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About Me
- Name: Owen
- Age: 45
- Occupation: Engineering Manager (and if you think mediating edit wars is tough, try getting engineers to work with each other!)
- Location: Mississauga, Ontario, Canada (near Toronto)
Wikiholic's Dictionary
- Babel gun, noun – someone who fills their user page with screenfulls of silly little userbox template tags
- Bush guardian, noun – one of the many RC patrollers who make it their mission to revert any vandalism to the George W. Bush article
- crying 'Uncle' – complaining about someone being too bold
- Curps diem – 22 November 2005, the only day in recorded history that Curps wasn't on Misplaced Pages, allowing dozens of sockpuppets and Doppelgangers to seize the rare opportunity
- 15 seconds of fame – the period of time between creating a new account called User:I PWN WIKIPEDIA!!1! and being permanently banned by Curps
- IP freely – an anonymous vandal's dream: an IP address frequently shared with a well-known and fussy registered user
- (to) get the Booth, verb – to come short of a unanimous RfA by one opposing vote
- pillaring – ending an argument by quoting one of the Five Pillars, e.g. "You want to know why I changed your vote and added three of my own on that RfA? Because we're here to write an encyclopedia, dammit!"
- shooting barnstar, noun – someone who awards users barnstars liberally and indiscriminately for small or trivial achievements
- vandal's return-receipt (or VRR), noun – getting your user page trashed by a vandal to whom you have just issued a warning
Fields of Expertise or Interest
- Category:Mathematics
- Category:Physics
- Category:Software
- Category:Economics
- Category:Classical_music
- Category:Law
- Category:BDSM
- Category:Gambling
- Category:Beer
Accolades and other niceness
- I, Sn0wflake, hereby give OwenX a WikiThank for having the precious knowledge that at times all that is needed is the right word. --23:37, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
- I, GraemeL, herby award you the The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar for your speedy cleanup after the page redirect vandal. --19:47, 5 November 2005 (UTC) (KC)
- Thanks for reverting vandalism on my talk page. Please accept my personal award, the Psi. I bestow it to polite, courteous, and helpful users. It is to be used in good mental health or to fight wiki-stress. Take care. -- Psy guy 03:50, 6 November 2005 (UTC)
- Talk 02:05, 27 November 2005 (UTC)
- Have you seen OwenX's barnstar? Since it looks like you've gotten more userpage vandals than barnstars lately, I figured i'd put out an apb on a milk carton for that barnstar you so richly deserve. I'm sure it'll come up sooner or later ;-) karmafist 13:19, 27 November 2005 (UTC)
- Alf awards this Random Act Of Kindness Barnstar to OwenX for reverting vandalism to my userpage.}} Thanks. Alf 23:04, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
- Dialogue? 19:46, 10 December 2005 (UTC) Dialogue? 19:46, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
- For helping me get out of an awful situation. Thanks for all your support! Template:DaGizza/Sg 04:02, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
- For helping me get my monobook.js to perfection even though I repeatedly changed my mind I award OwenX this barnstar of diligence. Prodego 00:57, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
- Alighieri awards this Random Act Of Kindness Barnstar to OwenX for removing vandalism to his userpage. It's appreciated. Alighieri 20:27, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
- The Purple Star Given in recognition for having one of the most vandalised user pages. Timrollpickering 03:33, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
Edit of the Day
- Edit of the Day, 24 November 2005 (US Thanksgiving)
- Edit of the Day, 1 December 2005
- Edit of the Day, 3 December 2005
- Edit of the Day, 4 December 2005, 2nd
- Edit of the Day, 5 December 2005
- Edit of the Day, 6 December 2005
- Edit of the Day, 9 December 2005, 2nd
- Edit of the Day, 16 December 2005, 2nd
- Edit of the Day, 18 December 2005
- Edit of the Day, 19 December 2005, 2nd
- Edit of the Day, 8 January 2006 (kudos to PuckSmith)
- Edit of the Day, 11 January 2006
- Edit of the Day, 25 January 2006 (kudos to KnowledgeOfSelf)
- Edit of the Day, 30 January 2006 (kudos to KnowledgeOfSelf)
- Edit of the Day, 2 August 2006 (kudos to KnowledgeOfSelf)
- Edit of the Day, 20 August 2006 (kudos to User:Wiki alf and KnowledgeOfSelf), 2nd
- Edit of the Day, 27 August 2006
- Edit of the Day, 11 September 2006
- Edit of the Day, 3 October 2006
- Edit of the Day, 2 November 2006
- Edit of the Day, 23 April 2007 (kudos to KnowledgeOfSelf)
- The now-famous 7 May 2007 edit
- Edit of the Day, 16 May 2007 and another
- Edit of the Day, 21 May 2007 (kudos to KnowledgeOfSelf)
Useful links
- User:Dragons_flight/Category_tracker, User:Dragons_flight/Category_tracker/Summary
- User:Dragons_flight/RFA_summary, User:Tangotango/RfA_Analysis/Report