User:The Transhumanist/Sandbox153

See: Tsarevitch Ivan, the Fire Bird and the Gray Wolf

Account histories (including previous accounts)

How to bypass archive link-disruption
When you provide a link to a discussion on your talk page, that link becomes misdirected once you archive your talk page. It'll lead to your current talk page, rather than to the relevant section of the archive page with the discussion.

What's the solution?

Make your archive page ahead of time, with a redirect to your talk page. And...

Never link to your talk page. Instead, link to the redirected archive page. The heading specifier in your link will be passed through the redirect and will lead to the matching section on your talk page!

When you archive your talk page, your links to its discussions will still work! Because that's where they were pointing to in the first place.

Abbreviating edit summaries
Edit summaries can be a pain, but did you know Wikipedia has somewhat standardized short forms for the common edit summaries? These can reduce the time spent summarizing your edits, so you can spend more time writing. See Edit summary legend.

You may also find standardized correction "marginal marks" useful (many are abbreviations). Here are a couple of links:


 * List of proof correction marks (UK)
 * Proofreaders' Marks (USA)

About me

 * Total includes previous accounts. See account histories.

Contributions / History
I've lost track of how many articles I've worked on, but my passion is projects (not necessarily WikiProjects), and it is on these I've applied most of my effort...

Early edits


 * I learned about Wikipedia through answers.com in early 2005, but didn't start editing until October of that year, under the anonymous IP 24.18.171.99.


 * During this time I:


 * worked on Meaning of life


 * began rewriting Procrastination, and my overhaul was later transwiki'd and converted into the wikibook Overcoming Procrastination


 * created the Philosophy navigation footer


 * created the Glossary of philosophical isms (still needs some definitions filled in).

After about a thousand edits, on November 11, 2005, I created an account. As Go for it!, I:


 * joined the Philosophy Wikiproject and overhauled the entire project page.


 * created the Philosophy portal, using the category page as a starting point (it looked a lot like a portal, so I moved it over and overhauled it). Had much help from Infinity0.


 * resurrected the Main Page redesign project, which attracted a lot of participants, and resulted in the present Main Page design.


 * created the Main Page alternatives department, for those who have special browsing needs, and for those who get tired of looking at the same main page design all the time.


 * initiated the overhaul of Wikipedia's Help page, expanding it with an immense quantity of links gathered from everywhere, making it quite unwieldy, and then split it into its current 2-tier structure, turning the main help page into a menu. Of course I had a lot of help.  Also, others have refined these pages to their current polished presentation.


 * initiated the overhaul of the Community Portal, in the process creating the Community bulletin board (inspired by an idea provided by Renata). My insistence on developing the Community Portal directly without using a draft, landed me in an RfC.  Now I use sandboxes extensively (but not exclusively).  :-)  I slunk away with my tail between my legs and worked in out-of-the-way corners of Wikipedia for awhile...


 * created the Wikipedia department directory


 * redesigned the headers & instructions for the Help Desk, and to a lesser extent the Reference Desk's menu (others have made it look even nicer since then).


 * resurrected the long dead Tip of the day department, the output of which is displayed daily on the Help page and the Community portal. I wrote a complete set of departmental instructions, designed a method for the creation and approval of tips, and wrote a fair number of tips from scratch.  Others have joined in on the fun, and we now have a collection of hundreds of tips on how to make the most of Wikipedia, and several ways to display them: including a randomizing template which displays a different tip every time you enter or refresh the page upon which it is displayed, courtesy of CBDunkerson.


 * created a tip libarary which presents the tips of the day by subject.


 * created the Health portal (converting a redirect)

Got tired of the name "Go for it!" (sort of one-dimensional), and tried out various usernames until I settled on my current one.


 * created the Thinking portal.

Throughout my time on Wikipedia, I've done extensive work on lists and Wikipedia's main navigation header and its member pages. I'm still working on them.


