User:Ahoerstemeier

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de Dieser Benutzer spricht Deutsch als Muttersprache.
en-3 This user is able to contribute with an advanced level of English.
This user comes from Germany.
This user is associated with Thailand.

I am a German born person living in Hemer but now I live in Aachen. I have a diploma in physics, but now I work as a programmer, mostly using the Delphi programming language. Of course physics is one of my interests, especially Particle physics, cosmology and Astronomy and Astrophysics. One field connected with astronomy which fascinates me currently is the calendar.

Other topics I like are Thailand (see also Thailand topics [1] and Amphoe changes), Spaceflight (especially manned) - but also history, biology, geology, geography, even though I am really amateur in these topics.

I am showing all signs of a serious case of Wikipediholism. I guess most of my edits are small edits such as fixing interwiki links, spelling mistakes, cleaning up editing experiments or vandalism.

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[edit] Contributions

As part of the WikiProject German districts I created about half of the articles on German districts, but the most important articles are about districts and cities around my old and new home:

I started the WikiProject Thai provinces, thus most of the Provinces of Thailand are at least partially edited by myself.

Incomplete list of other topics I started or made significant contributions, or am otherwise proud of

[edit] To do

From Wikipedia:2004_Encyclopedia_topics: Rafflesiales - Phra Nakhon - Trailok - Darwin's Frog
From List of Asia-related topics: Manhattan Incident (maybe a disambig page first) - Phra Pathom Chedi - Student Uprising of 1973 (Thailand) - Chit Phumisak
Amphoe maps which need fixing Uttaradit (southern boundary between Ban Khok and Fak Tha), Chiang Rai (eastern boundary between Doi Luang and Chiang Saen), Khon Kaen (creation of Wiang Kao), Satun (parts of Palian assigned to Thung Wa), Lopburi (several changes, need verification)
Amphoe

[edit] Barnstars

The Wikimedal for Janitorial Services (from Topbanana)

I hereby award you the RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar for your heroic efforts in repairing and repelling the Willy on Wheels vandal — Bratschetalk 5 pillars (KC)

I hereby award you this barnstar for your tireless diligence in editing and/or creating so many quality articles on Germany and Thailand. Keep it up! Felixboy 19:49, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

The Barnstar of Diligence
For the hard work and boldness in clearing all those uses of [[Image:Example.jpg]] off of a seemingly endless series of pages, I award you this well-earned barnstar. Calton | Talk 13:06, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] How I got mentioned in the New York Times

Tired by the persistent vandalism of the George W. Bush article prior to election day, especially the sneaking in of "Vote Kerry" messages into the protected article, I wrote on the talk page: And hopefully once the elections are over this article won't be the prime vandalism target anymore. [2] I had no hidden meaning of that sentence in mind when I wrote it. This was apparently noticed by a New York Times editor, who then quoted me in a squib on weasel talking: about foreign admins: "One administrator, a German computer programmer, wrote.. [3] [4] (authorization required). Honestly, I didn't intend that sentence to say Hopefully after the election John Kerry will be the prime vandalism target - but it fits with my opinion that he'd have been the better choice. How could the NY times guy guess that a German would be no fan of GWB? :)


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