User:Sifaka

If you are wondering why I changed or deleted something, please ask on my talk page!

• I mercilessly remove names from day pages if they don't have Wikipedia articles about them. Click "edit this page" to see the hidden comment under the births section or notability requirements.

Milne-Edwards's Sifaka (Propithicus edwarsi)

About me

I am a college sophomore at Duke planning on majoring in biophysics. I am an editor as of Feb 10, 2006. I love lemurs. I have been to Madagascar (where I studied the Milne-Edwards's Sifaka) and Costa Rica. I like to code in Java, but I can't do Web pages.

DukeThis user attends or attended Duke University.

Activity on Wikipedia

On Wikipedia, I want to focus on making articles more readable and clear. I would also like to add information to some of the lemur stubs. I like to answer science related questions on the science reference desk. I RC patrol on occasion during my non-existent free time. I watch all the days in the month of August for vandalism and non-notable additions. I like to be polite and relatively non-confrontational.

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Random info

This is an awesome visualization applet for 3-D magnetostatics

My Interests

• Chemistry
• Lemurs
• Science in general
• Arizona
• Biology

Articles

Articles that need some major revisions

• Endophyte - expansion utilizing the papers of Betsy Arnold as sources
• Milne-Edwards's Sifaka - Needs some species specific information.
• Filigree- needs some content and organizing
• Oyster Mushroom - factual overhaul. There are three species called oyster mushrooms.
• Just about every article dealing with plant physiology

This is the list of all the articles to which I added content or seriously revised. This does not include updates on related pages that relates back to the information I have included.

Major Revisions

The following is a list of articles which I have either created, significantly revised, or significantly improved by adding information.

• Hammond's Postulate (February 19, 2006) I added the actual postulate, discussed what the postulate is saying, how it related to rate and ratios of products, how to explain unusual results in light of the postulate, and started at the history.
• 2006 Duke University lacrosse team scandal (6 May 2006) I typed up a minute by minute time line of the events, added a few notes and a quote and made a references section to which I redirected all the references
• Retrograde amnesia (12 May, 2006) I added some info about how the victims feel, a little info about the condition, and tried to deal with some plagiarism.
• Milne-Edwards's Sifaka (May 12, 2006) I finally started it. I did the paragraph on locomotion on (May 12th, 2006) I may get aroung to the other parts.
• Farnesyltransferase (August 9, 2006) Added a lot of info about structure, specificity, function, and mechanism of the enzyme's activity. Not much by way of numbers though I have papers for that.
• Geranylgeranyltransferase type 1 (August 9, 2006) Created article and got the basic info started by copyediting out of FTase. Needs some solid data.
• Rab geranylgeranyltransferase (August 9, 2006) Created article and got the info by copyediting out of prenylation. Needs a lot of solid data.
• Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder treatments (15 April 2007) Created the article by forking it out of the treatments section of the article Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder.

(17 April 2007) General mass cleanup to the article by moving and removing paragraphs, editing for style and clarity, and formatting.

Minor Revisions

The following is a list of the articles where I have added supplementary content without drastically changing the overall article

• Tetrahydrofuran (11 February, 2006) added solvent properties
• Indri (20 February, 2006) Added legend of Babakoto and a correction about the tail of the indri
• Duke University (4 May, 2006) I redid the opening paragraph and added information about merit scholarships
• Lemur (18 December 2006) I added an in pop culture section add a couple instances

(8 April 2007) Added information to the biology section

• Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder - A lot of general content improving work on and off, talk page discussions...

(8 April 2007) I rearranged the opening and restored a large amount of text that went missing.

(22-23 January 2008) Rebalance of article by removal of weasel words and undue weight given to fringe views, sourcing of many citation needed statements

• Evolution as theory and fact (5 January 2008) Overhaul of the part which explains how gravity is a theory and fact. (Edited under the guise of IP 64.134.81.59 and 152.3.44.183)
• Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder controversies - Also a lot of general content improving work on and off. Talk page discussions...

(February 2008 - March 2008, April 2009) Practically edit marathons, relatively speaking

• Noah's Ark Zoo Farm (April 2008) Adding appropriate scientific skeptical information and attempting to improve tone and article flow

Humor

April Fools 2006 modification to Question Mark: might I have changed every sentence into a question? Beware of the wiki lemur!

Sub-pages

• User:Sifaka/Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder - sandbox for said article
• User:Sifaka/Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder: controversies - sandbox for said article. Articles to model Extraterrestrial life, Homeopathy

People who who commonly work on ADHD articles Miamomimi, Scuro, Abd, Clockback, Barrylb, Vannin, Versageek, Yukichigai

Userboxes

.....This user is a professional procrastinator.

You mess with this user, and they'll denature your protein.

vn-3This user page has been vandalized 3 times.