User:ChrisO

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This editor is a Senior Editor, and is entitled to display this Platinum Editor Star.

This user has been a member of Wikipedia since 21 October 2003.

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Welcome to my user page. I'm ChrisO, an editor on the English Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Commons.

I've been a Wikipedian since October 2003 and an administrator from February 2004 (when Wikipedia was much smaller than it is now) to June 2009, so I suppose I could be called one of the old-timers.

I edit a wide range of topics, but the ones I keep finding myself coming back to tend to be those relating to the Balkans, classical antiquity and contemporary politics. I also have an eye for the ridiculous, which you can see in some of the articles I've edited! I've also been involved over the years in developing various aspects of Wikipedia policy and guidelines; Wikipedia:Naming conflict is one of mine, for instance.

A selection of some articles I've written:

• Alaska Mental Health Enabling Act - featured article, did you know?
• Crushing by elephant - featured article
• Battlefield Earth - featured article

• Quneitra - good article, did you know?
• Monte Testaccio - good article, did you know?

• 1928 Thames flood - did you know?
• Dimmock v Secretary of State for Education and Skills‎ - did you know?
• Fjuckby - did you know?
• Fox tossing - did you know?
• Israel-United States military relations‎ - did you know?
• Minute Women of the U.S.A. - did you know?
• Piraeus Lion‎ - did you know?
• Montreux Convention Regarding the Regime of the Turkish Straits - did you know?
• Japanese submarine I-176 - did you know?

• Colosseum
• Gazimestan speech‎
• House demolition
• Infamy Speech
• Inner German border
• Martello tower
• Massachusetts School Laws
• Of Pandas and People‎
• Pyramid of Cestius‎
• Thames Tunnel
• Via Egnatia

My other contributions can be seen here.

For your work on scientology and NPOV in passionate national disputes I Secretlondon am amazed that you've never previously been awarded a barnstar (KC)	ChrisO is hereby awarded this pile of Barnstars as late recognition for all his contributions, in the form of writing articles or otherwise, to Wikipedia. !מזל טוב from Izehar	For negotiating a ceasefire acceptable to both sides in the heated "Operation Medak Pocket" article. You really deserve this barnstar. From --P-Chan 00:21, 6 April 2006 (UTC) (KC)
The Oddball Barnstar For all your efforts in restoring what is possibly WP's oddest article, Crushing by Elephant to its rightful status as Featured Article! Borisblue 22:26, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
The Barnstar of Diligence For your superb achievement of converting the stub of Quneitra into a well-deserved featured article. –-Al Ameer son (talk) 04:43, 17 February 2008 (UTC)