User:John/awards

Awards

For your tireless work creating, editing and improving Wikipedia's coverage of notable Scottish writers Gwernol 18:57, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
I award this Barnstar to Guinnog for being bold in creating the Football (Soccer) Barnstar'.--Ed 18:53, 3 August 2006 (UTC) Seconded by Ian Manka here. 18:19, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
For your wonderful help and guidance with "incidents" relating to my RfA, I hereby award you the Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar. Thanks again. —Mets501 (talk) 16:19, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar For fearless maintenance of objective clarity in furthering "free access to the sum of all human knowledge" Tyrenius 03:32, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
I have seen your username around Wikipedia a lot and have noticed your persistence in making sure that a user has been helped as much as possible. This is very nice to see and you should be proud. Keep up your great work! Wikipediarul |e s2221^Holla 00:00, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
For giving out so many more Barnstars than you have recieved, I, Sharkface217, award you this Barnstar. Keep up the good work! Sharkface217 20:46, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
This is awarded to Guinnog for his amazing, prolific copyediting, for being a kind and loyal friend and for helping make the 'pedia that much nicer. Thankyou. Sarah (Talk) 15:25, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
I, Chrislk02, hereby award you my hero of the wiki award for your hard work in upholding the highest standards for this project. While this often means that naysayer's may find fault in your every action, this just means that your actions actually uphold the highest standards of this project. You continue to prevent false information from being entered into articles while remaining patient to even the most troublesome editors. You are truly a hero of this project. It is for all these reasons and more that I award you my Here of the wiki award! -- Chrislk02 (Chris Kreider) 19:15, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
The Patience of Job Barnstar I, Major Bonkers, hereby award you the Patience of Job Barnstar for your display of extraordinary equanimity on Wikipedia. 19:28, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar I, Chrislk02, award ~~Guinnog~~ John this random acts of kindness barnstar for thoughtfully fixing my poor photography by fixing up the image on my userpage! Thanks. Chrislk02 (Chris Kreider) 15:32, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
The Excellent Userpage Award Your user page is incredible. You must have put lots of time and effort into it... and it shows! In my opinion, fancy, but professional-looking user pages make Wikipedia look more, well, professional. You should definitely be proud. Again, terrific job :) WesternRider 23:28, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
The Working Man's Barnstar For your continued work here on Wikipedia in both article building and other areas. Tbo ¹⁵⁷(talk) 16:55, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
The Music Barnstar For your effort and dedication to music-related articles. —PJoe F. (talk • contribs) 20:22, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar I award you this as you are always willing to help out other users. Tbo ¹⁵⁷(talk) 11:16, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
The Barnstar of Peace For your Kofi-esque efforts at List of massacres. Rockpocket 08:29, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
I award the Music Barnstar to John for your great job on The Clash article. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:06, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar For your tireless fight against vandalism, and restoring my user page. Montgomery' 39 12:51, 13 July 2008 (UTC)
The Sewer Cover Barnstar You have been awarded the Sewer Cover Barnstar. You have received this, in part, because you were “the first on your block” to link to the page. More important though, you are helping to spread the message among the Wikipedian community that links within our articles should always be topical and germane, that properly chosen links anticipate what the readership of any given article would likely be interested in further reading, and that judiciously selected links invite exploration and learning. Thanks. Greg L (talk) 15:51, 11 October 2008 (UTC)
The Barnstar of Integrity For seekful peaceful resolution despite being greatly provoked. Gerardw (talk) 21:15, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
The Special Barnstar This is for being thoughtful and considerate to an old sparring partner. Sarah777 (talk) 16:02, 27 June 2009 (UTC)
The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar You worked like magic, like you're a "vandal off" switch. Many thanks! :-) FeygeleGoy/פֿײגעלע גױ‎ (talk) 02:00, 3 November 2009 (UTC)
The Socratic Barnstar A small token to acknowledge all the good work you do, and in particular your recent efforts at ANI. Thank you. Johnfos (talk) 20:45, 3 October 2010 (UTC)
The Admin's Barnstar A well deserved barnstar for paying attention to and courageously and honorably working to keep Wikipedia together in places where it really matters. Epipelagic (talk) 08:35, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar For cheering me up with a brief message. GeorgeLouis (talk) 18:10, 16 April 2011 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar for removing overlinks at Los Angeles Times (and maybe elsewhere, too). GeorgeLouis (talk) 22:09, 5 June 2011 (UTC)
The Copyeditor's Barnstar Thanks for all your assistance with Battle of Vukovar, which has benefitted enormously from your expertise in copyediting! Prioryman (talk) 19:03, 28 October 2011 (UTC)
The Editor's Barnstar Thank you for helping to raise Ely, Cambridgeshire to GA status -- Senra (Talk) 01:13, 16 December 2011 (UTC)
