User:Waggers
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Waggers is a British Wikipedian, notable for the fact that you visited his user page on Sunday, 08 April 2007 at 12:12, among other things. He was born some time last century and lives somewhere in England. Waggers first logged into Wikipedia on 7th February 2006 (after having edited anonymously for a little while) and has been active ever since, apart from a short wikibreak for a very very good reason. Waggers became an administrator in March 2007.
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[edit] Barnstars and awards
Waggers has received the following barnstars and other awards:
[edit] Barnstar from User:Essjay
Hey Waggers, I noticed you around doing good work, and I thought I'd stop by and leave you a barnstar to say "Thanks for the good work!" Good job, keep it up! Essjay (Talk • Connect) 08:53, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
- Hiya
- Thanks so much for presenting me with my first barnstar - it means a great deal to me, so many many thanks. Waggers 11:08, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
- (Here's the proof: [1])
[edit] Soap Award from User:The prophet wizard of the crayon cake
Thanks to your lovely hammering cudgel of holy justice... you have smitten (insert random IP numbers here), and hastily reconstructed the great kingdom of me. For your great thwartings against tomfoolery, I present to you my Patented Soap Award tm.
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You now totally have soap. This soap is slippery, and thus good. |
Much thanks. -- The Prophet Wizard of the Crayon Cake (Prophesize|Witchcraft) 21:09, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
- (Here's the proof: [2])
[edit] Wikiprojects
Waggers is a member of a number of Wikiprojects:
[edit] Wikipedia:WikiProject Categories
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This was the first wikiproject that Waggers joined. He found that categorising articles was a great way to find his way around Wikipedia as well as learning some interesting and unusual facts. Waggers still does a bit of ad-hoc categorisation now and then.
[edit] Wikipedia:WikiProject National Health Service
| NHS | This user is a member of the NHS WikiProject - You can help!. |
This is one of the more recent projects that Waggers has joined. The NHS is the biggest employer in Europe and Britain's health service has a long and interesting history, as do many of its component parts. Articles on these component parts were almost all short or non-existant when the project started. Slowly, that's changing...
[edit] Wikipedia:WikiProject UK geography
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When Waggers joined Wikipedia, there wasn't much going on in this project - it pretty much looked dead. Fortunately though there are now quite a few Wikipedians working hard to improve the UK geography articles.
UK Geography things to do
[edit] Vandalism
Waggers spends a fair bit of time fighting vandalism on Wikipedia. He is a member of the Wikipedia:Counter-Vandalism Unit and is equipped with a number of counter vandalism tools. His favourite weapon of choice at the moment is Lupin's anti-vandal tool.
[edit] Portals
This is Waggers' most recent adventure. He found setting up a portal incredibly easy, although finding the right content is a time-consuming task (although fairly interesting and rewarding). To date, Waggers has created and maintains the following portals:
[edit] Other activities
[edit] RfA
Because of the initial lack of counter-vandalism tools, Waggers wanted to become an administrator primarily so that he could use a robust and simple rollback button. In order to scope what was generally required to be an administrator, Waggers kept a close eye, and voted, on WP:RfA. Waggers believes that integrity and trustworthiness are not only the most important critera for a Wikipedia administrator to meet; they are the only criteria. Waggers becomes somewhat frustrated when other users judge a candidate's trustworthiness by the number of edits they make in a month. Waggers soon became bored with RFA when the better vandal-fighting tools came along.
[edit] League of editors
Please take note of WP:Editcountitis before thinking that anything in this section is remotely important in any way. Edit count is not an indicator of how useful or "good" an editor is. What's below is there for interest only. Please don't judge a user by their edit count!
Waggers' positions in the List of Wikipedians by number of edits:
| Date | Position | Number of edits |
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| 2nd February 2007 | 2,259th | 5,806 |
| 4th November 2006 | 2,275th | 4,743 |
| 23rd September 2006 | 2,136th | 4,534 |
| Before that | Unplaced | Some |
[edit] Away from Wikipedia
Waggers has a faith, a family, friends and a job. (If you can think of a synonym for job beginning with F, let me - er, I mean, him - know!). Waggers also has other hobbies. In short, Waggers has a life away from Wikipedia, so please don't always expect rapid responses on his talk page!
