User:GeneralizationsAreBad

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This user is interested in the history of the Cold War .

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Vietnamese food

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My Work

Substantial content work

Credits

This user helped promote Operation Barbarossa to good article status.

This user helped promote Battle of Kursk to good article status.

This user helped promote No Gun Ri Massacre to good article status.

This user helped promote Carré d'As IV incident to good article status.

This user helped promote Operation Infinite Reach to good article status.

This user helped promote 1995 CIA disinformation controversy to good article status.

This user helped promote Operation Infinite Reach to featured article status .

A fact from the article Battle of Kursk , which this user created or significantly contributed to, has been featured in the Did you know... section on the Main Page.

A fact from the article Carré d'As IV incident , which this user created or significantly contributed to, has been featured in the Did you know... section on the Main Page.

A fact from the article 1995 CIA disinformation controversy , which this user created or significantly contributed to, has been featured in the Did you know... section on the Main Page.

A fact from the article Operation Infinite Reach , which this user created or significantly contributed to, has been featured in the Did you know... section on the Main Page.

This editor won the Million Award for bringing Operation Barbarossa to Good Article status.

This editor won the Half Million Award for bringing Battle of Kursk to Good Article status.

Quotes

"We are not from the PRC propaganda department. We are just a bunch of new editors created within seconds of eachother who are inexplicably interested in Censorship in China."

— TransversalAngle , 22:14, 27 January 2016 on Talk:Censorship in China.

"Hey, don't don't minimize the blocker. You have to move your mouse to the right place on the SPI, you have to click, then on the block form you have to move your mouse over the block button and click again. That's at least two moves and two clicks. Absolutely exhausting."

— Bbb23 , 16:37, 7 November 2015 on Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Vanjagenije.

"I can't even tell WTF this Google Boys Arimalam thing is. Some kind of internet social group? A gang? If it's a gang, I gotta say, that name is wack."

— Cyphoidbomb , 18:08, 13 December 2016 on Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Google Boys Arimalam GBA.

"Making a legal threat to a bot is probably unfair, but others will be able to respond."

— EdJohnston , 1:12, 21 October 2018 on Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents.

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GeneralizationsAreBad guards against disruption.

GeneralizationsAreBad rolls back vandalism.

GeneralizationsAreBad searches for new tasks.

GeneralizationsAreBad observes an edit war from afar.

GeneralizationsAreBad approaches a contentious article with caution.

GeneralizationsAreBad edits an article before GA nomination.

GeneralizationsAreBad blocks a vandal.

GeneralizationsAreBad tags a sockpuppet.

GeneralizationsAreBad closes an ANI thread.

Trinkets

The Good Article Barnstar

For your joint contributions and brilliant copyediting efforts in bringing this article Operation Barbarossa to GA-status, I award you, EyeTruth, Delldot, GeneralizationsAreBad, Nick-D, Irondome, Hashi0707, P. S. Burton, MisterBee1966, Obenritter, and everyone else I forgot to mention this Barnstar! Awesome job, keep it up. :) Jonas Vinther • (speak to me!) 18:58, 16 May 2015 (UTC)

Kursk Barnstar

For your matchless contribution in getting the Battle of Kursk to GA. EyeTruth (talk) 16:45, 4 July 2015 (UTC)

The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar

For your all your great work against vandalism and personal attacks on Wikipedia, I award you the Anti-Vandalism Barnstar. Keep up the appreciated work, friend. :) Jonas Vinther • (Click here to collect your price!) 10:47, 20 July 2015 (UTC)

battle for credible, respected information
Thank you, user with the punny name who wants refreshingly no less than "to improve Wikipedia's much-maligned reputation, and transform it into a credible, respected source of research and news information", for quality articles such as Battle of Kursk and Operation Barbarossa, for patrolling new content and copy-editing, for sharing the Million award - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:04, 25 July 2015 (UTC)

The Barnstar of Diligence

For your contributions and scrutiny to the betterment of Third Reich and World War II related articles, I award you this Barnstar. Kierzek (talk) 17:27, 15 August 2015 (UTC)

The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar

Thank you for performing vandal patrol on my talk page - I never even saw them come and go! Scr★pIron ^IV 21:29, 23 October 2015 (UTC)

