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My Awards

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The Tireless Contributor Barnstar The Australian Barnstar of National Merit for your efforts with Australian articles Gnangarra 00:22, 26 January 2008 (UTC) The Tireless Contributor Barnstar This is for your tireless contributions and work on the Recent Deaths section. I stride to make my edits like yours. Keep up the good work! Chandlerjoeyross (talk) 22:38, 5 April 2008 (UTC) Death Star This Death Star award is again for all your hard work on the Recent Deaths pages. Kiwipat (talk) 23:12, 10 January 2009 (UTC) The Barnstar of Recovery I am honored to award you this barnstar for your work in improving the article Kelley Abbey in the face of pending deletion. Your diligent WP:AFTER improves the project for all its readers. Great job! Schmidt, 19:45, 9 August 2010 (UTC) The Original Barnstar For your excellent speedy deletion tagging :). Ironholds (talk) 11:57, 20 October 2012 (UTC) The Original Barnstar Good catches on the Sandy Hook article Amadscientist (talk) 12:49, 16 December 2012 (UTC) The Teamwork Barnstar For excellent work objectively streamlining over-referencing at Victoria Leigh Soto. Jokestress (talk) 12:22, 15 January 2013 (UTC) The Hard Worker's Barnstar For formatting the references on the annual "Deaths in XXXX" pages into a less-unwieldy more-efficient format, thus reducing pageload times. — Wyliepedia 03:36, 28 January 2013 (UTC) The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar Nicos Anastasiades - Well spotted, he created eight such articles before I could get a block in!  Ronhjones  23:48, 27 March 2014 (UTC) The Special Barnstar Your userpage is brilliant!, I had literally laughed out loud & I thought me laughing at 4am would be impossible but seems not :) Thanks! :), Regards, -→Davey2010→→Talk to me!→ 03:19, 23 April 2014 (UTC) HI! THANKS FOR THE FEEDBACK! JackGann (talk) 07:11, 26 July 2014 (UTC) The Multiple Barnstar Thank you for fixing my linkrot on the Alan Henning page. --108.176.24.195 (talk) 02:05, 5 October 2014 (UTC) The Original Barnstar Dylann Ceriani is a very good contribution that also solved an unpleasant problem. Thank you very much for your work on it. BDD (talk) 16:32, 11 July 2015 (UTC) Way to pounce! I went to do this exact edit a minute after you... stop reading my mind! EvergreenFir (talk) Please {{re}} 01:16, 30 July 2015 (UTC) The Editor's Barnstar Thank you for correcting the Powers Boothe article. I was going to revert it myself, but I figured I'd discuss it in the Talk page. I'm glad someone did it, though. DTXBrian (talk) 02:24, 15 May 2017 (UTC) The Tireless Contributor Barnstar I hereby award you this barnstar for your tireless contributions and upkeep of the Deepak Sathe page which got merged recently ; your efforts are appreciated. Keep up the good work! Jehowahyereh (talk) 06:01, 19 August 2020 (UTC) The Teamwork Barnstar Thank you for responding to my call for help on Talk:Grenfell_Tower_fire and your tireless contribution to the page. Gxrneyme (talk) 01:17, 15 June 2017 (UTC) The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar Thank you for reverting the recent vandalism on Deaths in 2022! Renewal6 (talk) 11:11, 31 July 2022 (UTC) The Current Events Barnstar In recognition of your contributions to the article Killing of Nahel Merzouk. --Cdjp1 talk 15:56, 17 July 2023 (UTC) A cup of tea for you! We all aim at accuracy and edit in good faith :) Varoon2542 (talk) 18:32, 9 July 2023 (UTC)

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The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Sam Panopoulos. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Sam Panopoulos), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. On 14 November 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Schoharie limousine crash, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the stretch limousine involved in the recent crash near Schoharie, New York, killing 20, appeared at two vehicle inspections earlier this year with different license plates? You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Schoharie limousine crash), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. A beer for you! You probably need one about now. Here's hoping for a better year, in particular, one necessitating fewer new articles on terrorist attacks. E.M.Gregory (talk) 17:28, 1 January 2019 (UTC) Christchurch mosque shootings Thanks for keeping the international reactions under control. AIRcorn (talk) 08:51, 17 March 2019 (UTC) I wish to add my thanks as well. We are a country in shock trying to come to grips with the horror. NealeFamily (talk) 08:55, 17 March 2019 (UTC) A kitten for you! For your work on Christchurch_mosque_shootings. Stuartyeates (talk) 08:21, 5 April 2019 (UTC) A bowl of strawberries for you! Thanks for your work on the GT page! MartiniShaw (talk) 14:47, 29 November 2019 (UTC)

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How does Misplaced Pages deal with a mass shooting? A frenzied start gives way to a few core editors. No mention of me though:). Nice diagrams, and a quick look at the page histories of shooting incidents will show a core of regular editors.--♦IanMacM♦ 17:30, 19 December 2012 (UTC)

HI WWGB, I'm a researcher at Sydney Uni and would like to contact you. I'm not sure how best to do this and hoping this message somehow reaches you....Doctor 17. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Doctor 17 (talk • contribs) 08:45, 18 April 2017 (UTC)

This initial contact led to this article. WWGB (talk) 02:49, 10 July 2021 (UTC)

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I assume that you have been made aware of this. But, in the event that you were not, I wanted to point it out to you and bring this to your attention. Your name was mentioned in this article: How does Misplaced Pages deal with a mass shooting? A frenzied start gives way to a few core editors. Thanks. Joseph A. Spadaro (talk) 23:46, 29 December 2012 (UTC)

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2A02:586:CC37:59B0:5F3:4E6A:AD83:8EFE (talk) 06:26, 11 October 2023 (UTC)

As advised when I reverted, all deceased listed in Deaths in XXXX must first have a Misplaced Pages article. —— WWGB (talk) 08:40, 11 October 2023 (UTC)

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Oops, I wasn't aware of the "one month" rule, thanks for pointing it out. I missed the first edit summary you left as I was using two windows. Bastun 09:45, 27 October 2023 (UTC)