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| | + | July 14, 2022: I am no longer an active Editor on this Wiki. |
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| − | ==Profile==
| + | I may return at some future point, but I have no plans to at this time. |
| − | Call me Talvin, more people know me by that than my real name anyhow.
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| − | I have been playing casually off and on, both tabletop (that's been a while) and computer games since the early 90s, and I have a significant collection of the novels, some in print from back when, though nowadays I mostly get Kindle. My most interesting achievement is losing a Highlander to a Gauss headshot (after I kept saying "There can be only one!") during a free-for-all game in college. And I have a degree in English and Education for all that's worth.
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| − | I have been enjoying this Wiki for a while and decided it was time I stepped up to pay my dues.
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| − | ==Editing Philosophy== | + | ==Awards== |
| − | I want to create as few new pages as I can get away with, while working to improve the linking of existing pages. BTW has many pages that are orphans or only linked in their own little bubble, and I firmly believe that wikis work best when there are plenty of crossroads and side-alleys to wander down looking at interesting things. Well-organized category pages can help, but past a certain point they are not of much use to the average user due to the scale.
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| − | Alot of hard work has been done over the years, and before I add to the 30,000+ pages on here, I want to see about bringing some of that hard work forward so others can find it, use it, and improve it.
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| − | ==Talvin's Clan Law==
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| − | Do Not Irritate The Loremaster, For Your Name Rhymes With Awful Things, And They Write The Remembrance.
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| − | ==Project Orphanage==
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| − | For my first project, I am going to do what I can do in the Orphanage: [[Special:LonelyPages]]
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| − | The LonelyPages page will only list up to 1,000 entries, so I am going to have to find someplace to park a lot of little things so I can ''find'' the bigger fish.
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| − | === Orphanage-related work===
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| − | * Linking units and spacecraft to their parent commands.
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| − | * Figuring out how to assign "minor" characters (who can become supporting or even major characters if an author or developer decides to use them in a future work) to pages so as to clear out the orphan list. In this, I am going to have to BE BOLD. I am going to start by creating an experimental page: [[Battle of Luthien Participants]]. This will be an attempt to balance the need to use something besides Categories with avoiding duplication of a copyrighted work. See the talk page there for further discussion.
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| − | * Around 60 orphan "Battle of ____" pages. Working to get these linked to planets and participating units where that can be quickly and easily done.
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| − | * Got around 20 Forts linked to their respective planets.
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| − | * I am putting the Word of Blake naval assets in a sub-page of my user space for now until I can figure out--hopefully with some advice--the best way to handle those.
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| − | ===Adopted Orphans===
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| − | These poor little orphans found a home! (This is a list of things I feel I am done with for the Orphanage Project. If you think I missed something, poke me.)
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| − | * [[List of Bloodnames]]. Many of the Bloodname pages were orphans. 4 Feb 2022: Done.
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| − | * Finding some orphaned vessels (and some not orphaned) that belong to [[Interstellar Expeditions]]--or did. I would not crew on any vessel of theirs, so many of these articles seem to end with the ship's crew getting slaughtered and/or the ship being destroyed. I also refuse to sell them insurance. Anyhow, I am working on expanding their page with a list of spacecraft they operate or operated. 6 Feb 2022: Done, so far as I can tell.
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| − | ==Stuff on the Back Burner==
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| − | [[User:Talvin/Other_Projects|Other Projects]] I am considering or have set aside for now.
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| − | ==Awards==
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| − | Oh, this place has awards. Neat.
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| | <div id="awardsboard"><div id="awardsboardheader">Awards Board</div> | | <div id="awardsboard"><div id="awardsboardheader">Awards Board</div> |
| − | [[File:EC1.jpg|Edit Count (100)]] | + | [[File:SupArt.jpg|Superior Article Award, 1st ribbon]][[File:HH.jpg|Helping Hand Award, 1st ribbon]]<br>[[File:AA 1bol.jpg|Assistance Appreciated Award, 2nd ribbon]][[File:DA.jpg|Direction Appreciated Award, 1st ribbon]][[File:SubAdd.jpg|Substantial Addition Award, 1st ribbon]]<br> |
| | + | [[File:GH.jpg|Good Humor Award, 1st ribbon]][[File:EC2 1c.jpg|Edit Count (7,500)]][[File:TIS2 1t.jpg|Time in Service (6 months)]] |
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| | + | <!--Began on 4 Feb, 2022. 3 Month: 4 May. 6 Month: 4 August. After that: Hiatus. --> |
