User:TomStar81

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About Me I joined in September 2004, and I have picked up some of the tools of the trade, but I still have not mastered everything (yet...). Feel free to correct me if I screw something up, but please do so nicely. I Live in El Paso, Texas, and am preparing for a trial semester of graduate level courses at the University of Texas at El Paso with the goal of being fully readmitted to pursue a Master's Degree within the year. When not actively engaged in studying I usual spend my time with members of University's Video Games and Anime Committee. I am an avid computer gamer, and spend the rest of my time either watching TV or reading books. I'm not an expert in any particular field, but I am knowledgeable in a wide range of subjects including (but not limited to): Meteorology, Transportation, History, Military Science, Historical Interpretations of the American Constitution, the Legal Process, and cartoons, with a special eye on anime and Adult Swim, and the old Toonami. I have also been told that I can think outside the box, but I'm not sure how true that is. Since joining Wikipedia I have been steadily expanding my horizons here, and have been dropping welcome messages on the talk pages of new users who happen to edit articles I track on my watchlist. I am a member of the Military history Wikiproject, which seeks to improve Wikipedia’s coverage of military history, and the World War II task force, a task force operating under the Military history Wikiproject which aims to improve Wikipedia’s coverage of World War II. In August of 2007, I was elected by the members of the Military history Project to serve as a coordinator for the project. Coordinators oversee the internal operations of the project and to ensure that the project remains active and healthy on Wikipedia as the encyclopedia continuously evolves. On July 8th, 2008, I became an administrator here on the English Wikipedia, and as such now have a few extra buttons to employ for the betterment of Wikipedia. I also now have a globalized account meaning that TomStar81 on any other Wikimedia project is me as well. In addition to this primary account, I maintain a separate account from which I edit when not logged in from a secured location. I was elected Lead Coordinator for the Military history Project in September 2009, a position I held until September of 2010. Although a frequent contributor to the encyclopedia I took a leave of absence from Wikipedia in early November 2008 for personal reasons. While working offline I redesigned my user page, using the layout pioneered by Phaedriel (talk · contribs) but substantially tweaking it so that it would reflect my interests. I remained off Wikipedia until early 2009, where upon I returned. Occasionally, if I am bored or if I have nothing better to do with my time I will check the recent edits log to check for vandalism, or cruise aimlessly through the articles that pop up when I click on "Random Article" to further my own knowledge and to see if I can improve the page(s) in any way. Anyway, if I can help with something, then I will definitely try, and if I can't, I may be able to at least point you in the general direction of assistance. Oh, and uh, one more thing: My Spelling is Atrocious, so if I made it, and it's misspelled, please fix it. You will be doing us all a favor ;-) —TomStar81 04:53, 4 Sep 2004 (UTC) Discovering Wikipedia I discovered Wikipedia by accident when searching for information concerning the space ships in the Universal Century (UC) Mobile Suit Gundam anime series back in August '04, and was immediately intrigued with the possibility of writing material that could be published and read on the internet. As an ISP user I created articles for nearly all the UC era space vessels, and at the encouragement of Aqua008 (talk · contribs) decided to register an account on Wikipedia in September 2004. I chose the name "TomStar81" because I had a (now defunct) Cartoon Orbit account dedicated to Toonami, but the Cartoon Orbit people required users to choose prefabricated names. After much thought I settled on "TomHameStar81" for my Cartoon Orbit account name — "Tom" as a salute to the host of Toonami, "Hame" for the Kamehameha attack in Dragonball Z, "Star" for anime series Outlaw Star, and 81 because a two digit number was required and 77 (my favorite two digit number) had already been taken, and I wanted a number that would at least add or subtract to seven (8-1=7, thus the 81) — and shortened that to "TomStar81" for use on Wikipedia. I should note here that I have no preference on whether you pronounce the number as "eighty-one" or "eight one;" I usually switch between the two options myself, so feel free to use whichever one you prefer. Initially, my editing was by choice confined to the anime series and video games of the