User:Shanes

Userboxes This user is an administrator on the English Wikipedia Blocks Locks Deletes This user lives in Norway This user is happy to help new users. Leave a message here. no Denne brukeren har norsk som morsmål. en-4 This user is able to contribute with a near-native level of English. de-2 Dieser Benutzer hat fortgeschrittene Deutschkenntnisse. This user maintains a strict policy condemning all personal attacks. 25,000+ This user has made over 25,000 contributions to Wikipedia. This user is a recent changes patroller. SI This user uses the metric system of measurement. Attention: Adminstats are down right now. They should be back up to date soon. Admin statistics Action Count Edits 28069 Edits+Deleted 29785 Pages deleted 2435 Pages restored 21 Pages protected 90 Pages unprotected 162 Protections modified 4 Users blocked 1106 Users reblocked 0 User rights modified 0 Users created 0 Handy links to spot tests, vanity and vandalism Main page State leaders Norwegian politicians Birth day vanity edit tests 1 edit tests 2

I'm one of the many thousand people editing here and who want wikipedia to be as complete, accurate and trustworthy as possible. I hope many more will join the project, become wikipedians and have fun contributing.

I started editing here in November 2004, and became an administrator in April 2005. I live in Oslo, Norway and have a Master's degree in theoretical physics from some 15 years back. I am not as active on Wikipedia as I used to be, but I drop by now and then, and make occasional edits.

Rant

I detest many of the dominating boxes and tags being placed in various articles for self centered reasons and wrote a rant about it (The examples are now out of date in many respects).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 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 Barnstar. I've received 5 myself. Thanks!

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  I, Flcelloguy, do hereby present this Barnstar of Reversion to Shanes for his tireless work in deleting non-sensical pages and for his effort in reverting vandalism.

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  I, FireFox hereby award you this Minor Barnstar for all your brilliant minor edits!

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  For keeping focus Well done for reminding people what we're all here to do. Rob Church

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  Barnstar of Diligence Award, from Encyclopedist

		What a Brilliant Idea Barnstar
		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 truly great rant, we know for what we struggle. Unschool (talk) 07:19, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Travels

I like traveling. Here are the countries I've lived in or visited so far.

AND	BEL	CAN	CH	CPV	CZE
DEU	DNK	ESP	EST	FIN	FRA
GRC	HRV	HUN	ITA	LUX	MCO
NLD	NOR	RUS	SVN	SWE	TUR
GBR	USA	USSR	VAT

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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. -- Bertrand Russell