About[edit]

Wikimood

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For those without the leisure time required to read through my userboxes: former Astronomy grad student (MS), with another MS in Mechanical Engineering (focusing on alternative fuel use and maximizing efficiency in developing countries) and BSs in Physics and Mechanical Engineering; interested in galaxy-scale out to large-scale structure, with work on Milky Way structure and history via tidal streams and low metallicity red K-giants, from the Warner and Swasey Observatory at Kitt Peak National Observatory. I enjoy researching primary source s, adding missing information, fixing errors, making things look pleasing, ordered, and complete, taking & manipulating pho tos, standardization & consistency within articles, citations, and templates, and automation wher ever (reasonably) possible. Being bludgeoned with perspective my entire ~~academic life~~ life has taught me to not give a furniture, but in the best possible way. So please, assume good faith, then speak your mind, be brief and concise, don't be afraid to follow or break convention, as long as you're not amogus. You can expect the same.

Userboxes[edit]

What follows is an attempt to describe myself solely in user boxes. These will be used in lieu of ~~immediate~~ semi-permanent creative inspiration. For the sake of humanity, all user boxes have been hidden by default. You alone will be responsible for any life threatening or altering effects caused by reading this page in its entirety.

Babel & Countries Visited

en-5

This user can contribute with a professional level of English.

pl-1

Ten użytkownik posługuje się językiem polskim na poziomie podstawowym.

This user is a native of the United States of America.

This user is of Polish ancestry.

Educational/Professional

MSc

This user has a Master of Science degree in Astronomy.

MSc

This user has a Master of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering.

BSc

This user has a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering.

BSc

This user has a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics.

This user has a minor in
Biology.

This user is an academic.

This user is an engineer.

Productive Interests

This user participates in
WikiProject Astronomy.

This user is interested in astronomy.

This user is interested in space sciences.

This user has a keen interest in physics.

Editing Wikipedia is something this user does as a hobby.

This user is constantly learning due to the existance of Wikipedia.

This user is really fascinated by the weather.

This user enjoys
sailing and boating.

This user is an advanced skier or snowboarder.

This user enjoys backpacking.

This user enjoys camping.

This user is an archer

This user plays ultimate.

This user plays tennis.

This user plays racquetball.

This user plays the piano.

This user plays the saxophone.

BASIC-2

This user is an intermediate BASIC programmer.

bat-1

This user is an occasional Batch programmer.

C-2

This user is an intermediate C programmer.

C++-2

This user is an intermediate C++ programmer.

C#-3

This user is an advanced C# programmer.

Lua-2

This user is an intermediate Lua coder.

-1

This user is a beginner Mathematica programmer.

mircs-3

This user is an advanced mIRC scripter.

re-3

This user writes advanced regular expressions.

vb-2

This user is an intermediate Visual Basic programmer.

This user has been on Wikipedia for 13 years and 20 days.

This user knows how AutoCAD works.

¼

You are one-quarter through this user's userboxes.

This user once used DOS back in the day.

m
IRC

This user uses mIRC for chatting on IRC.

This user writes games on his graphing calculator.

EDIT.COM_

This user contributes using MS-DOS Editor.

This user enjoys chess.

This user enjoys a rousing game of Trivial Pursuit.

This user enjoys playing Magic: The Gathering

This user kicks butt at Tetris.

This user loves knowledge.

This user is interested in
science.

This user is interested in higher education.

This user is an advanced mathematician.

This user is a skeptic.

This user enjoys singing.

choir

This user sings in a choir.

This wikipedian is involved in FIRST Robotics

This user enjoys electronics or is an electronics hobbyist.

This user is interested in recycling.

Opinions/Preferences/Personal

This user is a WikiSloth.

This editor is a WikiGnome.

This user is a WikiChef.

This user is a WikiCyclops.

DGAF

This user does not give a fuck.

This user uses AutoWikiBrowser to quickly make repetitive edits.

This user uses HotCat.

This user reverts vandalism in the blink of an eye with Twinkle!

Flexible

This user deals with edits, deletion, and creation of pages individually instead of unilaterally and encourages others to do so.

This user strives to maintain a policy of neutrality in all articles.

This user knows that everyone has points-of-view, and that admitting to and identifying one's own biases is the first step to achieving NPOV.

~~mankind~~

This user supports the use of gender-neutral language.

by

The passive voice may be used by this user.

When editing on Wikipedia, this user is a Wikipedian above all else.

This user is proud
to be a Wikipedian.

Non nobis solum

This user believes that anyone who thinks Wikipedia is an unreliable source should continue their quest to find a better website.

Thou/Ye

This user wants to resurrect the T–V distinction in English.

their
there
they're

This user thinks that there are too many people who don’t know that they're worse than their own children at spelling!

your
you’re

This user thinks that if your grammar is incorrect, then you’re in need of help.

Majority ≠ right

This user recognizes that even if 300,000,000 people make the same mistake, it's still a mistake.

This user thinks good grammar is sexy.

