User:Riffsyphon1024
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| "Darth Dorkus" | |
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| Biographical information | |
| Birth date | |
| Birthplace |
Clarksville, Tennessee, USA, Earth, Sol system, Orion Arm, Milky Way galaxy, Local Group, Virgo Supercluster, Universe 1 |
| Residence |
A single family dwelling on Earth |
| Physical description | |
| Gender |
Male |
| Height |
About as tall as a Shi'ido |
| Hair color |
About the color of the rings of Geonosis |
| Eye color |
About the color of Endor |
| General information | |
| Occupation |
Full time geology and astronomy student, Wookieepedian, Formerly unemployed bum, then computer lab monitor, then unemployed bum again, then computer lab monitor again, then field geologist, now unemployed bum again |
| Hobbies |
Internet, rock music and Heavy Isotope, geological and astronomical studies, video games, the boob tube, collecting SW figures, model railroading, Amtgard, information compiling, studying the habits of the opposite sex, dressing up like Darth Vader |
| Canon contributions |
None so far |
| Userboxes | |
CURRENT STATUS: I have returned from field camp.
Pronunciation Guide = Riff . SEYE . Phon
Support your local comic book store(s).
After 3 years, I still haven't produced a decent looking user page and you can all smite me for it.
Statistics:
- Number of legitimate articles on Wookieepedia: 58,111
- Currently running MediaWiki version: 1.12.0
- Total number of pages (including templates, talk pages, and the like): 171,448
- Total uploaded files: 32,622
- Number of admins: 27
- Number of registered users across all of wikia: 835,553
- Number of articles per user: 0.07
- Number of pages per user: 0.205
- Number of files per user: 0.039
- Number of articles per admin: 2152.259
- Number of pages per admin: 6349.926
- Number of files per admin: 1208.222
- Number of users per admin: 30946.407
- Number of articles for every image: 1.781 articles
- Number of non-article pages for every article: 1.95
From The New Essential Guide to Alien Species: "It's a big galaxy, and someone has to organize it."
Detailed stats on the Wookieepedia.
Refer to my user page on Wikipedia for all the detailed nitty gritty.
Other branches of Star Wars on Wikia
Pardon This Mess.
Blocks - Defenses - User rights - Destructions - Uploads - Moves
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Adminship
I became an administrator of SWW on March 16, 2005. I was enacted the second bureaucrat of Wookieepedia on February 14, 2006. Can you feel the love?
Aliases
My screenname on TheForce.net's forums is wookieepedian1 for any who weren't quite sure who that wookiee was running around over there.
Around the web I am also taking on the alias of darthdorkus, but since that was already taken on SW.com, I am darthrifficus there. I created a Imperial character for an internet RPG under the name of General Aurelius Tempest, a cold-hearted bastard with an AT-AT. :) Additionally, if I was inserted into canon I could be Nevets Do'ow-neerg. Another Darth name of interest is Realgar.
For the Darth Who Contest, I submitted Darth Lycinis as a name. It is a combination of the words "lie", "sin", and "lycan" referencing Jacen Solo's experiences with wyrwulves and personality traits of most other Sith Lords.
Things I find interesting on Wookieepedia
Wookieepedia-specific
- Anons who revert other anons.
- Anons who underestimate the power of the wiki, and end up getting banned as soon as they started vandalizing.
- Our first bot, appropriately a familiar droid named Artoo.
- That a few guys can grab the attention of an entire fanbase in only a year.
- Users who insist on being Darths.
- Users who go by character, location, or actor names.
- An article titled "Hover Transport" that actually read "A transport that hovers." Real inventive.
- That I never finish what I start.
- That I catch more mistakes after I saved for the first or second time.
- That it's astounding how fast information is added from a released source only hours after made public.
- That I can prevent myself from going crazy from spoilers by purchasing that source on that day.
- That Wookieepedia on Wikipedia was nominated for deletion per WP:WEB as spam. Thankfully it was speedy kept.
- That suspension of disbelief is fun to think about.
- Darth Culator's user page.
- That we somehow don't have articles for the inevitably to be released.
- That I am one that wants to keep everything on the wiki, a true inclusionist to the core.
- That users consistently get younger and younger, down to 10 and 11 years! Is this where we need to be heading?
