User:Anachronist
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Hi, I'm Axl Matulić, A.K.A. Anachronist. My old username User:Amatulic redirects here. My Wiktionary account Wiktionary:User:Anachronist offers an explanation of the username.
I am an administrator here on the English Wikipedia and a member of the Volunteer Response Team (VRT). I'm also a bureaucrat and administrator with the same username on the Minecraft Wiki.
Background
I used to be a scientist working as an engineer in the military field of stealth technology and more recently as a program manager for Silicon Valley tech companies. Now I'm retired and doing occasional freelance 3D design work.
I enjoy anime, role-playing games, educational topics, and especially travel. I'm first-generation American, my mother is German, my father is Croatian, my spouse is Singaporean. I have traveled all over Europe and Eastern Europe, also Canada and Mexico, as well as Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, and Southeast Asia (particularly Singapore as well as Malaysia and Thailand). I must say Croatia is one of the more beautiful countries I have ever seen, and Stockholm and Dubrovnik are the most beautiful cities I have visited. Unfortunately I have never set foot south of the equator (Singapore is the closest I've come), and hope to do that someday.
I enjoy good wine. Read my profile on the Wikipedia wine project.
Also, I maintain a mathematics-related blog, NABLU (Numerical Analysis Better Left Unsaid), which I update sporadically every few months, mostly for educational purposes and for my own amusement.
Projects
![]() | This user is a participant in WikiProject Wine. |
![]() | This user is a participant in WikiProject Spam. |
![]() | This user is a member of WikiProject Skepticism. |
![]() | This user values third opinions and occasionally provides one. |
Last dozen or so contributions
20 August 2024
- 19:0019:00, 20 August 2024 diff hist +208 Wikipedia:Teahouse →Issue with Wikipedia Page Deletion After Successful Publication by a Freelancer: tagged Tag: Reply
- 18:5818:58, 20 August 2024 diff hist +66 Draft:Abdelouahhab Zaid →top: tagging draft with new 'owner'
- 18:5618:56, 20 August 2024 diff hist +277 Wikipedia:Teahouse →Should I resubmit or not?: Reply Tag: Reply
- 18:4918:49, 20 August 2024 diff hist +286 Wikipedia:Teahouse →Looking for better image - Michael A. Hess: probably the best that can be done Tag: Reply
- 18:4718:47, 20 August 2024 diff hist +279 Michael A. Hess →Personal life: I don't know why this critical closure detail was omitted current
- 16:3516:35, 20 August 2024 diff hist +204 Wikipedia:Teahouse →Looking for better image - Michael A. Hess: Reply Tag: Reply
- 02:0802:08, 20 August 2024 diff hist +151 Wikipedia:Teahouse →Wrong edit summary left: patrolled Tag: Reply
19 August 2024
- 23:5623:56, 19 August 2024 diff hist +153 Wikipedia:Teahouse →Looking for better image - Michael A. Hess: Reply Tag: Reply
- 23:5323:53, 19 August 2024 diff hist −44 Wikipedia:Teahouse →Media statistics for Wikipedia: revise reply, I missed part of the question
- 23:5023:50, 19 August 2024 diff hist +329 Wikipedia:Teahouse →Media statistics for Wikipedia: Reply Tag: Reply
- 21:1821:18, 19 August 2024 diff hist +306 Wikipedia:Teahouse →SVG file displaying(?) incorrectly: looks fine to me
- 21:1321:13, 19 August 2024 diff hist +312 Wikipedia:Teahouse →Good movie websites: that's a good list Tag: Reply
- 21:0721:07, 19 August 2024 diff hist +204 Wikipedia:Teahouse →Looking for better image - Michael A. Hess: Reply Tag: Reply
Articles I started
- Naugahide — my first-ever experimental edit that got merged into Naugahyde
- Sirrah (disambiguation)
- Plavac Mali
- Kastel (disambiguation)
- Advanced Enclosed Mast/Sensor
- Steviol glycoside
- Guy Montag Doe v. San Francisco Housing Authority
- Average directional movement index
- Wine list
- Glider (furniture)
- Wikipedia:Notability (wine topics)
- Crock (disambiguation)
- Enrober
- Funding bias
- Sayyid Baraka
- Up-island spider
- Faux Faulkner contest
- True strength index
- Too Tough to Care
- Wilhelm Busch (disambiguation)
- Red Deer Cave people
- Just This Once
- Bitmessage
- Lycopus lucidus
- Verrückt (disambiguation)
- Clarence N. Hickman
- The Train Is Coming
- Nobel Prize effect
- ATM: Er Rak Error
- Zona (streaming video software)
- Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/today
- Betwixt (disambiguation)
- Historical rankings of heads of government
- Surfactant leaching
- Stride (software)
- Gayla Industries
- Monotrophic diet
- Opulence (disambiguation)
- Manuel Pizarro (disambiguation)
- Solid (web decentralization project)
- Template:SealifePhotos
- Chickapig
- Tinkercad
- Paul Trappen
- Blue Aquarius
- Fair Warning (Connelly novel)
- Perineum sunning
- Ellen Baker (disambiguation)
- Assembly theory
- The Brothers O'Toole
- Gameknight999 (after writing all those before it, this was my first article submission via WP:AFC)
- Magnesium torch
- Balls to the wall (disambiguation)
- Sugar Shot to Space
- User:Anachronist/Reliable sources (university presses) (essay)
- Offler (disambiguation)
- Three sheets to the wind (disambiguation)
DYKs
Articles I wrote that appeared on the "Did you know" section of the Wikipedia home page:
![]() | On 17 March 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Red Deer Cave people, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the Red Deer Cave people are the youngest prehistoric people discovered who do not appear similar to modern humans? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Red Deer Cave people. |
