I’ve watched Wikipedia grow into a really useful information source since 2001. It is great to contribute to a not-for-profit combined international effort like this with all its warts – bit like society itself. Nice to think that we can do something worthwhile without being paid for it.
For your indomitable resistance to abominable persistence. --Geronimo20 (talk) 10:26, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
The Teamwork Barnstar
Thank you for working as a group to improve on Sustainability and to ensure people with fringe POVs do not get away with it. OhanaUnitedTalk page 06:50, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
For History of botany. I don't know why, but I just felt that the article was very compelling. If only all the "history of science" articles were of this grade... Cheers, ResMar 02:42, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
"It's good to let your ego be punctured once in a while. Most of us, after several years and tens of thousands of edits, start to put a lot of our egos into our work here, more than we originally either intended or anticipated. While it's natural for this to happen, the unintended consequences include feelings of ownership over one's contributions and a quickness to react in poor faith, and even with arrogance. Someone reverted your edits with a sarcastic edit summary? Let it go. Someone called you a bad name somewhere? Don't retaliate. Let it go. While it hurts at first to let these things go [...] retaliating not only brings you discredit, but it increases your anger, and corresponding risk of over-reaction, as the number of related provocations rises." – Antandrus, January 2007
