User:Climie.ca

Hi, Cam here! I've been active on Wikipedia since March of 2007. Most of my contribution to Mainspace Wikipedia comes in the form of article-creation & writing; I've created 19 articles since my beginnings here, ranging from extremely small stub-articles all the way up to GA and FA-class. I was one of the Coordinators of the Military History Wikiproject from September 2008-March 2010, when I stepped down due to Real Life priorities. I reapplied for Coordinatorship in September 2010, and am currently one of the editors of The Bugle - Milhist's monthly newsletter. I was the first Administrator appointed in the year 2009. If I do anything stupid in that capacity, you may beat me with a trout.

Most of my actual content work falls under the broad category of 20th Century Military History, with an obsessive interest in Canada's involvement in the Second World War, the Imperial Japanese Navy (particularly the battleships), and the Attrition battles of 1916-1918. I occasionally delve into areas such as the Eastern Front, Maritime Warfare (non-IJN), American Foreign Policy during the Cold War, and basically anything to do with political historiography.

I tend to focus most of my wikignoming around the review departments at the ACR and FAC levels. I've also become involved with The FA-Team, a group of editors aiming to provide technical support to articles trying to achieve FA, specializing in footnote formatting and fact-checking. In the administrator world, you'll find me mostly at WP:AIV and WP:RCP tracking vandalism and abusive accounts.

In actuality, I'm 20, living in Ottawa, the capital of Canada, and in my third year of a Combined Honours Degree in International Politics and History at Carleton University. At this point, my degree takes up virtually all of my time, along with competitive debate in the Canadian University Society for Intercollegiate Debate. I'm a vocal and dedicated Social Democrat, a topic area on which I welcome debate and discussion (so long as it remains civil). I read voraciously - always having at least three good books on the go - and keep a large research book list found here. In my spare time (which is surprisingly scarce), I'm either reading, writing, skiing/cycling and walking in the winter/summer, listening to music (primarily classical Baroque - the Bach Organ Works in particular), writing, or spending time with friends.

 Current Projects 

 Articles I've started & contributed to  Started and/or significantly contributed to content-wise:


 * Battle of Verrieres Ridge [[Image:Featured article star.svg|16px]]
 * Operation Tractable[[Image:Featured article star.svg|16px]]
 * 2nd Canadian Infantry Division[[Image:Featured article star.svg|16px]]
 * Yamato class battleship[[Image:Featured article star.svg|16px]]
 * Operation Charnwood[[Image:Featured article star.svg|16px]]
 * IJN Yamato[[Image:Featured article star.svg|16px]]
 * IJN HarunaFeatured article star.svgSymbol question.svg
 * List of battlecruisers of Japan[[Image:Featured article star.svg|16px]]Symbol question.svg
 * IJN Musashi[[Image:Symbol a class.svg|16px]]
 * Kongo class battlecruiser[[Image:Symbol a class.svg|16px]]Symbol question.svg
 * IJN Kirishima Symbol a class.svgSymbol question.svg
 * IJN Kongo[[Image:Symbol a class.svg|16px]]
 * Operation Lüttich[[Image:Symbol a class.svg|16px]]
 * Operation Totalize[[Image:Symbol a class.svg|16px]]
 * The Moro River Campaign[[Image:Symbol a class.svg|16px]]
 * '''Operation Windsor[[Image:Symbol a class.svg|16px]]
 * IJN Hiei[[Image:Symbol a class.svg|16px]]Symbol question.svg
 * Fusō class battleship[[Image:Symbol a class.svg|16px]]Symbol question.svg
 * Juno Beach[[Image:Symbol a class.svg|16px]]
 * Battle of Messines[[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|16px]]
 * IJN Shinano[[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|16px]]
 * Battle of Mont Sorrel [[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|16px]]
 * Second Battle of Passchendaele[[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|16px]]
 * Operation Atlantic[[Image:Symbol b class.svg|16px]]
 * Operation Goodwood[[Image:Symbol b class.svg|16px]]
 * 272nd Grenadier Infantry Division[[Image:Symbol b class.svg|16px]]
 * Battle of Ortona[[Image:Symbol b class.svg|16px]]
 * Operation Husky[[Image:Symbol b class.svg|16px]]
 * World War I[[Image:Symbol start class.svg|16px]]
 * Operation Spring[[Image:Symbol start class.svg|16px]]
 * Battle of the Canal du Nord[[Image:Symbol start class.svg|16px]]
 * Battle of Cambrai (1918)[[Image:Symbol start class.svg|16px]]
 * 25th Canadian Infantry Brigade[[Image:Symbol start class.svg|16px]]
 * 102nd SS Heavy-Panzer Battalion[[Image:Symbol start class.svg|16px]]
 * Josh Key[[Image:Symbol start class.svg|16px]]
 * LXXVI Panzer Corps (Germany)[[Image:Symbol start class.svg|16px]]
 * 5th Battalion Canadian Mounted Rifles[[Image:Symbol start class.svg|16px]]
 * Supplementary Order of Battle[[Image:Symbol start class.svg|16px]]
 * Battle of Walcheren Island[[Image:Symbol stub class.svg|16px]]
 * '''XLVII Panzer Corps (Germany)[[Image:Symbol stub class.svg|16px]]
 * '''8th Canadian Infantry Brigade[[Image:Symbol stub class.svg|16px]]
 * Free World Military Forces[[Image:Symbol stub class.svg|16px]]
 * The Saskatchewan Border Regiment[[Image:Symbol stub class.svg|16px]]
 * The Weyburn Regiment[[Image:Symbol stub class.svg|16px]]
 * Convoy PQ 13 (the original one) -now deleted since it was extremely short