A, B, and
A and B

This user uses the serial comma unless its inclusion is confusing.

. The

This user does not put two spaces after a full stop.

This user terminates unquoted ellipses on sight. This is not your blog. We end sentences properly.

This user appreciates WikiLove.

“…”

This user favors curly quotation marks over straight style.

"…"?

This user thinks "British punctuation is best for quotation marks". Do you?

ə

This user is a Grammar Nazi.

;

This user is addicted to semicolons; he uses them frequently.

<ref>

This user recognizes the importance of citing sources.

<ref>

This user would like to see everyone using inline citations. Please...

This user finds copyright paranoia disruptive.

Ths usr cn rd & rt usn txt lng

This user is a hacker, or identifies with and promotes the hacker ethic.

This user can type 70 WPM.

½

You are halfway through this user's userboxes.

This user maintains a Facebook profile.

This user's news source is The Onion.

G

This user will use Google before asking dumb questions.

This user lives in or is from Westchester County.

This user lives in, or hails from,
New York City.

5.1

This user has a 5.1 channel surround sound speaker set-up for his/her computer.

This user has a quad monitor configuration

This user uses Wikipedia at work.

1920 x 1200

This user contributes at
1920 x 1200 resolution.

intel
Core

This user contributes with a computer based on the Intel Core i7 microprocessor.

ATI

This user uses a Graphic Card powered by an ATI Radeon HD 6870 GPU.

This user contributes using Windows 7 x64.

This user contributes using Mozilla Firefox.

This user contributes using Opera.

This user contributes while using Winamp.

This user is an omnivore.

This user prefers fudge-like brownies.

This user loves
Indian food.

This user would likely die without eating the occasional curry.

This user likes Mexican food

This user eats Garbage Plates.

This user drinks tea.

C₂H₅OH-2

This user drinks occasionally.

MEAD

This user drinks mead.

This user drinks
wines

This user can write in calligraphy.

This user can make The Spinning Dancer turn both ways.

This user admires all expressions of nature.

This user prefers warm weather.

This user prefers the metric system.

c

= 1

This user uses natural units.

Don't worry, Pluto, I'm not a planet either.

This user knows 19 digits of pi.

This user knows how to
Find X.

This user listens to NPR.

92.3

This user misses the real 92.3 K-Rock.

This user likes most types of music.

Hanlon's Razor

This user never attributes to malice that which is best explained by stupidity. ^†

This user accepts evolution as a biological fact.

dar

This editor holds a darwikinist philosophy.

This user knows global warming is a reality we are facing.

This user participated in the
Earth Hour event.

This user is right-handed.

This user does not smoke.

This user is a blood donor.

This user's blood type is O+.

O+

This user is a straight male.

This user respects the beliefs and religions of others.

This user is not religious.

This user is an atheist.

lib

This user is a liberal.

00:00

This user uses 24-hour time.

17 June 2022

This user supports International Date Format (day month year)

ubx-n

This user communicates exclusively via userboxes.

Unproductive Interests (Entertainment)

her?

This user is a fan of Arrested Development.

FG

This user thinks Family Guy is freakin' sweet.

This user doesn't know the Battle of Borodino from a tiger's bum.

This user is a captive on the Satellite of Love.

SEIN

This user is obsessed with Seinfeld... not that there's anything wrong with that!

STAR TREK

Tom.Reding is a fan of Star Trek: The Next Generation.

TNG

M.D.

This user watches House.

Law & Order

This user is a fan of all Law & Order series.

All
L&O

This user enjoys computer and video game music outside gaming.

This user is a fan of
first-person shooters.

This user still enjoys playing
games on the NES.

XI

This user plays Final Fantasy XI.

TES IV

This user is fanatical about The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion.

PSO

This user plays Phantasy Star Online.

This user is a loyal member of the Terran Republic.

CIV

This user plays one or more versions of Civilization.

This user is interested in numismatics.

C&H

This user reads Calvin and Hobbes.

xkcd

This user is a reader of the xkcd webcomic.

This user is pro-cannabis, and opposes bigotry and oppression suffered by cannabis users.

Wikipedia's Stats, Personal Stats, Service Badges

Page Stats

Find page history statistics for article on English Wikipedia.

This user has made or created 30+ Templates.

 31,065+

This user has over 31,065 pages on his watchlist.

This user actively contributes photos or other images.

Wikimedia Commons contains multimedia from Tom.Reding.

This user has been on Wikipedia for 13 years, 0 months, and 19 days.

en.wiki # of articles = 6,520,478 (11.1%)

en.wiki # of pages = 56,066,378 (23%)
en.wiki # of users = 43,820,523 (42.7%)
en.wiki # of active users = 119,107 (40.1%)
en.wiki # of edits = 1,091,010,825 (34.3%)

all.wiki # of articles = 58,936,271

all.wiki # of pages = 243,318,919
all.wiki # of users = 102,623,007
all.wiki # of active users = 297,042
all.wiki # of edits = 3,177,602,689

vn-8

This user page has been vandalized 8 times.