![]() | On 26 February 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Just This Once, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the 1993 romance novel Just This Once was authored by a computer in collaboration with its programmer? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Just This Once. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. |
On 23 April 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Nobel Prize effect, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that according to Richard Hamming, Nobel Prize winners often discover they can no longer work on small problems? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Nobel Prize effect. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Nobel Prize effect), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
On 4 August 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Solid (web decentralization project), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee created the Solid Project to reclaim the Web from corporations and return control of data to users? You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Solid (web decentralization project)), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
On 30 July 2021, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Assembly theory, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that assembly theory provides an experimentally verifiable way of detecting extraterrestrial life without needing to define what life is? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Assembly theory. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Assembly theory), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
My images
On Commons
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Viognier grapevine
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Zinfandel grapes
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Sangiovese grapes
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Balloon plant detail
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"Karma Sangria", a cultivar of cactus dahlia
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Two bees foraging on a dahlia "party" flower
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Inaccessible section of the Berkeley Pier
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Unusual fortune cookie message
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Surfactant leaching on a bathroom wall
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Belgian raspberry lambic
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Advertising Carol Doda at the Condor Club
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Purple and yellow flowering ice plants
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OK Kosher Certification with Dairy designation
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Icosahedron construction in OpenSCAD
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Half pyramid construction in OpenSCAD
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Salvia guaranitica or Blue Anise Sage
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3D printed nose whistle
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Forward metachronal wave
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Backward metachronal wave
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Tessellation using Texas-shaped tiles
On Wikipedia
- Non-free images
- File:CupNoodle.jpg used in Cup Noodles
- File:Glide floss brands.jpg used in Oral-B Glide
- File:Draken_front.jpg used in Draken International
- File:Shithole_countries_cnn.jpg used in seven dirty words
- File:Gayla_Industries_logo.png used in Gayla Industries
- File:Magnesium_torch_Cousteau.png used in magnesium torch
- Free images
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Twin prong cork puller failure
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Jug wine refilling station
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Surfactant leaching of latex paint
Third opinions
I enjoy offering third opinions in disputes between two editors who have reached an impasse. There's something satisfying about coming to an article I have no opinion about, studying the edit history and talk page discussion, and offering a neutral disinterested viewpoint in an attempt to resolve the dispute. I think the Wikipedia:Third opinion page is a great vehicle for dispute resolution, and more people should use it and participate. My third opinions:
- 2006
- 2006-10-26 Talk:Theodorus Jacobus Frelinghuysen#Third opinion
- 2006-10-29 Talk:Augustus John#Vandalism
- 2006-10-30 Talk:Black Entertainment Television/Archive 1#Criticism Section
- 2006-11-03 Talk:Barbara Pierce Bush#Third opinion and Talk:Jenna Bush/Archive1#Third opinion
- 2006-11-07 Talk:ZDaemon#Clan activity
- 2006-11-08 Talk:Prophet (disambiguation)#Third opinion
- 2006-11-09 Wikipedia talk:Notability (web)/Archive 7#Suggestion Requested
- 2006-11-09 Talk:Tadeusz Kantor#Third opinion
- 2006-11-10 Talk:Singapore passport/Archive 1#Third opinion
- 2006-11-10 User talk:Fivetrees#Third opinion
- 2006-11-13 Talk:Fork in the road#Image removal
- 2006-11-15 Talk:Mike Mendoza#Third opinion
- 2006-11-16 Talk:Seven Bridges of Königsberg#Variations, Present state sections
- 2006-11-16 Talk:Muhammad al-Durrah/Archive 1#NPOV - responding to solicited help on lead and talk page discussion
- 2006-12-01 Talk:John Adams/Archive 1#Third opinion
- 2006-12-01 Talk:The Wedge (Australian TV series)#TV critics
- 2006-12-19 Talk:List of programs broadcast by Adult Swim/Archive_1#Samurai Champloo's TV rating
- 2006-12-19 Talk:Herbert W. Armstrong/Archive 1#Third opinion - exhaustingly detailed opinion
- 2006-12-20 Talk:Benjamin Cohen#Disambiguation dispute
- 2006-12-22 User talk:Golich17 and User talk:Mlaroche opinion about capitalization guidelines in Wikipedia:Manual of style.
