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Barnstar recipients

Is there a page or category that displays a list of editors who have received a particular type of barnstar?--The Fat Man Who Never Came Back 00:42, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

• Nope, it depends on the awards, and the users. --evrik 14:24, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

Added to my watchlist

Now that I've added this page to my watchlist (I only had the main page, not the new proposals subpage), I hope to add to more of my humble opinions than I did before. :-) --Deathphoenix ʕ 20:29, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

The Working Man's Barnstar: Gender and Class

Why is this called "The Working Man's Barnstar? Surely a gender-neutral title would be a simple and less anachronistic choice. I would suggest that the name of this award would be far less shrill to non-patriarchal ears if it were updated to "The Worker's Barnstar" or "The Labourer's Barnstar" or something along those lines. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.25.152.165 (talk • contribs) 13:58, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

• I definitely agree with you on that. There are lots of women working on Misplaced Pages as well, and I do a lot of spelling/grammar corrections--hard work for the nit-picker, and I don't want to be called a working MAN, because I'm not a man!--Snowgrouse 18:50, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

• Good question. Take it up on Misplaced Pages:Barnstar_and_award_proposals. --evrik 13:08, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

While this is at least 100 years old, Man doesn't always refer to males, it can refer to humanity in general. -- feb 20:17, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Barnstar etiquette?

I've just received my first barnstar, and I'm alarmed and confused. I don't know how to respond, or what to do with it. Main questions:

1. What to say to the person who awarded it? I thanked them briefly on their user page, after a delay of some hours because I felt shy. 2. Should I leave it exactly where and as it is? When I archive my talk page should I archive it, or would that be rude? Or would it be ostentatious NOT to archive it? Should I put it on my userpage? If I put it on my userpage, should I put the text and signature of the awarder next to it?

Help! I don't want to be obnoxious! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.101.46.167 (talk • contribs)

• Say thanks, and do with it whatever you want. Look to other peoiple's user pages for ideas. --evrik 14:06, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

Project directory

Hello. The WikiProject Council has recently updated the Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Council/Directory. This new directory includes a variety of categories and subcategories which will, with luck, potentially draw new members to the projects who are interested in those specific subjects. Please review the directory and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope that all the changes to the directory can be finished by the first of next month. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you. B2T2 13:30, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

Feature Article Barnstar

There should be a barnstar for users whose contribution lead to that article becoming a featured article. 142.35.144.2 00:16, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

• Everyone saying there is such an award has redlinks to that award, suggesting it has either been deleted or does not exist.

Categories

It would be useful to see who has been granted by an award. For example, i would like to see who has the translator barnstar if i need help with something in another language

Giving Out Barnstars

Do you have to be an administrator to give out Barnstars? WereWolf 16:49, 11 November 2006 (UTC) No. Dev920 (Mind voting here?) 18:25, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

No...Anyone can just a word of advice don't give them to every single person you come across or they won't be special anymore.--Seadog 02:08, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

Idea

I mean should there be an award given out to IPs for acknowlegement of their effort? Seems fitting as there are many IPs out there worthy. Simply south 18:23, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

• What is an IP? --evrik  18:38, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

It is a person who does not have a username (in this case) so they when they edit, their edit is usually recorded under a number, or IP address, a sort of electronic address of a person's computer. For example 123.345.64.941 (i made that up on the spot but it may well exist). Simply south 19:06, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

• Check out: Misplaced Pages:Barnstar_and_award_proposals/Archive13#The_IP_award

--evrik  19:54, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

But how about IPs who have had a long history and are known to be under that IP only? Simply south 20:10, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

• there are a lot of awards to reward effort. --evrik  20:26, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

Okay. I was proposing because it is well kown that not all IPs are vandals although some decent ones are treated like this.

Here is another idea although this one is probably less serious and more ridiculous but lets see. An award for people handing out deserving awards? Simply south 20:57, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

:)

Random Smiley Award Project

This isn't a proposal, but is nevertheless a related request for volunteers to help with an existing project.

For the last two weeks, I've been doling out Random Smiley Awards as a "thank you" for routine contribution - a variation on the Random Acts of Kindness philosophy, except in the form of those yellow "Have A Nice Day" smileys. The response so far has been very positive: many editors are grateful for a little pat on the back like this.

If anyone is willing to help take part in the project, please go to User:Pedia-I/SmileyAward and scroll down to see the list of variant templates which you can place on User or User:Talk pages, including a new Chocolate Chip Cookie Smiley - with chocolate chips forming the familiar face, this time on a cookie. This would work especially well for those who are allergic to the "Have A Nice Day" concept as a result of overexposure during the 1970s.

