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What does Ruhrfisch mean?
Rührfisch (literally 'stir-fish') is the German word for a magnetic stir bar (or 'stirring flea' if you speak the Queen's English). Since English does not use umlauts, I left the umlaut off (ü → u) to get Ruhrfisch. In German Rührfisch is not the same as Ruhrfisch, which would be a fish in the river Ruhr. Since I like rivers (and fish), that is OK too.
A favorite quotation of mine, by John Ruskin. This is how I try to act here and elsewhere.
"It is a good and safe rule to sojourn in every place as if you meant to spend your life there, never omitting an opportunity of doing a kindness, or speaking a true word, or making a friend."
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Milestones
I have been a registered editor since July 8, 2005. On December 14, 2007 I became an administrator on Wikipedia. I am not the world's most active admin, but you can check my actions as a user and an admin here: Ruhrfisch (talk • contribs • blocks • protects • deletions • moves • rights). I am open to recall as an admin.
I have been a major contributor to seven Featured Articles and four Featured Lists.
I am the principal author of four Featured Articles:
Larrys Creek (which was Today's Featured Article on October 19, 2007, and was formerly a Good Article)- White Deer Hole Creek
- Plunketts Creek (Loyalsock Creek) (which was formerly a Good Article)
- Cogan House Covered Bridge
and a main author of three Featured Articles:
- Presque Isle State Park (along with Dincher, Dtbohrer, Tomdonohue1, Finetooth, and Trey)
- Joseph Priestley House (jointly authored with Awadewit)
- Black Moshannon State Park (along with Dincher)
I am a main author of four Featured Lists:
- List of Pennsylvania state parks (along with Dincher and VerruckteDan)
- List of municipalities in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania (along with Dincher)
- List of municipalities in Sullivan County, Pennsylvania (along with Dincher)
- List of tributaries of Larrys Creek (I am the principal author, no one else is this crazy ;-) )
I have helped write three Good Articles, two of which are now Featured Articles (see above):
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Worlds End State Park (Dincher is the principal author, I helped)
I have been a major contributor to twenty-five articles on the Main Page in the Did you know section.
I have uploaded twelve images that have appeared on the Main Page: seven of my images (plus two images I just uploaded) have been featured in DYK, and one of my images (plus two I uploaded) have been in Today's Featured Article.
I will never, never, never, never have an image that becomes a Featured Picture. ;-)
I help out with Peer Reviews when I can. Three articles I peer reviewed, and made some edits to after and in the featured article candidate process, are now Featured Articles: Paulins Kill, Ohio Wesleyan University, and Renewable energy in Scotland (which was on the Main Page September 8, 2007 featuring a picture I found on Flickr)
I do reviews at Good Article Nominations and have passed three (of seven) to date: Ernest Shackleton (now a FA), Columbia River, and Johnson Creek (Willamette River).
I also have an account on Wikimedia Commons, which I use for images I make and take (maps and photographs), and an account on the German Wikipedia (both as Ruhrfisch too).
Awards
I am honored to have received the following awards and barnstars:
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The Donut Star Award. The torus shape of a donut is not a five-sided or six-sided star, but a star of infinite points. This award is given for innumerable efforts over an extended period to achieve great things. ...for sustained effort over an extended length of time in making Larrys Creek a Featured Article, and showing us all that "there are no small articles, there are only small editors". Given with respect and admiration by ClairSamoht 04:38, 31 August 2006 (UTC) |
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Wiki Thanks Thanks a lot for taking over the automated peer reviews while I was away - I thought the concept would completely die out; guess I was wrong :). AZ t 21:09, 23 October 2006 (UTC) |
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The Original Barnstar For all your work making White Deer Hole Creek not only a featured article, but a standout featured article Daniel Case 14:58, 11 December 2006 (UTC) |
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The groundhog award is presented to Ruhrfisch. For tireless support and effort in creating an excellent List of Pennsylvania State Parks and further expanding the wikipedia articles about the state parks of Pennsylvania. (Groundhog Haven) Thanks for the help! Dincher 16:40, 11 January 2007 (UTC) |
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The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar For dealing with vandals with kindness and patience. Dincher 21:01, 18 February 2007 (UTC) |
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The Reviewer's Barnstar For amazing work on WP:PR/A, you definitely deserve this long overdue award. AZ t 15:45, 31 August 2007 (UTC) |
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Pennsylvania State Parks Groundhog Award This award is given with respect and admiration to Ruhrfisch for his continuing devotion to Pennsylvania state park articles and especially for all his work on the List of Pennsylvania state parks, switching to Geoboxes, providing the PennDOT maps to track down township locations and filling GNIS's inbox with email. VerruckteDan 16:40, 3 September 2007 (UTC) |
