User talk:Randy Kryn

For entertainment porpoises only: "Time: Illusion stirred into gravity" - Motto of The Salvation Space Force (new comments on bottom of page please)

An editing respite
Some useful things from a non-medical non-professional: Tom Brady follows the hydration route (1/2 your weight in ounces per day, i.e. if someone weighs 180 pounds hydrate 90 ounces of water a day), and look where it GOAT him. Then what about Linus Pauling advocating at least two grams a day of ascorbic acid (Vitamin C) divided into several equal portions (morning-afternoon-evening), you'd almost think he wanted people healthy or something. And last but least, microwave an ear of corn for four minutes, with the husk left on — if two ears, double it to eight minutes. When you peel off the husk and eat the thing, you'll thank me later.
Now you know: Saverland v Newton
Remembering four of the last eight Earthlings to travel to the Moon, murdered soon after their return, sadly bookending the first two Moon pioneers murdered 20 days after arriving back on Earth.
Maybe my best geek edit: A five cushion bank shot italicizing Star Trek and Buffy links on Wikipedia's Klingon language page.
An IP upon realizing that birds are dinosaurs, and a nod to our dinosaur brothers and sisters.
Write on!: Don't kick the Ouija board
An IP's inadvertent poetically sexist edit, which they quickly corrected
Perhaps my best one-word edit (although...)
Ready to check out the size of the Solar System? No small children or comfort animals on board please, and keep your arms and stuff where you can see them: If the Moon were only 1 Pixel (web based scroll map scaled to the Moon being, well, 1 pixel)
A sci-fi short story plot (dibs)

If you've never seen...

. . .Veiled Christ, a statue in Naples, Italy, that depicts a knobbly-kneed Christ in the tomb, please give the image two or three clicks. This almost unbelievable 1753 sculpture ("how'd he do that?"), carved from one piece of marble, has one of the only two Wikipedia article's which have to prove, with sources, that the artwork was not the work of an alchemist (the second, at the same site). Step right up, and don't miss the modern looking couch, the two pillows with tassels, or the crown of thorns and other torture things down by the feet. All carved from a single block of marble. Literally steps away from Veiled Christ sits another "how'd he do that?" sculpture, also carved from a single block of marble (or created by alchemy).

Although, mentioning impossible statues carved from one piece of rock.

One of life's pleasures

Watching Secretariat run his 1973 Triple Crown races in order while knowing three things: 1) Secretariat's trainer and jockey only realized after the second race that the horse could run full speed from start to finish. 2) While drastically held back during the Kentucky Derby and Preakness, Secretariat still holds the fastest time in all three Triple Crown races. 3) Sham - the horse Secretariat trashed like a dancing bear in the Kentucky Derby - still holds the Derby's second fastest time.

Here's the 1973 Kentucky Derby...the jockey holds him back...holds him wayyyy back, almost touching last place, next the Preakness...holds him back, and then: the Belmont..."He is moving like a tre-men-dous machine".

Vandal masterpiece...

...winner of the 2017 "Shakespearean dramatic romantic tragic tale in six words" Heisman.

An IP wedding proposal

July 7, 2022: An IP proposes marriage on the same page as the above masterpiece, creating their own. Wikipedians have a romantic side, even the bots, so nobody reverted until I did after two hours with a note saying that it should be enough time and wished him luck. Does anyone know of an earlier proposal on Wikipedia, especially on such a good page for it and so perfectly played out - he seemingly decides to marry her right there, between the two edits. Film scene scenario worthy, Hallmark, are you listening?

This one time at band camp I vandalized a page

The docents ask people: "Find the cat". Letting the coolness of it lead me to break my oath as a Wikipedian, I now self-identify as a vandal.

Always interesting

"The problem with Wikipedia is that it only works in practice. In theory, it can never work." quoted by User:Kizor in the New York Times "I think Wikipedia is quite possibly the best invention since the library." a quote by User:Srleffler.

See and listen to Wikipedia edits as they occur. Designed by Stephen LaPorte and Mahmoud Hashemi of hatnote.com, the link was copied from a user page, don't remember where, but deservedly displayed on quite a few as well as having its own article. Just who is making all this noise? Well...

...the size of our stadium

Here is another user's subpage about how many Wikipedians can dance on the head of a pin.

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Check this mystery out

Talk:Niece and nephew#Two generations???. An error has been prominent in the short lead of 'Niece and nephew' since March 2020, almost two years and nine months ago. The question "Why?" could qualify as a subject of a college thesis. It stayed uncorrected while 576,135 readers purposely came to the page, and if anyone noticed they didn't bother to correct it or tell anyone on Wikipedia, until an editor pointed it out on the talk page today. Fascinating on several levels. Randy Kryn (talk) 03:37, 11 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Space turtles

I removed the statement from "See also". I recommend adding it instead to the final sub-section with a citation(s). LittleJerry (talk) 16:48, 20 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Good idea LittleJerry, thanks. I still don't know how many turtles were sent up on Zond 6, which seems like an important fact for Wikipedia to list. In case my cousin comes by to lurk, what we're talking about are the first inhabitants of Earth to travel to the Moon, two tortoises on Zond 5 and an unspecified number of "turtles" on Zond 6. Then Apollo 8 came next, and then Zond 7, with four more turtles! I guess the term "Turtles all the way down" has a truer meaning than thought. Randy Kryn (talk) 22:31, 20 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

