User:Silly Dan

Silly Dan was a Wookieepedian administrator, physicist, and amateur sentientologist. Born in 2 BBY, he lived in the city of Otnorot (though he spent most of his early life in Mos Edmon), on the icy planet Ord Adanac in the Bimkall Sector. He also frequently travelled to the nearby planet of Acirema Prime on business, usually to the continent of Sionilli.

He was not Force-sensitive, only an average pilot, and never fired a blaster at anybody in his life, to his great relief.

Behind the scenes
I've been a Star Wars fan since I saw The Empire Strikes Back and noticed Yoda had the same voice as Grover.

My goals on this website include adding articles from my collection of West End Games books, turning poorly formatted new articles by slightly confused new editors into reasonable stubs, and seeing Good-quality articles articles made on as many alien species as possible.

I will probably use Canadian spellings from time to time. Feel free to change those back. Every time I write a new article or make a major edit, I will have to edit it ten seconds later because I missed a typo or forgot to categorize. And yes, I know how the preview button works. I apologize in advance for any problems.

If you see any edits from User:128.100.75.134, User:128.100.75.182, or other IPs in that block, that's probably me making minor edits when I'm supposed to be doing research on my degree. If you see too many, feel free to tell me to get back to work. I have a PhD to finish this year.

Administrator
I was elevated to adminstrator status on April 18th, 2006. I promise to use my powers either for good, or for awesome.

Here are some important links I should look at every so often, as an admin:
 * Speedy deletions
 * Forum:Senate Hall
 * Forum:Consensus track
 * Forum:Administrators' noticeboard
 * Vandalism in progress
 * Requests for protection
 * Requests for adminship
 * Requests for bureaucratship
 * Category:Sourceless tagged and Category:Verify tagged, though I'm unclear on the differences between the two.
 * Category:Banned users and Category:Requests for unblock
 * User:Silly Dan/Test (my own subpage for wiki foolishness)
 * User:Silly Dan/Admin questions (how I would've answered the RfA questions if we had them then.)
 * User:Silly Dan/Additional scenes in film adaptations: a project still in the sandbox stages, though I'd like it to be an article. Or maybe six articles.

Contributions
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Actually, I dislike contributions sections on user pages. I keep most articles I create or contribute significantly to on my watchlist (a few hundred articles by now, most of them short), but a lot of them were originated, greatly expanded, or even completely rewritten by other users, so I feel silly trying to "claim" them. All the same, here are a few articles I enjoyed working on:
 * Alien Exodus
 * Artoo's favorite program
 * (Second) Battle of Bothawui
 * Battle of Nar Shaddaa (Galactic Civil War)
 * Battle of Yaga Minor (Galactic Civil War)
 * Bimkall Sector
 * Brock Peters
 * Charon (not all mine, I just think they're fun)
 * Dog
 * Em'liy
 * Finn
 * Gotal
 * Major Herrit
 * Jefferson Starship
 * List of references to Earth in Star Wars (or "If we're in another galaxy, what's with the rabbits"?)
 * Myomaran
 * Near-Human (I wrote very little of the text, but splitting it from Human was my idea.)
 * Olfax
 * PD-28
 * Salfur's Trading Post
 * Star Wars Official Poster Monthly
 * Sector Force
 * Time travel
 * Xi'Dec (my first article!)
 * What Wookieepedia is not, an attempt to explain ourselves to new users (work in progress)

Most Wanted Aliens
"The people! The things!"

- Arthur Dent

"The "things", Arthur, are also people."

- Ford Prefect

Well, JustinGann's just unstoppable, isn't he? Now we have articles and pictures for every alien species from the main sourcebooks, pretty much. Now comes Phase II: making sure we at least have decent stubs. I mean, I wrote two paragraphs on the Myomarans, for pete's sake.

Databank
If you want to expand these, beware the dreaded copyvio....
 * All aliens in the Databank are non-stubs as of January 19, 2006.

