User:Revanche

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About Me

Let's see: I used to be quite active on Heavy Metal Pro's forums when I discovered the value of Rick Raisley's suite of programs (probably around 1999), though my involvement has dropped off in some years. I've lurked on the various incarnations of the official BattleTech boards for longer than that, only recently becoming active in the community (though I've been around long enough to see my post count started three times with the various board wipes). Before that, there was Sarna and the Usenet, though under a different (and secret) handle.

Current Status: Very stressed with real life, and desperately looking to do what I want to do for a few hours. However, working 10 days straight means I have a number of homelife requirements due, as well, especially with a son who adores his 'daddy' and wants to spend time with him. Family members who invited themselves for the holidays to my temporary patch of California life means I have to spend this one day off (if I don't get called back in to work) and the weekend cleaning up my office for them to crash in. All I know is I still will have 5 days of leave left after they leave to relax and forget my job. (10:41, 14 December 2006 (CST))

• My BattleTechWiki Count

UserBars (by Skuggi)

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I have to say, being made an admin by Nic was a nice honor, and I hope to earn the right to 'wear' this UserBar by my future actions here.

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Proud member of this project, working under a dedicated Project Lead, CJKeys.

Awards

None yet, but as soon as I get that program up, this should be an even more interesting place!

My Subpages

• Award Database
• Campaign: non-BTW material, for storage/review
• UserBars: storage for proper placement
• Personal templates: personalized templates for use as an admin.
• monobook.js
• popups.js

List of Important Pages

• Admin Help Requests

• Article Count History

• BattleMech Portal Alternates

• BattleMech Portal Factions

• BattleMech Portal News

• Categories

• Citations using the MLA format

• Disambiguation example

• 'For Information On..." example

• How to Purge

• Listusers

• My Personal Sandbox

• Pages to start

• Reference example

• Sidebar

• Templates

List of Pages I'm Working On

• To establish the Battle Armor Category: Achileus, Grey Death Scout, Infiltrator Mk. I, Kage
• To establish the Combat Vehicles Category: Swift Wind, Rommel, Nightshade, Gabriel
• To establish the Conventional Fighters Category: Boomerang, Light Strike Fighter, Guardian, Medium Strike Fighter
• To establish the Exoskeletons Category: Ailette, Tunnel Rat I, Tunnel Rat III, Gorilla
• To establish the Industrial 'Mechs Category: Harvester, Vampyr, Harvester Ant, Powerman
• To establish the JumpShips Category: Merchant, Magellan, Comitatus, Hunter
• To establish the Small Craft Category: K-1, K-1C, S-7A, ST-46
• To establish the Space Stations Category: Small Habitat, Large Habitat, Olympus, Small Factory
• To establish the Static Structures Category: Hospital, Galley, 'Mech Hanger, Fueling Station
• To establish the Support Vehicles Category: Simca, Sherpa, Dusenberg, Sky Eye
• To establish the WarShips Category: Fox, Aegis, Potemkin
• Tags: Plagerism re-write, wiki-break, vote-in-progress, needs cited references, is written in-character
• Tag library
• Template:InfoBoxNeveronFaction
• Template:InfoBoxCBTFaction
• Template:InfoBoxCBTGameGroup
• Develop Team Assessment Grading Scale (see: [1]
• Develop Projects for each major Category
• Develop Welcome, Advocate, Moderator and Arbitration teams (per BattleTechWiki:Resolving disputes)
• Develop Welcome templates (anonymous, registered) for general use.
• Develop Warning templates for general use.
• Work on the BattleTechWiki Policies 'Tree' (*means article complete, no red links):

