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 of a person's weight in number of ounces per day, i.e. someone who weighs 180 pounds would drink 90 ounces of water a day), and look where it GOAT him. Then what about Linus Pauling advocating at least two or more grams a day of ascorbic acid (Vitamin C) divided into several equal portions (morning-afternoon-evening, personally I usually do three grams a day), you'd almost think he wanted people healthy. A daily fast of at least 14 hours (if someone eats at, say, 8 p.m., they then don't eat anything until 10 a.m. or later the next day) does some good stuff. 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 three weeks after arriving safely 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 (although...).
• 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...)
• Ho Ho Huh? A yule mystery, why none of these redirects to Christmas and holiday season (Christmas holidays, Holiday Season, the Christmas season, the holiday season, the Holiday Season, the Christmas Season, the Christmas holidays, and the Christmas Holidays) were created before 9 December 2024? My guess: Elves.
• Ready to check out the size of the Solar System? No small children or comfort animals on board please, and keep your arms and things 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 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 only two Wikipedia article's which have to prove, with sources, that the artwork was not the work of an alchemist. Step right up, and don't miss the modern looking couch, the two tasseled pillows, 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).

p.s. While writing aloud about impossible statues carved from one piece of rock...who can forget flowers made of glass!

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 realized only after the second race that he could run full speed from start to finish. 2) While drastically being 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...Secretariat's jockey holds him back...holds him wayyyy back, almost last. 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 8, 2022: during three edits in three minutes an IP proposes marriage on the same page as the above masterpiece, creating his 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 an appropriate page and so perfectly played out - he seemingly decides to marry her right there, between 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. (in other vandal news, in 2023 an IP spent a great deal of time removing all the vowels from several articles. Wh ddn't thnk f tht?).

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 Paine Ellsworth's subpage about how many Wikipedians can dance on the head of a pin.

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A barnstar for you!

	The Surreal Barnstar
	Salutations to the "smallest known dinosaur, bee hummingbird" guy. Go D. Usopp (talk) 08:27, 5 July 2025 (UTC)

Thank you Go D. Usopp, a nice surprise. You'd think that the information that the bee hummingbird is the smallest known dinosaur would be higher on the page, arguably important enough to go into the lead. The unneeded wording that editors added to carefully explain that birds are dinosaurs, a commonly known fact, seems undue. Brevity could trim the sentence to its basics and move it up the page, it does not need to carefully explain to the readers that birds are what they are. Randy Kryn (talk) 11:33, 5 July 2025 (UTC)

Last comment

Hi Randy,

I won't bother you here anymore per your wishes, we have clearly gotten off on the wrong foot. I just want to make sure you understand my disagreement with you isn't on a personal level, you have been here on the Wiki for a very long time and have contributed a lot. I respect that (seriously, I do). However, I disagree with your comment that there is no dispute. I am not sure what other editors you are referring to disagree with me, as the only other editor in that conversation agrees with me. As this is not just me that disagrees with you, this clearly is a content dispute.

I think we will both agree the United States Semiquincentennial page is a pretty slow page and there isn't much traffic there. This is why I created the DRN discussion as our long back and forth has probably scared off a lot of people who may have commented otherwise. I had hoped this would give us a way to discuss the content without getting sidetracked in a more structured setting and gather a third opinion.

As you have made it clear you do not intend to participate, I would like to ask how you would propose we resolve this issue. We've clearly explained ourselves extensively and I don't want to bludgeon the process, but I do want to resolve this amicably. Let me know what you think! BootsED (talk) 13:29, 9 March 2026 (UTC)

Okay, thanks, and I agree that other editors should be involved on the article talk page as we both seem to be repeating our discussion points. Hopefully others will comment, but it became a very long section so catching up will need interested participants. Randy Kryn (talk) 15:32, 9 March 2026 (UTC)

BootsED, will get back on line later today and try to explain my position more concisely, at the article talk page. Thanks. Randy Kryn (talk) 15:52, 9 March 2026 (UTC)

No problem! Take your time. I am busy for the next few days with work so I may also take more time to respond. BootsED (talk) 17:23, 9 March 2026 (UTC)

Still Life with Flag (1954) moved to draftspace

Thanks for your contributions to Still Life with Flag (1954). Unfortunately, I do not think it is ready for publishing as a live article at this time because it needs more sources to establish notability and There do seem to be sources that verify this painting exists, however the one used in this article does not relate to this painting at all, nor claim it was her last work.. I have converted it to a draft which you can improve, undisturbed for a while.

Please see more information at Help:Unreviewed new page. When the article is ready for publication, please click on the "Submit the draft for review!" button at the top of the page OR move the page back. Orange sticker (talk) 10:47, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

Saratoga Battle Monument

You added cat "sculptures by Alexander Doyle." This should probably go into the text of the monument description, with a reference. Peter Flass (talk) 16:19, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

Thanks. The mention, link, and source to Doyle are in the 'Construction' section. Randy Kryn (talk) 22:34, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

Ishar-Lim

Hi Randy Kryn, I noticed that you removed the WP:G5 SD template at Ishar-Lim. While the stub may seem adequately sourced, isn't it that per the criteria, any article that is created by a block-evading sockpuppet is eligible for speedy deletion, as long as there are no significant contributions by other users? ~SG5536B 00:36, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

I'm not an admin, so haven't memorized the rulebook. The article is well-sourced, that's what I was looking at. Sourced speedy deletions and quick prods give me the sense that God is a harsh mistress. Randy Kryn (talk) 10:47, 12 March 2026 (UTC)