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Sunday, 15 June, 2008
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[edit] Introduction
I live in Northern Ireland (well, somebody has to) and started adding contributions on 18 January 2005.
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[edit] Current main work
[edit] Articles and contributions
Articles and contributions have been many and various within the following subjects:
[edit] Previous work
[edit] Primary schools in Northern Ireland
I had been adding Primary schools articles for NI, largely stubs, to which new contributors had started to add to and develop etc, but they came under attack by people proposing that all such primary school articles should be deleted as being non-notable etc. You can see the debate at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Abercorn Primary School. Following prolonged discussion the articles are being retained. Very many thanks to all who defended the inclusion of Primary schools articles - for once common sense has prevailed.
[edit] The Troubles in Towns/Villages in Northern Ireland
I had added 97 articles relating to incidents of two or more fatalities in towns/villages in Northern Ireland during the Troubles. Many of these were effectively stubs to be added to and developed, with reports on all fatalities, other incidents etc. However, some people do not seem to understand the stub concept and seek to destroy articles rather than build them up and develop them. These articles have been attacked twice - see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Troubles in Moneymore and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Troubles in Tynan. In both cases the Wiki-destructors have been successfully repelled. Very many thanks to all defenders and particularly to those developing and building the articles.
[edit] Awards
[edit] Barnstar
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The Original Barnstar |
| For your hard work and dedication to improving Wikipedia, I, Sharkface217, hereby award you this Original Barnstar. Good job! Sharkface217 19:48, 4 November 2006 (UTC) |
[edit] The Categorisation Order of Merit
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The Working Man's Barnstar |
| For your seemingly-endless hard work in painstakingly categorising or re-categorising squillions of Ireland-related articles, and weeding out overcategorisation. BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 20:16, 20 October 2007 (UTC) |
[edit] The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
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The Tireless Contributor Barnstar |
| For your endless work on Irish Wiki in a quiet but relentless manner while the rest of us fight and showboat! 30k mainspace out of 36k edits is some record, you are the steel lattice work that holds all the other bits of the building together. (Sarah777 00:59, 5 November 2007 (UTC)) |
[edit] Years in Ireland
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The Tireless Contributor Barnstar |
| For your tremendous work in adding squazillions of events to the Years in Ireland articles, which you have transformed from a series of empty shells to a really useful index. —BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 01:08, 30 December 2007 (UTC) |
[edit] WikiCookie
I am awarding you this WikiCookie for your constructive edits on Wikipedia--
LAAFan 16:07, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
User:Ardfern/Sandbox