 * resurrected the Lists of basic topics which were gathering dust in the project namespace, and overhauled and moved the entire collection of lists to the article namespace and giving them their new "list" identities. I've added many lists to this collection, and created the standard heading format currently used by them.  The template for the heading structure is called BLT.  This list collection is far from complete, and could sure use your help.


 * overhauled Contents from this to this, and then from this to this, providing most of its current information structure. Kudos go to Quiddity and Rfrisbie for refining the page and making it look really sweeeeet.


 * overhauled the Psychology index, based on the design of the Mathematics department's index, taking it from this to this


 * overhauled List of overviews, expanding it to its present scope.


 * overhauled the Categories page, expanding the link selection.


 * helped refine the Quick directory, adding essential links, cleaning up descriptions, etc.


 * currently in the process of dismantling List of reference tables, integrating its contents into the overall list system (of which Lists of topics is the top page.


 * I've worked on hundreds of other lists, including many list creations and overhauls. Way too many for me to track down easily.

After getting somewhat burnt-out on lists, I spent more time on other types of projects...


 * Came across the Esperanza admin coaching project, and helped improve it.


 * I tried to extend the concept and created the Admin School, but it got deleted in short order.


 * The feedback on the above project and what was wrong with it inspired a better project idea: the Virtual classroom, which spotlights one classroom assignment or topic of discussion at a time. Based on the messages I get, users find it helpful.


 * With material garnered from the Virtual Classroom mentioned above, I created a Tools page, listing most of the tools and techniques I currently use for working on Wikipedia. I update it from time to time.


 * Created a tutorial on user page design, which is also a clearinghouse of sample wikicode, to help users save time in the creation of their user pages. It also includes a collection of snapshots of (that is, permanent links to) some of the more interesting user pages that have been created on Wikipedia.


 * Helped to revamp the Welcoming committee, its various pages, and welcome message templates. Special recognition goes to Anthony cfc for page design, and to Audacity for template programming.  They were both inspired by the project and a source of inspiration.


 * From the onset of the Virtual classroom, I started building a collection of lessons for it (see VC lessons), initally from classroom discussions, but soon began to get offers of submissions from other Wikipedians! Then I began to encourage my students to write a lesson each as part of their training.   I coordinated the proofreading and copy-editing of each lesson.  And the collection just keeps on growing.  For it I wrote the lesson Learning the ropes.


 * Coached The Rambling Man, Dweller, and User:AGK. When I felt they were ready, I nominated each at Requests for adminship, and each were granted admin status.

Having recovered from list burn-out, I began to work on lists again more and more, along with various other projects...


 * Created a header navbar for the Wikipedia namespace, called Template:WP nav pages (header bar), for providing easier access to the Wikipedia community's directories, and through those to the community's support pages. Currently, it looks like this:


 * Cleaned up and reformatted the pages on the above header bar.


 * Expanded the directory of shortcuts, adding the "shortcut alphabet".


 * Created the header navbar Template:WP help pages (header bar) for tying together and providing easier access to Wikipedia's help pages. Here it is:


 * Dismantled most of the huge "List of reference tables" which had grown into a list of lists. Folded it's contents (links) into Lists of topics and various subject-based lists.  This was probably the most tedious and mind-numbing project I've done so far.  Thanks go to Quiddity for finishing it off.


 * On Wikipedia's introductory articles and tutorials, I added explanations of the importance of providing references and the consequences of Wikipedia's verification policy. That way, newcomers are more likely to reference their contributions and less likely to be caught totally off-guard when their unreferenced contributions are removed or deleted.


 * Continued developing the Lists of basic topics, building geology, human anatomy, radio, Renaissance, biotechnology, fiction, machine topics and expanding the ones on architecture, chemistry, and life extension.


 * Revived the Geography WikiProject, expanded the List of basic geography topics with help from feedback from WP:FLC, and started an index of geography topics with about 8,000 articles listed in it.