- Mineral does not always equal material.
- That people still can't spell "Wookieepedia".
- That 117 users still can't spell "Wookieepedia". :C
- That controversial users still ask about becoming administrators.
- Guestbooks. I don't really favor them, but whatever.
- I have never seen or heard anything like the Wookiee-Cast but I'm hooked on the Dexter-like voice of 4dot. If he only knew which one I was talking about.
- "Well um, hmm, Riff thinks I have a voice like Dexter."
- ―Wookiee-Cast III 5:18-5:24
- Vandals that return a year later as redeemed users?
- Yea I created the 50,000th article, Solitaire. It's not much but it's canon and that's what counts.
- The Other Wookieepedia [1]
- jSarek was the published question to Leland Chee in Star Wars Insider 96's Q&A section regarding Conan Antonio Motti's canon status, revealing his original name to be "Zi Motti" before Lucas intervened. Shown as "Sarek", he asked "How have you decided to treat the "Conan Antonio Motti" name... for Holocron purposes? Is it just another joke, or are you taking it a bit more seriously than that?" It was originally questioned on the SW.com forums on May 16, 2007.
- This being said, I have found an instance of "Zi Motti" in Death Star while he talks to Admiral Jaim Helaw.
- Interestingly enough, I was the first to ask Leland (or anyone in a panel) at Celebration IV's continuity panel on May 26, 2007 about the canonicity of this name, to which he replied "it will be revealed eventually". The publication of Death Star's Dramatis Personae and the Insider issue was the "eventually" part.
- Do some users have a tendency to automatically vote with the most important person and not necessarily via a valid reason of their own?
- I was almost deleted.
- "Do you even get paid to do this stuff?"
- ―The most commonly encountered question that I hear.
Canon
- The amount of -ooine and -aan planets.
- Examples for -ooines include: Tatooine, Dantooine, Ventooine, Klatooine, Handooine, Entooine, Cardooine, Mantooine, Minntooine, Reltooine, Sestooine, Sistooine, Vactooine, and Velmooine. Most -ooines show up in the Rim.
- Other possibilities might be Brintooin, Jandoon, Parshoone, Alvorine, Aviprine, and Humbarine.
- Examples for -aans and the occasional -een include: Alderaan, New Alderaan, Aldereen, Falleen, Endoraan, Manaan, Delderaan, Taloraan, Chardaan, Nelvaan, Tiisheraan, and Talaan. Most -aans show up in the Core.
- StarNeptune and I have speculated that maybe there is a link, maybe an ancient empire that ruled the Rim, and another in the Core, each warring factions of each other, marking their territory with these suffixes. Maybe even the homeworld of both was named Aantooine, before splitting up. It's only a fan theory. :)
- A Galactic Census could be held: Humans would have an overwhelming majority, followed by Twi'leks, Rodians, Wookiees, and Hutts. They may not really be the most populous, but they are the most popular.
- My new favorite word is osik. An example of this in action is: "Don't give me all that droids-have-rights osik." from Odds.
- That no one was born in 0 BBY. Did a great disturbance in the force prevent childbirth across the galaxy?
- JustinGann's findings of creature population per planet, with the order as 1) Naboo 2) Tatooine 3) Endor 4) Kashyyyk 5) Yavin 4 6) Dac 7) Ithor 8) Corellia 9) Dagobah 10) Haruun Kal 11) Ansion
- Dashed Jedi names, as if they're all from the same place: Obi-Wan Kenobi, Qui-Gon Jinn, and now Chu-Gon Dar, Belsed-Qan Idan, and Bodis-Ker Vitan. We still don't know where the first two come from which is beyond odd.
- That Tyber Zann was based in appearance on the actor who plays Lucius Malfoy from the Harry Potter movies (Jason Issacs). Is it postulated that this reference may place Issacs in a forthcoming role in the TV series as Tyber Zann himself? See also Talk:Tyber Zann#Picture.
- Who would substitute for Ambak, Blaylock, Cronau, and Mezzicanley?
- That the Givin are truely the coolest species for being mathematically advanced.
- That I wouldn't eat Ugorian food.
- If I could be like Michael Tandre and become a species' spiritual leader on a distant planet nearly overnight.
- Palpy had way too much time on his hands writing the Dark Side Compendium as each book would take 96 standard hours to read, a total of 288 standard hours.
