User:BorgHunter

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BorgHunter

Of interest: how I vote, My userbox stance.

BorgHunter (contribs | FTR | edit count | deletions | blocks | protections; born July 25, 1988, in St. Petersburg, Florida): Registered member since February 2005; administrator since December 2005.

These links should remain red. If blue, sound the alarm!

Self-serving Autobiography

Christ, what do I put here? I'm not one who commonly talks about himself. Okay, let's begin with the basics. I'm a 18-year-old male from St. Petersburg, Florida. I'm a nerd, which probably is true for a great majority of Wikipedians. I'm a graduate of Lakewood High School Center for Advanced Technologies, and am attending college at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago. I'm a National Merit Scholar, as well. My interests include computers, learning, The Simpsons (of which my knowledge is roughly equal to Wikipedia's), grammar (of which I am a Nazi), politics, and religion. And...that's it for now. Leave any questions on the talk, mmmkay?

Wikipedia and YOU!

I wasn't too terribly prolific before becoming an admin...I self-nominated myself after around 1000 edits. Compared to some people, I'm still a mere peon. However, I've become more active of late, including dabbling in page protection (which gets me into trouble), speedy deletions, and even a RfC which I recently filed (a task I utterly loathed to do). I'm not a deletionist, inclusionist, mergist, or any of those things...I'm fairly moderate on deletion, I suppose. When I'm on Wikipedia, I generally live off of my watchlist. Oh, and I edit Wikipedia a lot from home, as well as from school. (Work doesn't have an Internet connection.)

I helped get Rush (band) to FA status. Go me!

Music

• Boston
• Rush
• Styx
• Queen
• Journey
• Dire Straits
• Led Zeppelin
• REO Speedwagon
• Pink Floyd
• Steve Miller Band
• Supertramp
• Eagles
• And much more!

My computer

• $1776, all told.
• Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe motherboard
• AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ (Toledo)
• 1GiB Corsair 2 GiB Patriot DDR3200 RAM
• 160GB Hitachi Serial ATA hard drive
• 80GB Hitachi SATA hard drive
• GeForce 6800 GT 256 MiB video card
• Antec TruePower-II 550W power supply
• DVD-ROM, DVD±RW
• Ubuntu Linux 6.06 / Windows XP Professional x64 Edition dual booted

Awards

I don't have enough to merit a subpage. :(

I'm Jokermage and I approve this Wikipedian! Paid for by the Jokermage for Chief Librarian Campaign.

Minor edits are often-overlooked, but essential, contributions to the Wikipedia. The Minor Barnstar is awarded for making minor edits of the utmost quality. —Zero 21:47, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

I, Lcarsdata, award you this telegraph pole for being kind and giving good advice.Lcarsdata ^{Talk | @ | Contribs | My RfA} 15:28, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

With the authority bestowed on me by the Federation Council I hereby award you the Starfleet barnstar for the creation and recreation of rank insignias for the Starfleet ranks and insignia article. --Cat out 23:26, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

Other projects

• Wikimedia Commons on occasion.
• Meta-wiki rarely.
• Simple English Wikipedia: I just started there.

Contributions

Today's featured article

The Model M Keyboard is a class of computer keyboards manufactured by IBM, Lexmark and finally Unicomp, starting in the 1980s. The Model M was considered a class of keyboards rather than a specific model, as the many different models of the keyboard had their own distinct characteristics. Most, however, included fully swappable keycaps and a buckling spring key design, which are two features many people, such as computer enthusiasts and those who type often, find very useful. The Model M is also remembered for its overall heavy and sturdy design, which allowed the keyboard to survive far longer periods of time, use, and abuse than practically any other personal computer component ever manufactured.

Other than that, I don't make ground-breaking edits to very many pages. I do a lot of tasks that help with the encyclopedia, though, like fighting vandalism, grammar fixes, and other chores.

Milestones

• 1st "unofficial" edit: [1]
• 1st official edit: [2]
• 100th edit: [3]
• 500th edit: [4]
• 1000th edit: [5]
• 2000th edit: [6]
• 3000th edit: [7]

Userspace pages

• User:BorgHunter/Voting stats
• User:BorgHunter/W, welcome template
• User:BorgHunter/3RR, 3RR block template
• User:BorgHunter/Blocked, block template
• User:BorgHunter/Userfied, new user, userfied article per WP:CSD A7.
• User:BorgHunter/AntiUBX, no more polemical userboxes, please.
• User:BorgHunter/ForTheRecord, activities list.
• User:BorgHunter/Quicklinks
• User:BorgHunter/List of non-instrumental songs with titles that do not appear in the lyrics

This user is a member of the Association of Wikipedians Who Dislike Making Broad Judgements About the Worthiness of a General Category of Article, and Who Are In Favor of the Deletion of Some Particularly Bad Articles, but That Doesn't Mean They are Deletionist The motto of the AWWDMBJAWGCAWAIFDSPBATDMTD is Est omnino difficile iudicare inclusionis meritum cuiusdam rei in encyclopædia cum ratio sciendi quid populi referat incerta sit, sed nihilominus aliquid encyclopædiam dedecet, which translates to "it is generally difficult to judge the worthiness of a particular topic for inclusion in an encyclopedia considering that there is no certain way to know what interests people, but some topics nevertheless are not fit for an encyclopedia." This motto reflects the desire of these Wikipedians to be reluctant, but not entirely unwilling, to remove articles from Wikipedia.