User:BoonDock

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 * name = John
 * gender= Male
 * birthdate= {{birth date and age|mf=yes|1966|11|13}}
 * birth_place = Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
 * location= Pedasí, Los Santos, Panama
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=About BoonDock=

Who am I

 * I am a South African who has a passion for my country. I am mostly interested in the Military in the Wikipedia.
 * I am a Reserve Force Officer

Service

 * As a disclosure about vested interests, I have served in or with, or been attached to, the following units or formations over the past thirty years:
 * 5 South African Infantry Battalion (National Service & Border Duty)
 * 1 Recce (Selection)
 * Natal Carbineers
 * Cape Town Highlanders
 * Durban Light Infantry
 * 19 Field Engineer Regiment SAEC
 * Natal Field Artillery
 * United Nations Force Intervention Brigade This included 6 South African Infantry Battalion, 1 Parachute Battalion and 5 Special Forces Regiment (South Africa)
 * I have also had close association with a number of other units, specifically Umvoti Mounted Rifles, Natal Mounted Rifles and 84 Signals Unit

Awards
Postnominals:

I have been awarded:



I have been cited for, but not yet awarded: with and either the or a possible new clasp

Wikipedia Contributions

 * I have contributed in a small way to a number of Wikipedia pages and developed the SA Army Units template as well as the Medal Display and Badge Display templates.
 * I track the WP:NOREFLIST and CAT:REF and try to keep them clear.

Civilian life
I used to own and run a small publishing company. Now I do private security and consulting.

Templates created

 * SA Army Units
 * SAMHS
 * SA Army Chiefs
 * SA Defence Chiefs
 * Post-nominals/ZAR (postnominals)
 * Post-nominals/ZAR (postnominals)
 * Post-nominals/ZAR (postnominals)
 * Post-nominals/ZAR (postnominals)

MilAwards
I wrote a Lua module called which holds all the data I can find for medals in. This module impliments a variety of functions which draw the data from that stored in to present it in different ways. I have created the following templates to present that data:
 * - This defaults to the mentioned below - display the award ribbon linked to the medal information page

To be created:
 * ✅ - display the award ribbon linked to the medal information page
 * ✅ - display the ribbon and alongside it the medal name with a link to the medal's page
 * - A template which can be used to list all the data in the database. Currently active on It can be invoked (#invoke) by anyone on any page, and if needed I will create a template for it.✅ If I do create the template, I will remove the stat table.❌ Depends on someone making a use case.
 * - ✅ a replacement for the template drawing from the same database.
 * - ✅ This will allow for a list of medal codes, similar to the current Post-nominals template, which would then display all the ribbons specified in a long horizontal stack, similar to how the works now with individual ribbons.

As I go, I will also add extra features:
 * Country=yes - ✅Add the display of country to the medal description. WIll have to figure out if I display just what's in the data or do an ISO lookup for a country name. (specify the recipient's country and any OTHER country will be added to the description)
 * Class=no - Allow the turning off of the addition of what's in the "Class" field to the medal description
 * TextSize=xx - Allow the specification of the size of the text. Probably a percentage. ✅ for PostNom not for anything else.
 * Org=yes - Allow the turning on of the display of the contents of the "Org" field
 * Notes=no - Allow the turning off of the display of the contents of the "Notes" field

Major Jack De Valance Greeff (SA Army Retired)




Award of WikiChevrons

 * Thank you !! BoonDock (talk) 09:00, 18 December 2014 (UTC)

The South African Barnstar of National Merit
Category:South African military officers
 * Thank you !! BoonDock (talk) 09:00, 18 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Thank you too BoonDock (talk) 13:45, 21 December 2014 (UTC)