User:Harvestman

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RDman

Good morning!

Have a god time editing your world's beauties!

DLL

The packice zone fluctuating throughout the year.

Wikipedia itself often showcases pages like Islam and terrorism as examples of high quality articles, and in truth they are. But those pages have acquired the greatest scrutiny because there are opposing stakeholders ...

The NeutralPointOfView desperately hinges on the very point that no one disagrees with the text, and thus if that bar for disagreement is very low (as in no one cares) then the page will remain low quality.

Meatball Wiki, November 17, 2004

Thanks

To all who expressed support for my ArbCom candidacy or opposed, stating, or not, reasons. I'll edit mercilessly and contribute thinking of you.

Holi of the days - - I'm on vacation soon. please post only if you'll wait 1 month, thanks (4th of July - > beginnin' August). I'm +/- on vacation. Now I'm back (to RDs).

Best man of the day : Bob Ney's wig maker. (as of 25 May).

Fact of the day - User contributions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia sez that : "23:17, 18 May 2006 (hist) (diff) Wikipedia:Reference desk/Mathematics (→Theorem Problem - ianage)" is my thousandth contrib. Champagne! And also, I am not a geometry expert.

Subject of the last month - I launched a "WP million survey" with great success - see subpage.

Subject of the laaast month - I wrote to a dozen people about it ... "Are you aware of this Wikipedia talk:Censorship ?"

Picture of the day

The mangosteen (Garcinia mangostana) is a tropical evergreen tree with edible fruit native to Maritime Southeast Asia, from the Malay Peninsula to Borneo. It is grown mainly in Southeast Asia, southwest India, and other tropical areas such as Colombia, Puerto Rico and Florida, where the tree has been introduced. The fruit is sweet and tangy, juicy, somewhat fibrous, with fluid-filled vesicles (like the flesh of citrus fruits), with an inedible, deep reddish-purple colored rind (exocarp) when ripe. In each fruit, the fragrant edible white flesh that surrounds each seed is the endocarp, the inner layer of the ovary, and is roughly the same shape and size as a tangerine, about 4 to 6 centimetres (1.5 to 2.5 inches) in diameter. This photograph, which was focus-stacked from 22 individual images, shows two mangosteens, one whole, and the other halved to expose the endocarp.Photograph credit: Ivar Leidus

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Ha ! Harvestman here helps hosting hundreds o’highly, horrific, hastily hewn histories. And aims at an awkward appreciated approach at avery awful affair, acknowledging an absurd ardor (ask : Ada_or_Ardor).

Last news (SW ents Al) : A daffodil slid off Ada.

I’m french with interests in computer science, language, beauty and – coherence.

Wish us all success in designing a knowledge world that the world deserves.

Homework

Tools

WP million survey

My subpage

My boxes

How is made a wiki ?

what I discovered with WP

Great_Vowel_Shift

"The Great Vowel Shift was a major change in the pronunciation of the English language, generally accomplished in the 15th century, although evidence suggests it began as early as the 14th century." And : Grimm's law. Too much!

Great Awakening

"Great Awakenings are commonly said to be periods of religious revival in Anglo-American religious history. They have also been described as periodic revolutions in American religious thought. The Great Awakenings appear to form a cycle, with a period of roughly 80 years."

List of Great articles ...

Great Britain * Great Lakes * Great Depression * Great Bittern * Great Bowerbird * Great Cormorant * Great Dane * Great Egret * Great Shearwater * Great Snipe * Great Tit bird * The Great Escape * The Great Gatsby * The Great One * Great Purge * Great circle * Great Migration * Old Great Bulgaria

Form constant

"Klüver noticed that mescaline produced recurring geometric patterns in different users. He called these patterns 'form constants' and categorized four types: lattices (including honeycombs, checkerboards, and triangles), cobwebs, tunnels, and spirals."

Dark energy

"In cosmology, dark energy is a hypothetical form of energy which permeates all of space and has strong negative pressure. According to the theory of relativity, the effect of such a negative pressure is qualitatively similar to a force acting in opposition to gravity at large scales."

Families of flowering plants

The most diverse families of flowering plants, in order of number of species, are:

Asteraceae or Compositae (Daisy family): 26,000 species
Orchidaceae (Orchid family): 20,000 (possibly 30,000)
Fabaceae or Leguminosae (Pea family): 17,000
Poaceae or Gramineae (Grass family): 9,000
Rubiaceae (Madder family): 7,000
Euphorbiaceae (Spurge family): 5,000
Malvaceae (Mallow family): 4,300
Cyperaceae (Sedge family): 4,000

In the list above (showing only the 8 largest families), the Orchidaceae, Poaceae, and Cyperaceae are monocot families; the others are dicot families. The total number of families in the flowering plants is over 460. There are around 95,000 species also.

Did not discover but checked with pleasure

Art: Da Vinci's painting; Narnia

Tech: Spreadsheet; HTML

People: Eco; Gödel; Tolkien; Beatles; Cavanna ^[1]

Oh ... what about unbulleted lists ?

Help:List - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
; Term 1 : Definition 1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:List

^ Cavanna was my first (stub) creation.

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Tip of the day...

Finding stubs and making them grow

A stub is an article that provides at least a basic definition but does not go much beyond it. It may not be the perfect article yet, but each stub should have the potential to become one. See Wikipedia:Find or fix a stub for ways to locate stubs. For example, click what links here on that same page, or on Template:Stub (the stub notice).

Still not enough stubs? Then try Wikipedia:Requests for page expansion, or set the threshold for stub display in your user Preferences. That option sets a number of characters threshold value. Links to articles with fewer characters are shown in dark red. This makes it very easy to spot stubs. If the stub notice is a generic notice consider sorting the stub into a stub category.

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