User:Scray

Scray n. (Zool.) A tern; the sea swallow. 

Welcome! I have a short attention span on WP, so I tend to dabble. Many of my edits arise from discussions on the Science Reference Desk because the best answers cite our articles, and when our articles are wanting I enjoy finding answers and improving the relevant articles. I also revert a fair amount of vandalism on pages that I've edited. I welcome constructive interaction on my Talk page linked above; if you send me an email via the Email this user tool, please use my talk page to suggest I look for your email message, because I don't check that email account daily.

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Links useful to me:
 * template filling
 * AN/Incidents
 * spam blacklist proposals
 * page history
 * Editors' index to Wikipedia
 * DCM
 * Help:Wiki_markup
 * worth doing
 * Blaming tools: WikiBlame Blamer
 * Tips on refs in discussions:
 * User:Scray/Manually archiving the RefDesk

Useful templates:
 * - for welcoming new editors of medicine-related content


 * - trigger manually for now
 * - for links to PMC; don't include 'PMC' prefix, just digits
 * date
 * Template:Userspace_linking_templates
 * WP:Template_messages/User_talk_namespace
 * Removal of medadvice:
 * desk:
 * user talk: Discussion ~
 * desk:
 * user talk: Discussion ~


 * for help not needed immediately and/or by multiple admins
 * WP:INLINE
 * for talk page quotes: _



Cool stats:
 * User:Dragons_flight/Log_analysis
 * WikiChecker
 * popular pages
 * stats server

My user page on Wikimedia Commons: []

The Great WP Birth Date Doughnut Hole: I'm not alone in not showing a "birth date" on mouseover, and it's explained here in a VPT discussion (related Bugzilla report): essentially, my account was created prior to the creation of the user creation log, and when that log was created a script was run to populate retroactively the "birth" dates for accounts that had edited; however, my first edit did not occur until after that bot was run, so mine did not get populated. Since then, birth dates are recorded as part of the new user log.