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Wow, four years later you are still editing

Thanks for this article: Head transplant, which you wrote 4 years ago. Something I am working on lately. Travb (talk) 14:25, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

You're weclome. Though I only wrote about two paragraphs so all I really did was get the ball rolling, you've added a heck of a lot more. :) Bryan Derksen 17:06, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

A comedy or a tragedy

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There's no such field of scientific study as astrosociobiology. It was invented by George Dvorsky, who created Wikipedia articles for it and several other invented subjects that he thought up in the shower one day, and then sat back and watched as other editors then expanded the articles. See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Astrosociobiology. Uncle G (talk) 18:17, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

• The name of the article may be a neologism, but I don't see why we can't have an article about the concept behind it. Bryan Derksen 01:26, 8 December 2007 (UTC)
  • The concept is a field of scientific endeavour that George Dvorsky invented, from whole cloth, in the shower one day. Read Dvorsky's very own explanation, hyperlinked to from the AFD discussion. Uncle G (talk) 02:39, 8 December 2007 (UTC)
    • I don't find Dvorsky's claim plausible. Lots of other people have considered this stuff, possibly under different names, hence why so much material has been added. But arguing here on my user talk page is pointless, feel free to comment further over on the AfD page itself. Bryan Derksen 02:52, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

DYK

On 7 December, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Borealis quadrangle, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Carabinieri (talk) 00:01, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

{{User blank}}, {{User blank-N}}, and {{User blank-10}}

Could you also put documentation on these pages as you did with the other blanks? It is too complicated for me. 76.16.187.218 (talk) 03:55, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

I don't actually know much about the standard practices for userbox templates, but I've added template documentation frameworks so that they can be easily filled in by other editors. Could you give me a link to one of the other blanks I've done before? I've been doing a lot of random cleanup in the template namespace lately and I can't remember everywhere I've been. Bryan Derksen 04:01, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

Gula Mons

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DYK

On 9 December, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Victoria quadrangle, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Zzyzx11 (Talk) 02:01, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

DYK

On December 9, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Tolstoj (crater), which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

DYK

On 9 December, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Shakespeare quadrangle, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Zzyzx11 (Talk) 15:26, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

On 10 December, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Bach quadrangle, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Royalbroil 17:07, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

DYK

On 11 December, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Kuiper (crater on Mercury), which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Carabinieri (talk) 15:07, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

DYK

On 11 December, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Caloris Group, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Carabinieri (talk) 19:43, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

DYK

On 12 December, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Beethoven quadrangle, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--EncycloPetey (talk) 04:18, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

DYK

On 12 December, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Discovery quadrangle, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Victuallers (talk) 14:18, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

DYK

On 12 December, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Michelangelo quadrangle, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Cirt (talk) 14:24, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

No content in Category:Scrubs episodes

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Pesky rules

I don't know if you are aware, but it is kind of against the rules to look at a user's edit history and then revert their changes one after another. Also, although certain users aren't very helpful at explaining their changes in their edit summaries, it is incumbent on all Wikipedia editors to follow the interlocking rules WP:N and WP:RS. AnteaterZot (talk) 09:32, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

If you'll review my own edit history a little more carefully, you'll see I didn't "revert their changes one after the other" - I reviewed a bunch of them and reverted some, made further edits on others, and even deleted a few articles that should have been deleted rather than redirected. I'm actually paying attention to the details of what I'm doing rather than applying rules in a mechanistic bot-like manner to mass numbers of articles. Bryan Derksen (talk) 09:57, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

I'm sorry. I see that you are an admin, and at one point were the human editor with the most edits. I guess we (and TTN) are fast editors, not bot-like. AnteaterZot (talk) 10:17, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

Fast editing of large numbers of articles is all well and good, I've done it myself quite frequently (hence my unreasonably large edit count). But in TTN's case he's been doing it against consensus, or at least where consensus is dubious or controversial, and he's been doing it apparently without applying human-style discretion or analysis in some cases. That sort of editing requires oversight. I note on your userpage that you're a proponent of the "BOLD, revert, discuss cycle"; perhaps consider my recent edits to be part of the "revert" phase of that cycle. The discussion part seems to be over at Wikipedia talk:Television episodes. Bryan Derksen (talk) 10:23, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