first person shooter and real time strategy genres that I had played here and there, most of which had military-based themes. Owing to the military based themes I did some editing of the military related articles here, but at the time we had no single unified Military History project, so my editing was not so much to help the military projects as it was for my own interest. Joining the Military History project Around 2005-2006 two major events occurred that lead to a radical reevaluation of what exactly I do here. First, the vast majority of old Command & Conquer pages I had labored to improve wound up at afd and were ultimately deleted. In the aftermath of losing so many articles — most in a few mass-nom afds — I swore I would never again create a page concerning an aspect of fiction on Wikipedia. At just about the same time as the mass deletions were occurring the formerly independent Wikiproject Battles, Wikiproject Wars, and Wikiproject Military took the unprecedented step of merging to form a single unified Military history Wikiproject, and I officially joined because of a vested personal interest in both World War II and battleships; since then, most of my editing has been for the military history project, although I do edit outside the scope of military history project now and again, usually when I am bored or looking to exercise admin privileges. Since joining the military history project I have become a driving force behind the improvement of our warship article, in particular the Iowa-class battleships. Without bragging, I do believe that I am the first Wikipedian here on the English Wikipedia to have gotten a battleship class article to Featured Article status, and am numbered among the first to have helped create a ships-exclusive Featured Topic. This in turn seems to have inspired others to take up the challenge of writing about individual ships, as the number of Featured Articles on ships has gradually increased since I began working on them. My administrator policy My administrator policy has always been that administrators be thou for the contributors. As an administrator (or admin for short) I firmly believe that it is my duty to assist contributors to the best of my ability and within the confines of all applicable policies and guidelines. I realize that I am only human, and therefore I will inevitably make a mistake or two in exercising administrative privileges on Wikipedia. In light of this, I invite my fellow administrators to fix any mistake I make here on Wikipedia. I will not consider it wheel-warring if you reverse my admin actions as long as you leave me a civil note telling me what you've done and why and as long as you're open to discussion with me should I disagree. I seek to learn from my mistakes, but learning can only be accomplished if both parties in a disagreement over a course of action are willing to talk to each other in a civil manner. Finally, I am and always have been an administrator open to recall. To recall me I ask that you initiate a request for comment, explaining in detail the the action(s) that I have taken in the incident(s) that occurred. If consensus emerges during the request for comment that I have acted inappropriately then I will resign my adminship. Adminship is wonderful privilege to be entrusted with, but if you are not enough without the admin tools, you will never be enough with the admin tools. What I am currently up to I have finally and officially lost all of my faith and hope. In everything. My dream of pursuing a Master's Degree at UTEP has been shot down. I lacked the money to afford the books for the classes, was given bad advice from advisers, and was apparently lied to about how long I would have to run on my trail return. I found out ten minutes before school was to have started this semester that I had been dropped from the program and barred from the History Department, and the University did not even have the courage to bring me in to do this face to face so I could explain what happened. They also apparently will not let me finish the semester I was told I could have - UTEP defines a semester as 9 credit hours, and I only took 6 before being thrown out. Such behavior only reinforces my belief that UTEP should never be allowed to obtain tier one status; if they can not even do right by their current students as a non-tire one campus, then how are they supposed to do right by the student body with tier one status. My dad has been unable to find employment. Despite his best efforts no one wants to hire a doctor whose pushing 70. Mom's gone and nested with her family in Pennsylvania, leaving my brother and I to sacrifice our lives to ensure my dad doesn't spend the last leg of his life alone and miserable. I have not been able to find a job. I've tried repeatedly, but since we need to stay in El Paso and no one is really hiring here