END

This user has no more userboxes.

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This editor is a
Journeyman Editor
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This editor is a Signator and is entitled to display this Scroll of Signatures.

This editor is a Burba and is entitled to display this First Book of Wikipedia.

This editor is a Novato and is entitled to display this Wikipedia Picture Story Book.

This editor is a Grognard and is entitled to display this Wikipedia Little Red Book.

This editor is a
Yeoman Editor
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"Experienced Editor, awarded for being a registered editor for at least 1.5 years and making at least 6,000 edits"

This editor is an
Experienced Editor
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Service Badge.

This editor is a
Veteran Editor
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Iron Editor Star.

This editor is a
Veteran Editor II
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Bronze Editor Star.

This editor is a Grognard Extraordinaire and is entitled to display this Wikipedia Vest Pocket Edition.

This editor is a Grognard Mirabilaire and is entitled to display this 1937 Wikipedia First Edition.

This editor is a Tutnum and is entitled to display this Book of Knowledge.

This editor is a Grand Tutnum and is entitled to display this Book of Knowledge with Coffee Cup Stain.

This editor is a
Veteran Editor III
and is entitled to display this
Silver Editor Star.

This editor is a
Veteran Editor IV
and is entitled to display this Gold Editor Star.

This editor is a
Senior Editor
and is entitled to display this Rhodium
Editor Star.

This editor is a
Senior Editor II
and is entitled to display this Rhodium
Editor Star.

This editor is a Most Perfect Tutnum and is entitled to display this Book of Knowledge with Coffee Cup Stain and Cigarette Burn.

This editor is a Tutnum of the Encyclopedia and is entitled to display this Book of Knowledge with Coffee Cup Stain, Cigarette Burn, and Chewed Broken Pencil.

This editor is a Labutnum and is entitled to display this Book of Knowledge with Coffee Cup Stain, Cigarette Burn, Chewed Broken Pencil, and Sticky Note.

This editor is a Most Pluperfect Labutnum and is entitled to display this Book of Knowledge with Coffee Cup Stain, Cigarette Burn, Chewed Broken Pencil, Sticky Note, and Bookmark.

This editor is a
Senior Editor III
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Editor Star.

This editor is a
Master Editor
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Editor Star.

This editor is a
Master Editor II
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Editor Star.

This editor is a
Master Editor III
and is entitled to display this
Bufonite Editor Star.

This editor is a Labutnum of the Encyclopedia and is entitled to display this Book of Knowledge with Coffee Cup Stain, Cigarette Burn, Chewed Broken Pencil, Sticky Note, Bookmark, and Note from Jimbo.

This editor is an Illustrious Looshpah and is entitled to display this Book of All Knowledge.

This editor is an Auspicious Looshpah and is entitled to display this Book of All Knowledge with Secret Appendix.

This editor is a Most Plusquamperfect Looshpah Laureate and is entitled to display this Book of All Knowledge with Secret Appendix and Errata Sheet.

This editor is a
Master Editor IV
and is entitled to display this
Orichalcum Editor Star.

This editor is a
Grandmaster Editor
and is entitled to display this
Lapis Philosophorum Editor Star
with the
Neutronium Superstar.

This editor is a Looshpah Laureate of the Encyclopedia and is entitled to display this Book of All Knowledge with Secret Appendix, Errata Sheet, and Author's Signature.

This editor is a Grand High Togneme Vicarus and is entitled to display the Book of All Knowledge: 2nd Edition.

Gallery of Uploaded Images

380° panorama of Kitt Peak from the Warner and Swasey Observatory (own work)
400° panorama from Kitt Peak's Mayall 4-meter Observatory (own work)

A galaxy group in Eridanus (NGC 1721, NGC 1723, NGC 1725, and NGC 1728)
Abell 520 in the visible, X-ray, and showing derived mass
The Burrell Schmidt telescope at Kitt Peak (own work)
The Warner & Swasey Observatory at Kitt Peak (own work)
A Chandra X-ray image of Abell 665
Arcturus in the optical (DSS2/MAST/STScI/NASA)
Size comparison of Earth, the Moon, and Titania
Size comparison of Earth, the Moon, and Oberon
Size comparison of Earth, the Moon, and Iapetus
Size comparison of Earth, the Moon, and Umbriel
Size comparison of Earth, the Moon, and Ariel
Size comparison of Earth, the Moon, and Tethys
Size comparison of Earth, the Moon, and Enceladus
Size comparison of Earth, the Moon, and Pluto
Smith's Cloud, 2008 (Bill Saxton, NRAO, AUI, NSF)

Barnstars

Barnstar[edit]

		The Original Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to everyone who - whatever their opinion - contributed to the discussion about Wikipedia and SOPA. Thank you for being a part of the discussion. Presented by the Wikimedia Foundation, January 21, 2012.