 * Started the basic topic lists WikiProject, to recruit others to help build this useful navigation subsystem of Wikipedia. Built and posted banners to advertise the project on all the relevant projects.


 * A recurring problem encountered by lists has been competition from categories, and the assumption by many that lists and categories should not overlap at all. This has resulted in many lists being deleted for the reason that they simply duplicate categories, or the misassumption that "categories would serve this function better".  A great many hours of effort of page development has been wasted this way, plus the time spent by those who participated in those deletion discussions.  Those who were familiar with lists understood that lists had a great many advantages, and felt frustrated when lists were deleted out of bias by those who didn't understand them very well at all.  I've worked to resolve this problem by clarifying in relevant guidelines the purposes of lists, and the synergy between Wikipedia's various navigation methods.  See WP:CLS, WP:LISTS, WP:SAL.


 * Proposed and implemented the renaming of Avoid self-references to Self-references to avoid. The guideline had become a recurring problem for lists, because many editors miscited it as a reason to delete lists that referred to themselves, even though such neutral self-references were not the kind of self-references that the guideline instructed to avoid.  Editors were enforcing the guideline's title without reading the guideline, and were applying it to all self-references!  This was especially frustrating to list builders, because Wikipedia's list guidelines specifically instructed to use self-references on the list pages to refer to the lists.


 * Coached a number of users for adminship as a participant in the now defunct Admin Coaching department (though I've never been an admin myself). The following students went on to become admins:
 * User:The Rambling Man
 * User:Dweller
 * User:AGK, formerly known as "Anthony cfc"
 * User:Jennavecia, aka User:LaraLove
 * User:JodyB

Now what?
More and better outlines.

Service badges




Tip of the day April 21, 2006: Thanks for helping a newbie!
I just want to thank you for building on my tip and making it a true wikipedia tip of the day. I'm still learning a lot about how to do things around here, so your help was greatly appreciated! Keep up the great work, and keep on Going for it! Filmcom 14:36, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

Smashing!
You've done a great job getting the Tip of the Day off the ground. As a result, I think you deserve this! smurray  inch   e  ster  (User), (Talk) 17:52, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

Congrats. You deserved it.
Congrats. Don't forget to wind it up every other day. (^'-')^ Covington 05:20, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

Award
Thanks for teaching me how to use smilies! I'll be using these more often!  K yo cat  meow! 01:59, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

!!!
<O.o  -- The Prophet Wiz ard of the Cray  on Cake  01:45, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
 * You're welcome.  The Transhumanist 01:55, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

!
Cool signature  K  a  mope  ·  talk  ·  contributions   12:58, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. The Transhumanist 05:52, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks so much!
Thanks so much for the hints in your userpage tutorial. . I am a new user and familiar with HTML markup, but not so with Wikimark up. Your userpage tutorial really helped!  Real96  06:14, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
 * You're welcome. I'm glad you found it useful.  If you see any way to improve it, by all means, please feel free to do so.    The Transhumanist  06:36, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Random Smiley Award
 For your contributions to Wikipedia and humanity in general, you are hereby granted the coveted Random Smiley Award originated by Pedia-I  (Explanation and Disclaimer)

--TomasBat (Talk) 02:53, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

Welcoming committee
How can I sum the above up....? Oh yes:

WOW!!
as a near- noob, this is by far the most detailed and useful article on wikipedia for me! Excellent! I really wish I had a user page like this after two years...Snailey! 15:42, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Just a few words...
TT, my friend, my mop would never have been gained without your incredible expertise. My kindest regards to you, and drop by as often as possible! Now, a little token of my appreciation...

 The Golden Wiki Award; This, the Golden Wiki Award, the highest attainment level of awards and barnstars, goes to you - The Transhumanist - for being one of the most helpful, kind, resourceful and generous Wikipedians I've had to utmost fortune to meet. Your contributions around the Wiki - at the WikiClassroom, in Dispute Resolution, at the Welcoming Committee, but most of all being a genuinely fun guy, are an amazing feat, and if half the trolls I'll undoubtedly meet after gaining my mop (thanks to you) took a leaf from your book, Wikipedia would be a nicer place.

