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Tom.Reding

Joined 28 May 2009

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For those without the leisure time required to read through my userboxes: former Astronomy grad student (MS), with another MS in Mechanical Engineering (focusing on alternative fuel use and maximizing efficiency in developing countries) and BSs in Physics and Mechanical Engineering; interested in galaxy-scale out to large-scale structure, with work on Milky Way structure and history via tidal streams and low metallicity red K-giants, from the Warner and Swasey Observatory at Kitt Peak National Observatory. I enjoy researching primary sources, adding missing information, fixing errors, making things look pleasing, ordered, and complete, taking & manipulating photos, standardization & consistency within articles, citations, and templates, and automation wherever (reasonably) possible. Being bludgeoned with perspective my entire academic life life has taught me to not give a fuck, but in the best possible way. So please, assume good faith, then speak your mind, be brief and concise, don't be afraid to follow nor break convention, as long as you're not a dick. You can expect the same.

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en-5This user can contribute with a professional level of English.
pl-1Ten użytkownik posługuje się językiem polskim na poziomie podstawowym.
 This user is a native of the United States of America.
 This user is of Polish ancestry.

                                 

Educational/Professional
MScThis user has a Master of Science degree in Astronomy.
MScThis user has a Master of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering.
BScThis user has a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering.
BScThis user has a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics.
 This user has a minor in
Biology.
 This user is an academic.
 This user is an engineer.
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 This user participates in
WikiProject Astronomy.
 This user is interested in astronomy.
 This user is interested in space sciences.
  This user has a keen interest in physics.
 Editing Wikipedia is something this user does as a hobby.
  This user is constantly learning due to the existance of Wikipedia.
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 This user plays ultimate.
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mircs-3This user is an advanced mIRC scripter.
re-3This user writes advanced regular expressions.
vb-2This user is an intermediate Visual Basic programmer.
  This user has been on Wikipedia for 15 years and 6 months.
 This user knows how AutoCAD works.
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 This user once used DOS back in the day.
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DGAFThis user does not give a fuck.
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 This user knows that everyone has points-of-view, and that admitting to and identifying one's own biases is the first step to achieving NPOV.
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 Non nobis solum
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əThis user is a Grammar Nazi.
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Indian cuisine.
 This user would likely die without eating the occasional curry.
 
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 This user eats Garbage Plates.
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MEADThis user drinks mead.
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wines
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 This user can make The Spinning Dancer turn both ways.
 This user admires all expressions of nature. 
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c = 1This user uses natural units.
 Don't worry, Pluto, I'm not a planet either.
 This user knows 19 digits of pi.
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Find x.		 
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92.3This user misses the real 92.3 K-Rock.
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Hanlon's RazorThis user never attributes to malice that which is best explained by stupidity. †
  This user accepts evolution as a biological fact.
darThis editor holds a darwikinist philosophy.
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libThis user is a liberal.
00:00This user uses 24-hour time.
28 November 2024This user supports International Date Format (day month year)
ubx-nThis user communicates exclusively via userboxes.
Unproductive Interests (Entertainment)
her?This user is a fan of Arrested Development.
FGThis user thinks Family Guy is freakin' sweet.
 This user doesn't know the Battle of Borodino from a tiger's bum.
 This user is a captive on the Satellite of Love.
SEINThis user is obsessed with Seinfeld... not that there's anything wrong with that!
STAR TREKTom.Reding is a fan of Star Trek: The Next Generation.TNG
M.D.This user watches House.
Law & OrderThis user is a fan of all Law & Order series.All
L&O
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first-person shooters.
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games on the NES.
XIThis user plays Final Fantasy XI.
TES IVThis user is fanatical about The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion.
PSOThis user plays Phantasy Star Online.
 This user is a loyal member of the Terran Republic.
CIVThis user loves to play Civilization.
  This user is interested in numismatics.
C&HThis user reads Calvin and Hobbes.
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  This user is pro-cannabis, and opposes bigotry and oppression suffered by cannabis users.
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{{t|30+}}This user has made or created 30+ Templates.
  31,065+This user has over 31,065 pages on his watchlist.
 This user actively contributes photos or other images.
 Wikimedia Commons contains multimedia from Tom.Reding.
 This user has been on Wikipedia for 15 years, 6 months, and 0 days.
 en.wiki # of articles = 6,916,959   (10.8%)

