User:Revanche
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About Me
Let's see: I used to be quite active on Heavy Metal'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 handle. I made my first post on 17 September 2006, and am -as far as I know- the oldest, active registered user on the wiki.
Current Status: I'm done with ships for good now (2nd time saying that in my career) and am an XO at a training center on the Seabee base in Mississippi. Personal time has been plentiful this summer, so I've gotten a lot of work done on my various personal projects (including this one), but that changes in mid-August with the arrival of my family and then possible travel to the Far East.
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). (0838, 05 August 2009 (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.
- Additional articles I either created or vastly improved and of which I am proud: Takayoshi Fuchida, Thomas Kearny
- Additional articles of which I am simply proud: Takeo Kurita I, Takeo Kurita II
UserBars (by Skuggi)
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).
- Category talk:Factions 06Aug09
- Category talk:Video Games 06Aug09
- Category talk:Word of Blake Commands (05Aug09)
- Template talk:Cleanup (04Aug09)
- Category talk:Inner Sphere Commands (04Aug09)
- Talk:Northwind Highlanders (01Aug09)
- Talk:Dancing Joker (01Aug09)
- BattleTechWiki talk:Project Planets (03Aug09)
- Category talk:Years (03Aug09)
- Talk:JES I (31Jul09)
- Talk:Free Worlds League (12Jul09)
My Subpages
- Campaign: non-BTW material, for storage/review
- Personal templates: personalized templates for use as an admin.
- monobook.js
- popups.js
- Projects
List of Important Pages
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List of Projects I'm Working On
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Just Gonna Put This Here
Because I can /never/ find it when I need it:
- From DropShips and JumpShips v. II, p. 60 (p. 144 PDF): Cocoons were developed around (or after) 2453 (v. I, p. 14, p. 16 PDF); cocoons can be fitted with 10 minutes (v. II, p. 24, p. 108 PDF); a cocoon is within a DropPod (v. II, p. 25, p. 109 PDF); cocoons cost 10,000 c-bills (v. II, p. 43, p. 127 PDF); re-entry kits described (v. II, p. 59, p. 143 PDF); DropPods and cocoons appear to have become the same item ("drop cocoon") and have 100 standard-scale points (Strategic Operations, p. 23)
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. (Ed 05Apr2010: This guy really needs to come back.)
- 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.
- Summer 2008 - Really kicked into Warden-overdrive, spurred on by the efforts of Scaletail, Frabby, Cyc and Ebakunin.
- 01 January 2010 - Easily three years after first contemplating and working on the concept, the Awards project is unveiled. Yay, me!
- 07 February 2010 - Nic awards me the first Founder's Consistent Service Award, the only time I'll be eligible to receive it.