Yes, it would be better if TTN was less single-minded in his edits. I myself got burned for applying "reliablesources" tags too quickly for some people's tastes, and have concluded that the best thing to do is to vary one's edit summaries. Anyway, you didn't revert me, so I'll see you around. AnteaterZot (talk) 10:41, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

Merge proposal

It has been proposed that WP:EPISODE be merged into WP:WAF. Your input is desired, so please comment here. Ursasapien (talk) 11:07, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

Template:TSF Tuesday

Hello! Thanks for leaving a note on my talk page.
This is one of the seven "TSF {{CURRENTDAYNAME}}" templates used at Wikipedia:Main Page alternative (Classic 2006) (so it's transcluded there on Tuesdays). With the advent of ParserFunctions, such a setup is no longer needed, so I'll make the switch and delete the unneeded templates. —David Levy 20:48, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

Okay. I found it via random-paging through the template namespace so had no idea whether there were any others like it. :) Bryan Derksen (talk) 21:17, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

Erskine May reference

When you get a chance, please see the "Journal" talk page. MagnesianPhoenix (talk) 03:00, 24 December 2007 (UTC) [signed retroactively]

DYK

On 27 December, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article 2007 WD5, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Maxim_(talk) 14:40, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

Incidentally, is it too late to wish you a merry Christmas? :P --Kizor _{is in a constant state of flux} 21:33, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

Re Frank Campion

Re your question here [1]: Sorry for being late in responding (I'm on vacations). What I meant was not that it was a copyvio in the sense of being copied from somewhere, but a copyvio in the sense of engaging in excessive re-narration of (copyrighted) plot elements not justified by a fair use requirement of supporting structural literary analysis, thus potentially qualifying as a derivative work and a breach of our non-free content policies. Fut.Perf. ☼ 20:52, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

Kardashev Scale

Hi, recently the Kardashev scale entry has gone through some major reverts, I'd like to talk about the reinstatement of the material. I've looked around and have seen that you've made some major contributions to the article and are interested in it's progress. I feel we need to talk about the reverts and reinstatement and talk about whether either are justified. Talk:Kardashev scale If you could help or add your two cents I'd really appreciate it. Thanks--Sparkygravity (talk) 01:42, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

AfD nomination of TCS Concordia

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Subcategories

Hello, I have noticed that you made a lot of edits that put userboxes in Category:User templates, which is very good. The problem is that they are all categorized as "U" (they should never be categorized as {{PAGENAME}} because that is what happens) and a lot of them should be categorized into subcategories. If you think of putting any more userboxes in this category please familiarize yourself with the subcategories and take note of Category:Interest user templates, as that category also has a few more series of subcategories which go to subsubcategories or even subsubsubcategories in this case. -Babelious 04:02, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Uncategorized templates

I noticed you marked Template:LDS Temple/Halifax Nova Scotia Temple‎ as uncategorized. Before you use a bunch of your time marking all the sub-pages of {{LDS Temple}} as uncategorized, I wanted to let you know that I'm working on them right now, and I'll be sure to categorize them. (If you have a category suggestion, I'd be glad to hear it.) – jaksmata 20:11, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

I found it via the random template link so I wouldn't have wound up going through them systematically anyway, but thanks for the heads-up. I don't have any specific ideas for how to categorize those, I'm afraid - I just randomly cruise template space looking for the obvious things to fix (template namespace has been rather neglected over the years :) Bryan Derksen (talk) 20:48, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Suggestion for speedy deletion for Kelly Brownell

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duplicate page - see Kelly D. Brownell, which already has the same info and is much more detailed

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Centralized TV Episode Discussion

Over the past months, TV episodes have been reverted by (to name a couple) TTN, Eusebeus and others. No centralized discussion has taken place, so I'm asking everyone who has been involved in this issue to voice their opinions here in this centralized spot, be they pro or anti. Discussion is here [2]. --Maniwar (talk) 23:39, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