A barnstar for you![edit]

	The Technical Barnstar
	Congratulations, Tom.Reding, you've recently made your 1,000th edit to articles on English Wikipedia! Thank you for all the great DAB work you've been doing recently, and for all your contributions to the encyclopedia. Keep it up! :) Maryana (WMF) (talk) 23:17, 16 April 2012 (UTC)

A barnstar for you![edit]

	Working Wikipedian's Barnstar
	For your incredible WikiGnoming over the past few months. I am in awe. A2soup (talk) 23:25, 22 February 2015 (UTC)

Thank you! :) ~ Tom.Reding & his 200-some-odd lines of regex (talk ⋅contribs ⋅dgaf) 02:03, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

A barnstar for you![edit]

	The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
	You have nearly single-handedly eliminated the minor planet notability problem, which had stood for seven years before you decided to tackle it, because nobody wanted to do the massive amount of work required. If this doesn't deserve a barnstar, I'm not sure what does. StringTheory11 (t • c) 17:49, 3 May 2015 (UTC)

A barnstar for you![edit]

	The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
	For dealing with the minor planet clusterfuck as efficiently as you have! Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 04:13, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

There's nothing quite like cleaning up a good, 'ol-fashioned clusterfuck. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction :) ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf) 04:17, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

BTW, this isn't just for the recent banner tagging, but for the shear amount of effort involved in cleaning up the mess for the past year or so. Possibly longer. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 00:27, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

A barnstar for you![edit]

	The Technical Barnstar
	thanks for helping me with the search codes! Jennica✿ / ^talk 20:10, 9 April 2017 (UTC)

Thank you for being one of Wikipedia's top medical contributors![edit]

please help translate this message into your local language via meta

The 2016 Cure Award

In 2016 you were one of the top ~200 medical editors across any language of Wikipedia. Thank you from Wiki Project Med Foundation for helping bring free, complete, accurate, up-to-date health information to the public. We really appreciate you and the vital work you do! Wiki Project Med Foundation is a user group whose mission is to improve our health content. Consider joining here, there are no associated costs.

Thanks again :-) -- Doc James along with the rest of the team at Wiki Project Med Foundation 18:08, 3 May 2017 (UTC)

Barnstar awarded[edit]

		The Redirect Barnstar
		Your diligent work in the area of redirect categorization and improvement is duly recognized and greatly appreciated. You are truly one of the unsung heroes of Wikipedia, and we hope you continue to enjoy your improvement of this awesome encyclopedia! On behalf of your fellow editors—and the millions of readers of our work—I sincerely thank you for your contributions that have improved the encyclopedia for everyone. Senator2029 “Talk” 08:33, 8 June 2017 (UTC)

A barnstar for you![edit]

	The Editor's Barnstar
	Thank you very much for helping and editing the Joe Campos Torres article, your assistance put a BIG SMILE on my face! Vwanweb (talk) 16:53, 31 December 2017 (UTC)

My pleasure; that was a satisfying edit :) ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf) 16:56, 31 December 2017 (UTC)

Another barnstar for you![edit]

The Bio-star

In recognition of your recent contributions to the Life Sciences on en:Wikipedia, analyzing and helping to improve the quality of articles, based on scientific data. Your efforts demonstrate tremendous potential into enhancing the scientific accuracy of The Free Encyclopedia.

I am tremendously appreciative of your efforts, especially on the preliminary Taxonomic analysis.

~ Mellis (talk) 23:48, 31 December 2017 (UTC)

Editor of the Week[edit]

		Editor of the Week
		Your ongoing efforts to improve the encyclopedia have not gone unnoticed: You have been selected as Editor of the Week in recognition of your constant positive demeanor. Thank you for the great contributions! (courtesy of the Wikipedia Editor Retention Project)

User:Buster7 submitted the following nomination for Editor of the Week:

I am always on the lookout for potential Editor of the Week candidates, for editors that fly under the radar, whose efforts are unknown except to a few. They don't make a splash, they don't emit a 'notice me' kind of behavior; they just quietly tackle the hard jobs. Tom.Reding is that kind of editor. A while back he "thanked me" via the Thanks Notification for awarding the Editor of the Week to a fellow editor. So, I looked into him and found an editor that does many important WP improving things. He is a working editor (535,847 live and undeleted edits) that fixes, populates, corrects, standardizes, cleans, parses, tries, peruses, adds, formats, listens, expands, updates, corrects, creates, assigns and (my favorite) "consistifies". A member of Wikiproject Astronomy and Wikiproject Tree of Life, he has recently been granted the page mover user right. He provides a human eye and understanding to "bot" problems that arise. In the area of redirect categorization he willingly puts his head together with other editors to work toward solution. A deserving recipient.

You can copy the following text to your user page to display a user box proclaiming your selection as Editor of the Week:

{{User:UBX/EoTWBox}}

Project Med Foundation

Tom.Reding

Editor of the Week
for the week beginning January 28, 2018

Quietly tackles the hard jobs. 536000 live and undeleted edits. A page mover. Understands "bot" problems. A deserving recipient.