I'm jobless. Despite having a history degree I do not have the certification required to teach in Texas, and thanks to Rick Perry's annihilation of the education budget here it would make little difference anyway. One of my best friends who is in fact fully certified to teach is working at McDonalds now because he needs the money. If that doesn't tell you what the plight of the collage graduate is these days then I do not know what will. I have also been informed that even though I have been attempting to pursue a career in the Navy I do not qualify for an officer's commission despite my collage degree on account of my low grade point average at the time of my graduation. I have been told that I would need to put in two years of service as an enlisted man before I could be eligible for OCS, but by my calculations by the time that happens I will have passed the cut off age for being an officer. And again, since we are stuck in El Paso for the foreseeable future it would make little difference. One more dream felled by life's cruel reality. Lastly, while I do not have the diagnosis to confirm this, I am personally convinced that my complete and total apathy over the last few months is in fact part of a larger and more sinister case of depression. I get no pleasure from anything anymore. Even when I spend time with other people, or try to watch my anime shows, or play a computer game, or participate in any kind of hobby or social event I just feel so...empty. I know that it is not normal, but at this point, what with learned helplessness and all, I feel like any attempt to escape the situation or otherwise resist is going to be futile. So, given all this, I thought I would stop by and update this page with this poetry piece I wrote, and let everyone know that it may be a good long time before I get back to doing anything on here - assuming, of course, that I decide to come back here at all. Right now I am so far past the point of apathy that I consider just getting out of bed in the afternoon a major accomplishment. Until I return, whenever that may be, I wish you all luck in your endeavors. Sincerely, TomStar81 (Talk) 05:05, 13 February 2012 (UTC)	Lest We Forget "For the families of the seven, we cannot bear, as you do, the full impact of this tragedy. But we feel the loss, and we're thinking about you so very much. Your loved ones were daring and brave, and they had that special grace, that special spirit that says, 'Give me a challenge and I'll meet it with joy.' ...We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for their journey and waved goodbye and 'slipped the surly bonds of earth' to 'touch the face of God'." — Speech Delivered to the Nation by President Ronald Reagan following the explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger.
	Wikipedia:Babel en- us-N This user is a native speaker of American English. es-0 Este usuario no entiende español (o lo entiende con mucha dificultad). Search user languages TomStar81 at a glance This is the 1139th day that the United States has been held hostage. This user is the owner of multiple Wikipedia accounts in a manner permitted by policy. This user is an administrator on the English Wikipedia. (verify) This user has been an admin for 3 years, 7 months and 25 days. This user has been identified as an Awesome Wikipedian and was awarded their own day. This user lives in the United States of America. This user is proud to be an American. This user supports the troops. In Memoriam: 9/11 Lest we forget… This user is part of Operation Majestic Titan, a special project of the Military history WikiProject. This user is a member of the World War II task force of the Military history WikiProject. This user lives in The Lone Star State. This user has an undergraduate degree in History with a minor in Political Science. BA This user has a Bachelor of Arts degree. アニメ This user is an Anime Otaku. This user contributes using Internet Explorer. This user contributes using Mozilla Firefox. This user contributes using Microsoft Windows XP. This user uses Google as a primary search engine. Y! This user uses Yahoo! as a primary search engine. ft-lb This user uses American Measurements. C&C This User refuses to call Generals a Command and Conquer game This user knows that battleships rule the waves, not the bloody bird farms! This is the 1261st day that the sun has risen on a world without Toonami. It is approximately 1:47 AM where this user lives.
	"It is a time when, even if nets were to guide all consciousness that had been converted to photons and electrons toward coalescing, standalone individuals have not yet been converted into data to the extent that they can form unique components of a larger complex." — Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
