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I'm one of the many million people editing here, and I want Wikipedia to be as complete, accurate, and trustworthy as possible. I hope many more will join the project, become [[Wikipedia:Wikipedians|Wikipedians]], and have fun contributing.

I started editing here in November 2004, and I [[Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Shanes|became]] an [[Wikipedia:Administrator|administrator]] in April 2005. I live in [[Oslo]], [[Norway]] and have a [[Master's degree]] in [[theoretical physics]]. I am not as active on Wikipedia as I used to be, but I drop by now and then to make occasional edits.

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==Rant==
I detest many of the dominating boxes and tags being placed in various articles for self centered reasons and wrote [[User:Shanes/Why tags are evil|a rant about it]] (The examples are now out of date in many respects).

I wish we could keep articles as clean as possible, follow the [[WP:STYLE|style manual]], and stop starting articles with big distracting boxes with either trivial information or messages meant for editors.

==Barnstars==
Wikipedians don't get money for their work, but sometimes they get a [[Wikipedia:Barnstars on Wikipedia|Barnstar]]. I've received 5 myself. Thanks!
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Image:Barnstar of Reversion2.png|I, [[User:Flcelloguy|Flcelloguy]], do hereby present this Barnstar of Reversion to [[User:Shanes|Shanes]] for his tireless work in deleting non-sensical pages and for his effort in reverting vandalism.
Image:Minor_Barnstar.png|I, [[User:FireFox|<span style="color:black;">Fir</span>]][[WP:ESP|<span style="color:green;">e</span>]][[User:FireFox|<span style="color:red;">Fo</span>]][[User talk:FireFox|<span style="color:blue;">x</span>]] hereby award you this Minor Barnstar for all your brilliant minor edits!
Image:Original_Barnstar.png|'''For keeping focus''' Well done for reminding people what we're all here to do. [[User:Robchurch|Rob Church]]
Image:Barnstar_of_Diligence.png|'''Barnstar of Diligence Award''', from [[User:Encyclopedist|Encyclopedist]]
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|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | For articulating an idea that others had either never brought to the fore or had not even begun to formulate—the problem of the '''Plague of Tags'''—and for the impact that this idea has had on this Project.  No, the battle is not won, and may never be, but because of your [[User:Shanes/Why tags are evil|truly great rant]], we know for what we struggle. [[User:Unschool|Unschool]] ([[User talk:Unschool|talk]]) 07:19, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
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==Travels==
I like traveling. Here are the countries I've lived in or visited so far.
:{{User:Shanes/Countries}}

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