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10 year veteran with over 100,000 edits. Reverts vandals, rehabilitates articles, fixes protection templates and, in general, cleans up the messes some editors make.
Hello to all at Wikipedia,
I live in Wheat Ridge, Colorado.
I joined Mar. 25, 2005. My interests include history, reading and, especially, British television and films.
In 1978 I saw Vincent Price in the one man play Diversions and Delights, written by John Gay. It was set in a Parisian theater and Price played an aging Oscar Wilde relating memories of his life and works. The performance was extraordinary and started a life long interest in Wilde. The last decade has seen an outpouring of interest in, and publications about, Oscar and the people in his life. I have read most of it. I have, also, done a fair amount of research about his visit to Leadville, Colorado, and been privileged to stand on the very stage where he spoke to the citizens of that mining boom town in 1882.
Editing here has been a fun learning experience as I have both made mistakes and helped to improve (I hope) several articles in my 17 months here at wikip. I am proud to say that I have talked at least three friends into becoming contributors here. I came upon this userbox today and it seemed a perfect description of what I like doing here so I thought that I would add it to my page. One of my favorite wikignome projects is to take Award (Academy, Tony etc) links that are red and turn them blue by finding the way that they are phrased on their wikipages.
Articles started
Not many as others are better at it
I have finally taken the plunge and created a few articles on my own. They are mostly stubs about English actors and television shows. I hope that some of you wikipedians from the UK, and elsewhere, will add to, and improve, them when you have a chance.
This award is presented to MarnetteD for his sterling work cleaning up Doctor Who serial articles. Good job! —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 00:18, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
This is an award of a different sort. It is a nice one to pass along to others so feel free to do so at anytime.
Jupiter12 has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling at someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Happy editing! Smile at others by adding Template:Tls to their talk page with a friendly message.
WarthogDemon has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling at someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Happy editing! Smile at others by adding Template:Tls to their talk page with a friendly message.
For patiently and tirelessly extending good faith (and playing The Heavy when necessary) on the George Harrison article. --prhartcom (talk) 19:27, 23 May 2010 (UTC)
I don't know if I have the authority to do this but I am following the Wikipedia policy of being bold and awarding you:
I award you this VEA for eradicating the massive amount of vandalism on the page Dracula. Myself and the other RCP members appreciate your effort! Bped1985 (talk) 14:27, 2 May 2011 (UTC)
On behalf of the People Encouraging Niceness (and/or Eschewing Nastinesss) In Society Society, I hereby award you the PENISS Prize.
The prize is the highest (and sole) honour in the gift of the Society and is awarded irregularly, on merit. It entitles the awardee to the postnominal letters P.E.N.I.S.S. (in appropriate contexts, of course).
It confers automatic membership of the Society, and it thus bestows the power to award the prize to others*, and they to others, in perpetuity. .
Remember, the more PENISSes in the world, the better for all of us. What a nice thought. Please continue your good work!
* To present this award to others, simply type {{subst:User:JackofOz/PENISS}} on their talk page, and then sign and date your post.
Because each day you come here and offer your time and experience, leaving Wikipedia a little better than it was before. Jezebel'sPonyobons mots 17:39, 30 October 2013 (UTC)
Michael, For all your tireless work in the background, particularly in removing non-sourced additions and vandalism from BLPs. When I see your name on the history, I know that is one mess that I shall not need to clean up! I do hope your tiresome visitor has left for good.— | Gareth Griffith-Jones |The WelshBuzzard| — 21:29, 12 December 2013 (UTC)
Thank you for your support of me during a recent situation regarding another editor. I really appreciate it, Daniellagreen(talk)(cont) 23:58, 11 July 2014 (UTC)
For removing the protection icons from articles where protection has expired. Day after day, week after week, by hand. Your hard work in this minor but important matter is much appreciated. (P.S. I wonder if someone can write a bot to do this? Because you do lots of other, more interesting stuff here too.) MelanieN (talk) 16:40, 28 August 2015 (UTC)
Congratulations on reaching 100000 edits. You have achieved a milestone that only 345 editors have been able to accomplish. The Wikipedia Community thanks you for your continuing efforts. Keep up the good work!
Your ongoing efforts to improve the encyclopedia have not gone unnoticed: You have been selected as Editor of the Week for your determination and dedication to help the encyclopedia grow. Thank you for the great contributions! (courtesy of the Wikipedia Editor Retention Project)
I nominate User MarnetteD to be Editor of the Week. MarnetteD has been here for more than 10 years and has made more than 100,000 edits to Wikipedia. Most of their work goes unnoticed: reverting vandalism, fixing incorrect protection templates, tidying up. But in their quiet way they have been making Wikipedia a better place for a long, long time. This nomination was seconded by User:L235
You do a lot of work here protecting articles and improving sourcing. You rarely seem to be rewarded for it! Sorry it's not a Criterion film but this is the best I can do. ;-). ♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:24, 29 October 2019 (UTC)
So, I'm giving you this bar star since you are clearing the bare URL tag backlogs with all the automated tools currently down/broken ... so yeah, you are apparently doing them manually. Yeah ... that's some dedication right there. Steel1943 (talk) 02:38, 17 June 2020 (UTC)
Okay, so I don't always click the "thank" option on the numerous times you fix many of the rawlinks I can't fix using reflinks. I could. But I actually thought you might get irritated by dozens of thanks from me. But don't think I don't notice, and don't appreciate all that work you do. Gnomes like you make this project better. Kudos. Bravo. Well done old chap. Onel5969TT me 00:12, 13 October 2020 (UTC)
I have noticed that you are cool under pressure, unstintingly polite and are one of the more diplomatic editors around. It’s a breath of fresh air! Thank you. - Aussie Article Writer (talk) 01:09, 11 July 2021 (UTC)
While most dead link messages are dull there are some that have a creative and/or fun person in charge of making them. I've seen quite a few over the years and didn't think to record them. This rectifies thst.
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