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User:Herostratus/Awards

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Pre-WikiLove Barnstars

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I support WikiLove, but obviously it'll likely reduce the rarity (and therefore deprecate the value) of barnstars since they're now so easy to give. I got the barnstars below before WikiLove was implemented.

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    Surreal_Barnstar - For your observation that "Wikipedia is not a suicide pact" on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Marc Perkel -- funny and astute -- I, Nlu, award this Surreal Barnstar. Keep up the wonderful mix of humor and wisdom! -- Nlu 17:28, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
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    Defender of the Wiki - Awarded to Herostratus for his immense, largely unrewarded efforts at defending quality and integrity some of the most difficult and controversial areas of Wikipedia. DanielCD and FloNight 02:04, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
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    Awarded to Herostratus for great effort towards the credibility for applying himself to a clean yet informative Wikipedia! - Thanks for your support on the gokkun talk in the moment when I lacked time to comment myself, you said just what I felt and helped me out immensely! Boereck 21:32, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
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    Template Barnstar - user:Herostratus For creating a Defcon-GangstaEB-(02:42, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
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    The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar, for creating a brand new way to alert the CVU of Vandals. It's classy.Æon Insane Ward 21:29, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
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    The Template Barnstar, for creating two very useful templates that warn others of vandalism. Æon Insane Ward 21:29, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
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    I award Herostratus this surreal barnstar for his fresh, original and humorous approach to Wikipedia. Haukur 12:12, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
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    Surreal Barnstar - You are one of a kind Herostratus and you deserve this wonderful Barnstar Æon Insane Ward 20:32, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
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    Graphics Design Barnstar - For you for creating several wonderful and realistic images for the Service awards Æon Insane Ward 23:53, 16 August 2006]]
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    Barnstar of Humor - I've watched you for about a month now, and I've seen your edits are so daggin' FUNNY that I couldn't resist posting here. And even though it seems a bit overused (?), here's your barnstar. ;) —  $PЯINGrαgђ  Always loyal! 03:56, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
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    PAW Barnstar - Awarded to User:Herostratus for keeping Wikipedia:WikiProject Pedophilia Article Watch ticking, and also for designing this slightly alarming template! DanB†DanD 03:50, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
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    Barnstar Barnstar - I like the Service Awards so much that I felt the need to award you the 'Barnstar Star' for boldness in creating awards for the community.--Dr who1975 18:22, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
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    Template Barnstar - Thanks for making the templates for the service awards! For that, I award you the Template Barnstar. SU Linguist 21:55, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
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    Special Barnstar - In appreciation for conceiving, designing, and establishing the Wikipedia:Service awards, it is my pleasure to confer this barnstar upon Herostratus. --BrokenSphere 17:39, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
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    It takes balls—y'all out there hear me? it takes testicles of steel—to do what you've been doing here on Wikipedia (you should know what I'm talking about), and to work on one of the few subjects still existing where people automatically put miles of barriers up and suspect the slightest tone of sympathy or even curious interest to be a negative straight from hell (which it isn't), and to be able to retain sanity while you're at it. Every edit I see you make to a related article is like a ray of sunshine in a black fog. Thank you for your work. —  $PЯINGεrαgђ  04:34, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
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    Minor Barnstar - Its a minor edit, but it's majorly appreciated! Thanks! WLU (talk) 01:10, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
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    Human Sexuality Barnstar - Thank you for contributing to the Sexology and Sexuality Wikiproject! Atom (talk) 03:47, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
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    The Barnstar of Integrity - For honouring your pledge. Though there were a few missteps, I think you generally handled the situation with aplomb and should be commended in that respect. –xenotalk 18:12, 30 June 2010 (UTC)
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    The Resilient Barnstar - Just for keeping your head up. I've rarely had such a high opinion of anyone before.  – Tommy [message] 18:18, 30 June 2010 (UTC)
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    The Barnstar of Integrity - I don't give out too many barnstars, this is probably number 5 in 4 years of editing. But I too have to commend you. Hopefully, this will die a peaceful death and we can move on.---Balloonman NO! I'm Spartacus! 18:20, 30 June 2010 (UTC)
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    The Admin's Barnstar - "The Admin's Barnstar may be awarded to administrators who made a particularly difficult decision" Man, if only we had more like you (were). Cheers.Milowent (talk) 18:27, 30 June 2010 (UTC)
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    The Original Barnstar - for this edit [1] -- RP459 Talk/Contributions 23:50, 30 June 2010 (UTC)
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    100px - The Barnstar of Integrity - Coals to Newcastle, but I was coming here to give you one, and won't let being sixth or so stop me. I think you misread the RFA, a clear majority said you deserved to continue, I think you should have decided it was successful. But the fact that you didn't, that you set an even higher standard on yourself than that, deserves a barnstar at least. --GRuban (talk) 01:07, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
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    The Barnstar of Diplomacy - There are any number of ways that your recall RFA could have gone terribly, terribly wrong. With maturity and good humor you avoided them all. I am deeply impressed with your thoughtfulness and resilience throughout this, and look forward to seeing you returned to administratorship in due time. Tim Pierce (talk) 01:11, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
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    Though I didn't quite follow the details of the 'why' of your recall RfA, I'm impressed by the way you handled RfA itself. In particular, given the murky nature of the process, I thought you handled the issues that arose appropriately, set up what I think is a fair method for closure, and then, very gracefully, de-admined yourself. I'm technically all thumbs when it comes to making barnstars that look like barnstars, but consider this one. --RegentsPark (talk) 03:22, 2 July 2010 (UTC)
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    Surreal Barnstar - Awarded to Herostratus in recognition of your pointing out a supreme paradox: That by willingly giving up the mop after getting 63% of the !vote, you are worthy of having it, as well as for establishing a precedent which sets the bar for future morality in similar situations very high indeed. I opposed; however I salute you for showing Wikipedia a lotta class, or as the barnstar is for, adding "special flavor to the community by acting as a sort of wildcard". Jusdafax 02:52, 3 July 2010 (UTC)
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    The Barnstar of Integrity - For having the integrity to stand up for what you believe in. I hope you run for adminship again when you feel ready to do so. Mjroots (talk) 09:01, 6 July 2010 (UTC)
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    The Socratic Barnstar -- To Herostratus, well said. Axl ¤ [Talk] 08:41, 31 August 2010 (UTC)
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    The What a Brilliant Idea Barnstar, for helping peacefully resolve a World War Two terminology issue in an elegant way I would not have thought of. WorldWarTwoEditor (talk) 07:35, 2 October 2010 (UTC)
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    The Human Sexuality Barnstar Awarded for efforts to ensure mature, gender-neutral and reputable coverage of pornography topics in Wikipedia. Good work. JN466 11:16, 20 February 2011 (UTC)
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    Barnstar of Humour. I read WP:GUYINBAR while laughing out loud, and sympathize with your opinion. UnitedStatesian (talk) 19:56, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
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    Barnstar of Dilgence. For your careful and throughly thought out decision at List of The Angry Video Game Nerd episodes. You know I'll have to bug you on the next RfC closure! CTJF83 21:46, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
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    Working Man's Barnstar. For copy editing 16 articles with a total of 10,760 words during the Guild of Copy Editors' March 2011 Backlog elimination drive. Thanks for all your contributions! SMasters (talk) 05:09, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
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    Bar for Template Barnstar - Your outstanding work in the service awards department is still exemplary. Thank you personally for giving us those gauges of dedication! Double Plus Ungood 1:18, 15 March 2018 (UTC)

