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	This user is on wikivacation for a bit, while he catches up on his real life, which he has been neglecting for wikipedia. You can email me if you like.

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view edit I have pressed the "Save page" button, over 45,907 times, making me editor number 320 for number of edits. I now have 20+ barnstars, but like a good monkey, I had to press the little button 2,869 times before I got my first prize.  :( The BLP Barnstar I hereby award you this shiny barnstar for your efforts to alert Wikiprojects about how to locate BLPs for their projects and invite their participation in the discussion that would affect potentially all projects with a mass deletion (50,000 by most estimates) of "unsourced" BLPs. Your notice was such a good idea and sharing those links will help push some of those most familiar with the topics to help the articles at risk. Keep up the great work! -- Banjeboi 12:43, 26 January 2010 (UTC) What a Brilliant Idea Barnstar To the artist formerly known as Ikip, for coming up with Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons/Contest as a productive means to tackling the backlog of unreferenced BLPs. Let's focus our energy and get this puppy off the ground J04n(talk page) 03:00, 18 February 2010 (UTC) The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar For perpetually defending Misplaced Pages's intended and most valuable purpose: catalogging human knowledge. I hope you had a nice Valentine's Day! Sincerely, A Nobody 00:29, 16 February 2010 (UTC) Defender of the Noble Spirt of Misplaced Pages For your noble and unbreakable spirit of inclusion, mentorship and fraternity towards your fellow editors and the Wikipedian community. --Grancafé (talk) 02:01, 16 February 2010 (UTC) Barnstar of the Lamp For The Huddled Masses For your pure intentioned dedication to speaking for those who do not speak, the wretched refuse of the teeming shores of the internet, providing a lamp of illumination. ----Milowent (talk) 03:20, 16 February 2010 (UTC) The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar For all your work in these difficult days: notifying Wikiprojects, discussing on the RfC's, exposing rogue editors/admins behaviour and also for this exceptional comment, which definitely proves what is the real problem of Misplaced Pages these days. We need more brilliant editors like you! Cyclopia 13:08, 26 January 2010 (UTC) The Guidance Barnstar Hi Okip, this barnstar is for your tireless efforts in helping, orienting and encouraging newcomers and novice editors, like me. Thanks, --Grancafé (talk) 15:35, 13 February 2010 (UTC) Grand Coffee Vizir Barnstar For your generousous hard work, courage and distinguished dedication to the noble cause of coffee, you are conferred this Grand Coffee Vizir award of high distinction and accomplishment. Congratulations! --Grancafé (talk) 18:23, 2 February 2010 (UTC) The Barnstar of European Merit I can not thank you enough for the work you put into Albania-Serbia relations, there is no doubt in my mind that you have earned this barnstar. -Marcusmax(speak) 01:55, 16 April 2009 (UTC) this WikiAward was given to Ikip by Marcusmax(speak) on 01:55, 16 April 2009 (UTC) The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar may be awarded to those that show a pattern of going the extra mile to be nice, without being asked Even though I almost always seem to disagree with you, I admire all the hard work you put in to whatever controversy seems to be engulfing Misplaced Pages this week! HJ Mitchell | fancy a chat? 17:25, 22 January 2010 (UTC) The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar Awarded 20 January 2007 to Travb for his valiant defense of   the Misplaced Pages mission to produce a neutral encyclopedia. Athaenara The Article Rescue Barnstar For your tireless effort to save notable articles at AfD. Honestly, your commitment to fighting unnecessary deletions is extraordinary! SMSpivey (talk) 02:27, 16 January 2009 (UTC) You deserve this Wikidraco scholasticus award for taking on current AfD policy at Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_deletion#Deletion_wars:_I_propose_a_novel_solution - and for having the patience to plough through AfD looking for articles worth saving. --Philcha (talk) 13:09, 16 January 2009 (UTC) The Philippine Barnstar ... for your advice and assistance in the development of a Philippine-related article. -- Sultan-Commander (talk) 10:51, 17 January 2009 (UTC) The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar I award you this barnstar for your continued and tireless efforts to keep Misplaced Pages a welcome place for all editors... from your graciousness and guidence to newcomers who might feel "put off" when their own initial efforts end up at AfD... to your efforts to maintain the integrity of the project and its articles. The job is never-ending, and yet you continue... even when your efforts are sometimes considered as overzealous. Keep up the good fight, but with patience... as Don Quixote is not the only one to find honor in tilting at windmills. Schmidt, 20:46, 22 January 2009 (UTC) A Lucky Penny In the spirit of funding that is sweeping the country this penny is offered to Editor:Ikip for his incredible WikiWorld endeavors:----Buster7 (talk) 23:43, 23 February 2009 (UTC) The Working Man's Barnstar For all your hard work keeping an eye on Misplaced Pages talk:Notability (fiction)#Final adoption as a guideline and following up with the people who have commented there. Politizer /contribs 02:17, 30 January 2009 (UTC) Misplaced Pages Motivation Award have noticed the announcements at several pages and applaud your courtesy in sharing the news that such a discussion is going on, as thousands of affected editors would otherwise have no idea that the fates of so many articles was being determined or where to even look for such a discussion. Well done. I am surprised that others have not themselves been as proactive in seeking a wider consensus for such an important and far-reaching proposal. This thing could impact nearly three quarters of a million articles. Good job!!! Wow. Schmidt, 18:09, 3 February 2009 (UTC) Articles I have created Using: http://toolserver.org/~sql/created.php Tool. Tool does not count templates. A_New_Life_(The_Outer_Limits) A_Test_of_the_News Template:AbUS --archive box for American terrorism page. Abdellatif_Laabi After_the_Empire:_The_Breakdown_of_the_American_Order American_civil_religion American_Expeditionary_Force_Siberia Army_Foreign_Intelligence_Assistance_Program Association_of_Inclusionist_Wikipedians Axis_of_Evil_(film) Balloon_effect