My kindest possible regards, Anthony  21:38, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Re: Yep, it was just miscommunications


Thank you for stepping up! Jouster  (  whisper  ) 21:43, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for stepping up there and defusing that situation. As I've already awarded you a WikiCookie, I'm now hard to work, at right, conjuring up some suitable accompaniment! Jouster (  whisper  ) 16:41, 1 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Virtual milk and cookies. I found them virtually delicious.  Thank you!  The Transhumanist 09:13, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

Award
Hello The Transhumanist, (Hold on, can I say that or is it "Hello Transhumanist")

I was going to give you an award but there wasn't one good enough, so I made one better than any that has ever been seen before - This message. Yes, yes, I know, you don't think your worthy of it, but I assure you, you are the only one good enough for it - Pheonix 19:34, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

Thank you
A million "Thank You!"s to you! For the life of me I swear I messed with every padding setting, and nothing I did worked,. Then you come along, and ~*Poof*~ you fixed it! For this, you receive:

Ariel ♥ Gold 23:15, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

Thank you
  Dearest , Thank you for your participation in my RFA, which closed successfully with 137 supports, 22 opposes, and 5 neutrals. Your efforts as my admin coach and your kind words of strong support are very much appreciated and I look forward to proving you right. I would like to give special thanks to The_undertow  and  Phoenix-wiki  for their co-nominations. Thank you again and best regards. Lara ❤  Love  20:22, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

Credits: This RFA thanks was inspired by  The Random Editor 's RFA thanks which was inspired by Phaedriel 's RFA thanks.

User page design thanks
Hello there, just wanted to leave a note of appreciation for the very useful stuff on your user page design section. I have mercilessly pillaged stuff from there, and from Phaedriel's user page, to revamp my own pages which I could not possibly have done without copying and pasting from you. So many thanks for providing such clear and helpful examples to those of us who can barely understand the code that underlies these pages! Kim Dent-Brown  (Talk to me)  20:57, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

:D
Hi there Trans Face! X××x××pink×jellocreature××x××X (talk) 01:36, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

Fractional-reserve banking
Thank you for that. It makes sense though there's a good chance it will be challenged. I suspect you saw my post on Help desk. Zenwhat (talk) 03:30, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I thought you seemed familiar. You're the one who wrote those extensive FAQs on how to make user pages. You've been very helpful. BTW, you can thank me for removing some vandalism of one of your pages (several paragraphs of nonsense about WWE) that had been there for weeks. I don't have the specific diffs. You'll just have to take my word for it. You deserve a barnstar for your efforts. I can't think of anyone who has contributed more to Wikipedia, except maybe Jimbo. I'm not sure where to put this on your frontpage, so here it is:

Zenwhat (talk) 03:41, 7 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Thank you for watchdogging my pages, and I'm glad I could be of help.  Th e Tr ans hu man ist    03:56, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

My Userpage
Hi There First id like to thank you immensly for your pages about creating a decent userpage!! They are great and I would be lost without them!! Just one question, On my userpage i have a small welcome banner up the top. How do I make this text larger and change the font? Sorry if you have already covered this somewhere. Thanks in advanceCstubbies (talk) 12:40, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

A valuable service
I think you need recognition for doing the job of ten other editors, and doing it out of altruism and genuine belief in Wikipedia. Not many editors here have the same good attitude and provide the same service as you - I don't have any specific point to put across, but I thought you should just be prodded and reminded that you do a lot of good around here, in the hope you'll keep it up. Kudos! Seegoon (talk) 17:43, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

Welcoming committee
Just a note, I've made a minor update to your contributions. To reiterate my edit summary, you put in a tonne of effort there, and you deserve to be credited for it :) Feel free to revert, nonetheless. Regards, AGK (contact) 16:44, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

