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This user does what he likes and likes what he does.
My areas of interest on Wikipedia vary, but as an administrator, much of my time is spent on administrative actions such as blocking vandals and closing AfD discussions. I also reply to help desk queries and am happy to help anyone who asks on my talk page.
My specialist knowledge is limited but I still write articles occasionally, examples of which you can see on the right. Most used to be translations from German, but I've become disillusioned with the German Wikipedia's inexplicable failure to embrace inline citation. I'm still open to translation requests, especially if you find one of the few German articles that uses proper citation.
English is my native tongue. I can read and listen to German at a high level after listening to a lot of German music and translating articles here. My spoken and written German hasn't kept pace, having never been immersed in the language, but I can easily make myself understood. French and Latin I haven't done since GCSE.
At some point I want to learn Japanese and Hindi to better appreciate anime and the music and film of Asia.
I will shortly be completing a degree in Economics.
Interests
This user has lots of interests, and looks forward to discovering more.
My politics are generally libertarian verging on anarcho-capitalism, but cats are the only thing I acknowledge as an actual bias. Sadly I don't have any of my own - such is student life.
Heavy metal (mostly European) and Indian music (Bollywood and desi) are my favourite music styles, and something I've been able to use to contribute to Wikipedia. Despite being white and not being able to speak a word of Hindi or Punjabi or whatever they're mostly singing in (yet).
I also like science fiction, but generally I read it, I don't write about it.
Barnstars etc.
The Sandwich of Exceptional Excellence
This sandwich looked a lot tastier than the one for the "tireless contributor" and I figured you must be hungry after all that hard work you did on the Sanssouci article. :) Thanks for jumping right in and continuing to move it forward. --Mmounties (Talk) 03:34, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
The Barnstar of Good Humor
For this comment which made my day end in a great mood. Misza13TC 21:38, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
The Deletionist's Barnstar
Exceptional garbage removal in WP:SD. Glen Stollery 12:50, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar is awarded to Samuel Blanning for his vandal fighting and maintanance of WP:AIAV. Banez 08:22, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar
For tireless dealing with vandalism, and being one of the best wiki-admins ever! --Sunfazer | Talk 21:16, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
The Excellent Userpage Award
For having an elegant and lovely user page. --Frater5 16:33, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
For dealing with vandals, being a great editor, and helping users. Also for being a great editor! Sunholm(talk) 11:34, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
The Shepherd's Pie
This Shepherd's Pie is awarded to Samuel Blanning for excellence in closing AfD debates. Thank you. - CrazyRussiantalk/email 15:57, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
The Ray of Sunshine
You have really made my day and for that you are somebody I will allways come back to with any query or proposal. You found time In you busy admin schedule to fit me In at short notice and to help me out. So for that I award you the ray of sunshine award.--Lucy-marie 13:37, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
I hereby award you these balls of steel. You know why. Hipocrite - «Talk» 19:24, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
Misc
This user has the right to his opinions, and does not abuse it.
Other contributions
W, W2 and W3 are the templates I use to greet new editors, based on {{welcome}}. W2 is combined with {{test}}, W3 is similar but for speedily-deleted test pages. Note that all three link to my user and talk pages within the text, so if you want to use these templates, please copy them to your userspace and change those links.
The Beard Liberation Front is a semi-humorous British pressure group dedicated to the promotion of beard-wearing and opposition to "beardism", or discrimination against men with beards. Each year it awards "Beard of the Year" to a significant bearded personality.
Amanda "Milly" Dowler was a British schoolgirl who was abducted on her way home in 2002 and later murdered. Her disappearance attracted nationwide attention which resulted in the founding of a charity in her name. Her killer has never been caught.
The Gerd Show was a satirical German radio program, whose lampooning of former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder (by Elmar Brandt) and current Chancellor Angela Merkel (by Anne Onken) among other politicians produced several top 20 hits, including Germany's 2002 Christmas no. 1, Der Steuersong.
Ali Zafar is a Pakistani pop singer, actor and model, known in his home country as the 'Prince of Pop'.
Cyanide fishing is an illegal, indiscriminate and highly-dangerous form of fishing which is thought to account for 70-90% of aquariam fish from the Philippines.
Malamaal Weekly is a 2006 Bollywoodcomedy directed by Priyadarshan. Despite the director's adamant claims that his screenplay was original, several reviewers have pointed out the similarity between the film and Irish comedy Waking Ned.
Cnidaria is a phylum containing about 10,000 simple ocean-dwelling species, including jellyfish and corals. Their name, 'nettle creatures', refers to some cnidaria's toxic, potentially fatal sting.
Tilo Wolff is the founder of long-running darkwave band Lacrimosa, for which he writes, composes, arranges, sings and plays piano, as well as Hall of Sermon, the record label he founded to support Lacrimosa, and his newest project Snakeskin.
Ctenophora are jellyfish-like creatures which form a considerable part of the ocean's plankton biomass. The phylum consists of the sea gooseberry and Venus' belt, among others.
Jugendweihen (youth consecrations) are German coming-of-age rituals that started out in the mid 18th century as secularist ceremonies run as an alternative to Christian confirmation, and under the GDR were converted into a state institution of socialist indoctrination.
The Chinese House is a garden pavillion in Sanssouci Park in Potsdam. Frederick The Great had it built about seven hundred meters south-west of the Sanssouci Summer Palace to adorn his flower and vegetable garden.
Reservists are an integral part of the Bundeswehr, and comprise every conscript which has served at least a day in the army, unless he is declared ineligible for military service or has made a claim of conscientious objection.
Grand Monster Slam was declared to be the 100th best Amiga game of all time in Amiga Power's first All Time Top One Hundred. It never reappeared in the top 100 and its initial inclusion was said to be due to the insistence of a single writer.
The Tepuis are table-like mesas found only in the Guiana highlands, host to a unique array of endemic plant and animal species.
The yellow-bellied toad is a small (between 35 and 55 mm) member of the fire-bellied toad genus widely though sparsely spread throughout middle and southern Europe.
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