DrZygote214
Welcome edit
Hello, DrZygote214, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you are stuck, and looking for help, please come to the New contributors' help page, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, you can just type {{helpme}} and your question on this page, and someone will show up shortly to answer. Here are a few good links for newcomers:
- The Five Pillars of Wikipedia
- How to edit a page
- Editing tutorial
- Picture tutorial
- How to write a great article
- Naming conventions
- Manual of Style
We hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! By the way, you can sign your name on talk and vote pages using four tildes, like this: ~~~~. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome!
Revert edit
That was a mistake on my part. I hit the wrong button and instead of marking the edit as good I accidentally marked it as vandalism. You were right to undo my change. Your edit summary then alerted myself and other editors to my mistake, preventing the edit from being removed again.
My advice for preventing issues like that is to keep doing what you're doing. Make informative edits with sources, explain your edits in the edit summary, and use the talk pages. This is the place to communicate. Some editors can be reached via e-mail if you have a private question.
Welcome, and happy editing! --N419BH (talk) 02:09, 3 May 2010 (UTC)
Live help edit
Re. "is this really the place to communicate? There's no PM system or anything?"
A kitten for you! edit
Dude, you've covered some serious territory here at Wikipedia. Moons, rockets, and even Nintendo 64, and I don't remember what else. Are you an actual doctor, and an actual zygote? I wanted to say that it's wrong that you've been gone so long and that you haven't contributed enough ;) I might be willing to write a note of recommendation for your next doctorate. Please let me know if you need anything.
— Smuckola (Email) (Talk) 05:47, 24 September 2014 (UTC)
Yes I am an actual zygote, working the computer via telepathic control of my surrogate host >:) No, it comes from an old cartoon called Mighty Max from 1993/94. 214 is his/my IQ (ok not rly). However, upon discovering wikipedia and youtube I learned that his IQ is really 220. Oh well.
And hey what do you mean "gone so long"? If you count actual page edits plus talk page posts, I've been fairly regular. Can you point me to a place where I can see all my edits ever done, both on real pages and talk pages? Perhaps I'm remembering wrong. Lately I've been using the talk pages as a (hopefully) legit way of requesting info on something that seems lacking in the article, if the article didn't answer all my questions.
I'm not a doctor or anything. I'm just a curious guy who happens to be curious about more than one thing, in fact, many things. Astronomy was my favorite subject in middle school. Today it has manifest itself as a huge knowledge of the Soviet Space Age, hence my several edits on those and related topics. I've also written quite a lot, as a hobby. Besides a self-rewarding artistical feeling, this has given me a hatred for English spelling (despite it being my native tongue) along with an at-times irresistible urge to edit stuff.
I think Wikipedia is the best thing we have. Ppl criticize the "wisdom of the crowd" approach, sometimes not without merit, but at the very least Wikipedia is the ultimate directory since most pages have external links to the "official" sites. DrZygote214 (talk) 15:02, 24 September 2014 (UTC)
- @DrZygote214:Yes, Talk pages are insane, and everything about the Wikipedia interface is kludgy and antiquated. I will never get used to butchering up a document in a multiuser way, to simulate a forum. It's the most ludicrous thing imaginable, sometimes intolerably so. You've only edited in short bursts (seasons?), about once per year since about 2011 or so. I have so many enhancement scripts that I forget how to find your 'contribs' list but here it is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/DrZygote214
- You are correct about Wikipedia! It's da bomb, though it has lots of flaws: WP:FAIL. Let me know if you need anything, brah. — Smuckola (Email) (Talk) 16:28, 24 September 2014 (UTC)
- @DrZygote214:This guy is really pulling a Dunning-Kruger here. I had been betting that he'd double down on wrong upon wrong upon wrong. Sadly, I was right about wrongness. He's folding in space, with the gravity of recursive wrongness. He has a history of blithely claiming to prove the negative, and of semi-robotic reverting and edit warring. You're using the Talk page to attempt to develop the encyclopedia, exactly as intended, and I advise you to ignore the foolishness. — Smuckola (Email) (Talk) 21:14, 24 September 2014 (UTC)
- Gotta be prepared for those kind of replies these days. Every forum-like site, even stackexchange, has such things. I especially hate the 'Ask for help on how to do A, get told to do B instead' type of reply. The rule of 'Whoever takes the initiative is punished' is just one of those laws of the jungle out here on the internet. In my experience, wikipedia hasn't been too bad. However, I've done some editing on other wikis that have been brutal.
- Seeing as how you're on the wikiproject musicians, I'd like to take you up on your offer of help. I was just over at the Trance music article, which is one of my favorite music genres, and I'd like to find a place that describes all the musical instruments used in trance, preferably with audio samples. Well, maybe not 'instruments', but 'voices'. I want to learn the names of at least the traditional trance voices so i know what i'm talking about when i try to learn to create music. I'm an aspiring indie game developer, and although music and graphics are things that lend well to outsourcing, i really need to know the vocabulary for the sake of communicating with clients in the future.
- Btw where is the secret thank button? Can't find it anywhere near your kitten or even this talk page.