User:Jayjg

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Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century. - JG Ballard.

Thanks for visiting my User page. My username is Jay jg.

Jay is a common name for several species of medium sized, usually colorful and noisy perching birds in the Corvidae family.
JG Ballard is a British writer, most famous for his novel Crash and fictionalized auto-biography Empire of the Sun.

I joined Wikipedia on June 15, 2004, and was made an administrator on September 13, 2004.

In July of 2005 Jimmy Wales appointed me to the Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee. I retained this position after ranking fourth in the total number of supporting votes (226) in the January 2006 elections. My term ran until the end of 2006; I did not seek re-election.

As of February 9, 2007 I was 46th on the List of Wikipedians by number of edits.

Please feel free to leave any comments on my talk page.

1 Quotations
2 Interesting stuff
3 Tools
4 Amusing
5 My barnstars and awards

[edit] Quotations

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. - Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre. - Joe Klein

[edit] Interesting stuff

Wikipedia's most poorly understood policy: Wikipedia:No original research

List of adages named after people

User:Korath/Potentially useful stuff

[edit] Tools

[edit] Amusing

Wikipedia's first IRC chat

[edit] My barnstars and awards

Userboxes

This user helped promote Rudolf Vrba to featured article status.

I, Matthew Cieplak, hereby award you this Barnstar for your patience and reasonableness in the edit war at Apartheid. (KC) 05:45, 22 June 2005	Barnstar of the Elders of Wikipedia for Spirited Defense of the Mysterious Cabal which Rules Wikipedia, the Media, International Finance, and the Garment District, this 27th of Sivan, 5765 - from Gzuckier 5 July 2005 03:33	Barnstar of Diligence for excellent endeavors on Wikipedia - from D. J. Bracey 17:45, 25 August 2005	For all the good work you do on controversal topics, I wanted to tell you that the work you do is appreciated.→Raul654 06:30, September 7, 2005
The Tireless Contributor Barnstar for Jayjg on the occasion of his 28,000th edit, amazed that he's survived with mental health (more or less) intact. SlimVirgin ^(talk) 00:28, 22 September 2005 (UTC)	The Cool as a Cucumber Award is awarded to a Wikipedian who remains cool when the situation gets hot, and even turns into a big pickle. Awarded for your level-headedness in the MJ talk problems. With all the tsaurus, you even managed to teach me a few things about how to do things correctly.yonkeltron 21:33, 23 February 2006 (UTC)	UnBarnstar of the Nonexistent Elders of Wikipedia The Nonexistent Elders of Wikipedia have awarded this unbarnstar to certify nonmembership in our nonexistent organization, now and in the past, notwithstanding any barnstars we may have previously awarded. Nonmember Gzuckier 12 April 2006	For replacing the original research debunking the claims about Jews and Israel on 9/11 conspiracy theories with valid secondary sources. --DCAnderson 20:36, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
For putting in loads of time and effort into the ArbCom, taking loads of abuse, for little compensation. I'm hoping to give back a little of that, by just making sure you know that all of us think highly of you and deeply appreciate the time you put into keeping this place running. Snoutwood (talk) 20:49, 8 June 2006	I award this Barnstar of Diligence to Jayjg for the time and trouble involved in confirming a serious case of sockpuppetry. AnnH ♫ 21:09, 12 August 2006 (UTC)	For helping me make a real signature and defending Wikipedia from Nazi attacks. Though the signature won't work together with an image, so you'll have to see it elsewhere. Daniel575 19:08, 16 August 2006 (UTC)	For continuing to defend the project against self-promoters and charlatans, and incurring great wiki-stress in the process, I award you this barnstar. Briangotts (Talk) (Contrib) 03:43, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
For your civility in the Mediation Committe case, WP:RfM/Jews for Jesus, and for helping to solve an important dispute efficiently and sucessfully - and making my Mediation easier `:)` - I, Anthony, award Jayjg the Original Barnstar. Well done! Kind regards, Anthonycfc ^{[T • C] 17:53, 26 February 2007}