List of basic space exploration topics
Hi there TTH, Just wanted to thank you for your labors on this page, which is a great resource for us. Bill Wwheaton (talk) 17:48, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

You'd better hope there is a humour barnstar
... because you just gave me the biggest laugh in weeks. Good stuff giving that RfA spammer what-for here. αѕєηιηє t/c 22:03, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

List of basic Canada topics
Nice work -- I will withdraw the AfD nom. – ukexpat (talk) 00:55, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Done

Fictional lists
The deletion review was approved for recreation: Deletion review/Log/2008 March 10. Just letting you know, in case you weren't watchlisting it. I'm not sure what you have to do next to get the old version undeleted though (if that's what you wanted :) Nice catch on rescuing that grouping. -- Quiddity (talk) 00:21, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

List_of_basic_France_topics
Hi Transhumanist, I wanted to note that I saw all of your work on the List of Basic France topics, and I appreciate it! Lazulilasher (talk) 02:12, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

Happy Transhumanist's Day!
&rarr;  Dylan 620  (Toolbox Alpha, Beta) 00:26, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

Happy The Transhumanist's Day!

 * Congrats. :) – Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 23:44, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

I think...
...you need a barnstar for all of the hard work you have put into the WP:WPOOK!

Barnstar
Transhumanist my friend,

It's about time you deserve a barnstar for all your contributions to outlines on Wikipedia, and also for being the promoter that you are for outlines. If it wasn't for you we might not have outlines as they are, so it is my honor to present to you the Special Barnstar because no other barnstar could merit what you do for outlines on Wikipedia. :-) Burningview (talk) 03:42, 8 August 2009 (UTC)

Made me laugh
You once said in a AFD: "If you are building a robot, you can start with just the left pinky." I love that. Happy New Year! Jerry delusional ¤ kangaroo 20:34, 31 December 2010 (UTC)

Impressed
I just wanted to tell you (probably not the 1st ^^ ) that your are an incredible wikipedia member, your userpage is simply amazing and your contribution is...gigantic? huge? Incredible? not for the number edits (still high) but rather over the appropriateness of the things that you have created, especially the outline project. I wont give you another award, you already have billions, but simply a modest "Bravo!". -- Offiikart  (Talk) 05:23, 21 June 2011 (UTC)

another thanks
I appreciate you pointing me in the direction of a formatted signature. For some reason I couldn't find any reference to how it is done in the years I have been here. Cheers.  ◦◦derekbd  ◦   ◦my talk◦◦  12:16, 4 June 2011 (UTC)

Impressed
I just wanted to tell you (probably not the 1st ^^ ) that your are an incredible wikipedia member, your userpage is simply amazing and your contribution is...gigantic? huge? Incredible? not for the number edits (still high) but rather over the appropriateness of the things that you have created, especially the outline project. I wont give you another award, you already have billions, but simply a modest "Bravo!". -- Offiikart  (Talk) 05:23, 21 June 2011 (UTC)

Thanks
Hi, thanks a lot for the barnstar, you are truly a user with whom it is pleasant to interact. I greatly appreciate your help, your tips and you recognition on the work done, even if only very minimal compared to the work you have done.

I think you, more than everyone else, deserve a special recognition. Here is the first Barnstar I ever awarded :

ps. I did put the page alert on my watchlist

A barnstar for you!
Note to user getting this message: Please respond on Pinkstrawberry02's talk page. If for some reason you cannot, please send them a and reply on your own talk page. Thanks for your understanding in this manner. See ya around the wiki!

A barnstar for you!

 * You're first one? Wonderful! I can't wait to see what you come up with next. And I also look forward to seeing what you have in store for this outline. Thank you for the barnstar.  It's very nice to feel appreciated.  The Transhumanist 22:10, 21 November 2011 (UTC)