User:Jon Harald Søby

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no Denne brukeren har norsk som morsmål.
nb Denne brukeren har norsk som morsmål, og behersker bokmål.
nn-3 Denne brukaren kan svært godt nynorsk.
en-3 This user is able to contribute with an advanced level of English.
da-2 Denne brugers kendskab til dansk er på mellemniveau.
sv-2 Denna användare har kunskaper på mellannivå i svenska.
de-1 Dieser Benutzer hat grundlegende Deutschkenntnisse.
eo-1 Ĉi tiu uzanto povas komuniki per baza nivelo de Esperanto


es-1 Este usuario puede contribuir con un nivel básico de español.
qya-1 Yuhtaro sina ná Þundo hanyo quenyanen.
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This user comes from Norway.


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(contribs)		 This user runs a bot, JhsBot. It performs tasks that are extremely tedious to do manually.
This user has been on Wikipedia for
3 years, 4 months and 9 days.
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I am Jon Harald Søby. I'm one of the Wikimedia Foundation Stewards. My "home Wikipedia" is the Norwegian Wikipedia, where I currently (March 12th, 2007) have some 54 500 edits. There, I have mostly contributed to the subjects Nauru and Queen, but have also done quite a lot of maintaining (I am among other things the "featured article guy" over there).

[edit] 15 reasons WP:RFA sucks

By Connel MacKenzie.

  1. They ask those insane questions
  2. They have a cabal of people who vote no for any/no reason whatsoever
  3. They generate pages of discussion second guessing worse than any shrink would ever dare
  4. They waste everyone's time
  5. It's factionalised, with various voting cliques. (by Werdna)
  6. The w:WP:RfA process is so broken, board members can't pass it (see this close call)
  7. Vandal-patrol mavens are the only ones left voting yes for anyone
  8. It's stupid (by Werdna)
  9. It sucks (by Werdna)
  10. If anyone is a good WP contributor, they don't have time for WP:RFA
    • voting
    • running
  11. WP:RFA encourages character assassination in every direction
  12. Unrelated things (normal learning curve stuff) is dredged up incessantly
  13. The process is designed to prevent giving tools to the people that use them
  14. It sucks.
  15. It's stupid.
  16. The WP B'crats are a "Bad Cabal" (as opposed to this, the DvortyCabal...the Good Cabal.)
  17. They are like Chinese Water Torture. (by Werdna)


[edit] Where I've been

Locator map. Blue: countries I've been to, yellow: countries I'll be visiting in the near future.
Locator map. Blue: countries I've been to, yellow: countries I'll be visiting in the near future.
Spent years: Norway
Multiple weeks: Sweden Denmark Finland Republic of China (Taiwan)
~1 week France Estonia United Kingdom Italy
Hours: Germany Vatican City Thailand
Planning to go to: Czech Republic Egypt Argentina
Idea and layout stolen from Calton who took it from Guettarda who borrowed it from White Cat.

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