User talk:SMcCandlish/Barnstars

I'm archiving copies of barnstars and similar kudos here, since it's hard to remember where they are in over 100 archive pages. Skimming this reminds me of the great things about this project and its editorial community, when certain participants in it get me down from time to time. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  21:31, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

Chapeau
... for Cheers - DVdm (talk) 20:20, 31 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks! I actually like hats. :-) Your readability tweak was a good idea. I was a little concerned about it myself, but I'm not a cards editor, so I wasn't sure if there was a typical way of making hands more legible. (Also not sure if people conventionally use the card symbols that are available in Unicode, etc.).  I do edit a lot of games articles, but almost exclusively in cue sports and related. — SMcCandlish   Talk⇒ ʕ(Õلō)ˀ  Contribs. 12:49, 1 February 2012 (UTC)


 * I specially like hats when there's a set of dice under them :-)
 * Perhaps you don't know, but overhere we use the name chapeau for the cup and, by extension, for the game itself. As you can see here—als je Nederlands een beetje in orde is—, we play an entirely different game with it, a game where one can practice the fine art of subtle bluffing, downright lying, assessing oponents' behaviour, and accurately estimating probabilities. We also play the "Mexican" variant, which is even subtler. Check it out and cheers! - DVdm (talk) 18:26, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
 * I didn't know that, about the chapeau. I thought you were awarding me a virtual hat. :-) . I am familiar with the bluff game (possibly the Mexican version, since I learned it in California), but have always played that one with regular dice. Anyway, if you like what I did in the English version, certainly feel free to "port" it to the Netherlands Wikipedia.  I may be able to work through the Dutch enough to add something about the other variants to the English article here, since it is rather paltry. Heh. — SMcCandlish   Talk⇒ ʕ(Õلō)ˀ  Contribs. 04:04, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Actually, it was meant as a virtual hat award as well - I had seen a hat on your user page :-) Porting from there to here could be a bit problematic, as there's not many sources around, alas. - DVdm (talk) 17:40, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
 * I'll have to dig through my game encyclopedias and stuff. — SMcCandlish  Talk⇒ ʕ(Õلō)ˀ  Contribs. 17:45, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Ok, if you find something, please let know. I'd be glad to work on it together. Cheers and happy digging. - DVdm (talk) 20:20, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

Cheers!

 * Thank ya verra much! I was thirsty. >;-) — SMcCandlish   Talk⇒〈°⌊°〉 Contribs. 15:10, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

Barnstar
Keen beans! Thanks.

A barnstar for you!

 * Thanks, though some others deserve more credit than I do, especially for the original concept, and  for the bulk of the code still used in this version. I mostly just added the ability to customize the output for specific sites, and fixed some consistency issues, as well as set up the WP:Cite4Wiki page for it. — SMcCandlish    Talk⇒ ɖ∘¿ ¤ þ  Contrib.  21:01, 31 August 2012 (UTC)

Thank you

 * — SMcCandlish   Talk⇒ ɖ∘¿ ¤ þ  Contrib.  07:59, 13 November 2012 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

 * Why, thank ya verra much! :-)  — SMcCandlish  Talk⇒ ɖ⊝כ⊙þ Contrib.  20:34, 25 February 2013 (UTC)

Heroic Barnstar
Thanks. I do my best. At this point I'm being attacked on multiple pages in a concerted effort of harassment, and suspect that their goal is to get me to simply quit the project. — SMcCandlish   Talk⇒〈°⌊°〉 Contribs. 18:17, 7 February 2012 (UTC)

Some Wiki-love for you

 * Thanks. That means a lot right now, actually. — SMcCandlish Talk⇒ ɖ⊝כ⊙þ Contrib.  11:42, 11 February 2013 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

 * Thanks. As someone with really poor eyesight,  has actually meant something to me from an accessbility point of view (honestly, I don't even like that its functionality has been pared to do this { {!} } instead of { {!} } this to begin with, but one thing at a time, I guess.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  03:54, 1 May 2014 (UTC)

A cheeseburger for you!

 * &lt;nom nom nom&gt; Thanks. I'm actually headed to the gym in 15 minutes, coincidentally. Heh.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  03:53, 11 May 2014 (UTC)
 * So was I when I sent it, hence the thought... In ictu oculi (talk) 05:30, 11 May 2014 (UTC)

WikiCake


Primergrey (talk) has given you a WikiCake! WikiCakes promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day a little better. Spread the WikiLove by giving someone else a cake, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Bon appetit!

