User:Derik

Fight the Power

"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

Derik talks a good game, but he's really a big softy that goes all squooshy inside at the sight of kittens or Emo Boys kissing.

They're not just doing it for attention!

Derik can't spell woth a danm. 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 Mut-Org, whatever the hell that is.

Works in Progress

• 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 biology 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 notice templates

Category:User notice templates

• {{Spoiler bastard}}
• {{Caption bastard}}
• {{Nofanficplz}}
• {{Correctenglish}}
• {{Notachatroom}}
• {{Referencebastard}}
• {{Preview bastard}}
• {{Signyourposts}}
• {{Tagyourpics}}

my Uncategorized Templates (list is incomplete)

Might want to categorize these as a Category: Substitution templates if they're useful.

• Jose Delbo/name — {{subst::Jose Delbo/name}} Documentation (Possibly move to Template:Jose Delbo/name)

Derik's Resources

• Kabay - TF Gum pack-ins from 1990, Blacball, pre-robotmasters et-al.
• NTFA - TFU online (plus the odd-ends.)
• toyarchive.com - Double pretender pic, other goodness.
• Rapido's G2 Archive - For your G2 needs
• UK comic scans - No longer comprehensive dut to Titan Deference.
• Fred's workshop - For the odd bit of toy-refernece.
• TFarchive - Where tsarchive went.
• Transfans.net UK comcis guide - Scanned letters pages
• Baron Zemo's TF Museum - Revival pending

Wikimedia Resources

• Actions; view, edit, render, raw
• en.Wikipedia.org main CSS file
• Transformers Wiki:Monobook.css, Raw file
  

MediaWiki:Common.css, Raw file

• User:Derik/monobook.css User:Derik/monacobook.css Wikia:User:Derik/global.css
• User:Derik/monacobook.js
• monobook/main.css To execute changes ask Suki Brits, since Walky is baffled by CSS.
• Wiki ParserFunctions and the less-frequently-used Parser Functions (it's something different, and yes that's stupid.)
• String Functions Category Tree
• Wiki Table Markup
• Escoteric Image markup - area links and such.
• Rewritten version of Help:Templates that's actually helpful
• User:Derik/namespaces —- just a list of namespaces
• #tag: syntax - Using template-parameters inside of XML parser commands (like <imagemap>) 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 {{!}}