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{{User:Bratsche/5P}}
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Welcome to my page.
==General Info & Missions==
===General Info===
[[Image:Seagull on sale pier.jpg|right|thumb|275 px|Gerard guards this page against vandals.]]
*Hi. I'm Bratsche. Some call me Ben. You can try either; I'll get back to you after the beep.
*I'm a student, who likes to read and fix mistakes. Wikipedia just fulfills my editorial cravings.
*Since I don't have much in-depth knowledge of any one subject, but rather a mind full of trivia, I'm on a personal mission to destroy vandalism, delete nonsense and do basic janitorial work with my [[Wikipedia:Administrators|mop]].
*By the way, Bratsche means [[viola]] in German, my musical instrument of choice
**Musicians: Why don't you leave me a good viola joke... :)
***Contributors to the playful punishment of violists:
****[[User:Sango123|Sango123]]
****[[User:Mindspillage|Mindspillage]]
****[[User:RobertG|RobertG]]
****[[User:Flcelloguy|Flcelloguy]]
****[[User:KnowledgeOfSelf|KnowledgeOfSelf]]
****[[User:ViolinGirl|ViolinGirl]]
****[[User:IvanP|IvanP]]
****And [[User:Ed Poor|Uncle Ed]], who left more of a joke on '''me''' (shocking!) than on violas.
*I recently achieved a [http://people.ucsc.edu/~merphant/wikitest.html Wikipediholic test] score of 237, making me "fatally addicted".
*I am an [[Eagle Scout]], a proud accomplishment.
*Feel free to leave me a message on my [[User talk: Bratsche|talk page]] if you need any help, have any questions, or just want to chat.

===Missions===
*I have a mission to help with as many [[:Template:Active Wiki Fixup Projects|Wiki Fixup Projects]] as I can. They usually give me a quick Wikifix during the day.
**Actually, the [[Special:Randompage|random page]] button is really nice to use too, in order to find needy articles
*'''Currently watching:''' [[Special:Recentchanges]]. Back on RC patrol. Using CryptoDerk's [[User:CryptoDerk/CDVF|Vandal Fighter]].
*You know, the above are hopelessly outdated. So, FYI, I mostly work on [[Wikipedia:Esperanza|Esperanza]], the organization for [[Wikipedia:Wikipedians|Wikipedians]] and doing menial admin tasks.

== A Poem and More ==

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|Echoing silence
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|Darkness lit up by beams
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|Light
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|Seeking its counterpart
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|In melody
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|Stillness
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|Striving for liberations
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|In a word
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|Life
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|In dust
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|How seldom growth and blossom
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| -[[Dag Hammarskjöld]]
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| style="font-size: 8pt; padding: 4pt; line-height: 1.25em;"|"Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That’s what we’re doing." -[http://interviews.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/07/28/1351230 28 Jul 2004]
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| style="font-size: 8pt; padding: 4pt; line-height: 1.25em;"|"We make the Internet not suck." -[http://www.qanda.org/Transcript/?ProgramID=1042 25 Sep 2005]
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| style="font-size: 8pt; padding: 4pt; line-height: 1.25em;"|"Userboxes of a political or, more broadly, polemical, nature are bad for the project." -[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk%3AProposed_policy_on_userboxes&diff=36076787&oldid=36018611  21 Jan 2006]
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| style="font-size: 8pt; padding: 4pt; line-height: 1.25em;"|"... [T]he number of userboxes, and in particular the number of very problematic userboxes, has exploded. I think this is seriously Not Good For Our Loving Little Community." -[http://mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2006-February/039853.html 15 Feb 2006]
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== Are You A Member of the [[Meta:Association of Wikipedians Who Dislike Making Broad Judgements 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 Deletionist|AWWDMBJAWGCAWAIFDSPBATDMTD]]?==
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==My Latin Motto==
''Scientia lapsu calami'' <br>
Knowledge by a slip of the pen ~ Anon. <br>
Somehow, it all works out.