Thus far I've been doling them out to randomly-picked editors, usually by starting with one user and then picking one of the recent people who have edited that person's talk page, then repeating the process. Any other random or pseudorandom method would work.

If several volunteers each add 5 - 10 Smileys per day, before long Misplaced Pages will be teaming with the bright yellow faces. It will be a happier, sunnier place in which to work.

The template codes for the various current types of Smileys are as follows (pick one):

• {{User:Pedia-I/SmileyAward1}}
• {{User:Pedia-I/SmileyAward2}}
• {{User:Pedia-I/SmileyAward3}}
• {{User:Pedia-I/SmileyAward4}}
• {{User:Pedia-I/SmileyAward5}}

Heartfelt thanks to those who are willing to help out. Pedia-I 17:37, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

• Why don't you make it part of the Misplaced Pages:Kindness Campaign? --evrik  18:01, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

Discussion award

There is\are the award(s) for contributing to the mainspace of articles and therefore they show that the use has, for example, been a tireles contributor to articles generally. Why not have a barnstar for general use for people who have discussed ideas etc on talk pages, generally article ones but possibly also include uuser talk pages as well...? At certain times many editors say that others are doing okay but they are not discussing enough. What do you think?

Seperately, is there a copyright on the Original Barnstar? Also is there a programme for designing barnstars or will Publisher and Paint suffice?

Simply south 15:21, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

Esperanza Star Typo

In the section Esperanza star, Organization looks like it's spelled wrong. If you get the chance, please fix it because my computer's gone funny and I can't edit that particular section.Duinemerwen 03:44, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

Coordinator

• Does anyone want to be the coordinator? Any nominations? --evrik  01:43, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
  • I decline, due to events going on IRL for me. User:Zscout370 02:17, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
  • I can coordinate but I am not sure what kind of coordination is necessary... After all this is an informal wing of wikipedia. --Cat out 11:16, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
    • I think we need one or two designated authorities to help sort out squabbles. --evrik  16:02, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
  • A coordinator is really needed. You seem to have spent some time over there, do you have any nominations? ↔ ANAS - Talk 15:10, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
  • I am still of the belief that we don't need any sort of authority to resolve these things, since we're working on consensus, but I do see how it would be useful to have someone clear out old discussions or add barnstars that have been approved without having to ask everyone "Hey, do we close this thing or what?". But I still don't think we need anyone to be "more important" than anyone else to do these things. --Deathphoenix ʕ 16:36, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
    • And that is exactly what a coordinator's job is, to arrange things. I don't think a coordinator would be considered of higher authority or anything. ↔ ANAS - Talk 18:04, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
• In some sense I have been doing it by default, but I think we should have two or three to help give guidance and move things along to a final consensus. --evrik  15:11, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
• Agree with Evrik here. Making it clear that one or two individual people are there in a more general capacity, and that on that basis they are more aware of barnstars in general as opposed to simply coming to vote for or against a specific proposal, would be invaluable in providing a bit of informal guidance to the discussion. Badbilltucker 15:33, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
• I wish to noimanite myself. -- Punk Boi 8 01:28, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
  • I think this is premature --Trödel 03:21, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
• I would like to nominate everyone. I believe there need not be a project coordinator and that as a whole, the project can work together as proved by many large WikiProjects. Greeves 00:29, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
• I think Evrik should do it as he is one of the few who have shown the time and committment to the effort. Let's move this one forward.--South Philly 13:41, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

New Barnstar

How do you nominate for the creation of a new Barnstar? Bearly541 11:19, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, I've created one myself and have put it up here, but do not know how to have it recognised by WikiProject Awards as a legitimate award/barnstar! AppleJuggler 11:29, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

You can discuss WikiProject awards here and if there's no objection to the idea of the award and the image, you can put it up in WikiProject Awads. However, it won't be a Barnstar, but a WikiProject award. You can discuss barnstar (and other awards, even project awards) at WP:BAP, however, it's unlikely that an actual barnstar will be added, as they are supposed to be very generic. -- Ynhockey 13:00, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

Archiving

Hi. About the archiving of this page, which seems to be in need of someone willing to stay on top of it. I can probably get a bot to do the archiving automatically. The thing is, though: the bot would work by archiving threads that have been inactive for a preset period of time (usually a week or so), and discussions on awards often stay quiet for relatively long spells, and then are rekindled by one or more users who might take an interest in moving the proposal forward. If you believe that this would not be a problem, however, I have a couple of options: one would be to contact Voice of All and see if he would add this extra task to the duties of VoABot — so you might want to look over the bot's page, see how it works, etc; the second possibility, which might even be easier and more practical, would be to add this page to Werdnabot's list of pages for automatic archiving. This page shows how to do it. We can do it ourselves, and determine how long since the last post until a thread is archived, etc. Thoughts? Cheers, Redux 17:36, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

