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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>
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| {{quote|Derik is a tortured genius. Sometimes he does great good, sometimes he creates articles like this.|[[User:Rosicrucian|Rosicrucian]]|[[Talk:Bob (disambiguation)]]}}
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| {{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)}}
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| 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!
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| <strike>Derik can't spell woth a danm.</strike> Did you know Mozilla 2.0 has MS Word-style spell check on textarea boxes?
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| He can sometimes 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.
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| Feel free to yell at him on AIM: '''ReGenesis0'''
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| Things '''not''' to message Derik about: ''(culled from actual conversation)
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| * "I just sent an e-mail to the executive producer telling him what he needs to do better."
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| * "Did you delete my post?"
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| * "I had drunken sex with another dude at a furry convention in Canada, what do I do?"
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| He [http://paranatural.net/chapter-3-page-21/#comment-5339 has been awarded] a [http://paranatural.net/chapter-1-page-44/ Starchman Star] for excellence and is 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==
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| * [[User:Derik/Licensing]]
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| **[[User:Derik/Earthforce]] — notes on a possible rampage-subject
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| * [[User:Derik/designStandards]] — Some rambling thoughts on the future direction of TFWiki's overall design.
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| * [[User:Derik/Deceptitran]]
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| * [[User:Derik/Timeline]]
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| * [[User:Derik/javascript]] — Loose documentation of useful javascript functions. Both MW's, and our additions.
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| * [[User:Derik/kired tools]] - Derik's hacks
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| * [[Transformers Wiki:WikiProject Movie characters]]
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| * [[User:Derik/flvs]] —- Direct-access links for many online videos that will (experience tells us) eventually vanish into the aether if not downloaded.
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| * [[User:Derik/Glossary]] — Words that mean things...
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| * [[User:Derik/Energon (candy)]]
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| * [[User:Derik/Autobots, Decepticons and race]]
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| * [[User:Derik/Sandbox11]]
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| * [[User:Derik/Sandbox9]] - Rules
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| * [[User:Derik/Spelling]]
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| * [[User:Derik/Trinity of Chaos]] — Requires further evidence to merit inclusion
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| * [[Template:Utility/tvseries]] Graagh!*hits stuff* 2 Query depth limit HATE HATEHATE!!!!
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| * [[Template:Episodes-Energontoon]]
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| * [[Unicron Trilogy guidebooks]]
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| *[[Cybertron (planet)/gallery]]
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| *[[User:Derik/Movie intermezzo]]
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| *[[User:Derik/somnolence]] - Merge into the "Sleep" section on Transformers <strike>biology</strike> anatomy article.
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| * Suggest split or move on TF Anatomy article to reflect non-anatomy content.
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| *[[User:Derik/Earth-120185]]
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| *[[User:Derik/Letterspage]] - Continue re-researching this. Blah.
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| * [[User:Derik/Energon (candy)]]
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| * [[User:Derik/Sandbox11]]
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| * [[User:Derik/Sandbox9]] - Rules
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| * [[Template:Utility/tvseries]] Graagh!*hits stuff* 2 Query depth limit HATE HATEHATE!!!!
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| **[[Template:Episodes-Energontoon]]
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| * [[Unicron Trilogy guidebooks]]
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| *[[Cybertron (planet)/gallery]]
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| *[[User:Derik/Energon generics]]
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| *[[Traachon]]
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| *[[Planets in the Energon series]]
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| *[[Transformers Wiki:Improvement drive/June 2008]]
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| *[[User:Derik/Sexytime - DRAFT]] — Man, this will '''never''' get approved to go live.
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| * Keep an eye on [[Bloody Zone/draft]]. Make live @fter July 28, 2011
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| ==User notice templates==
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| [[:Category:User notice templates]]
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| {{collist|3|
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| *<nowiki>{{Spoiler bastard}}</nowiki>
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| *<nowiki>{{Caption bastard}}</nowiki>
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| *<nowiki>{{Nofanficplz}}</nowiki>
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| *<nowiki>{{Correctenglish}}</nowiki>
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| *<nowiki>{{Notachatroom}}</nowiki>
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| *<nowiki>{{Referencebastard}}</nowiki>
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| *<nowiki>{{Preview bastard}}</nowiki>
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| *<nowiki>{{Signyourposts}}</nowiki>
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| *<nowiki>{{Tagyourpics}}</nowiki>
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| }}
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| ==my Uncategorized Templates (list is incomplete)==
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| Might want to categorize these as a [[:Category: Substitution templates]] if they're useful.
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| * [[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]])
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| ==Derik's Resources==
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| * [http://www.ne.jp/asahi/transformer/dinobase/etc/pdtf/pdtf_index.htm Kabay] - TF Gum pack-ins from 1990, Blacball, pre-robotmasters et-al.
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| * [http://www.ntfa.net/universe/english/index.php NTFA] - TFU online (plus the odd-ends.)
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| * [http://www.toyarchive.com/ toyarchive.com] - Double pretender pic, other goodness.
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| * [http://www.rapido-online.net/g2archive/index.shtml Rapido's G2 Archive] - For your G2 needs
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| * [http://members.fortunecity.com/arcof/polyhex.html UK comic scans] - No longer comprehensive dut to Titan Deference.
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| * [http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Zone/7730/tfs.html Fred's workshop] - For the odd bit of toy-refernece.
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| * [http://tfarchive.com/toys/ TFarchive] - Where tsarchive went.
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| * [http://transfans.net/comics_guide.php?series=2&page=22 Transfans.net UK comcis guide] - Scanned letters pages
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| * Baron Zemo's TF Museum - Revival pending
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| ==Wikimedia Resources==
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| * Actions; view, edit, render, raw
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| * [http://en.wikipedia.org/skins-1.5/monobook/main.css?80 en.Wikipedia.org main CSS file]
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| * <strike>[[MediaWiki:Monobook.css|Transformers Wiki:Monobook.css]], [http://transformers.wikia.com/skins3/monobook/main.css? Raw file]</strike><br>
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| <dl><dd>[[MediaWiki:Common.css]], [http://transformers.wikia.com/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Common.css&action=raw&ctype=text/css Raw file]
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| </dd></dl>
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| * [[User:Derik/monobook.css]] [[User:Derik/monacobook.css]] <strike>[[Wikia:User:Derik/global.css]]</strike>
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| * [[User:Derik/monacobook.js]]
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| ** 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)
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| * [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.
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| * [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.)
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| * [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:StringFunctions String Functions] [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CategoryTree Category Tree]
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| * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Table Wiki Table Markup]
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| * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Images_and_other_uploaded_files Escoteric Image markup] - area links and such.
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| * [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Happy-melon/Templates#Equals_signs Rewritten version of Help:Templates that's actually ''helpful'']
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| * [[User:Derik/namespaces]] —- just a list of namespaces
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| * [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>
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