User:JBW

This editor is a Veteran Editor IV and is entitled to display this Gold Editor Star.

This editor does not feed the trolls.

This user has rollback rights on the English Wikipedia. (verify)

This user fights vandalism.

This user uses Huggle to combat vandalism.

This user is a recent changes patroller.

This user is a new page patroller.

This user watches over Wikipedia with the help of Twinkle!

This user knows how to
Find x.

$e^{i\pi \ }$This user is a mathematician.

This user wastes far too much time editing Wikipedia.

FTAThis user is persistent in the fight against vandalism. Hence, the user has been entrusted with membership into Wikipedia's Fire Team Alpha.

Barnstars

		The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
		For that great summary of my acts of Sockpuppetry and for forgiving me after. Thanks Lslavin13 (talk) 17:17, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

		The Barnstar of Diligence
		Thanks for digging up the editors and contacting them in the clarifications requested at Talk:J-invariant#Confusing article – this level of diligence is above and beyond! —Nils von Barth (nbarth) (talk) 20:08, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

		The Guidance Barnstar
		I saw this edit and was very impressed. Keep up the good work. Reyk YO! 12:07, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

		The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		For you vandalism removing work --Extra999 (Contact me + contribs) 07:37, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

		The Userpage Shield
		Thanks for helping me with the vandalizme on my user page JDDJS (talk) 20:17, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

My time on Wikipedia

This user has been on Wikipedia for 18 years, 3 months and 6 days.

I created this account on 1 August 2006, and made my first edit on 11 August 2006.

It is now 6 May 2010, and this is my 22,481st edit.

What I do on Wikipedia

40% of my first 22480 edits have been edits to articles with an attempt to improve them, and 42% have been talk page edits, attempting to help improve Wikipedia by discussion and cooperation. I have created very few new articles. However, my amount of effectively new article writing is a little underestimated by the official figures. There is a small number of articles which I have rewritten from scratch or almost from scratch, because the existing article was very poor or only a stub, or I have written a whole article on a topic previously represented only by a redirect, which is really a new article but does not show up as one.

I used to regularly patrol recent changes, edits by new users, and new pages. I still sometimes do so, particularly new pages created by new users, as I find they contain a large proportion of pages which either need significant help or are unsuitable. However, recently most of my patrolling time has been concentrated on vandalism patrol.

Me in real life

My name is not James, nor Watson, nor do I have the middle initial "B". Why JamesBWatson then? No special reason. When I first registered on Wikipedia I intended to use my real name, or a version of it if someone else had already taken it. However, I found myself reading a message warning me that using your real name on Wikipedia might not be a good idea, and, doubtful about it, I picked the first fictitious name I thought of. In one of the Sherlock Holmes stories Dr Watson is referred to as "James" (though elsewhere his name is give as "John"). I have no idea why I put a B in the middle. It mildly amuses me when Wikipedians address me, in a friendly manner as "James" or, more rarely, refer to me contemptuously as "Watson". However, feel free to do either or both of these: I am quite happy with it.

I am a graduate mathematician, and some of my editing has been in mathematical articles. However, this is a fairly small proportion of my total work on Wikipedia.