en.wiki # of pages = 61,925,058   (23.2%)
en.wiki # of users = 48,330,404   (41.4%)
en.wiki # of active users = 121,836 (41.6%)
en.wiki # of edits = 1,255,229,036   (34.7%)

 all.wiki # of articles = 64,014,109

all.wiki # of pages = 266,905,267
all.wiki # of users = 116,662,973
all.wiki # of active users = 292,765
all.wiki # of edits = 3,620,451,734

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Barnstars

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  The Original Barnstar
This barnstar is awarded to everyone who - whatever their opinion - contributed to the discussion about Wikipedia and SOPA. Thank you for being a part of the discussion. Presented by the Wikimedia Foundation, January 21, 2012.

A barnstar for you!

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  The Technical Barnstar
Congratulations, Tom.Reding, you've recently made your 1,000th edit to articles on English Wikipedia!

Thank you for all the great DAB work you've been doing recently, and for all your contributions to the encyclopedia. Keep it up! :) Maryana (WMF) (talk) 23:17, 16 April 2012 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

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  Working Wikipedian's Barnstar
For your incredible WikiGnoming over the past few months. I am in awe. A2soup (talk) 23:25, 22 February 2015 (UTC)

Thank you! :)   ~ Tom.Reding & his 200-some-odd lines of regex (talk ⋅contribs ⋅dgaf)  02:03, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

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  The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
You have nearly single-handedly eliminated the minor planet notability problem, which had stood for seven years before you decided to tackle it, because nobody wanted to do the massive amount of work required. If this doesn't deserve a barnstar, I'm not sure what does. StringTheory11 (t • c) 17:49, 3 May 2015 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

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  The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
For dealing with the minor planet clusterfuck as efficiently as you have! Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 04:13, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

There's nothing quite like cleaning up a good, 'ol-fashioned clusterfuck. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction :)   ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  04:17, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

BTW, this isn't just for the recent banner tagging, but for the shear amount of effort involved in cleaning up the mess for the past year or so. Possibly longer. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 00:27, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

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  The Technical Barnstar
thanks for helping me with the search codes! Jennica✿ / talk 20:10, 9 April 2017 (UTC)

Thank you for being one of Wikipedia's top medical contributors!

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  The 2016 Cure Award
In 2016 you were one of the top ~200 medical editors across any language of Wikipedia. Thank you from Wiki Project Med Foundation for helping bring free, complete, accurate, up-to-date health information to the public. We really appreciate you and the vital work you do! Wiki Project Med Foundation is a user group whose mission is to improve our health content. Consider joining here, there are no associated costs.

Thanks again :-) -- Doc James along with the rest of the team at Wiki Project Med Foundation 18:08, 3 May 2017 (UTC)

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  The Redirect Barnstar
Your diligent work in the area of redirect categorization and improvement is duly recognized and greatly appreciated. You are truly one of the unsung heroes of Wikipedia, and we hope you continue to enjoy your improvement of this awesome encyclopedia! On behalf of your fellow editors—and the millions of readers of our work—I sincerely thank you for your contributions that have improved the encyclopedia for everyone. Senator2029 “Talk” 08:33, 8 June 2017 (UTC)

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  The Editor's Barnstar
Thank you very much for helping and editing the Joe Campos Torres article, your assistance put a BIG SMILE on my face!
Vwanweb (talk) 16:53, 31 December 2017 (UTC)
My pleasure; that was a satisfying edit :)   ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  16:56, 31 December 2017 (UTC)

Another barnstar for you!

