User:Auldrick

This is a personal page where I keep my quick reference list and other stuff that I use a lot when editing the wiki. If you want to send me a message, please use my Talk page.

Auldrick is from a nickname^[1] my much younger friends gave me years ago, recast now to a form that not only enhances its/my Celtic roots but is also original enough to qualify as a near-globally-unique user id without the necessity of either

xFRAMINGxITxINxAxWAYxNOBODYxELSExWOULDxEVERxTHINKxOFxINxAxMILLIONxYEARSx,^[2] or
having a computer-generated serial number appended like some kind of unoriginality merit badge.

Better still, it's short, pronounceable, and at least some people ^[3] will find its meaning transparent.

↑ "Old Rick", sometimes with the jocular epithet "...the Barbarian".
↑ Thirty years ago, X was the least-used letter in English. Now, Google indexes more words that both start and end in X than any other letter. Statisticians point out that the use of X is multiplying and warn that a chi-square distribution may soon lead to a worldwide shortage. Algebraists counter that the true usage of X is unknown.
↑ Scots and logophiles. Especially Scottish logophiles.

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Article page	`[[Crafting Table]]`	Crafting Table
Article talk page	`[[Talk:Slab]]`	Talk:Slab
User page	`[[User:Auldrick]]`	User:Auldrick
User talk page	`[[User talk:Auldrick]]`	User talk:Auldrick
Category page	`[[:Category:Biomes]]`	Category:Biomes
Template page	`[[Template:Exclusive]]`	Template:Exclusive
File page	`[[:File:TaigaBay.jpg]]`	File:TaigaBay.jpg
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Personal Projects[]

/Rewrite Add-on	Convert Add-on from a landing page for Mojang documentation to an article about what add-ons are and what they're used for.
Review pages that link to Add-on	Delete links that still treat Add-on as a documentation landing page.
/Delete Add-on documentation	Delete the outdated, now-unofficial Mojang documentation formerly linked from Add-on and Official pages.
Write Behavior Pack	Create an overview article
Review Resource Pack	See if changes are necessary to link smoothly from Add-on to Resource Pack. (The latter describes both Java and Bedrock resource packs, but Add-on is exclusive to Bedrock.)
Review Skin pack	Same as above but for links to Skin Pack.

Completed Work[]

Pocket Edition Celestial Mechanics[]

Little known fact: In MCPE prior to 1.1, the sun, moon, and stars rose in the north, not the east. The wiki didn't mention it at the time and MCPE didn't (and still doesn't) have the Debug screen, so I made all my navigation notes with the wrong assumption. When I figured it out, I made changes to the following pages to keep other PE users from making the same mistake.

~~Sun~~ Done
~~Moon~~ Done
~~Day-night cycle~~ Done
~~The Overworld~~ Done
~~Tutorials/Navigation~~ Done
~~Tutorials/Tips_and_tricks~~ Done

The rising of the sun and moon was corrected in release 1.1, so I removed my changes. The stars were overlooked in that fix, so they weren't corrected until 1.1.2 (I think).