- The Burning sounds horrible.
- I might consider a visit to Vaathkree.
- Star Wars: Demolition was where it was at in 2000.
- Dor is geologically fascinating.
- Tiran = Einstein
- The Albino Cyclops is one ugly creature.
- Some people gotta understand that Wookiee porn consisting of Mermeia was the latest thing in that day.
- Oh the horror of xenoboric acid!
- Havet Storm was really that important.
- The return of the Sweet One and a familiar friend in the late Legacy Era.
- Something to watch for and hope becomes realized in the upcoming Clone Wars series: the Scorpenek annihilator droid
- Katie Lucas made braces canonical.
- Mace Windu survives bigger falls than that on Coruscant. Landed on a air taxi too I bet...
- Holy crap Legacy is even more fun now that we know who Darth Krayt is.
- Lando's aptly-titled How to Succeed in Everything.
- Lumiya makes her first appearance in the month of my birth, in Star Wars 88: Figurehead.
- "Bannistar Station" would be a good banning cry.
- I was wrong all along.
- Note: there are still sources that capitalize: Geonosis and the Outer Rim Worlds
- Combat Umbrellas. Seriously?
- The Bi-Polar blaster carbine: Great idea but terribly inefficient.
Other
- I am enlightened to learn that I share a birthday with Aayla Secura.
- Why didn't I attend Celebration III in Indianapolis, only 400 miles away, not 2000?
- Fanboys!
- Riffsyphon
- That I am a Warsie.
- There's a real person named Dirk Yohan Beer. Isn't that a karking awesome name?!































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Some calculations
Taking a bit from MarcK and Darth Culator, I am curious as to how many new individuals we can expect from the Star Wars live-action TV series.
Assuming that there are 100 episodes at 45 minutes each (with commercials), that equivilates to 37.5 movies of equal time at 2 hours long each. If each movie at 2 hours is capable of producing roughly 500 new characters, both main and background, then it could be extrapolated that 37.5 movies worth of episodes times 500 characters = about 18,750 new characters! Whoa...
If this show goes to 400 episodes as Rick McCallum has hoped, that number would quadruple to 75,000 characters.
Wookiee-Google growth
- As of September 9, 2007, "Wookieepedia" gets 339,000 total hits on Google, with 164,000 being external and non-Wookieepedia site hits. [2].
- November 25, 2007, "Wookieepedia" gets 383,000 total hits, with 184,000 from the website itself.
- In an odd reversal, as of February 3, 2008, "Wookieepedia" gets 197,000 total hits.
- March 4: 201,000 total hits, 119,000 external
- April 12: 201,000 total hits, no change
- June 27: 354,000 total hits, with 177,000 of those being internal
Upcoming
- "Yay! Table! ick. table."
- ―Xwing328
- Star Wars: Legacy
- Star Wars: Legacy 0: June 7, 2006
- Star Wars Legacy 1: Broken, Part 1: June 21, 2006
(14 days later)
- Star Wars Legacy 2: Broken, Part 2: July 12, 2006
(21 days)
- Star Wars Legacy 3: Broken, Part 3: September 13, 2006
(2 months 1 day)
- Star Wars Legacy 4: Noob: October 11, 2006
(28 days)
- Star Wars Legacy 5: Broken, Part 4: November 1, 2006
(21 days)
- Star Wars Legacy 6: Broken, Part 5: November 29, 2006
(28 days)
- Star Wars Legacy 7: Broken, Part 6: January 10, 2007
(43 days)
- Star Wars Legacy 8: Allies: February 14, 2007
(35 days)
- Star Wars Legacy 9: Trust Issues, Part 1: March 7, 2007
(21 days)
- Star Wars Legacy 10: Trust Issues, Part 2: March 28, 2007
(21 days)
- Star Wars Legacy 11: The Ghosts of Ossus, Part 1: May 2, 2007: Cade Skywalker returns
(34 days)
- Star Wars Legacy 12: The Ghosts of Ossus, Part 2: May 23, 2007
(21 days, obtained at C4)
- Star Wars Legacy 13: Ready to Die: June 13, 2007
(20 days)
- Star Wars Legacy 14: Claws of the Dragon, Part 1: July 11, 2007
(28 days)
- Star Wars Legacy 15: Claws of the Dragon, Part 2: August 8, 2007
(28 days)
- Star Wars Legacy 16: Claws of the Dragon, Part 3: September 12, 2007
(35 days)
- Star Wars Legacy 17: Claws of the Dragon, Part 4: October 31, 2007
(49 days)
- Star Wars Legacy 18: Claws of the Dragon, Part 5: January 2, 2008
(2 months, 2 days)
- Star Wars Legacy 0½: January 2, 2008
(/)
- Star Wars Legacy 19: Claws of the Dragon, Part 6: February 6, 2008
(1 month, 4 days)
- Star Wars Legacy 20: Indomitable, Part 1: February 27, 2008
(19 days)
- Star Wars Legacy 21: Indomitable, Part 2: March 12, 2008
(15 days?!)
