User:Bwithh

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WikiDefcon 5: Very low levels of vandalism.

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Just another quiet weekend. MER-C 10:39, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

A Wikipedia Call to Arms from Brad Patrick

"I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."

"Definitions Articles will greet us as liberators"

This user has been awarded the Anonymous Wikipedia Parrot by the British online tabloid The Inquirer, July 14 2006. Additional mention: "Wikiparrots are really geniuses" - hidden sidebar comment, The Inquirer, July 16 2006

This user listens to Bob Dylan.

This user is a Cantabrigian.

• Cambridge Alumni Online !!

This user is a citizen of the European Union.

This user supports reform of the European Union.

Edit count for Bwithh

This user is a member of the Counter-Vandalism Unit.

This user believes that process is important on Wikipedia and is opposed to its circumvention.

This user is a member of the Trivia Cleanup WikiProject.

This user is a member of WikiProject Spam.

This user is a newpage patroller.

[edit] Articles created

• Andy Taylor (music entrepreneur)
• Awn Shawkat Al-Khasawneh
• Emily Davies
• Golden Week (China)
• International Alliance of Research Universities
• Mary Meeker
• Nicholas Patrick
• Olowe of Ise
• Red cooking
• Princess Pearl
• Squash (2002 film)
• Stichting INGKA Foundation
• The Wimbledon Effect
• Union of the Crowns

[edit] Favourite Wikipedia AfD moment

• When a bystander inclusionist called me a "powermad asshole" who launches deletionist "Wikijihads" against innocent articles during the WWAC-TV hoax investigation - which concluded with total surrender, full confession, and abject apology by the panicked hoaxers.
  • Nice job researching this one. - ScottW 21:22, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Defender of the Wiki Barnstar 1

• Alakon/Brent Henry Waddington hoax investigation
  • excellent work on the Alakon/Brent Henry Waddington AfD, hats off, barnstar material. Pete.Hurd 04:26, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

• • I, User:Pete.Hurd, award you this Defender of the Wiki barnstar for your investigations into the Brent Henry Waddington hoax

[edit] Barnstar of Diligence

		The Barnstar of Diligence
		For your diligent research efforts to establish actual WP:V for subjects on WP:AfD, rather than lazy leafing through notability guidelines. ~ trialsanderrors 20:08, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Defender of the Wiki Barnstar 2

		The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar
		My heartfelt thanks for your diligence and sharp eyes. You put them to great use investigating and cleaning up the fraud on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Steve Nguyen (Second Nomination) and the related article. William Pietri 02:36, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Barnstar with bar (as in I came here to give you a barnstar for your work on this AFD & William Pietri beat me to it). Rock on! Pete.Hurd 04:16, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Holy cow! You're the same guy that did the amazing digging on the Alakon/Brent Henry Waddington hoax investigation! My hat's off to you!! Pete.Hurd 04:23, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Other significant contributions

• List of Cambridge University people
• University of Cambridge
• Trinity College, Cambridge
• List of alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
• Radio 4 UK Theme
• William Shakespeare
  • Thanks for your wonderful edits to the William Shakespeare article!--Alabamaboy 01:34, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
• Gulf War (air campaign pictures)
  • Good work. - SimonP 22:22, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Articles I am only not nominating for deletion out of personal sentimentality

• Sheila Gallagher
• Gardies

[edit] Articles on people I have stood next to and engaged in small-talk for a minute or two, during which time I could have tried to ask something deep and meaningful, but I did not as my mind was totally blank

• John Perry Barlow
• Howard Rheingold
• Will Wright

[edit] Would like to see...

• Much lower bar on deletion process (current requirement for consensus for deletion is a huge bias in favour of many non-notable articles). Wikipedia is not infinite in time or space or meaning.
• More established recognition of non-notability deletion criteria
• Fewer trivial pop culture references from pop culture media which are specifically designed to make numerous pop cultural references (XXX appeared in an episode of The Simpsons etc.)
• A solution to the over-wikification of dates problem
• Separate wikis for all fancruft
• Stricter guidelines to exclude "facts" created by marketing / publicity campaigns