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Hello, I am Thaddeus from Columbus, Ohio (USA). I have been editing Wikipedia for a while now (and reading it longer), and have dabbled a little in many different areas. I have done some [[WP:RC patrol|vandalism fighting]], done a little [[WP:New page patrol|New page patrol]], offered a few [[WP:3O|third opinions]], [[:Category:Articles_that_need_to_be_wikified|wikified]] some articles, [[Wikipedia:ORPHAN|de-orphaned]] a few pages, and participated in many [[WP:AfD|AfDs]]. Of course, I have worked some on content creation and consensus building too. In most everything I have done, I have tried to "get it right" and handle the hard cases where help was most needed rather than just doing what was easier and quicker. |
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Overtime, I have found that the three areas I enjoy contributing the most are [[WP:TYPO|correcting spelling & grammar errors]], [[Wikipedia:WikiProject proposed deletion patrolling|patrolling proposed deletions]] to find article worth saving or transwiking, and writing [[WP:BOT|bots]] to automate tedious tasks. |
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On July 29, 2009 I was [[Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/ThaddeusB|promoted to administrator]] by a 117-2-7 vote. I am truly honored and humbled by the outpouring of support and look forward to serving the community in my new role. |
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A log of my proposed deletion activity can be found at [[User:ThaddeusB/PROD Log]]. |
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I have made over 200 improvements to [[Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Typos|RegExTypoFix]] and have written three bots: |
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*[[User:DeadLinkBOT|DeadLinkBOT]] which updates external links that have [[linkrot|"rotted"]] |
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*[[user:WebCiteBOT|WebCiteBOT]] which helps prevent link rot of citations by submitting most newly added links to [[Webcitation.org]] for permanent archival. |
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*[[User:WikiStatsBOT|WikiStatsBOT]] which keeps track of Wikipedia statistics requested by WikiProjects and such. |
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If you have a task you'd like to see automated, [[User_talk:ThaddeusB|drop me a line]]. |
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[http://toolserver.org/~soxred93/count/index.php?name=ThaddeusB&lang=en&wiki=wikipedia View my edit count] |
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|<big><b>About me:</b></big> |
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|<big><b>I've spent a lot of time on:</b></big> |
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{{User:Galaxiaad/typo}} |
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{{User wikipedia/PROD Patrol}} |
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{{User wikipedia/RC Patrol}} |
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|<big><b>I would like to contribute to:</b></big><br>(If I had more time) |
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==Useful Stuff== |
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! align="left"|Editing Help/Guideline |
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! align="left"|Useful Tools |
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* [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style|Manual of Style]] |
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* [[Wikipedia:Avoid weasel words|Weasel Words]] |
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* [[List of English words with disputed usage]] |
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* [[List of commonly misused English words]] |
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* [[Wikipedia:Lists_of_common_misspellings|List of common misspellings and typos]] |
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* [[:Meta:Help:Table|Creating Tables]] |
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* [[Wikipedia:Recent_changes_patrol#Patrolling_edits_to_existing_pages|Recent changes patrol - warning templates]] |
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* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Stub_sorting/Stub_types|Full list of stub types]] |
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* [[Wikipedia:Template messages|List of templates]] / [[Wikipedia:Template_messages/Cleanup|Cleanup tags]] |
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* [[Template:Opentask|List of tasks in need of attention]] |
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==Awards== |
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[[File:Admin_T-shirt.svg|thumb|left|I'm shocked that you haven't recieved this yet. <small>([[User:X!|<span style="color:gray">X!</span>]] · [[User talk:X!|<span style="color:gray">talk</span>]]) · [[Swatch Internet Time|@232]] · </small> 04:34, 30 July 2009 (UTC)]] |
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{{User Good Article|PokerTracker}} |
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|style="font-size: x-large; padding: 0; vertical-align: middle; height: 1.1em;" | '''The Minor Barnstar''' |
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|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | For your excellent work helping to keep wikipedia clean of typos! [[User:QueenCake|QueenCake]] ([[User talk:QueenCake|talk]]) 19:48, 1 February 2009 (UTC) |
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|style="font-size: x-large; padding: 0; vertical-align: middle; height: 1.1em;" | '''The da Vinci Barnstar''' |
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|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | For creating a bot that will single-handedly prevent a whole slew of dead reference links. Great job! [[User:Anomie|Anomie]][[User talk:Anomie|⚔]] 01:25, 29 April 2009 (UTC) |
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|style="font-size: x-large; padding: 0; vertical-align: middle; height: 1.1em;" | '''The Barnstar of Diligence''' |
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|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | For keeping a watchful eye on the [[2009 swine flu]] related articles, and the even-keeled sensibility you bring to the hourly "emergencies" that arise at the article/template talk pages. Regards. [[User:Abecedare|Abecedare]] ([[User talk:Abecedare|talk]]) 00:50, 2 May 2009 (UTC) |
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|style="font-size: x-large; padding: 0; vertical-align: middle; height: 1.1em;" | '''The Article Rescue Barnstar''' |
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|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 3px solid gray;" | Thank you so, so much for providing the reliable sources that saved [[nigahiga]] from deletion and, in other words, one of the articles I most wanted to get created. I was tempted to give you a cookie but this barnstar is far more appropriate. (Sorry for not formatting this properly; I'm still a wiki formatting dunce.) [[User:Clem cowsie|Clem]] ([[User talk:Clem cowsie|talk]]) 04:43, 5 July 2009 (UTC) |
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|style="font-size: x-large; padding: 0; vertical-align: middle; height: 1.1em;" | '''The Original Barnstar''' |
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|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | I award this [[Wikipedia:Barnstars on Wikipedia|Barnstar]] to ThaddeusB for their great efforts in maintaining deletion quality standards and helping new users. --[[User:Hell in a Bucket|Hell In A Bucket]] ([[User talk:Hell in a Bucket|talk]]) 18:43, 5 July 2009 (UTC) |
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