Editing User:Derik

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:<tt>"Objective journalism is one of the main reasons American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long. You can't be objective about Nixon." - H.S. Thompson</tt>

{{quote|Derik is a tortured genius. Sometimes he does great good, sometimes he creates articles like this.|[[User:Rosicrucian|Rosicrucian]]|[[Talk:Bob (disambiguation)]]}}

{{quote|Your example is such a strawman that I'm tempted to lacquer it and burn Nicolas Cage alive inside. |Derik flirting with [[User:Jimsorenson|Jim Sorenson|]]|[http://groups.google.com/group/alt.toys.transformers/msg/e8220ade172423ca?hl=en&dmode=source&output=gplain The infamous Wikia site] (2008)}}

Derik talks a good game, but he's really a big softy that goes all squooshy inside at the sight of kittens or [http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v157/out_of_season/guys%20kissing/ ''Emo Boys kissing.'']

They're '''not''' just doing it for attention!

<strike>Derik can't spell woth a danm.</strike> Did you know Mozilla 2.0 has MS Word-style spell check on textarea boxes?

He can often be found late at night making long chains of minor edits to template pages.  Derik doesn't do this at night to be considerate to other people- he just likes to delude himself into thinking he can do something quickly before going to bed, and then skips sleep.

Feel free to yell at him on AIM: '''ReGenesis0'''

Things '''not''' to message Derik about: ''(culled from actual conversation)
* "I just sent an e-mail to the executive producer telling him what he needs to do better."
* "Did you delete my post?"
* "I had drunken sex with another dude at a furry convention in Canada, what do I do?"

He's also apparently a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villains_in_Power_Rangers:_Wild_Force#Mut-Orgs Mut-Org], whatever the hell that is.

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==Works in Progress==
* [[User:Derik/Licensing]]
**[[User:Derik/Earthforce]] — notes on a possible rampage-subject
* [[User:Derik/designStandards]] — Some rambling thoughts on the future direction of TFWiki's overall design.
* [[User:Derik/Deceptitran]]
* [[User:Derik/Timeline]]
*  [[User:Derik/javascript]] — Loose documentation of useful javascript functions.  Both MW's, and our additions.
* [[User:Derik/kired tools]] - Derik's hacks
* [[Transformers Wiki:WikiProject Movie characters]]
* [[User:Derik/flvs]] —- Direct-access links for many online videos that will (experience tells us) eventually vanish into the aether if not downloaded.
* [[User:Derik/Glossary]] — Words that mean things...
* [[User:Derik/Energon (candy)]]
* [[User:Derik/Autobots, Decepticons and race]]
* [[User:Derik/Sandbox11]]
* [[User:Derik/Sandbox9]] - Rules
* [[User:Derik/Spelling]]
* [[User:Derik/Trinity of Chaos]] — Requires further evidence to merit inclusion
* [[Template:Utility/tvseries]]  Graagh!*hits stuff*  2 Query depth limit HATE HATEHATE!!!!
* [[Template:Episodes-Energontoon]]
* [[Unicron Trilogy guidebooks]]
*[[Cybertron (planet)/gallery]]
*[[User:Derik/Movie intermezzo]]
*[[User:Derik/somnolence]] - Merge into the "Sleep" section on Transformers <strike>biology</strike> anatomy article.
*  Suggest split or move on TF Anatomy article to reflect non-anatomy content.
*[[User:Derik/Earth-120185]]
*[[User:Derik/Letterspage]] - Continue re-researching this.  Blah.
* [[User:Derik/Energon (candy)]]
* [[User:Derik/Sandbox11]]
* [[User:Derik/Sandbox9]] - Rules
* [[Template:Utility/tvseries]]  Graagh!*hits stuff*  2 Query depth limit HATE HATEHATE!!!!
**[[Template:Episodes-Energontoon]]
* [[Unicron Trilogy guidebooks]]
*[[Cybertron (planet)/gallery]]
*[[User:Derik/Energon generics]]
*[[Traachon]]
*[[Planets in the Energon series]]
*[[Transformers Wiki:Improvement drive/June 2008]]
*[[User:Derik/Sexytime - DRAFT]] — Man, this will '''never''' get approved to go live.

