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<table><tr><td>[[File:Red information icon with gradient background.svg|40px]]</td><td style="padding: 0 5px">If you came here because you are '''PISSED OFF''' about my admin actions or my edits, good.&nbsp; [https://doomwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Doom_Wiki:Central_Processing&action=edit&section=new&preloadtitle=Ryan+W+is+an+asshole Click here] to request sanctions.</td></tr></table></div>
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This wiki has outgrown me over the years, and I'm uncertain how I can help.&nbsp; I am neither part of the Doom community nor a competent FPS player; mostly I've organized and summarized research by others.&nbsp; Let's also remember that Wikia's maintenance is my fault &mdash; note the timestamps [https://doomwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=delete&user=&page=30%2C000_Levels&year=&month=-1&tagfilter=] [https://doomwiki.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Ryan_W&oldid=79253#30.2C000_Levels] [http://community.wikia.com/index.php?title=Forum%3AAR%3AAdoption_request_for_Doom_Wiki&action=history&year=2012&month=-1&tagfilter=].&nbsp; At the very least, if you have a general question, try [https://doomwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Doom_Wiki:Central_Processing&action=edit&section=new here] or [https://www.doomworld.com/forum/1-doom-general/ here].
  
I am an administrator on this wiki; you can [http://doom.wikia.com/index.php?title=User_talk:Ryan_W&action=edit&section=new leave me a message] if you want help with one of the specialized tasks that administrators do ([[Doom Wiki:Administrators|basic list]]; [[m:Help:User_rights|pedantic list]]).&nbsp; Be aware however that such edits can cause arguments, and are more difficult to undo than normal edits, so please come with evidence that a real disruption is occurring.
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=== To-do list (currently being re-triaged) ===
  
As an editor, I devote the vast majority of my energy to gameplay-related articles: [[Levels|walkthroughs]], [[Thing types|Things]], [[Status bar face|animations]], and so forth.&nbsp; This is making a virtue of necessity, as I know nothing about the [[Doom engine]] and even less about the [[:Category:Community|community]]'s history.&nbsp; (The [[source port]] programmers in attendance are remarkably patient with my inexplicable [[Talk:Bugs#Bugs not in this list|bug]] obsession.)&nbsp; I also believe that in order to be "[[Doom Wiki:Policies and guidelines#Format of the wiki|encyclopedic]]", articles of similar purpose should be organized and formatted similarly; my edit count is therefore perpetually [[Wikipedia:Frequency domain|inflated]] by such things as changing ''Stim packs'' to ''Stimpacks'' on every walkthrough page.
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=== About being an [[Doom Wiki:Administrators|administrator]] ===
  
* '''''[[User:Ryan W/Ryan W|Origin of the name "Ryan W"]]'''''
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[[User talk:Ryan W/2007#Sysop|In 2007]], this was purely a technical position.&nbsp; I was permitted to do obvious and tedious tasks (deleting someone's vacation photos, cleaning up my test templates, banning neo-Nazis) without filing paperwork each time.&nbsp; In return, if I didn't comprehend some of my new tools, I was expected to ask for help before [[Doom Wiki:Central Processing/2014#Misuse of Interwiki extension|breaking anything]].
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Doom is important because it has...
 
  
* first and foremost been a powerful experience as judged by ''individual'' gamers, an all-time classic.&nbsp; Once played, it is never forgotten, no matter how jaded you thought you were already.&nbsp; ''(Other examples: The Legend of Zelda, Planescape: Torment.)''
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Since the {{dwforums|id=52973|title=fork}}, its meaning has changed to be more like a forum mod: enforcing an overall project "vision" above and beyond stated consensus, teaching new users about contributing, maintaining relationships with the rest of the internet.&nbsp; I don't believe I'm at all qualified for these, and I certainly don't meet [[Doom Wiki:Central Processing/2015#Openings for new admins|the criteria]] from the most recent thread.&nbsp; As of July 2017, I think I'm doing a VERY VERY SMALL amount of good (spam, page moves, system message typos), but obviously I could be wrong.
* sold a lot of units.&nbsp; ''(Final Fantasy VII, Space Invaders.)''
 
* immense replay value when its players are also programmers, because it can be forked.&nbsp; ''(Angband, ADVENT.)''
 
* immense replay value for everybody else too, because custom scenarios can be designed and distributed in a straightforward way.&nbsp; ''(Counterstrike, Bolo.)''
 
