User:Samsara/Archive

My current stable versions

• Natural selection (needs updating, better version probably available now, following SCOTW)
• Tuatara (but note that the coin is a copyright concern that has been resolved in the current revision)
• Frog

My editorial objectives

1. Preserve material at any cost if it has any merit. If necessary, spend a long time looking for a place where it fits. I feel that this is necessary out of respect for other people's time and effort. I find few things more aggravating than having one's contributions thoughtlessly reverted. I'd like to think I'm quite good at seeing merit in material.
2. Make the best use of Wikipedia's networked characteristic. You will often see me fixing and disambiguating links, making templates, or making it clearer where links point to (for those that don't have one eye permanently fixed on their browser's status bar). I'm also quite active in merging articles and making redirects - what belongs together should be one, and easy to find.

Contributions

• Translations of August Weismann, Willi Hennig biographies from German.
• Lots of small changes to other evolution-related articles.
• Heavy work on frog (243 edits), e.g. these changes (liquidGhoul added the distribution map, all other changes by me; I also mostly blended in and refactored material that he contributed), tuatara (85 edits), evolution of sex (51 edits), "Fedora Core" (diff), "Ubuntu (Linux distribution)" (diff) (contains three minor changes by other people), "Linspire" (diff)
• The Category:Frog images is entirely due to me at the time of writing. Also expanded Category:Gastropod images
• Helping with Portal:Biology, Wikipedia:Science Collaboration of the Week
• Started Join in, Unreferenced GA and Academic peer review

What others have said

I award you this Panderichthys for working so hard on biology subjects in Wikipedia. —pschemp 23:18, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

I am awarding you a luscious bar o' chocolate [...].pschemp | talk 17:44, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

The Working Man's Barnstar For many efforts in improving biology articles on wikipedia Pete.Hurd 04:24, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

• Just letting you know... I respect the hard work you do at the Science article nomination. I hope the project picks up some steam, [...] "Samsara is Nirvana, Nirvana is Samsara." (John Daido Loori) I guess that makes you Nirvana as well ??! - DanielCD 22:16, 15 February 2006 (UTC)