User:Dendodge

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My taste in music is expressed in its entirety by this Euler diagram

Awards

		The Content Creativity Barnstar
		This Barnstar goes to Dendodge T\C for his outstanding work on creating and improving new articles related to The Beatles. The project hasn’t seen so much new input and creativity for a long time (although Dendodge has been diligently working on it for ages now, and often all by himself) so I wish the receiver of this Barnstar to feel very proud, and to sing “Yeah, yeah, yeah”.--andreasegde (talk) 18:49, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

		What a Brilliant Idea Barnstar
		I may have to make my own one of these... I like it! Great idea! K50 Dude ROCKS! 01:00, 12 January 2009 (UTC) This was posted on User talk:Dendodge/Admin criteria, not my talk page, but I'm claiming it anyway. Dendodge TalkContribs 01:05, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

		The Special Barnstar
		For your fantastic work and balanced views on Rfa, your logs are really examplery. Regards. Andy (talk) 21:20, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

		The Barnstar of Good Humor
		(In reply to: "It! Did that cause you pain?") Only when I laugh. Thanks for asking, and better duck, here comes a barnstar. A Knight Who Says Ni (talk) 20:17, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

		The Music Barnstar
		This is for all your hard work improving everything connected with The Beatles. Enjoy, because you've earned it...--andreasegde (talk) 12:14, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

		The RfA Barnstar
		Dendodge, I would like to thank you for your participation in my recent Request for Adminship, which passed with 112 supports, 4 opposes and 5 neutrals. A special mention goes out to Stwalkerster and Pedro for nominating me, thanks a lot for having trust in me! In response to the neutrals, I will try to double check articles that have been tagged for speedy deletion before I CSD them and will start off slowly with the drama boards of ANI and AN to ensure that I get used to them. In response to the oppose !votes on my RfA, I will check that any images I use meet the non-free content criteria and will attempt to handle any disputes or queries as well as I can. If you need my help at all, feel free to simply ask at my talk page and I'll see if I can help. Once again, thank you for your participation, and have a great day! :) The Helpful One 22:05, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

		The Surreal Barnstar
		To Dendodge, who needed better gear to slay level 30 trolls. DurovaCharge! 21:15, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

		The Reference Desk Barnstar
		Thank you for answering my screen resolution question on the Reference Desk! --Ye Olde Luke (talk) 05:28, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

		The Wikipedia Spotlight Barnstar
		For your hard work on the current Wikipedia Spotlight article Kristallnacht, now a GA, I award you this barnstar for your quality Wikipedia Spotlight participation. Congratulations! JamieS93 12:44, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

		The Help Desk Barnstar
		Large amounts of Help Desk Help. SimsFanTalk • Centre of Ops • Sign and Get Award 12:41, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

		The SimsFan Special Thank You Award
		For Signing My Guestbook, Thanks. SimsFanTalk to Me • Sign Here and Get a Thank You Award 10:02, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

		The Original Barnstar
		For your numerous and helpful responses on the Help Desk, I award you the Original barnstar! Great job! DarkZorro 22:39, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

		What a Brilliant Idea Barnstar
		For actively seeking every possible way to help other users, especially those I honestly didn't think would work but did, I hereby award User:Dendodge the "What a Brilliant Idea! Barnstar". Well done, and keep up the work. Hersfold (t/a/c) 20:28, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

		The Help Desk Barnstar
		I award you this barnstar for your excellent service on the Help Desk and for pointing new users in the right direction. Keep up the great work. ~AH1(TCU) 00:41, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

		The Help Page Patrol Barnstar
		For help desk contributions with the HPP. Hope you like it. SimpsonsFan08 talk 17:25, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

		The Help Desk Barnstar
		I think you deserve this. I see you at the help desk nearly every day. SimpsonsFan08 (talk) 19:49, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Your majesty, it gives me great pleasure to bestow the Triple Crown upon Dendodge for your contributions in the areas of WP:DYK, WP:GA, and WP:FA. Cirt (talk) 23:47, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

This editor is a Veteran Editor, and is entitled to display this Iron Editor Star.

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Wikipedia discussion

Some links and templates to help me find discussions and noticeboards quickly and at ease. This is a wiki, so feel free to add any you think will help me.

Centralized discussion
Proposals	Discussions	Recurring proposals
Review: Provisional draft #2 of the new arbitration policy. Proposal: Proposal to create user-space redirects. Poll: Should WP:NOT#PLOT be reworded, moved, removed, or kept the same? RFC: Is there community support to change the constitutional relationship between ArbCom and Jimmy Wales? Poll: How does the community feel regarding how the civility policy is applied and enforced on Wikipedia? Discussion: Should notability criteria for pornographic actors be rolled back? RFC: Naming guidelines for Macedonia Preliminary (userspace) discussion on Wikipedia governance issues. RFC: Should Wikipedia prevent Google and other search engines from searching User pages? RFC: Should a bot unlink dates? RFC. Outside opinions are solicited on self electing groups. RFC: What is the community's opinion on using {{Italictitle}} to italicise certain articles' titles? RFC: What is the community's view of paid editing? Poll: About the preferred usage names as a result of WP:RFAR/West Bank - Judea and Samaria Discussion: Ordering and general presentation of talk page templates. RFC: Simplifying speedy deletion policy A new page to keep track of discussions throughout Wikipedia has been created: Wikipedia:Coordination A new noticeboard has been created: Wikipedia:Content noticeboard Note: inactive discussions, closed or not, should be archived.
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• Requests for comment

Key to edit summary abbreviations

In !votes:

• S:Support
• SS:Strong support
• WS:Weak support
• O:Oppose
• SO:Strong oppose
• WO:Weak oppose
• N:Neutral
• N/S:Neutral, leaning towards support
• N/O:Neutral, leaning towards oppose
• ?:Question
• !:Note
• cmt:Comment