Post-WikiLove Barnstars

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Deutsche Marks before the Rentenmark. Argentine Pesos before the Austral. EDIT: Actually this seems to have not come true. If anything, my (purely anecdotal) observation of editor's talk pages seems to see a downturn in barnstar awarding. Interesting effect if true. Perhaps the very ease of awarding has made editors to consider them less rare and worthwhile. I don't know.

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    The Barnstar of Diligence. For demonstrating your willingness to expend considerable personal effort and thought toward researching and carefully arguing your rationale in AFDs, as you did at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kathy Chitty (3rd nomination). Contributions like these go a long way toward helping other users engage their own critical thinking and determine best courses of action through discussion and consensus building. Thank you! causa sui (talk) 19:45, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
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    The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar. For taking the initiative to propose WikiProject Paid-editing Watch. Northamerica1000(talk) 12:56, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
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    The Oddball Barnstar. For beating me to the punch of creating The dog ate my homework. Daniel Case (talk) 20:12, 14 October 2012 (UTC)
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    The Socratic barnstar. For arguing in one line what a crowd of editors had chewed over in thousands of words and four deletion debates over six years NetNus (talk) 23:18, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
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    The Real Life Barnstar. Thanks again for appearing on the discussion panel at Social Media Week NYC; it was a great conversation and I'm glad you were part of it! WWB Too (Talk · COI) 12:59, 26 February 2013 (UTC)
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    The Tireless Contributor Barnstar. For the epic close on the commas RFC... wow. Obi-Wan Kenobi (talk) 09:26, 16 November 2013 (UTC)
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    The Barnstar of Diligence. For being a good and hard worker. DerpMeep  03:32, 6 January 2016 (UTC)
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    The Good Humor Barnstar. File:Photo of Vasily Chicagov, captain of the research vessel Saint Andrew.png has the best fair use rationale I've ever read. Particularly the WP:NFCC#2 explanation. Keep up the good work and thanks for lightening the mood!   Nick⁠—⁠Contact/Contribs 23:22, 5 February 2016 (UTC)
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    The Diplomacy Barnstar. For your excellent and thoughtful comments regarding the public relations profession. Best, Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 19:45, 4 July 2016 (UTC)
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    The Good Humor Barnstar. For putting out a fire before it started, with tact, grace and bonhomie. Robert Brukner (talk) 15:37, 9 July 2016 (UTC)
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    The Donald Trump Barnstar. For all your work on articles related to Covfefe. -- Milowent • hasspoken 15:09, 31 May 2017 (UTC)
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    The Original Barnstar. For speaking out against the brazen disruption currently happening at AfD... DarkKnight2149 22:17, 21 March 2020 (UTC)
Assorted trolling etc.