• Can we ask the archival to happen every 90 days? --evrik  23:11, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

  If we go with VoABot, and provided that Voice of All agrees to add this task to the bot's duties, we can ask him to program the bot to do the archiving anyway we want it, as long as it is technically feasible. With Werdnabot, the bot will archive exactly like we tell it to do it in the inclusion template that we'd add to this page. Werdnabot recognizes signatures and timestamps, so we could ask it to archive threads where the last signature is 90 days old. Werdnabot also usually archives threads with at least 2 signatures, but we can add a line to the inclusion template that will allow it to archive single-signature threads as well, in case a thread doesn't attract any interest. Redux 13:14, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

  I think Werdnabot would be the best archiver for this talk page. --Deathphoenix ʕ 16:38, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

  Agreed, so that is why I added the template it a few days ago. If I screwed up the code, your welcome to fix it. User:Zscout370 16:48, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

  I was surprised that I could have missed the template being already there. So I checked the history and it turns out that I really didn't miss it. Cool Cat seems to have removed it accidentaly while doing some archiving (here), so it's no longer there. But even before that, someone tried to change the parameters that Zscout had just introduced (here). It would be better to secure consensus on the details about the automatic archival here before re-introducing the template, and then we can ask people not to change the parameters without bringing it up on talk first, as well as to leave the archiving to the bot unless it's an unusual or special circumstance. Redux 17:29, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

  Oh, sorry Zscout, I thought we were still discussing whether we need a bot to archive this page. Like Redux, I also missed the Werdnabot code (though as mentioned above, the code was accidentally removed). --Deathphoenix ʕ 17:19, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

Uh-oh

What happens to people who just make up a barnstar and start giving it to people without prior approval here? Will we be banned? Erased? Disintermediated or disinterred? Photos of us as 12-year olds with light sabers spammed across the Internet?

What about the recipients? What will happen to them?

Thanks for any guidance you can give. --A. B. 23:27, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

• These discussions are about what get fromally listed. --evrik  00:03, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

• As long as the award isn't offensive, or doesn't have any negative connotation, any user is free to create a user award and give it out to people. The only thing that they can't do is list those awards that they created on their own, without discussing with the community, on the "main" Barnstar page (or with the other wiki awards that were approved by the community). But again, that's only as long as the award is not offensive, but rather conveys a positive message. Redux 13:22, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
  • If the image is under a fair use license, it cannot be used as an award either. Those will get deleted. User:Zscout370 16:50, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

Esperanza Images

I tried to be bold and remove links to Esperanzan promotional images, but evrik reverted me. So I would like to get some agreement here. I think giving links to Esperazans images on a page reserved for wikiproject awards not right. Does anyone agree with me that it should be taken down? Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 20:39, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

From what I understand, Esperanza is reforming themselves. If they want to ditch their BS program, then we should remove the link. If not, then lets discuss here. User:Zscout370 04:41, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

Their what program? Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 07:34, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

I believe BS = barnstar... riana_dzasta 09:33, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

Anyway, the barnstar brigade has been deleted, if that's what you're talking about. Discussion here. riana_dzasta 09:38, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

• The link in question Images from the Esperanza Community was placed there because there were a whole bunch of feel good images. I think we should leave the link there for now. --evrik  15:15, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

Question

What are the conditions which must be met for a given barnstar proposal to become formally recognized? Badbilltucker 01:56, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

• well, thta has always been subject to debate. I do think the most recent topical barnstar was forced, but I seem to be in the minority on that issue. --evrik  15:34, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
• Fair answer, and I basically agree regarding its promotion to topical class, although I will not challenge it. Question, as well. Do you think it would help if there were a more generalized discussion about creation of barnstars? I have recently created a vague proposal at User:Badbilltucker/Internal organization structure regarding the ever increasing number and variety of portals, projects, awards, and what have you. Do any of you think that this would be a reasonable way to go regarding matters like this? And, for what it's worth, it was primarily created with portals and projects in mind. Badbilltucker 16:07, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