Recognized for

work in redirect categorization

Notable work(s)

Wikiproject Astronomy and Wikiproject Tree of Life

Submit a nomination

Thanks again for your efforts! ―Buster7 ☎ 20:38, 28 January 2018 (UTC)

! XD <3 TY! ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf) 20:56, 28 January 2018 (UTC)

The AWB Barnster[edit]

	The AWB Barnster
	Fixing many depreciated syntax on infobox images. Iggy (Swan) 22:14, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

A barnstar for you![edit]

	Olympic Barnstar
	For your excellent work in getting the bot up and running to tag biographies for the Olympic Wiki Project. Thank you! Lugnuts ^{Fire Walk with Me} 10:00, 17 March 2018 (UTC)

Thanks, my pleasure :) ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf) 12:04, 17 March 2018 (UTC)

Thank you for being one of Wikipedia's top medical contributors![edit]

please help translate this message into your local language via meta

The 2016 Cure Award

In 2016 you were one of the top ~200 medical editors across any language of Wikipedia. Thank you from Wiki Project Med Foundation for helping bring free, complete, accurate, up-to-date health information to the public. We really appreciate you and the vital work you do! Wiki Project Med Foundation is a user group whose mission is to improve our health content. Consider joining here, there are no associated costs.

Thanks again :-) -- Doc James along with the rest of the team at Wiki Project Med Foundation 18:08, 3 May 2017 (UTC)

Congrats on joining the million edit club![edit]

	The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
	Congratulations on being the seventh editor on the English Wikipedia to do over a million non-bot edits! Ϣere SpielChequers 12:14, 17 May 2018 (UTC)

Thanks! I never thought I'd do so much, but I just keep finding things to fix/improve :) ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf) 13:12, 17 May 2018 (UTC)

A barnstar for you![edit]

		The Space Barnstar
		For your astronomic contributions! For taking up so much space! With apologies for the puns, Ira Leviton (talk) 20:17, 8 June 2018 (UTC)

A Dobos torte for you![edit]

7&6=thirteen (☎) has given you a Dobos torte to enjoy! Seven layers of fun because you deserve it.

To give a Dobos torte and spread the WikiLove, just place {{subst:Dobos Torte}} on someone else's talkpage, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend.

7&6=thirteen (☎) 16:09, 15 October 2018 (UTC)

You have used your gifts well, Padawan[edit]

Bringing order out of chaos

OCD. It's not an affliction. It is a gift, and is part of the job description for being a Wikipedia editor. See WP:wikiholic.

"Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering."

Takes one to know one. Best regards. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 16:36, 15 October 2018 (UTC)

7&6=thirteen, thank you :) And I really should take the test, but I can't be bothered while editing...perhaps that is or should be one of the questions?? ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf) 16:49, 15 October 2018 (UTC)

Thank you for being one of Wikipedia's top medical contributors![edit]

The 2018 Cure Award

In 2018 you were one of the top ~250 medical editors across any language of Wikipedia. Thank you from Wiki Project Med Foundation for helping bring free, complete, accurate, up-to-date health information to the public. We really appreciate you and the vital work you do! Wiki Project Med Foundation is a user group whose mission is to improve our health content. Consider joining here, there are no associated costs.

Thanks again :-) -- Doc James along with the rest of the team at Wiki Project Med Foundation 17:41, 28 January 2019 (UTC)

A barnstar for you![edit]

	The Original Barnstar
	Jobe well done when it comes to the article on Prof. Helmut Veith (1971-2016). Terrenus (talk) 14:48, 26 November 2019 (UTC)

Thank you for being one of Wikipedia's top medical contributors![edit]

please help translate this message into your local language via meta

The 2019 Cure Award

In 2019 you were one of the top ~300 medical editors across any language of Wikipedia. Thank you from Wiki Project Med for helping bring free, complete, accurate, up-to-date health information to the public. We really appreciate you and the vital work you do! Wiki Project Med Foundation is a thematic organization whose mission is to improve our health content. Consider joining here, there are no associated costs.

Thanks again :-) -- Doc James along with the rest of the team at Wiki Project Med Foundation 18:35, 5 March 2020 (UTC)

A barnstar for your efforts[edit]

	The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar
	Thank you for your continued service adding to Wikipedia throughout 2020. - Cdjp1 (talk) 14:01, 20 January 2021 (UTC)

:) ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf) 15:40, 20 January 2021 (UTC)

A barnstar for you![edit]

		The Bot Creator Barnstar
		For putting your OCD to good use when you created Tom.Bot. Scorpions13256 (talk) 23:27, 13 February 2021 (UTC)

I see we both have OCD. I had no choice but to give you this barnstar. Scorpions13256 (talk) 23:27, 13 February 2021 (UTC)

Thank you, comrade. ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf) 04:21, 14 February 2021 (UTC)

A barnstar for you![edit]

	The Original Barnstar
	thank you for all your help here. Paulhus15 (talk) 09:59, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

A barnstar for you![edit]

The Original Barnstar

Just a barnstar for you!

Your userboxes were fascinating and you seem like a really interesting person. I also somehow see you on every page I edit.

