then a disk drive can store 100 million articles, so this would require (10166 ten) quattuorquinquagintillion disk drives, at a cost of approximately (10168 1.0) quinquinquagintillion dollars. The world GNP is approximately 30000 billion U.S. dollars so that is about 3 X 10154 world GNP's. If the entire world was willing to contribute its entire output to the project it could do so in 3 quinquagintillion years. If we rely on Wikimedia fundraisers it will take longer, so I suggest that Jimbo tell them to get started right away. (Counting on figures) Mumble... universe lifetimes... atomic radii... Archimedes and sand grains... Unless we can broaden the categories for speedy deletion, the VfD for a septenquinquagintillion-article Wikipedia will probably require something better than dialup.

—Dpbsmith, March 11, 2005

[edit] Notes

Sunset on some other planet going around some other star in some other galaxy.
Sunset on some other planet going around some other star in some other galaxy.

Mineralogy of Mars: (NOT ORIGINAL RESEARCH)

Sources: JPL Mars Rovers site, Astronomy April 2004 Article by Bruce Moomaw

MÖSSBAUER is your friend.

I believe anyone that has a mineral named after them, regardless of the rarity of the mineral, should get an article. Usually they're dead already.

I wish there were more annotated nebula maps like this.
I wish there were more annotated nebula maps like this.

When I met Dr. Hap McSween, planetary geologist, geochemist and meteorite researcher at UTK, I never knew the man had an asteroid (5223 McSween, 1981 EX6) named after him!

NEWS FLASH: Opportunity has arrived at Victoria Crater

The best resolution ever by any Mars orbiter is shown in Image:PIA08813.jpg of Victoria. One can make out individual rocks as well as the Opportunity rover.

"We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe." - Stephen Hawking

[edit] Contributions and Other Things

[edit] By the Numbers

Number of edits since January 4, 2005 (as of March 21, 2005) -- 2397

Get updates at this addictive link

Official count of all namespace edits (as of March 9, 2005) placed me at 910 with 1976 edits. My position increased 1108 places.

[edit] Articles that I have created:

Wikipedia:Babel
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es-1 Este usuario puede contribuir con un nivel básico de español.
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[edit] Articles that I have contributed to:

Resources for maintenance and collaboration
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Cleanup General - By topic - Copy to Wiktionary - Notability Sorting - English grammar - Copyediting - Spam - Cleanup Taskforce - Wikify an article - Deorphan an article - Update an article
Categories General cleanup - Articles to be categorized - Underpopulated - Undercategorized categories
Create an article Most wanted - Requests 1 year+ - Requested articles - Short pages - Missing encyclopedic topics - Review anonymous article submissions
Referencing Fact-check - Articles lacking sources - Need more references - Original research
Stubs Advice - Stubs by topic - Most wanted - Short pages - Incomplete lists
Deletion Speedy - Articles - Categories - Redirects - Templates - Misc. pages - Stub templates and categories - Log - Discussion archives - Review
Polishing Expand an article - Peer review - Featured candidates - Fill a topic list
Translation into English Wikipedia:Translation - Existing pages - Spanish trans. of the week - Interwiki link checker
Images Requested pictures - Images for cleanup - Caption review - Images with missing articles
Controversy Neutrality - Article accuracy - Statement accuracy
To-do lists Articles - Projects - Books
Disambiguation Disambiguation - Manual of Style Disambiguation - Hatnotes - Templates
More Active wiki fixup projects - Open tasks - Articles to merge - Articles to split - Copyright violations - Requests - Backlogs - Expert request sorting - Missing names

[edit] Articles that I have cleaned up (aka Wikipedian Beautification):

[edit] Category Pages created:

[edit] Stub Templates created:

  • Template:State park-stub
My current stress level
My current stress level

[edit] Vfd Pages started:

  1. Vfd/À la folie... pas du tout (RESULT:Redirect)
  2. Vfd/Law review (RESULT:Keep)
  3. Vfd/Fisher & Hansen (RESULT:Delete)
  4. Vfd/GreaterSTUFF (RESULT:Delete)
  5. Vfd/How to tell if your child is a hacker (RESULT:Speedy-delete)
  6. Vfd/Lag screw (RESULT:Delete)
  7. Vfd/Timeline of social developments (RESULT:Delete)
  8. Vfd/Peanut Foot (RESULT:Delete)
  9. Vfd/MOOism (RESULT:Keep)
  10. Vfd/MJ morning show (RESULT:Delete)
  11. Vfd/Bolivian Space Program (RESULT:Delete)
  12. Vfd/Philip Huntoon (RESULT:Keep)
  13. Vfd/Jim geraghty (RESULT:Keep)
  14. Vfd/Demon hunters (RESULT:Delete)
  15. Vfd/Sprintwich (RESULT:Delete)
  16. Vfd/Peter Palumbo (RESULT:Keep)
  17. Vfd/Cfmb (RESULT:Keep and move to CFMB)
  18. Vfd/Igcc (RESULT:move to IGCC and disambig)
  19. Vfd/C the band (RESULT:Delete)
  20. Vfd/Southwest Boulevard (RESULT:Delete)
  21. Vfd/Septenquinquagintillion (RESULT:Delete)
  22. Vfd/Bejamin Franklin High School (RESULT:No consensus)
  23. Vfd/Mark Dever (RESULT:Delete)
  24. Vfd/Emotastic (RESULT:Delete)

This currently gives me a 57.14% Delete Rating.

