AnonEMouse has been identified as an Awesome Wikipedian,
and therefore, I've officially declared (May 12, 2007) as Mousey's day!
For being such a beautiful person and great Wikipedian,
enjoy being the Star of the day, dear Mousey!
I award this barnstar to AnonEMouse for showing a remarkable, rare, and amazing quality of resiliency. ScienceApologist 21:47, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
The Barnstar of Diligence
In honor of your ideas, patience, and concern for the project. Olessi 05:04, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
The Barnstar of Diligence
For continued perseverance in the face of seemingly overwhelming challenges in bringing the Jenna Jameson article so far along the road to Featured Article status. You're appreciated!—Chidomtalk 21:57, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
For skills as a juggler in making significant contributions to a number of articles and discussions as well as simultaneously providing excellent administrative services—all with patience, humor, and clarity of thought. Thanks!—Chidomtalk 21:57, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
The Barnstar of Rescue
For saving the Shelly Jamison article through some good detective work. Wiki needs more editors like you! meshach 01:28, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
This is I like you Barnstar.. You are a nice person..! :) --Riva72 19:52, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
This was going to be a barnstar of diligence, but you seem to have plenty of those already, so I thought I'd mix it up. :-) If there is one thing I can count when I see the signature of AnonEMouse in a deletion discussion, it is a well-reasoned, thoughtful and very civil argument. (Oh, and this is also a much belated thank you for the barnstar you gave me months ago!) IronGargoyle 04:15, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
The Pornography Barnstar
I hereby award this honor to you for the consistent, high quality work you've done in making Wikipedia a better resource. From leading the charge and tireless work on making the article on Jenna Jameson a Wikipedia Featured Article, continuing the work on the Pornstars project, encouraging your fellow editors, and a whole list of feats too numerous to write here. Definitely a class act, more worthy of this barnstar than I am. :-) -- Joe Beaudoin Jr. 22:15, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
The Editor's O-Star
I, WilyD hereby award AnonEMouseThe Editor's O-Star in recognition of his ability to brilliantly illuminate so many issues. WilyD 19:17, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
The Photographer's Barnstar
For outstanding work in obtaining many high-quality freely-licensed images to illustrate our articles. Great job! Videmus OmniaTalk 14:04, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
Dear AnonEMouse, unfortunately, your latest contributions constitute vandalism of Wikipedia, and it is with regret that you have been blocked from editing for a period of {{{1}}}. Please do not take this badly; this is not a punishment, but rather an opportunity to plan your upcoming useful contributions, which you are most welcome to make after the block expires. We'll be there to thank you in person for understanding and helping our project. Have a nice day! AnonEMouse(squeak) 14:22, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
I've made about 67 requests to Flickr users, and gotten these 46 images changed to Creative Commons Attribution or Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike licenses, so we can use them. All I can offer them is effusive thanks, possibly a bit of publicity, since Wikipedia is the #8 web site in the world (was #9 when I started asking!), and the knowledge that they are contributing to a free Encyclopedia, but that seems to often be enough. Three people gave me multiple images each from one request; three others wouldn't change the license on Flickr, but emailed me the image under GFDL or CC-BY-SA; two people contributed single images that I cut into two for two articles; one has started to write me as their gateway to put images up on Wikipedia; one person said they were already a Wikipedia user, and would happily upload their image themselves; and one was not only a Wikipedian, but User:Jimbo Wales! At Flickr, I'm AnonEMouse0.
I've gotten these 8 images from about 19 email requests (including one person who came to me asking how to best expand an article related to them -- naturally I suggested contributing an image; and two people whom I asked for one image, and got two!).
A lower rate of success here, though the incentives would seem to be the same. I guess the difference is that Flickr users are usually fans, rather than article subjects, while these email requests are generally to people more closely connected to article subjects.
74 images so far. I looked around on the web for appropriate images with free licenses, and occasionally trimmed or cropped appropriately.
A number of these came from http://lukeisback.com and User:Tabercil/Luke Ford permission - extra thanks, both of you!
Other fruitful places for images with free licenses:
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