User:Deathphoenix

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Deathphoenix in brief

In recognition of your persistent dedication to the community on Wikipedia talk:Barnstars on Wikipedia, I hereby award you with the The Barnstar of Diligence – ClockworkSoul 21:00, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC) (KC)

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.

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 currently a tech writer working in the software development field, I am Canadian, and I currently live in Toronto, Ontario with my lovely wife and young leech dependant offspring son.

Right now, I'm just doing RC patrol and minor edits when I see any mistakes while browsing. I like to contribute to the creation of Barnstars, and I spend quite some time voting on pages to delete. I tend 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 tend to be one of those Wikipedians Who Dislike Making Broad Judgements About the Worthiness of a General Category of Article, and Who Are In Favor of the Deletion of Some Particularly Bad Articles, but That Doesn't Mean They are Deletionist. Yes, I am now a vapourcard-carrying member of the AWWDMBJAWGCAWAIFDSPBATDMTD.

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

Bookmarks

	Links for Wikipedians interested in Canadian content
Newcomers: Welcome kit | Register: Canadian Wikipedians | Network: Noticeboard (WP:CWNB) | Browse: Canada Contribute content: Wikiportal Canada - Canadian current events - Canadian collaboration of the week (WP:CCOTW) - Canada-related stubs See also: Quebec wikipedians' noticeboard- Quebec collaboration of the week - WikiProject Ottawa - WikiProject Toronto

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.

Goals

When I have the time, I would definitely like to work on the The Belgariad and The Mallorean section. I used to read the entire series several times from start to finish (probably at least a dozen times). However, on 3 January 2004, I finally finished rereading the series again, the first time I did so in over two years.

Belgariad & Malloreon check list

• Just realised I forgot to check for italics. Italicise book/series titles if necessary.

• "Red link" characters

• Barak - Created a basic non-spoiler biography. I need to fill out the character (rocky relationship with Merel, etc.).
• Hettar - Created a basic non-spoiler biography. I need to fill out the character (marriage to Adara, etc.).
• Lelldorin Someone else beat me to it. I'll still need to fill out the character.
• Mandorallen
• Relg Someone else beat me to it. I'll still need to fill out the character.
• Taiba

• Countries/Kingdoms of the West

• Cherek - Cleaned up, added information. Maybe add the capital city?
• Drasnia - Cleaned up, added information & spoiler tag. Maybe add the capital city?
• Algaria - Cleaned up, added information. Maybe add the capital city?
• Riva - Created article. Maybe add the capital city?
• Sendaria
• Tolnedra
• Nyissa
• Ulgoland

• Countries/Kingdoms of the Angaraks

• Gar og Nadrak
• Mishrak ac Thull
• Cthol Murgos
• Mallorea

• Races (probably going to overlap with or redirect to their respective countries)
• The Belgariad series
• The Malloreon series (sorry about that!)
• Prequels & supporting material

Others

• Francis Pegahmagabow
• Mercenary

Copy & Paste

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Revised table per consensus at [[Talk:Canadian federal election results since 1867]]

VfD text

This page was voted on for deletion at [[Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/{{subst:PAGENAME}}]]. The final result was '''Keep'''. --~~~~

Purging any article's cache

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=ARTICLENAME&action=purge

VfD: 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 VfD process before you remove the boilerplate text stating the article is up for VfD (you can, of course, continue to work on the article during the VfD process, as long as you keep the boilerplate text up). I know that sometimes it seems that the VfD process takes a long time to complete, but if you have a look at [[WP:VFD/Old|the old VfD articles]], you can see that we have a huge backlog. Thanks, --~~~~

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Please stop adding nonsense to Wikipedia. It is considered vandalism. If you want to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you.

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Please stop. If you continue to vandalize pages, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia.

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This is your last warning. The next time you vandalize a page you will be blocked from editing.

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