Bell_Trade_Act Benevolent Assimilation Benevolent_Assimilation_(book) The Book of All Flesh as RWV. Calder v. Bull as RWV. Boring law school case. Case-Church_Amendment Charles_Henry_Dietrich CIA_and_Contras_cocaine_trafficking_in_the_US Clark_Amendment Commission_on_Industrial_Relations Commonwealth_v._Pullis Control_(2004_film) Costa_Rican_Civil_War DeLima v. Bidwell Democracy_in_Marxism Domestic_analogy Dreamland_(2007_film) Drew_Griffin CNN reporter Duck_Hook Nixon threat, called for the possibly-nuclear bombing of military and economic targets in and around Hanoi, the mining of Haiphong and other ports Edward_Atkinson Enemy_Nations Estate_of_Rodriquez_v._Drummond_Co. Fablehaven children's books. Firefight_at_Yechon:_Courage_and_Racism_in_the_Korean_War G._Robert_Blakey Green_report Guenter_Lewy Heroism Research Group Hitler's_Willing_Executioners Hughes-Ryan_Act Human_rights_in_Colombia Identical_Strangers...twins were given up by their mentally ill mother and separated as infants...met for the first time in 2004 at the age of 35. Intelligence_Oversight_Act International_Journal_of_Political_Economy, socialist perspective acedemic economic journal. Is the Holocaust Unique? Jacob_H._Smith Joseph_Lafayette_Rawlins Julian_Codman Kerry_Committee_report Kill_the_Messenger Kill_the_Messenger_(film) Klaus_Mehnert La_Violencia Leahy_Law Little_Eichmanns Lodge_Committee Looking_for_Love_(film) a 1964 romantic musical-comedy movie Michel_Garder My_Country,_My_Country Onyx_Project Operation_WASHTUB Operation_Whitecoat PCCC Plan_Cobra Power_Play_(1978_film) Picard v. Barry Pontiac-Buick, Inc. 1995 Rhode Island Supreme Court case often cited in tort law text books to explain the legal concept of battery. Predictions_of_Soviet_collapse Problems_of_Communism_(journal) Psychological_Operations_in_Guerrilla_Warfare San_Francisco_Call Senate_Document Simon_Sisters Sixto_Lopez Talk:American terrorism/Past disagreements Template:AmericanEmpire Template:Colombia conflict Template:Soatitles Template:Stay focused as RWV. This talk page is not a web blog. Template:U.S. Congressional opposition to war The_Saint_Patrick's_Day_Four Sturges_v._Crowninshield as RWV, dealt with the constitutionality of New York creating bankruptcy laws and retroactively applying those laws. Theodore_Schroeder They_Came_Back Thomas_MacDonald_Patterson Thousand_Days_War Timeline_of_labor_issues_and_events Timeline_of_Philippine-American_War Tom_Engelhardt the creator of the Nation Institute's tomdispatch.com, a liberal web blog. Total_Denial a 2006 documentary film about fifteen Burmese villagers going up against oil giants UNOCAL and TOTAL as they build the Yadana Pipeline. Trade_unions_in_the_United_Kingdom TV-6_(Russia) TVS_(Russia) U.S._Army_and_CIA_interrogation_manuals Union of Banana Exporting Countries as RWV. Attempt to create OPEC like cartel for bananas. United_States_Senate_Committee_on_the_Philippines United_States_v._Stanley the United States Supreme Court found that a serviceman could not file a tort action against the federal government, even though the government secretly administered doses of LSD to the serviceman as part of an experimental program, because his injuries were found by the lower court to be service-related. War_Feels_Like_War War_referendum a type of referendum in which citizens decide whether a nation should go to war. William_Lindsay_Scruggs (1836 - 1912) a scholar of South American foreign policy and U.S. ambassador to Colombia and Venezuela. The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule The Original Barnstar For keeping both your integrity and a cool head in the most trying of circumstances. Ireneshusband 05:19, 7 January 2007 (UTC) On 27 February, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Ludlow Amendment, which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page. The Guidance Barnstar Ikip, you have helped me in many ways over the past few weeks, thank you once again for your assistance. Marcusmax(speak) 23:00, 3 May 2009 (UTC) The Tireless Contributor Barnstar Awarded to Ikip for volunteering to cleanse the Augean stables. —S Marshall /Cont 21:17, 11 May 2009 (UTC) What a Brilliant Idea Barnstar For your elegant and clear solution to some vexing situations I hereby award you this shiny barnstar you can play catch with or trade for superpowers or even put on a display shelf for all to behold and admire. The Article Rescue Squadron is a band of troupers who work in stressful environments to save content worth keeping and your help is very much appreciated. -- Banjeboi 11:52, 7 May 2009 (UTC) What a Brilliant Idea Barnstar This is an excellent idea for Foreign relations of Argentina by country to deal with the minor bilateral relationships, just 1 suggestion for improvement can we sort by continent/region? LibStar (talk) 09:19, 9 May 2009 (UTC) The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar Thank you very much for your successful efforts in strengthening the content and character of Misplaced Pages. Your work is greatly appreciated. Ecoleetage (talk) 19:15, 6 January 2009 (UTC) The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar I hearby award this barnstar to Ikip due to his heroic campaigning for the noble cause of including valuable and interesting articles in the peoples encyclopaedia. FeydHuxtable (talk) 16:09, 5 August 2009 (UTC) The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar Thankyou for being so nice to me! ScythreContribs 15:52, 4 September 2009 (UTC) What a Brilliant Idea Barnstar I hereby award this Barnstar to Ikip for his excellent idea to reduce conflict by pre-empting potentially heated AfD debates with a suggestion that articles be userfied, so new users can still work to improve their work, while deletionists are happy as problem articles are removed from mainspace. Everyone's a winner! FeydHuxtable (talk) 10:42, 13 September 2009 (UTC) andyzweb (talk) haz givn u Cheezburgr! Cheezburgrs promot WikiLovez and hoapfuly thiz one haz made yore day bettr. Spreadd teh WikiLovez by givin sumone else Cheezburgr, whethr it be sumeone youz hav had disagreementz with in teh past or a gud frend. Hapy munchins! Spredd teh goudnesz of Cheezburgerz to all lolcat buddiez by addin {{subst:Cheezburgr}} to their talk paj with friendly messuj to all. The Original Barnstar For cutting process, getting crap out of mainspace and helping newbies not to feel bitten all at the same time, a singular achievement. Guy (Help!) 20:42, 14 September 2009 (UTC) This user played a significant role in helping Eddie Kilroy graduate from incubation. This user played a significant role in helping Downtown Emergency Service Center graduate from incubation.

