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—— • —— I propose a college class on Wikipedia where students are graded by the level of responsibility they achieve on the site. Those who become an Administrator will get an "A" for "Administrator". Those who becomes Bureaucrats, of course, will get a "B", Checkusers will get a "C", and you know what happens to those who become Developers, or go to work for the Foundation. —— • —— A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays, History. —— • ——

When 900,000 edits, you have reached, look as good, you will not. Wiki Master Yoda, 1.35 million edits ago. —— • ——

BD2412 (global count • editcount • wikiscan • article count • [ blocks] • [ protects] • [ deletes] • [ moves]) is one of the longest-serving administrators on English Wikipedia (since December of 2005); and is also an administrator on English Wiktionary; and on English Wikisource; and an admin and bureaucrat on English Wikiquote.

Some principles to live by

 * 1) Wikipedia is not an experiment in democracy: its primary method of finding consensus is discussion, not voting. That is, majority opinion does not necessarily rule in Wikipedia. Various votes are regularly conducted, but their numerical results are usually only one of several means of making a decision. The discussions that accompany the voting processes are crucial means of reaching consensus.
 * 2) Wikipedia is not the edge of the world: if you really want to say something on the Internet, and it doesn't belong here, there are always alternatives.
 * 3) Observe Chesterton's fence.
 * 4) Be aware of Google bias when testing for importance or existence: bear in mind that Google will be biased in favor of modern subjects of interest to people from developed countries with Internet access, so it should be used with some judgment.
 * 5) * Also, beware Citogenesis.
 * 6) There is no deadline.
 * 7) Give thanks.

Contributions
• All Drafts • Wikiquote
 * In the top 100 on the List of Wikipedians by article count. Having made thousands of articles, I'm sure that if you lined up all of my articles from best to least best, the bottom ten would probably be pretty... I don't want to say 'bad', but definitely rudimentary.
 * , I have edited about 14.25% of the articles on Wikipedia; if you have edited more than seven articles, there is probably an article that both you and I have edited.


 * I have been paraphrased in this article in Slate. I have also been mentioned in this paper and in a graph in this article. In this article, I am called one of "the Internet's unsung heroes".

Barnstars & Ǚzerbǿxen
Please feel free to add to the collection here. Cheers!

L e g a l e s e

 * Yes, I am a lawyer. No, I am not giving you legal advice.


 * I agree to multi-license all my text, image, and design contributions, including my user pages, as described below:

Etcetera

 * Ranked 8th in page creations including redirects as of October 13, 2017 (3,049 articles, 86,792 redirects, total 89,841)
 * Ranked 53rd in main article creations with 6,954 as of May 1, 2021
 * Ranked 12th in main article creators by volume past five years, as of September 5, 2022 (4,821 articles in that period)
 * (over 8,000 articles as of January 31, 2022)
 * (over 8,270 articles as of April 30, 2022)
 * (over 8,500 articles as of October 15, 2022)
 * (over 9,300 articles as of October 30, 2023)
 * (over 9,400 articles as of January 31, 2024)

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