User:BanyanTree

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For all your great contributions to Central Africa articles, Wizzy awards you the Tireless contributor barnstar

Hello and welcome to my user space!

You can contact me on my talk page.

I have administrator privileges both here on English Wikipedia and at Commons. Feel free to bring any needed moppage to my attention (and don't forget to upload free images to Commons and not here!). I am philosophically mergist, which means that I prefer for much new information to be added to existing articles and broken out as needed, rather started as a new stub that may or may not grow into a proper article. Generally speaking, I have to at least visualize a new topic with 'how it came to be', 'what it is' and 'why it matters' sections before I start an entirely new article, even if I fail to write it all down once I get into the edit window. I also appear to be a bit of a user block 'long-ball hitter', to take an analogy used with judges, in that I implement escalating length of blocks for repeat vandals more than other admins, as far as I can tell from looking at block logs. I also prefer redirecting plausible titles to existing articles, rather than deleting such titles, which I consider to be unhelpful 'cleanup'. And that's much more than you probably wanted to know.

For some clearheaded thinking on Wikipedia for those with a scientific bent, I recommend the quotations collected by Raymond arritt. (stable) Also, check out this retracted "I'm going!" rant, which nevertheless makes some good points. I believe that capricious actions by some users with special privileges threaten the viability of Wikipedia as much as or more than any COI editor or band of trolls. IRC, as a forum alien to the community cannot be used to justify actions on-wiki. Actions on-wiki that are explained as "There was discussion on IRC...", should be reevaluated immediately and reverted if onwiki evidence casts any doubt on the decision. Similarly, onwiki publication of IRC logs or other infraction of IRC rules cannot be punished by the Wikipedia community.

This Bright Idea Award barnstar has been granted to BanyanTree for adding the lain in state/honor succession boxes. — MrDolomite • Talk 12:40, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

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Recent changes to ITN candidates pages

As a humble expression of my sincerest gratitude for your creation of donations for victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, I, ClockworkSoul, gratefully award you this barnstar.

[edit] Contributions

My edits • My (un)blocks  • My (un)deletions • My (un)protections  • My combined log

Articles and stubs that I have started, and feel are neat, are in normal text. Articles I have messed up in some way that I feel is significant are followed by a *. Note that my categorization scheme below reflects a personal quirk that divides articles on my motivation for writing them. I am aware that articles listed under "conflict-related" deserve to be known for more than being involved in recent violence. I also admit to having only fuzzy recollections of some of the older edits here. You may see my uploaded images with Daniel's tool (Thanks Duesentrieb!) and my edit summary with the wanna-be Kate tool (Thanks Kate and Interiot!).

[edit] Conflicts

Congo Civil War (now split into First Congo War and Second Congo War)* • Congo Crisis • First Sudanese Civil War • Ituri conflict • Mau Mau Uprising* • Ogaden War* • Shifta War

[edit] Conflict in northern Uganda-related

Aboke abductions • Acholi* • Alice Auma • Betty Oyella Bigombe • Dominic Ongwen • Holy Spirit Movement — Joseph Kony* • Juba talks • Lord's Resistance Army insurgency* • Category:Lord's Resistance Army • Luis Moreno-Ocampo • {{LRA}} (navbox) • Odong Latek • Okot Odhiambo • Raska Lukwiya • Vincent Otti • West Nile Bank Front*

[edit] Armed groups

BanyanTree is presented this Africa Award for his excellent, original contributions to African articles. Presented by Wizzy from the Africa-related regional notice board

Al-Itihaad al-Islamiya • Allied Democratic Forces • Armed Forces Revolutionary Council • Army for the Liberation of Rwanda • Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda • Eastern Front (Sudan) • Front for Patriotic Resistance of Ituri • Mai-Mai • Movement for the Liberation of Congo • National Council for the Defense of Democracy-Forces for the Defense of Democracy • National Resistance Army* • Nationalist and Integrationist Front • Ogaden National Liberation Front • Rally for Congolese Democracy • Rashaida Free Lions • Rassemblement Démocratique pour le Rwanda • Special Presidential Division • SPLA-Nasir • Sudan People's Liberation Army* • Uganda People's Army • Uganda People's Defense Force* • Uganda People's Democratic Army • Union of Congolese Patriots

[edit] Conflict-related individuals and ethnic groups

Ahmed Diraige • Alex de Waal • Banyamulenge • Beni Halba • Bernard Ntuyahaga • Berti • Bidayat • Billy Bowlegs • Daud Bolad • Emily Perez • Ernest Wamba dia Wamba • Gérard Prunier • Hema people • Hunde • John Garang* • Lendu • Luis Moreno-Ocampo • Mark Doyle (journalist) • Mbaye Diagne* • Mukesh Kapila • Ngiti • Salva Kiir Mayardit • Origins of Tutsi and Hutu • Sakuye • Takeichi Nishi* • Théodore Sindikubwabo* • Thomas Lubanga

[edit] Other conflict-related articles

I, Kukini, hereby award the The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar for tireless efforts in reverting vandalism on Wikipedia to BanyanTree. - Kukini 15:20, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

Assassination of Habyarimana and Ntaryamira* • Babur missile • Battle of Mengo Hill • Bibliography of the Darfur conflict (breakout page) • The Black Book: Imbalance of Power and Wealth in the Sudan • Bukgwan Victory Monument • Convention on Cluster Munitions • {{Darfur conflict}} (navbox) • Displaced person* • Forced migration • Great Lakes refugee crisis • Gulf War Air Power Survey • Internally displaced person • IRIN • Japanese battleship Kongo* • Kangura • Kenzo Oshima • National Islamic Front • New Sudan Council of Churches • Rebellion* • Special Court for Sierra Leone • Special Presidential Division • Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator

[edit] Africa locations (mostly stubs)

Aboke • Abyei‎ • Acholiland • Amba Mariam • Al-Ubayyid* • Axum* • Balad, Somalia • Blue Mountains (Congo) • Butare* • Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion* • {{Subdivisions of Ethiopia}} (navbox) • Fizi • Golo, Sudan • Gulu* • Gulu Airport • Hafun • Ituri • Juba, Sudan • Kakiri • Kitgum • Kitona • Kodok • Kutum • Lake No • Magwi • National Road No. 2 • Owiny Ki-Bul • Pader • Ri-Kwangba • Rumbek • Ruzizi River • Sake, DRC • St. Mary's Hospital Lacor • States of Sudan* • {{States of Sudan}} (navbox) • Tagabo Hills • Torit • {{Uganda-geo-stub}} • Wadi Halfa* • Wad Madani • White Nile*

[edit] Other Africa stuff

For using the coolest edit summary when creating Bye Bye Africa, I award you this barnstar. Use it well! Giggy ^Talk

Abdallah Khalil • Afri • African Renaissance* • Ahmat Taboye • Ali Maow Maalin • Antoine Bangui • Baba Moustapha • Baguirmi Kingdom* • Chari Jazz • Coat of Arms of Uganda • Darfur is Dying • Daratt • Energy in Uganda • Famine Early Warning Systems Network • Francois Luambo Makiadi • Hadjarai • History of Darfur (breakout page) • Issa Serge Coelo • Joseph Mwanyungwa • Kabarega of Bunyoro • Koulsy Lamko • Local Council* • Matthew Lukwiya • Nasser Sebaggala • National Congress (Sudan) • Ugandan Kob • Ouaddai Kingdom* • SotelTchad • Tabot • Utenzi wa Shufaka

[edit] Nature stuff

1138 Aleppo earthquake • Adenota • Alestes • Banyan* coughegocough • Ficus benghalensis • Ficus microcarpa • Hydrocynus • Nassarius • Packrat midden • Serianthes nelsonii • Weald-Artois Anticline

[edit] Random stuff

Abu Abed • Al Kifl • Asylum in the United States • Bad River Band of the Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians • Ben's Chili Bowl* • Beres Hammond • Billy Bowlegs III • Famine* • Famine scales • FATE (role-playing game) • Fires on the Plain • Half-smoke • Hans Singer • Hashirajima • Kokomo Arnold • Latte stone* • Maya language (Brazil) • {{MEast-stub}} • Ministry of Water Resources (Iraq) • Morgan Heritage • Monolithic Church* • Mosul Dam • Mount Maya • MP3 blog • Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey • Nuremberg Chronicle • Of Exorcisms and Certain Supplications • Ojibwa* • Pemba Doma Sherpa • Pjetër Dungu • The Pleazers • Priz class • Qadir Obeidi • Rahima Banu • Raúl Prebisch* • Reservation (law) • Rita v. United States • Rosa Parks* (with the caveat that I did not take part in the final FA push) • Scrapper Blackwell • Shari's • Shishmaref, Alaska • Silence (novel) • Staring-baai • Thame, Nepal • Treaty of Payne's Landing • Utamakura* • Walter Harper • Wikipedia:Main Page FAQ • Wikipedia:WikiFairy • Wikipedia:WikiGnome* (You'll just to take it on faith that this is from a subsequently deleted stub that I started) • Yomiuri Prize

[edit] Administrator nominations

Here's a barnstar for BanyanTree for leading the current Revolution at ITN. I like the changes at WP:ITN/C and there are more new stuffs at {{In the news}} on MainPage these days! So things are indeed improving at ITN. Thank you and good luck. Happy editing! Cheers! --PFHLai (talk) 18:59, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

Identifying a user with the skills, experience and temperament to be a good candidate for administrator privileges is as important as any other single contribution one can make on Wikipedia. I nominated the following users at Requests for adminship and all received community approval for the mop: Mark Dingemanse, Gyrofrog, Kjkolb, Aldux and Art LaPella

		The Minor Barnstar
		For correcting a ridiculously simple mistake on Found poetry. Justpassin (talk) 03:46, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Work links

• /Sandbox
• /Image links
• /DYK

Other subpages:

• User:BanyanTree/ArchivesBox

• User:BanyanTree/monobook.css
• User:BanyanTree/monobook.js

Other users' pages:

[edit] Recall

Admins, as glorified janitors, should be accountable to the non-admin body of editors. However, adminship often calls for controversial decisions or implementations of judgments that cannot please everyone. Admins should not feel that their day-to-day moppage, or even unintended screw-ups, put their adminship at risk. This page elaborates on, and takes precedence before, the procedure listed on Category:Wikipedia administrators open to recall.

Only a user who is listed at Category:Wikipedia administrators open to recall may start a recall on my adminship. (If not one of 150+ users who have been vetted by the community and feels strongly enough about accountability to join doesn't think I've done something requiring censure, it's very unlikely that I have.) Once I am notified on my talk page, one of three things will happen:

1. Five more users with at least "500 mainspace edits and over one month of tenure" will repeat the request within six months from the date that the recall began. Once the sixth request is made, I will request to be desysopped. I may or may not put myself back up at WP:RFA.
2. Six months pass without the the necessary number of requests made. The recall will be considered unsuccessful and the slate wiped clean.
3. The admin who started my recall removes him or herself from Category:Wikipedia administrators open to recall, in which case my recall ends immediately.

A new recall may not be started within one month of the previous ending. That's it. Hopefully there isn't a giant gaping hole in my logic.