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This user has been on Wikipedia for 20 years, 6 months and 20 days.
This user has been editing Wikipedia for more than 15 years.

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Hi, my name is Tom Ruen. If you'd like to contact me, try out the form at: Special:Emailuser/tomruen

I also edit from User:SockPuppetForTomruen, mostly for eclipses.

I first came on here to edit on April 28, 2004 (19 years ago now!) It is an addicting idea to try to add to something much bigger than I could ever do. I am a little skeptical over the idea of freedom to change anything, but overall I'm very impressed by the quality of articles and I have faith good work is being done and I can add to it.

There are many quality websites out there and it seems silly to duplicate too much. I like the idea of learning about something and testing my knowledge by trying to share it. For me that motivates much of my efforts here.

Primary topics I've worked on include geometry, and astronomy.

My specialty has primarily been image generation, perhaps because I've found so many articles where useful images were absent. I try to make quality images, but I will compromise perfection for meaningful improvement. I'm happy if anyone can replace my images with better ones.

Active work and subpages

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Images
Home SpaceUniform polyhedra(Thanks Rob!) Truncated icosidodecahedron Uniform tilings Hyperbolic tilings {∞,∞}(Thanks Anton !) t0,1,2,3{5,3,3}, Uniform polychora(Thanks Fritz!) Uniform honeycombs(Thanks Anton!) {5,3,4} Hyperbolic honeycombs(Thanks Jeff!) {34,2,1}, Semiregular E-polytopesThanks Rocchini! t{3,5,3}, Hyperbolic honeycombsThanks Roice! {6,3,3} Paracompact uniform honeycombsMore thanks Rocchini! {3,3,7} Lorentzian honeycombThanks Roice! {7,3,3} Lorentzian honeycombThanks Roice! Past Future Leap years

Artistic comparison of Pluto, Eris, Makemake, Haumea, Gonggong (2007 OR10), Sedna, Quaoar, Orcus, 2002 MS4, and Salacia.

Samantha Harvey in 2019

Samantha Harvey

European bison

The European bison (Bison bonasus), also known as the wisent, is a mammal in the family Bovidae. It is one of two extant species of bison. Having been hunted to extinction in the wild by the early 20th century, the European bison was reintroduced to the wild in various European countries by the 2010s, following captive breeding programmes. It is the heaviest wild land animal in Europe, and individuals in the past may have been even larger than their modern-day descendants. The largest bulls of the species have a mass of up to 1,000 kilograms (2,200 lb). The European bison is a herd animal, which lives in both mixed and solely male groups. Mixed groups consist of adult females, calves, young aged two to three years, and young adult bulls. A typical herd numbers around eight to thirteen animals on average. This male European bison was photographed in the Białowieża Forest, Poland.Photograph credit: Charles J. Sharp