DYK

On 17 January, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article OJ287, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Royalbroil 04:55, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Shield (Stargate)

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Portia (Shakespeare)

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OJ287

Please, use search to check for existing articles before creating new ones. Article on OJ 287 was created 1.5 years ago. So, an appearance of your "new article" OJ287 in "Did you know" section this year was inappropriate deja vu issue. Av0id3r (talk) 22:54, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

I did search. Not my fault Wikipedia's search engine sucks. (Update: Even now that I've completed the merge, Wikipedia's search engine doesn't find the old article: [3]) Anyway, the content I added was all new, so why not just thank me and merge it? Much more productive. Bryan Derksen (talk) 01:58, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

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Slartibartfast

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i proposed arcology for deletion

Feel free to remove tag if you disagree. No hard feelings! Rich Peterson130.86.14.90 (talk) 22:48, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

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Please extend Globular cluster template

Hello,

Please extend the Globular cluster template to add a caption as you have done elsewhere.

This would be used by Terzan 7.

Thanks.

WilliamKF (talk) 22:02, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

Done. I don't have time to go through all the articles using the template to move the existing captions into the caption parameter right now, though. I'll get back to that in a few hours. Bryan Derksen (talk) 00:35, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

Actually, never mind, it looks like I had time after all. Thought there would be more articles in need of fixing. :) Bryan Derksen (talk) 00:44, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

Great, thanks! WilliamKF (talk) 01:39, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

Kardashev Scale

In the last month or so there's been a edit dispute on the article, about what it is, who it was meant for, where the article needs to go, whether it needs to be split. Not of lot of people work on it, so there's very few people deciding these issues. I was wondering if you could take a look at the article, it's history, and talk page and put your two cents in at the bottom of the Talk:Kardashev scale page. If you could, it'd be really helpful. THX--Sparkygravity (talk) 23:06, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

Peter Chin (mayor)

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AfD nomination of Alt.usenet.kooks

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TfD nomination of Template:Lifetime

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Proposed merge of isotope tables

As someone who has maintained Isotope table (complete) and/or Isotope table (divided) in the past, your input is needed. User:Greg L is proposing (and prematurely executing) a merge of the two tables, each about 50k, into one table of over 100k. I am opposing it, and no other editors have commented yet. Please come to Talk:Isotope table (complete) and offer your opinion. Thanks, JWB (talk) 00:27, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, I've chipped in my two cents. To get further input, perhaps try contacting Wikiproject Chemistry? Bryan Derksen (talk) 02:01, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

Bryan: I saw your post on here on Talk:Isotope. I hope I revised option #5 to be in conformance with your point. Please advise if I didn’t correctly understand you. If I correctly memorialized your point, let me know and I would be pleased to correct the other options. Or feel free to make the changes yourself. Greg L (my talk) 04:04, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, I think that resolves that issue. It's probably just a minor semantic quibble but I've had to undelete and clean up a lot of merge-and-deletes in recent months so I try to get the word out when the opportunity arises. Bryan Derksen (talk) 05:00, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

British or American

Bryan, I’ve noted the spelling “colour” in Isotope table (complete). As current Wikipedia policy is to retain the spelling of the first major contributor (which I’ve been observant of), I now wonder: do you use Britsh English or American English? Greg L (my talk) 00:11, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

Heh. I'm actually Canadian, so I randomly oscillate between the two. Use whichever makes your spellchecker happy. Bryan Derksen (talk) 01:57, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

Putting new planets to a wrong place

You just added three new planets to the wrong article list of unconfirmed exoplanets. I strongly suggest that you should transfer these three planets to the list of stars with confirmed extrasolar planets and don't forget to update the numbers of planets. BlueEarth (talk) 14:39, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

Go ahead. I put them there because I didn't know the confirmation status myself, if you do know the confirmation status by all means update them. I don't own the article. Bryan Derksen (talk) 19:38, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

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