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==Stuff About Which You Will No Doubt Care Deeply==
This garish fellow to the right is sort of (but not quite) the genesis of the monniker "Extreme Unction."
Our story begins in an episode of Blackadder. It's the one in the 2nd series, where Edmund Blackadder is under threat of Buggery with a red-hot poker for owing the Church a large sum of money. He mentions to the Baby Eating Bishop of Bath and Wells that he (Blackadder) had seen the Bishop ''in flagrente delicto'' with some nubile young maiden. The Bishop responds "I was performing extreme unction."
I thought that was pretty funny.
Years later, I found myself playing the City_of_Heroes MMORPG. One of the troubles with City of Heroes is that all of the good names are taken. It's hard to find a decently superheroic name for your characters. And after I created the hulking suit of armor in the picture to the right, I spent a good hour trying to find a name for him.
AND THEN!
LIKE A BOLT FROM THE BLUE!
I heard the words "Extreme Unction" in my head. And lo, I had a name.
Note that, through all of the foregoing, I had no clue whatsoever what "Extreme Unction" really was. I'm not Catholic, and my knowledge of Catholic rituals is miniscule. I've since found out that it's (and forgive me if I have this wrong – I'm not Catholic, as I mentioned) basically a prayer for the sick and dying, and is often administered as the "last rites". Or maybe it ''is'' the "last rites," I dunno.
So anyhow, there you have it.
==Factionalism and Other Meta-Wiki Issues==
"University politics are so vicious precisely because the stakes are so small." ''--Henry Kissinger''
"You cannot reason someone out of something they didn't reason themselves into in the first place." ''--Aphorism from an unknown source''
The Second_Law_of_Thermodynamics applies to social systems as well as to physical ones. The same is true for Gresham's_Law.
Each of us in life have our own respective talents. There are areas where we flounder, but there are also areas in which we excel. Some people have a talent for nurturing the tiny acorn, tending it with loving care, and helping it grow into a mighty oak. That is their talent, and where their skills lie.
I, on the other hand, have a talent for chainsawing the rotten branches that are drooping dangerously over the power lines and removing them in a safe and expeditious manner. This is where my skills lie, and this is what I have (metaphorically) been doing for a living for almost a decade.
You may think of me as a Mergist with strong Deletionist tendencies, or a Deletionist with strong Mergist tendencies. Either is probably accurate. As I outline in my comments in Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/The_E, an AfD nomination is not necessarily an indication that the information contained within the article absolutely does not need to be within Wikipedia. Yes, sometimes it does mean that. But other times, it simply means that the information in the article doesn't warrant a seperate article. I have merged several articles into larger articles, and will continue to do so during my tenure here.
I am also not an exclusionist, and feel that there is room for many articles within Wikipedia that would not fit within a paper encyclopedia. In-depth articles about fictional characters are fine by me, for example, as are many (though not all) lists.
==Articles (And Other Miscellany) Which I Have Created From Whole Cloth, Or Have Revised In A Sufficiently Extensive Manner That I Might As Well Have Created Them==
These are articles that I have edited or revised based on my interest in the topics in question. Eventually, this space will be filled with many Beer articles.
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|Charlie_Papazian
|Sector_General
|Retief
|Landshark
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|Adjunct_(beer)
|Smoked_beer
|Template:Cat-stub
|Nanofiction
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|Leo_Gallagher
|Timna_valley
|Deadlands
|Deadlands:_Hell_on_Earth
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|Deadlands:_Lost_Colony
|By_the_Tree
|Industrial_Monk
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==RC Patrol==
===Articles (and Other Miscellany) Which I Have Wikified and Hopefully Improved, Despite Not Knowing A Damn Thing About the Subject Other Than What Can Be Discovered Via Google===
These, generally, have been new articles, created by possibly inexperienced Wiki editors, which I discovered while on RC Patrol. They often suffer from poor formating and little, if any, wikification. Putting fingers to keyboard, I strode boldly forth, Googled on the topic, and provided such insight as I could, in the hopes that someone much smarter than me might come along later and expand the topic.
