User:Riffsyphon1024

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Important stuff: Blocks - Defenses - User rights - Destructions - Uploads - Moves CURRENT STATUS: I have graduated with a Bachelors of Science in Geosciences-Geology (major) and Astronomy (minor).

"It's a big galaxy, and someone has to organize it."

- The New Essential Guide to Alien Species

Pronunciation Guide = Riff. SEYE. Phon

After nearly four years, I still haven't produced a decent looking user page and you can all smite me for it. Nor have I produced a single Good Article or Featured Article. To which I ask myself, what was my true purpose here?

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Detailed stats on the Wookieepedia.

Refer to my user page on Wikipedia for all the detailed nitty gritty.

Other branches of Star Wars on Wikia

Adminship
I became an administrator of SWW on March 16, 2005. I was enacted the second bureaucrat of Wookieepedia on February 14, 2006. Can you feel the love?

Aliases

 * TheForce.net: wookieepedian1
 * StarWars.com: darthrifficus

Various other aliases include an Imperial character for an internet RPG under the name of General Aurelius Tempest and a Sith Lord named Realgar. Additionally, if I was inserted into canon I could be Nevets Do'ow-neerg.

For the Darth Who Contest, I submitted Darth Lycinis as a name. It is a combination of the words "lie", "sin", and "lycan" referencing Jacen Solo's experiences with wyrwulves and personality traits of most other Sith Lords.

Things I find interesting on Wookieepedia
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Wookieepedia-specific
"Well um, hmm, Riff thinks I have a voice like Dexter."
 * Anons who revert other anons.
 * Anons who underestimate the power of the wiki, and end up getting banned as soon as they started vandalizing.
 * Our first bot, appropriately a familiar droid named Artoo.
 * That a few guys can grab the attention of an entire fanbase in only a year.
 * Users who insist on being Darths.
 * Users who go by character, location, or actor names.
 * An article titled "Hover Transport" that actually read "A transport that hovers." Real inventive.
 * That I never finish what I start.
 * That I catch more mistakes after I saved for the first or second time.
 * That it's astounding how fast information is added from a released source only hours after made public.
 * That I can prevent myself from going crazy from spoilers by purchasing that source on that day.
 * That Wookieepedia on Wikipedia was nominated for deletion per WP:WEB as spam. Thankfully it was speedy kept.
 * That suspension of disbelief is fun to think about.
 * Darth Culator's user page.
 * That we somehow don't have articles for the inevitably to be released.
 * That I am one that wants to keep everything on the wiki, a true inclusionist to the core.
 * That users consistently get younger and younger, down to 10 and 11 years! Is this where we need to be heading?
 * Mineral does not always equal material.
 * That people still can't spell "Wookieepedia".
 * That 117 users still can't spell "Wookieepedia". :C
 * That controversial users still ask about becoming administrators.
 * Guestbooks. I don't really favor them, but whatever.
 * I have never seen or heard anything like the Wookiee-Cast but I'm hooked on the Dexter-like voice of 4dot. If he only knew which one I was talking about.

- Wookiee-Cast III 5:18-5:24

"Do you even get paid to do this stuff?"
 * Vandals that return a year later as redeemed users?
 * Yea I created the 50,000th article, Solitaire. It's not much but it's canon and that's what counts.
 * The Other Wookieepedia
 * jSarek was the published question to Leland Chee in Star Wars Insider 96's Q&A section regarding Conan Antonio Motti's canon status, revealing his original name to be "Zi Motti" before Lucas intervened. Shown as "Sarek", he asked "How have you decided to treat the "Conan Antonio Motti" name... for Holocron purposes? Is it just another joke, or are you taking it a bit more seriously than that?" It was originally questioned on the SW.com forums on May 16, 2007.
 * This being said, I have found an instance of "Zi Motti" in Death Star while he talks to Admiral Jaim Helaw.
 * Interestingly enough, I was the first to ask Leland (or anyone in a panel) at Celebration IV's continuity panel on May 26, 2007 about the canonicity of this name, to which he replied "it will be revealed eventually". The publication of Death Star's Dramatis Personae and the Insider issue was the "eventually" part.
 * Do some users have a tendency to automatically vote with the most important person and not necessarily via a valid reason of their own?
 * I was almost deleted.

- The most commonly encountered question that I hear.


 * This place needs an update.
 * Galen Marek and Guri won Mister and Miss Star Wars respectively for 2008.
 * Beware the Great List Purge of 2008 and 2009!

