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        Hello, I am Thaddeus from Columbus, Ohio (USA). I have been editing Misplaced Pages for a while now (and reading it longer), and have dabbled a little in many different areas. I have done some vandalism fighting, done a little New page patrol, offered a few third opinions, wikified some articles, de-orphaned a few pages, and participated in many AfDs. Of course, I have worked some on content creation and consensus building too. In most everything I have done, I have tried to "get it right" and handle the hard cases where help was most needed rather than just doing what was easier and quicker.

Overtime, I have found that the three areas I enjoy contributing the most are correcting spelling & grammar errors, patrolling proposed deletions to find article worth saving or transwiking, and writing bots to automate tedious tasks.

A log of my proposed deletion activity can be found at User:ThaddeusB/PROD Log.

I have made over 200 improvements to RegExTypoFix and have written three bots:

• DeadLinkBOT which updates external links that have "rotted"
• WebCiteBOT which helps prevent link rot of citations by submitting most newly added links to Webcitation.org for permanent archival.
• WikiStatsBOT which keeps track of Misplaced Pages statistics requested by WikiProjects and such.

If you have a task you'd like to see automated, drop me a line.

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This user is a Christian. This user is married. This user is a BotOp on the English Misplaced Pages. This user is not a Misplaced Pages administrator but would like to be one someday. Perl This user is just another Perl hacker. tyoptypo This user is a member of the Misplaced Pages Typo Team. This user is a proposed deletion patroller. This user is a recent changes patroller. This user is a member of the Atari task force. This user participates in WikiProject Olympics.

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Awards

This editor is a Journeyman Editor and is entitled to display this Service Badge.

The Minor Barnstar For your excellent work helping to keep wikipedia clean of typos! QueenCake (talk) 19:48, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

The da Vinci Barnstar For creating a bot that will single-handedly prevent a whole slew of dead reference links. Great job! Anomie⚔ 01:25, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

The Barnstar of Diligence For keeping a watchful eye on the 2009 swine flu related articles, and the even-keeled sensibility you bring to the hourly "emergencies" that arise at the article/template talk pages. Regards. Abecedare (talk) 00:50, 2 May 2009 (UTC)

		The Article Rescue Barnstar
		Thank you so, so much for providing the reliable sources that saved nigahiga from deletion and, in other words, one of the articles I most wanted to get created. I was tempted to give you a cookie but this barnstar is far more appropriate. (Sorry for not formatting this properly; I'm still a wiki formatting dunce.) Clem (talk) 04:43, 5 July 2009 (UTC)

		The Original Barnstar
		I award this Barnstar to ThaddeusB for their great efforts in maintaining deletion quality standards and helping new users. --Hell In A Bucket (talk) 18:43, 5 July 2009 (UTC)

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