User:The wub

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A little about me

This user maintains a blog at http://astick.net/blog/

This user also lives on Planet Wikimedia.

Born and bred in Lancashire, England, I'm currently studying Materials Science at Downing College, Cambridge.

I made my first edit from this account in March 2005, though I'd been reading and making the odd anonymous edit for a long while before that. It is now 1174.7409721999 days later and I'm still here. Oh dear. I became an admin in October 2005. It's no big deal.

I has a bot. See what crazy things it's up to.

My username

My name comes from the short story "Beyond Lies the Wub" by Philip K Dick. A friend of mine who's really into sci-fi was reading it one day, and seeing the cover "wub" struck me as an amazingly funny word. I used it for my (now defunct) website, because of its similarity to web and it being short and memorable. When I registered I picked it as my pseudonym as well. It was a while before I actually read the story (and its article, since I didn't want to be spoiled), but I really enjoyed it when I did. Plus I was quite relieved, since I had been worried that "the wub" could have been some kind of monstrous villain, and I'd been giving people the wrong impression.

Of course, there's always an alternative explanation, as pointed out by this anon: [1]

My actions

UK Featured Pictures • show another

Image credit: Entr'acte

The Entr'acte expresses its pleasure that Gilbert and Sullivan are reunited.

I invite scrutiny of all my actions on Wikipedia, especially those that involve admin privileges. If you have concerns then please contact me. Note to other admins: feel free to undo or overrule any of my admin actions if you think it will benefit Wikipedia. It would be nice if you drop me a message telling me, but you don't have to wait around for me to reply and I certainly won't shout at you for "wheel warring".

Data recovery

If you need access to a Wikipedia article that has been deleted, ask me. If it's not a copyright violation, libel, or personal information, and has not been deleted as a suspected WP:BLP violation, I will provide the text for you.

Note that using the text to recreate a deleted article automatically qualifies it for speedy deletion, and keeping deleted content hanging around in your userspace has gotten editors penalized before. But that's your problem.

Contact me

The best way to contact me is on my talk page. Please don't forget to sign! If you want to get in touch privately, or you are currently blocked, then e-mail me at thewub<döt>wiki<αt>googlemail<döt>com

You might (very occasionally) catch me on IRC as well. If you want to chat some other way (MSN/Windows Live Messenger, Google Talk, phone, carrier pigeon or whatever) then e-mail me first and I'll sort something out.

User pages

Wikipedia	Meta-Wiki	Commons
Wikinews	Wikiquote	Wikisource
Wikibooks	Foundation wiki

Awards

I saw you crossed out a double vote in your RfA! Now I don't feel bad for being the only one. ;) Since you did a truly admin-like action before being an admin, I hereby award you this Barnstar of Diligence for your extraordinary scrutiny. Tito xd^(?!?)	Your Assistance Was EATEN BY A BEAR! (from Karmafist)	Tasty Tunnock's tea cakes (a delicacy in the British northeast, I'm told) to say thank you very much for standing in the Esperanza elections, being a great candidate and helping to make Wikipedia better for everyone just by existing! ➨ ❝R E DVERS❞	I award this Barnstar to The Wub for heroic work fighting vandals (from Gaius Cornelius)
I hereby award myself this Upside-down Barnstar for being such a sanctimonious prick. Thanks a lot! (as suggested by popefauvexxiii)	This editor is a Splendid and Majestic Tutnum, and is entitled to display this Book of Knowledge with Coffee Cup Stain and Cigarette Burn.	I hereby award you with this Brilliant Idea Barnstar (1st class with oak leaf clusters) for creating a method of archiving old discussions of Business Deletions. I don't know how you do it, but it works well and is a useful enhancement. Gavin Collins 12:22, 2 October 2007 (UTC)	Thanks for illustrate biographies, your effort is appreciated. Emijrp (talk) 17:54, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
For your tireless and majestic work put into the Portal:United Kingdom. It's a fantastic page!... My only surprise is that you haven't recieved an award for this before now! Well done! -- Jza84 · (talk) 01:23, 13 December 2007 (UTC)	The XfD Barnstar - There is no question that you deserve this for your hard work and constancy in XfD discussions. - jc37 02:28, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

Places

These things seem quite popular:

Countries I have been to	Countries I am going to	Countries I want to go to
· ( · · ) · · · · ·	· · ·	All of them!

Quotes

"The problem with Wikipedia is that it only works in practice. In theory, it can never work." - Anonymous (from Raul's laws)

"On Wikipedia, there is a giant conspiracy attempting to have articles agree with reality." - Plautus satire

"...classifying AfD is akin to sorting the contents of your neighbours' trashcan after they've emptied their cat litter [the stuff that survives CSD or prod] into it, in the quiet confidence you'll find a few glass bottles worth recycling, and with a 1 in 10,000 chance of recovering that missing ring you reckon their cat might have swallowed." - User:TheGrappler

"Actually, there was once a cabal, but it got deleted..." - Andjam

Stuff

User:NoSeptember/The NoSeptember Admin Project - a heap of admin related stats and other useful insights
Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Ragesoss
User:Improv/Quotes
User:Angela/What Wikipedia is not
Wikipedia:We need a policy to deal with policy
User:Durin/Admin miscellany
User:Linuxbeak/There really isn't a cabal - but he would say that :-)
User:Revolución/Statement against Jimbocracy *rolleyes*
[2] - User:Newyorkbrad's comment on decision making on WP:BN (rest of thread is also interesting)
User:Mboverload/Zero Featured Article - RfA criteria
[3] - User:WCityMike's blog on why he left
User:Dbuckner/Expert rebellion
User:LinaMishima/Experts Problem
Wikipedia:List of cabals - there's a fair few
this might explain why Wikipedia is often slow :-) (note it's since been changed, it used to contain the page All servers)
[4] made me smile
User:Raul315
Knowledge Access as a Public Good - Danah Boyd
Bizarre And Improbable Giraffe Herding Techniques

This user is a member of the Association of Wikipedians Who Dislike Making Broad Judgments About the Worthiness of a General Category of Article, and Who Are in Favor of the Deletion of Some Particularly Bad Articles, but That Doesn't Mean They Are Deletionists

The motto of the AWWDMBJAWGCAWAIFDSPBATDMTD is Est omnino difficile iudicare inclusionis meritum cuiusdam rei in encyclopædia cum ratio sciendi quid populi referat incerta sit, sed nihilominus aliquid encyclopædiam dedecet, which translates to, "it is generally difficult to judge the worthiness of a particular topic for inclusion in an encyclopedia considering that there is no certain way to know what interests people, but some topics nevertheless are not fit for an encyclopedia." This motto reflects the desire of these Wikipedians to be reluctant, but not entirely unwilling, to remove articles from Wikipedia.

Licensing

Contributions released into public domain
	I agree to release my text and image contributions, unless otherwise stated, into the public domain. Please be aware that other contributors might not do the same, so if you want to use my contributions under public domain terms, please check the multi-licensing guide.