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Hi, I don't have a lot to say about myself, really. I was born in 1978, I'm from Sokndal, a small municipality in the county of Rogaland in Norway. Oh, and I'm male. I think people sometimes think my nickname is some mutation of "Cherol" or something and get the wrong idea... The name is just something the random name generator at the Discworld MUD spit out a number of years back, no special meaning I just kinda like the "sound" of it (although I'm not sure how one would pronounce it).

Most of my actual contributions are in areas of science fiction, fantasy (though most seems to have ended up deleted or redirected as "fancruft" by now) and things computer related, seeing as those are my main interests. I also find science and history interesting, but I'm more of a reader than a contributor in those areas.

By far the most of my edits are "janitorial" though, fixing broken links, sorting stubs and categories, the occasional wikifying of new articles. Lately I've been focusing mostly on image related things, tagging images that lack sources, confirmation of license from 3. parties non-compliance with the non-free content policy and stuff like that.

Ongoing projects

I often work on cleanup in various categories for images tagged as free licensed or public domain. There is a staggering amount of images in these categories that either lack the required source or the license information required to justify the license tag applied to them. A fair number are also plainly mislabeled as they include statements about commercial use not being allowed next to a license tag that says it is and such.

Useful/helpful pages in no particular order

Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types: Use the most appropriate stub tag when possible.
Wikipedia:Image copyright tags / Wikipedia:Template messages/Image namespace: How to tag images you upload.
Wikipedia:Template messages/User talk namespace: Template messages for warning users about various policy violations and similar.
Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not: Stuff you should not add/include in the Wikipedia.
Wikipedia:Avoiding common mistakes: Things to avoid.
Wikipedia:Naming conventions: How to properly name your articles.

Barnstars

Various barnstars

From Zero on 7 Feb 2006 The Barnstar of Diligence Award is given to those individuals who have a harmonic combination of extraordinary scrutiny, precision and community service.	From Blnguyen on 2 Jun 2006 The Editor's Barnstar For removing 16000+ unencyclopedically unworthy pages from Wikipedia and helping to keep the encyclopedia in a healthy state - As a new admin, I can certainly attest to the unappetizing kind of hard work (clearing CSD).	From Tlmclain on 7 Dec 2006 This Helpful Barnstar is awarded to Sherool for patience with and extraordinary helpfulness provided to Users with respect to all sorts of image issues.	From Premeditated Chaos on 7 Feb 2007 You're a fairuse deletion dynamo! In the time it took me to get rid of eight images, you killed like 40! That's insane! Have a barnstar.
From Smartie960 on 3 Mar 2007 This is awarded to Sherool for being so kind to help people out in Wikipedia, people like me.	From Jreferee on 9 Mar 2007 Bright Idea Award For conceiving of a "needs-photo" WPBiography template parameter , you are hereby awarded the Bright Idea Award.	From Sarcasticidealist on 28 Nov 2007 The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar For your fine work answering intellectual property questions over at WP:MCQ

