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!vote is the only thing I've added of value to Wikipedia, unfortunately.

Battle of Vimy Ridge:

C'est impossible!
Ah! les Canadiens! C'est possible!
For adding absolutely no value to Wikipedia, I hereby award myself with this stamp. --Deathphoenix 16:06, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

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Who I am

I'm relatively new to the Wiki world. I started out as a simple browser reading an online encyclopedia for general interest and learning. After seeing a few typos, I started to fix them. After finding something weird with one of the pages, I got into the world of Wiki vandalism. With any luck, I'll have some vandal deface my user page some day. But if you're not here to do that, be sure to check out the Kindness Campaign page.

In case anyone is wondering, my name does not come from the Harry Potter series of books. I like the series and work on its Wikiproject, but I'm not a rabid fan by any sense of the word. In fact, I picked that name years before J.K. Rowling even started writing her first book.

I am a tech writer working in the software development field. I am Canadian, I was born in 1977, and I currently live in Toronto, Ontario with my lovely wife and young leech dependent offspring son. I hold degrees in Engineering and Applied Arts.

As of 17:44, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC), my Wikipediholic score is 128. Not bad for a first-timer.

!vote

I am the originator of the term !vote. I first proposed its use here (final version of the thread here) and started using it in normal on-Wiki conversations after then. I don't know when it took off, but I recently noticed many other Wikipedians using it in normal on-Wiki conversations as well, including in AfD closures. I know it's extremely sad that !votes are my sole claim to Wiki-fame, but since I am unlikely to have any other (positive) impact on Wikipedia, I'll grasp onto anything that I can.

When a vote is not a vote

While AfD isn't a vote, and each entry in an AfD is a comment, I choose to name any comment which calls for an action (such as comments that start with Keep, Merge, Redirect, or Delete) a "!vote" for convenience and to differentiate it from an actual comment which doesn't call for an action (such as comments that have no heading, or start with Comment). If I ever type "vote" in a discussion on Wikipedia, I actually mean "!vote".

What I do

On Wikipedia, I would say that I'm a part-timer. I'm pretty busy with other things, but I love contributing to this great project in my own small way.

  • I am one of the (over a dozen) listmods on the Unblock-en-l mailing list, and I examine some of the unblock requests there. I have now also taken to examining on-wiki unblock requests.
  • I used to spend a fair bit of time on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Old closing some of the last, more difficult AfDs of the day that other vote closers leave unclosed. With a few exceptions, it's generally a thankless task that takes a fair bit of time, and you can expect a huge volume of criticism if you get it wrong! After having my competence as a closing admin attacked repeatedly for one AfD on Wikipedia:Deletion review, I've decided not to do this anymore to reduce my Wikistress.
    • I can't stand seeing eight day backlogs like this one, so maybe I'll try to clear some backlog. The jury's still out on whether I want to continue doing this on a regular basis like I used to, though. My Wikistress has been a lot less after I stopped closing old AfDs.
  • On general articles in Wikipedia, I usually just make minor edits when I see any mistakes while reading. I generally like to read articles on astronomy, the military (mostly just the units, departments, tactics, and weapons), and fantasy literature.
  • I like to contribute to the creation of barnstars, though my work these days consists mainly of discussing new proposals rather than creating new barnstars.
  • I used to regularly offer my opinions on Wikipedia:Deletion review and tried to notify administrators whose actions are being reviewed (by using Template:DRVNote). I still glance over the page, but rarely contribute to it anymore.
  • I used to try to help deal with the inevitable detail-oriented, fan-based edits that come with the release of the newest Harry Potter book, as a participant of WikiProject Harry Potter. I don't think I'll do that too much anymore.
  • I used to spend quite some time voting on Wikipedia:Votes for deletion (back when it was still called "Votes for deletion"). I tended to vote Delete more than others, but I only think of myself as a strong deletionist for vanity or advertisement articles. For other articles, I tended to be one of those Wikipedians who dislike making broad judgements about the worthiness of a general category of article, and who are in favour of the deletion of some particularly bad articles, but that doesn't mean they are deletionist.
  • When I think of it, I like to clear out Candidates for speedy deletion, though I don't do that too often these days.

