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Background: sciences, economics, and anything remotely collectible. Started online in 1982. Started first "blog" by current standards in 1987 ("Today's Mail" in the Coin/Stamp Forum of CompuServe). First Internet blog circa 1992 (in CompuServe's Ourworld pages). | ||
| Firm believer in facts as opposed to opinions, no matter how others might spin them. | Firm believer in facts as opposed to opinions, no matter how others might spin them. | ||
Revision as of 10:45, 6 May 2010
Background: sciences, economics, and anything remotely collectible. Started online in 1982. Started first "blog" by current standards in 1987 ("Today's Mail" in the Coin/Stamp Forum of CompuServe). First Internet blog circa 1992 (in CompuServe's Ourworld pages).
Firm believer in facts as opposed to opinions, no matter how others might spin them.
Easily distracted by puns.
I do not react well to gameplaying with quotes.
Adages
Any sufficiently witty and clever remark will be attributed to Mark Twain, even if you thought of it yourself.
It is no coincidence that "gravitas" and "gravel" have so many letters in common. People admired for their "gravitas" frequently have many little stones.
If a country changes its currency, prices will all be rounded up and sizes of goods will all be rounded down.
A collector is anyone who has one of something, but would be perfectly happy to buy another one whether he needs it or not.
We have far too many "inspirational" books, and far too few "perspirational" ones.
Sometimes
Sometimes even editors who lock horns can show respect for each other. It works a lot better than name-calling and posts on others' talk pages like the proverbial gossips at the back fence.
Subpage essays
- User:Collect/thoughts
- User:Collect/essay
- User:Collect/neologism
- User:Collect/personas
- User:Collect/z
Barnstar award
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The Editor's Barnstar | |
| For cooperatively and diligently working to remove erroneous information and condensing paragraphs and sentences from the Fascism article, allowing for the creation of a concise and well-referenced article.R-41 (talk) 18:06, 14 January 2009 (UTC) |
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The Guidance Barnstar | |
| "The Guidance Barnstar may be awarded to users who help others locate valuable resources, information, or assistance."
Thank you SO MUCH for helping me find a valuable page that I was only vaguely aware of before. Best wishes, Inclusionist (talk) 20:55, 14 December 2008 (UTC) |
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The Barnstar of Diligence | |
| I'm awarding you this barnstar of diligence for your combination of extraordinary scrutiny, precision and community service to wikipedia. South Bay (talk) 01:22, 9 May 2009 (UTC) |
Thanks for working out an excellent compromise in the most contentious subsection of that official Mediation! There's more work to be done on the other subsections, but i think that for your success so far, you all deserve some extra whipped~cream and a lovely berry~on~top!
~Teledildonix314~~4-1-1~ 13:43, 2 May 2009 (UTC)
Camerson Scott's Ideal (be sure to tell him how great it makes him look)
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The "I have an axe to grind" Non-Barnstar | |
| Dedication to the cause of "fighting the good fight" (remedying omissions) has no meaning for you, and you practice a detached "this is just how it is" but with the zeal of someone with an agenda. The "WIKIPEDIUH IS MY LYFE LOOLLLLZZ!!!!!111" members like you who deserve this award are quite literally semi-sentient HORSE SHIT that managed to gather the kinetic skill of typing somehow. Congrats on your accomplishment! You've earned it. message Cameron Scott (talk) 12:50, 16 June 2009 (UTC) |
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The Article Rescue Barnstar | |
| This barnstar is awarded to Collect, for his hard work and dedication in sourcing articles and working to help save other editors contributions. Ikip (talk) 15:42, 23 November 2009 (UTC) |
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The Barnstar of Diplomacy | |
| For resolving the disputes in the Judaism article. |
Debresser (talk) 08:29, 8 December 2009 (UTC)
Yes! Good job. Thanks for organizing the discussion, for making it more civil and for turning it into a constructive one that's going somewhere. --AFriedman (talk) 03:08, 10 December 2009 (UTC)
Carrie Prejean
Yes, surreal. Most definitely. --InaMaka (talk) 17:33, 15 May 2009 (UTC)