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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 me rely. I was born in [[1978]], I'm from [[Sokndal]], a small [[municipality]] in the [[county]] of [[Rogaland]] in [[Norway]].
+<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|Nynorks]]). So far my ony real contribution is the article [[:no:Arkadia - reisen til jordas indre|Arkadia - reisen til jordas indre]] and asosiated 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, seeng 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.
-Lately I seem to have drifted more into "maintainance work" than actual contributions, mostly helping out with various projects such as fixing links, organising stub types, categorising articles and such.
-As of [[5 August]] [[2005]] my edit count is over 1200 (mostly minor edits). You can get an acurate count, or check your own [http://kohl.wikimedia.org/~kate/cgi-bin/count_edits?user=Sherool&dbname=enwiki here].<br style="clear:both;" />
 ==Ongoing projects==
-Currently I divide most of my time here between these 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.
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-|Canadian||30
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-|French||24
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-|Italian||18
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-|Australian||18
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-|Russian||16
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-Top 5 candidates for new sub-stubs under {{tl|Writer-stub}}, target is 60 articles as per [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting|WikiProject Stub sorting]].
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-*Working on (slowly) sub-dividing the bloated [[:Category:Writer stubs]] by nationality, also applying relevant categories as I go. So far I have created two new sub-stubs: {{tl|US-writer-stub}} and {{tl|UK-writer-stub}}, by far most writers seem to go into either of those two at the moment. I also keep count of other nationalities and will create new sub-stubs for them once I've identified enough candidates.<br />Current progres: '''A-F''' done (baring new arivals).<br />See also: [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting]]<br style="clear:both;" />
+==Useful/helpful pages in no particular order==
-*Working on moving articles from [[:Category:Science fiction writers]] to the relevant subcategories under [[:Category:Science fiction writers by nationality]]. Using only existing subcats for now, once I'm done I'll see if there are enough leftovers to create additional subcats for more nationalities. Current progres: '''A-C''' done.
+;[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types]]:Use the most appropriate stub tag when possible.
-*Fixing red links in articles, based on the lists generated by the Red Link Recovery project. This project is currently "finished". All lists have been processed, I expect new ones will be generated shortly.<br />See also: [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Red Link Recovery]]
-==Usefull/helpfull pages in no particular order==
-;[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types]]:Use the most apropriate 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: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==
+{{Hidden|titlestyle = background-color: #ccccff;|contentstyle = text-align: center;
+|Various barnstars
+|{{/Barnstars}}
+}}
 [[Category:Wikipedians in Norway|Sherool]]
-[[Category:Wikipedian programmers|Sherool]]
 [[Category:WikiProject Stub sorting participants|Sherool]]
-[[Category:Opera users|Sherool]]
+[[Category:Wikipedians who use Opera (web browser)|Sherool]]