I suppose with WikiLove you might expect some amount of people just scattering barnstars in quantity for no good reason, which doesn't count. And sure enough:

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    The Editors Barnstar. From Randnotell With Love Randnotell (talk) 21:59, 9 August 2011 (UTC)

    (N.B.: Looks legit, but actually this guy was just trolling...)
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    The Resilient Barnstar.You are the pride and joy of Wikipedia! Without people like you Wikipedia would not move forward! Banaster Giver Extra Polite (talk) 11:37, 9 November 2013 (UTC)

    (N.B.: I am the pride and joy of Wikipedia, but this was just some banned user trolling... whether being sarcastic I don't know...)

Other Awards

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User:Herostratus has been identified as an Awesome Wikipedian,
and therefore, I've officially declared today as Herostratus's day!
For being such a beautiful person and great Wikipedian,
enjoy being the Star of the day, dear Herostratus!

Peace,
Rlevse
00:03, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

A record of your Day will always be kept here.


humorist and loyal slaves

Thank you for quality articles such as Bob Burns (humorist) (2005), Of Black America, Stepan Glotov, Cobra King (tank) and Loyal slaves monument, some translated from Russian, for fighting vandalism, for WP:HURTS wisdom, for "to be written someday", - repeating (24 August 2010): you are an awesome Wikipedian!

You are recipient no. 2623 of Precious, a prize of QAI. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:56, 30 June 2021 (UTC)

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    For having the balls to clean the McCarthyite Moralist POV-Pushing BS out of the Wikipedia pedophilia articles, you are hereby awarded the Edward R. Murrow barnstar, which is awarded to those who struggle against fraudulent propaganda on Wikipedia. -- Dragon695 07:39, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
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    In lieu of a barnstar, I award you this double yellow headed amazon parrot for your good humour on Afd! -- Samir ∙   T C 08:17, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
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    user:Herostratus For His Ability To Create ImagesKarmafist 23:01, 19 February 2006 (UTC)]]
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    I, SqueakBox, award you this Hero of Belarus for unending dedication and persistence in fighting pro pedophilia activism. Not being an admin isnt so bad though God forbid it should happen to you for your PAW contribs.
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    The Keeper of the Roll Award is awarded to User:Herostratus for substantial contributions to the Service Awards Scheme. Mootros (talk) 17:34, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
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    Thank you, Herostratus, for showing Wikipedia just how awesome you are as an editor! I still have yet to formally thank you for helping fix the issues raised at the Thermal Man DYK nomination. Stan would be proud. Here's one to him and you! Excelsior! :-) THAT AMAZING GUY (Give your friendly bro a love note or two!) 12:51, 27 December 2013 (UTC)
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    Well done on the fulsome closing rationale for royal lovers. I am soooooooo impressed with your closing rationale. Rarely have I seen a closing editor go to such lengths of openness and transparency. Well done sir. Laurel Lodged (talk) 19:29, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
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    This is hilarious, and I have no idea what's going on in this article. How it hasn't been deleted yet, I have no idea, but RESPECT MaximumNeptune (talk) 02:11, 12 April 2016 (UTC)
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    Thank you ... for what you said on User talk:SlimVirgin Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:15, 29 June 2021 (UTC)
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    (talk) has given you a Dobos torte to enjoy! Seven layers of fun because you deserve it.No particular reason, just wanted to say thank you for your contributions. But I think you should really really archive your talkpage   —usernamekiran (talk) 18:26, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

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