My alignment

Although I like to think of myself as Chaotic Neutral, according to this test, I am actually Lawful Neutral. Oh, the irony.

Undeletion recovery

If you need access to a Wikipedia article that has been deleted, ask me. If it's not a copyright violation, libel, or personal information, and has not been deleted as a suspected biographies of living persons violation, I will userfy the article for you.

Note that using the text to recreate any deleted article may automatically qualify them for speedy deletion, and copies of previously deleted content that are being used solely for long-term archival purposes may be subject to deletion because Wikipedia is not a free web host. We have a list of alternative sites which may be used to host your content.

Barnstars & awards

For fun

Contact me!

If you wish to contact me, you may do so on my talk page or by email. If this is unacceptable and you wish to visit me in person, look for me at the following address:

40 College Street
Toronto, Ontario
Canada
M5G 2J3

Jocularity in edits

Jocularity in pages

Deathphoenix's Laws

Law of Userboxes

The number of opinion-expressing userboxes on a user page is inversely proportional to the number of edits that the user makes to articles.

Contentious AfDs-to-Outraged Comments Ratio

An administrator who closes contentious AfDs will receive at least one comment for every ten contentious AfDs closed.

Ivory Percentage of School Article Deletion

A real post-primary school (such as a secondary school, college, or university) nominated for deletion has a 99 44/100% chance of being kept.

Bookmarks

Other accounts

Soapbox: Article ownership and taking things personally

There should be no "owners" of any articles except for user pages. I strongly believe that once you submit an article or edit to Wikipedia, it is no longer yours. That goes with the various levels of copyright used here (GFDL, CC, and public domain).

If you wanted full ownership of an article with no other people "destroying" it, you should put it up on a web site. However, if you do make a contribution to Wikipedia, be ready to have your work mutilated and edited mercilessly if need be. I expect (and have seen) some of my own edits mutilated because I missed something, I wasn't aware of common Wikipedia style/practices, or because my edits were simply not good. As a tech writer, I have seen some of my own documentation edited mercilessly. I try not to take such things personally, even though it can be hard at times.

If you can't honestly say that you wouldn't mind having your contributions to a particular article edited with extreme pain, don't make those contributions and concentrate on another article that you don't feel so personally about. The other alternative is to put up your material on a web site, where others can't just come and edit your work without your permission.

Copy & Paste

Unblock request granted (with sample reason)

{{subst:request accepted|Collateral damage: You were hit with the [[Wikipedia:Autoblock|autoblocker tool]], which blocked the underlying IP address of a recently-blocked user.}}

Preferred method of awarding barnstars

[[Image:Barnstar3.png|right|frame|For whatever reason, I hereby award you with the '''The Barnstar of Diligence''' --~~~~ <small>[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Kindness Campaign|(KC)]]</small>]]

Update loyalty/allegiance field

Changed loyalty/allegiance field according to established [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Harry Potter/Templates#Allegiance|conventions]]

Page blanking and replacing with spoilers

{{subst:test2a}} Posting spoilers is considered vandalism. Don't do it. --~~~~

Wikiproject Harry Potter

{{HP-project}}

AfD "don't remove" boilerplate

Congratulations on having your article pass the [[Wikipedia:Votes for deletion|VfD process]] with a '''Keep'''. Just to let you know, even when the consensus appears to be '''Keep''', you should wait until we have finished the AfD process before you remove the boilerplate text stating the article is up for AfD (you can, of course, continue to work on the article during the AfD process, as long as you keep the boilerplate text up). I know that sometimes it seems that the AfD process takes a long time to complete, but if you have a look at [[WP:AFD/Old|the old AfD articles]], you can see that we have a huge backlog. Thanks, --~~~~

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This page has been vandalised 15 times.

The talk page has been vandalised 4 times.

(not counting honest mistakes)

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