Tardis

My first contribution, before having a username, was to merge two articles on the Vulcan nerve pinch in the summer of 2004. Nowadays I answer questions on the Science, Math, and Computing Reference Desks, and otherwise copyedit and occasionally patrol Recent Changes.

Useful Wikipedia links

Editing

• <syntaxhighlight> tag
• Special:ExpandTemplates

Math

• TeX math
• Mathematical characters

Patrolling

• WP:CVU
• Special:Contributions/newbies

Interesting articles

Physics

• Noether's theorem
• Aharonov-Bohm effect
• Haidinger's brush
• Bell's theorem
• Born rigidity

Mathematics

• Natural density
• Rational trigonometry
• Gramian matrix
• Simpson's paradox
• Unit disk graph
• Skolem's paradox
• Lanchester's laws
• Preferred number
• Arrow's impossibility theorem
• Ellsberg paradox

Numerical methods

• Regula falsi
• Monotone cubic interpolation

Computer science

• Hungarian algorithm
• Interactive proof system
• Advice (complexity)
• Fuzzy string searching
• No free lunch in search and optimization
• Fitts's law
• Mental poker
• Binary angle

Society

• Chesterton's fence
• Relevance theory
• Flynn effect
• Wilmington insurrection of 1898
• Tulsa race massacre
• Operation Gladio
• Nazca Lines
• Long-term nuclear waste warning messages

Todo

Cleanup

• Percentile rank (repetitive, overcomplicated)
• Polarization (unclear; confusing mathematics)

Confusion

• Oberth effect (PAR's comment, particularly)

Link fixing

• Special:WhatLinksHere/Heat capacity (most links really mean specific heat capacity)

Images

• Image:Bell_observers_experiment2.png (make SVG to remove JPEG artifacts)