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|style="font-size: x-large; padding: 0; vertical-align: bottom; height: 1.1em;" | '''The Barnstar of Good Humor'''
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|style="vertical-align: top; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | This barnstar is awarded to Lambiam by Icarus3 for in a AfD that's being conducted civilly, but is just touchy enough to really benefit from an injection of humor. <br>--] 19:07, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
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|style="vertical-align: top; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | Thanks for answering my math question about factoring trinomials! More specifically, for explaining in such great detail!

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|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | For your tireless and helpful work in the Reference desks. ]]] <sup>]</sup> 22:44, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
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|style="vertical-align: top; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | Thanks for answering my math question about Top Ten Lists! More specifically, for explaining in such great detail!

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|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | For your scrupulous attention to accuracy on ]. Keep going! ] (]) 08:41, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
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|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | For dealing with the ] issues. ]&nbsp; 04:43, 15 September 2011 (UTC)
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|style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 3px;" | to all of the contributors to ] for the good work there! ]] 07:55, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
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|style="font-size: x-large; padding: 3px 3px 0 3px; height: 1.5em;" | '''The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar'''
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|style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 3px;" | Well we finally finished that project. My thanks to you for all your efforts and for cleaning up things that I spaced out doing. It was nice to work with you. If you ever have to start another project like this please feel free to let me know and I will be glad to help ] | ] 23:52, 21 June 2012 (UTC)
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|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | For demonstrating the uncanny ability to illuminate even the most obscure matters with impeccable clarity. ] (]) 16:34, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
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|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | Thanks for answering my font size question on the Mathematics Reference desk! --] (]) 17:35, 9 September 2020 (UTC)
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|style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 3px;" | Thank you for your help with finding resources! ] (]) 15:37, 13 April 2021 (UTC)
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|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | Everyone gave me great feedback on analyzing Fischer's difference equations but I wanted to single you out because you really went above and beyond. Thanks! ] (]) 16:41, 23 June 2021 (UTC)
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|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | For all of the great help on the math and computing reference desks. ] <sup>]</sup> 03:48, 1 December 2021 (UTC)
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|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | Thanks for the thorough and speedy answer to my question on the Mathematics desk! ] (]) 19:50, 11 June 2022 (UTC)
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|style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 3px;" | thanks for the unwavering quality information and being able to comprehend questions correctly. ] (]) 20:12, 9 September 2022 (UTC)
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|style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 3px;" | special mention of the sheer perseverance you hold! ] (]) 18:53, 13 September 2022 (UTC)
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|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | Thank you for all your help and guidance on the ref desk over the years. ] (]) 10:08, 9 January 2023 (UTC)
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|style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 3px;" | Another barnstar for your dedication to the mathematics reference desk over many years''!'' ''']'''&#9094;] 07:28, 4 March 2023 (UTC)
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|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | Thank you for answering my dicerolling probability question on the Mathematics Reference Desk! --] (]) 06:44, 16 August 2023 (UTC)
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|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | For your quick and helpful response pertaining to ]. <span style="border-radius:10em;padding:0 7q;background:#111">]</span> <sup>] • ]]</sup> 15:57, 4 September 2023 (UTC)
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|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | Thanks, Lambian, for sharing your expert knowledge and managing to convey complex, technical information for a layman (me). Absolutely fantastic, cheers! ] 10:30, 9 October 2023 (UTC)
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|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | For locating insightful and valuable source material, seen ] ''(])'' 16:27, 17 December 2023 (UTC)
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|style="font-size: x-large; padding: 3px 3px 0 3px; height: 1.5em;" | '''The Original Barnstar'''
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|style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 3px;" | Thanks for the help on the reference desk helping with my question about Cochrane. There was a discussion several years ago about removing the reference desk and I was adamantly against it because while I don't use it much when I do use it, it is times like this where my normal sources don't provide an answer and it can really be a great help. I noticed you answered some of my previous questions there as well. Thanks for all your help, it is people like you who make Misplaced Pages something I point to as an example of how the Internet can live up to the idealistic goals that the original designers of it had in mind and not just be a home for flame wars on social media. Have a great holiday!!! ] (]) 13:29, 21 December 2023 (UTC)
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|style="font-size: x-large; padding: 0; vertical-align: middle; height: 1.1em;" | '''The Linguistics Barnstar'''
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|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | Thanks for debunking my doubts on the “desolate case” on the Reference Desk!. ] (]) 14:32, 4 December 2024 (UTC)
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|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | For displaying common sense and uncommon good taste by agreeing with me or saying something I would have said if only I'd had the presence of mind, I hereby bestow upon you ''Provisional Membership'' of the '''Like-Minded Persons' Club'''. <br><br>To qualify for ''Full Membership'', simply continue to agree with me in all matters for at least the next 12 months.<br><br> (Disagreements are so vulgar, don't you think? And, as ] said, ''Arguments are fatal. One always forgets what they are about'')
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Barnstars

The Barnstar of Good Humor
This barnstar is awarded to Lambiam by Icarus3 for this funny comment in a AfD that's being conducted civilly, but is just touchy enough to really benefit from an injection of humor.
--Icarus 19:07, 25 April 2006 (UTC)


The E=mc² Barnstar
Thanks for answering my math question about factoring trinomials! More specifically, for explaining in such great detail!

