Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generation beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe. Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition? — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.
— Albert Einstein (quoted in the New York Times, March 13, 1940)
Col William A. Lee, USMC — Chesty Puller's Gunnery Sergeant in Nicaragua, 3 Navy Crosses prior to WWII, and was the heavyweight boxing champion of the fleet
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This motivated Tireless Contributor Barnstar is given to ERcheck for his tireless contirbutions to all articles relating to the United States Military. Presented by Looper5920 27 July 2006
For your extensive contributions to Wikipedia's coverage of the United States Marine Corps, and on the recommendation of Looper5920, I hereby bestow upon you the Military history WikiProject Distinguished Service Award. Kirill Lokshin 23:08, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
This Marine Tireless Contributor Barnstar is presented to ERcheck for his continous work on USMC related articles. Presented by Tony the Marine 02:52, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
I present ERcheck with this Nuevo Mexicano Barnstar for creating the Daniel Fernandez article, as well as for his work on the Hispanic MoH article and related pages. Thank you. --Murcielago 04:54, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
For managing to make adminship, I, Minun award you a barnstar —MinunSpiderman • Review Me 14:59, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for all of the work and help on the Military Brat article. Balloonman 06:03, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
I present you this DYK medal for all the outstanding and interesting new articles you create.Rlevse 22:47, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
This Boricua Tireless Contributor Barnstar is presented to User: ERcheck for his continous work on Puerto Rican and Hispanic related articles. Presented by Tony the Marine 22:26, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
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I joined Wikipedia on 12 Nov 2004 and became an administrator on 6 Jan 2006. On Wikipedia, I've edited a wide variety of articles; take a look at my contributions for what some of those are, or just scroll down for a list of articles to which I've made major contributions. I also participate in articles for deletion and requests for adminship. In addition, as an administrator I roll back vandalism (mainly in recent changes); and I carry out speedy deletions. In addition to my work here, I have user accounts at the Wikiquote, Meta, and the Baseball Wikicity.
I also expanded a substub article for the band Vomitorial Corpulence, but that article was deleted in an AfD that only got two votes. I had heard of the band, seen that another editor had created a stub about them, and decided to expand the article. (This was on March 22, 2005, so I've had many more edits since that one.)
Due to the nature of copyright violations on Wikipedia, these articles might be deleted and then reappear at some later date. By viewing the deleted edits of an article, you can tell that there was once copyvio on the page. Note that this list was compiled while the {{copyvio}} template was used on all copyvio edits, rather than just pages whose whole history had contained copyright violations. (The new instructions for dealing with copyright violations are located at Wikipedia:Copyright violations#Instructions.)
Note: Some of my edits have been deleted since I made them, such as when I listed articles for speedy deletion. These are where the milestones are as of July 28, 2006.
My 5000th edit was fixing a double redirect to feel-good story on 00:10, 28 February 2006. (Writing this reminded me to delete the two redirects I had placed to that now-deleted page!)
Writing this list on 19:50, 28 July 2006 (UTC) was my 6000th edit.
My 7000th edit was fixing my signature in this AfD on 22:56, 16 January 2007.
My 8000th edit was changing "EPA" to "Environmental Protection Agency" in Springfield (The Simpsons) on 21:11, 8 June 2008.
This section contained a bunch of my thoughts on different issues regarding Wikipedia, both as a whole and in its specific parts. In case you've followed an older link to this section of my user page, I've moved this to User:Idont Havaname/Wikiphilosophies, since it was starting to get long.
My standards for admin candidates and a list of administrators whose candidacies I supported are available here. Additionally, here are my voting standards for the Arbitration Committee elections in December 2006 and December 2007.
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