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-<span style="font-size:150%;">H</span>i, I don't have a lot to say about myself, really. I was born in [[1978]], I'm from [[Sokndal]], a small [[municipality]] in the [[county]] of [[Rogaland]] in [[Norway]]. Oh, and I'm male. I think people sometimes think my nickname is some mutation of "Cherol" or something and get the wrong idea... The name is just something the random name generator at the [[Discworld MUD]] spit out a number of years back, no special meaning I just kinda like the "sound" of it.
+<span style="font-size:150%;">H</span>i, I don't have a lot to say about myself, really. I was born in [[1978]], I'm from [[Sokndal]], a small [[municipality]] in the [[county]] of [[Rogaland]] in [[Norway]]. Oh, and I'm male. I think people sometimes think my nickname is some mutation of "Cherol" or something and get the wrong idea... The name is just something the random name generator at the [[Discworld MUD]] spit out a number of years back, no special meaning I just kinda like the "sound" of it (although I'm not sure how one would pronounce it).
+Most of my actual contributions are in areas of [[science fiction]], [[fantasy]] (though most seems to have ended up deleted or redirected as "fancruft" by now) and things [[computer]] related, seeing as those are my main interests. I also find [[science]] and [[history]] interesting, but I'm more of a reader than a contributor in those areas.
-I am not very active on the Norwegian Wikipedias ([[:no:Hovedside|Bokmål]] and [[:nn:Hovudside|Nynorsk]]). So far my only real contribution there is the article [[:no:Arkadia - reisen til jordas indre|Arkadia - reisen til jordas indre]] (which is mostly a translation of [[Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea]]) and some images.
+By far the most of my edits are "janitorial" though, fixing broken links, sorting stubs and categories, the occasional wikifying of new articles. Lately I've been focusing mostly on image related things, tagging images that lack sources, confirmation of license from 3. parties non-compliance with the [[Wikipedia:Non-free content|non-free content policy]] and stuff like that.
-Most of my contributions are in areas of [[science fiction]], [[fantasy]] and things [[computer]] related, seeing as those are my main interests. I also find [[science]] and [[history]] interesting, but I'm more of a reader than a contributor in those areas.
-==Stuff I have created==
-Not counting [[Wikipedia:Redirect|redirects]], images, talkpages etc.
-===As [[Special:Contributions/213.225.64.72|213.225.64.72]]===
-*[[Transport pod]]
-*[[:Category:Farscape spacecraft]]
-*[[:Category:Bioship]] <span style="font-size:80%">(had it speedily "renamed" later on)</span>
-*[[Lo'La]]
-*[[Command carrier (Farscape)]]
-*[[Frag Cannon (Farscape)]]
-*[[Marauder (Farscape)]]
-*[[Hetch (farscape)]] <span style="font-size:80%">(later redirected to [[Farscape terminology]])</span>
-*[[Defence screen (Farscape)]]
-===As [[Special:Contributions/130.67.234.130|130.67.234.130]]===
-*[[Selto Durka]]
-*[[David Wheeler (actor)]]
-===After registering===
-*[[Drowtales]]
-*[[Rachel Gordon]]
-*[[Template:US-writer-stub]]
-*[[:Category:US writer stubs]] <span style="font-size:80%">(later renamed to [[:Category:United States writer stubs]])</span>
-*[[Template:UK-writer-stub]]
-*[[:Category:UK writer stubs]] <span style="font-size:80%">(later renamed to [[:Category:United Kingdom writer stubs]])</span>
-*[[Yngve Hågensen]]
-*[[:Category:Bioships]] <span style="font-size:80%">(as replacement for the singular form I created as anon)</span>
-*[[:Category:Wikipedians by web browser]]
-*[[:Category:Opera users]] <span style="font-size:80%">(later renamed to [[:Category:Wikipedians who use Opera]])</span>
-*[[Brynjar Meling]]
-*[[Template:Tfm]]
-*[[Powermonger]]
-*[[Kodak Picture Maker]]
-By far the most of my edits are "janitorial" though, fixing broken links, sorting stubs and categories, the occasional wikifying of new articles, sorting and tagging images and things of that nature.
-As of [[22 March]] [[2006]] my edit count is over 10700, of which over 4300 are in the article space (mostly minor edits), and over 2500 in Image: space. Add to that over 3800 deleted edits (mostly tagging images as &#123;{[[Template:no source|no source]]}} or &#123;{[[Template:no license|no license]]}} if they are missing required info and such). You can get a detailed count, or check your own [http://tools.wikimedia.de/~kate/cgi-bin/count_edits?user=Sherool&dbname=enwiki here].
 ==Ongoing projects==
-Lately I've been working mostly on cleaning out [[:Category:Free use images]], there is a staggering amount of images in that category that either lack the source or the license information required to justify this label. A fair number are also plainly mislabeled as they include license info that prohobit commercial use and things like that. I'm also ocationaly tagging a few dozen untagged images over at [[Wikipedia:Untagged images]] or deleting orphanded fair use images, or unsourced and unlicensed images that have been tagged for more than 7 days and such.
-I've also started [[Wikipedia:Image copyright issues for dummies]] as I was getting weary of writing the same lengty messages over and over trying to explain the basics of copyright to uploaders (things like "free for personal use" != "public domain" and what not). Haven't spent too much time polishing it yet though.
+I often work on cleanup in various categories for images tagged as free licensed or public domain. There is a staggering amount of images in these categories that either lack the required source or the license information required to justify the license tag applied to them. A fair number are also plainly mislabeled as they include statements about commercial use not being allowed next to a license tag that says it is and such.
-{|
-|valign="top" width="60%"|<br />{{to do}}
-|valign="top"|{{User:Dragons flight/Category tracker/Summary}}
-|}
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 ;[[Wikipedia:Naming conventions]]:How to properly name your articles.
-==Awards==
+==Barnstars==
+{{Hidden|titlestyle = background-color: #ccccff;|contentstyle = text-align: center;
-{| class="prettytable plainlinks"
+|Various barnstars
-|valign="top"|Given by [[User:Megaman Zero|Zero]] on [http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3ASherool&diff=38677091&oldid=38654592 7 February 2006]<hr />
+|{{/Barnstars}}
-[[Image:Barnstar3.png|thumb|center|200px|The Barnstar of Diligence Award is given to those individuals who have a harmonic combination of extraordinary scrutiny, precision and community service.]]
+}}
-| Given by [[User:Blnguyen|Blnguyen]] on [http://en.wikipedia.org/enwiki/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3ASherool&diff=56439383&oldid=56370019 2 June 2006]<hr />
-[[Image:Barnstar2.png|thumb|center|200px|'''The Editor's Barnstar'''<br /> For removing 16000+ unencyclopedically unworthy pages from Wikipedia and helping to keep the encyclopedia in a healthy state - As a new admin, I can certainly attest to the unappetizing kind of hard work (clearing CSD). Regards, '''[[User:Blnguyen|Blnguyen]]''']]
-|}
 [[Category:Wikipedians in Norway|Sherool]]
 [[Category:WikiProject Stub sorting participants|Sherool]]
-[[Category:Wikipedians who use Opera|Sherool]]
+[[Category:Wikipedians who use Opera (web browser)|Sherool]]
-[[Category:Wikipedians who play video games|Sherool]]