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Pages I have created These are a few of the pages that I have created: Magellan class Ra Cailum class Ra Cailum Irish class Zanzibar class Birmingham Time Crisis 3 Grey Phantom Nahel Argama Silent Scope Columbus Class Public class Alexandria class Papua class Pazock class Space Ark Endra class Dogos Gear Jupitris class Temptation Dozle Zabi Kycilia Zabi Bikini atomic experiments AMA-X2 Neue Ziel Space Colony (Gundam) Blue Submarine No. 6 Two Front War Operation British Universal Century Superweapons 16"/45 caliber Mark 6 gun Light bar Wikipedia:Inline Citation Live fire exercise Template:blackproject Nauticus, The National Maritime Center Fort Selden Compression stroke Exhaust stroke American Empire (Ghost in the Shell) Randy Powell Armament of the Iowa class battleship United States Naval Gunfire Support Debate 14"/45 caliber gun

Pages I have contributed to These are a few of the pages that I have contributed to: Salamis class Supertanker Iowa class battleship USS Iowa USS New Jersey USS Missouri USS Wisconsin USS Constellation USS Enterprise USS America USS John F. Kennedy USS Nimitz USS Dwight D. Eisenhower USS Carl Vinson USS Abraham Lincoln USS George Washington USS Ronald Reagan USS George H. W. Bush CVN-21 Fort Bliss Area 51 (video game) Izumo class battleship Toonami United Nations Nearly every Ohio -class ballistic missle submarines Most of the Los Angeles -class attack submarines Battle of Midway Musai class Degwin Sodo Zabi Gihren Zabi Garma Zabi O'Neill cylinder Shakuras Sarah Kerrigan Submarine Virginia class submarine Admiral DuGalle StarCraft universe StarCraft: Ghost Zeratul Albion 600-ship Navy Char Aznable RX-78 mobile suit series Minovsky Physics USS Stethem Earth Federal Forces Battle of Loum Main characters of Fullmetal Alchemist State Military characters of Fullmetal Alchemist Vertical Launching System [adult swim] Ship commissioning USS Yorktown Kirov-class battlecruiser Motoko Kusanagi Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars USS Lake Erie Aurora aircraft List of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex episodes USS Texas

Featured Works These are some of the featured works I have contributed to USS Missouri Iowa class battleship USS Wisconsin Battle of Midway Able Archer 83 Armament of the Iowa class battleship USS New Jersey USS Kentucky USS Illinois Montana class battleship USS Iowa Iowa-class battleships Image:USS Pennsylvania moving into Lingayen Gulf.jpg Image:GoldenSpikev3.jpg Image:ISS Aug2005.jpg Image:4-Stroke-Engine.gif Image:Cuban missiles.jpg Image:Us declaration independence.jpg Image:B-1B over the pacific ocean.jpg Image:Eisenhower d-day.jpg Image:Mug and Torus morph.gif Image:Animated gun turret.gif Image:We Can Do It!.jpg Image:USS SHAW exploding Pearl Harbor Nara 80-G-16871 2.jpg Image:Punch Rhodes Colossus.png Image:Lyndon B. Johnson taking the oath of office, November 1963.jpg Image:Iowa 16 inch Gun-EN.svg Image:Japanesesuicide.jpg Image:Korean War, train attack.jpg Image:Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima (color).ogg Image:Eichmann trial news story.ogg Image:V-2 rocket diagram (with English labels).svg File:Letter of Resignation of Richard M. Nixon, 1974.jpg File:Jacques-Louis David, The Coronation of Napoleon edit.jpg File:USS Yorktown collision.jpg File:England Expects Signal.svg

Barnstars, Awards, and Honorable Mentions Barnstars and Medals For your great contributions to Command & Conquer related articles, I, Jareand, hereby award you the Barnstar. Keep up the good work! (March 2006) For your welcoming messages to new Wikipedians, including me, I, Imaninjapirate, hereby award you the Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar. Keep up the kindness! (November 2006) For being super nice, I hereby award you your very own barnstar. Thanks for awarding me a barnstar when most people would have held a grudge against me instead. Oh, and good job in nominating pics that almost always get unanimous support! I'm a tab bit jealous. And don't worry, I'm not gonna kill you. ;) Jumping cheese Cont@ct (May 2007) Congrats on your election as an assistant coordinator. In honor of your achievement, I present you with these stars. I wish you luck in the coming term. (August 2007) In recognition of your constant vigil in improving all articles related to the Iowa class battleships, I hereby award you this Tireless Contributor's Barnstar. Keep up the good work! MBK004 (November 2007) I hereby award you this Special Barnstar in recognition of taking care of the issues that popped up here when I was unable to. Thanks again, -MBK004 (December 2007) In recognition of your diligent contributions towards the various reviews of military history articles, I am delighted to award you the Content Review Medal. Kirill (December 2007) For tagging and assessing 1000 articles in Tag & Assess 2007, by order of the coordinators I hereby present you with this Military