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  The Bio-star
In recognition of your recent contributions to the Life Sciences on en:Wikipedia, analyzing and helping to improve the quality of articles, based on scientific data. Your efforts demonstrate tremendous potential into enhancing the scientific accuracy of The Free Encyclopedia.

I am tremendously appreciative of your efforts, especially on the preliminary Taxonomic analysis.

~ Mellis (talk) 23:48, 31 December 2017 (UTC)

Editor of the Week

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  Editor of the Week
Your ongoing efforts to improve the encyclopedia have not gone unnoticed: You have been selected as Editor of the Week in recognition of your constant positive demeanor. Thank you for the great contributions! (courtesy of the Wikipedia Editor Retention Project)

User:Buster7 submitted the following nomination for Editor of the Week:

I am always on the lookout for potential Editor of the Week candidates, for editors that fly under the radar, whose efforts are unknown except to a few. They don't make a splash, they don't emit a 'notice me' kind of behavior; they just quietly tackle the hard jobs. Tom.Reding is that kind of editor. A while back he "thanked me" via the Thanks Notification for awarding the Editor of the Week to a fellow editor. So, I looked into him and found an editor that does many important WP improving things. He is a working editor (535,847 live and undeleted edits) that fixes, populates, corrects, standardizes, cleans, parses, tries, peruses, adds, formats, listens, expands, updates, corrects, creates, assigns and (my favorite) "consistifies". A member of Wikiproject Astronomy and Wikiproject Tree of Life, he has recently been granted the page mover user right. He provides a human eye and understanding to "bot" problems that arise. In the area of redirect categorization he willingly puts his head together with other editors to work toward solution. A deserving recipient.

You can copy the following text to your user page to display a user box proclaiming your selection as Editor of the Week: 

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Project Med Foundation
Tom.Reding
 
Editor of the Week
for the week beginning January 28, 2018
Quietly tackles the hard jobs. 536000 live and undeleted edits. A page mover. Understands "bot" problems. A deserving recipient.
Recognized for
work in redirect categorization
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Wikiproject Astronomy and Wikiproject Tree of Life
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Thanks again for your efforts! ―Buster7 ☎ 20:38, 28 January 2018 (UTC)

! XD <3 TY!   ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  20:56, 28 January 2018 (UTC)

The AWB Barnster

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  The AWB Barnster
Fixing many depreciated syntax on infobox images. Iggy (Swan) 22:14, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

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  Olympic Barnstar
For your excellent work in getting the bot up and running to tag biographies for the Olympic Wiki Project. Thank you! Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 10:00, 17 March 2018 (UTC)
Thanks, my pleasure :)   ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  12:04, 17 March 2018 (UTC)

Thank you for being one of Wikipedia's top medical contributors!

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  The 2016 Cure Award
In 2016 you were one of the top ~200 medical editors across any language of Wikipedia. Thank you from Wiki Project Med Foundation for helping bring free, complete, accurate, up-to-date health information to the public. We really appreciate you and the vital work you do! Wiki Project Med Foundation is a user group whose mission is to improve our health content. Consider joining here, there are no associated costs.

Thanks again :-) -- Doc James along with the rest of the team at Wiki Project Med Foundation 18:08, 3 May 2017 (UTC)

Congrats on joining the million edit club!

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  The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
Congratulations on being the seventh editor on the English Wikipedia to do over a million non-bot edits! ϢereSpielChequers 12:14, 17 May 2018 (UTC)
Thanks! I never thought I'd do so much, but I just keep finding things to fix/improve :)   ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  13:12, 17 May 2018 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

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  The Space Barnstar
For your astronomic contributions! For taking up so much space!

With apologies for the puns, Ira Leviton (talk) 20:17, 8 June 2018 (UTC)

A Dobos torte for you!