* had overwhelming crossover success, where "overwhelming" means that it was received enthusiastically by people who did not think of themselves as gamers, by people whose friends were not gamers, by people whose parents were surprised to learn that they had bought their first console or graphics card.&nbsp; ''(Pac-Man, Madden 99.&nbsp; This is the phenomenon I had in mind when I said that I had listed the eight most significant titles of all time.)''
 
  
What other game is all five of these things?&nbsp; How about four?&nbsp; I can only think of a few with three.&nbsp; No wonder it needs its own encyclopedia (and deservedly so).
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=== Terms from Doctor Who that I overuse and probably should be reverted ===
  
My qualifications for contributing to this project include:
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''Season 12:''&nbsp; absorb, ampoule, carthorse, constitution, countersigned, fail-safe, ham-fisted, infirmary, subsidence
  
# Being geographically isolated from all my friends, who are therefore less able to persuade me that my free time ought to be spent constructively.
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''Season 18:''&nbsp; annihilation/annihilate, anomaly/anomalous, anticlockwise, automatically, calcified, cheeseboard, consul, dodecahedron, enquiries, hysteresis/hysteretic, nexus, out of phase, wild catastrophe<!-- Jeez, a vocabulary of 4000+ words!  Or was Chris Bidmead just putting himself in the shop window, assuming he'd be fired halfway through? -->
# That faint streak of autism which allows me to look at a map and immediately yell, [[E1M1: Hangar (Doom)#Things|"Hey, where'd the potion go?"]]
 
# A relationship with Doom/Doom II so intense and longstanding (in gaming terms) that it has affected the way I see the world, above and beyond gaming in general.&nbsp; <s>My maps and notes from Ultimate Doom, D!zone 150, and the first part of Maximum Doom are on my living room wall, and I still look at them every day.</s>&nbsp;&nbsp; <small>(Heh, my new apartment is too small for this.&nbsp; But you see my point, I hope.)</small>
 
# Apparently, a certain facility for actually <i>writing</i> about games after I've played them.&nbsp; The following e-mail has to do with my being recruited as a beta tester for a Macintosh program called Technical Snapshot 2.0:
 
  
    > I must report that my regular access to computing spaces is ending today and
 
    > may not resume for several years, so you may as well cancel any future pieces of
 
    > electronic mail which may have been in store for me.
 
   
 
    I am very sorry to hear that. The world of computing will be a little
 
    more quiet and a little less polished without your voice. I hope that
 
    you are able to gain access again in the near future, and that such
 
    access will be on a Macintosh. Thanks for your help and critical eye.
 
   
 
    Sincerely,
 
   
 
    David Cook
 
    Storm Impact, Inc.
 
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=== Milestones in my wiki career ===
 
  
* 2005 June 08:&nbsp; First engine crash in a source port while doing wiki research.
 
* 2005 November 16:&nbsp; Reading [http://doom.wikicities.com/index.php?title=Barrel_explosions_which_do_no_damage_at_point-blank_range&oldid=14903 a one-sentence stub] and thinking, "Wait a minute, did *I* write that?&nbsp; No, that couldn't be; it sounds way too confident."
 
* 2006 January 18:&nbsp; [[User talk:24.21.89.189|Spraying Drano on an anon user.]]
 
* 2006 January 19:&nbsp; [[Doom_Wiki:Central_Processing#Custom_Search_Icon.3F|Offering driving directions around campus.]]
 
* 2006 January 30:&nbsp; [[How to download and run Doom|First new article from scratch]] (the others were all abridged Wikipedia material, one-sentence bug reports, or essentially non-textual infrastructure).
 
* 2006 February 14:&nbsp; Taking screen shots for [[E1M2: Nuclear Plant (Doom)#Areas / screenshots|E1M2: Nuclear Plant]] means that I have now used a double-digit number of versions/ports.
 
* 2006 February 24:&nbsp; Watching an entire demo on the automap.
 
* 2006 September 13:&nbsp; Dreaming about preview pages.
 
* 2006 November 05:&nbsp; While taking notes that no one else will ever read, discovering that I am calling the Doom monsters by their type names from the [[Doom source code|source code]].
 
* 2006 November 25:&nbsp; User: and User talk: pages vandalized for the first time.
 
