User:BBQboffin

Greetings and Felicitations!
A boffin is British slang for a person obsessed with complex, arcane, and difficult technical or scientific research and development.

Once for me that was fiberoptic testing systems, now specialized education, but in semi-retirement, it's increasingly becoming security analysis, non-profit administration, and perfecting my BBQ brisket and ribs!

This is only my third year working on Wikipedia and I’m still trying to find my niche but so far, I've found I enjoy:

...and a little bit of everything else to leave this place better than when I found it. Cheers!
 * Creating new articles, especially which are underrepresented, like biographies of women and minorities
 * Finding reliable sources to help save articles nominated for deletion: WP:HEY
 * Adding photographs to articles (takes less time than adding a thousand words!)
 * Reading random pages and finding out about things I know little or nothing
 * Writing WP:NPOV language to describe controversial topics

Articles created
Women chess masters: Jan Jodilyn Fronda, Liubov Kostiukova, Iulia Mashinskaya

Women journalists: Leona Alford Malek, Naomi Tacuyan Underwood, Irene Byon [Deleted after 3rd AfD relist!]

Others: Belgum Sanitarium, Frederick A. Fillmore, Homemade Cafe, Ligma joke [Keep after 1st AfD relist], Lim Kok Ann, Lin Fang-yue, Moms 4 Housing, Rahul Ligma [No consensus after 2nd AfD relist], Sihanouk Hospital Center of HOPE, Vision to Learn

Helped save from deletion by adding content
Dilbert (character), Hang noodles on the ears, In Praise of Hard Industries, Joseph Sawyer House, Lititz Watch Technicum, Noonans Mayfair, No Pants Day, Paul Bunyan Land, Vesey O'Davoren, Solar eclipse of July 16, 2186

Added substantial content
Dad joke, Ferguson's Gang, Frankie Celenza, Joseph Caldwell, Lex Mundi, Mandela Barnes, Media prank, Prudence Penny, Angela Rigas, Russell Zguta, Sam Brinton, Sierra Club Foundation, Slocum House, The Masquers Playhouse

Award created
For those who make serial (cerial) contributions, this branstar is an encouragement to stay regular and not feel crumby.

My creation of this award was inspired by an editing drive where over a dozen participants, some of them novice editors, met the qualifications to earn a special barnstar, but did not receive it. To all those I found so situated, I awarded The Organical Branstar. Many weeks later, the editing drive barnstars were awarded.