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  7&6=thirteen (☎) has given you a Dobos torte to enjoy! Seven layers of fun because you deserve it.


To give a Dobos torte and spread the WikiLove, just place {{subst:Dobos Torte}} on someone else's talkpage, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend.

7&6=thirteen (☎) 16:09, 15 October 2018 (UTC)

You have used your gifts well, Padawan

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  Bringing order out of chaos
OCD. It's not an affliction. It is a gift, and is part of the job description for being a Wikipedia editor. See WP:wikiholic.

"Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering."

Takes one to know one. Best regards. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 16:36, 15 October 2018 (UTC)

7&6=thirteen, thank you :) And I really should take the test, but I can't be bothered while editing...perhaps that is or should be one of the questions??   ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  16:49, 15 October 2018 (UTC)

Thank you for being one of Wikipedia's top medical contributors!

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  The 2018 Cure Award
In 2018 you were one of the top ~250 medical editors across any language of Wikipedia. Thank you from Wiki Project Med Foundation for helping bring free, complete, accurate, up-to-date health information to the public. We really appreciate you and the vital work you do! Wiki Project Med Foundation is a user group whose mission is to improve our health content. Consider joining here, there are no associated costs.

Thanks again :-) -- Doc James along with the rest of the team at Wiki Project Med Foundation 17:41, 28 January 2019 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

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  The Original Barnstar
Jobe well done when it comes to the article on Prof. Helmut Veith (1971-2016). Terrenus (talk) 14:48, 26 November 2019 (UTC)

Thank you for being one of Wikipedia's top medical contributors!

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  The 2019 Cure Award
In 2019 you were one of the top ~300 medical editors across any language of Wikipedia. Thank you from Wiki Project Med for helping bring free, complete, accurate, up-to-date health information to the public. We really appreciate you and the vital work you do! Wiki Project Med Foundation is a thematic organization whose mission is to improve our health content. Consider joining here, there are no associated costs.

Thanks again :-) -- Doc James along with the rest of the team at Wiki Project Med Foundation 18:35, 5 March 2020 (UTC)

A barnstar for your efforts

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  The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar
Thank you for your continued service adding to Wikipedia throughout 2020. - Cdjp1 (talk) 14:01, 20 January 2021 (UTC)
:)   ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  15:40, 20 January 2021 (UTC)

Precious

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astronomy gnome

Thank you for quality gnomish work on a large scale, making {{authority control}} available, creating redirects and talk pages, for writing and maintaining astronomy-related articles and categories such as Abell 665 and Category:Discoveries by Carl W. Hergenrother, - Tom, user conceived with a sploof in 2009, you are an awesome Wikipedian!

You are recipient no. 2523 of Precious, a prize of QAI. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:49, 29 January 2021 (UTC)

@Gerda Arendt: thank you very much, I'm honored :)   ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  21:32, 29 January 2021 (UTC)
I hope you don't mind that it's the prize of the cabal of the outcast ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:35, 29 January 2021 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

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  The Bot Creator Barnstar
For putting your OCD to good use when you created Tom.Bot. Scorpions13256 (talk) 23:27, 13 February 2021 (UTC)

I see we both have OCD. I had no choice but to give you this barnstar. Scorpions13256 (talk) 23:27, 13 February 2021 (UTC)

Thank you, comrade.   ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  04:21, 14 February 2021 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

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  The Original Barnstar
thank you for all your help here. Paulhus15 (talk) 09:59, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

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  The Original Barnstar
Just a barnstar for you!

Your userboxes were fascinating and you seem like a really interesting person. I also somehow see you on every page I edit.

Thanks for the contributions you have made! Hhzhang2345 Hhzhang2345 (talk) 16:16, 12 March 2021 (UTC)

A Barnstar for you!

