User:The wub

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[edit] A little about me

This user maintains a blog at http://astick.net/blog/

This user also lives on Planet Wikimedia.

Born and bred in Lancashire, I'm currently studying Natural Sciences at Downing College, Cambridge.

I made my first edit from this account in March 2005, though I'd been reading and making the odd anonymous edit for a long while before that. It is now 744.97083330015 days later and I'm still here. Oh dear. I became an admin in October 2005.

[edit] My actions

I invite scrutiny of all my actions on Wikipedia, especially those that involve admin privileges. If you have concerns then please contact me. Note to other admins: feel free to undo or overrule any of my admin actions if you think it will benefit Wikipedia. It would be nice if you drop me a message telling me, but you don't have to wait around for me to reply and I certainly won't shout at you for "wheel warring".

[edit] Contact me

The best way to contact me is on my talk page. Please don't forget to sign! If you want to get in touch privately, or you are currently blocked, then e-mail me. You might (very occasionally) catch me on IRC as well. If you want to chat some other way (MSN/Windows Live Messenger, Google Talk, Skype, phone, carrier pigeon or whatever) then e-mail me first and I'll sort something out.

[edit] User pages

Wikipedia	Meta-Wiki	Commons
Wikinews	Wikiquote	Wikisource
Wikibooks	Foundation wiki

[edit] To do

Ongoing

Play with wikEd?
WikiProject Warhammer 40,000
Revamp userpage & subpages
CFD maintenance
Maintain Portal:Current events/Britain and Ireland
Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting
User:The wub/deletionsorting.js

Other

Rewrite m:Arbitration Committee
Organise Cambridge meetup
Resurrect UKCOTW?

We have articles now?

Geolink all Cambridge colleges
Geolink London Underground stations - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/London_Underground_geographic_maps/Tables
Downing College Boat Club - [1]
Other boat clubs - template?
Bumps races
Darwen
Bear (comic book)
Jamie Smart (a.k.a. God)
cleanup of Invader Zim and related articles
b3ta
One-click buying

[edit] Awards

I saw you crossed out a double vote in your RfA! Now I don't feel bad for being the only one. ;) Since you did a truly admin-like action before being an admin, I hereby award you this Barnstar of Diligence for your extraordinary scrutiny. Tito xd^(?!?)	Your Assistance Was EATEN BY A BEAR! (from Karmafist)	Tasty Tunnock's tea cakes (a delicacy in the British northeast, I'm told) to say thank you very much for standing in the Esperanza elections, being a great candidate and helping to make Wikipedia better for everyone just by existing! ➨ ❝R E DVERS❞	I award this Barnstar to The Wub for heroic work fighting vandals (from Gaius Cornelius)
I hereby award myself this Upside-down Barnstar for being such a sanctimonious prick. Thanks a lot! (as suggested by popefauvexxiii)	This editor is a Tutnum, and is entitled to display this Book of Knowledge

[edit] Quotes

"The problem with Wikipedia is that it only works in practice. In theory, it can never work." - Anonymous (from Raul's laws)

"On Wikipedia, there is a giant conspiracy attempting to have articles agree with reality." - Plautus satire

"...classifying AfD is akin to sorting the contents of your neighbours' trashcan after they've emptied their cat litter [the stuff that survives CSD or prod] into it, in the quiet confidence you'll find a few glass bottles worth recycling, and with a 1 in 10,000 chance of recovering that missing ring you reckon their cat might have swallowed." - User:TheGrappler

"Actually, there was once a cabal, but it got deleted..." - Andjam

[edit] Stuff

Userboxes are an ineffectual means of communicating my nuanced views on a variety of issues that cannot be reduced to a simple pithy slogan. [2] (Note this includes my views on userboxes.)

User:NoSeptember/The NoSeptember Admin Project - a heap of admin related stats and other useful insights
User:Improv/Quotes
User:Angela/What Wikipedia is not
Wikipedia:We need a policy to deal with policy
User:Durin/Admin miscellany
User:Linuxbeak/There really isn't a cabal - but he would say that :-)
User:Revolución/Statement against Jimbocracy *rolleyes*
[3] - User:Newyorkbrad's comment on decision making on WP:BN (rest of thread is also interesting)
User:Mboverload/Zero Featured Article - RfA criteria
[4] - User:WCityMike's blog on why he left
User:Dbuckner/Expert rebellion
User:LinaMishima/Experts Problem
Wikipedia:List of cabals - there's a fair few
this might explain why Wikipedia is often slow :-)
[5] made me smile
Job queue 93 -> ~42000 [6]

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.

[edit] Licensing

Contributions released into public domain
	I agree to release my text and image contributions, unless otherwise stated, into the public domain. Please be aware that other contributors might not do the same, so if you want to use my contributions under public domain terms, please check the multi-licensing guide.