"Home away from home" listed at Redirects for discussion

The redirect Home away from home has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2023 September 21 § Home away from home until a consensus is reached. Skarmory (talk • contribs) 19:09, 21 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move discussion

There is currently a Request Move discussion about William IV. Since you participated in the previous move discussion involving William IV, I thought you might want to know about this one. Cheers. Rreagan007 (talk) 19:26, 21 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Yo yo

I don't know why I'm bothering to add a few more to our crapalogue raisonne...is this an appropriate amount of detail? I want these Picasso pages to be either bursting with content or deleted, I can't decide! No Swan So Fine (talk) 19:11, 1 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello No Swan So Fine, for someone undecided you've added a great deal of very good content! Nice. As an avowed inclusionist (and my mother was an inclusinist, and her mother before her was an inclusionist...all the way back to our cave mothers who said "Incluse! Incluse!") I say "burst with content". Wikipedia's Picasso pages and collection should be first rate and full, thank you for bringing it closer to the Picasso-standard. Randy Kryn (talk) 22:50, 1 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

3D models in infoboxes

On what basis would you argue that there is "no reason to infobox" 3D models? I would argue that it helps understanding just as much, if not even more than a two-dimensional image does when it comes to three-dimensional objects; further, they are in the page already, and I would say it is better to put them in the infobox rather than just putting them at any point in the article or within a "gallery" section. Further, the models do not display as particularly large, and the display could always be reduced in size rather than simply removing it from the infobox altogether. Thanks in advance for your response!

Mupper-san (talk) 01:39, 1 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Please discuss this on an article talk page. The Statue of Liberty infobox, for example, is already very large and adding an unnecessary 3-D image (which doesn't work unless additional steps are taken) makes it quite a bit larger and intrudes into the sections below. Randy Kryn (talk) 01:41, 1 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Insertion of break into quote

Hi! In this edit, you inserted a line break into a quote. Unfortunately, while that may have improved the layout of the quote on your browser, not everyone uses the same font settings/page width etc as you do, and it breaks the layout for those browsers. Please let the browser's auto-layout feature do the work instead. — The Anome (talk) 15:06, 6 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Statues of Abraham Lincoln in the United States

Just an FYI, I've created Category:Statues of Abraham Lincoln in the United States as a subcategory of Category:Monuments and memorials to Abraham Lincoln in the United States and Category:Statues of Abraham Lincoln. I've also moved a few entries about busts of Lincoln back to Category:Abraham Lincoln in art, since busts are sculptures but not statues. Happy editing! ---Another Believer _(Talk) 16:11, 6 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Another Believer. Will check on these later, thanks for setting me straight on busts not being statues, seems the difference has eluded me. Randy Kryn (talk) 16:31, 6 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

hello

another rando article on the kings of camp...feel free to rearrange! No Swan So Fine (talk) 19:47, 18 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. Instant feature. Randy Kryn (talk) 01:23, 19 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Constitution article

Aye Randy, long time, no see. Some time ago our long away friend TheVirginiaHistorian and myself added commemorative stamps images to the Constitution article, but somewhere along the line the info and the images were deleted, with no comment to this effect in edit history. I just restored one image, and added another, in the Commemorations section, which I just created. As a past contributor to the article, thought you might appreciate them. Best, -- Gwillhickers (talk) 23:01, 28 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Gwillhickers, and I hope all goes well. I know I'll appreciate them even before looking. My feeling about postage stamp images is that they should be shown on all the topic pages that they cover (lurkers, find the pun in that sentence). Hopefully whomever removed them hasn't made a habit of that on other articles. As for Virginia Historian, I've got a feeling that either he or a doppelganger put up the George Washington fishery article (not sure though, and don't want to check in case I'm wrong, because it's good to think he comes back now and then when an inspiration comes). Randy Kryn (talk) 23:41, 28 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The same thing happened to the postal image in the Rutherford B. Hayes article...a deletion with nothing to indicate this is edit history except for "reduce crowding". Since then a section, Legacy and honors, was added by someone, which is where I restored the image to. -- Gwillhickers (talk) 20:39, 1 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Editor experience invitation

Hi Randy :) I'm looking to interview people here. Feel free to pass if you're not interested. Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 21:28, 3 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Clovermoss, what an interesting idea and set of questions. Thanks, I'll be glad to join in and will read the page for both familiar and unfamiliar names. Randy Kryn (talk) 23:43, 3 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Split proposal on the 1957–1958 influenza pandemic article for a separate vaccine article

Hi Randy. How's it going? I just wanted to bring to your attention that there is an active discussion over on Talk:1957–1958 influenza pandemic regarding a proposed split for a new article dedicated specifically to the pandemic vaccine and the US vaccination effort (and, I would hope, efforts undertaken in other places). This proposal was made following my last contribution to the article, which certainly may have created a WP:UNDUE problem. In this sense, there may be an argument to be made for a WP:SPINOFF. Considering your previous participation on that talk page, and our last collaboration on Talk:Spanish flu, I thought you might be interested. If so, please take a look at the relevant section and see what you think. Your input would be truly appreciated. Nabbovirus (talk) 17:25, 9 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Nabbovirus, thanks for the note yet, being far from an expert on the topic, will pass on this one. It seems the split will occur and the editors involved are getting the general idea right. Enjoy the holidays! Randy Kryn (talk) 09:49, 10 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Fair enough! Thanks for the reply, and happy holidays to you as well. Nabbovirus (talk) 18:12, 10 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]