- Star Wars Legacy 22: The Wrath of the Dragon: April 23, 2008
(1 month, 11 days)
- Star Wars Legacy 23: Loyalties: May 7, 2008
- Star Wars Legacy 24: Loyalties, Part 2: May 21, 2008
- Star Wars Legacy 25: The Hidden Temple June 18, 2008
- Star Wars: Legacy 0: June 7, 2006
- Celebration IV: May 24-28, 2007 (with May 24 being fan club only)
QUITE AWESOME!!!
See Wookieepedia:Celebration IV and Forum:Celebration IV table for more information. [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]
- Round trip plane tickets to Los Angeles for Celebration 4: $320 on AA via Expedia.
- 6-night hotel stay somewhere safe and nearby: $400
(Pasadena Best Western)
- Badge for 4 days at the event: $110 (before taxes)
- Knowing you made an impact in fandom itself: priceless
- There are some things in life that can't be purchased, for everything else there's the Sith MasterCard.
- Round trip plane tickets to Los Angeles for Celebration 4: $320 on AA via Expedia.
- Universal Day of the Jedi: Friday, May 25, 2007
- Death Star: releases October 16, 2007 (I don't usually purchase novels but this one is mandatory.)
- Fanboys: releases April 2008
- Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (video game): releases July 29, 2008 in the USA
- The Atlas of the Star Wars Galaxy, to replace The New Essential Guide to Planets and Moons (announced with tentative title on April 24, 2007):
June 2008,now March 3, 2009, now February 24, 2009. - Celebration V: Spring 2009?
To Do List
VIP Interview Wish List (so far)
- Leland Chee (this is the big prize)
- Pablo Hidalgo
- John Ostrander
- Dan Wallace
- Abel G. Pena
- John Hazlett (to ask about his dance moves :P)
Creatures
- Finish subpage
Other
- Remember this template: {{hnn|47|sports/13314_2.html|Yet Another Greenputt League}}
- Work on List of measurement units
- Changes instances of Sources where they should be Appearances, and use {{Mo}} if the subject is referenced to but not shown.
- {{subst:w|Riffsyphon1024|~~~~}}
- {{reflist}} now replaces all instances of manually created Notes and references sections.
- <ref name="initials">Title</ref> First use
- <ref name="initials"/> Subsequent usage
- ♫
- Yoda Lane, Lexington Park, Maryland
- Use {{confirm}}, not {{verify}}
- <div class="boilerplate metadata vfd" style="background-color: #F3F9FF; margin: 0 auto; padding: 0 10px 0 10px; border: 1px solid #AAAAAA;"> This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. '''This page is no longer live.''' Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. <br>The result of the debate was '''keep/merge/delete''' -- ~~~~.
