User:Ben

The Wikipedian formerly known as Benedict the Moor. &lowast;  My namesake saint is discussed here.

Fair warning: I have a belly-button. I assume you do too.

I am, nor do I have any other official role or authority on.

You may want to see my |talk page, or my contributions history.

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subpages of my user page, if any exist;

subpages of my talk page, if any exist.

If my username titles any ', ', ', ', , or suspected-sockpuppet  pages, they'll be blue links.

''Factoid: There are users on, and only  administrators; that's about 0 users per admin, or  admins per 1,000 users. Now, admins aren't police, and most user accounts aren't active, so these stats aren't strictly comparable, but the average ratio in USA cities is 2.3 police officers per 1,000 residents. So isn't it nice that there's always an admin around when you need one?''

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I make a habit of asking everyone who starts working with me:

"If you're ever unhappy about something I've done, or haven't done, or how, or why -- please tell me directly. Let me be the first to know; not the second, not the third, not the last. If you tell me right away, maybe I can fix things before they get too bad."

So when someone does approach me with a complaint or correction, I take it as a favor and a gift. They could have let me keep going around with my shirt untucked or otherwise making a fool or pest of myself; they could have complained to other people instead and let me only hear about it later through the grapevine; but they had the courage and courtesy to tell me face-to-face instead. That deserves my respect and my gratitude.

Please think on that a while.

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