Mad props to you for recognizing your mistakes and apologizing, and in doing so helping deescalate this mess. If ArbCom takes your admin bit (I don't think they will) and you have to go to RfA to get it back, then you'll have my staunch support there. ScWizard (talk) 17:10, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
The Special Barnstar I saw the Apologia section on your userpage. I must say that in a community riddled with pessimism, criticism, conflict and other silliness, it is fabulous to find a user so passionate about the Project. I wish more users were as willing to show their pride and faith in Wikipedia. Claret Ash 10:58, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
Saints Star Award Things don't always work out the way they should in here in the short-term, but they tend to work out better over the longer haul. Whether you're admonished, named and shamed, belittled, targeted or anything else that comes along in this place, there are still folks with reason in here, and they/we know you to be a man of character, trustworthiness, introspection, and moral integrity. What matters more: the truth, or the labels? Best, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 15:38, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
The Editor's Barnstar Thanks a lot for your work on Justin Bieber on Twitter! Arcandam (talk) 23:30, 3 July 2012 (UTC)
The Admin's Barnstar For consistently using calm reasoning and compassion instead of the block button when possible, always assuming good faith, and understanding that good people do make mistakes once in a while. You are an excellent example of adminship. Dennis Brown - 2¢ © 17:57, 6 July 2012 (UTC)
Thanks John! You assisted in various ways on the Paul McCartney FAC. Thank you! Without your help and support McCartney would not be a FA today! ~ GabeMc ^{(talk|contribs)} 21:37, 9 July 2012 (UTC)
Nigerien Award of National merit For your translation of Abala, Niger. Not many people get given this one hehe! Thanks! ♦ Dr. ☠ Blofeld 15:40, 22 March 2013 (UTC)
The Copyeditor's Barnstar Although we can agree to disagree about image sizes, your copyediting at Middle Ages was greatly appreciated and a great help to the article. Ealdgyth - Talk 21:49, 23 March 2013 (UTC)
The Copyeditor's Barnstar For your good work on Margaret Thatcher, with thanks to MF. :) Drmies (talk) 15:38, 8 April 2013 (UTC)
The Editor's Barnstar Without your highly valued insights and edits at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/George Harrison/archive2, the article would not be FA today! Thanks so much for all the encouragement! GabeMc ^{(talk|contribs)} 20:33, 12 April 2013 (UTC)
The Admin's Barnstar thanks for all your constructive edits Pass a Method talk 22:07, 23 November 2013 (UTC)
The Copyeditor's Barnstar Thank you for your help copy editing Fuck (film) on its way to WP:FA. Much appreciated! — Cirt (talk) 22:36, 23 November 2013 (UTC)
The Barnstar of Diligence I came here to ask if there were other ways I might improve the text on amphetamine, but I was astonished to find that you've dealt with a ton of issues and still found the time to review 2 other FACs this past month. This is for helping with FAC reviews in spite of your busy wiki-life. Seppi333 (Insert 2¢ | Maintained) 09:39, 23 March 2014 (UTC)
The Admin's Barnstar Thanks for showing patience and empathy during the recent dispute/s. You've demonstrated quite well that a cool head and an approachable demeanor are often more effective than dismissive arrogance. GabeMc ^{(talk|contribs)} 15:32, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
The Admin's Barnstar Tedious and needed, the work you did on the Australian football/soccer/whatever naming conventions. Let's hope something positive will come out of your good work. Drmies (talk) 21:14, 2 April 2014 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar Well done on Gerry Rafferty. Thanks. I learn something new every day--I didn't even know he was dead. Maybe I should finally buy City to City. Drmies (talk) 15:53, 17 May 2014 (UTC)
A gold (honorary metalloid) barnstar In appreciation of your incisive, illuminating and pivotal work on Metalloid.
Please let me know if I can return the investment. Sandbh (talk) 11:30, 25 May 2014 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar Thanks. Gamera1123 (talk) 07:36, 10 June 2014 (UTC)
Order of Merit of Ukraine I hereby induct you into the Order of Merit of Ukraine! Thanks for your work at getting the mess that was Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 into some sort of order.
The Barnstar of Diplomacy Hello John. Things have calmed down. I feel obligated - and happy to give You this perticulary Barnstar. (Now when I have learned how to, it's my third such award today and ever. I will not make an inflation of them though) The other were common ones, but this diplomacy one, I strongly feel You have earned. Please see it as a humble but huge appriciation of both diplomacy and wise advices. Boeing720 (talk) 10:39, 27 September 2014 (UTC)
The Admin's Barnstar Well done at the MfD for the List of banned users. No matter which way that went, someone was going to be unhappy. But the fact that you took the time to review the arguments and weigh their strengths and weaknesses and make a difficult choice shows you to be someone worthy of the mop and deserving of respect. The Master ---)Vote Saxon(--- 03:25, 3 October 2014 (UTC)
The Poland Barnstar of National Merit Please accept this barnstar as a token of my gratitude for your help with the article on Warsaw Uprising (1794). Instead of wasting your time on describing what's wrong with the article, you simply stepped forward and fixed it. Such good work should not go unnoticed. //Halibu tt 21:03, 2 November 2014 (UTC)
The Barnstar of Diligence I award you this barnstar as you are already working for so many years and trying to make things better. I have been watching your talk(page) for a while, it is obvious that you serve as an example. Hope to learn a lot from you! Bladesmulti (talk) 14:37, 12 December 2014 (UTC)
Guidance Barnstar
For your unorthodox but effective method of setting a new Wikipeidan on the proper course to becoming a conscientious yet bold contributor. I thank you.