BattleTechWiki:Five pillars - completed

BattleTechWiki:Resolving disputes

BattleTechWiki:The perfect article - completed

BattleTechWiki:Editing policy

BattleTechWiki:What is an article

BattleTechWiki:Neutral point of view - completed

BattleTechWiki:Refactoring

BattleTechWiki:How to edit a page

BattleTechWiki:Featured articles

BattleTechWiki:Talk page

BattleTechWiki:How to rename (move) a page

BattleTechWiki:Patent nonsense

BattleTechWiki:Copyrights

BattleTechWiki:Verifiability

Template:Fact

BattleTechWiki:Talk page

BattleTechWiki:Refactoring talk pages

BattleTechWiki:Advocates

BattleTechWiki:Mediators

BattleTechWiki:Requests for comment

BattleTechWiki:BTWProject

BattleTechWiki:Requests for page protection

BattleTechWiki:Arbitrators

BattleTechWiki:Arbitration Committee

BattleTechWiki:Arbitration policy

BattleTechWiki:Three-revert rule

• Write the new help Article for Weapons
• The Xoid/Revanche Templat Collaboration Project: Special:Allpages
  • BMPAlternates
  • BattleTechWiki category
  • CCGMission
  • Check talk/doc
  • Cn
  • Details
  • Disambig/doc
  • Eq
  • Equip Weapon
  • InfoBoxBattleArmor
  • InfoBoxBattleMech
  • InfoBoxBook
  • InfoBoxConvFighter
  • InfoBoxDropShipCustom
  • InfoBoxFiction
  • InfoBoxJumpShip
  • InfoBoxSmallCraft
  • InfoBoxSpaceStationCustom
  • InfoBoxSupportVehicle
  • InfoBoxWarShipCustom
  • InfoBoxWeaponCustom
  • News -
  • Nosubst/doc -
  • ProjectBattleMech -
  • Projecttemplate -
  • Template:Shortcut -
  • Template:Stub - completed
  • Template:TOCright - N/N
  • Template:Template doc page viewed directly - N/N
  • Template:Unsigned - completed
  • Template:WikiProject BattleMechs - N/N
  • Template:WikiProject Planets/doc - N/N
  • Template:Wikipedia - N/N

Projects To Develop

No particular order:

• Unit Faction template: to include designation as canon, what 'verse, or as fan creation.

• BattleTechWiki Policies: Upon approval from Nic, start writing editor policies pertinent to CBT and this wiki, including:
  • Real Person articles
  • 3R Rule (3 reverts per 24 hours)
  • Votes
  • Neutrality

• Editing tags: vote-in-progress, etc.

• FAQ page

• Develop concepts for the left-side toolbar, to include: Sandbox link, Policies link

• The BattleTechWiki equivalent of Wikipedia's barnstar awards.

Special Thanks

• Nicjansma: Our admin and our host. Thanks for doing this, both with Sarna and BattleTechWiki. The latter has already eaten up a lot of my personal time, but its been fun.

• CJKeys: While I hope BattleTechWiki becomes as big a resource as any for CBT (and its various other incarnations), my faith in its development has been bolstered largely by CJKey's articles for the 'Mechs catagory. They have been well-designed and numerous, which -I think- goes a long way into inspiring others to write similar articles. If it were just Nic and myself at this point, I'd probably feel overwhelmed with what had to be done. Thanks, CJ.

• Jimmy the Tulip: A good bud of mine for several years now, who has stuck around the times o' plenty and the (more common) times of famine. Thanks for coming over here, Jimmy, and adding legitimacy to this project (especially with the Southern Hemisphere crowd).

• Xoid: I don't know him too well, yet, but he's already made his mark upon BTW and taught me some-some with his methods. He has inspired my confidence the quickest I've ever had for someone newly met on the internet, and I hope we can get him to stick around and make this a better place.

Important Milestones

• 08 September 2006 - The wiki that will become BTW makes its initial appearance.

• 11 September 2006 - BTW is born.

• 14 September 2006 - Nic posts on the CBT forums that, "I've converted Sarna.net to a wiki format." I immediately question why BattleTech needs two wikis (hey, I chose sides too quickly!).

• 17 September 2006 - I make my first edit on BTW: an addition of information on Talitha, my favorite CBT planet.

• 03 October 2006 - Nic approves my entry for the new design of the Main Page.

• 04 October 2006 - Nic promotes me to Admin (the first one), to give me greater authority to work on my improvement projects.

• 24 November 2006 - BTW earns its money with me, when I turn to it first for information on Randis IV.

• 10 March 2007 - I embark on a Federally-mandated wikibreak.

• 06 December 2007 - I return from my first significant wikibreak.