Bryan Derksen

I'm just some random guy who has become mildly hooked by Wikipedia, and who recently dragged Alex Kennedy down with me.

Some of the pages I've contributed to significantly are:

• Acetylene
• Actaeon
• Amino acid
• Anthropomorphism
• Callisto
• Carbon chauvinism
• Charybdis
• Clanking replicator
• Circe
• Cruithne
• Daedalus
• Dyson sphere
• Edmonton
• Freenet
• Genetic code
• Greek mythology
• Grue
• Jack L. Chalker
• Lycanthropy
• Mendelian inheritance
• Muppet
• Nagasaki
• Neoteny
• Pan
• RNA
• Sampo
• Scylla
• Sidehill Gouger
• Solar system (and practically all of the planets, moons, comets - whew!)
• Victor Von Doom
• Werewolf

(this helps me keep track of stuff :)

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Hi Bryan!

First, a belated welcome to Wikipedia!

Second, I'm wondering if the Sidehill Gouger article you inputted was taken from the Journal of Irreproducible Results as is alleged on my page (Larry Sanger) by some anonymous person. If so, it is probably copyrighted (no?) and therefore should be removed. I didn't want to just remove it myself before asking you. --LMS

The Sidehill Gouger entry was written on the spot by me, though I have indeed read the Irreproducable Results article and glanced through it again before I started. I also checked out a couple of other Sidehill Gouger websites to make sure of my facts. I'll doublecheck against the JIR article again when I get home to see if any specific wordings are too similar for your comfort, but I suspect that it was merely the similarity in subject matter that triggered the "copyright alarm," and I am certain that the concept of the Sidehill Gouger is no more copyrighted than the concept of Bigfoot is. -BD

That works for me. --LMS

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Brian, please do me a favor and don't use the unicode symbols for the number sets throughout. This locks out people who haven't updated their fonts unnecessarily, since C works just fine and is understood by everybody in the field. How about if you just mention the character once, like I did on rational number? --AxelBoldt