Galaxy Guide 4: Alien Races

 * All species in GG4 are non-stubs as of January 30, 2006. That's not to say that some of them still couldn't use a bit of work, of course.  After all, using GG4 as my main source means I have no idea what half of them were doing during the Clone Wars or the Yuuzhan Vong Invasion.

Galaxy Guide 12: Aliens - Enemies and Allies

 * As of October 22, 2006, all GG12 species are likewise non-stubs, though there are probably several which still need expansion.

Alien Encounters
Since this book is entirely made up of reprints, they might be more easily destubbed using other sources.
 * Anointed People, Aramandi, Araquia, Bitthaevrians, Bosphs, Bovorians, Carosites, Chikarri, Elomin, Ergesh, Farghul, Filar-Nitzan, Frozians, Gacerites, Galidyn, Gazaran, Geelan, Gesarils, Gigorans, Gorothites, Issori, Jiivahar, Kalduu, Kari, Karran, Kluuzot, Krieks, Krikthasi, Krish, Lafrarians, Lurrians, Morodin, Multopos, Najib, Near-humans (Borneck, Epicanthix, Etti, Ropagu, Wroonian, Xa Fel), Odenji, Orfites, Orgons, Pacithhip, Proteans, Qieg, Quockrans, Rakririans, Riileb, Saurton, Sekct, Shatras, Shi'ido,  Srrors'tok, Ssither, Sunesis, Svivreni, Tarc, Tasari, Tempestro, Tikiarri, Tynnans, Ukians, Vernols, Viska, Woostoids, Xan, Yagai

The Essential Guide to Alien Species

 * Just taking care of the sentients for now: Elomin, Khommite, Kowakian monkey-lizard, Kurtzen, Myneyrsh, Priapulin, Psadan, Pydyrian, Ruurian, Shi'ido, Taurill, Toydarian, Tynnan, Yaka, Hanadak, Hoojib, Iskalonian, Krish, Lahsbee/Huhk, Tof

Ultimate Alien Anthology and Alien Anthology

 * In UAA: Arkanian, Ayrou, Bartokk, Caarite, Chagrian, Draethos, Elomin,Farghul, Filordus, Frozian, Gossam, Khommite, Krish, Menahuun, Myneyrsh, Nuknog, Pacithhip, Pa'lowick, Psadan, Ruurian, Sakiyan, Sauvax, Shi'ido, S'kytri, Spiner, Temolak, Thakwaash, Toydarian, T'surr, Woostoid
 * Sentient creatures in AA, but not in UAA: Lahsbee/Huhk, Mantellian Savrip, Sneevel. Many of the above species also appear in AA

The New Essential Guide to Alien Species
I don't have this one.

Quote of the unspecified time period
"Yes . . . ah you see we have a sort of agreement here about escapes. We have a system whereby all escape plans have to be submitted to an Escape Committee. The Committee then recommends some of them to a full session of the Escape Board, and whichever plan has a two thirds majority is put to a secret ballot, and the plan with the most votes then becomes the official plan and goes to the Escape Plan Review Committee, and if they like it, they'll commission a feasibility study."

- The Colonel, "Escape from Stalag Luft 112B", from Ripping Yarns by Michael Palin and Terry Jones.

Where else to find Silly Dan

 * Silly Dan on Wikipedia
 * Silly Dan on Livejournal
 * Silly Dan on the central Wikia

Some less-used wikis

 * Silly Dan on Memory Alpha
 * Silly Dan on any other Wikia-hosted wiki
 * Silly Dan on the ZeFrank wiki
 * Silly Dan on Lostpedia
 * Silly Dan on the Homestar Runner wiki
 * Silly Dan on the Heroes wiki

Forums I use this name on

 * The Jedi Council Forums
 * The BioWare forums

How to tell a fake Silly Dan

 * 1) He's on a site not listed above.
 * 2) He's using an open proxy, or an IP that's not in Canada or Illinois.
 * 3) He's editing a wiki using my real name.
 * 4) You blocked him permanently for trolling or vandalism.