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Our work together here should be our armor, not some sharp, angry, burning sword. I would strongly recommend that everyone here find an article to work on for a while; not the cliche "random article", but something that gives you a nice tug at the heartstrings. It feels great to be out there doing work on something you genuinely care about, and I assure you it'll help you regain the sense of why you're here.

Personal

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Icon This user has been on Wikipedia for 20years, 7months and 30days.
This user has publicly declared that he has a conflict of interest regarding these Wikipedia articles:

My Wiki-bio, circa 2015, for an article about me by a journalist.

Professionally, I'm a software engineer. (That's a computer programmer that's more full of themselves.) My longest stint was for a company which knows everything except how to spell its name, then another few years for a small software company; then two years for my uncle. I've written most of a few articles about each, see the box to the right. I've been a Wikipedian longest.

I got to do this neat thing for the earlier one, which once helped people find free (as-in-speech) images, including those usable for this project. It's been gutted since, I'm afraid, but I was once very proud of it. Using it and other tools I've found over 5,000 images to illustrate articles and put them on Wikimedia Commons. Here is my images to-do list.

You'll notice the articles I've written have mostly gotten better over time. The little icons by the name of each article are the quality rating, assigned by other people. They are, in order: Stub: very short/incomplete (but most of the articles on the Wikipedia are in this category); Start: just the bare minimum; : C; B; Good article (1/200); A (rarely used); Featured Article: one of the best on the project (1/1000). My early articles, at the tops of the lists below, are mostly start and stub class, while my more recent ones, usually at the bottoms are mostly Bs. None of the last grades yet, but eventually! The numbers following are the average daily page views for each.

Barnstars

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Informal awards, when editors liked something I did. Appreciated! 17 so far! Actual awarding thereof may generally be found in my talk page archives.

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I Angelbo award you this Barnstar for your game and RPG related contributions Angelbo 04:14, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
The Article Rescue Barnstar
I award you this barnstar for the rescue and referencing of Sue Fink, Susan Owens and Wallace Reyburn Ϣere Spiel Chequers 15:45, 27 January 2010 (UTC)
The Socratic Barnstar
For your well phrased arguments at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Anders Blixt. Pcap ping 15:31, 10 February 2010 (UTC)
The Barnstar of Good Humor
Thank you for the good sense and the shared smile. Schmidt, MICHAEL Q. 01:04, 20 October 2011 (UTC)
The Barnstar of Diplomacy
Thank you for such a practical choice on the C shell article. Msnicki (talk) 22:06, 26 August 2013 (UTC)
What a Brilliant Idea Barnstar
Your idea to look at FA nomination was clever. While not the whole story, it is an interesting way to gather some relevant information. S Philbrick (Talk) 14:03, 8 September 2014 (UTC)

(That's referring to the study I did for WikiProject Countering systemic bias/Gender gap task force when someone asked whether it really mattered to Wikipedia article content that only 16% of us editors were female? I showed that at least for one reasonably sized subset of Wikipedia:Featured Articles biographies, women wrote about women 2x as often as about men, and men and undeclared editors wrote about men 5x as often as about women.)

The Original Barnstar
Thanks for protecting my Photo and Others from Copyright Infringement. I have corrected my name name on Panaramio. Thanks ChuckBerglund (talk) 14:09, 9 February 2016 (UTC)

(This is about https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/File:Atmospheric_Refraction_Sunrise.jpg)

The Reviewer's Barnstar
This is for your valuable efforts for reviewing articles under pending changes protection. Thank you PATH SLOPU 14:28, 14 June 2019 (UTC)
Valued Picture Barnstar
For your timely addition of the photo to María José Cristerna‎ while the DYK entry was still on the main page. This is one case where a picture was worth more than a thousand words. Nick Number (talk) 18:38, 13 September 2019 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar
For stepping up at RfA. Ad Orientem (talk) 23:50, 9 November 2019 (UTC)
Valued Picture Barnstar
That's a great pic you added to Tanitoluwa Adewumi I hadn't seen that one before - and everything I had found is in copyright. Narky Blert (talk) 22:50, 5 May 2020 (UTC)
The Special Barnstar
For your careful, detailed, continuing review of 2channel. Thanks! By the way, the Barubora (2005) source contains more than enough for a whole Ayashii World and an actually coherent Futaba Channel article! Plan to write/DYK both of those this year. Hopefully 2channel too if it passes GA! Psiĥedelisto (talk • contribs) please always ping! 02:16, 3 June 2020 (UTC)
The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
Dear GRuban: This barnstar is long overdue! Thank you for your continual availability and willingness to help us copyright-ignorant editors improve the visual look of our articles. Thank you for your incredible patience as you explain exactly what needs to be done, and often go ahead and just do it for us! Your kindness makes Wikipedia a much nicer place to spend our free time. Thanks again! Yoninah (talk) 22:06, 5 September 2020 (UTC)
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Phone a friend award
You make this a better place! Thank you for trying to get the message out there at DYK! Bruxton (talk) 19:35, 18 June 2022 (UTC)

(That's about my efforts in this conversation.)

The Original Barnstar
For Kessel Run!! Gives me hope!! Buckshot06 (talk) 00:14, 31 December 2024 (UTC)
The Categorisation Barnstar
Hi there!! excellent work on the new category Category:European theatre World War II board wargames. So glad to have someone else joining me, in my effort to refine and split the category for World War II board war games. well done indeed! cheers! Sm8900 (talk) 16:25, 24 January 2025 (UTC)
Thanks for adding the image for Elisheva Biernoff! I checked Commons, but need to get better at using the neat thing you made while at the company that can't spell its name;) Jonathan Deamer (talk) 12:49, 3 February 2025 (UTC)
The Special Barnstar
Thanks for sourcing an image of Nadeesha Uyangoda - it really improves the article so much! Lajmmoore (talk) 19:58, 15 March 2025 (UTC)

Games

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Role-Playing Games

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Cthulhu for President

Besides minor edits, my early work was in Category:Role-playing games.

Other Games

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Laura M. Robinson

Wikipedia Support

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I wrote or stubbed the following as part of fulfilling Wikipedia:Requested articles (and the former Wikipedia:Articles requested for more than two years):

This project tries to make up for the fact that most Wikipedia editors are technically savvy first world males.

Collaborations

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One of the best things about Wikipedia is the ability to work with the other dedicated editors. These are articles that I wrote in collaboration with or based on starts or ideas by other Wikipedia editors.

SusunW articles

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User:SusunW is the real author of these articles about historical women, mostly Wikipedia:Good articles, that she gave me joint DYK credit for, which I don't really deserve. For most of these I only uploaded an image or two (which Susun usually found herself), occasionally translated, consulted, helped with research ... in short, my contribution is under 10% of any of these, under 1% of most. But she gave me that credit, so I'm taking it!

Other

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Creationist museums

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From an Articles for deletion discussion where I was challenged to create some articles to prove it could be done.

Not creationist museum

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Leslie Schwartz

From another Articles for deletion discussion where the claim was made that winners of this award aren't notable. So far - well, as I look into it, some were, and some weren't. These are some that were. Also expanded article on the society and award. The article in question was deleted anyway, but restored eight years later.

Ukraine

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I have the honor or misfortune of having been born in Russia, so the 2022 Russo-Ukrainian War has been particularly poignant.

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