Alex Ng 20:18, 8 October 2006 (UTC)


The Original Barnstar
For your tireless and helpful work in the Reference desks. PullToOpən 22:44, 15 November 2006 (UTC)


The E=mc² Barnstar
Thanks for answering my math question about Top Ten Lists! More specifically, for explaining in such great detail!

Ye Olde Luke 05:32, 9 December 2007 (UTC)


The Barnstar of Whatever
For your scrupulous attention to accuracy on IHH. Keep going! NSH001 (talk) 08:41, 7 June 2010 (UTC)


The Teamwork Barnstar
For dealing with the User:Marshallsumter issues. Cerejota  04:43, 15 September 2011 (UTC)


The Teamwork Barnstar
to all of the contributors to the April 30, 2012 Recent Research report in the Signpost for the good work there! Pine 07:55, 2 May 2012 (UTC)


The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar
Well we finally finished that project. My thanks to you for all your efforts and for cleaning up things that I spaced out doing. It was nice to work with you. If you ever have to start another project like this please feel free to let me know and I will be glad to help MarnetteD | Talk 23:52, 21 June 2012 (UTC)


The Socratic Barnstar
For demonstrating the uncanny ability to illuminate even the most obscure matters with impeccable clarity. Earl of Arundel (talk) 16:34, 18 April 2020 (UTC)


The Reference Desk Barnstar
Thanks for answering my font size question on the Mathematics Reference desk! --Aabicus (talk) 17:35, 9 September 2020 (UTC)


The Special Barnstar
Thank you for your help with finding resources! Tyrone Madera (talk) 15:37, 13 April 2021 (UTC)


The Original Barnstar
Everyone gave me great feedback on analyzing Fischer's difference equations but I wanted to single you out because you really went above and beyond. Thanks! MadScientistX11 (talk) 16:41, 23 June 2021 (UTC)


The Reference Desk Barnstar
For all of the great help on the math and computing reference desks. Bubba73 03:48, 1 December 2021 (UTC)


The Reference Desk Barnstar
Thanks for the thorough and speedy answer to my question on the Mathematics desk! Uhooep (talk) 19:50, 11 June 2022 (UTC)


The Special Barnstar
thanks for the unwavering quality information and being able to comprehend questions correctly. Grotesquetruth (talk) 20:12, 9 September 2022 (UTC)


The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
special mention of the sheer perseverance you hold! Grotesquetruth (talk) 18:53, 13 September 2022 (UTC)


The Reference Desk Barnstar
Thank you for all your help and guidance on the ref desk over the years. Viriditas (talk) 10:08, 9 January 2023 (UTC)


The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
Another barnstar for your dedication to the mathematics reference desk over many years! cmɢʟee⎆τaʟκ 07:28, 4 March 2023 (UTC)


The Reference Desk Barnstar
Thank you for answering my dicerolling probability question on the Mathematics Reference Desk! --Aabicus (talk) 06:44, 16 August 2023 (UTC)


The Reference Desk Barnstar
For your quick and helpful response pertaining to this painting. QuickQuokka 15:57, 4 September 2023 (UTC)


Scholarly Barnstar
Thanks, Lambian, for sharing your expert knowledge and managing to convey complex, technical information for a layman (me). Absolutely fantastic, cheers! Serial 10:30, 9 October 2023 (UTC)


The Guidance Barnstar
For locating insightful and valuable source material, seen here Schyler (exquirito veritatem bonumque) 16:27, 17 December 2023 (UTC)


The Original Barnstar
Thanks for the help on the reference desk helping with my question about Cochrane. There was a discussion several years ago about removing the reference desk and I was adamantly against it because while I don't use it much when I do use it, it is times like this where my normal sources don't provide an answer and it can really be a great help. I noticed you answered some of my previous questions there as well. Thanks for all your help, it is people like you who make Misplaced Pages something I point to as an example of how the Internet can live up to the idealistic goals that the original designers of it had in mind and not just be a home for flame wars on social media. Have a great holiday!!! MadScientistX11 (talk) 13:29, 21 December 2023 (UTC)


The Linguistics Barnstar
Thanks for debunking my doubts on the “desolate case” on the Reference Desk!. Long-live-ALOPUS (talk) 14:32, 4 December 2024 (UTC)


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Provisional memberships

"Dreaming the same Impossible Dream"
The Like-Minded Persons' Club
For displaying here common sense and uncommon good taste by agreeing with me or saying something I would have said if only I'd had the presence of mind, I hereby bestow upon you Provisional Membership of the Like-Minded Persons' Club.

To qualify for Full Membership, simply continue to agree with me in all matters for at least the next 12 months.

(Disagreements are so vulgar, don't you think? And, as Bruce Chatwin said, Arguments are fatal. One always forgets what they are about)
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