User:Shanes

Userboxes

This user is an administrator on the English Wikipedia Blocks Locks Deletes

This user lives in Norway.

no	Denne brukeren har norsk som morsmål.

en-4This user can contribute with a near-native level of English.

de-2Dieser Benutzer hat fortgeschrittene Deutschkenntnisse.

This user maintains a strict policy condemning all personal attacks.

30,000+This user has made more than 30,000 contributions to Wikipedia.

This user is a recent changes patroller.

SI	This user uses the metric system of measurement.

Admin statistics

Action	Count
Edits	28713
Edits+Deleted	30585
Pages deleted	2453
Pages restored	21
Pages protected	92
Pages unprotected	162
Protections modified	4
Users blocked	1131
Users unblocked	24

I'm one of the many million people editing here, and I want Wikipedia to be as complete, accurate, and trustworthy as possible. I hope many more will join the project, become Wikipedians, and have fun contributing.

I started editing here in November 2004, and I became an administrator in April 2005. I live in Oslo, Norway and have a Master's degree in theoretical physics. I am not as active on Wikipedia as I used to be, but I drop by now and then to make occasional edits.

Rant

I detest many of the dominating boxes and tags being placed in various articles for self centered reasons and wrote a rant about it (The examples are now out of date in many respects).

I wish we could keep articles as clean as possible, follow the style manual, and stop starting articles with big distracting boxes with either trivial information or messages meant for editors.

Barnstars

Wikipedians don't get money for their work, but sometimes they get a Barnstar. I've received 5 myself. Thanks!

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  I, Flcelloguy, do hereby present this Barnstar of Reversion to Shanes for his tireless work in deleting non-sensical pages and for his effort in reverting vandalism.
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  I, FireFox hereby award you this Minor Barnstar for all your brilliant minor edits!
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  For keeping focus Well done for reminding people what we're all here to do. Rob Church
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  Barnstar of Diligence Award, from Encyclopedist

		What a Brilliant Idea Barnstar
		For articulating an idea that others had either never brought to the fore or had not even begun to formulate—the problem of the Plague of Tags—and for the impact that this idea has had on this Project. No, the battle is not won, and may never be, but because of your truly great rant, we know for what we struggle. Unschool (talk) 07:19, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Travels

I like traveling. Here are the countries I've lived in or visited so far.

AND	BEL	BUL	CAN	CH	CPV
CZE	DEU	DNK	ESP	EST	FIN
FRA	GRC	HRV	HUN	ITA	LUX
MCO	NLD	NOR	POL	POR	RUS
SWE	TUR	GBR	USA	VAT	SVN	Soviet Union

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. -- Bertrand Russell