User:Phlox

Formerly known as User:Knife Maker, an account I have retired. I realized that my former moniker sounds vaguely threatening/ testosterone laden so I changed it to Phlox- as in the good doctor of NX-01 Enterprise. I am heavily interested in the Messerli family tree, genetic genealogy.

PhloxBot is a bot I occaisionally operate for maintenance tasks. Help on this subject may be found on it's user page, but if you'd like to discuss something, please leave a message on my talk page, not the talk page of the bot.

Anyway, if you have any questions or comments on pages I have edited, please post on my discussion page. The following is a cheat sheet for my use.

Cheat sheets

 * Genealogical Definitions
 * Editing Reference- Syntax of wikitext
 * User:Phlox/new article
 * regular expressions cheat sheet
 * Color Table accepted textual names, eg "lime" and hex numbers

Nice example pages

 * tree template User:WMWillis/Tree
 * heavily researched article Captain William Henry Dobbs (1716-1781)
 * tabbed interface Thomas (Lt.) Putnam (1615-1686)

To Do

 * User:Phlox/TBD

Infrastructure

 * Collapsible lists?
 * Identification of apparently distinct "Branches" as in other families eg: (Niklaus), Samuel, George, John Messerly (bef1762)
 * Update tables in List of genetic results derived from historical figures
 * Add some trees to Riggs DNA article to illustrate
 * Famous persons signatures.
 * DNA template- make it also do a straight DNA table like those at http://isogg.org/famousdna.htm
 * add red highlights for the markers with high polymorphism.

fun stuff

 * Messerly crest? or other mark?
 * Cyndi's List
 * signature from wwI draft reg.

Potential references

 * footnote.com
 * Godfrey Memorial Library- looks like good source of colonial period data
 * zabasearch