User:Professor Fiendish

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ATTENTION! Be warned that there is a high probability that if you read this page, the only thing that you can print out from your printer is the lyrics to "O Solo Mio".

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This user is a member of the Association of Wikipedians Who Dislike Making Broad Judgments About the Worthiness of a General Category of Article, and Who Are in Favor of the Deletion of Some Particularly Bad Articles, but That Doesn't Mean They Are Deletionists AWWDMBJAWGCAWAIFDSPBATDMTAD Est omnino difficile iudicare inclusionis meritum cuiusdam rei in encyclopædia cum ratio sciendi quid populi referat incerta sit, sed nihilominus aliquid encyclopædiam dedecet It is generally difficult to judge the worthiness of a particular topic for inclusion in an encyclopedia considering that there is no certain way to know what interests people, but some topics nevertheless are not fit for an encyclopedia. This motto reflects the desire of these Wikipedians to be reluctant, but not entirely unwilling, to remove articles from Wikipedia.

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enThis user is a native speaker of the English language.

zh該用戶的母語是中文。
该用户的母语是中文。

fr-3Cet utilisateur peut contribuer avec un niveau avancé de français.

it-1Quest'utente può contribuire con un livello semplice di italiano.

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This user has been on Wikipedia for 15 years, 3 months and 23 days.

This user has an alternative account named Minkovskij.

This user tries to do the right thing. If they make a mistake, please let them know.

Go slowly insane as you sit and stare...

* "Mediawiki. It's free! You can run it on your laptop, and you can run the 4th most popular website in the world with it. It's joyful and delicious! It likes ponies!" – Jimbo, completely sober on his talk page

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I took my username from the guy in the Murderous Maths books. There, I've also fixed some things, most notably in the redesigning section. If you're interested, you may want to take a look at the www.murderousmaths.co.uk website.

I'm not really a professor, but plan to be one someday!

I'll confess: I am a Wikicat. But unlike most others, I can at least stay away from editing for some time...which I will, after just three more edits...no, four more...six more...eight more...twelve more...forty-two more...

"While the light of humanity may flicker and die, we go gently into this dark night, comforted in the knowledge that someday Wikipedia shall take its rightful place as part of a consensus-built Galactic Encyclopedia open to all sentient beings." - Jimmy Wales

Unlike some people I know, I have a sense of humour. I once posted a hilariously overexpanded welcome message to someone at Talk:Vanda Miss Joaquim. One may still see the original there. For an updatable version, please go to /Welcome message.

If you use toolserver, you may find out about something. If you're anxious to know what it is, look at /Admin checker gone wrong.

UPDATE: I moved /Admin checker gone wrong to /Silly software puns because I want to add more jokes.

Frank Sinatra is the best singer ever See WP:NPOV, guy.

I felt a bit down when my first running of Lupin went awry. Oh well.

My LaTex skills are fine, but not great. If I do make a mistake feel free to fix it!

Hey, did you know that you can create blank section headers? See Talk:Nothing#.

I like polyhedra and hyperbolic geometry.

Subpages

1. /Sandbox -1
2. /Sandbox 0
3. /Sandbox 1
4. /Sandbox 2
5. /Guestbook
6. /Welcome message
7. /monobook.js
8. /Silly software puns
9. /How to visualise 4D polytopes
10. /Polyhedra
11. /Star polyhedra
12. /wikimoodtemplates
13. /Polyhedron information
14. /Uniform polyhedra
15. /Elementary proof of FLT
16. /A really important thing that I must tell you immediately about the imminent destruction of Earth by a wandering asteroid, size of Russia, to impact in twenty seconds before we meet our inevitable doom

Something for bored editors

You could try to figure out what the "M." in my signature stands for! Click this link and you will find many obfuscated links behind a blue background. Your challenge is to find the only link that escapes.

The list is here:

1. Professor Fiendish
2. OlEnglish
3. Cureden
4. TheoloJ

Secret page contest

I have a secret page. Can you find it?

(editage) It looks like this one is quite hard.

(further editage) That's well hidden!

Now you know how to make blank section headers.

My favourite quote

• "Mediawiki. It's free! You can run it on your laptop, and you can run the 4th most popular website in the world with it. It's joyful and delicious! It likes ponies!" – Jimbo, completely sober on his talk page -Jimmy Wales

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

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I don't like to talk about this...

1. I think that was a big lapse, see top.
2. Not again!