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Revision as of 17:00, 20 February 2012

My name is George Watson, or dendodge if you prefer, and I'm a student from the United Kingdom. If all goes well, I hope to study theoretical physics at university, starting in 2012.

I used to edit Misplaced Pages quite heavily—I racked up more than 12,000 edits between 2007 and 2011. Eventually, the drama drove me away, and I moved to Wikinews, where I became an editor, administrator, OTRS volunteer, and arbitrator. That subsequently became even worse for drama, and I left Wikimedia altogether to focus on OpenGlobe, a citizen journalism wiki on which I'm an administrator.

I missed Misplaced Pages, so I've decided to resurrect my account here, but I'm going to keep away from all the drama. I want to write articles, and little more. That means I won't allow myself to get dragged into disputes (unless another editor raises an issue with my actions specifically), and I won't attempt to "collect hats"—I'm happy to be a normal editor for the foreseeable future.

I probably won't be as active as I used to be just yet, but I'll be around.

My featured content Template:Multicol Featured sounds This user has helped to promote 3 Featured sounds on Misplaced Pages. Fitzwilliam Sonatas (set) Schubert's Impromptu in B flat (set) È scherzo od è follia Template:Multicol-break Featured pictures This user has uploaded 1 featured picture on Misplaced Pages. Storming the Bastille (PotD) Template:Multicol-end On other projects Template:User Wikinews FA Wikinews "Out of space in outer space: Special report on NASA's 'space junk' plans" "Tony Blair tells Iraq Inquiry he would invade again" "Thirteen dead, several wounded in Fort Hood, Texas shooting"

GAs I've significantly contributed to This user has helped promote 2 good articles on Misplaced Pages. George Harrison Kristallnacht

My DYKs This user has written or expanded 4 articles featured in the Did You Know section on the Main Page. 2008-11-03: ... that John Philip Sousa's "Transit of Venus March" (listen) was rediscovered by a staffer at the Library of Congress in 2003 after it had been believed lost for over 100 years? 2009-03-05: ... that George Frideric Handel's Fitzwilliam Sonatas (No. 3 here) were not originally intended to be a set, and were only designated such in 1948? 2009-05-17: ... that the plane of the ecliptic (effect pictured) is the imaginary plane which all the planets in our Solar System share as they orbit the Sun? 2009-07-25: ... that the longest horn ever recorded on a Marco Polo sheep (mounted head pictured) measured 1.9 m (6.2 ft) and weighed 60 lb (27 kg)?

Awards

I appreciate barnstars and things, and I'm flattered to receive them, but I see no point in keeping an archive of them all here—it strikes me as "trophy collecting", and will probably serve only to inflate my ego. However, certain more prestigious and better-defined awards are probably worth mentioning.

• This editor is a Veteran Editor II and is entitled to display this Bronze Editor Star.
• Your majesty, it gives me great pleasure to bestow the Triple Crown upon Dendodge for your contributions in the areas of WP:DYK, WP:GA, and WP:FA.
• Your majesty, it gives me great pleasure to bestow these Imperial triple crown jewels upon Dendodge for your contributions in the areas of WP:DYK, WP:GA, and WP:FC.

• Misplaced Pages featured picture contributors
• Misplaced Pages good article contributors
• Misplaced Pages Did you know contributors