Smartse

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This user has been on Wikipedia for 16 years, 3 months and 22 days.

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This user is a biologist

This user contributes using the free, open source operating system Ubuntu and enjoys its freedom and lack of viruses.

This user prefers brewing coffee with an aeropress.

This user prefers Real Ale in any form

This user has written or expanded 34 articles featured in the Did You Know section on the Main Page.

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I've made some edits from the IPs:131.111.30.24 (talk · contribs · WHOIS), 131.111.30.22 (talk · contribs · WHOIS), 131.111.30.21 (talk · contribs · WHOIS), 131.111.30.20 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) and 86.7.19.159 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) but won't be making any substantial additions using these accounts. Before I knew about WP:V and WP:RS I made an edit from 86.135.212.191 (talk · contribs · WHOIS), which I think was my first ever edit.

One day I found out about WP:NEWT which seemed a good idea at the time. I made User:Organismluvva and created some stubs which were waiting in my to do list. I didn't think it would cause so many problems...

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	Idea and layout stolen from Errabee via Sebastiankessel via White Cat via Guettarda via Ëzhiki

Areas I edit

• Any plant related articles.
• Any interesting species that I read about.
• Designer drug related articles - mainly because people come here to find out information about them and our articles can be crap.
• Pages where people may have a conflict of interest, often through posts at the relevant noticeboard.
• Reviewing articles at the nominations for the "Did you know?" section of the main page.
• And a fair bit of gnoming too.
• I seem to have a problem where I use where instead of were in articles quite regularly! Thanks to those who fix my spelling crime.

Stats

Admin statistics

Action	Count
Edits	45164
Edits+Deleted	49679
Pages deleted	7491
Revisions deleted	54
Logs/Events deleted	3
Pages restored	145
Pages protected	219
Pages unprotected	3
Protections modified	17
Users blocked	1257
Users reblocked	35
Users unblocked	19
User rights modified	11
Users created	1
Pages merged	3

To do

Irvingia AlsomitraTreculia - would be nice to expand. Partial root zone drying Duboscia User:Smartse/Saudi Star User:Smartse/amerhiphop Pandanus Wikipedia:WikiProject Plants/Popular pages - rate the rest Jacaranda copaia [1] Stygiomedusa gigantea Thalassobathia pelagica [2] Limits to Growth (30yr paper) Nebela collaris Symbion pandora Cuscuta reflexa Isoetes andicola (syn. Stylites andicola) BCI leaf pics more pics Hybanthus prunifolis Trichilia tuberculata Theoretical production ecology seaweed farming Poikilohydry Cameraria ohridella Eophyllophyton Tree - add evolution Kapok = big tree Quercus robur - no mention of inability to regenerate in shade trehalose Alseis blackiana Liana Root - mention competition! Nymphaeales Aechmea magdalenae - shade tolerant and CAM [3] pinitol Shewanella oneidensis Drought rhizogenesis Moisture stress Physiological plant disorders fungal siderophores Evolution of plants#Stomata Pyrenoid root exudate Leptocybe invasa User:Smartse/anthropocentric tritrophic interaction Cladosporium resinae (now Hormoconis resinae) Jean Spencer [4] coronatine User:Ohconfucius/List_of_Leningradartist_articles diagram for Weber–Fechner law User:Smartse/Hobbs Cacoxenus indagator jwh Guignardia aesculi - HC leaf blight pyocin crayola katyid Biolizer XN Bob Chandler (scientist) Forrest Hill (scientist) - founders of CGIAR (a mess) User:Smartse/Norman Simmonds American Pain Note Circulation Scheme penoxsulam linuron biostimulant Propyzamide cinmethylin

Links

Tools

Rendering svgs WP:BUNCH 3RR reporting tool Google Books citation tool by User:Apoc2400 (via User:Tijfo098) Special:PrefixIndex

Random

2 and a half year old vandalism! 1 year favourite argument at AfD more than civil

Badges

Shiny things

The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar This Defender of the Wiki Barnstar is for Smartse who has been a voice of reason and an excellent judge of character in regards to a sticky situation involving the 42 Entertainment article. Without your help and guidance, the article would continue to be vandalized and full of PR speak. I thank you ever so much. Argguy (talk) 01:57, 20 May 2009 (UTC) The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar In recognition of your work on Shlomo Sawilowsky‎, you deserve another Defender Barnstar. Wikipedia is not the place to post your résumé! Iulus Ascanius (talk) 15:47, 5 April 2010 (UTC) The Bio-star For contributing consistently excellent articles on plants and their biology. Rockpocket 09:37, 9 August 2010 (UTC) User:Smartse has been identified as an Awesome Wikipedian, and therefore, I've officially declared today as Smartse's day! For being such a beautiful person and great Wikipedian, enjoy being the Star of the day, dear Smartse! Peace, Rlevse 00:51, 10 August 2010 (UTC) A record of your Day will always be kept here. The Original Barnstar Thanks for all your help with the Did you know... Graham Colm (talk) 13:19, 8 December 2010 (UTC) Valued Contributor Award You have been identified as a valued contributor and your efforts are appreciated. We are honored to present you with the Valued Contributor Award and we thank you for donating your time, expertise and effort to Wikipedia. Keep up the good work. Thanks. (more details) Just wanted to say thanks for everything - Hydroxonium (H3O+) 12:04, 30 January 2011 (UTC) What a Brilliant Idea Barnstar In grateful appreciation for your brilliance in finding a solution to the WP:LINKROT problem that has plagued Wikipedia for years, I hereby award the "What a Brilliant Idea!" Barnstar to SmartSE. The man-hours and cost you saved the Wikimedia Foundation is inestimable. Thank you so very much for contributing to this project. I sincerely appreciate all that you do and can't thank you enough. - Hydroxonium (talk} 23:16, 7 February 2011 (UTC) The 25 31 DYK Creation and Expansion Medal A bit late. ;) And thanks for guiding me through the DYK process once upon a time. -- OBSIDIAN†SOUL 02:59, 19 March 2012 (UTC) The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar Big thanks for helping us out with a few pointers for our educational assignment - much appriciated! spamoom (talk) 15:13, 19 March 2012 (UTC)

