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This user fights USA-centrism on Misplaced Pages

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Warning! This user functions at a sub-optimal level before their morning coffee.

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This user often makes mistakes while typing, and would like to take this oppurtunity to aoplogiae.

This Wikipedian recites the Wiki Prayer regularly.

God, grant me the serenity to accept the pages I cannot edit, The courage to edit the pages I can, And the wisdom to know the difference.

This user tries to do the right thing. If he makes a mistake, please let him know.

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This user supports Gaelic games.

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This user enjoys photography.

- Overall: {{{{Senior Vanguard Editor Userbox}}}} For the English WP: {{{{Grandmaster Editor FC Userbox}}}} For the Dutch WP:

This editor is a Grandmaster Editor and is entitled to display the Lapis Philosophorum Editor Star with the Neutronium Superstar.

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Welcome,

I am a Dutchman but have been living, since 2006, in County Clare, Ireland, Ireland. I'm interested in local history, mainly from county Clare (Ireland) and Groningen (The Netherlands), Irish traditional music and genealogy.

It is remarkable that Misplaced Pages is claiming not to be a site for advertising and promotion, but on the other hand it is extremely difficult to remove articles that are plain advertising or promotional. This is due to the many editors who claim that normal editing should do the trick but fail to improve these articles they say can be improved. This seriously undermines Misplaced Pages's stance against advertising and promotion. The fact that WikiProjects become increasingly powerful with settings the rules is also a threat to the reliability, independence and quality of Misplaced Pages.

Unfortunately for many people, I do not discriminate. I treat everybody exactly the same, no matter how important somebody is (or thinks they are) or how inexperienced somebody is. I do not care about personal hobbies or local consensus when that is detrimental to the encyclopaedia....

The Banners Law

The more truth or freedom is in the username of an editor, the bigger the chance on a lack of truth and freedom in the edits of that editor.

Writing articles is fun, but...

...sometimes a bit dull and boring. Pictures can solve a lot of that. You can find loads of pictures in The Commons Picture Archives!

... how do I find coordinates for an article. The Coordinates tool is very handy for this.

... sometimes you want to know what articles you have created. Simply check that here.

... sometimes you just want to know how much you have done. Simply check that here.

Barnstars

		The Disambiguator's Barnstar
		The Disambiguator's Barnstar is awarded to Wikipedians who are prolific disambiguators. For clearing out the templates with disambig links, a feat the rest of us assumed would never get done. JaGa 15:28, 12 October 2011 (UTC)

	The Original Barnstar
	For your efforts on Dutch restaurants. Restaurants are a poorly developed part of wikipedia. Keep it up! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:46, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

	The Barnstar of Diligence
	Thanks for your work preventing point-of-view problems in the Margaret Sanger article. Noleander (talk) 19:48, 26 November 2012 (UTC)

		The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
		My friend, please accept this barnstar as my thanks for tirelessly fixing all of those disambiguation links on my Texas Legislature templates. Thanks! Cheers, Freebirdthemonk 05:22, 31 December 2012 (UTC)

		The Barnstar of Diligence
		For taking care of all those bad template edits by DPL bot caused by the bad data on Toolserver. Your cleanup work saved me from a lot of annoyed editors, and I appreciate your help. JaGa 08:11, 17 December 2013 (UTC)

	The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar
	I do lots of aviation accident edits. If I had seen those templates in aviation articles, I would have nominated them for deletion. Based on my own experience, some members of the Aviation Wikiproject think WP policies don't apply. ...William 15:41, 19 July 2014 (UTC)

		The Disambiguator's Barnstar
		The Disambiguator's Barnstar is awarded to Wikipedians who are prolific disambiguators. Thank You for all the work you have done to repair and monitor pages with disambiguation links. It is much appreciated! Robert4565 (talk) 23:04, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

	The Barnstar of Diligence
	Thank you for your edits to disambiguate the incoming links to Kick-Ass (comics)! Steel1943 (talk) 22:43, 14 October 2014 (UTC)

		The Stub Barnstar
		Thanks for creating the new Gravenmolen article, and for improving Misplaced Pages's coverage of notable restaurants that have received Michelin stars. NorthAmerica 02:53, 20 December 2014 (UTC)

	The Barnstar of Diplomacy
	Thank you for taking back an AfD nomination. Bearian (talk) 02:37, 4 March 2015 (UTC)

	The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar
	Superb work Ratel (talk) 23:22, 17 May 2016 (UTC)

	The Original Barnstar
	For all your pageant related work. The ANI thread is mostly balderdash from people who don't understand the level of pageant article garbage there is around here. ...William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 00:37, 2 July 2016 (UTC)

	The Original Barnstar
	Thanks for your unflagging (no pun intended) efforts amid the tedium and repetition. Happy Holidays and a Prosperous 2017. Quis separabit? 17:39, 24 December 2016 (UTC)

	The Barnstar of Diligence
	Bedankt voor het oplossen van de Birma sjabloon puinhoop! Een klus die al jaren gedaan moest worden! † Encyclopædius 10:47, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

Project page

Abandoned projects

• Michelin project. Too much spamming, non-ENWP-editor following me around for harassing, changes in the Michelin procedures that makes maintaining the articles more difficult. To top it off: editors thinking that many trivial and/or spammy mentions proves notability.

Running projects

1. Rework articles County Clare. (See: User:The Banner/Clare) To do: Bodyke (stub) - Bridgetown (stub) - Broadford (stub) - Clarecastle (refs) - Connolly (pictures) - Doonbeg (refs) - Inagh (update) - Kildysart (refs) - Kilmihil (pictures) Lisseycasey (stub, refs) - Murroogh (update) - Newmarket-on-Fergus (refs) - Doonaha (stub, pictures) - Bunratty (rewrite) - Cross, County Clare (stub, pictures).
2. Willy Keane - P.J. Hayes - Feakle International Traditional Music Festival - Sharon Shannon (album) - Josie Hayes - Paddy Galvin (fiddle player) (Quilty) - Michael Downes (fiddle player) - Pat Kelly (bodhran player) - Michael Sexton Sr. - Michael Sexton Jr

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