Thanks for the contributions you have made! Hhzhang2345 Hhzhang2345 (talk) 16:16, 12 March 2021 (UTC)

A Barnstar for you![edit]

		The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
		Thank you for helping edit Wikipedia and make the encyclopedia a better place for others. Thank you and keep up the good work. --ThanosYourGod (talk) 22:08, 12 March 2021 (UTC)

A barnstar for you![edit]

	The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
	Thanks a lot for adding authority control to so many articles Paradise Chronicle (talk) 23:13, 5 April 2021 (UTC)

Activity/Putting my OCD to good use[edit]

Astronomy articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	Bottom	NA	???	Total
FA	53	13	53	4	1			124
FL		3	9	4				16
FM						105		105
GA	19	19	72	117	7			234
B	50	77	177	126	5			435
C	89	199	709	676	30		2	1,705
Start	17	113	1,769	11,440	125		30	13,494
Stub			161	6,466	87	1	25	6,740
List		17	206	3,630	10			3,863
Category						2,844		2,844
Disambig						179		179
File						80		80
Portal						18		18
Project						57		57
Redirect				106		27,755		27,861
Template						690		690
Other						53		53
Assessed	228	441	3,156	22,569	265	31,782	57	58,498
Total	228	441	3,156	22,569	265	31,782	57	58,498
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 116,519			Ω = 5.13

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Doing[edit]

{{Taxonbar}} related improve ment s (talk).
Fixing typos & WP:MOS things.
Fixing various/CS1 maintenance & error categories (random wo rst offen ders).
Fixing Category:Pages using deprecated image syntax (so me ex am pl es).
Removing {{Orphan}} tags from pages with 3+ incoming mainspace links.
General article & citation cleanup of ~56,000 articles in Category:Astronomy via AWB & my good friend, regex. Fixes include, but aren't limited to:
      Parsing author & editor lists (talk, talk).
      Standardizing |year=/|date= citation usage where appropriate (talk).
      Standardizing L_☉, R_☉, M_☉, etc. usage. Adding those templates to articles, when appropriate (talk).
      Trying to standardize use of parsecs first, light-years second, where appropriate (talk, talk).
Taking bites out of the WikiProject Astronomy cleanup listing, and perusing WP:Vital articles/Physical sciences#Astronomy.
      Finding pages with unintentional links to disambiguation pages and fixing the easy ones. Sometimes I'm even on the leaderboard.
      Finding, adding, and formatting proper references to remove {{citation needed}} tags, reference errors, and hidden categories for astronomy articles.
Sometimes listening to the sound of Wikipedia.

To do[edit]

Standardize MOS:DateFormat for astro articles (tbd).
Make ~~article~~ stub on A3558.
Expand on the differences between galaxy groups and clusters (talk).

Not doing (anymore)[edit]

Converting {{IUCN}}s & bare-cites/refs to {{Cite journal}} (talk, talk, talk) (sa ti sf yi ng ex amples) — need more consensus one way or the other.
Updating IUCN conservation status (talk) (so me ex am ples) — better & easier to do via Wikidata.
Populating the more-difficult-to-find {{Infobox galaxy cluster}} statistics (member #, velocity dispersion, ICM temperature, mass) from journal articles for the most popular Abell clusters — doing so for all would take way too much time and wouldn't be as much benefit.

Never done[edit]

Adding {{Redirect category shell}} to single-redirect-template #REDIRECTs (via Tom.Bot, BRfA denied).

Done (large and/or systematic changes)[edit]

Luamatically standardize WP:TOL categories (talk) (T203355).
Populating, correcting, standardizing minor planets' categories & sortkeys from the JPL SBDB, using AWB, C#, and lots o' RegEx.
Replaced typographic ligatures like ﬁ ﬀ ﬂ ﬃ ﬄ with plain-text, where appropriate (talk).
Added {{Taxonbar}} to all pages with a valid WikiData IUCN ID (talk).
Added {{Redirect category shell}} to multiple-redirect-template #REDIRECTs (ta l ks).
AWB Night-mode style.css
Category:Minor planets maintenance (talk)
Category:Astronomical objects by year of discovery maintenance (talk)
Category:Numbered asteroids maintenance (talk)
Helped reduce the Cleanup listing for WikiProject Astronomy to the lowest it has ever been as a % of astronomy articles: 11.7% at inception, 31.7% on 18 February 2012, and now 9.2% on 19 May 2015. Done mostly via #REDIRECTing ~12,000 unnotable asteroid stubs (talk).
Helped with the CarloscomB cleanup.
Extended the "Earth-Moon-thing" size-comparison format to 8 more Solar System objects between the size of Enceladus and Titania (talk).
List ~~all~~ most pages in Category:Astronomy (here and here); list of all numbered asteroids here.
Resolve ambiguities surrounding cluster designations for many NGC articles.
Template related:

Consistify & expand parameters & documentation for the {{IUCN}} family of templates to remove CS1 errors.

