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If you're reading this anywhere other than en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Hoary, it's likely that you're reading an old copy. And who'd want to copy it? Amazingly, some pill-pusher recently was, and may still be leeching a copy for its own inscrutable but no doubt profit-driven purposes. (You're thinking of entrusting your credit card details to a spamvertiser? It's Brains you want!)

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The true Hoary revealed!

Hoary is:

the personification of everything that is wrong with wiki and the internet in general, one person who has a bee in his bonnet about something and won't listen to consenus [sic] and people with more experience and knowledge

-- as divulged by Brettr on 2 April 2007.

Hoary is also : the personification of somebody who may from time to time get their information completely wrong, and in doing so manages to dangerously affect a persons livelihood by failing to do their research more acurately .....

What I've been up to here

Perhaps some people would like to know what I've been up to here.

One day, I might start to do something or other systematically. But as it is I enjoy working on whatever I please. Articles I've started include:

Many of them are extremely feeble by any standard. Some are mere stubs. Sometimes I start an article about something of which I know little, hoping that better-informed people will make intelligent additions to it. When I look for information about somebody and find that his or her name has been appropriated for an article on somebody unrelated, irritation often impels me to start an article on the person I wanted to read about. I don't think of these as "my" articles (and some are very different from and much better than the state they were in when I last touched them); some are of much less interest to me than are other articles to which I've contributed but which I didn't start. The list is here just for my amusement and perhaps for yours too.

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Gongs

Hoary is an exceptional newcomer, according to User:Chmod007 and User:JRM. Hoary has not even started his/her user page, and has already jumped into the every-day maintenance of Wikipedia by listing an article (a joke) on VfD! Excellent start, and you show a great desire to learn more. To encourage this, I hereby present you with the newly-invented Exceptional Newcomer award. You may now use this award image on your user page, talk page or where-ever you like.
I award Hoary this barnstar for wonderful editing and patience during the VfD, save and redevelopment of the Sollog article! Wyss 04:29, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC)
I,Tan Ding Xiang,hereby award you with this honourable award...THE BARNSTAR,for your contributions and tip to Wikipedia! tdxiang
Ceci n'est-pas un barnstar. Here, have a strange flying thing. Jkelly 21:24, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

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Userboxes and the urge for self-classification

This user imagines that you have already seen quite enough userboxes elsewhere, and incidentally wonders why so many people feel the urge to classify themselves and to broadcast the results.

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