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  The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
Thank you for helping edit Wikipedia and make the encyclopedia a better place for others. Thank you and keep up the good work. --ThanosYourGod (talk) 22:08, 12 March 2021 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

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  The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
Thanks a lot for adding authority control to so many articles Paradise Chronicle (talk) 23:13, 5 April 2021 (UTC)

For improving Navseasoncats

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  What a Brilliant Idea Barnstar
…or rather, what a succession of brilliant improvements you have made to {{Navseasoncats}}! – Fayenatic London 19:58, 16 October 2021 (UTC)

Barn!

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  The Working Man's Barnstar
For your tireless work in repetitive and laborious tasks. Cheers! Thinker78 (talk) 04:33, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

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  The Space Barnstar
I just wanted to say "thank you" for picking up the torch of updating the list of minor planets! (And I hope Rfassbind is doing fine too off WP!) Double sharp (talk) 08:44, 24 February 2024 (UTC)
Thank you Double sharp! (and thanks for the reminder for the latest big batch :)   ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  12:54, 24 February 2024 (UTC)

Another barnstar for you!

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  The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
Congratulations on becoming the fourth-ranked editor by number of edits. I know exactly how difficult that is! BD2412 T 15:52, 11 April 2024 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

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  The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
Congratulations for reaching three million edits! GTrang (talk) 03:52, 15 September 2024 (UTC)

Activity/Putting my OCD to good use

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File 518 518
Portal 332 332
Project 82 82
Redirect 5 43,131 43,136
Template 1,084 1,084
NA 34 34
Other 66 66
Assessed 228 513 3,653 25,268 383 50,020 80,065
Total 228 513 3,653 25,268 383 50,020 80,065
WikiWork factors (?) ω = 141,371 Ω = 5.08
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Doing

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    {{Taxonbar}} related improvements (talk).
    Fixing typos & WP:MOS things.
    Fixing various/CS1 maintenance & error categories (random worst offenders).
    Fixing Category:Pages using deprecated image syntax (some examples).
    Removing {{Orphan}} tags from pages with 3+ incoming mainspace links.
    General article & citation cleanup of ~56,000 articles in Category:Astronomy via AWB & my good friend, regex. Fixes include, but aren't limited to:
        Parsing author & editor lists (talk, talk).
        Standardizing |year=/|date= citation usage where appropriate (talk).
        Standardizing L☉, R☉, M☉, etc. usage. Adding those templates to articles, when appropriate (talk).
        Trying to standardize use of parsecs first, light-years second, where appropriate (talk, talk).
    Taking bites out of the WikiProject Astronomy cleanup listing, and perusing WP:Vital articles/Physical sciences#Astronomy.
        Finding pages with unintentional links to disambiguation pages and fixing the easy ones. Sometimes I'm even on the leaderboard.
        Finding, adding, and formatting proper references to remove {{citation needed}} tags, reference errors, and hidden categories for astronomy articles.
    Sometimes listening to the sound of Wikipedia.

To do

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    Standardize MOS:DateFormat for astro articles (tbd).
    Make article stub on A3558.
    Expand on the differences between galaxy groups and clusters (talk).

Not doing (anymore)

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    Converting {{IUCN}}s & bare-cites/refs to {{Cite journal}} (talk, talk, talk) (satisfying examples) — need more consensus one way or the other.
    Updating IUCN conservation status (talk) (some examples) — better & easier to do via Wikidata.
    Populating the more-difficult-to-find {{Infobox galaxy cluster}} statistics (member #, velocity dispersion, ICM temperature, mass) from journal articles for the most popular Abell clusters — doing so for all would take way too much time and wouldn't be as much benefit.

Never done

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    Adding {{Redirect category shell}} to single-redirect-template #REDIRECTs (via Tom.Bot, BRfA denied).

