User:Nerwen

Hello, I'm Nerwen. The one off of Battlenet USEast, at RPoL, and a few other places. I like Starcraft and Diablo II, pen-and-paper roleplaying games (especially oWoD), writing (speculative fiction), science fiction and fantasy, and a very wide variety of music (mostly metal at the moment). I'm a marine scientist with BS degrees in biology and geology, and an MS in marine biology (did a thesis on a topic in fish ecology). Presently I work at an oceanographic institute, doing nothing remotely resembling either geology or biology.

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Work In Progress

Wikipedia:WikiProject Songs

Other things I ought to do

acquire a good picture of JTH
figure out what JTH has ever contributed music to
Joseph M. Marshall III
pictures of otoliths
Age class structure
Higher Than Hope
make a fisheries science page out of all the scattered bits in other fish-related pages
RPoL
Skidaway Island, Georgia and maybe Wassaw Island
revise Georgia Aquarium
get involved in article peer reviews, in advance of submitting the SkIO article when it's ready

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Non-minor writing or editting contributions that I'm personally proud of

SkIO - launched 26 Jul 2007! I basically wrote the whole thing. watchlist perm.
John Two-Hawks - I wrote this up from a tiny starter. watchlist perm.
Creek Mary's Blood - I wrote this up from a tiny starter. It's already been mangled from its former glory; I might unmangle it again eventually. watchlist perm.
Otolith - I wrote the fish section. watchlist perm.
The Lonely Goatherd - I wrote this up from a tiny starter and defended it from an AfD.
Yodeling - I restored the examples list from vandalism. watchlist perm because for some reason anon IPs like vandalizing the examples list.

Thought of the Month

Ruminations that have occurred to me in the course of writing, editting, revising, researching, sorting, or politicking articles for Wikipedia

Fred Saberhagen
The world is made up of many ponds.
Sometimes a big fish in one pond will visit another pond.
Sometimes the fish has trouble coping when it discovers that the other pond already has its own big fish.
Sometimes the fish is unable to grasp that in the other pond, it's only a small fish.
It does no good, in those times, for the fish to insist that the other pond must change to look like its own pond, where it can once more be a big fish.
It does no good for the fish to denounce the other pond as a cesspool when it is refused.
Always approach the world as if you are a small fish. More good comes when you recognize that you always have room to grow.
Nerwen 00:06, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

Slowly Crumbling Edit Stats
Editting for Wikipedia is a lot like making sandcastles. At any moment, a big wave might come by and revert your masterful work of art to a pile of sand. Nerwen 19:40, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

Ode to Akishinji
An encyclopedia is not the place to go to start trends. It's where one goes to find out about a trend after it has already been started, caught on, become widespread, inspired art and music, incited riots, provoked wars, created entire industries, caused financial ruin, been memorialized in textbooks, been turned into movies and documentaries, gone stale, finally died, and been properly eulogized. NerwenGreen 08:25, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

On the Bering Strait
Scientific theories do not make political statements. They don't make moral, religious, social, or any other kind of statements either. People with political/moral/religious/social/etc. agendas may sometimes misuse science to support their agendas, but this doesn't make the science itself wrong. Attack not the well-established, well-supported scientific theories therefore, for all that accomplishes is to make you look the fool. Instead, go after the people who misuse them. Attack their agendas directly. NerwenGreen 05:31, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

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