"Disagreeable and closed to new ideas - that's the picture that emerges of contributors to...Misplaced Pages from a survey of their psychological attributes." Aldhous, Peter (January 03, 2009). "Psychologist finds Wikipedians grumpy and closed-minded". NewScientist. Retrieved 2009-05-08. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help) Source: "Personality Characteristics of Misplaced Pages Members" CyberPsychology & Behavior (DOI: 10.1089/cpb.2007.0225) This project does not exist to help editors grow a thicker skin. Our mission is to build an encyclopedia, not establish limits for low-level abuse that we think our volunteer editors should be willing to suffer. If we drive away more people than we attract, then it's a genuine loss to the project and we should fix it rather than label those who would prefer to work in a civil environment as "thin skinned." -- User:Cool Hand Luke The problem is that our enforcement of civility and NPA has historically been quite selective. If you're unpopular or unpowerful and criticizing somebody popular or powerful, you are likely to be blocked. The other way around, not so much. We ought to come up with objective standards and stick to them. -- User:Jehochman A reliable measure of prejudice is how many mistakes a person gets forgiven. --Durova Misplaced Pages:Bureaucrats'_noticeboard/RfA_Report ...as an approximate guide, you are likely to pass if you achieve at least 75% support. Nominations which receive less than 70% support are unlikely to be successful, except in exceptional circumstances. Requests for adminship and bureaucratship update No current discussions. Recent RfAs, recent RfBs: (successful, unsuccessful) Best welcome template: User:AxG/WikiWelcome1 wikipediareview: History of wikipedia