* 2007 January 10:&nbsp; I actually know the largest number of edits I have ever made in one 24-hour period.<!-- 753, while implementing the map article disambiguation thing. -->
 
* 2007 January 16:&nbsp; First instance of typing a URL by hand which contained "index.php".
 
* 2007 June 05:&nbsp; *sigh*&nbsp;&nbsp; First instance of clicking the block link ''before'' the diff link on [[Special:Recentchanges]] (I did look at the edit before I actually pulled the trigger).
 
* 2007 August 25:&nbsp; First piece of obscure technical research that has (apparently!) never been done before.
 
* 2007 September 19:&nbsp; First known occasion of reading a talk page post by someone I've met IRL.
 
* 2007 November 13:&nbsp; Made a low-level adjustment to a computer so that Doom would run more smoothly, whereas it is not my computer and its owner probably would have objected to the installation of a game.
 
* 2008 January 17:&nbsp; Not only do I know the largest number of edits I have ever made in one 24-hour period, but it is a number which is considered [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Fredrik&oldid=86103911 totally ridiculous] on Wikipedia.<!-- 1,720, while retagging every image file into more careful licensing categories. -->
 
  
=== Actual money I've spent on this project (in U.S. dollars) ===
 
 
* 2005 September 30:&nbsp; $0.99 plus $6.00 shipping for a vanilla copy of Doom II v1.666.&nbsp; (The Doom II disc from Depths of Doom, which I bought new, was DOA.)
 
* 2006 February 06:&nbsp; $0.26 for a CD-R to bring home most of the COMPET-N archive.
 
* 2006 September 21:&nbsp; $1.29 plus $3.95 shipping for a copy of the Doom movie.
 
  
=== Articles that bring out my unhealthy maternalistic instincts ===
 
  
* [[Knee-Deep in the Dead]] and its maps
 
* [[Doom Wiki:Policies and guidelines]]
 
* [[How to download and run Doom]]
 
* [[Doom]], [[Doom II]]
 
* [[Weapons]], [[Monsters]]
 
* [[Speedrun]] and its styles
 
* [[Games]], [[Source ports]]
 
* To a lesser extent, every article linked [[Bugs|here]] and in [[Thing types|these tables]]
 
  
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Red information icon with gradient background.svgIf you came here because you are PISSED OFF about my admin actions or my edits, good.  Click here to request sanctions.



This wiki has outgrown me over the years, and I'm uncertain how I can help.  I am neither part of the Doom community nor a competent FPS player; mostly I've organized and summarized research by others.  Let's also remember that Wikia's maintenance is my fault — note the timestamps [1] [2] [3].  At the very least, if you have a general question, try here or here.

To-do list (currently being re-triaged)

About being an administrator

In 2007, this was purely a technical position.  I was permitted to do obvious and tedious tasks (deleting someone's vacation photos, cleaning up my test templates, banning neo-Nazis) without filing paperwork each time.  In return, if I didn't comprehend some of my new tools, I was expected to ask for help before breaking anything.

Since the fork, its meaning has changed to be more like a forum mod: enforcing an overall project "vision" above and beyond stated consensus, teaching new users about contributing, maintaining relationships with the rest of the internet.  I don't believe I'm at all qualified for these, and I certainly don't meet the criteria from the most recent thread.  As of July 2017, I think I'm doing a VERY VERY SMALL amount of good (spam, page moves, system message typos), but obviously I could be wrong.

Terms from Doctor Who that I overuse and probably should be reverted

Season 12:  absorb, ampoule, carthorse, constitution, countersigned, fail-safe, ham-fisted, infirmary, subsidence

Season 18:  annihilation/annihilate, anomaly/anomalous, anticlockwise, automatically, calcified, cheeseboard, consul, dodecahedron, enquiries, hysteresis/hysteretic, nexus, out of phase, wild catastrophe







Alternate accounts for testing display/config stuff and MediaWiki upgrades:





This is a Doom Wiki user page.

This is not an encyclopedia article.  If you find this page on any site other than doomwiki.org, you are viewing a mirror site.  Be aware that the page may be outdated and that the user to whom this page belongs has no personal affiliation with any such site.  The original page is located at https://doomwiki.org/wiki/User:Ryan_W.


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For doing a lot of work on various articles that I would personally find very repetative to do personally. (All I see in recent changes at times are your edits) Thank you. TheDarkArchon 02:35, 28 January 2007 (UTC)