User:Waggers
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Waggers is a British Wikipedian, notable for the fact that you visited his user page on Wednesday, 07 March 2012 at 08:12, among other things. He was born some time last century and lives somewhere in England. Waggers first logged into Wikipedia on 7th February 2006 (after having edited anonymously for a little while) and has been active ever since, apart from a short wikibreak for a very very good reason. Waggers became an administrator in March 2007.
Barnstars and awards
Waggers has received the following barnstars and other awards:
Barnstar from User:Essjay
Hey Waggers, I noticed you around doing good work, and I thought I'd stop by and leave you a barnstar to say "Thanks for the good work!" Good job, keep it up! Essjay (Talk • Connect) 08:53, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
- Hiya
- Thanks so much for presenting me with my first barnstar - it means a great deal to me, so many many thanks. Waggers 11:08, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
- (Here's the proof: [1])
Soap Award from User:The prophet wizard of the crayon cake
Thanks to your lovely hammering cudgel of holy justice... you have smitten (insert random IP numbers here), and hastily reconstructed the great kingdom of me. For your great thwartings against tomfoolery, I present to you my Patented Soap Award tm.
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You now totally have soap. This soap is slippery, and thus good. |
Much thanks. -- The Prophet Wizard of the Crayon Cake (Prophesize|Witchcraft) 21:09, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
- (Here's the proof: [2])
Barnstar from User:Fluri
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The Original Barnstar | |
| For efficiency as an admin |
For the good work done in dealing with a blatant spammer's account. — Dave (Talk | contribs) 14:26, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
- (Here's the proof: [3])
The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar from User:Huba Huba American
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The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar | |
| For your efforts in cleaning up vandalism |
- (Here's the proof: [4])
The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar from User:Voyagerfan5761
I, Voyagerfan5761 (Tuvok), award you:
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The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar | |
| For beating me at reversions about a dozen times in the last five minutes. You must be using something even more powerful than huggle! Keep it up! (Even though it frustrates the heck out of me to keep getting beaten. ;-) Tuvok[T@lk/Improve] 14:33, 8 February 2008 (UTC) |
- Here's the proof: [5]
The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar from User:Huba Huba American
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The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar | |
| For your efforts in cleaning up vandalism |
- Here's the proof: [6]
The Original Barnstar from User:Cream
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The Original Barnstar | |
| Thank you for reverting the vandalism on my talk page! Keep up the great job! Lolipod (talk) 21:42, 21 March 2008 (UTC) |
The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar from User:21655
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The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar | |
| Where the hell did you come from? And why are you beating me so much?! The last thing I need is another DerHexer stealing my thunder.... 21655 ωhατ δo γoυ ωαητ? 20:00, 23 April 2008 (UTC) |
Barnstar of Diligence from User:Ioeth
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The Barnstar of Diligence | |
| For making me edit conflict so many times at WP:AIV this morning that my head spun and I decided to just let you take care of the reports! Excellent work! Ioeth (talk contribs friendly) 14:51, 8 October 2008 (UTC) |
Wikiprojects
Waggers is a member of a number of Wikiprojects:
Wikipedia:WikiProject Hampshire
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This user is a member of WikiProject Hampshire. |
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Waggers founded this project, and it is slowly getting off the ground.
| Wikiproject Hampshire - to do | |
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| Latest news | Current tasks |
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Wikipedia:WikiProject Categories
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This was the first wikiproject that Waggers joined. He found that categorising articles was a great way to find his way around Wikipedia as well as learning some interesting and unusual facts. Waggers still does a bit of ad-hoc categorisation now and then.
Wikipedia:WikiProject National Health Service
| NHS | This user is a member of the NHS WikiProject - You can help!. |
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The NHS is the biggest employer in Europe and Britain's health service has a long and interesting history, as do many of its component parts. Articles on these component parts were almost all short or non-existent when the project started. Slowly, that's changing...
Wikipedia:WikiProject UK geography
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When Waggers joined Wikipedia, there wasn't much going on in this project - it pretty much looked dead. Fortunately though there are now quite a few Wikipedians working hard to improve the UK geography articles.
UK Geography things to do
Vandalism
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This user is a member of the Counter-Vandalism Unit. |
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Waggers spends a fair bit of time fighting vandalism on Wikipedia. He is a member of the Wikipedia:Counter-Vandalism Unit and is equipped with a number of counter vandalism tools.
Portals
| This is Waggers' most recent adventure. He found setting up a portal incredibly easy, although finding the right content is a time-consuming task (although fairly interesting and rewarding). As well as creating and maintaining Portal:South East England, Waggers has created most of its subportals (and continues to maintain them), and has worked to achieve consistency across all of them - meaning that the selected articles in the subportals feed in to become the selected articles in the South East England portal. |
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Wikipedia:WikiProject Christianity
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This user is a member of WikiProject Christianity |
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There are tonnes of notable churches in England but shockingly hardly any articles on them. I'm going to try and put that right.
Other activities
RfA
Because of the initial lack of counter-vandalism tools, Waggers wanted to become an administrator primarily so that he could use a robust and simple rollback button. In order to scope what was generally required to be an administrator, Waggers kept a close eye, and voted, on WP:RfA. Waggers believes that integrity and trustworthiness are not only the most important critera for a Wikipedia administrator to meet; they are the only criteria. Waggers becomes somewhat frustrated when other users judge a candidate's trustworthiness by the number of edits they make in a month. Waggers soon became bored with RFA when the better vandal-fighting tools came along.
League of editors
Please take note of WP:Editcountitis before thinking that anything in this section is remotely important in any way. Edit count is not an indicator of how useful or "good" an editor is. What's below is there for interest only. Please don't judge a user by their edit count! This is just a bit of fun!
Waggers' positions in the List of Wikipedians by number of edits:
| Date | Position | Number of edits |
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| 11th March 2008 | 843rd | 18,974 |
| 20th January 2008 | 1,504th | 12,777 |
| 22nd December 2007 | 1,518th | 12,287 |
| 1st November 2007 | 1,630th | 11,101 |
| 12th September 2007 | 1,638th | 10,539 |
| 6th August 2007 | 1,628th | 10,093 |
| 16th July 2007 | 1,686th | 10,026 |
| 10th May 2007 | 1,698th | 9,290 |
| 2nd February 2007 | 2,259th | 5,806 |
| 4th November 2006 | 2,275th | 4,743 |
| 23rd September 2006 | 2,136th | 4,534 |
| Before that | Unplaced | Some |
Waggers' positions in the List of users by non-redirect pages created:
| Date | Position | Number of pages created |
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| 5th November 2007 | 4,548th | 56 |
| Before that | Unplaced | Some |
Away from Wikipedia
Waggers has a faith, a family, friends and a full-time-job. Waggers also has other hobbies. In short, Waggers has a life away from Wikipedia, so please don't always expect rapid responses on his talk page!
