User:RoySmith/About

Articles seeking peer review
before featured article candidacy

May 30 Chinese characters
June 6 Jenna Ortega
July 29 Beebo the God of War
August 2 Dexter's Laboratory
August 15 1939 Liechtenstein putsch
August 23 River
August 26 Tropical Storm Kai-tak
August 29 Ivan the Terrible (1945 film)
September 3 A Space for the Unbound
September 17 Lock's Quest
September 27 Pearl (X)
September 28 Tesla Model S
September 30 Lake Michigan Monster
October 4 Cisnormativity
October 16 Veiqia
October 19 Virtual Self (EP)
October 21 Crohn's Disease
October 22 Stingless bee
October 23 Austin J. Tobin Plaza
October 29 William D. Hoard
October 29 Andrea Navagero
October 30 Mind

Quotes to live by

Wikipedia is also a great source of information, but it must be approached with a certain degree of caution as well. Be sure to follow up on references, not just look at articles.
— The Unicode Consortium, Unicode Common Locale Data Repository

A reader is someone who simply visits Wikipedia to read articles, not to edit or create them. They are the sole reason for which Wikipedia exists.
— Wikipedia:Reader

Some stuff I've done

Related to the Bronx

New York City in general

Other

Not in mainspace

The Signpost: The long road of a featured article candidate (part 1, and part 2)
Three best sources, a surprisingly popular (and oft-misunderstood) user essay

Things about 130326

This user scored 245 on the Wikipediholic test (revision 865976393).

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Dieser Benutzer hat keine Deutschkenntnisse.

It is my user id
It is a mouse monoclonal kappa light chain antibody
It is a very dark violet
It is a bill declaring April, 2013, as Fair Housing Month in Kansas City, Missouri
It is 18 deadlifts, 60 box jumps, 30 handstand push-ups, and running 900 meters
It is a pintle hinge
It is a sequence of the least primes, p, such that 3*p*2^n+1 is prime

Rouge-o-meter

Admin

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I am ~~an admin~~ a legacy admin on en. You can look me up on Wikipedia:List_of_administrators. You can also view the log of my administrative actions.

I'm also a (non-legacy) checkuser. You can look me up on some nifty special page that does some magic that I don't understand. Most of you can not view the log of my checkuser actions. Those of you who can know who you are. If you suspect socking, please file an SPI report rather than reporting on my talk page. My involvement in SPI wanes and waxes, so even if it's a case I've worked before, I may not be the best person to deal with the sock du jour.

I am serving on the Ombuds commission for the Feb 2024 – Jan 2026 term.

Contacting me

The best way is to leave a message on my talk page or just ping me. You can also send me email, but I much prefer on-wiki communication; I may or may not respond to email, and certainly don't promise I'll keep anything you send me confidential.

I exist on IRC as roy649 on Libera Chat, but I often don't pay attention to that.
I also exist on Discord as Roy649#7240, but often don't pay attention to that either.

Alternate accounts

I am a member of Harlem Yacht Club. I am not an employee or otherwise compensated by the club. I have, however, created an alternate account, User:RoySmith-HYC. Should I decide to do any editing of material related to the club, I will use that account to emphasize the COI relationship.

I also have created User:RoySmith-Mobile. I use this on mobile devices and other insecure locations, where I don't want to login using my admin credentials.

User:RoySmith-testing is me as well. It's for testing stuff. And User:RoySmith-RenameTest1. Not to mention the infamous User:RoySmith-YetAnotherSockForTesting.

I also run User:DYK-Tools-Bot.

Articles of interest

Links

Tools

AfD stats tool

Subpages

Not advertising???

A random assortment of amusing quotes on the topic of WP:G11

We aren't trying to advertise but rather provide a description of our community.
not meant at all for advertising purposes, more so fans can search and find out a little bit more about ourselves.
I tried to make this page so it's not a advertisement. I just want to make it for my company.

Some things I'm interested in

E.C. Smith Herbarium: Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL
Jena glass

Wiki Sadness

Reproduce by:

Make an edit
Provide a useful edit summary
Copy edit summary
Make a similar edit
Paste the edit summary you copied in step 3
Repeat steps 4-5 many times

Expected results:

You will have generated a bunch of useful edit summaries while saving time

Actual results:

Discover that you made a typo in step 2

Geekyness

After a lifetime of using computers in all sorts of useful ways, I finally got around to figuring out how to customize my shell prompt today. I ended up with

\[\033[1;31m\]\u\[\033[00m@\[\033[1;34m\]\h\[\033[00m\] [\[\033[1;35m\]\W\[\033[00m]

whis is both wonderful and frightening, and a little bit sad.

Spin

Many years ago, I took physics in high school. I was good at it. Then I went on to college and took another three semesters of physics. Rotational mechanics. Electromagnetism. Optics. Relativity. I was good at that too. In the decades since that, I've enjoyed a vague sense of inner satisfaction about the fact that I understood how the universe worked. I could look at a computer and see all the way down to the P-N junctions doing their magic (even if it's really all MOSFETs these days). It's only in the past year or so that I've dived back into the subject, mostly from watching YouTube videos about quantum mechanics. The MIT Open Courseware stuff is great. I now understand that I don't actually understand how the universe works at all. But I'm getting there. Although I do wish I had paid more attention in my Differential Equations and Linear Algebra classes.