Canon

 * The amount of -ooine and -aan planets.
 * Examples for -ooines include: Tatooine, Dantooine, Ventooine, Klatooine, Handooine, Entooine, Cardooine, Mantooine, Minntooine, Reltooine, Sestooine, Sistooine, Vactooine, and Velmooine. Most -ooines show up in the Rim.
 * Other possibilities might be Brintooin, Jandoon, Parshoone, Alvorine, Aviprine, and Humbarine.
 * Examples for -aans and the occasional -een include: Alderaan, New Alderaan, Aldereen, Falleen, Endoraan, Manaan, Delderaan, Taloraan, Chardaan, Nelvaan, Tiisheraan, and Talaan. Most -aans show up in the Core.
 * StarNeptune and I have speculated that maybe there is a link, maybe an ancient empire that ruled the Rim, and another in the Core, each warring factions of each other, marking their territory with these suffixes. Maybe even the homeworld of both was named Aantooine, before splitting up. It's only a fan theory. :)
 * A Galactic Census could be held: Humans would have an overwhelming majority, followed by Twi'leks, Rodians, Wookiees, and Hutts. They may not really be the most populous, but they are the most popular.
 * My new favorite word is osik. An example of this in action is: "Don't give me all that droids-have-rights osik." from Odds.
 * That no one was born in 0 BBY. Did a great disturbance in the force prevent childbirth across the galaxy?
 * JustinGann's findings of creature population per planet, with the order as 1) Naboo 2) Tatooine 3) Endor 4) Kashyyyk 5) Yavin 4 6) Dac 7) Ithor 8) Corellia 9) Dagobah 10) Haruun Kal 11) Ansion
 * Dashed Jedi names, as if they're all from the same place: Obi-Wan Kenobi, Qui-Gon Jinn, and now Chu-Gon Dar, Belsed-Qan Idan, and Bodis-Ker Vitan. We still don't know where the first two come from which is beyond odd.
 * That Tyber Zann was based in appearance on the actor who plays Lucius Malfoy from the Harry Potter movies (Jason Issacs). Is it postulated that this reference may place Issacs in a forthcoming role in the TV series as Tyber Zann himself? See also Talk:Tyber Zann.
 * Who would substitute for Ambak, Blaylock, Cronau, and Mezzicanley?
 * That the Givin are truely the coolest species for being mathematically advanced.
 * That I wouldn't eat Ugorian food.
 * If I could be like Michael Tandre and become a species' spiritual leader on a distant planet nearly overnight.
 * Palpy had way too much time on his hands writing the Dark Side Compendium as each book would take 96 standard hours to read, a total of 288 standard hours.
 * The Burning sounds horrible.
 * I might consider a visit to Vaathkree.
 * Star Wars: Demolition was where it was at in 2000.
 * Dor is geologically fascinating.
 * Tiran = Einstein
 * The Albino Cyclops is one ugly creature.
 * Some people gotta understand that Wookiee porn consisting of Mermeia was the latest thing in that day.
 * Oh the horror of xenoboric acid!
 * Havet Storm was really that important.
 * The return of the Sweet One and a familiar friend in the late Legacy Era.
 * Something to watch for and hope becomes realized in the upcoming Clone Wars series: the Scorpenek annihilator droid
 * Katie Lucas made braces canonical.
 * Mace Windu survives bigger falls than that on Coruscant. Landed on a air taxi too I bet...
 * Holy crap Legacy is even more fun now that we know who Darth Krayt is.
 * Lando's aptly-titled How to Succeed in Everything.
 * Lumiya makes her first appearance in the month of my birth, in Star Wars 88: Figurehead.
 * "Bannistar Station" would be a good banning cry.
 * I was wrong all along.
 * Note: there are still sources that capitalize: Geonosis and the Outer Rim Worlds
 * Combat Umbrellas. Seriously?
 * The Bi-Polar blaster carbine: Great idea but terribly inefficient.
 * One character looks like our new President.

Other
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 * I am enlightened to learn that I share a birthday with Aayla Secura.
 * Why didn't I attend Celebration III in Indianapolis, only 400 miles away, not 2000?
 * Fanboys!
 * Riffsyphon
 * That I am a Warsie.
 * There's a real person named Dirk Yohan Beer. Isn't that a karking awesome name?!

Some calculations
Taking a bit from MarcK and Darth Culator, I am curious as to how many new individuals we can expect from the Star Wars live-action TV series.

Assuming that there are 100 episodes at 45 minutes each (with commercials), that equivilates to 37.5 movies of equal time at 2 hours long each. If each movie at 2 hours is capable of producing roughly 500 new characters, both main and background, then it could be extrapolated that 37.5 movies worth of episodes times 500 characters = about 18,750 new characters! Whoa...

