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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].
This is not an [[Doom Wiki:FAQ#Why are you so anal about bad grammar / topic drift? This is just a gaming site.|encyclopedia]] article.&nbsp; If you find this page on any site other than ''<span style="white-space: nowrap"><span>&#100;&#111;&#111;&#109;</span><span>&#119;&#105;&#107;&#105;</span><span>&#46;&#111;&#114;&#103;</span></span>'', you are viewing a mirror site.&nbsp; Be aware that the page may be outdated and that the user to whom this page belongs has no personal affiliation with any such site.&nbsp; The original page is located at <span class="plainlinks" style="white-space: nowrap">[http://doomwi<!---->ki.org/wiki/{{FULLPAGENAMEE}} <span>http://do</span><!----><span>omwiki.or<!--zyxwvutsrqponmlkjihgfedcba-->g/wi</span><span>ki/{{FULLPAGENAMEE}}</span>].</span>
 
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[[Commercial games#Original PC series|Doom]] is one of the 9 most important video games ever.&nbsp; It deserves a complete reference work for posterity.&nbsp; That is why I am here.
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=== To-do list (currently being re-triaged) ===
  
This account has accumulated {{#expr:14711 + 182}} visible edits<!-- second number is other Wikia projects and Wikia meta-wikis -->, 137 deleted edits, and 3883 logged actions.&nbsp; Does that make me an influential [[:Category:Community|community]] member, a skilled FPS player, or the overlord of the wiki?&nbsp; '''''Absolutely not.'''''&nbsp; If you need Doom-related information that our articles don't provide, please click [http://www.doomworld.com/vb/doom-general/ here].
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I can sometimes be found in&nbsp; <tt><nowiki>#doomwiki</nowiki></tt>&nbsp; on [[IRC#OFTC channels|OFTC]].&nbsp; The channel was created over my objections &mdash; our decision-making is supposed to be inclusive and transparent &mdash; but now that it's here, the more users participate the better.
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=== About being an [[Doom Wiki:Administrators|administrator]] ===
  
If you need [[Help:User groups|administrator]] assistance with an issue you don't want to discuss publicly, try emailing one (most have either a personal web site or an active [[Doomworld]] account).
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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]].
  
[[User:Ryan W|Ryan W]] 22:00, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
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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.
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* '''[[User:Ryan W/Demo Manifesto|Demo Manifesto]]:''' broad concepts for my walkthrough [[Demo|LMPs]] (mostly for my own reference)
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=== Terms from Doctor Who that I overuse and probably should be reverted ===
* '''[[User:Ryan W/Maintenance|Maintenance]]:''' a longer version of the [[Entryway|"please help" list]] on Entryway (warning, horribly boring)
 
* '''[[User:Ryan W/Categorization|Categorization]]:''' some rules of thumb for keeping it complete and self-consistent
 
* '''[[User:Ryan W/Sandbox|Sandbox]]:''' for making test edits, as with {{wp|Wikipedia:Sandbox}}
 
  
=== Name origin ===
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''Season 12:''&nbsp; absorb, ampoule, carthorse, constitution, countersigned, fail-safe, ham-fisted, infirmary, subsidence
  
My first contribution to an online gaming resource was to the excellent Ice Climber walkthrough by [http://www.gamefaqs.com/features/recognition/29934.html Popo2002], who quite sensibly suggested that I be credited under a handle.&nbsp; I named myself after the chap who graciously lent me Ice Climber (and many of its godawful NES contemporaries) at a time when I was completely broke and couldn't even afford weekend rentals.&nbsp; In addition to uncounted hours of AD&D and tokusatsu LARPing, he was also my introduction to combinatorics, Dire Straits, and the Ninja Turtles (not bad, eh?).&nbsp; He eventually went off to the [[wikipedia:Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art|Joe Kubert School]] and I don't know what happened to him, but I hope he is still alive and creating things.
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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? -->
  
Anyway, before all that, we were in [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=First_grade&oldid=78462956 first grade] together and he was never called "Ryan", but always "Ryan W", because there was another Ryan in the class as well.
 
  
  
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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)