User:Gropen

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On October 28, 2009, I was awarded the Literary Barnstar by Abie the Fish Peddler

		The Literary Barnstar
		This Barnstar has been awarded to WickerGuy for the knowledge, time, and effort you've spent, and hopefully will continue to spend, on William Blake's article. Awarded by Abie the Fish Peddler (talk) 04:29, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

On January 14, 2011 I was awarded

		The Modest Barnstar
		Thanks for finding that other series' have images, and what is acceptable in that regard, and for finding and inserting the image and then linking it to The Chronicles of Narnia article. Walter Görlitz (talk) 00:07, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

On April 27, 2011 I was awarded

		The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
		for your tireless work on Stanley Kubrick and your devotion to keeping it in prime condition. Rusted AutoParts (talk) 14:34 28 April 2011 (UTC)

On May 12, 2011 I was awarded

		The Editor's Barnstar
		I hereby award WickerGuy this Editor's barnstar for his fine work on 2001: A Space Odyssey (film)...excellent work!! Dreadstar ☥ 18:02, 12 May 2011 (UTC)

On August 22, 2011, I got my second barnstar (out of 6 now) specifically for my work on the Stanley Kubrick article.

	Wikipedian of Excellence
	This Wikipedian of Excellence Award has been awarded to WickerGuy for the knowledge, time, and effort you've spent, and hopefully will continue to spend, on Stanley Kubrick's article. AndrewOne (talk) 20:06, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

	The Citation Barnstar
	Great work cleaning up Psycho IV! Doniago (talk) 03:08, 20 October 2011 (UTC)

		The Barnstar of Diligence
		Thank you for your lead, diligence and civility in pulling the Charles Dickens article together. Span (talk) 16:53, 17 March 2012 (UTC)

Subjects worked on in Wikipedia

• Lots of stuff on Stanley Kubrick,
• the James Bond (film series) article,
• the Star Trek article,
• Narnia-related articles.

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Subjects I wish I'd worked on
in Wikipedia but haven't (sniff)

• The Beatles
• H.G. Wells
• Isaac Asimov
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Doctor Who

User Info

This user is interested in religion.

This user is interested in Buddhism.

This user is interested in Christianity.

MDivThis user has a Master of Divinity degree.

This user is Waiting for Godot, who will surely be arriving on September 1.

⚤This user is straight
but not narrow.

This user is interested in philosophy.

Favorite Music

• Pop music from the '40s thru '70s
• Modern classical (especially Mahler and Stravinsky)

Favorite Song Writers

• Joni Mitchell
• Bob Dylan
• Paul Simon ("I want a shot at redemption/ Don’t want to end up a cartoon/ In a cartoon graveyard")
• The Beatles (Yes, I know this is a really esoteric arcane choice)
• Buddy Holly
• Donovan
• The Grateful Dead
• Pete Seeger
• Sting

Favorite Singers

• Joni Mitchell
• Judy Garland (Hell to work with, heaven to listen to)

User Info

This user is proud
to be a Wikipedian.

<ref>This user recognizes the importance of citing sources.

This user has been a member of Wikipedia since August 2007.

-ist	This user is not an -ist. They prefer to use common sense.

This user is bold, but not reckless, in updating pages.

This user believes in civility and assuming good faith.

This user encourages the peaceful correction of vandals.

   Favorite television

   * Most science-fiction and period drama. Yes, I'm a Trekkie, and fan of Buffy and Doctor Who.

   Favorite movie directors

   * Stanley Kubrick
   * Alfred Hitchcock (His most unfairly neglected film is Shadow of a Doubt)
   * Laurence Olivier (Better known as actor, and only directed 5 films)
   * Charlie Chaplin
   * Woody Allen
   * Fellini
   * Martin Scorsese
   * Francis Ford Coppola (has neglected gems such as The Conversation and Rumble Fish as well as acknowledged classics)

User Info

∞ This user enjoys SF.

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This user is a Trekkie.

This user enjoys the works of
Jane Austen.

This user enjoys the works of
the Brontë sisters.

This user enjoys the works of
Charles Dickens.

CSLThis user enjoys the works of
C.S. Lewis.

This user enjoys heavy reading, such as Shakespeare and other dead guys.

This user is a fan of the Iliad.

This user enjoys the works of
Sherlock Holmes.

This user thinks Foucault's Pendulum is a much better version of The Da Vinci Code.

This user is a fan of Dune.

This user enjoys the Lord of the Rings book and movie series.

  Favorite Books

  * Lord of the Rings In the words of the author...

"The most critical reader of all, myself, now finds many defects, minor and major, but being fortunately under no obligation either to review the book or to write it again, he will pass over these in silence, except one that has been noted by others: the book is too short"

• Jane Eyre

(such romantic dialogue...

“You examine me, Miss Eyre,” said he: “do you think me handsome?”
“No, sir”.

It still works.)

Favorite classical writers

• Charles Dickens, D.H. Lawrence, Jane Austen (OK, I know I've only actually read "Pride and Prejudice"), Charlotte Bronte,
  

George Eliot ("We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it"), Thomas Hardy, and of course William Shakespeare

Favorite popular fiction writers

• Arthur Conan Doyle
• Ian Fleming (only author listed here I've read everything by)

Favorite science-fiction writers

• Ray Bradbury, Ursula K. LeGuin

Favorite literary critics

• Harold Bloom, Camille Paglia

Favorite Poets

• Wordsworth, Walt Whitman ("Hark, some wild trumpeter, some strange musician"), Allan Ginsberg

Favorite thinkers I mostly agree with

• Dalai Llama, Thich Nhat Hanh,
• Thomas Merton, John Shelby Spong

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Favorite thinker I don't really agree with

• Friedrich Nietzsche ("We are, all of us, growing volcanoes that approach the hour of their eruption")

Most obscure and arcane organization I ever joined

• Sangha for Skeptical Buddhism (for practicing Buddhists who don't buy reincarnation)

Two dumbest recent quotes from the atheist-religion debate

• Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings.

- Victor Stenger, prominent activist for atheism

• Love of God and compassion and empathy leads you to a very

glorious place, and science leads you to killing people. - Ben Stein creator of film "Exposed" and prominent anti-Darwinian conservative