User:DragonflySixtyseven

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I'm 32 and Canadian, and engaged to the most glorious gorgeous geek on the face of the planet.

I've got Proofreader's Eye, and a predisposition to rewrite other people's sentences for elegance. Also, I have stairs in my house.

Before I decided to go ahead and register, I did a lot of anonymous work tidying up more articles than I can recall - sometimes I'd just hit Random Page a few times until I saw something I could fix quickly. Some articles needed a bit more than just tidying - shadowman and Archbishop of Riga are two that come to mind.

I also contributed bits of information here and there - the punnish origin of the word Gallium, the gruesome secret of the Squadron Supreme compilation, Alan Moore's partial blindness, a lot of details about the Spectre, the name of the last soldier to be killed during the First World War, the models for the Guardians of the Universe, nearly the whole Herb Alpert entry, stuff about Graham Chapman's autobiography and memorial, thoughts about the parable of the Good Samaritan...

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[edit] Breaking News

On October 2, 2005, JIP... he, um... he nominated me for adminship. I am stunned and flattered.

I actually thought that the most praise/notice I'd get would be maybe a barnstar .

[edit] News flash!

As of October 9, 2005, I am an administrator. This means that I am now the target of frustrated twelve-year-olds whose vanity pages I deleted.

[edit] Recent developments

  • On November 2, 2005, at 7.06 PM, I got my very first impersonator!
  • This page has been vandalized <more times than I feel like counting>.
The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
I hereby award this user the Random Acts of Kindness Award for being nice to all users you find. General Eisenhower 16:56, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

Information.

"If television is a babysitter, the Internet is a drunk librarian who won't shut up." - Cat and Girl

Oh, hey. Let's see what pages I've created (and here's a secret - sometimes when I create articles on really obscure topics, I sort of hope that people will nominate them for deletion, so that I can then prove their notability).

Once upon a time, I wrote a friendly little Talmudic-style rant on why we might think someone is a sockpuppet in AfD. I like it too much to let it languish in the limbo of archived AfD debates (plus, this way I can point people to it).

Woo! Editcount!

[edit] Thank you notes

DS - thank you again for your help with the images. There is so much to learn here - couldn't do it without your help. Ericdohio 00:36, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

A Note To Newbies: While I do very much appreciate getting thank-you notes from people who I've welcomed, it's just tidier all around if you leave your message on my talk page - after all, that's what it's for! Thanks in advance.

  • DS - I want to thank you not only for the welcome, but also for directing me to the right places to help reduce my learning curve in regards to all things Wiki. I feel like the rest of the newbies here...completely out of place and a bit lost. Thanks again for everything. Ericdohio 03:20, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
  • Thanks for getting back to me about Google - fingers crossed they'll get my article listed in the next few days....Plowdenc 20:41, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Thanks for your welcome and all the (essential!) tips! Not sure I've put this in the right place though.....! I will learn eventually I hope! Plowdenc 20:51, 4 December 2006 (UTC) Oh, I forgot to ask you how I get my article on Clare Heald listed in google??? Pls let me know if you can give me tips on this! Thanks Plowdenc 20:55, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Thanks for your welcome, and advice about my Tuker article - point taken and no problem. Sjrsquared 08:02, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Hello there. Thank you for your welcome msg. And what a nice surprise you being a Canadian. I recently returned to the Netherlands from a long stay (35yrs) there. I am Canadian-Dutch or do you say Dutch-Canadian? Europe is wonderful just as Canada, both a delight to live in. Well, re Wikepedia.I have undertaken to copy-edit the al-Razi article ( badly needed) and am almost 3/4 done, I'd say. I am studying the Hermetica('technical' as well as 'philosophical') and it covers in depth Alchemy/Medicine/Astrology/Magic and ancient hermetical esoteric texts. That's how I ended up with al-Razi while doing some research. I've taken the Tutorial, however, how do you underline? Thanks for any help and so long. CHITRANI 15:04, 10 September 2005 (UTC)Sep 10,16.56 (GMT+1)
  • Thanks from me also, especially for correcting my newbie mistake. Chris Chittleborough 10:36, 11 September 2005 (UTC)
  • Thanks for the welcome - seems like a friendly place. Mr P 21:51 20 September 2005
  • Thomas Workman Many thanks for the edits. Quick work. Only (and hurriedly)put this one on yesterday.Can't figure out the user page Notafly
  • Thanks for helping with the Huntington, Indiana articles ;-). I was busily working on some India college copyvios and my brain was elsewhere :-). Thanks, again!!! >: Roby Wayne Talk • Hist 22:12, 24 September 2005 (UTC)
  • Notafly I have created an account under this name following your? friendly welcome. I lost my message (from you I think) somehow and failed to retrieve it. Now for a user page. Many thanks.
  • Thank you, DS, for your kind words and encouragement for my article, "Anadarko Petroleum Corporation". — PM Poon 20:34, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Thanks for your welcome note, and for the heads up on editing. Much appreciated! --Crais459 15:56, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Thank you so much for helping with the problematic article that I posted for deletion. Imstillhere 16:29, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Thanks for the welcome and the heads up about the discussion page. I assumed you should just keep it as neat as possible. Krawnight 20:03, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Sorry for the long time it's taken me to reply. I needed to clear my head.

I passed the message along, and both myself and Snopake are very greatful. Thank you very much. Thε Halo Θ 01:21, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

Hi DS, thanks for welcoming me. I have a few questions that make me feel foolish. Can you contact me on my own page? Thanks. Tina A. 17:21, 4 October 2006 (UTC)Tina A.

The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
Don’t spin too much, you’ll hurt yourself
The Editor's Barnstar
The Deletionist's Barnstar has been awarded to DrangonflySixtyseventeen for outstanding and various deletions and minor edits. The Person Who Is Strange 20:06, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Thank you kindly for creating the comic book artist's stub that's become a full biography. MichaelNetzer 13:41, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

From sergiolerner:

Thank you for the deletion of the page I wrote. I 've read "What Wikipedia is not" and I agree with you my article should not be pulished (at least not by myself). --Sergiolerner 17:59, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

  • Thank you very much, my friend, for alerting the Wikipedia readership to the fact that the alleged Buddhist term, "papayana" (for Mahayana Buddhism) is an "apparent hoax". The right verdict has been reached! All best wishes to you. From Tony. TonyMPNS 15:10,

14 May 2007 (UTC)


    • Thank you for the welcome here to wiki. Dat Boss Bitch 904 (talk) 13:18, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

you deleted the SWA page in copyvio....what a bell!!! :-)