User:Reidgreg/Awards

This may be a bit of a vanity page, but I decided to move my awards here to reduce clutter. Nonetheless, if anyone would like to leave me an award, please do so on my talk page. Also, feel free to check if I have a barnstar for a similar reason. I don't see myself turning down an award, but I like to have some variety to pretend I'm well-rounded. Thanks.

Below are all the awards others saw fit to present to me for my contributions to Wikipedia. I decided to group these together with WikiProjects rather than chronologically.

Recognition and criticism
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others. – Cicero

Praise is a fool, and you may make him useful. – Danish proverb

Our praises are our wages. – Hermione, in Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale, act I, scene II

Hundreds of studies by behavioural economists and psychologists show that praise motivates constructive behaviour. This can be particularly useful in a volunteer community which lacks tangible rewards. Excessive use of praise can, however, reduce its value if it is perceived to be undiscerning or exaggerated. While praise can be a motivating factor, honest criticism can also be invaluable in guiding individuals toward constructive behaviour.

On Wikipedia, a general practice of collegial editing was expanded by the Kindness Campaign into a system of recognizing editors by awarding barnstars for various acts and achievements, and strategies to measure such praise with criticism and to promote peace and understanding amongst editors. Although it takes a certain amount of time and energy to recognize editors, I feel that this is returned several times in overall participation.

I have awarded barnstars, mostly through the Guild of Copy Editors, the 10,000 Challenge of WikiProject Canada, and the Million Award program. I also provide guidance at these WikiProjects and occasionally at WP:Third opinion, the WP:Teahouse, Category:Wikipedians looking for help, and on talk pages. For these various acts of guidance and encouragement I have received the following barnstars:

The Guidance Barnstar was awarded for:
 * Thank you very much for your polite, prompt, detailed and uncondescending assistance proffered to a brash newbie. It is much appreciated. I strongly suspect that I am far from the first to receive this unassuming support. It helps make Wikipedia the kind of place that people want to come back to. With kind regards, Simon  9 January 2018
 * For your excellent guidance and firm reviews during October Blitz 2018, which helped me to learn better copyediting and stay motivated, I award you the Guidance Barnstar as a token of respect. 21 October 2018.
 * For guiding me through three drives and two blitzes, and overall, giving me feedback on my copy edits. Thanks for the help, and good editing! – 2 April 2019

Typo Team
This was my first barnstar, awarded a few weeks after I registered my useraccount. To some extent, I feel this may be an "enthusiastic newcomer's award" but it was a nice show of early encouragement while I was learning how Wikipedia functions. Not a lot of editors have received this award, and it's a bit of a distinction to be recognized for this sort of obsessive-compulsiveness by fellow obsessive-compulsives.

Guild of Copy Editors
Most of these were earned from participating with the Guild of Copy Editors (GOCE) in forty-three blitzes and forty-four drives, copy editing 0 articles for a total of 0 words (or 0 words with bonuses). This included a four-year streak (Nov 2016 – Sep 2020) without falling off the drive leaderboard in any category. Awards are presented in a gallery format to save space and avoid repetition.

The Copyeditor's Barnstar was awarded by individual editors:
 * For The Doctor (Doctor Who), a large article, and I truly appreciate that you took the time to go through the article and copyedit. Emir of Wikipedia, 4 November 2016
 * For your helpful copyedits to the article Disinformation, and your compliments about the improvements I've tried to make to the article over time. Sagecandor, 22 June 2017
 * For tackling the list of Haitians. You're a braver soul than I, 'cause I looked at it when I split out the list of Haitian artists and wussed right out. PMC, 8 July 2017
 * For your copy editing work on TAI Aksungur and intervention in its DYK nomination. I am very much grateful. CeeGee 28 June 2019


 * For your amazing fluff-trimming edit to Tere Mere Beech. It removed unnecessary plot details and compressed long passages in a truly awe-inspiring fashion, as well as fixing a slew of other problems. I believe you deserve at least a cookie, if not more., 7 April 2017
 * For copy editing on Draft:Raino Parvat as per my request. Enjoy this bubble tea. Thank you very much., 12 April 2018
 * For copy edit and cleanup on Bois Blanc Island Lighthouse and Blockhouse, a Dobos torte!, 28 October 2018
 * Rasgulla for you! I admire your knowledge, humility, and the way of teaching. I went through each and every point of your note and checked the diffs between versions. I am glad that I learned so much from one of the best Wikipedians., 23 October 2018 (UTC)

WikiProject Canada
Most of the small number of articles I've written have fallen under WikiProject Canada. I've also helped with maintenance and coordination on the usergroup's 10,000 Challenge, cleaning up the pages, advertising and promoting the challenge, and giving out awards to participants. For these and other efforts, I received the following awards:

Women in Red
Women in Red (WIR) seeks to write women's biographies to remove redlinks and some of the gender bias on Wikipedia. In November 2017 I took part in WIR's The World Contest which was their most-successful editing drive at that time. I placed 16th overall, 3rd for North American biographies and 4th (tied) for women in healthcare, earning $45 in prizes. I only ranked 19th for prize earnings, as I didn't split into subcategories very effectively. (I ranked 1st for Canadian articles but there was no prize for that.)

WikiProject Military History
While this is not a subject of particular competence for me, this WikiProject is very organized and really has its act together. They have many resources and set an example for other user groups to follow. It is a pleasure to work with them.