- {{Blog|BLOG URL TITLE (e.g abelgpena)|ENTRY NUMBER|ENTRY NAME|BLOG NAME|WRITER NAME}}
"NUMBER ENTRY NAME" - "Only Sith Deal in Absolutes!", Abel G. Pena's StarWars.com Blog
"NUMBER ENTRY NAME" - "Continuity, Criticism, and Captain Panaka", Dan Wallace's StarWars.com Blog
"NUMBER ENTRY NAME" - "Fragments From the Mind's Eye", Pablo Hidalgo's StarWars.com Blog
"NUMBER ENTRY NAME" - "Droids Just Wanna Have Fun", Bonnie Burton's StarWars.com Blog
"NUMBER ENTRY NAME" - "Keeper of the Holocron's Blog", Leland Chee's StarWars.com Blog
"NUMBER ENTRY NAME" - "Sompeetalay's Source Blog", Sompeetalay's StarWars.com Blog
"NUMBER ENTRY NAME" - "We'll Blow Your Planet Up!", Arthur Papadam's StarWars.com Blog
"NUMBER ENTRY NAME" - "Drawing in the Empire", Joe Corroney's StarWars.com Blog
"NUMBER ENTRY NAME" - "Look, sir! Zombies!", Ryan Kaufman's StarWars.com Blog
"NUMBER ENTRY NAME" - "Cannon to right of them, cannon to left of them...noble Three Million!"", Karen Traviss's StarWars.com Blog
Holidays, Months, and Days
- List of holidays or each holiday
- Time in Star Wars detailing months and days
- (Refer to [8])
- Condensed list of historical anniversaries.
My Creations Moved Over
Sectors of Star Wars, Systems of Star Wars, Cities of Star Wars, Creatures of Star Wars, The Maw, and Repulsorlift
My Various Projects
| Lists Planets | Sectors | Systems | Battles | Nebulae | Star clusters | Moffs | Districts on Coruscant | References to Star Wars | Measurement units Articles Holidays | Senators | Star Wars Insider Wookieepedia WookieeProject Locations | Award Proposals | Wookieepedians | Wookieenews | Wookieepedians by region | Design a shirt contest Categories Years | Years (real-world) | Locations | Natural formations | Dates | Elements | Wookieepedians by edits | Wookieepedians by time zone | Rocks | Minerals | Indexes |
- Moving Category:Characters to Category:Individuals (completed March 31, 2006)
- I've also been spending some time on SparqMan's HoloNet News Page, adding articles with a poodooload of redlinks.
- Beginning May 30th, 2006, I will be adding information on cities, planets, systems, and sectors if at all possible after the discovery of an old compendium of galactic infomation I put together 4 years ago. I know that all the information came from CUSWE but I did not individually cite each source of information as that would have taken too long at the time. Feel free to add the source to any particular information I may be adding, but I assure you it is valid per CUSWE.
- I've made quite a few articles pertaining to things usually found in our own galaxy but also appear in the GFFA, including but not limited too: Water, Snake, Groundquake, Number system, Tattoos, Radiation, Carbon dioxide, Mercury, Silicon, Platinum, Magnetite, X-ray, Gamma ray, and all sorts of other elements and compounds. The reasoning is: if they are mentioned in any source, they exist in the GFFA
- Managing the load of Legacy stuff coming in, all while being careful enough to avoid plotlines too sticky of a nature.
Links
- Wookieepedia:Mofferences using this link: http://irc.wikia.com/starwars/
- [9]
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIlbW0mS3Qg
- Imp's little Wookieepedia webstrip
- Image:Modimapgalaxy1.jpg (Modi's map of the Galaxy)
- Jaymach's C4 photos
- Just watch this over.
- Forum:The Life and Times of Wookieepedia in Novel Form
Sources
- Databank [10]
- Completely Unofficial Star Wars Encyclopedia [11] or Coos-swee or Coos-swah or Khoos-sah
- Nav-Computer.com [12]
- Copies of The Essential Guide to Alien Species, The New Essential Guide to Weapons and Technology, The Essential Guide to Planets and Moons, Inside the Worlds of books, Star Wars: The Ultimate Visual Guide, The Complete Locations of Star Wars, and The New Essential Guide to Alien Species
- HoloNet News [13]
- StarWars.com Visual Guides (been stuck at Chapter 7 since the end of June)
- Done reading Sacrifice. Most items added by now.
- The Jedi Academy Trilogy with Dark Apprentice, Jedi Search, and Champions of the Force
- The New Jedi Order with Vector Prime, Dark Tide I: Onslaught, and Dark Journey (first two chapters of The Approaching Storm included)
- Before the Storm and Shield of Lies of the Black Fleet Crisis Trilogy
- Tales From Jabba's Palace
- Death Star
- Geonosis and the Outer Rim Worlds
(Bold on books indicates that I have finished reading it.)
Userboxes
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