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While I do occasionally write articles, I reserve my skills for what I'm good at: copyediting. I am happy to report that the League of Copyeditors has reduced the backlog of over 1500 articles in need of a copyedit down to a standing stack of under one hundred. I am both humbled and honored that a project I started has achieved such an outstanding feat. Every single member of the team has my gratitude, and for that matter so does anyone that clicks the "edit this page" button in the hopes of copyediting an article to bring it one step closer to Misplaced Pages's standards of excellence.
In the rare instance I can be pulled away from the computer, I'm a pilot for a major airline. I'm on a semi-furlough right now which means I'm only working about five days out of the month, that gives me a huge amount of time for editing. I like it here because copyediting and being flamed by vandals is far less stressful than my job.
My edits are not always perfect and are always made with the best intentions. If I made a mistake somewhere then I apologize and am happy to discuss it with you. If I copyedited your article and chopped it all to hell, I only ask that you take some time and consider the changes before you get upset about it. Likewise, when I patrol the recent changes I occasionally revert something as vandalism when it turns out not to be. I am only human and when I'm reverting a hundred incidents of vandalism a day, I occasionally make a change that was not warranted.
This editor is a Journeyman Editor, and is entitled to display this Service Badge.
The Copyeditor's Barnstar
I'm only a newly registered user and member of the Copyeditor's League, but during my time contributing anonymously I would continuously find your name attached to the best copyediting work I've ever seen. Particularly an article that I was one of the first contributors on: Lenny McLean. Thank you so much for your hard work. :-) Beckysdream 16:07, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
To Trusilver, for keeping me busy at AIV! :) Riana(talk) 06:35, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
For the ton of anty-vandalism work you do every day keeping Misplaced Pages clean! Cheers, JetLover 22:57, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
For your amazing month of 3349 edits, including many key ones I had to a chance to be involved with. I have the utmost confidence in your vandal-fighting abilities, and am excited to see you prosper into an even better editor! Jmlk17 22:25, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
The Barnstar of Diligence
Giving you this barnstar because you gave me a barnstar. And you have beaten me to many edits, using the rollback button. My rollback button does not work so I end up using the undo button. NHRHS2010 02:36, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
The Working Man's Barnstar
One of the hardest working Wikipedians.. Hope your next flight lands where you have Wi-Fi... Ukulele 05:43, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
I'm awarding you this RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar for your great contributions to protecting and reverting attacks of vandalism on Misplaced Pages. You always beat me to reverting the vandalism! Wikidudeman 19:54, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
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