User:Runch

Hello everyone, and welcome to my user page. In here, you will find a little something about me, my interests and contributions, and my info boxes. Feel free to leave me a note on my discussion page if you have any questions or comments.

Interests and Contributons
My academic interests include mechanical and nuclear engineering, materials science and nanomaterials, ancient history, prehistory, and the history of the Earth, evolution, space exploration, space colonization, and terraforming, and global climate change and global warming, among other things. My less erudite interests include fantasy and science fiction literature, electronica and rock music, movies, basketball, and football.

My main focus on Wikipedia so far has been on:
 * Novelist Glen Cook and his works, Garrett P.I. and The Black Company
 * The Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind
 * The Runelords saga by David Farland
 * The Redwall series by Brian Jacques
 * Tad Williams' trilogy, Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn
 * Electronic musician Stuart Price and his band Les Rythmes Digitales
 * The video game Rock Band

For a list of all pages I have created, see My Contributions.

To Do List

 * Plot summary and/or character lists for Dreams of Steel, She Is the Darkness, Soldiers Live, The Silver Spike, and Water Sleeps

Policy Guidelines
These are for reference purposes, to ease my wikilife:


 * Articles for Deletion: WP:AFD
 * Civility: WP:CIVIL
 * Criteria for Speedy Deletion: WP:CSD
 * Fancruft: WP:CRUFT
 * Hoaxes: WP:HOAX
 * Manual of Style: WP:MOS
 * Neologisms: WP:NEO
 * Neutral Point of View: WP:NPOV
 * Notability: WP:N
 * Notability: Companies: WP:CORP
 * Notability: Fiction: WP:FICT
 * Notability: Music: WP:MUSIC
 * Notability: Organizations: WP:ORG
 * Notability: People: WP:BIO
 * Notability: Software: WP:SOFTWARE
 * Notability: Web: WP:WEB
 * Original Research: WP:OR
 * Patent Nonsense: WP:PN
 * Reliable Sources: WP:RS
 * Spam: WP:SPAM
 * Things Made up in School one Day: WP:NFT
 * Vandalism: WP:VAND
 * Vanity Articles: WP:VAIN
 * Verifiability: WP:V
 * What Wikipedia is Not: WP:NOT
 * Wikipedia is not a Dictionary: WP:WINAD

Other Useful Pages

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