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: Doing a lot better. I'm the ship's Meteorologist and Oceanographer for an aircraft carrier in the Pacific Northwest (of the US), and while still busy, enjoying life a lot more than I did in Monterey, California. I've found time when I can to get here and do some of the related admin responsibilities associated with being a sysop, as well as get in the fun side of the house: writing articles of substance. I'm still amazed that I can come here and find things on my own that I can't find (or find easily) elsewhere, as BTW is definitely becoming a valuable member of the community. I would just ask that everyone reference the site as much as feasibly possible in their other BattleTech communities: we need new Users (to see what we offer) and we definitely need more new Editors (so that we can push this database up to the 20,000+ articles level sooner than later). Anyway...I'm doing better and enjoying life more. (0748, 31 August 2008 (CST))
- I'm particularly proud of article #5,814: the Brotherhood of Randis. I researched this article thoroughly before beginning writing it. It was a demonstration to Frabby and Scaletail as to how how I saw the ideal article was to be formatted and analyzed. It led to the creation (though far from as well-formatted) (or further development) of the following articles: Galahad Frews, Lucas Beckett, Fiefdom of Randis, Randis IV, Erdelmaine Randis, the John Paul II Square Massacre, Sandro Manufacturing, David Pratcher, Takahiro Naguchi and Rupert Masterson (and possibly Universal Truth).
- I'm also proud of article #8,185: the Unfinished Book Movement. I couldn't leave the inspiration for the name of Project Unfinished Book as a redlink, so I hit the books and PDF files. Hopefully, I'll get around to making that article redlink free, itself.
UserBars (by Skuggi)
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.
Proud member of this project, working under a dedicated Project Lead, CJKeys.
Conversations to follow (near-term)
Note to self: for important or non-critical issues, I generally wait 5-7 days for a response before taking action. If its a matter that is timely or important to me, I may wait much less (though I try to abide by established policies).
- Talk:Hansen's Roughriders (18Jul09)
- Talk:7th FedCom RCT/User talk:Stormlion1 (13Jul09)
- MediaWiki talk:Edittools (13Jul09)
- BattleTechWiki:Administrators#Admin_To-Do_List (13Jul09)
- Talk:Wulfen (12Jul09)
- Talk:Free Worlds League (12Jul09)
- Talk:First Succession War (12Jul09)
- Talk:3053 (10Jul09)
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
- Projects
List of Important Pages
List of Pages I'm Working On
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.
- 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.
- Scaletail and Frabby: The last few weeks hammering out policies have been very productive. Instead of feeling like I was just generating policies willy-nilly, now I feel as if my POVs are being challenged and changed accordingly. Thanks for the professionalism and willingness to either stick to your guns or give in when necessary. You've really helped build the cornerstone of policies here at BTW.
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.