==When is Now?==
{{Now}}
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==Milestones==
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Viola&diff=prev&oldid=9274955 '''1st''' edit] ([[January 10]], [[2005]]) was on the use of [[vibrato]] on the [[Viola]]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Our_Lady_of_the_Earth_and_Sky&diff=prev&oldid=17064671 '''500th''' edit] ([[April 3]], [[2005]]) was capitalizing a letter in [[Our Lady of the Earth and Sky]]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chuck_Yeager&diff=prev&oldid=13209183 '''1000th''' edit] ([[May 1]], [[2005]]) was a revert of childish vandalism about [[Chuck Yeager]]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kneeboarding_%28surfsport%29&diff=16271562&oldid=15567135 '''2000th''' edit] ([[June 21]], [[2005]]) was adding a {{tl|dablink}} template on [[Kneeboarding (surfsport)]]
*[[Wikipedia:Request for adminship|Request for adminship]] began [[June 23]], [[2005]] by a [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship/Bratsche&oldid=15685858 nomination] by [[User:Mindspillage|Mindspillage]].
*Promoted to [[Wikipedia:Administrators|admin]] on [[July 1]], [[2005]] following the [[Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Bratsche|RfA]]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Louise_Brooks&diff=prev&oldid=22304237 '''3000th''' edit]  ([[August 31]], [[2005]]) was renaming a category for [[WP:CFD]] on [[Louise Brooks]]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Italian_Renaissance&diff=prev&oldid=25249574 '''4000th''' edit] ([[October 11]], [[2005]]) was a reversion of patent nonsensical vandalism to [[Italian Renaissance]]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rappin%27_4-Tay&diff=prev&oldid=34382238 '''5000th''' edit] ([[January 8]], [[2006]]) was a simple copyedit to [[Rappin' 4-Tay]]
*Quoted in the [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2005-09-19/Esperanza group|Wikipedia Signpost]] on       [[September 19]], [[2005]] about [[Wikipedia:Esperanza|Esperanza]] (OK, maybe not that big of a milestone. But hey...)
*Elected to the [[Wikipedia:Esperanza|Esperanza]] Advisory Committee on [[October 13]], [[2005]] following the [[Wikipedia:Esperanza/2005 Advisory Committee Elections|first election]] for a term ending [[December 31]], [[2005]]
*Celebrated my first Wikibirthday on [[January 10]], [[2006]]
*User page has been vandalised '''2''' times. Among admins, that's a pretty lucky userpage.
*'''{{NUMBEROFARTICLES}}''' articles and counting for the Wikipedia!
<br><center>{{Pic of the day}}<br>'''The Newest Picture on Wikipedia'''<br>{{Special:Newimages/1}} </center>

==Awards==
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Image:WikiMedal for Janitorial Services.png|For helping clean up the talk section of the [[Pope Benedict XVI]] article, here is the Wikimedal for Janitoral Services. [[User:Zscout370|Zscout370]] 18:02, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Image:Barnstar_of_Diligence.png|In recognition of your persistent dedication to the community on [[WP:BAP]], I hereby award you with '''The Barnstar of Diligence''' - [[User:Sango123|<span style="color:#3D9140;">Sango</span>]][[User talk:Sango123|<span style="color:#006400;">123</span>]] 16:53, Jun 23, 2005 (UTC)
Image:Random_Acts_of_Kindness_Barnstar.png|To Bratsche, for going above and beyond when I asked for help--[[User:Shanel|Shanel]] 22:52, 13 September 2005 (UTC)
Image:Barnstar_of_Reversion2.png|I think you deserve this for beating me in reverting to vandalise pages I hearby reward u the RickK anti vandalism award --[[User:Aranda56|JAranda]]'' {{pipe}} [[User talk:Aranda56|yeah]]'' 03:06, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
Image:Barnstar_of_Diligence.png|For all the work you have done. [[User:V. Molotov|Molotov]] [[User_talk:V. Molotov| (talk)]] [[Image:Flag of California.svg|25px]] 21:36, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
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==Useful Links==
*[http://kohl.wikimedia.org/~kate/cgi-bin/count_edits.cgi Kate's most excellent tool]
**[http://kohl.wikimedia.org/~kate/cgi-bin/count_edits?user=Bratsche&dbname=enwiki My edits]
*[[Special:Log]]
**[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=&user=Bratsche&page= My admin actions]
*[[Wikipedia:Featured pictures|Featured Pictures]]-So pretty...
*[[Wikipedia:Template messages|Templates]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types|Full stub list]]
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<tr><td>{{User en}}</td></tr>
<tr><td>{{User es-2}}</td></tr>
<tr><td>{{User la-2}}</td></tr>
<tr><td>{{User viola-3}}</td></tr>
<tr><td>{{User piano-3}}</td></tr>

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==Special User Pages==
*[[User:Bratsche/copyvio]]-My copyvio warning
*[[User:Bratsche/copyvio2]]-Second copyvio warning, includes a link to the page which the text was taken
*[[User:Bratsche/B16]]-Used after the [[Papal conclave, 2005|2005 conclave]]
*[[User:Bratsche/JPII]]-In memoriam: Pope John Paul II
*[[User:Bratsche/User2]]-Extra user page
*[[User:Bratsche/sandbox]]-My sandbox
*[[User:Bratsche/welcome]]-My welcome message to new users
*[[User:Bratsche/Wikibreak]]-Wikibreak notice template
*[[User:Bratsche/5P]]-Five Pillars of Wikipedia banner; add it to your user page, and drop me a note supporting the 5P's
*[[User:Bratsche/vfd]]- [[WP:AFD|AFD]] notice for '''kept''' articles
*[[User:Bratsche/monobook.js]]- Basically an amalgamation of different user's scripts

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