==User notice templates==
[[:Category:User notice templates]]
{{collist|3|
*<nowiki>{{Spoiler bastard}}</nowiki>
*<nowiki>{{Caption bastard}}</nowiki>
*<nowiki>{{Nofanficplz}}</nowiki>
*<nowiki>{{Correctenglish}}</nowiki>
*<nowiki>{{Notachatroom}}</nowiki>
*<nowiki>{{Referencebastard}}</nowiki>
*<nowiki>{{Preview bastard}}</nowiki>
*<nowiki>{{Signyourposts}}</nowiki>
*<nowiki>{{Tagyourpics}}</nowiki>
}}

==my Uncategorized Templates (list is incomplete)==
Might want to categorize these as a [[:Category: Substitution templates]] if they're useful.

* [[Jose Delbo/name]] — <nowiki>{{subst::Jose Delbo/name}}</nowiki>  [http://transformers.wikia.com/index.php?title=Jose_Delbo/name&oldid=159061 Documentation] (Possibly move to [[Template:Jose Delbo/name]])

==Derik's Resources==
* [http://www.ne.jp/asahi/transformer/dinobase/etc/pdtf/pdtf_index.htm Kabay] - TF Gum pack-ins from 1990, Blacball, pre-robotmasters et-al.
* [http://www.ntfa.net/universe/english/index.php NTFA] - TFU online (plus the odd-ends.)
* [http://www.toyarchive.com/ toyarchive.com] - Double pretender pic, other goodness.
* [http://www.rapido-online.net/g2archive/index.shtml Rapido's G2 Archive] - For your G2 needs
* [http://members.fortunecity.com/arcof/polyhex.html UK comic scans] - No longer comprehensive dut to Titan Deference.
* [http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Zone/7730/tfs.html Fred's workshop] - For the odd bit of toy-refernece.
* [http://tfarchive.com/toys/ TFarchive] - Where tsarchive went.
* [http://transfans.net/comics_guide.php?series=2&page=22 Transfans.net UK comcis guide] - Scanned letters pages
* Baron Zemo's TF Museum - Revival pending

==Wikimedia Resources==
*  Actions; view, edit, render, raw
*  [http://en.wikipedia.org/skins-1.5/monobook/main.css?80 en.Wikipedia.org main CSS file]
*  <strike>[[MediaWiki:Monobook.css|Transformers Wiki:Monobook.css]], [http://transformers.wikia.com/skins3/monobook/main.css? Raw file]</strike><br>
<dl><dd>[[MediaWiki:Common.css]], [http://transformers.wikia.com/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Common.css&action=raw&ctype=text/css Raw file]
</dd></dl>
*  [[User:Derik/monobook.css]] [[User:Derik/monacobook.css]] <strike>[[Wikia:User:Derik/global.css]]</strike>
*  [[User:Derik/monacobook.js]]
** Talk to [[User:-Blackout-]] if you need changes made to the master css file-- he's got rights AND a seems interested{{now|16:07, 16 February 2010 (EST)}} and reasonably knowledgeable.  -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 16:07, 16 February 2010 (EST)
*  [http://transformers.wikia.com//skins3/monobook/main.css monobook/main.css] To execute changes ask [[User:Suki Brits|Suki Brits]], since Walky is baffled by CSS.
*  [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:ParserFunctions Wiki ParserFunctions] and the less-frequently-used [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Magic_words#Parser_functions Parser Functions] (it's something different, and yes that's stupid.)
*  [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:StringFunctions String Functions] [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CategoryTree Category Tree]
*  [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Table Wiki Table Markup]
*  [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Images_and_other_uploaded_files Escoteric Image markup] - area links and such.
*  [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Happy-melon/Templates#Equals_signs Rewritten version of Help:Templates that's actually ''helpful'']
*  [[User:Derik/namespaces]] —- just a list of namespaces
*  [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Magic_words#Miscellaneous #tag: syntax] - Using template-parameters inside of XML parser commands (like <nowiki><imagemap></nowiki>) causes it to break.  This is the (somewhat finicky) workaround.  (It's actually a parser function that causes the params to be parsed prior to passing them to the XML command.)  Any |'s will have to be escaped using <nowiki>{{!}}</nowiki>