history WikiProject Service Award. --ROGER DAVIES talk (December 2007) For your fine work on 2000 articles in Tag & Assess 2007, by order of the coordinators I hereby present you with this Tireless Contributor's barnstar. --ROGER DAVIES talk (December 2007) For your excellent work on 3000 articles in Tag & Assess 2007, by order of the coordinators I hereby present you with this Working Man's barnstar. --ROGER DAVIES talk (December 2007) For your outstanding work on 4000 articles in Tag & Assess 2007, by order of the coordinators I hereby present you with this Barnstar of Diligence. --ROGER DAVIES talk (December 2007) For your remarkable work on 5000 articles in Tag & Assess 2007, by order of the coordinators I hereby present you with this Barnstar of Diligence. --ROGER DAVIES talk 23:52, 1 January 2008 (UTC) (January 200) By order of the Coordinators of the Military History WikiProject—for your outstanding work in Tag & Assess 2007—I award you this Silver Wiki. You are an example to us all. --ROGER DAVIES talk (January 2008) For your work on Illinois related articles, especially USS Illinois (BB-65), I hereby award you the WikiProject Illinois Barnstar. Keep up the good work! --Dual Freq (talk) 22:02, 22 January 2008 (UTC) Congratulations on your election as an Assistant Coordinator of the Military history Wikiproject. In honour of your achievement, I present you with these stars. Good luck for your coming term. --ROGER DAVIES talk (February 2008) In gratitude for your coordination services to the Military history WikiProject, from August 2007 to February 2008, please accept this barnstar.--ROGER DAVIES talk 18:12, 29 February 2008 (UTC) Not for one but for a flurry of interesting ideas to improve the Military history WikiProject, --ROGER DAVIES talk (March 2008) For, um, making me splutter my morning coffee all over the monitor :)))) And yes, it's the Brit version. --ROGER DAVIES talk (March 2008) I award you this barnstar in recognition of your contributions of exceptional quality and unceasing commitment to MILHIST and the Wikipedia community. SoLando (Talk) (March 2008) For your awesome generosity in buying beers for all the members and coordinators of the Military history WikiProject, I award you with this tasteful barnstar. --ROGER DAVIES talk 03:40, 15 May 2008 (UTC) (May 2008) I hereby award you, TomStar81, this barnstar for your work on improving Montana class battleship considerably. Well done! — Wackymacs (talk ~ edits) (June 2008) For your admirable tenacity and single-minded determination in getting Montana class battleship to featured article status, please accept the Military history WikiProject WikiChevrons. --ROGER DAVIES talk (June 2008) In recognition of your contribution in improving Military history articles through A-Class and Peer Reviews, during the period March-May 2008, please accept this Content Review Medal of Merit, --ROGER DAVIES talk (July 2008) Awarded for a witty and clever response to an RFA oppose at this RFA. Good luck btw. Stifle (talk) (July 2008) For your kind and ready assistance to a fellow-editor in need, examining copyright concerns at SU-122. Moonriddengirl (talk) (August 2008) For your help with improving future Milhist drives at the 2008 Tag & Assess workshop, please accept this WikiProject Barnstar. --ROGER DAVIES talk (August 2008) In recognition of your help improving Military history articles through the Military history review process in June, July and August 2008, please accept this Content Review Medal of Merit, --ROGER DAVIES talk (September 2008) For showing Wikipedians that fairness can win more supporters than bickering. For handling our disagreement with class: taking a step back, and finding a productive way to express and resolve your frustrations. Your spirit is admirable! Randomran (talk) (September 2008) Congratulations on your election as Coordinator of the Military history Wikiproject. In honour of your achievement, I present you with these stars. I wish you luck in the coming term. --ROGER DAVIES talk (October 2008) In gratitude for your coordination services to the Military history WikiProject, from February 2008 to September 2008, please accept this barnstar. --ROGER DAVIES talk (October 2008) By the order of the coordinators of the Military history WikiProject, you are hereby awarded the WikiChevrons with Oak Leaves in recognition of both your long and distinguished service as a coordinator of this project from August 2007 to October 2008, and of your exemplary contributions to articles on the vessels of the U.S. Navy. --For the coordinators, Kirill (prof) (November 2008) By order of the Members of the Military History WikiProject, for "extensive contributions to the excellent Iowa class battleship article series", I award you this Bronze Wiki. --ROGER DAVIES talk (January 2009) By order of the coordinators of the Military history