User:BadCatMan

About me
Hello, I joined Wikia in August, 2010. I'm knowledgeable and am a fan of Doctor Who, Forgotten Realms, and Star Trek. Relevant to writing and editing here, I write fiction, enjoy play-by-post role-playing, I've written a whole damn thesis, and now work as a technical editor of scientific papers. You can also find me on the Star Trek wikia Memory Beta.

I'm a Forgotten Realms Wiki administrator and bureaucrat, focusing on tidying things up, copy-editing and rehabilitating pages, and hacking up code and templates. I'm also master of the UnseenServantBot for automated edits.

My projects: (User:BadCatMan/Projects)

Content: In no particular order, special projects of mine, things that pertain to my games, or topic I've been curious about or decided to complete while polishing a page.
 * The Vast: Procampur and everything else you could know about it. Just Tantras to go. I won't be covering Ravens Bluff or Brikklext at this stage.
 * Wheloon — complete!
 * Chessenta: Only the Thulbanian Games so far.
 * Uzurr
 * Elgath's Provisions
 * Lathery and Veridon
 * Seven Suns Trading Coster
 * Gundarlun, another one I cleaned up and decided to complete. Might as well while I'm there.
 * Larloch, Warlock's Crypt, and so on.
 * Shadow magic
 * Gods: Isakkhu, Khass, Murdane, Ilmater and the Church of Ilmater.
 * The Order of St. Dionysus
 * Dungeon magazine 75, "Into the Nest of Vipers" — complete!
 * Realms of Valor, "Patronage", "Dark Mirror"
 * Comics: "The Gathering" onwards
 * Ilbratha
 * Alusair Nacacia Obarskyr
 * Dabron Sashenstar
 * Mlarraun, worg, kastighur, tressym
 * Stuff that pertains to my games.
 * Lots of related and other stuff, including rewrites of copied articles.

Wiki work:
 * The Main Page
 * Template:DidYouKnow — a weekly "Did you know...?" feature for the main page, featuring Realmslore from new articles.
 * Template:Featured article and Template:Featured source — for recording and presenting featured articles on the main page.
 * User:BadCatMan/Featured image — for presenting featured images on the main page. Became Template:Featured image with User:Moviesign.
 * Template:Item — Updated with edition-specific and other parameters.
 * Overhauling and updating the help pages (begun).
 * General clean-up, maintenance, and technical editing of articles.

Current and Ongoing: I'm currently trying to work through some remaining notes of old projects, to get some stuff finished up before embarking on new things.
 * Wrapping up Ilmater/Church of Ilmater notes: Disciples of St. Sollars the Twice-Martyred and so on.
 * Tantras: still need to cover Tantras (novel) and Tantras (adventure).
 * Alusair Nacacia Obarskyr
 * Finish indexing Darkwalker on Moonshae
 * Recreating and rewriting the years pages from The Grand History of the Realms
 * Completed to 1249 DR, 1300 DR to 1366 DR
 * To do: 1250 DR to 1299 DR; 1367 DR onwards

I don't like 4th Edition, and I don't like post-Spellplague Realms (blegh!) and events leading up to it, so I won't be working on anything related to it. Except where I need to. I also know nothing about the 5th Edition Realms or the new games.

Currently reading in the Realms: The Best of the Realms III by Elaine Cunningham (intermittently)

Bookmarks

 * Stuff:
 * Special:AdminDashboard
 * Category:Citation templates
 * w:c:forgottenrealms
 * Forgotten Realms Wiki:Requests
 * Special:Insights/popularpages
 * Wikia Activity Monitor


 * To do:
 * Category:Plagiarized articles
 * Special:UnusedFiles
 * Special:UncategorizedFiles
 * Category:Images with no source


 * MediaWiki widgets
 * MediaWiki:Edittools
 * MediaWiki:Sidebar


 * CSS:
 * MediaWiki:Wikia.css
 * MediaWiki:Common.css
 * User:BadCatMan/monobook REMOVE.css / User:BadCatMan/monobook.css (switch between the two)

Sandbox & Links

 * User:BadCatMan/Sandbox
 * User:BadCatMan/Sandbox Number 2
 * User:BadCatMan/AdminLaboratory
 * User:BadCatMan/Merge1
 * User:BadCatMan/Main Page, User:BadCatMan/Main Page/design User:BadCatMan/Main Page/design-sepia
 * User:BadCatMan/Main Page 2015, User:BadCatMan/Main Page 2015/noboxes, User:BadCatMan/Main Page 2015/spread, User:BadCatMan/Main Page 2015/banner
 * User:BadCatMan/day list
 * User:BadCatMan/Forgotten Realms Wiki history
 * User:BadCatMan/Forum:Index attempt
 * User:BadCatMan/Wikipedia-update