User:A. B.

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Welcome to my user page.

• My talk page: If you leave me a message on my talk page, I will respond there to avoid fragmenting a discussion.
• My anonymous edits: Occasionally I forget to sign in; I'm not trying to be sneaky when this happens -- I'm just absent-minded about logging in.
• Meta user name: A. B.
• Commons user name: A. B. 10
• Simple English user name: A. B.
• Current edit count <-- click here for edit count. (Meta edit count)
• Who's behind this user name

Contents 1 Userboxes, barnstars and such 2 Edits 3 RfA/RfB summaries 4 Adminship 5 Bureaucratship 6 AfDs 7 User subpages

Userboxes, barnstars and such

Languages:

Places I've been:

Barnstars:

	The Resilient Barnstar For remaining tactically neutral even after mistakenly pissing off a meticulous bitch. (staying cool while in the line of fire) Ste4k 00:20, 9 July 2006 (UTC)]]
	The Random-Acts-of-Kindness Barnstar CJC47 05:15, 12 July 2006 (UTC)]]
	The Spamstar of Glory Presented to A. B. for diligence in fighting spam on Wikipedia -- ReyBrujo]]
	The Working Man's Barnstar For your ongoing willingness to take on the laborious tasks involved in fighting spam, and for being a driving force at WikiProject Spam, I award you the Working Man's Barnstar. Keep up the excellent work! --AbsolutDan (talk) 17:44, 19 November 2006 (UTC)]]
	The Barnstar of Diligence Presented to A. B. For extraordinary diligence combating spam! Hu12 07:07, 10 January 2007 (UTC)]]

Edits

My edits: I'm short on article text but long on encyclopedic research and hopefully very reliable.

I work hard to ensure the edits I make are fully researched and documented using verifiable, reliable sources. Even if I think I already "know" the facts, I verify them independently per WP:OR. For example:

• This one 100-word addition to the Northwest Passage article was backed up by several hours research and a 500-word discussion on the talk page.
• I replaced a POV section of the Appalachia article with a new, 200-word "Economy" section. This started with a POV tag I added weeks before, followed by others' talk page comments, my new addition, and finally my editing comments on the talk page. Since it involved a large, wholesale deletion and replacement, I left notes on a couple of other frequent editors' talk pages inviting them to review my changes.[1][2] This whole process took probably 3 to 5 hours over many weeks. More hours will be required to fully flesh out this new section beyond my new section.
• Another example: in assessing the Doris Brougham AfD, it was unclear how notable the subject was and how reliable or notable the publications cited were. Over the course of the next 2½ hours, I dug up and read numerous articles, posting links and article excerpts on the Doris Brougham talk page[3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10] and references and footnotes on the Doris Brougham article page.[11][12][13][14] Along the way, I researched the notability and reliability of one of the key sources, the Taipei Times, updating and footnoting that article as well. [15][16][17] Eventually after research and documentation, I made a recommendation of "strong keep" on the AfD page.[18][19]

RfA/RfB summaries

This is a bot-generated summary of the current candidates on requests for adminship.

When the bot is running this page will update about once an hour. The last update was 22:00, 9 April 2007 (UTC).

If this page does not update, a similar summary is available at Wikipedia:Bureaucrats' noticeboard/RfA Report.

Open RFAs are ordered from oldest to most recent.

0-69%

70-85%

86-100%

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Adminship

	Username	S	O	N	S %	Ending
1	Danny	246	112	10	69%	00:38, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
2	Mikeblas	32	1	1	97%	02:12, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
3	Angusmclellan	77	0	1	100%	13:45, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
4	J Milburn	50	0	0	100%	16:03, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
5	Dgies	68	1	0	99%	15:51, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
6	Natl1	12	14	11	46%	20:42, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
7	Smcafirst	8	13	2	38%	00:53, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
8	Fuhghettaboutit	53	3	0	95%	01:55, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
9	Hemlock Martinis	28	10	1	74%	06:13, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
10	Coelacan	66	0	0	100%	00:05, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
11	Veesicle	8	6	8	57%	01:30, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
12	Joebengo	14	13	6	52%	01:49, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
13	Staecker	25	3	2	89%	03:24, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

Recently concluded: Thenthornthing, Nmajdan, Darthgriz98

Bureaucratship

	Username	S	O	N	S %	Ending
1	Mackensen	108	33	2	77%	21:54, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

AfDs

• User:Dragons flight/AFD summary/Few votes
• Category:AfD debates (Organisation, corporation, or product)
• Category:AfD debates (Web or internet)
• Category:AfD debates (Biographical)

User subpages

• To do list
• Useful Wikipedia policy and how-to links
• Sources for future articles and edits
• Articles I've contributed to
• Useful snippets of text for talk pages
• Newcomers welcomed
• More newcomers welcomed
• External link concerns
• External link concerns - serious
• Draft Articles

  List of S&P 500 companies draft

• User:A. B./Draft Spamstar
• New warnings I'd like to see
• User:A. B./powered by EJRS.COM

  Material related to EJRS.COM links

• User:A. B./pressreleasegold.com

  Material on 58 domains associated with pressreleasegold.com

• User:A. B./WelcomeAnon

  Welcome template

• User:A. B./IPwhois

  Template:

  :127.0.0.1 (talk " contribs " links " count " actions " logs || WHOIS " RDNS " traceroute " RBLs " tor " search)

• User:A. B./UserSummary

  Template:

  :A. B. (talk " contribs " links " count " actions " logs " status)

• User:A. B./Sandbox

  Misc spam and open proxy notes, IP addresses and links

• User:A. B./Sandbox2

  Bharatanatyam spam and sockpuppet investigation

• User:A. B./Sandbox3

  Partial list of accounts warned by Shadowbot

• User:A. B./Sandbox4

  List of possible open proxies

• User:A. B./Shadowbot's Christmas list

  domains for Shadowbot

• User:A. B./Sandbox5

  fubra.com and related sites' links

  Vehicle insurance -- inappropriate external link review

• User:A. B./Sandbox6

  Sastha.com job board links

• User:A. B./Sandbox7

  Two unrelated topics:

  :Archived Village Pump discussion re:Centiare

  :Bharatanatyam dancer images for possible deletion

• User:A. B./Sandbox8

  Material relating to spamming and editor harassment by EinsteinEdits

• User:A. B./Sandbox9

  Now empty. Previously contained:

  Wikipedia:Mirrors and forks info

  LAN Gaming center socks?

  Pages containing blog.myspace.com links as of 19 January 2007

  Copy of Talk:CarInsurance.com just before article's deletion

  List of possible Wikipedia scraper sites

  Maximus System Solutions spam information (domains, articles, accounts)[20]

• User:A. B./Sandbox10

  Now empty but for transient material; previously contained:

  list of Worldwide MediaWorks domains

  French Globalwarming awareness2007 domains

• User:A. B./Sandbox11

  Article submission sites SEO people can use

• User:A. B./Sandbox12

  texomaland.com/DSB worldwide and searchtexoma.com spam histories

  Previously contained:

  List of accounts vandalizing User:A. B./Sandbox10 when it held the list of French Globalwarming awareness2007 domains

  Pts.com spam information

• User:A. B./Sandbox13

  Now empty but for transient material; previously contained:

  Copy of old Village Pump discussion: Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)/Archive#Deletions of external links