Added many needed parameters to {{Infobox astro object}}.

Added documentation to the {{NGCX}} family of templates.

Added |Velocity dispersion=, |Flux=, and |Distance (co-moving)= parameters to {{infobox galaxy cluster}}.

Add notes and helpful wikicode to all {{Infobox galaxy cluster}} parameters for clarity and consistent usage.

Created & transcluded {{Infobox supercluster}} to all superclusters.

Abell catalog related:

Turned the boring, ugly, unorganized List of Abell clusters into this very nice table while adding ra, dec, Abell richness, and BM type (inspired by this heroic effort by User:Dr. Submillimeter).

Added |Bautz-Morgan type= parameter to {{Infobox galaxy cluster}}. Populated it and |richness class= for all List of Abell clusters and Category:Abell objects, respectively.

Created and assigned 6 new categories for/to all Abell cluster richness 0-5.

Corrected all Abell cluster pages with {{Infobox galaxy}} to {{Infobox galaxy cluster}}.

Made {{Catalogs}} variable width so it looks nicer at the bottom of a page (talk), and added it to all Abell object pages.

Populated the easily gotten {{Infobox galaxy cluster}} statistics (α, δ, constellation, z, co-moving distance, x-ray flux) from NED for all Abell cluster pages.

Organized the List of galaxy clusters and removed synonymous usage of galaxy clusters with galaxy groups.

AWB feature requests (outdated)[edit]

Still-open: 2 3 4 5 6⁶ 7 9 10 12 13 14 15 17

Endorsed (still open): 16¹⁶

Incorporated into AWB: 1 11^{Still buggy}

Workaround/alt solution is sufficient: 8^[\d\D]{936,} 18^{Tools.WordCount(ArticleText)}

Useful links & code (personal, yet public, cheat sheet)[edit]

Astronomy related/reference material[edit]

ADSabs ★ NED ★ SIMBAD^[1]
ToolServer.org ★ WP:Astronomy Cleanup Listing ★ Wikimedia Commons
{{Cite journal}} ★ {{Cite arXiv}} ★ {{Cite book}} ★ {{Cite web}} ★ {{Convert}} ★ {{Infobox galaxy}} ★ {{Infobox galaxy cluster}} ★ {{Infobox supercluster}} ★ {{Inline tags}} ★ Help:CS1_errors
WP:Manual of Style/Layout ★ WP:Cheatsheet ★ WP:Tools/Editing tools ★ WP:Vital articles/Expanded/Physical sciences
Help:Displaying a formula ★ Help:Special characters#Unicode and ISO 8859-1 ★ Help:HTML in wikitext ★ Help:Table ★ Help:Wiki markup
Unicode character synonyms (☉ = ☉ = ☉, etc.)
WP:AutoWikiBrowser/User manual
All(?) 5 minor planets with a number designation but a common-name article-title: Ceres (dwarf planet) (1), Pluto (134340), Haumea (136108), Eris (dwarf planet) (136199), Makemake (136472).

References

^ "Dictionary of Nomenclature of Celestial Objects". Simbad. Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg. 1 December 2014. Retrieved 18 December 2014. Avoid the usage of Cr, prefer Collinder

Other meta help/search tools[edit]

WikiData[edit]

Preview {{#invoke:Wikidata|Dump}} on any page to display all WikiData attached to it.
WD API .../w/api.php?action=wbgetentities&format=json&ids=q140, for wikibase_item=q140.
Find wikibase_item via WP API .../w/api.php?action=query&format=json&prop=pageprops&titles=SETI&redirects=1&formatversion=2&ppprop=wikibase_item.
mw:Extension:Wikibase Client/Lua
mw:Extension:Scribunto/Lua reference manual

Quarry/SQL[edit]

wikitech:Help:MySQL queries for sample WMFLabs' Quarry tool queries.

Template parser functions, calculation, and logic (not formatting related)[edit]

mw:Help:Extension:ParserFunctions & meta:Help:Calculation — {{#ifexpr, {{#ifexist, {{#expr, etc.
mw:Extension:Variables — {{#vardefine, {{#var, etc.
wikidot.com:code:tags-as-variables

Other[edit]

MediaWiki:Titleblacklist — Regex protections for page titles.
MediaWiki:API:Properties — What info you can get about a WP page, and how.
Search by edit summary, editor interactions, pages created; article revision & AfD stats.