WikiProject, you are hereby awarded the A-Class medal for prolific work on three articles: United States Naval Gunfire Support debate, USS Iowa (BB-61) and USS Texas (BB-35), which were all promoted to A-Class between August 2008 and February 2009. Thanks for your hard work, friend! —Ed 17 (Talk / Contribs) (February 2009) In recognition of your three and a half year effort to attain a Featured Topic on the Iowa-class battleships, I hereby award you the Epic Barnstar. Congratulations! -MBK004 (February 2009) For your leadership of The Military History WikiProject from September 2008–March 2009, please accept this WikiProject Barnstar. Cam (Chat) (March 2009) Congratulations on your re-election as a Coordinator of the Military history Wikiproject! In accordance with tradition and in recognition of your appointment, I present you with these stars.  Roger Davies talk (March 2009) By order of the Military history WikiProject coordinators, for your devoted contributions to the WikiProject's Peer and A-Class reviews, I am delighted to award you this WikiChevrons.  Roger Davies talk (April 2009) Thank you very much for helping deal with the copyright crisis over Easter weekend. Your help was very much appreciated.  Roger Davies talk (April 2009) By order of the Military history WikiProject coordinators, for your devoted contributions to the WikiProject's Peer and A-Class reviews, I am delighted to award you this WikiChevrons.  Roger Davies talk (July 2009) Thank you for the information. MythSearchertalk (July 2009) In recognition of your long and distinguished history of creating, expanding and improving high-quality articles on the ships of the Iowa-class, resulting in a Featured Topic along with providing the impetus to drastically improve the coverage of all battleships worldwide within the project. You earned this award a long time ago, so please accept my apology on behalf of the entire WikiProject for our oversight of your achievements.  MBK004 (August 2009) For your distinguished and outstanding contributions to the creation and development of multiple Feature Articles, I take great pleasure in presenting you with the Featured Article Medal. Well done! Cheers, Abraham, B.S. (talk) (August 2009) Congrats on your election as Lead Coordinator of the Military history Project! In honour of your achievement, I present you with these stars. I wish you and all staff luck in the coming term. Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) (September 2009) I have the happy duty of presenting you with this award for taking first place in the 2009 Academy Content Drive. Thank you for contributing the following articles to the Academy: "Using external links", "Departments of the Military history Project", "Deleting an article", "Writing a good article introduction", "Setting up drives", "Using the A-class review toolbox", "What do Milhist task forces do?", "How can I help the project?", "Writing featured articles", "Creating and Maintaining Black Project Articles", "Pop culture and our position on it", "Barnstars, Awards and Honorable Mentions", and "Did You Know requests". Good luck finishing out your last semester :) Maralia (talk) (November 2009) Congratulations on your election as lead coordinator for the Military history Project. In honor of your achievement, I present you with these stars. —Ed (talk • majestic titan) (March 2010) In gratitude of your service as lead coordinator for the Military history Project from September 2009 to March 2010, I hereby award you this WikiProject Barnstar. —Ed (talk • majestic titan) (March 2010) For being the main driving force and father of the Operation Majestic Titain, as well as your incredible work on the Iowa-class Featured Topic, I am pleased to award you the Titan's Cross in Bronze. Good job and keep up the amazing work! White Shadows you're breaking up (June 2010) By order of the Military history WikiProject coordinators, for your devoted contributions to the WikiProject's Peer and A-Class reviews during the period July-December 2009, I am delighted to award you the WikiChevrons.  Roger Davies talk (August 2010) By order of the Military history WikiProject coordinators, for your devoted contributions to the WikiProject's Peer and A-Class reviews during the period January-June 2010, I am delighted to award you the WikiChevrons.  Roger Davies talk (August 2010) For willingly throwing yourself into the meatgrinder that is WP:FPC with the Baghdad Airstrike Video, and for defending the occasionally absurd oppose rationales with calm civility, honour and integrity. (Full citation here) Cam (Chat)(Prof) (September 2010) Congratulations on your election as Coordinator of the Military history Project! In honor of your achievement, I present you with these stars. Ian Rose (talk) (September 2010) By order of the Military history WikiProject coordinators, for your devoted work on the WikiProject's Peer and A-Class reviews for the period 1 April-30 September 2010, I am delighted to award you this Content Review Medal.  