Barnstar question and comments

Exactly how often are they handed out? I could care less either way, but it seems like many people (myself included) do much hard work and it goes very unnoticed. Then others get many barnstars, because they are somehow noticed. If you check my edit history, I've assessed many articles for the films project, CVG project and so on. I've done quite alot of stub sorting as well. I post on talk pages of projects and users, and so on. I'm starting to think this whole barnstar thing is a joke, and only known editors get them. RobJ1981 17:23, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages really doesn't have a lot of central organization, so there are no real hard and fast rules regarding barnstar dispersal. Basically, they are given out when someone decides to give them out. I wish there were a better answer, but there really isn't. The one thing I do know is that substantial contributions to articles and/or projects are most likely to get noticed and awarded, but that isn't excatly predictable either. If I myself belonged to any of the projects you mentioned, I'd see what I could do, but I don't. With any luck, if Esperanza goes ahead with their Appreciation Week, you may receive something then. Again, I wish I had a better answer. Badbilltucker 18:31, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Userpage display

Anyone know of some compact ways to display barnstars on your userpage? I'm not discounting the original layout at all - I appreciate that they're there at all - but they're starting to sprawl. Crystallina 22:30, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

Almost Certainly Unwelcome Proposal

You all might have noticed that the number of projects, particularly geography projects, are multiplying like rabbits. Many of them are geography projects, and other projects whose barnstar, if they were to have one, would probably be similar to an already existing barnstar. Would there be any way to try to create some of these repetitive barnstars by the project, outside of formal nominating conventions, to forestall possible crowding of the proposals page and ensuring that projects whose members aren't familiar with the process would be able to have one anyway? Thank you for any and all responses, positive or negative. Badbilltucker 18:36, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Now That's An Award I Know I'd Like To Get!

I'm sorry, and for the sarcasm in the title, but "The Dutch Award" sounds HORRIBLE! 68.39.174.238 06:29, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

Mapmakers => Mapmaker's Star_Mapmaker's_Star-2006-12-07T02:31:00.000Z">

Could someone with authority fix the "Mapmakers Star" so that is reads "Mapmaker's Star"?? I can't find where to fix it - I suppose it's hidden and only available to admins or some such. Thanks in advance, MapMaster 02:31, 7 December 2006 (UTC)_Mapmaker's_Star"> _Mapmaker's_Star">

They're meaningless if given out to anyone for anything

I'm not sure I understand these barnstars. It seems that anyone can give one to anyone else for any reason. Recently I saw one that I thought almost certainly was a joke, and it was retracted by the awarder. I really think that if Misplaced Pages arwards are to have any meaning, they should be awarded by a group, not by a single person to one other person, based entirely upon one person's POV. It makes them meaningless. Are there awards that have meaning, that require more than one person to dump it on another's page? KP Botany 23:11, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

If your looking for a formal process for awarding, then it is not happening. Just like adminship, this is supposed to be no really big deal, so just relax and not worry about it. User:Zscout370 02:32, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

Yup. It's just a way to exchange appreciation in this community. There ARE some awards that have standard for awarding, so it's really not big deal. AQu01rius (User • Talk) 02:44, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

Naw, I'm going to stick with meaningless. If anyone can give them for anything, they don't have any meaning. Administrators go through a process, whether formal or not. I think it's lack of formality means Misplaced Pages winds up with like-begets-like, which will cost in the long run, but at least it is a process. What awards do have standards? KP Botany 15:35, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

Do you think it is a possible compromise, so that not everyone is left in the dark, that people with a certain number of edits should be automatically awarded, as i am proposing with Award 5000 (bot still needed)? Simply south 15:43, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Service awards are the only awards I know of with defined standards that do not rely on opinion or POV. They recognize a user for the length and number of their contributions. I'd be interested to learn if there are any other awards that have defined standards or at least guidelines for their use. Barnstars are basically fancy gold stickers that anyone can hand out for any reason. Some of them do imply a general topic in their name, like "anti-vandalism" but it is still up to the presentor to decide what level of anti-vandalism work deserves an award. Personally, I don't mind having some awards that anyone can give out on their own initiative, but I think we could also use some that have defined standards. Johntex\ 15:47, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

I loathe the idea of edit count awards. When I first started editing, I came across an administrator who was adding "the article needs expanded" tags to botany stubs and anything else, including a totally complete and well done article that needed to be short, in order to up his edit count. Why encourage junk? Other editors edit on the computer, instead of writing an article, then posting it, meaning they have like 15 edits to post a single paragraph. I will never support and will strongly oppose any award based on number of edits. Misplaced Pages should be about quality, not quantity.