Done (large and/or systematic changes)

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    Luamatically standardize WP:TOL categories (talk) (T203355).
    Populating, correcting, standardizing minor planets' categories & sortkeys from the JPL SBDB, using AWB, C#, and lots o' RegEx.
    Replaced typographic ligatures like fi ff fl ffi ffl with plain-text, where appropriate (talk).
    Added {{Taxonbar}} to all pages with a valid WikiData IUCN ID (talk).
    Added {{Redirect category shell}} to multiple-redirect-template #REDIRECTs (talks).
    AWB Night-mode style.css
    Category:Minor planets maintenance (talk)
    Category:Astronomical objects by year of discovery maintenance (talk)
    Category:Numbered asteroids maintenance (talk)
    Helped reduce the Cleanup listing for WikiProject Astronomy to the lowest it has ever been as a % of astronomy articles: 11.7% at inception, 31.7% on 18 February 2012, and now 9.2% on 19 May 2015. Done mostly via #REDIRECTing ~12,000 unnotable asteroid stubs (talk).
    Helped with the CarloscomB cleanup.
    Extended the "Earth-Moon-thing" size-comparison format to 8 more Solar System objects between the size of Enceladus and Titania (talk).
    List all most pages in Category:Astronomy (here and here); list of all numbered asteroids here.
    Resolve ambiguities surrounding cluster designations for many NGC articles.
    Template related:

    Consistify & expand parameters & documentation for the {{IUCN}} family of templates to remove CS1 errors.
    Added many needed parameters to {{Infobox astro object}}.
    Added documentation to the {{NGCX}} family of templates.
    Added |Velocity dispersion=, |Flux=, and |Distance (co-moving)= parameters to {{infobox galaxy cluster}}.
    Add notes and helpful wikicode to all {{Infobox galaxy cluster}} parameters for clarity and consistent usage.
    Created & transcluded {{Infobox supercluster}} to all superclusters.

    Abell catalog related:

    Turned the boring, ugly, unorganized List of Abell clusters into this very nice table while adding ra, dec, Abell richness, and BM type (inspired by this heroic effort by User:Dr. Submillimeter).
    Added |Bautz-Morgan type= parameter to {{Infobox galaxy cluster}}. Populated it and |richness class= for all List of Abell clusters and Category:Abell objects, respectively.
    Created and assigned 6 new categories for/to all Abell cluster richness 0-5.
    Corrected all Abell cluster pages with {{Infobox galaxy}} to {{Infobox galaxy cluster}}.
    Made {{Catalogs}} variable width so it looks nicer at the bottom of a page (talk), and added it to all Abell object pages.
    Populated the easily gotten {{Infobox galaxy cluster}} statistics (α, δ, constellation, z, co-moving distance, x-ray flux) from NED for all Abell cluster pages.

    Organized the List of galaxy clusters and removed synonymous usage of galaxy clusters with galaxy groups.

AWB feature requests (outdated)

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Still-open: 2 3 4 5 66 7 9 10 12 13 14 15 17
Endorsed (still open): 1616
Incorporated into AWB: 1 11Still buggy
Workaround/alt solution is sufficient: 8[\d\D]{936,} 18Tools.WordCount(ArticleText)

Unorphaned

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Arp 107 (via Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies) ★ Calcium monohydride (via Inorganic compounds by element) ★ Coronet cluster (via Corona Australis) ★ Galactic ridge ‎(via Milky Way) ★ Kilonova (via Gamma-ray burst) ★ Nuclear pasta (via Neutron star) ★ Virgocentric flow (via Virgo Cluster) ★ Virial mass (via Binding energy and Gravitational binding energy)

Pages & templates significantly contributed to (and improved, hopefully)

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    List of Abell clusters ★ Velocity dispersion ★ Eridanus cluster ★ Astrophysical X-ray source ★ Antlia Cluster ★ Abell 520 ★ Abell 2199 ★ Coma Cluster ★ Kitt Peak National Observatory ★ Virgocentric flow ★ Calcium monohydride
    {{Authority control}} ★ {{Taxonbar}} ★ {{Deg2DMS}} ★ {{Infobox astro object}} ★ {{Infobox galaxy cluster}} ★ {{Infobox globular cluster}} ★ {{Infobox star}} ★ {{Catalogs}} ★ {{Earth radius}} ★ {{Jupiter radius}}