Roger Davies talk (October 2010) In gratitude for your service as the lead coordinator of the Military History WikiProject from March to September 2010, please accept this WikiProject Barnstar. With thanks, EyeSerenetalk (October 2010) As a device, I offer you my gratitude for being a really personable coord and some kind of a mensch in the form of the Cool Award. bahamut0013wordsdeeds (October 2010) I'm looking at the work you've done and involvement in the Military History WikiProject (and particularly US Military History task force). I'm totally amazed at the great work you have done. :) Sorry to hear that you are on wikibreak and look forward to having you back in full soon as possible. --Aude (talk) (November 2010) By order of the Military history WikiProject coordinators, for your devoted work on the WikiProject's Peer and A-Class reviews for the period Oct–Dec 2010, I am delighted to award you this Content Review Medal. Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) (January 2011) Honorable Mentions On 15 May, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article USS Iowa turret explosion, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. ([ May 2007]) Hello TomStar81. Congratulations and thanks for your support at the Military history taskforce elections. I hope our coordination would continue to be for the benefit of the Encyclopedia. - FayssalF - Wiki me up® ([ August 2007]) Thanks so very much for supporting the recent FAC of Hispanic Americans in World War II. It was successful and Hispanic Americans in World War II has been promoted! I'm looking forward to hopefully getting Hispanic Americans in World War II on the front page. In the mean time, please accept this Beer as a token of my gratitude. Salud! Tony the Marine ([ August 2007]) Hello TomStar81. Thanks for your support at the Military history elections. With your aid I was able to commision this ship to help plunder the coast of Military history. Na, just kidding. If you ever require any astance all you have to do is ask and you will see my ship on the horizon. Kyriakos ([ September 2007]) You are among the best Wikipedians with whom I have had the pleasure of inter-acting with, Therefore I have inducted you into my "Wall Of Honor". Please accept this is plaque on my behalf. Tony the Marine (talk) (December 2007) It gives me great pleasure to award this triple crown to TomStar81 in recognition of substantial contributions to Wikipedia's naval coverage. DurovaCharge! (January 2008) Well done Tom. I wish you another six months of happy military mopping, more good times reading articles at WP:MHR and success with your own article writing on American military history and the battleships. And hopefully another big period of growth for WP:MILHIST. Blnguyen (February 2008) Hello TomStar81. Thanks for your support at the Military history elections. With your aid I was able to commision this ship to help plunder the coast of Military history for the third time. Na, just kidding. If you ever require any astance all you have to do is ask and you will see my ship on the horizon. Kyriakos (talk) 12:58, 29 February 2008 (UTC) Thank you very much for your support in the recent Military history Wikiproject elections. I went into it expecting to just keep my seat and was astonished to end up with the lead role. I anticipate a rather busy six months :) --ROGER DAVIES talk 13:20, 29 February 2008 (UTC) (UTC) On 30 March, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Montana class battleship, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. --Wizardman 04:10, 30 March 2008 (UTC) Dhatfield (talk) 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, and remember: "All men are created equal, but ambition, or lack of it, soon separates them."Cheers, and Happy editing! You made my week and I think that maybe my time is better spent editing Milhist than getting grief on wp:FPC. Good luck with the RfA, although I doubt you'll need it with your credentials :) Cheers. Dhatfield (talk) (July 2008) Congratulations on your successful RfA! All you get is a mop and this crappy t-shirt :) (Roger Davies left the shirt, several others left thank yous and good luck messages as well, so this honorable mention goes to the community as a whole :) (July 2008) Thank you very much indeed for your help with and commitment to Tag & Assess 2008. May I please trouble you to comment at the post-drive workshop? Your feedback will help us to improve the next drive. Thanks in advance, --ROGER DAVIES talk 10:22, 1 August 2008 (UTC) (August 2008) It gives me great pleasure to award these imperial triple crown jewels to TomStar81 in thanks for substantial contributions to Wikipedia's marine military coverage. Cheers, Casliber (talk · contribs) (August 2008) Thank you very much for your much appreciated support in the recently concluded September 2008 Military History Wikiproject Coordinator Elections. I was thoroughly surprised to walk away with a position of Coordinator. Thank-you for your support, and I assure you that I will do my best to serve this spectacular project well. Esteemed Regards, Cam (Chat) (October 2008) Thank you very, very much for your constructive criticism on the successful FAC that the USS Nevada (BB-36) recently went through. Looking back, I see that it was definitely not ready before you came along...but thanks to your help, it was passed today. :D Cheers, —Ed 17 for President Vote for Ed (October 2008) On 18 October, 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article 14"/45 caliber gun, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. Keep up the good work! ~ User:Ameliorate! (with the !) (talk) (October 2008) I just noticed that your USS Iowa (BB-61) article made it to FA - terrific! NancyHeise talk (February 2009) I wish to thank you for your gracious support during my bid for a position as Coordinator of the Military history Wikiproject in the recent March 2009 elections. I was initially apprehensive to stand for election as I was unsure on how well I would be received, but I am pleasantly surprised and delighted to have been deemed worthy to represent my peers within the project. I assure and promise you, I will strive to do my upmost to justify your trust in myself with this esteemed position. Thank you, Abraham, B.S. (talk) (March 2009) I'm honored to have been elected as a coordinator of the WikiProject Military history and most sincerely thank you for your vote of support. I will endeavor to fulfill the obligations in a manner worthy of your trust. Many thanks. — Bellhalla (talk) (March 2009) On July 21, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Colorado class battleship, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits your article got while on the front page (here's how) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. Wizardman (July 2009) On August 22, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article 16"/45 caliber Mark 6 gun, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits your article got while on the front page (here's how) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. Wikiproject: Did you know? (August 2009) On August 25, 2009, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article USS Missouri grounding incident, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits your article got while on the front page (here's how) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page. Martin (MSGJ · talk) (August 2009) As Halloween is my favorite holiday, I just wanted to wish those Wikipedians who have been nice enough to give me a barnstar or smile at me, supportive enough to agree with me, etc., a Happy Halloween! Sincerely, --A NobodyMy talk (October 2009) Happy Thanksgiving Tony the Marine (talk) (November 2009) December21st2012Freak Happy Thanksgiving! has given you a Turkey! Turkeys promate WikiLove and hopefully this has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by giving someone else a turkey, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Happy Thanksgiving! Spread the goodness of turkey by adding {{subst:User:December21st2012Freak/Thanksgiving Turkey}} to their talk page with a friendly message. December21st2012Freak Happy Thanksgiving! (November 2009) I just wanted to wish those Wikipedians who have been nice enough to give me a barnstar or smile at me, supportive enough to agree with me, etc., a Happy Thanksgiving! Sincerely, --A NobodyMy talk (November 2009) ...per [1] ;) Nick-D (talk) (November 2009) Welcome back, Hope you're rested and ready to go! Auntieruth55 (talk) (March 2010) On 11 September 2010, In the news was updated with a news item that involved the article Salvatore Giunta (Medal of Honor), which you recently nominated. If you know of another interesting news item involving a recently created or updated article, then please suggest it on the candidates page. --Mkativerata (talk) (September 2010) TomStar81 has been identified as an Awesome Wikipedian, and therefore, I've officially declared today as TomStar81's day! For being such a beautiful person and great Wikipedian, enjoy being the Star of the day, dear TomStar81! Peace, Rlevse (October 2010) Happy Thanksgiving Tony the Marine (talk) (November 2010) Happy Thanksgiving Tony the Marine (talk) (November 2011) Couldn't find a Turkey so I guess Falafel, everyone loves Falafel. Happy (belated) thanksgiving. How is it going over there Tom? :) Knox387 (talk) (November 2011) This editor is a Senior Editor and is entitled to display this Rhodium Editor Star. (As of Winter 2010)

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