User:Hersfold/Lowres

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Hello! My name is Brett Reynolds, known around here as Hersfold. Welcome to my user page! This is where I keep track of my major projects and achievements here on Wikipedia. If you'd like to leave a message for me, please feel free to do so on my talk page. I'll be sure to get back to you ASAP. If you correct any vandalism to this page, thank you in advance! It occasionally takes me some time to notice, but I do always appreciate the help.

Thanks for visiting, Hersfold ^(t/a/c)

[edit] What I'll generally do on Wikipedia

I have been an administrator on the English Language Wikipedia since March 17, 2008 (RfA). In the event you feel I am grossly misusing the tools, I am open to recall through the process I have outlined at User:Hersfold/Recall.

Most of my work on Wikipedia is related to the prevention and reversion of vandalism and helping new users get around the project. I am a Recent Changes and New Pages patroller, and get a fair number of vandal edits whenever I do go on patrol - usually at least once a day when I can. I also worked with Sebastian to update the coding on WP:UTM to include the tooltip templates he designed, to make using the vandalism warning templates and other frequently used talk page messages much easier.

I also frequently check the Help Desk and the {{helpme}} category for newcomers and the occasional oldtimer that needs a question answered. I help out whenever I can and will go out of my way to look up answers to questions I don't know. I might as well help myself out in the process, after all.

Other "projects" include volunteering at Motto of the Day, voting on and occasionally contributing nominations; assisting with the backlog at Articles for Creation, a monstrously huge task consisting of 15 month's worth of unanswered submissions; fulfilling speedy rename requests at WP:CFD with AutoWikiBrowser; and deletion debates at WP:AFD.

For a full list of my contributions on Wikipedia, check here: Contributions

[edit] About me

I am currently attending UMBC on a near-full scholarship I received from them. My interests include photography, soccer, computers, and scouting. On the soccer end of things, I have previously been a USSF certified referee and officiate games in my local recreational league.

[edit] About files I upload

Anything that gets uploaded by me that was created by me (photographs, digital images, etc.) will be multi-licensed under the GFDL and the most recent Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license, unless stated otherwise by me on the image page.

I travel frequently and take a rather excessively large number of pictures - if you happen to be looking for a picture of something, let me know and I'll see if I've got what you're looking for.

[edit] Significant Contributions

As I said above, most of my work is done in fixing other articles through minor edits such as reverting vandalism and so forth - but I have made some larger edits to a few pages or through a few projects.

• Template:workinp - A template for use on what I call "work-in-progress" pages - a sub-page of a user page used to save a clean-up or re-write of an existing article. See below for examples.
• Liberty High School, Carroll County, Maryland - Pretty much rewrote the whole thing
• WP:UTM - Adding {{tltt}} tags with SebastianHelm to make use of the vandalism warning templates easier to do
• WP:HD - A ton of time spent answering questions and generally helping out new people
• Template:nn-welcome - A modified version of {{welcomeshort}} and {{nn-warn}}, designed for new users who create a CSD A7 article
• Template:uw-bite - A single notice template warning against biting the newcomers
• WP:WPAFC - Various templates for the Wikiproject, as well as clearing out some of the backlog on AFC. I also designed the project Barnstar, which can be seen below.
• Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park - Started article as a stub
• Carcross Desert - Started article as a stub, expanded to start, and got it to Did you know?
• WP:CFD - Fulfilling speedy rename requests
• WP:CMBOX - Helped to start the discussion there
• Hood Mockingbird - Substantial expansion of the article, leading to a pictured hook on DYK.
• WP:AFC - Declined the last backlogged article, ending Wikipedia's oldest backlog (over two years long).

As of 02:15, 19 February 2008 (UTC), I have made 11117 edits across all namespaces. Source: Preferences.

[edit] Awards and Recognitions

These are my newest awards, and the ribbons representing all of my Barnstars. For a full listing of the awards I've earned and what I've earned them for, please see my awards page.

		The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar
		I award my first barnstar to Hersfold for making many edits on Wikipedia and helping people in need (like me). You might've gotten this award before, but you might as well get another one. Chimchar monferno (talk) 02:33, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

		The Barnstar of Diligence
		Brilliant close of the Giovanni di Stefano AFD fiasco.--WaltCip (talk) 23:00, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

		The Template Barnstar
		Thanks so much for fixing the problems with {{GFDL-Armenica}}! You are truly a template master! Kelly hi! 23:47, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

		The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
		For much help with fixing my archives up I - Milk's Favorite Cookie hereby award you this Barnstar. Thanks again! - Milk's Favorite Cookie 02:58, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Other accounts

For reasons of security, I own and operate two other accounts in a manner permitted by policy. Should either of these accounts require administrative action, please contact me immediately.

• Hersford (talk · contribs) - A doppelgänger account created to prevent my impersonation by vandals. This account is not used for editing.
• Hersfold non-admin (talk · contribs) - An account intended for use on public computers, to prevent my main administrative account from being hijacked. This account has rollbacker rights.

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