Link to Template:VfDFooter

[edit] Major Vfd Pages participated in (keeping an eye on):

[edit] SW Vfds

These SW articles/topics/concepts were watched to ensure that they withhold against the brutality of one GRider and have all been moved to Wookieepedia:

  1. Vfd/Tyvokka (RESULT:Keep)
  2. Vfd/Kylantha (RESULT:Delete, however content exists in Naboo)
  3. Vfd/Quarren Isolation League (RESULT:Merged to Minor Star Wars organisations)
  4. Vfd/Operation Strike Fear (RESULT:Merged to Galactic Civil War
  5. Vfd/Repulsorlift (RESULT:Keep)
  6. Vfd/Rhen Var (RESULT:Merged to Planets of Star Wars)
  7. Vfd/Darth Traya (RESULT:Keep)
  8. Vfd/TX-130s fighter tank (RESULT:Merge, however it still retains an article)
  9. Vfd/Rothana Heavy Engineering (merged to Kuat Drive Yards)
  10. Vfd/Order D6-66 (RESULT:Delete, however it exists on Wookieepedia now)
  11. Vfd/Nubian Design Collective (RESULT:Keep, amazingly)
  12. Vfd/Commander Bly (RESULT:Merge)
  13. Vfd/Kor Chokk (RESULT:No consensus -- keep)
  14. Vfd/Thud Bug (RESULT:Merge, however it still retains an article)
  15. Vfd/Great Jedi Purge (RESULT:Keep)
  16. Vfd/San Hill (RESULT:Keep)
  17. Vfd/The last Handmaiden (RESULT:Merge)
  18. Vfd/Ainlee Teem (RESULT:Merge)
  19. Vfd/Seven forms of lightsaber combat (RESULT:Moved to Lightsaber combat)
  20. Vfd/Rakamat (leaning towards merge}
  21. Vfd/SuperShadow (RESULT:Keep)

This last Vfd was intiated by me in order to keep a Wookieepedia project off Wikipedia.

  1. List of moffs (RESULT:Delete)

It's truly a battle between "Wikipedia is not paper" and "Wikipedia is not a general knowledge directory".

[edit] My Images

Bold denotes better images. Red denotes deleted images.

It's not looking too good...

I proposed a few barnstars to Wikipedia.

Barnstar Atom for Science Award

10-point Barnstar as the Wikipedian Medal of Honor?

Oddball eyeball barnstar

Oddball (green version)

Oddball (darker green) (Winner of Oddball Barnstar)

Caesar History Barnstar

Einstein Science/Math Barnstar

Ancient Ruin History Barnstar

Ancient Ruin History Barnstar (Version 2)

Ancient Ruin History Barnstar (Version 3)

Radioactive Science barnstar

All Posted at Wikipedia:Barnstar and award proposals.

Mind Benders logo
Mind Benders logo

My proposal for the Mind Benders Logo that won:

[edit] Helpful Wikipedian Links

Wikipedia:Category | Wikipedia:Image copyright tags | Wikipedia:Deletion policy | Wikipedia:Template messages/Stubs Wikipedia:How to revert a page to an earlier version | Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of edits Wikipedia:Vandalism in progress | Wikipedia:Speedy deletions | Wikipedia:U.S. Wikipedians' notice board Wikipedia:Article improvement drive | Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by fields of interest | Wikipedia:Great editing in progress User:Dpbsmith/BEEFSTEW (Basic Education Evaluation Form and Standardized Test for Evaluating Worthiness) Wikipedia:Wikipedia as a press source 2005 (just goes to show that Wikipedia is becoming more and more cited) Wikipedia:To-do list | Wikipedia:Village pump | Wikipedia:What's in, what's out Wikipedia:WikiProject | Wikipedia:WikiProject Astronomical objects | Wikipedia:Wikiproject Albums

[edit] Minor Wikipedian accomplishments

"Recovery may take 12 steps, but becoming a junkie requires only four. First comes chance - an unexpected encounter. Chance stirs curiosity. Curiosity leads to experimentation. And experimentation cascades into addiction." -- Wired Magazine, March 2005

[edit] Barnstars

The Original Barnstar
I noticed that your edits were impressive and so I've decided to award you this Original barnstar! Wikidudeman (talk) 08:38, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Things to Do

The coolest things I find on Wikipedia.
The coolest things I find on Wikipedia.
  • Work on Spirit and Opportunity mission pages. (WHEN NEWS GIVEN)
  • Add more minerals
  • Add more local information
  • Add more geological information
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Other:

Wikipedia

[edit] Wikipedia can Influence a Person to Purchase New Things

Use Image:Check mark 23x20 02.svg when obtained.

  • Mining the Sky: Untold Riches from the Asteroids, Comets, and Planets (September 1997) by John S. Lewis
    • Lewis makes a prediction that the abundant resources of the solar system, including limitless solar energy (not counting the limitless energy of Sol) could support a vast civilization of 10,000,000 billion people (or 10 quadrillion people). He argues that shortage of resources is "...an illusion born of ignorance."
    • According to Asteroid mining, "In 2004, the world production of iron ore exceeded 1,000 million metric tons. In comparison, a comparatively small M-type asteroid with a mean diameter of 1 km could contain more than 2,000 million metric tons of iron-nickel ore, or two to three times the annual production for 2004. The asteroid 16 Psyche is believed to contain 1.7×1019 kg of iron-nickel (or 170,000,000,000,000,000,000 or 170 quintillion kg), which could supply the 2004 world production requirement for several million years. A small portion of the extracted material would also contain precious metals, although these would likely be more difficult to extract."
  • The Case For Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must (1996) by Robert Zubrin
  • Death By Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries (2007) by Neil deGrasse Tyson

[edit] Other stuff

American football players with appropriate aggressive-sounding or football-related names:

[edit] Thanks

Another awesome star chart map.
Another awesome star chart map.
  • Thanks to Mr. Cookie and customyspace for info and stats on Myspace and its creator.
  • Thanks to Cbarbry for really getting things going on Wookieepedia.

[edit] Disruptions of This Page

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