—Soulgazer (talk) 01:38, 23 April 2015 (UTC)
The Copyeditor's Barnstar John, thank you very much for your repeated passes-through of copy-editing help at the article R U Professional. Thanks to your helpful copy-editing assistance, the article was successfully promoted to WP:FA quality. Thanks again, very much !!! Cirt (talk) 01:58, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
The Teamwork Barnstar For guiding Kieronoldham through, what must've been, a horrible subject to write. Your tutorship during the construction has been fantastic and the project has benefitted hugely from your guidence and collaboration. Cassianto ^Talk 20:23, 3 July 2016 (UTC)
The Tireless Contributor Barnstar I've never awarded a barnstar before in eight years (even though I've encountered no shortage of assistance and civility from others), but I just wanted to offer this as my thanks for your tireless efforts improving my previous exhaustive populating on the Robert Black article. I can, maybe, to a degree, hold cards close to my chest as far as contributed text is concerned, as precious few people can delve their mind into subjects like this to the degree I do without becoming psychologically scarred, whereas I can successfully compartmentalise any emotions. Basically, what I mean is, you have shown me to be a little more open as to greater avenues. Thanks, John, and genuine kudos.--Kieronoldham (talk) 02:15, 6 July 2016 (UTC)
The Copyeditor's Barnstar John this is a poor substitute to highlight how impressive your work on Vincent van Gogh has been, but it's more than earned. No amount of gratitude can express the amount and quality of your work there; it's truly been exceptional and a joy to watch. Victoria (tk) 04:00, 5 August 2016 (UTC)
The Barnstar of High Culture To John, for all your efforts in bringing Vincent van Gogh‎ to where it is. Thank you for your hard work. Modernist (talk) 11:34, 16 September 2016 (UTC)
Barnstar of Fine Art For being the main copy editor and chief prose smith, and for acting as part of the nominator team in working Vincent van Gogh through FAC, and for your endless common good sense. A pleasure; the Vincent article would not have passed without your heavy input and guidance. Ceoil (talk) 23:25, 16 September 2016 (UTC)
The Teamwork Barnstar For your wonderful work on Vincent van Gogh. And for being part of what is now known as Wikipedia's Dream Team. A hearty congratulations. Cassianto ^Talk 17:28, 17 September 2016 (UTC)
Barnstar Award for Exceptional Patience It took the Committee a while to find it but we felt you deserve it for 10 years of services rendered and indeed for almost single handedly keeping said Committee on Wikipedia in some troubling times. To appreciate its full beauty the conventional 100px rendering does not suffice - so we've made it bigger (though we won't be upset if you choose to shrink it a bit!). Sarah777 (talk) 15:54, 21 September 2016 (UTC)
The Copyeditor's Barnstar Your edits at Margaret Thatcher continue to be very much appreciated. Many thanks, and all the best of luck in future. --Nevé –selbert 23:50, 24 September 2016 (UTC)
For your inestimable assistance in promoting this article to featured status, with my thanks! —ATS 🖖 talk 21:47, 26 November 2016 (UTC)
The Copyeditor's Barnstar For your excellent work on Eurasian eagle-owl. Sario528 (talk) 12:49, 6 February 2017 (UTC)
The Copyeditor's Barnstar Thank you for your help with Jacob Gens, your copyediting help is very much appreciated. Ealdgyth - Talk 13:47, 23 July 2017 (UTC)
"The Hair Follicle Award" If after relentless challenges by editors who just don't get it, you manage to keep all or at least a portion of whatever hair you have left despite the frustration, you deserve recognition. Your hair must be as thick as the skin on the opposition, which means you have really strong hair follicles. Next time it happens - and it will happen as long as you're an admin - just keep doing what you do, relax, enjoy a cold 🍺 or 🍷, ~~cut~~ eat some cheese or have a bar of 🍫 - or hell, go to the bar - and buy stock in Rogaine. ^{Atsme📞📧} 19:01, 27 August 2017 (UTC)
The Admin's Barnstar For upholding patience, policy, and politeness. SPECIFICO talk 18:07, 25 October 2017 (UTC)
The Reviewer Barnstar Thank you for your thoughtful review of Scarlett Johansson at its FAC and for your contributions to the article. FrB.TG (talk) 14:27, 24 November 2017 (UTC)