User:Shearonink/Top of my Userpage

Sometimes...sometimes I find little articles and I feel sorry for them. So I try to fix them up and hope they stay around. Sometimes they fall afoul of AfD despite my best efforts and sometimes I change my mind and decide they're not worth fighting for.

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DYK for Classic book
 — Rlevse • Talk  • 06:02, 21 June 2010 (UTC)


 * An expanded copy of the main page on that day is in User:Shearonink/Main page 2010 June 21.  Chzz  ► 14:08, 21 June 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Hudson Utility Coupe
The DYK project (nominate) 00:04, 23 July 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Joseph Tehawehron David
-- Cirt (talk) 12:03, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Orchids, My Intersex Adventure
Cbl62 (talk) 06:04, 6 November 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Novacam Technologies
The DYK project (nominate) 12:03, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Gary Williams (singer)
— HJ Mitchell &#124;  Penny for your thoughts?   00:03, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Richard MacDonald
Materialscientist (talk) 18:02, 17 June 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Nathaniel G. S. Hart
Thanks for this article Victuallers (talk) 12:02, 5 November 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Benjamin Franklin Graves
The DYK project (nominate) 00:04, 26 December 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Krejci Dump
The DYK project (nominate) 00:03, 17 February 2012 (UTC)

DYK for Bose Ikard
Graeme Bartlett (talk) 00:02, 4 October 2012 (UTC)

For you :)
21:59, 8 June 2011 Morton Sumner (talk • contribs)

A kitten for you!
Thanks for being willing to help me!

Songcat (talk) 22:48, 15 November 2011 (UTC) 

A kitten for you!
Thank you so much for your kind words about my article. I am not an English major in any way lol so it was quite a compliment to be nominated for the Did You Know. Thanks again.

Runmikeyrun (talk) 03:00, 9 February 2012 (UTC) 

A kitten for you!
Thanks for collaborating in #wikipedia-en-help

Hybirdd (talk) 20:39, 30 January 2013 (UTC) 

Editor of the Week
Editor  submitted the following nomination for Editor of the Week and seconded it:

I nominate Shearonink to be Editor of the Week for his hard work on Wikipedia. Shearonink has been around a long time (20K edits, 36% to articles) and talks a lot of sense, but hasn't had much recognition of those facts. He used to live in at the IRC help channel, helping out those who needed it and that used to be a lot of people (I don't really go in there any more, so I can't talk for more recent events). Ever since his friends have started leaving, he seems to have slightly disappeared. I wanted him to know that it's not just his friends who appreciate who he is! It is all of Wikipedia.

You can copy the following text to your user page to display a user box proclaiming your selection as Editor of the Week:

Thanks again for your efforts! Buster Seven   Talk  11:13, 14 May 2016 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

 * Ok... Sorry if I stepped in it, didn't mean to possibly offend, you're one of my favorites around here. Shearonink (talk) 21:44, 29 November 2017 (UTC)
 * PS - And you write great articles and have a level head on your shoulders and a keen grasp of WP-editing practices. Anytime you want to run for any WP-stuff (oh, I don't know...like maybe the door? lol) I'd be very happy to support you. Shearonink (talk) 21:44, 29 November 2017 (UTC)
 * PPS - And let me know if you need any articles GA-reviewed. Shearonink (talk) 21:44, 29 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Psssst - Maybe you know about it but your signature is giving folks the emailing-link thingy. Shearonink (talk) 21:44, 29 November 2017 (UTC)

, I am absolutely gobsmacked and bereft, you have no idea. Shearonink (talk) 21:15, 30 November 2017 (UTC)
 * , and, in any case, i could hardly leave before the aforementioned GANs are done :p  ;)  Cheers!  Serial  Number  54129 11:52, 3 December 2017 (UTC)
 * oh! welcome back. (happy face) Shearonink (talk) 17:00, 3 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Yes, only a small hiaitus after all, v sorry to distract everbody... Serial  Number  54129 17:42, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

 * Thank you that's very kind. Glad it's useful for folks.  I give all credit to  - I just took what he started and tried to make a help for the folks like me who stumble into WP and feel lost about everything, including "how in the world do I make these wiki-references?". Cheers, Shearonink (talk) 03:00, 30 November 2017 (UTC)

A kitten for you!
Thanks for standing up for me. I thought my level 3 warning was kind of too much too. I like editing Wikipedia in my freetime and thought my sources were alright. I don't ever add spam or weird content. Just a fan of Erika Jayne and I always add sources. I wish you all the best and happy holidays!

Lollo12345678 (talk) 21:02, 30 November 2018 (UTC) 

Precious
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:22, 10 December 2018 (UTC)

Precious anniversary
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:23, 10 December 2019 (UTC)


 * Thanks . It meant a lot to get it, means a lot to be reminded of it. Shearonink (talk) 14:27, 10 December 2019 (UTC)

DYK for Solomon Hughes (actor)
—Kusma (talk) 00:03, 6 June 2022 (UTC)

Out of a sow's ear....

 * - Awwww, thanks! Muchly appreciated. I just nominated it for a DYK? - see Template:Did you know nominations/Kline's Mill, Virginia. Lol, think I stuffed enough hooks in there? Shearonink (talk) 11:01, 11 October 2022 (UTC)

For fine work rescuing Thomas Johnston (engraver)

 * Awwwww, thank you so much. I felt so badly about this GA. I reviewed it and things slipped past me, as they all slipped past so many of us. Didn't seem right to me that this notable person's article could lose its GA designation - though I do completely understand the why...I think it will retain its present designation. Speaking of engraving, you should see the last source I got my hands on...I actually bought it used but it is basically a pristine copy. Turns out this book is so rare (and I believe it's out of print) that I am hoping to donate it to a local library's reference room. Shearonink (talk) 16:55, 28 February 2023 (UTC)

In appreciation

 * Thank you - greatly appreciated. Shearonink (talk) 19:58, 20 March 2023 (UTC)

My one Featured List

 * List of racing cyclists and pacemakers with a cycling-related death
 * A slight Update...I have taken this Featured List off my Watchlist and have abandoned it to the tender mercies of a non-collegial HERETORIGHTGREATWRONGS recalcitrant editor. I have no special rights to this List, but wanted to mention the fact that I rescued it from its previously-awful, completely-unreferenced, stubby state as seen here in the version I started working on almost 13 years ago. Au revoir.

My one Featured article

 * Bath School disaster

The Good Articles I've created, edited extensively, and/or nominated

 * Mountain Meadows Massacre
 * Nathaniel G. S. Hart
 * Benjamin Franklin Graves (soldier)
 * DeFord Bailey
 * Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
 * Ramsdell Theatre
 * Stephen Bishop (cave explorer)...also remembered to nom this one for "DYK?..."
 * Solomon Hughes (actor)...this isn't a WP:GA. Yet.

The 2 WP:DCGAR WP:GAs that I resuscitated

 * Ramsdell Theatre...Good article reassessment/Ramsdell Theatre/1
 * Thomas Johnston (engraver)...Good article reassessment/Thomas Johnston (engraver)/1

My very favorite WP articles
Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office

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