Userpage

Why delete your userpage? What's up? From an email a friend sent me: "I am a Nobody. Nobody is Perfect. Therefore I am Perfect." Best, --A Nobody 18:54, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

I hope this has nothing to do with the deletion of some of your pages. Please don't be discouraged by this; your work is still appreciated. :) —Anonymous Dissident 14:30, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

Dude, we appreciate your work. Make sure the Wiki vay-cay isn't too long. SMSpivey (talk) 00:41, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

Thirded/fourthed. Casliber (talk · contribs) 05:42, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

And fifthed! :) Pastor Theo (talk) 03:42, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

sixtheded! --Buster7 (talk) 05:33, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

*blush* Thank you fellow editors for your warm and kind support. I would never had stayed on wikipedia as long as I have without so much wonderful support. The fierce oppostion and piety attacks would have chased me away, as they have chased away so many other fine editors who don't have the support network that I am now so blessed to have.

Adopt and mentor these new editors, e-mail them, step between them and the many bullies on wikipedia, counsel them on and off wikipedia.

I am around. Just not editing. I will be back in a few weeks to two months. Ikip (talk) 12:19, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

User:Pastor Theo, you don't have your e-mail activated. Ikip (talk) 12:22, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

There is life outside of Misplaced Pages? Enjoy your break. ChildofMidnight (talk) 16:53, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

I still love your "If you spend to much time on wikipedia, you will go insane, like me." I should have the embroidered and mailed to you. Ikip (talk) 18:03, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Deletion review for YouTube cat abuse incident

An editor has asked for a deletion review of YouTube cat abuse incident. Since you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedy-deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. AfD hero (talk) 04:16, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

You don't have email activated, I was hoping to e-mail you. You are an editor who deperatetly deserves a barnstar AfDhero for your hard work in saving articles. Ikip (talk) 13:05, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

I don't really think that would be appropriate. I don't try to "save" articles in the classic sense of improving them (unless it's trivial to find the sources or whatever). I used to do that, but then they would get deleted anyways, so whats the point.