- 2006-12-27 Talk:Indian Institute of Planning and Management/Archive_9#Third opinion
- 2007
- 2007-01-10 Talk:List of Avatar: The Last Airbender characters/Archive 1#Minor characters
- 2007-02-07 Talk:Joe Scarborough/Archive_2#The Aide
- 2007-04-23 Talk:Shadow person/Archive 1#Images
- 2007-04-23 Talk:William M. Gray/Archive 1#WP:RS and WP:V with respect to the purportedly declined bet
- 2007-04-23 Talk:Video journalism#Third opinion
- 2007-04-25 User talk:Awiseman opinion (wrong, in hindsight) on removing anonymous IP talk page comments
- 2007-04-26 Talk:Jenna Haze/Archive 1#External links
- 2007-05-03 Talk:Teslascope#Deleted Further Reading (article deleted in Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Teslascope)
- 2007-05-14 Talk:Street light interference/Archive 1#Comments on new additions
- 2007-05-22 Talk:PSI Seminars#Third Opinion
- 2007-05-22 Talk:Census of Quirinius/Archive 1#A Solution
- 2007-05-22 Talk:Elvira Arellano/Archive 2#Anchor Baby/Illegal Immigrants
- 2007-05-22 User talk:Reddi discussion on vague third opinion request
- 2007-05-30 Talk:Egyptians/Archive 2#Third opinion
- 2007-05-30 Talk:Alice Bailey/Archive 1#Third opinion
- 2007-05-30 Talk:Subtlety#Entremet as main entry (for now)
- 2007-06-05 Talk:Pedophile movement/Archive 14#Third opinion
- 2007-06-06 Talk:The Ocean Hunter#Deletion of useful, relevant, and interesting information
- 2007-07-16 Talk:American Biographical Institute/Archive_1#A_new_reading
- 2007-08-02 Talk:Male pregnancy/Archive 1#Winston's speculation section
- 2007-08-02 Talk:Sicko/Archive 2#Third opinion
- 2007-08-14 Talk:Microformat/Archive 1#removal of the critique section of the article
- 2007-08-14 Talk:Monteverde#BANK RAID, 2005
- 2007-11-08 Talk:Toontown Online/Archive 1#Lack of Objectivity
- 2007-11-08 Talk:1984 New York City Subway shooting/Archive_1#References should be main priority, not trivia
- 2007-11-08 Talk:Fernando Collor de Mello/Archive 3#WP:RS Third Opinion
- 2007-11-08 Talk:Nur Ali Elahi/Archive 1#Third opinion
- 2008
- 2008-02-12 Talk:Evolutionary approaches to depression#Concerns
- 2008-02-14 Talk:Rennie Davis#Category and template (quickest resolution ever)
- 2008-02-20 Talk:Second Amendment to the United States Constitution/Archive 7#POV tag
- 2008-02-21 Talk:American Leadership Project#Reasoning
- 2008-02-21 Talk:Ukrainians/Archive 1#Ukrainians vs. Sitizens of Ukraine
- 2008-02-26 Talk:Barack Obama 2008 presidential campaign/Archive 1#Third opinion - edit warring
- 2008-02-26 Talk:Barack Obama 2008 presidential campaign/Archive 1#Martin Text
- 2008-02-26 Talk:Mpemba effect/Archives/ 1#Scalar functionality
- 2008-03-24 Talk:WebCT#Page protected
- 2008-03-24 Talk:Mpemba effect/Archives/ 1#Recent view of the Mpemba effect
- 2008-03-28 Talk:Empire of Iuz#Context tag
- 2008-05-20 Talk:Albert Einstein/Archive 14#Bloomsbury Auctions link
- 2008-05-20 Talk:Jawaharlal Nehru/Archive 3#Coco Islands
- 2008-05-21 Talk:Rangers Strike#lists
- 2008-05-23 Talk:William Gaillard#Third opinion discussion
- 2008-05-23 Talk:Ted Kennedy/Archive 8#Prognosis?