Unit conversion, notation, and special characters[edit]

{{HMS2Deg|22|06|15}} → 331.5625
{{Deg2HMS|331.5625|p=0|sup=yes}} → 22^h 6^m 15^s

{{Coord|0|-28.4375|format=dms}} → 0°00′00″N 28°26′15″W / 0°N 28.4375°W / 0; -28.4375
{{convert|23|Mpc|Mly|0|abbr=on|lk=on}} → 23 Mpc (75 Mly)
{{convert|281|+/-|90|Mpc|Mly|abbr=on|lk=on}} → 281 ± 90 Mpc (920 ± 290 Mly)

19.0{{±|1.8|1.7}} [[parsec|Mpc]] (62.0{{±|5.9|5.5}} [[light-year|Mly]]) → 19.0^+1.8
_−1.7 Mpc (61.9^+5.9
_−5.5 Mly)
{{solar luminosity|link=y}} → L_☉
{{val|1.44|e=14|u=L_solar}} → 1.44×10¹⁴ L_☉
{{val|1.44|e=14|ul=M_solar}} → 1.44×10¹⁴ M_☉
{{solar mass|10<sup>14</sup>}} → 10¹⁴ M_☉
{{solar radius|1.44{{e|14}}|link=y}} → 1.44×10¹⁴ R_☉
{{hub|0.70}} → h⁻¹
_0.70 — A template I made for things measured using various values for the dimensionless Hubble parameter

{{#expr: (200/6) * 2 round 3}} → 66.667
: [ ] { | } → : [ ] { | }
- – — & σ Σ λ Λ * → - – — & σ Σ λ Λ *
± ≈ ≉ ≟ ≠ ≡ ≢ ≣ ≤ ≥

≦ ≧ ≨ ≩ ≪ ≫ ≬ ≭ ≮ ≯

≰ ≱ ≲ ≳ ≴ ≵ ≶ ≷ ≸ ⋅

× ☉ ♃ ⊕ ☾

Formatting[edit]

Columns:
- {{cmn|colwidth=15em|... }} → the best list-option—continuously determines how many columns best fit the page.
- {{cmn|3| * some * bulleted * list }} → splits that list up dynamically(!) into 3 (forced) columns.
- See {{div col}} for more variants.
{| cellpadding="0" style="vertical-align:top; float: right;" border="0" |- valign="top" | [[Image:blah.gif|thumb|top|300px|Caption text.]] | [[Image:stuff.jpg|thumb|top|300px|Things.]] |} → is an easy way to lay pictures horizontally rather than vertically.
{{Clear}} → forces horizontal white space until next section, usually after a picture.
  → Non - Breaking SPace. Ascii chr 160, instead of ascii 32 (typical keyboard space).
[[File:Santa riding a dinosaur with Jesus with a lightsaber.jpg|275px|right|thumb|Caption this]] → inserts a variable size picture and caption text.
<span> ★ <div> ★ <gallery widths="300px" heights="300px"> → (usually) prettifies things.
<pre style="width:50%; height:150px; overflow:scroll;"> → Begins a scrolling list.
{{para|date}} → |date=
{{keypress|Alt|F4}} → Alt+F4

{{hidden begin
 | title = '''Some ordered list'''
 | titlestyle = text-align:center;
 | border = 1px solid}}
{{cmn|colwidth=15em|
# some
# ordered
# list
}}
{{hidden end}}

→

Some ordered list

some
ordered
list

<div class="template-documentation iezoomfix"> Template documentation background </div> →

Template documentation background

<syntaxhighlight lang="css">.citation-comment {display: inline !important;}</syntaxhighlight> →

.citation-comment {display: inline !important;}

Citations & links[edit]

User:Tom.Reding#Frequently used links & code → links directly to subsections of an article.
{{Anchor|Foo}} to be used to link to [[User:Tom.Reding#Foo]]'s in-page position.
<span id="Simpler section title"></span> for [[User:Tom.Reding#Simpler subsection title]] linking when special characters are used.
<ref name="Reding">...</ref> ... <ref name="Reding"/> → to name your refs for easy reref'ing later in the same article.
{{Refimprove|date=June 2022}} or {{Refneeded|date=June 2022}} → use occasionally.
{{Citation needed|date={{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTYEAR}}}} → use liberally.
{{Sky|03|28|13.8|-|20|44|40|321000000}} → links to wikisky (not whiskey). Put after references. 321000000 = lightyears (for zoom level!).
{{tq}} makes nice-looking in-line talk-quotes.
[[Special:Diff/1]]/[[Special:Permalink/1]] → Easy WP:PERMALINK to diffs.

Other wikicode[edit]

Standardish archive settings:

{{User:MiszaBot/config
|algo                = old(366d)
|archive             = User talk:Tom.Reding/Archive %(counter)d
|counter             = 1
|maxarchivesize      = 200K
|archiveheader       = {{Automatic archive navigator}}
|minthreadstoarchive = 1
|minthreadsleft      = 4
}}

+ either {{Talk header}}, {{Archives|banner=yes}}, or similar

#REDIRECT [[Tidal force]] + {{An R template}}→ is all you need to have as the body in a redirect page.
<code><nowiki> w/e </nowiki></code>, {{tl|sometemplate}}, {{t1|blah}}, {{tlx|etc|a{{=}}1|b{{=}}2}} → make everything above.
<tt><nowiki> blah </nowiki></tt> → or this (which doesn't highlight the background).

[Simbad-1] "Dictionary of Nomenclature of Celestial Objects". Simbad. Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg. 1 December 2014. Retrieved 18 December 2014. Avoid the usage of Cr, prefer Collinder

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