User:Shearonink

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Sometimes...sometimes I find little articles and I feel sorry for them. So I try to fix them up and hope they stay around. Sometimes they fall afoul of AfD despite my best efforts and sometimes I change my mind and decide they're not worth fighting for.

— Rlevse • Talk • 06:02, 21 June 2010 (UTC)

An expanded copy of the main page on that day is in User:Shearonink/Main page 2010 June 21.  Chzz   ►  14:08, 21 June 2010 (UTC)

The DYK project (nominate) 00:04, 23 July 2010 (UTC)

-- Cirt (talk) 12:03, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

Cbl62 (talk) 06:04, 6 November 2010 (UTC)

The DYK project (nominate) 12:03, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

—HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 00:03, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

Materialscientist (talk) 18:02, 17 June 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for this article Victuallers (talk) 12:02, 5 November 2011 (UTC)

The DYK project (nominate) 00:04, 26 December 2011 (UTC)

The DYK project (nominate) 00:03, 17 February 2012 (UTC)

Graeme Bartlett (talk) 00:02, 4 October 2012 (UTC)

21:59, 8 June 2011 Morton Sumner (talk • contribs)

Thanks for being willing to help me!

Songcat (talk) 22:48, 15 November 2011 (UTC)

Thank you so much for your kind words about my article. I am not an English major in any way lol so it was quite a compliment to be nominated for the Did You Know. Thanks again.

Runmikeyrun (talk) 03:00, 9 February 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for collaborating in #wikipedia-en-help

Hybirdd (talk) 20:39, 30 January 2013 (UTC)

Editor Worm That Turned submitted the following nomination for Editor of the Week and Sainsf seconded it:

I nominate Shearonink to be Editor of the Week for his hard work on Wikipedia. Shearonink has been around a long time (20K edits, 36% to articles) and talks a lot of sense, but hasn't had much recognition of those facts. He used to live in at the IRC help channel, helping out those who needed it and that used to be a lot of people (I don't really go in there any more, so I can't talk for more recent events). Ever since his friends have started leaving, he seems to have slightly disappeared. I wanted him to know that it's not just his friends who appreciate who he is! It is all of Wikipedia.

You can copy the following text to your user page to display a user box proclaiming your selection as Editor of the Week:

{{subst:Wikipedia:WikiProject Editor Retention/Editor of the Week/Recipient user box}}

Thanks again for your efforts! Buster Seven Talk 11:13, 14 May 2016 (UTC)

Ok... Sorry if I stepped in it, didn't mean to possibly offend, you're one of my favorites around here. Shearonink (talk) 21:44, 29 November 2017 (UTC)

PS - And you write great articles and have a level head on your shoulders and a keen grasp of WP-editing practices. Anytime you want to run for any WP-stuff (oh, I don't know...like maybe the door? lol) I'd be very happy to support you. Shearonink (talk) 21:44, 29 November 2017 (UTC)

PPS - And let me know if you need any articles GA-reviewed. Shearonink (talk) 21:44, 29 November 2017 (UTC)

Psssst - Maybe you know about it but your signature is giving folks the emailing-link thingy. Shearonink (talk) 21:44, 29 November 2017 (UTC)

Serial, I am absolutely gobsmacked and bereft, you have no idea. Shearonink (talk) 21:15, 30 November 2017 (UTC)

[1], and, in any case, i could hardly leave before the aforementioned GANs are done :p  ;) Cheers! Serial Number 54129 11:52, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

oh! welcome back. (happy face) Shearonink (talk) 17:00, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

Yes, only a small hiaitus after all, v sorry to distract everbody... Serial Number 54129 17:42, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

NeilN talk to me  02:33, 30 November 2017 (UTC)

Thank you NeilN that's very kind. Glad it's useful for folks. I give all credit to DBigXray - I just took what he started and tried to make a help for the folks like me who stumble into WP and feel lost about everything, including "how in the world do I make these wiki-references?". Cheers, Shearonink (talk) 03:00, 30 November 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for standing up for me. I thought my level 3 warning was kind of too much too. I like editing Wikipedia in my freetime and thought my sources were alright. I don't ever add spam or weird content. Just a fan of Erika Jayne and I always add sources. I wish you all the best and happy holidays!

Lollo12345678 (talk) 21:02, 30 November 2018 (UTC)

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:22, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:23, 10 December 2019 (UTC)

Thanks Gerda Arendt. It meant a lot to get it, means a lot to be reminded of it. Shearonink (talk) 14:27, 10 December 2019 (UTC)

—Kusma (talk) 00:03, 6 June 2022 (UTC)

SilkTork - Awwww, thanks! Muchly appreciated. I just nominated it for a DYK? - see Template:Did you know nominations/Kline's Mill, Virginia. Lol, think I stuffed enough hooks in there? Shearonink (talk) 11:01, 11 October 2022 (UTC)

Awwwww, thank you so much. I felt so badly about this GA. I reviewed it and things slipped past me, as they all slipped past so many of us. Didn't seem right to me that this notable person's article could lose its GA designation - though I do completely understand the why...I think it will retain its present designation. Speaking of engraving, you should see the last source I got my hands on...I actually bought it used but it is basically a pristine copy. Turns out this book is so rare (and I believe it's out of print) that I am hoping to donate it to a local library's reference room. Shearonink (talk) 16:55, 28 February 2023 (UTC)

Thank you - greatly appreciated. Shearonink (talk) 19:58, 20 March 2023 (UTC)

Thanks so much. - Shearonink (talk) 15:32, 1 July 2025 (UTC)

Thank you. I think it will make it to GA. - Shearonink (talk) 21:12, 20 July 2026 (UTC)

• List of racing cyclists and pacemakers with a cycling-related death

A slight Update...I have taken this Featured List off my Watchlist and have abandoned it to the tender mercies of a non-collegial HERETORIGHTGREATWRONGS recalcitrant editor. I have no special rights to this List, but wanted to mention the fact that I rescued it from its previously-awful, completely-unreferenced, stubby state as seen here in the version I started working on almost 13 years ago. Au revoir.

• Bath School disaster

• Mountain Meadows Massacre
• Nathaniel G. S. Hart
• Benjamin Franklin Graves (soldier)
• DeFord Bailey
• Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
• Ramsdell Theatre
• Stephen Bishop (cave explorer)...also remembered to nom this one for "DYK?..."
• Solomon Hughes (actor)...this isn't a WP:GA. Yet.

• Ramsdell Theatre...Wikipedia:Good article reassessment/Ramsdell Theatre/1
• Thomas Johnston (engraver)...Wikipedia:Good article reassessment/Thomas Johnston (engraver)/1

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