Wikimedia Ukraine
This interlanguage challenge was organized on Wikimedia at Ukraine's Cultural Diplomacy Month #UCDMonth, and ran from 10 February to 10 March 2021. The event was organized by Wikimedia Ukraine and sponsored by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine and the Ukrainian Institute. It was interesting to take part in such a broad editing drive and to work on translating, sourcing and expanding some worthy articles.

A few months afterwards, in the second round of prizes (the leftovers after the first round had their pick), I received some swag: a nice little notebook with the contest cover, a Wikipedia pencil to write in it, and a Wikipedia button, sticker, and keychain.

The second edition of the event ran from 17 February to 17 March 2022 – during which Russia invaded Ukraine (again). It was an unsettling experience as an editor to be writing about the War in Donbas, to have all of that in my mind, and have sources in the country going offline due to the current invasion. It's been reported that Wikipedians in Russia were arrested for allegedly violating Russia's censorship laws. For more information, see Wikipedia and the Russian invasion of Ukraine and Blocking of Wikipedia in Russia.

The third edition of the event ran from 1 to 31 March 2023. While working on an article for the challenge I learned a bit more about Russian disinformation strategies and Ukrainophobia, and what an important subject area this is to contribute toward. I hope to do more in the coming year.

Maintenance
See also: WikiProject Short descriptions

General editing
 copy edit gnome

 Thank you for quality articles such as Danzig Street shooting, Martha Chaves and Rebecca Jamieson, for coordinating project GOCE, for reviewing, for typo team help and "amazing fluff-trimming", looking for "clarity, consistency, conciseness, tone, minor layout and linking, reduced overlong plots" – you are an awesome Wikipedian! 21:27, 24 November 2018 (UTC)}}

The above barnstar was for catching a delivery error with a mass message, manually creating a temporary list for the missed recipients and re-sending. Mass messages is one of those quiet little corners of Wikipedia, and only gets a few requests per month as most users who regularly send newsletters can easily get the user right to do it themselves. It's sort of in my wheelhouse, though, as I can copy edit and cleanup outgoing newsletters, and it's nice to see what other WikiProjects are doing. The original image was deleted from Commons as there was no evidence of a free licence.

Thank you, also for creating the missing Main page history pages! Missing the "perennial" gang. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:56, 11 October 2021 (UTC)

Thank you for the article Danzig Street shooting "about a 2012 shooting in Toronto, Canada. It occurred at a crowded block party and is considered the city's worst mass shooting, with 27 bullets fired and 26 people wounded, 2 fatally. All four people convicted in relation to the shooting were teenagers at the time of the incident.", and welcome to TFA! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:02, 16 July 2022 (UTC)

I only made it past the first round, which has a lot of drop-outs, and finished 45th with 52+61 points (equivalent to three GAs) so this is a small accomplishment. Despite maintaining a respectable review-to-nomination ratio, I only received one GAN review from January through April and was eliminated with several others awaiting review. If I try this again, I'll have to start making nominations in August or September of the previous year, and maybe push toward some FACs along with a lot of DYKs and reviews.

Article reviews
There are some other barnstars for reviewing above; those are more for reviewing edits by specific editors in a mentorship role. These are for thorough article reviews.

Troutings
I've only ever been self-trouted, but I have occasionally taken a wrong turn into Dramatown. I thought to include some of this poetry for a little balance. I try not to bear grudges and have kept names out of it, though diff links are provided for attribution requirements.

CC-BY-SA declaration; the following was copied from a talk page by Reidgreg (originally posted 12 Oct 2018, ). Wikipedia should stop the vandalism of my work by Reidgreg. No other Wikipedia user appears worried with my article offering up the most accurate and detailed Discography in existence.

CC-BY-SA declaration; the following was copied from a talk page by Reidgreg (originally posted 14 Feb 2019, ). Gosh. You're revealing that it isn't only Chemistry you are ignorant of. On what grounds did you revert? I really don't want to get into an edit-war, but you're approaching vandalism here by adding something we know to be untrue.

CC-BY-SA declaration; the following was copied from a project talk page by Reidgreg (originally posted 8 Nov 2019, ). Unfortunately, there is no established certainty that you would recognise a problematic passsage; your request here was little more than trolling. "Those who can't, teach": or in this case, "those who can't, fuck about with it" :D

CC-BY-SA declaration; the following was copied from a talk page by Reidgreg (originally posted 15 Dec 2019, ). What obession with irrelevances and utter hubris. FFS.

CC-BY-SA declaration; the following was copied from a talk page by Reidgreg (originally posted 13 Jan 2021, ). Reidgreg, this is an absurd position. [...] whitewashing and a violation of NPOV [...] it's an excellent example of Racial bias on Wikipedia

CC-BY-SA declaration; the following was copied from a talk page by Reidgreg (originally posted 20 Feb 2022, ). It honestly amazes me that you're spending this much time and energy trying to keep this trivial content in an article

CC-BY-SA declaration; the following was copied from a talk page by Reidgreg (originally posted 28 Mar 2022, diff). Your summarize of the discussion there is also incorrect [...] plainly false, which you would know if you even edited TV articles (It's a bit strange seeing someone who as far as I can remember has never edited in the TV project pages come about with this deletion, which while that's your right, it's also my right to point that it does not look good). [...] Also, is there a reason you haven't followed proper procedural and actually notified the category creator (me) of this discussion? Or is this yet another thing you do out of process?