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The Photographer's Barnstar This barnstar is presented to Ruhrfisch for his continued photographic contributions to Pennsylvania state parks and other Pennsylvania articles. With respect and admiration Dincher 21:35, 20 September 2007 (UTC) |
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Chief Black Hawk Certificate of Alliance I IvoShandor bestow upon thee, Ruhrfisch, this certificate of alliance in the name of Sauk Chief Black Hawk. Your work on the Black Hawk War map has been irreplaceable, and you endless patience greatly appreciated. History owes you a thanks, and I do as well. Thank you. IvoShandor 11:21, 27 September 2007 (UTC) |
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The Tireless Contributor Barnstar After seeing the massive amount of work you put into the, now Featured Article for Larrys Creek, I hereby award you this barnstar. You've more than earned it! Congrats :) - NeutralHomer T:C 02:02, 19 October 2007 (UTC) |
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I, Durova, am pleased to award Ruhrfisch the imperial triple crown jewels for outstanding content improvements to Wikipedia. Thank you for your generous efforts on behalf of this nonprofit project. DurovaCharge! 01:11, 23 October 2007 (UTC) |
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The Featured Article Medal For beyond excellent work, in which your several weeks of editing brought the Presque Isle State Park article to Featured Article status. You did an amazing job! Be proud of yourself! I'm sorry I could not help out more, been quite busy in real life with medical problems. But anyway, Good work!—trey(wiki) 04:06, 26 November 2007 (UTC) |
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The admins' T-shirt Acalamari 21:53, 15 December 2007 (UTC) |
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The Photographer's Barnstar For your superb photographs of Joseph Priestley's house. I bet you never knew the stairwell would be so interesting! Thanks again for all of your hard work on this article. Awadewit | talk 10:37, 18 January 2008 (UTC) |
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The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar For your help with mapmaking and ever so many other things. Finetooth (talk) 14:42, 24 January 2008 (UTC) |
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The Tireless Contributor Barnstar This barnstar is for Ruhrfisch who seems to be taking on the entire Peer Review page by himself. However, this is more because he is cheerfully and thoroughly reviewing all the articles I've put there relating to the Everglades. Thank you. Moni3 (talk) 15:59, 15 May 2008 (UTC) |
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The Surreal Barnstar For showing uncanny dedication to improving articles without expecting anything in return. Eustress (talk) 02:10, 27 May 2008 (UTC) |
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Pages I have made or substantially added to
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| Map of Pennsylvania State Parks
(I made it and each dot is wikilinked)
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I have made or made substantial contributions to articles in the following areas:
- Chemistry Related
- Children's Literature
- Rivers
- Germany
- Places in Pennsylvania
- Creeks
- Railroads
- Native American Paths
- Protected Areas
- Pennsylvania Miscellany
- Places in Ohio
- Places in Tennessee
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Maps I have made and Pictures I have taken
I like to make maps based on the free U.S. Census Bureau maps available online. I have made maps of:
- All 67 Pennsylvania Counties (with Municipal and Township Labels)
- All 88 Ohio Counties (with Municipal and Township Labels)
- All 63 Pennsylvania Counties with more than one Public School District
- All 100 North Carolina Counties (with Municipal Labels)
- All 5 Rhode Island Counties (with Municipal and Township Labels)
- All 64 Lousiana Parishes (127 maps total, as each parish map is in two versions, with and without district labels, for all but Orleans Parish)
- Locator maps for all incorporated places, townships, and Census-designated places in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania (53 maps total), Sullivan County, Pennsylvania (13 maps total), and Hancock County, Ohio (29 maps total)
- Watershed maps for Lycoming County, Larrys Creek, and White Deer Hole Creek
- Stream maps for Plunketts Creek and Lyre River
- Metropolitan Statistical Area maps for Fort Wayne
- Railroad maps for LVRR and UCIR
- Historical Maps for Big Runaway, Daniel Hughes, and Susquehanna Boom
- Locator maps for 49 U.S. States and the District of Columbia:
AL | AK | AR | AZ | CA | CO | CT | DC | FL | GA | HI | ID | IL | IN | IA | KS | KY | LA | ME | MA | MD | MI | MN | MS | MO | MT | NE | NV | NH | NJ | NM | NY | NC | ND | OH | OK | OR | PA | RI | SC | SD | TN | TX | UT | VT | VA | WV | WA | WI | WY Plus I fixed the colors on VerruckteDan's DE map
I am an avid photographer and add images to articles when I can. Please see the subpage (link above) for some of these.
- A page of resources I use.
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