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Alan De Smet is a bipedal land mammal.

If you were really bored, you might visit Alan De Smet's home page.

Stuff Alan's Done

Violet (computer game) - As of this edit it's all my work.
Lost Pig - As of this edit, it's all my work.
T. John Ward - As of this edit, it's all my work. I've continued some more work, and I believe I wrote the lion's share of the content.
Chronotron - As of this edit, it's all my work.
StarPower (game) - As of this edit, it's all my work.

Alan's Junk Drawer

Everything from this point forward is pretty much just notes and useful links I use myself; you probably have more interesting things to look at. Of course, feel free to post on my talk page.

Page stubbed in as workaround for [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15853 a MediaWiki bug]. ~~~~

Useful Templates

Javascript tools for filling in common templates. Includes a "web cite" tool

Edit Summaries

No Linking on LARP List

Edit Summary text for List of live action role-playing groups:

No external links on this page. See [[Talk:List of live action role-playing groups|Talk]] for how to appropriately add an external link to your favorite group.

Other Citation Template

Wikipedia:Citation templates

Utility Links

User:Alan De Smet/monobook.css - Otherwise I'm going to forget it's there.
Wikipedia:Possible copyright infringements
Wikipedia:Wikipedia maintenance
Category:Articles that need to be wikified
User:Alan De Smet/Awards - Something to cheer myself up with.

To do list

[1] Infocom sales numbers; add to Infocom game articles
User:Alan De Smet/Drafts/
Talk:Geek.Kon - Integrate citations.
Bad license:Image:Tbpickens.jpg
- User_talk:Howcheng#Image:Tbpickens.jpg - Added OTRS info
User:Alan De Smet/Template/Scratch - scratch space for experimenting with templates.
User:Alan De Smet/Template Testing
User:Alan De Smet/Ascender Corporation
Wikipedia:Deletion_review - All were deleted for CSD#A7, not claiming notability. I believe the decision was wrong, that the groups are notable and in most cases expressed their notable aspects, they just failed to emphasize that the aspect is notable. Either way, there is case for undeletion if the article can be improved with the old version.
- Fools and Heroes - 1985, very early and still around.
- LARPA - Another toughie. Major east coast LARPing organization, but very tight knit.
- Maelstrom (live role playing game) - Size? 900 players?
- One World By Night
- Red Button Productions - Probably doomed.
- Rendezvous (live role-playing group) - Probably doomed.

To done list

User:Alan De Smet/American Income draft

On advertising

I'm not a big fan of advertising, but Wikipedia would strongly benefit from more revenue. Advertising would solve the problem almost instantly. So long as the advertisements are automated, devoid of human intervention, (as Google's ads are) there should be no risk advertising harming the editorial content.