User:Bryan Derksen
I'm just some random guy who has become mildly hooked by Wikipedia, and who recently dragged Alex Kennedy down with me.
Some of the pages I've contributed to significantly are:
Acetylene Actaeon Amino acid Anthropomorphism Callisto Carbon chauvinism Casimir effect Charybdis Clanking replicator Circe Cruithne Daedalus Dyson sphere Edmonton Exon Exxon Freenet Genetic code Greek mythology Grue Huygens principle Intron Jack L. Chalker Lex Luthor Lincos Lycanthropy Magneto Masada Masonry Miller experiment Muppet Musical Chairs Nagasaki Neoteny Pan Proteinoid RNA Sampo Scylla Sidehill Gouger Solar system (and practically all of the planets, moons, comets - whew!) Victor Von Doom Werewolf
"Discussion board" section of my homearticle:
From Dimadick.That is Gilles page.He has been trying to include as many characters related to the Ducks as he can,he is collecting all familie trees not just Don Rosa's and he has been creating his own.His ideas aren't official.
By Dimadick:Nice graphic.The canon tree is that of Don Rosa who is used as official by Egmont and most Barks/Rosa fans.Scarpa and many other creators have added other relatives of the Ducks but Rosa doesn't use them.
Just added a new graphic to the Clan McDuck. Also, I have the following tree for the Duck clan:
The geneology program I used didn't support displaying both trees together, so perhaps this could go in a separate article.
Slow down on adding the element info:
"Unless otherwise indicated, this information has been authored by an employee or employees of the University of California, operator of the Los Alamos National Laboratory under Contract No. W-7405-ENG-36 with the U.S. Department of Energy. The U.S. Government has rights to use, reproduce, and distribute this information. The public may copy and use this information without charge, provided that this Notice and any statement of authorship are reproduced on all copies. Neither the Government nor the University makes any warranty, express or implied, or assumes any liability or responsibility for the use of this information."
I haven't been able to get permission yet. Can't talk now maveric149
- alrighty. I wasn't going to do more than strontium right now, I just wanted to see if there were any objections. I guess this counts as one. :) --BD
Thanks for your help on the Beryllium article! I've never hand-coded a table this detailed in HTML before; the table was consequently a nasty reverse hack of several different examples I looked at (needess to say, I am also impatient and you might even say a bit lazy -- otherwise I would have looked this stuff up before I started the table). The weird thing is, I haven't got a clue (no, seriously) why the table decided to render correctly one day in 6 different browsers on two separate platforms and then go totally wack the next without any changes to the HTML code (sloppy as it was). Can only guess that the wiki software was covering for my sloppiness up until today, and then stopped doing so because of some evil alterier motive. >;-}<
Cheers, and happy hacking! --maveric149
- Heh. It didn't look all that bad, those tweaks I made were fairly insignificant bits of tidying. I think when all is said and done the real hero of the hour will be the brave maniac who actually does all the hard work copying this format 108 times over and filling in all the details for each of the other elements. :)
- Oh, and regarding the periodic table, there was no particular reason why I picked the colors I used for the various element groups other than that they looked reasonably good and were distinguishable; if you can think of a better color scheme I'd love to see it.
PS You might have already noticed this, but about 70% of the text in the Beryllium article is a quick and dirty rewrite of the linked Los Alamos National Lab text on Be. I say, since the American public has already paid for this stuff, we have every right to rearrange the text in the sentences and use a good thesaurus to swap words where needed (Obviously, I still haven't heard from LANL yet on the issue of permission -- so I say we just go for a light rewrite of their text). --maveric149
- Alright, I'll do Strontium sometime tomorrow since I'm the one that copied LANL stuff into it previously.
Hello Bryan,
I see you are the table expert.Thank you so much for installing it, it sure looks a whole lot better.H. Jonat
From Talk:Periodic table:
I like fiddling with tables. :) Bryan Derksen
- Well, you asked for it. :) Given your above statement, I was wondering if you might want to take a look at the "Isotopic" section of the Properties table in the Beryllium article. I think that it is important to display the info in the table, but the way I have it now is just plain ugly. Is there a way to make a 5 column table sit right below a two colum table and make both tables the same total width? (so that the two tables look like they are one) Or is it possible to have multiple columns under dual columns and not have the first two cells in the multiple column part of the table the same width as the corresponding cells in the dual column part of the table? I have been racking my brain over this, and this has delayed progress on putting a template together for the other perio articles. Any help would be much appreciated. maveric149
- Heh. Guess I did ask for it. I'll take a shot at it; a couple of ideas come to mind but I'm not sure if either of them are good. I'll try to have something for you later tonight. :) Bryan Derksen
I like the nested table! So that is what is was supposed to look like. The Isotopic part is really set off as being different -- which it is. I especially like how simple and elegant it now looks in raw HTML -- This will improve the chances of getting people to continually update the table in the future. Go ahead and copy it into the article (so long as it is based on the most recent table -- I made some minor changes yesturday). maveric149
- Yup, it's from the most recent version of the actual table. Moving it over now.
Looks like user:Trelvis answered your half-life question that you posted on talk:Beryllium. --maveric149
- I noticed. I think I'm going to take his advice of not adding those highly unstable elements to the main element table; that equation looks scary and I'm out of my depth in that field. :) Bryan Derksen
I also agree; the properties table in the main elements articles needs to only have the most stable and useful isotopes (as Trelvis said). Of course, the Isotopes articles will have more complete info on those plus info on the the real unstable ones (at least in table form). But making 109+ "Isotopes of [insert element name here]" will take some time. One step at a time though.... --maveric149
Thanks for working on flagellum. I started it by coping an flagellum feature list from an Intelligent Design website [1] -- Ed Poor