User:Sherool

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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.

I am not very active on the Norwegian Wikipedias (Bokmål and Nynorsk). So far my only real contribution there is the article Arkadia - reisen til jordas indre (which is mostly a translation of Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea) and some images.

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 redirects, images, talkpages etc.

As 213.225.64.72

• Transport pod
• Category:Farscape spacecraft
• Category:Bioship (had it speedily "renamed" later on)
• Lo'La
• Command carrier (Farscape)
• Frag Cannon (Farscape)
• Marauder (Farscape)
• Hetch (farscape) (later redirected to Farscape terminology)
• Defence screen (Farscape)

As 130.67.234.130

• Selto Durka
• David Wheeler (actor)

After registering

• Drowtales
• Rachel Gordon
• Template:US-writer-stub
• Category:US writer stubs (later renamed to Category:United States writer stubs)
• Template:UK-writer-stub
• Category:UK writer stubs (later renamed to Category:United Kingdom writer stubs)
• Yngve Hågensen
• Category:Bioships (as replacement for the singular form I created as anon)
• Category:Wikipedians by web browser
• Category:Opera users (later renamed to Category:Wikipedians who use Opera)
• 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 {{no source}} or {{no license}} if they are missing required info and such). You can get a detailed count, or check your own 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.

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.

Awards

From Zero on 7 February 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 June 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 December 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 February 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 March 2007 This is awarded to Sherool for being so kind to help people out in Wikipedia, people like me.

From Jreferee on 9 March 2007 Bright Idea Award For conceiving of a "needs-photo" WPBiography template parameter , you are hereby awarded the Bright Idea Award.