User talk:Tommyaweosme/Archives/January to may

rember to sign all your posts with ~~~~ please! now be is enjoy my talk page.

regarding your userspace rules

Welcome to the wiki! Ten days ago, dvgrn (the only moderator who actively watches over us) made a post recently, comparing your userspace's prolific growth to the Mikipedia debacle scandal kerfuffle ordeal incident (in which off-topic pages that had been created, scattered throughout various contributor's userpages, detailing non-CA-related humorously nonsensical things, received an uptick in activity after lying dormant for several years, cluttered the recent changes and were consequently banished to their own wikia), and suggesting that the same fate might lie in store for you if you do not realise the error of your ways. However, in typical moderatoresque manner, he has deigned not to message you himself, suggesting that another ought to do so instead, so I have risen to the task.

However, I also wanted to note an idea, that you could use apgsearch (which is not too difficult to use with Catagolue), ikpx2 (similar in ease of use, albeit with the rule specified by entering it to the ./recompile.sh command each time you change it, and also uploading to Catagolue by default) or qfind (which only works for orthogonal spaceships but, if run to completion, provides a disproof of the existence of spaceships at the specified speed, period and width, enabling the creation of tables and collections), which would give you more to write about each rule and let you flesh out your existing articles somewhat before moving on.

Speaking of which, I hope it is okay that I've added a table of spaceships by width to maze vs chaos. (Often, pages are created in userspaces with the intention that they be eventually moved to the mainspace (which generally is not allowed to be done by the author for fear of bias in determining their notability), and in that case, the table would be in a separate page, in the manner of the Spaceship Search Status Page for Life.)

(By the way, in replying, use a : at the beginning of each line, so nested replies can be seen by indentation levels.) DroneBetter (talk) 22:19, 17 March 2024 (UTC)

im on chrome os so i have access to absolutely no search engines (as of now). all of my pages have a lowercase vibe too, so i usually go through and edit them to be lowercase when you edit userpage. but: if you want me to, i can pack up all my rules and transfer them into a google docs. it will be a long process, but recent changes will be free. i will link to the google docs upon request. it will be commentable so you can suggest edits. tommyaweosme (talk to me my rules) 00:30, 19 March 2024 (UTC)

A little bit of clarification of DroneBetter's description of my post: I didn't actually suggest any fate that "might lie in store" for these userspace pages. The relevant part was

I've been keeping an eye on tommyaweosme's edits to see if they are going to become a bigger problem. So far the Mikipedia-like stuff has been confined to User:Tommyaweosme and hasn't shown any sign of becoming a spreading plague like the Mikipedia idea turned out to be.

Now, it's true that the LifeWiki's purpose is to document CA-related information that is of interest to the community in general. It's not so much intended for storing large volumes of individual research efforts.

If pages like User:Tommyaweosme/index/rules start to collect more rules and more edits again, at the same rate as a few weeks ago, that could certainly become a problem. But it doesn't seem like there's currently any need to clean up existing pages and move them somewhere else -- at least, that's my personal opinion.

On the other hand, those pages are generally quite a bit too personal and idiosyncratic to be appropriate for the OCA namespace. Notes like "no blocks i hate them" just really wouldn't work on a standard rule description page.

So ... unless new problems show up, existing pages seem okay to leave as they are. But for future research notes of that kind, how about creating them somewhere else like Google Docs, as you suggested? This edit summary from five days ago makes it sound like there's a plan in the works along those lines. Dvgrn (talk) 09:53, 24 March 2024 (UTC)

there is a plan in the works to permanently move my userpage content to google docs, and here it is tommyaweosme (talk to me my rules) 14:44, 24 March 2024 (UTC)

edit: the plan didnt work. theres too much stuff/fluff. tommyaweosme (talk to me my rules) 02:16, 25 April 2024 (UTC)

Recent edits

@tommyaweosme, I think you've been making changes to the LifeWiki for long enough now that you're not really a newcomer any more. The kinds of experimental edits that you've been making really need to stop soon.

Several of the user pages that you created today are badly cluttering up the Recent Changes list, making it hard for other LifeWiki editors to see who is working on actual improvements to main namespace pages. I'm talking particularly about User:Tommyaweosme/infobox:oscillator, User:Tommyaweosme/infobox:still_life, and User:Tommyaweosme/infobox:spaceship.

Please stop creating user pages for now -- for the next month or so, let's say. When you do create new user pages (in July or later) please only create pages that other LifeWiki users might conceivably have some use for. "Joke" pages like the ones above are really not at all welcome on the LifeWiki. Please consider this to be an official warning. Dvgrn (talk) 19:58, 31 May 2024 (UTC)