- 2008-05-30 Talk:List of Tokyo Mew Mew characters/Archive 1#Images
- 2008-05-30 Talk:Webby Award/Archive 1#Fourth opinions
- 2008-05-30 Talk:List of twelve-step groups/Archive 1#PornAddicts Anonymous
- 2008-06-24 User talk:Jetstream Rider opinion concerning Talk:List of common misconceptions/Archive 4#Aerodynamic lift
- 2008-07-04 Talk:Tautology (rhetoric)/Archive_2006#Constantly deleted pop culture quote (George W. Bush)
- 2008-07-25 Talk:Mousesports#Fate of the page
- 2008-07-31 Talk:tmpfile#Third opinion
- 2008-08-11 Talk:Noise music/Archive 1#Additonal uncited material
- 2008-08-11 Talk:Taser/Archive 1#Excited delirium as safety issue
- 2008-09-23 Talk:Kilgour–Matas report/Archive 3#Proposed merger with Organ harvesting in the People's Republic of China
- 2008-09-25 Talk:Peter Hallward#Blog exchange
- 2008-12-28 Talk:Walt_Disney_World_Monorail_System#Narration_section
- 2009
- 2009-01-07 Talk:Somalia/Archive 2#Era Notation
- 2009-01-10 Talk:Human rights in the United States/Archive 8#Waterboarding
- 2009-01-10 Talk:Evgenia Diordiychuk (I recommended deletion; article deleted; see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Evgenia Diordiychuk)
- 2009-01-30 Talk:One Foot in the Grave#This article deserves a geolink
- 2009-05-20 Talk:Brooklyn Law School#Rankings Controversy
- 2009-06-10 Talk:United States presidential election in California, 2008#Current Conflict over Format
- 2009-06-10 Talk:New England School of Law#Third Opinion
- 2009-06-10 Talk:West Herzegovina Canton#Infobox symbols
- 2009-06-10 Talk:IPhone/Archive 15#Call For Criticisms
- 2009-06-17 Wikipedia_talk:Articles for deletion/Common outcomes#"Television series broadcast nationally by a major network or produced by a major studio are notable."
- 2009-06-26 Talk:Audrey Tautou#Portrait
- 2009-06-26 Talk:App Store#Generic term?
- 2010
- 2010-02-12 Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (tables)/Archive 1#Moving
- 2010-03-10 Talk:Chesterfield,_Idaho#3rd Party Dispute.
- 2010-03-22 User talk:Walklooker#Third opinion regarding disputed edits on Trusted Computing
- 2010-04-23 Talk:Vitreous enamel#English variations
- 2010-06-11 Talk:Sharron_Angle/Archive 1#WikiProject_Scientology
- 2010-06-17 User_talk:Ivan_Štambuk/Archive 4#Leave the Cyrillic in the OCS page
- 2010-06-17 Talk:Second Amendment to the United States_Constitution/Archive 28#English Section - Possible Compromise — My opinion here marks the first time I am accused of being part of a 'cabal'. Now, where is this 'cabal' and how do I join?
- 2010-07-01 Talk:Declaration of Breda#Comment on terminology — Tough one.
- 2010-07-10 Talk:Michaëlle_Jean#Confederation_of...?
- 2010-07-14 Talk:Non-directional beacon#age and inaccuracy
- 2010-07-20 Talk:List of Masonic Grand Lodges/Archive 1#Linkfarm
- 2010-08-10 Talk:Telepresence#True Telepresence
- 2010-08-11 Talk:United States Senate/Archive 2#"World's Greatest Deliberative Body"
- 2010-09-09 Talk:Dove World Outreach Center/Archive 1#Restoring content
- 2010-09-15 Talk:Ain't and amn't#Split request
- Post-2010
Since becoming an admin in 2010, I noticed the dynamic of a third opinion discussion seems a bit different if you're an admin giving one, and I don't like to seem like I'm any more authoritative than anyone else due to that status, so I stopped participating. Once in a while I'll jump in, though.