DYK creations and expansions

1. ... that beta males of Paracerceis sculpta mimic females and gamma males mimic juveniles allowing them to mate without the alpha males realising? 2. ... that Acanthoplus discoidalis is able to squirt haemolymph up to 30 centimetres (11.8 in) when attacked by predators? 3. ... that the Wrinkle-faced Bat is able to bite 20% harder than other bats of a similar size allowing it to eat a wider range of fruits? 4. ... that the White-throated Round-eared Bat creates roosts inside the nests of the termite, Nasutitermes corniger? 5. ... that somebody jumped 8 feet 6 inches (2.59 m) high on a pogo stick at Pogopalooza this year? 6. ... that the termite Globitermes sulphureus uses autothysis, a form of suicidal altruism, to entangle intruder ants in a sticky substance? 7. ... that if a tree falls on seedlings of the Walking Palm its stilt roots allow it to re-root in a different location? 8. ... that the chemist Basil Weedon discovered the structure of many carotenoids including astaxanthin, rubixanthin and canthaxanthin? 9. ... that in a scientific paper, Equasy, David Nutt compared the risk of taking the drug ecstasy with the risk of horse riding? 10. ... that the Suicide Tree flowers only once before dying and falling over, creating a small gap for its seedlings to grow in? 11. ... that Xikuangshan mine was originally explored for tin but now is the largest antimony mine in the world? 12. ... that during his career Herman Phaff collected 6400 strains of yeast creating a collection containing 400 of the 700 identified species of yeast? 13. ... that Andrew Balmford found that eight-year-old British children could identify 80% of Pokémon characters but only 50% of common species of British wildlife? 14. ... that Erysiphe alphitoides, which causes powdery mildew on oak trees, is one of the most common diseases in European forests today, but may have originated in the tropics? 15. ... that systemin was the first identified plant peptide hormone and helps protect tomato plants against damage from herbivorous insects? 16. ... that the Ascension Island parsley fern was considered extinct until four plants were recently discovered on Ascension Island? 17. ... that the Simarouba species can be used as timber, for producing edible oils and to treat dysentery? 18. ... that tomatoes were the first commercially available genetically modified food? 19. ... that Parachartergus apicalis (pictured) will attack Camponotus atriceps if they try to tend their treehoppers? 20. ... that Darwin's bark spider makes the longest known spider web, spanning distances of up to 25 metres (82 ft), using the toughest known biomaterial, that is ten times as tough as Kevlar? 21. ... that killer shrimp have invaded Western Europe and could soon invade North America? 22. ... that then-unknown singer Estelle featured on DJ Skitz's debut album in 2001? 23. ... that the seeds of Simarouba amara are more likely to germinate once they have been eaten by monkeys? 24. ... that Euprenolepis procera is the first ant discovered that harvests and feeds on mushrooms (pictured)? 25. ... that Julian Assange's lawyer, Mark Stephens, was called the patron solicitor of lost causes? 26. ... that the snail Pittieria aurantiaca feeds on honeydew produced by the lantern bug Enchophora sanguinea (pictured), the first recorded trophobiotic interaction between a gastropod and an insect? 27. ... that the fruits of Ficus yoponensis are one of the preferred foods of the Mantled Howler Monkey and contain more vitamin C than any other possible foods? 28. ... that although the graceful fern is native to the tropics, it can survive temperatures as low as −7 °C (19 °F)? 29. ... that the long strap fern was one of the subjects of pteridomania? 30. ... that water-filled holes in the trunk of Platypodium elegans are an important habitat for the larvae of giant damselflies? 31. ... that Carl Rettenmeyer found hundreds of mite species that live on army ants, including one that acts as an extension to the foot whilst sucking blood? 32. ... that Streptomyces scabies causes common scab on potatoes? 33. ... that so-called bath salts, a class of designer drug that became popular in the last decade, often contain mephedrone, which was first synthesised in the 1920s? 34. ... that Redcliffe N. Salaman was the first person to identify genetic resistance to late blight in wild potatoes?

DYK nominations

1. ... that despite being in different classes, Bradyrhizobium and Klebsiella pneumoniae have similar genes for fixing nitrogen? 2. ... that the first find by the amateur metal detectorist, Nick Davies, was the Shrewsbury Hoard which contained around 10,000 bronze Roman coins? 3. ... that silver phosphate, which was used in early photography as a light-sensitive agent, has recently been found to function as a photocatalyst for the splitting of water? 4. ... that the Miage Glacier is the largest debris-covered glacier in Europe and the longest glacier in Italy? 5. ... that the bone skipper came back from the dead after 160 years to feed on rotting bones? 6. ... that the most massive known neutron star is approximately 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) in diameter, but has a mass twice that of the Sun? 7. ... that the fungus Oidium mangiferae causes powdery mildew on mango trees? 8. ... that in certain organisms sperm stored by females allows for a process called sperm competition? 9. ... that picnic beetles (example pictured) are attracted to beer? 10. ... that the 150-million-year-old ink of the extinct, squid-like Belemnotheutis (artist's rendition pictured) was used to draw a picture that paleontologists called "the ultimate self portrait"? 11. ... that recent quantum chemical calculations have established that arsoles are only moderately aromatic?