With the new culture of admins being above concensus, I'm thinking about closing this account and just going back to anonymously improving mathematics and hard science articles like I've done since the beginning. Basically give up on the rest of wikipedia until the general beureacratic, deletion heavy mindset changes. These projects are one of the few areas that are effectively untouchable by bureaucrats and policywonks, and the culture of editors there is much nicer. AfD hero (talk) 01:15, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

I am sorry to hear that, you are not the first editor to say that you are fed up with wikipedia and will probably leave. We need more editors like you. Ikip (talk) 01:17, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the invite to article rescue squadron.--Libertyguy (talk) 16:01, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

your welcome, thank you for contriubting your time and talents to wikipedia. Misplaced Pages needs more editors like you. I hope you stay. :) Ikip (talk) 18:10, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Wikiquette alert

I opened one re: THF hopefully it will help settle things down tween him and me. Abbarocks (talk) 01:42, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

You don't have email. I asked you twice before. Thank you. Who knows if you even watched this page. I had an admin voluntarily block me for two weeks, so I can't respond on your talk page.Ikip (talk) 01:46, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Citing IMDb

I'm writing to let you know that I have modified this proposal in hopes of trying to build a consensus in favor of something relating to citing IMDb. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 04:26, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

ARS invite

I've used your version and created Template:Article Rescue Squadron invite so we have an "official" template. If you want to include comments regarding inclusion and per someone's user page perhaps that could be bonus comments instead? -- Banjeboi 16:25, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

Nice job. I had myself booted voluntarily for two weeks, so I can't make any improvements. The inclusion idea in the template was a bad attempt at comprimise.

this is my latest version:

Hello, Article Rescue Squadron. You may be interested in participating in the Article Rescue Squadron. Rescue members are focused on rescuing articles in jeopardy of deletion. If this interests you, you may seek more information on the Project Page. You can join >> here <<. ~~~~

This is yours (thanks for taking the initiative on creating this)

You have been invited to join the Article Rescue Squadron, a collaborative effort to rescue articles from deletion when they can be improved through regular editing. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join and help rescue articles tagged for deletion and rescue. ~~~~

Newer version:

Hello, {{SUBST:BASEPAGENAME}} you have been invited to join the Article Rescue Squadron, where members are focused on rescuing articles in jeopardy of deletion by improving the article. For more information, please visit the project page, where you can join >> here << and help rescue articles tagged for deletion and rescue. ~~~~

What do you think about the last one?

Ikip (talk) 19:09, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

WP:LAME

I added Misplaced Pages:Article Rescue Squadron to WP:LAME on 26 July 2008 which Ben brought up on ARS, A Man in Black deleted it on the 6th of March. Ikip (talk) 01:14, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Deleted to GA

In case you were thinking of making that into a list, I just got Dragon kill points (A famously deleted article) up to GA after recreating it last month. Protonk (talk) 18:02, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

THAT is awesome! i will put you in the ars hall of fame when I get unblocked from my voluntary block. Congrats Protonk. I would mention it here too: Wikipedia_talk:Article_Rescue_Squadron#Fifth_formerly_deleted_article_recreated_and_advanced_to_GA-Class Ikip (talk) 21:59, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

GeoSwan's comments

Re: User_talk:Ikip/AfD_on_average_day#congratulations

Thank you for the compliment. Ikip (talk) 22:04, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

FYI

I have made use of your editing statistics for comparison purposes only at User:Tyrenius/THF#Collect_and_Ikip re. this post at AN/I. There is no suggestion whatsoever that you have any involvement in any sockpuppetry. Ty 07:23, 9 March 2009 (UTC)