Yes, I would like to see more awards with well-defined standards. KP Botany 16:37, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

Edit count awards aren't a panacea. Not all edits are good edits. However, they do tell a part of the story. Some editors can toil away for ages, amassing lots of beneficial edits, without someone deciding to give them award. Personally-handed-out-awards have their own pitfalls. To turn your question around, why encourage cronyism? The trouble with the regular barnstars is that they are open to abuse of people giving them out only to their friends, or to people who share their point-of-view. They aren't perfect. Having both types of recognition helps fill in the gaps and provides some balance. We should not have only one or the other. Johntex\ 16:53, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

Does it have to be one or the other? Why not have something like 5 people have to agree to award a barnstar, post a Barnstar Propsed on the editor's talk page, if 5 people sign in agreement, the barnstar is awarded. It isn't so procedure heavy, and it's not meaningless either. But it takes away joke barnstars given when an editor is the opposite of what the barnstar was awarded for. KP Botany 17:02, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

(reset indent) I think KP Botany has a good idea to have some awards that multiple people must sign-off on in order for it to be awarded. I would like to expand on that and propose that we have four categories of awards:

1. Individual barnstars and awards - can be given by a solo editor on their own initiative
2. Barnstars with clear criteria - can still be given by a solo editor, but are supposed to be for specific things (like maintanining a portal for 3 months or getting an article to FA, or successfully mediating a dispute to all party's satisfaction)
3. Community awards - awarded only by a community (such as a WikiProject) or a standing Misplaced Pages-wide committee established for the purpose of recognizing meritous service, or alternatively requiring approval by a certain number of editors (I.e. any 5 editors can get together to give the x award).
4. Edit count and length of service awards - awarded only on the clear-cut criteria of number of contributions and/or length of service.

Having all four types of awards gives us flexibility as well as structure. People can individually decide how much stock they place in each type of award. Johntex\ 17:13, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

• You're restating what already exists.

1. PUA's
2. Barnstars
3. WikiProject Awards
4. Edit count awards and wiki anniversaries.

I think the informal system of awarding is an important part of spreadinf wikilove. --evrik  19:28, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

Quality

Actually i just realised. How exactly is quality measured? Simply south 00:24, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

Apparently purely subjectively--if you think someone did quality work, that's all that's needed. KP Botany 02:04, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

Highest Standard

I won a Wikihalo and I was wondering what highest standard meant. WereWolf 16:56, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

What can be awarded to script writers on the ball?

I know of two users (Cacycle and George Money) that have introduced complex tools to assist editors in various tasks. In particular, George is maintaining several such tools. In both cases, I have pointed out bugs. In both cases, they commonly introduce fixes ASAP.

What can we give them? Will (Talk - contribs) 08:37, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages Day Awards

Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Misplaced Pages Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 18:31, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

Creating a Barnstar

Does anyone know how to make one? I really want to, if you know how to, show me how to on my talk page, or else I will forget to go back here and find out an answer. Thanks, Coocooforcocopuffs 01:13, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

• check out the proposal page. --evrik  15:38, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

Question

Can you give a barnstar to yourself? 65.102.35.249 19:35, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

What for? It would mean nothing. As noted in a movie once, honor can never be taken. It must be earned. Will (Talk - contribs) 20:37, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Found two new BS pics to be moved to commons

Image:Bs-1.jpg and Image:Ubs1.png.-- _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk}  01:18, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

Bitch star I just received

I just received a 'Bitch star' from a troll (it can be seen on my userpage or my talk page!). I am proposing we make it into a barnstar for troll reversion RyanPostlethwaite 01:57, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Ahahaha. MS paint. JPG. Support! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Indolences (talk • contribs) 05:57, 31 January 2007 (UTC).

• Oppose This does not promote wiki civility. --evrik  15:33, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

Confused about approval process and archiving

I helped propose the Copyeditor's Barnstar. I thought we basically had consensus, then talk died down. There were a couple of dissensions. Does it have to be unanimous? I don't understand why it was archived with no resolution. It looked to me like it was a go... (the discussion and design were moved here: Misplaced Pages:Barnstar and award proposals/Archive15) ~ Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦♫ 00:56, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

• This was proposed as a barnstar and not as a wikiproject award. While there was initial support, it died down after the first wave. The image doesn't fit with the rest of the barnstars, nor with the bulk of the wikiproject awards - that's why I archived it. Any wikiproject can use whatever award it wants (and you can list it on the PUA page. If you want it to go up on the other awards pages then resubmit is as a wikiproject award. If you disgree, then ask some of the other people who are part of the WikiPorject Awards to comment. --evrik  15:37, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

education

I think an 'education' barnstar should be added to the list of catagory barnstars. what does everyone think? Kiran90 14:04, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

good sport

I also thought of a 'good sport' barnstar. this could be awarded to someone who bounced back from warnings/blocking, learnt from their mistakes, and took it in good stead. Kiran90 14:05, 10 February 2007 (UTC)