If this show goes to 400 episodes as Rick McCallum has hoped, that number would quadruple to 75,000 characters.

Wookiee-Google growth

 * As of September 9, 2007, "Wookieepedia" gets 339,000 total hits on Google, with 164,000 being external and non-Wookieepedia site hits..
 * November 25, 2007, "Wookieepedia" gets 383,000 total hits, with 184,000 from the website itself.
 * In an odd reversal, as of February 3, 2008, "Wookieepedia" gets 197,000 total hits.
 * March 4: 201,000 total hits, 119,000 external
 * April 12: 201,000 total hits, no change
 * June 27: 354,000 total hits, with 177,000 external (exactly half)
 * July 31: 319,000 total hits, with 240,000 external
 * January 25, 2009: 299,000 total hits, 152,000 internal

Upcoming (Check Insanity)
"Yay! Table! ick. table."

- Xwing328

See Celebration IV and Forum:Celebration IV table for more information. 
 * Celebration IV: May 24-28, 2007 (with May 24 being fan club only) [[Image:Check mark 23x20 02.gif]] QUITE AWESOME!!!
 * Round trip plane tickets to Los Angeles for Celebration 4: $320
 * 6-night hotel stay somewhere safe and nearby: $400
 * Badge for 4 days at the event: $110
 * Knowing you sorta made an impact in fandom itself: priceless
 * There are some things in life that can't be purchased, for everything else there's the Sith MasterCard.


 * Universal Day of the Jedi: Friday, May 25, 2007 [[Image:Check mark 23x20 02.gif]]
 * Death Star: releases October 16, 2007 [[Image:Check mark 23x20 02.gif]]
 * Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (video game): released September 16, 2008 in the USA [[Image:Check mark 23x20 02.gif]]
 * Star Wars: Legacy
 * 28: September 24, 2008 [[Image:Check mark 23x20 02.gif]]
 * 29: October 29, 2008 [[Image:Check mark 23x20 02.gif]]
 * 30: November 26, 2008 [[Image:Check mark 23x20 02.gif]]
 * 31: December 31, 2008 [[Image:Check mark 23x20 02.gif]]
 * 32: January 28, 2009
 * 33: February 25, 2009
 * 34: March 2009
 * 35: April 2009
 * Millennium Falcon released Oct 2008 [[Image:Check mark 23x20 02.gif]]
 * Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor, released December 30, 2008 (pushed back from Feb 2008) [[Image:Check mark 23x20 02.gif]]
 * Fanboys: pushed back from 2007 and December 2008, scheduled for release February 6, 2009
 * The Atlas of the Star Wars Galaxy, to replace The New Essential Guide to Planets and Moons (announced with tentative title on April 24, 2007): June 2008, now March 3, 2009 , now February 24, 2009 , now July 2009!?!?!
 * Celebration V: Spring 2010? Hoping for Chicago, Indianapolis, or Minneapolis

Personal VIP Interview Wish List (so far)

 * Leland Chee (this is the big prize, met at C4)
 * Pablo Hidalgo (questioned at C4, I'm intimidated by Pablo though)
 * John Ostrander (met at C4)
 * Dan Wallace (talk with fairly regularly)
 * Abel G. Pena (lots of Wookieepedians know him by now)
 * John Hazlett (you know him, you love him, to ask about his dance moves :P)

My Wikipedia Creations Moved Over
Sectors of Star Wars, Systems of Star Wars, Cities of Star Wars, Creatures of Star Wars, The Maw, and Repulsorlift

My Various Projects

 * Moved Category:Characters to Category:Individuals (completed March 31, 2006)
 * SparqMan's HoloNet News Page
 * I've made quite a few articles pertaining to things usually found in our own galaxy but also appear in the GFFA, including but not limited too: Water, Snake, Groundquake, Number system, Tattoos, Radiation, Carbon dioxide, Mercury, Silicon, Platinum, Magnetite, X-ray, Gamma ray, and all sorts of other elements and compounds. The reasoning is: if they are mentioned in any source, they exist in the GFFA
 * Managing the load of Legacy stuff coming in, all while being careful enough to avoid plotlines too sticky of a nature.

Planets from CUSWE
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z
 * Bolded are completely bluelinked.
 * Italicized are one or two away from complete bluelinktion.

Other Places

 * I have a profile at the social networking website Myspace.
 * Personal email: darth dot realgar at gmail dot com

Appearances

 * Foundations of Stone
 * Pandemonium
 * Times of Change