User:Arkuat/tmp

See also: Eric F. (think sock puppet, but not in the bad way)

Wikiprojects I've signed onto

 * WikiProject Geology subsumed WikiProject Geologic timescale, which is inactive.
 * WikiProject History of Biology
 * WikiProject Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)
 * WikiProject History of Science
 * WikiProject Tree of Life

Browse our wikipedia

 * /Prehistory and history
 * /Preprehistory
 * /Taxonomy

Missing articles

 * History of meteorology
 * History of oceanography
 * Geology of California

I haven't been maintaining this page much lately; I'm heartened that so many of the links below that once were red, now are blue.

Lunar stations are the 28 or 27 "constellations" along the ecliptic used (instead of a twelve-constellation "zodiac") in many ancient cultures to indicate the location of the Moon in the sky on any given night. They are also known as lunar mansions or Chinese constellations. There is some extensive discussion of these in the Dover paperback Star Names: Their lore and meaning by Richard Hinckley Allen, my copy's ISBN 0-486-21079-0

volumetric analysis: This used to discuss John Dalton's role in its development, among other things, in an extraordinarily incoherent way, and got deleted before I got around to trying to improve it. Volumetric analysis is something that every student of chemistry is usually expected to master in adolescence or very early adulthood. Looking at Talk:Titration, I'm starting to think that what's really needed here is a new article on volumetric titration.


 * Beta Canum Venaticorum
 * Mu Herculis

Many more missing articles in the list of stars by constellation, which has long since been broken up by constellation, so look for these redlinks inside each individual constellation article, e.g. Sagittarius, Coma Berenices, Vela, Cygnus, Cetus, etc. Another good place to look is the list of nearest bright stars.

Q: Where is the independent historical article about the Muslim state of Granada ca. 1230 to 1492? How should it be named if we were to create a new article and lift this text out into it? (The article on the Nasrid dynasty is not quite what I have in mind.) A: Al-Andalus

Thanks to RJHall for starting Beta Comae Berenices and Zeta Herculis.

Thanks to Ragesoss for starting History of geology.

Articles that need help

 * Planetary core needs sources to restore factually-true section removed 20:27, 2011 January 8
 * Post-Cold War era If we're actually going to use this term, it needs a better article than this.
 * Better differentiate Egg from Ovum, and interlink the two articles.
 * Thulium and a host of other lanthanoid and otherwise obscure chemical elements have introductory paragraphs that are too short. Also, thulium in particular is missing a Characteristics section.
 * Merge Fast breeder reactor into Breeder reactor
 * Cave fish and Amblyopsidae
 * Binary fission
 * Monroe Doctrine needs Allende and Pinochet
 * Prokaryote
 * Boiling water reactor
 * 2nd millennium
 * Uranium-lead dating
 * 1650s and 280s BCE and the like
 * Nucleocosmochronology

Articles that got help

 * Insectivore (the ecological niche) and Insectivora (the defunct proposed mammalian order) needed to get the contrast turned up. (Thanks to those who fixed this while I was away from editing Wikipedia.)


 * Greek literature
 * Alphecca and Pi3 Orionis are now up to snuff with current starinfoboxes.

Thanks to Ezhiki, Irpen, and Ghirlandajo for work on Nikolai Fyodorovich Fyodorov's article!

Bigger articles that need help

 * Restorationism
 * 1990s
 * Mysticism
 * Solar system
 * Mangrove (needs taxobox)
 * Seagrass (could use text explanation of evolutionary relationship to mangroves implied in the illustration)
 * Paleolithic
 * history of technology
 * History of the Balkans
 * History of Kenya
 * Islamic Golden Age
 * Islamic science
 * Japanese atomic program (problems with NPOV)
 * Bible NPOV? There are an awful lot of articles about the various intricacies of this subject which bring out the mergist in me.
 * deuterocanonical books has redundancies and possibly some confusions
 * There's something about pulsars and Terrestrial Time, I'm not sure what.

Some articles I've worked on

 * History of chemistry: See the talk page.
 * Elias Hicks: Mostly copied out of a copyleft source.
 * astronomical algorithm: I wish I had the expertise to expand this article, both in breadth (CCD data processing algorithms, for instance) and in detail, but I can't without doing a lot more independent reading (and writing hobby code) on the subject.
 * List of solar system objects by mass: I didn't start this, but I keep coming back to it, adding and correcting information, and trying to make it easier for others to do so.

Thanks to MeltBanana for merging Margaret Fell.

Articles (etc.) I'm interested in poring over lately

 * Haversine formula
 * List of nearest bright stars
 * solar sail and fast solar sailing
 * WP:RD
 * WP:SCOTW
 * WP:AID
 * Second Congo War and related
 * History of Iraqi insurgency and related
 * Petroleum
 * Structure of the Earth
 * Geologic timescale
 * History of Earth
 * History of the world
 * Timeline of evolution
 * Timeline of the Universe
 * Buddhism in America
 * Christian anarchism
 * Decolonization
 * Francis Frith
 * History of Africa
 * History of India
 * History of Europe
 * History of West Eurasia
 * 7th century BCE
 * 6th century BCE
 * Phoenicia and Canaan
 * chemical kinetics
 * kinetic theory
 * Wikispecies