Articles I have Copyedited
 * Operation Varsity[[Image:Featured article star.svg|16px]]
 * Brian Horrocks[[Image:Featured article star.svg|16px]]
 * USS Iowa (BB-61)[[Image:Featured article star.svg|16px]]
 * Armia Krajowa[[Image:Symbol a class.svg|16px]]
 * Hill 262[[Image:Symbol a class.svg|16px]]
 * Vilna offensive[[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|16px]]
 * Battle of Marion[[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|16px]]

Articles I have provided Technical Assistance on
 * Restoration of the Everglades[[Image:Featured article star.svg|16px]]
 * Draining and development of the Everglades[[Image:Featured article star.svg|16px]]
 * Geography and ecology of the Everglades[[Image:Featured article star.svg|16px]]
 * 13th Airborne Division (United States)[[Image:Featured article star.svg|16px]]
 * 11th Airborne Division (United States)[[Image:Symbol a class.svg|16px]]
 * Everglades[[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|16px]]
 * 17th Airborne Division (United States)[[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|16px]]

 '''Awards 
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 Favorite Quotes 
 * "There is no moral difference between a Stealth Bomber and a Suicide Bomber; both kill innocent people for political purposes!" -Tony Benn
 * "War is not about victory and defeat; it is about death and the infliction of death. It represents the complete and total failure of the human spirit" -Robert Fisk
 * "If you tremble indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine" -Ernesto Guevara
 * "Debate cases: The art of being a complete asshole to everyone who knows less about the world than you." - W.M.
 * "Orwell feared were those who would ban books. Huxley feared those who would make it so there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy...In short, Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us. This is about the possibility that Huxley, not Orwell, was right" - Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business., p. xx
 * "Wait. For I'll return, defying every death. And let those who do not wait say that I was lucky. They will never understand That in the midst of death, You with you waiting saved me. Only you and I know how I survived. It's because you waited, as no one else did." - 3rd Stanza, "Wait for Me", Konstantin Simonov

 Exceptional Wikipedians I have worked with 
 * Roger Davies [[Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg|22px]]
 * EyeSerene [[Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg|22px]]
 * Skinny87 [[Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg|22px]]
 * Nick-D [[Image:Flag of Australia.svg|22px]]
 * Bryce Abraham [[Image:Flag of Australia.svg|22px]]
 * YellowMonkey [[Image:Flag of Australia.svg|22px]]
 * Kirill Lokshin [[Image:Flag of the United States.svg|22px]]
 * TomStar81 [[Image:Flag of the United States.svg|22px]]
 * MBK004 [[Image:Flag of the United States.svg|22px]]
 * Catalán [[Image:Flag of the United States.svg|22px]] / [[Image:Flag of Spain.svg|22px]]
 * Cla68 [[Image:Flag of the United States.svg|22px]]/[[Image:Flag of Japan.svg|22px]]
 * Bellhalla [[Image:Flag of the United States.svg|22px]]
 * Parsecboy [[Image:Flag of the United States.svg|22px]]
 * The Ed17 [[Image:Flag of the United States.svg|22px]]
 * Eurocopter [[Image:Flag of Romania.svg|22px]]
 * Esseh [[Image:flag of Canada.svg|22px]]
 * Labattblueboy [[Image:flag of Canada.svg|22px]]