Pages, templates, and categories created

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    {{Navseasoncats}} ★ {{Category described in year}} ★ {{The Banstar Barnstar}} ★ {{NASTRO comment}} ★ {{Partial minor planet designation}} ★ {{Cite compare2}} ★ {{Deg2HMS}} ★ {{hub}} ★ {{Infobox supercluster}} ★ {{Solar luminosity}} ★ {{Solar radius}} ★ {{Title number}} ★ {{Lunar mass}} ★ {{Lunar radius}} ★ {{Fe/H}} ★ {{alpha/Fe}} ★ {{WikiCat topicon}} ★ {{AC with n elements}} ★ {{Aircraft navigation see also}} ★ {{Category TOC see also}} ★ {{Commons templates see also}} ★ {{Title year see also}} ★ {{List of minor planets/See also}} ★ {{Minor planet link templates/See also}}
    Bautz-Morgan classification
    Abell 133 ★ Abell 262 ★ Abell 478 ★ Abell 665 ★ Abell 907 ★ Abell 1413 ★ Abell 1795 ★ Abell 1991 ★ Abell 2390
    NGC 1721 ★ NGC 1723 ★ NGC 1725 ★ NGC 1728 ★ Pages in Category:Astronomy
    Category:Potentially hazardous asteroids
    Many, many #REDIRECTs. Mostly capitalization and typo-related, plus ~11,000 minor planet sub/stub #Rs.


Useful links & code (personal, yet public, cheat sheet)

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Astronomy related/reference material

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References

  1. ^ "Dictionary of Nomenclature of Celestial Objects". Simbad. Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg. 1 December 2014. Retrieved 18 December 2014. Avoid the usage of Cr, prefer Collinder

Other meta help/search tools

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WikiData

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Quarry/SQL

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Template parser functions, calculation, and logic (not formatting related)

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Other

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Unit conversion, notation, and special characters

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  • {{HMS2Deg|22|06|15}} →  331.5625
  • {{Deg2HMS|331.5625|p=0|sup=yes}} →  22h 6m 15s

  • {{Coord|0|-28.4375|format=dms}} →  0°00′00″N 28°26′15″W / 0°N 28.4375°W / 0; -28.4375
  • {{convert|23|Mpc|Mly|0|abbr=on|lk=on}} →  23 Mpc (75 Mly)
  • {{convert|281|+/-|90|Mpc|Mly|abbr=on|lk=on}} →  281 ± 90 Mpc (920 ± 290 Mly)

  • {{#expr: (200/6) * 2 round 3}} →  66.667
  • &#58; &#91; &#93; &#123; &#124; &#125; →  : [ ] { | }
  • - &ndash; &mdash; &amp; &sigma; &Sigma; &lambda; &Lambda; &#42; →  - – — & σ Σ λ Λ *
  • ±  ≈ ≉ ≟ ≠ ≡ ≢ ≣ ≤ ≥
≦ ≧ ≨ ≩ ≪ ≫ ≬ ≭ ≮ ≯
≰ ≱ ≲ ≳ ≴ ≵ ≶ ≷ ≸ ⋅
× ☉ ♃ ⊕ ☾