Other

• rm:Removed
• cmt:Commented
• NAC:Non-admin comment (in discussions involving mainly administrators, or where my relative inexperience should affect the weight of my opinion)
• (WP:SPOT):Spotlight work (occasionally used)

Pages I created

DYKs

• 12:19, 3 November 2008 (UTC): ... that John Philip Sousa's "Transit of Venus March" (listen) was rediscovered by a staffer at the Library of Congress in 2003 after it had been believed lost for over 100 years?
• 18:39, 5 March 2009 (UTC) ... that George Frideric Handel's Fitzwilliam Sonatas (No. 3 here) were not originally intended to be a set, and were only designated such in 1948?
• 22:33, 17 May 2009 (UTC) ... that the plane of the ecliptic (effect pictured) is the imaginary plane which all the planets in our Solar System share as they orbit the Sun?

GAs I reviewed

• Sinhala alphabet (passed)

To do

• Improve Ringo Starr to GA Doing...
  • Reference all statements tagged with {{fact}} Y Done
  • Reference all untagged unreferenced statements
  • Improve prose
  • Format article Y Done
  • Split into subsections
  • Expand short sections
  • Automated peer review Doing...
    • This article has no or few images. Please see if there are any free use images that fall under the Wikipedia:Image use policy and fit under one of the Wikipedia:Image copyright tags that can be uploaded. To upload images on Wikipedia, go to Special:Upload; to upload non-fair use images on the Wikimedia Commons, go to commons:special:upload.^[?] Y Done
    • Per Wikipedia:Manual of Style (numbers), when doing conversions, please use standard abbreviations: for example, miles -> mi, kilometers squared -> km², and pounds -> lb.^[?] Y Done
    • There are a few occurrences of weasel words in this article- please observe WP:AWT. Certain phrases should specify exactly who supports, considers, believes, etc., such a view. Y Done
      • apparently Y Done
      • might be weasel words, and should be provided with proper citations (if they already do, or are not weasel terms, please strike this comment).^[?]
    • Please make the spelling of English words consistent with either American or British spelling, depending upon the subject of the article. Examples include: honour (B) (American: honor), favorite (A) (British: favourite), organize (A) (British: organise), recognise (B) (American: recognize), travelled (B) (American: traveled), any more (B) (American: anymore), programme (B) (American: program ). Y Done
    • Watch for redundancies that make the article too wordy instead of being crisp and concise. (You may wish to try Tony1's redundancy exercises.) Y Done
      • While additive terms like “also”, “in addition”, “additionally”, “moreover”, and “furthermore” may sometimes be useful, overusing them when they aren't necessary can instead detract from the brilliancy of the article. This article has 31 additive terms, a bit too much. Y Done
      • “In the year [of] 1957” Y Done
    • The script has spotted the following contractions: didn't, Don't, Don't, Can't, didn't, doesn't, isn't, if these are outside of quotations, they should be expanded. Y Done
    • Please ensure that the article has gone through a thorough copyediting so that it exemplifies some of Wikipedia's second-best work.^[?]
  • Submit for Peer Review
  • Address reviewers' concerns
  • Submit at WP:GAN
• (When Ringo Starr is a GA) Nominate 'The Beatles personnel' to become a Good Topic, with articles:
  • The Beatles
  • John Lennon
  • Paul McCartney
  • George Harrison
  • Ringo Starr
  • Stuart Sutcliffe
  • Pete Best
  • Brian Epstein
  • George Martin
  • Neil Aspinall
  • Mal Evans
  • The Quarrymen

• Win the 2009 WikiCup on behalf of the greatest nation on Earth

• Improve Fitzwilliam Sonatas

Where I've been

•  Europe
  •  UK—I live there
    •  England—I live there
    •  Scotland—A few holidays
    •  Wales—One holiday
  •  France—A couple of holidays
  •  Spain—A couple of holidays
  •  Finland—A couple of day trips
  •  Portugal—One holiday
  •  Gibraltar—One holiday

Where I am booked to go soon

• North America
  •  United States
    •  New York—New York City with School

Where I was booked to go but had to cancel

• Africa
  •  Egypt—My Grandma had to cancel the cruise because of her back
•  Europe
  •  Italy—I went to Center Parcs instead

Wikipedia statistics

As of 00:35 on Sunday 5 July 2009 (UTC), the English Wikipedia is running on MediaWiki version 1.16alpha(r52088), and has been edited 317,583,110 times, an average of 31.700612714798 by each of our 10,018,201 users, of whom 1,666 are administrators, 30 are bureaucrats, 37 are oversighters, 37 are checkusers, and 569 are bots. 47 are account creators and 2,714 are rollbackers. As of 21:49, 27 March 2009 (UTC), 43 are Stewards.

Wikipedia includes 848,205 files and 17,303,794 pages, 2,932,650 (16.948017296091%) of which are articles, and 14,371,143 of which are not, including disambiguation pages, but not the Main Page, in the article count. 2,560 are featured articles, which is 0.087293062588444% of all Wikipedia articles, and 7,010 are good articles, which is 0.23903295654101% of all Wikipedia articles. On the other end of the spectrum, approximately 7,263 (0.24765996624214%) are stubs.

If you read an article every second, it would take you 33.942719907407 days to read them all. If you were to do the same with just FAs, you'd only need 0.02962962962963 days. If you want to be more realistic and say an FA every 3 minutes, it would take 5.3333333333333 days.

If we impose a 10-character limit on usernames, allowing only alphanumeric characters, and allow similarities between them, random strings, and swear words, 120,618,599 more users can register on this site.

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