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|Mumford_the_Magician
|Yoginder_Sikand
|Lurex
|River_Stort
|Collision_hull
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|Stradivari_Society
|Katholische_Hofkirche
|I_Write_What_I_Like
|Königsallee
|San_Fernando,_Chile
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===Articles Which I Have Merged Into Larger Articles, Rather Than Giving In To My Initial Urge To Simply Drop Them In AfD===
In some cases, editors have, for reasons of their own, unmerged these articles back to their pre-merge state. But at least I made the effort.
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|Grand_Tuhon (→ Pekiti_Tirsia_Kali)
|Callahan_Award (→ Ultimate_Players_Association)
|Mantisaur (→ Hordak)
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|Tugars (→ The_Lost_Regiment)
|Florence_and_Robert_Zuck_Arboretum (→ Drew_University)
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==Kudos, Attaboys, and Other Accolades From My Fellow Wikipedians==
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|Image:Barnstar3.png (and other AfD nomations). howcheng [ t c w '''''e''''' ] 17:07, 11 November 2005 (UTC)]]
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|{{award|image=WMBarnstar.png|text=For being such a hard worker, you are awarded this Working Man's
Barnstar by me, Nlu. --Nlu 16:34, 6 December 2005 (UTC)}}
|Image:Cool_as_a_cucumber.PNG '''t '''e''' 23:22, 10 December 2005 (UTC) ]]
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==Tables for Pharaoh, For My Inevitable Expansion of Said Article==
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|+The missions
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! Rank || Peaceful assignment || Military assignment
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| rowspan=3| Village Elder
| colspan=2 align="center"| Nubt (Naqada)
|-
| colspan=2 align="center"| Thinis
|-
| colspan=2 align="center"| Perwadjyt (Buto)
|-
| rowspan=2| Village Noble
| colspan=2 align="center"| Nekhen (Hierakonpolis)
|-
| colspan=2 align="center"| Men-nefer (Memphis)
|-
| rowspan=2| Royal Scholar
| colspan=2 align="center"| Timna
|-
|Abedju (Abydos)
|Behdet (Apollinopolis)
|-
| Royal Scribe
| Abu (Elephantine)
| Selima_Oasis
|-
| Royal Judge
| colspan=2 align="center"| Saqqara
|-
| rowspan=2| Royal Mayor
| Meidum
| Serabit Khadim
|-
| South Dahshur
| Buhen
|-
| rowspan=4| Royal Governor
| colspan=2 align="center"| North Dahshur
|-
| On (Heliopolis)
| Iunet (Dendera)
|-
| colspan=2 align="center"| Rostja (Giza)
|-
| Djedu (Abusir)
| Bahariya_Oasis
|-
| Nomarch
| -
| -
|-
| Chancellor
| Dakhla Oasis
| Dunqul_Oasis
|-
| rowspan=2| Vizier
| Waset (Thebes)
| Thinis
|-
| Menat Khufu (Beni Hassan)
| Kebet (Coptos)
|-
| rowspan=6| Pharaoh
| colspan=2 align="center"| Itjtawy
|-
| Sawu (Mersa Gawasis)
| Iken (Mirgissa)
|-
| Bubastis
| Heh (Semna)
|-
| Sauty (Lykopolis)
| Khmun (Hermopolis)
|-
| Baki (Kuban)
| Byblos
|-
| Hetepsenusret (Kahun)
| Rowarty (Avaris)
|}
{| border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"
|+The missions
|-
! Mission || Location || Rank
|-
| Thutmose in the Valley
| Deir el-Medina
| Royal Mayor
|-
| Tut in the Valley
| Deir el-Medina
| Royal Governor
|-
| Seti in the Valley
| Deir el-Medina
| Royal Governor
|-
| Sumur
| Zemar (Sumur)
| Royal Governor
|-
| Qadesh
| Kadesh
| Pharaoh
|-
| Abu Simbel
| Abu_Simbel
| Royal Mayor
|-
| Ramses in the Valley
| Deir el-Medina
| Royal Governor
|-
| Pi-Yer
| Pi-Yer
| Royal Judge
|-
| Migdol (Pelusium)
| Pelusium
| Royal Mayor
|-
| Tanis
| Tanis
| Royal Governor
|-
| Alexandria
| Alexandria
| Royal Mayor
|-
| Ptolemy's Alexandria
| Alexandria
| Pharaoh
|}