Formatting

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  • Columns:
    • {{cmn|colwidth=15em|... }} →  usually the best list-option—continuously determines how many columns best fit the page.
    • {{cmn|3|
       * some
       * bulleted
       * list
       }}       →  splits that list up dynamically(!) into 3 (forced) columns.
    • {{columns-start}} ... {{column}} ... {{columns-end}} →  for custom column-breaks
    • See {{div col}} for more variants.
  • {| cellpadding="0" style="vertical-align:top; float: right;" border="0"
     |- valign="top"
     | [[Image:blah.gif|thumb|top|300px|Caption text.]]
     | [[Image:stuff.jpg|thumb|top|300px|Things.]]
     |}     →  is an easy way to lay pictures horizontally rather than vertically.
  • {{Clear}} →  forces horizontal white space until next section, usually after a picture.
  • &nbsp; →  Non     -     Breaking     SPace. Ascii chr 160, instead of ascii 32 (typical keyboard space).
  • [[File:Santa riding a dinosaur with Jesus with a lightsaber.jpg|275px|right|thumb|Caption this]] →  inserts a variable size picture and caption text.
  • <span> ★ <div> ★ <gallery widths="300px" heights="300px"> →  (usually) prettifies things.
  • <pre style="width:50%; height:150px; overflow:scroll;"> →  Begins a scrolling list.
  • {{para|date}} →  |date=
  • {{keypress|Alt|F4}} →  Alt+F4
  • {{Sticky header}}
{| class="wikitable sortable sticky-header" ...
    →  see List of MUDs#References
  • {{hidden begin
 | title = '''Some ordered list'''
 | titlestyle = text-align:center;
 | border = 1px solid}}
{{cmn|colwidth=15em|
# some
# ordered
# list
}}
{{hidden end}}
    → 
Some ordered list
  1. some
  2. ordered
  3. list
  • <div class="template-documentation iezoomfix"> Template documentation background </div> → 
Template documentation background
  • <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext">{{demo|1=blah}}< /syntaxhighlight> → 
{{demo|1=blah}}
  • <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline>{{demo|1=blah}}< /syntaxhighlight> → 

{{demo|1=blah}}

  • <syntaxhighlight lang="logtalk" inline>{{(?:(?:[^{}]+(?:{{[^{}]+}})?[^{}]*)+)}}< /syntaxhighlight> → 

{{(?:(?:[^{}]+(?:{{[^{}]+}})?[^{}]*)+)}} (shortlist of alts based on context: bf, cadlisp, clojure, css, latex, logtalk, prolog, scheme, tcl)

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  • User:Tom.Reding#Citations & links →  links directly to subsections of an article.
  • {{Anchor|Foo}} to be used to link to [[User:Tom.Reding#Foo]]'s in-page position.
  • <span id="Simpler section title"></span> for [[User:Tom.Reding#Simpler section title]] linking when special characters are used.
  • <ref name="Reding">...</ref> ... <ref name="Reding"/> →  to name your refs for easy reref'ing later in the same article.
  • {{Refimprove|date=November 2024}} or {{Refneeded|date=November 2024}} →  use occasionally.
  • {{Citation needed|date={{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTYEAR}}}} →  use liberally.
  • {{Sky|03|28|13.8|-|20|44|40|321000000}} →  links to wikisky (not whiskey). Put after references. 321000000 = lightyears (for zoom level!).
  • {{tq}} makes nice-looking in-line talk-quotes.
  • [[Special:Diff/1]]/[[Special:Permalink/1]] →  Easy WP:PERMALINK to diffs.

Other wikicode

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  • Standardish archive settings:
{{User:MiszaBot/config
| algo                = old(366d)
| archive             = User talk:Tom.Reding/Archive %(counter)d
| counter             = 1
| maxarchivesize      = 200K
| archiveheader       = {{Automatic archive navigator}}
| minthreadstoarchive = 1
| minthreadsleft      = 4
}}
+ either {{Talk header}}, {{Archives|banner=yes}}, or similar.
  • #REDIRECT [[Tidal force]] + {{An R template}} →  to create a redirect.
  • <code><nowiki> w/e </nowiki></code>, {{tl|sometemplate}}, {{t1|blah}}, {{tlx|etc|a{{=}}1|b{{=}}2}} →  make everything above.
  • <tt><nowiki> blah </nowiki></tt> →  or this (which doesn't highlight the background).
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