- 2011-02-03 Talk:Agha Petros#removing big chunks
- 2011-03-04 Talk:Infantilism#Definition
- 2015-10-26 Talk:Olu_Dara#Ancestry
- 2016-06-04 Talk:Debtors Anonymous#Considering deleting references to the Hayes survey
- 2016-06-09 Talk:Protests against Donald Trump/Archive 1#Sensationalism
- 2016-06-10 Talk:Loong Kin Sang#ADJECTIVE USED (THIRD OPINION REQUEST Item #1) (this mess was deleted in Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lung Kim Sang and recreated afresh as Loong Kim Sang)
- 2016-12-02 Talk:List_of_computer_magazines#DATAMATION
- 2017-01-10 Talk:List of accolades received by Carol (film)#Gushy tone and other vios
- 2017-08-05 Talk:Redskin (slang)/Archive_2#My third opinion
- 2018-06-27 Talk:Alt-right/Archive 16#Too many images in lead
- 2022-03-21 Talk:Honda NSX (second generation)#Third opinion
- 2022-07-26 Talk:Jamillah_Ross#Third opinion
- 2022-09-17 Talk:Reactions to the death of Elizabeth II#Third opinion
Appearances in off-Wiki media
- Washington Monthly mentioned me in an article about Wikipedia's efforts to provide reliable information on controversial events: Grace Gedye (4 February 2021). "When the Capitol Was Attacked, Wikipedia Went to Work". Washington Monthly.
- Journal of Documentation published an analysis of a talk page disagreement I had with another editor. This was brought to my attention at Talk:Gynostemma pentaphyllum#Meta: this Wikipedia page is the subject of an academic paper. I can't say I agree with their characterization, but there it is: Morris-O'Connor, D.A.; Strotmann, A; Zhao, D. (2023). "The colonization of Wikipedia: evidence from characteristic editing behaviors of warring camps". Journal of Documentation. 79 (3): 784-810. doi:10.1108/JD-04-2022-0090.
Miscellaneous accolades
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The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar | |
I salute you for doing the best you can :) Mrpotatohead 2 (talk) 21:35, 5 May 2009 (UTC) |
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The Tireless Contributor Barnstar | |
Keep up the good work and keep smiling Mrpotatohead 2 (talk) 21:35, 5 May 2009 (UTC) |
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The Third Opinion Award | |
For diligent and faithful service to the Wikipedia community through your work at WP:3O. — TRANSPORTERMAN (TALK) 17:57, 1 March 2010 (UTC) |
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The Barnstar of Diplomacy | |
For contributing to the end of the edit warring on the Muhammad (PBUH) article. Thank you! Xact (talk) 15:11, 22 April 2011 (UTC) |
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The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar |
I saw your post on another talk page for a blocked user and was happy to see that person took your advice The.thanker (talk) 01:49, 6 August 2011 (UTC) |
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Hello Amatulic! I hope you enjoy this cookie as an amicable greeting from a fellow Wikipedian, SwisterTwister talk 03:44, 9 September 2011 (UTC) |
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The Barnstar of Diligence |
Thank you Martinkv (talk) 11:22, 28 December 2011 (UTC) |
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The Civility Barnstar |
For helping to prevent edit wars Misconceptions2 (talk) 13:12, 12 March 2012 (UTC) |
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The Special Barnstar |
Thanks for your contributions! SwisterTwister talk 23:03, 18 May 2012 (UTC) |
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The Barnstar of Good Humor |
thanks Kikililly01 (talk) 19:14, 25 January 2013 (UTC) |
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The Barnstar of Diligence | |
Keep up the excellent Wikipedia work! Lubbad85 (☎) 02:53, 14 April 2019 (UTC) |
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The Socratic Barnstar | |
Thanks for bringing level-headed reason to Wikipedia disputes. Pyrrho the Skeptic (talk) 15:51, 10 August 2021 (UTC) |
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The Teamwork Barnstar |
Thanks for your help with the RFC. Andrevan@ 18:00, 30 July 2022 (UTC) |