The Civility Barnstar

For staying civil, calm during personal attacks, and setting a good example on how to edit Wikipedia, I award you the Civility Barnstar! :) Jonas Vinther • (Click here to collect your price!) 17:39, 14 November 2015 (UTC)

The Barnstar of Good Humor

HA! I just found the funniest thing on Wikipedia: your Fun Insult Userboxes! I wish I could make one of these but people aren't creative enough when insulting me! Eteethan (talk) 01:06, 9 December 2015 (UTC)

The Sherlock Holmes Deductive Reasoning Award

For your efforts in spending the time and straightening up that mess created by the 50 Cent Party vandals on the Censorship in China page. Well done! Hammersbach (talk) 16:06, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

Peacemaker67 RfA Appreciation award

Thank you for participating and supporting at my RfA. It was very much appreciated, and I am humbled that the community saw fit to trust me with the tools. Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 04:45, 6 February 2016 (UTC)

The Copyeditor's Barnstar

For excellence in copyediting Tingey House, among many other articles. LavaBaron (talk) 06:38, 12 June 2016 (UTC)

The Half Barnstar

It's rare to see editors work through disagreements as well as you and Cjhanley. Rhoark (talk) 20:38, 26 August 2016 (UTC)

The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar

For helping Wikipedia maintain its encyclopedic form. Jupitus Smart 17:11, 23 December 2016 (UTC)

I am pleased to award this Triple Crown to GeneralizationsAreBad for outstanding work with the article Operation Infinite Reach. Well done. Freikorp (talk) 21:15, 25 December 2016 (UTC)

Congratulations, it's a...

...Wikipedia Good Article!! Shearonink (talk) 03:04, 2 January 2017 (UTC)

The Barnstar of Diligence

Thanks for patrolling new pages and your SPI work! JustBerry (talk) 17:10, 7 January 2017 (UTC)

The Copyeditor's Barnstar

Thank you for your copyediting help with the article Whataboutism . The article is much improved thanks to your copyediting efforts. I really appreciate your time stepping into this one and your general writing skill. Sagecandor (talk) 06:23, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

The Admin's Barnstar

205?? Man and I thought 199 was good! Congrats on earning (and I do mean EARNING) the mop! RickinBaltimore (talk) 15:53, 13 July 2017 (UTC)

The Userpage Barnstar

Hi greetings, this is for your hard work for creating a beautiful and attractive userpage. PATH SLOPU ^{(Talk )} 10:51, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

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Five pillars
- Ignore all rules

Content (?)

P	Verifiability No original research Neutral point of view What Wikipedia is not Biographies of living persons Copyright (Copyright violations) Image use Article titles
G	Notability Autobiography Citing sources Reliable sources Medicine Do not include copies of lengthy primary sources Plagiarism Don't create hoaxes Fringe theories Patent nonsense External links

Conduct (?)

P	Civility Consensus Harassment Vandalism Ignore all rules No personal attacks Ownership of content Edit warring Dispute resolution Sockpuppetry No legal threats Child protection Paid-contribution disclosure
G	Assume good faith Conflict of interest Disruptive editing Do not disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point Etiquette Gaming the system Please do not bite the newcomers Courtesy vanishing Responding to threats of harm Talk page guidelines Signatures

Deletion (?)

P	Deletion policy Proposed deletion Biographies Speedy deletion Attack page Oversight Revision deletion

Enforcement (?)

P	Administrators Banning Blocking Page protection

Editing (?)

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Article size Summary style Be bold Disambiguation Hatnotes Broad-concept article Understandability
Style	Manual of Style Contents Accessibility Dates and numbers Images Layout Lead section Linking Lists
Classification	Categories, lists, and navigation templates Categorization Template namespace

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Crat statistics
Action	Count
Edits	48719
Edits+Deleted	54551
Pages deleted	1644
Revisions deleted	290
Logs/Events deleted	12
Pages restored	137
Pages protected	304
Protections modified	30
Users blocked	4077
Users reblocked	249
Users unblocked	23
User rights modified	61
Users created	1
Users renamed	90

Admin actions for GeneralizationsAreBad
Type of action		Percentage
Deletion/Undeletion	1781		26.09%
Block/Reblock	4349		63.70%
Protection/Unprotection	334		4.89%
RevDel	302		4.42%
User rights	61		0.89%

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