Spread the tastiness of cakes by adding {{subst:GiveCake}} to their talk page with a friendly message. You seem to be among the vanguard in the quest to raise copy editing and style formatting to at least the level of writing barely literate articles. Primergrey (talk) 05:04, 29 March 2015 (UTC)


 * Thanks. It's one of my more frequent points of focus here.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  14:56, 29 March 2015 (UTC)

A thank you
It may seem a little over the top to barnstar for a couple of days work but in an area where there's been entrenched battle ground for so long it has put a huge smile on my face, and moved me on a few of my positions, to be disagreed with in such a consensus building fashion. My faith in wikipedia has been somewhat restored and I can only hope it's a sea change for the way the talk page looks on the articles. SPACKlick (talk) 23:26, 10 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks. :-) It probably helps that I had no real view on the topic before arriving.  My only approach is from the perspective of the (complicated, and "always balance A against B, C, D, and E criteria") article titles policy, and what's best for the readers.  To me, it all boils down to whether "vapor",  any context, is potentially misleading, PoV-pushing, or anti-informative.  Editors too often go with a "COMMONNAME above all, forever" approach, but it's not what the policy actually wants, for good reason.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  08:20, 11 July 2015 (UTC)

Invitation to join the Ten Year Society
Dear ,

I'd like to extend a cordial invitation to you to join the Ten Year Society, an informal group for editors who've been participating in the Wikipedia project for ten years or more.

Best regards, Sarah (talk) 01:00, 21 August 2015 (UTC)

Congratulations
If you like you can add this userbox to your collection.

. Buster Seven   Talk  15:06, 4 October 2015 (UTC)

Socratic Barnstar

 * [bow] Thanks much. Glad to be helpful!  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  07:53, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

Some baklava for you!

 * ''Opa!  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  00:42, 4 March 2016 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

 * An additional comment: I have not been looking at the article history, just checking the article every now and then that nothing went amok. And, things seem to be going grrreeeaaaattt! Thanks again.-- CaroleHenson (talk) 19:30, 2 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I try to defuse disputes (when I'm not starting them, ha ha).  It's easiest for people who are uninvolved or neutral on something to see where both sides of an issue are going too far (or might).  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  23:22, 2 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Well, you're doing a great job!-- CaroleHenson (talk) 00:32, 3 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Thank you. :-)  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  05:08, 3 November 2016 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

 * Thanks. Was this for anything in particular?  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  14:17, 10 November 2016 (UTC)

A cup of coffee for you!

 * Sanka you very much. I do love to caffeinate some rats.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  14:49, 8 December 2016 (UTC)

Barnstar

 * Thanks. :-) Is this in response to any particular edit, page, post, discussion?  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  01:41, 26 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Your comments at ANI during discussion about Dicklyon's ban got my attention. I looked trough your other contributions and concluded that you deserve this barnstar. I was impressed with your honest approach to eventual disputes although I don't agree with your position every time. --Antidiskriminator (talk) 22:37, 26 January 2017 (UTC)

A Dobos torte for you!

 * Thanks! Was this in relation to anything in particular?  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  07:21, 27 May 2017 (UTC)
 * It was, but I don't remember specifically. Our paths crossed once again.  It's a gigantic encyclopedia.  7&amp;6=thirteen (☎) 12:34, 27 May 2017 (UTC)
 * [In retrospect, it's obvious it was about the thread immediately above it in original talk page.]

Barnstar
Didn't want to mess with your user page, so:


 * Oh, thanks. It was my pleasure (literally – I get a thrill out of resolving long-term, vexing problems with small bits of code). I hope it solves similar layout issues for other editors in other topics, too. I may add a div wrapper for content, as well.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  23:07, 13 July 2017 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

 * Oh, thanks. I'll go look at those.  I'm not being very comprehensive about this.  Was just looking at one page and it led me to another and and another, so I've been copy-editing various essays and info pages and so on.  About to propose a merge of WP:Common sense is not common and WP:NOCOMMON.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  17:12, 6 September 2017 (UTC)

Opinion Barnstar
I just wanted to say "thank you" for coming in and definitively closing the Request for Comments regarding an anonymous user's fringe theory about the nature of the U.S. dollar. In case you had looked, the article had been hijacked by a rolling series of I.P. users since January of this year. User:Khajidha and I would attempt to bring some sanity to the situation, only to be flooded by lengthy diatribes of little worth. Nobody seemed willing to do anything about the situation, so I started a RfC in the hope that some sane Wikipedians would come to the rescue. I then stepped back so that I wouldn't appear biased. Some brave souls did come, but they were pummeled by the same ad nauseum arguments. Finally, at the first light of the fifth day, the cavalry arrived. Thanks to edits by User:NewEnglandYankee, User:Ronz, User:TenOfAllTrades, and finally, thanks to your definitive opinion in the RfC closure, the article seems to have been wrestled back to reality.

For these reasons I bestow upon thee the esteemed


 * LOL, thanks, and in retrospect I should have looked a little bit closer at the history. What I saw was all the weird personal rambling about gold being "illegal" to own in the US  (WTF? I guess I'm a big ol' criminal then), and how "theoretically" you could still maybe get gold for a dollar if yadda-yadda-yadda. The entire thing looked exactly like those rants about gun "statistics" that far-left fringies pull out of nowhere, or about being able to avoid federal income tax because "The United States" and "The United States of America" are different entities and doodle-doodle-dee that the far-right fringies pull out of nowhere, and it just had to stop per WP not being Facebook or 4Chan. People will troll all day (from both directions) on stuff like that, just because it's fun to argue.  I  notice the "slow editwar" stuff going on to push the WP:FRINGE idea that the US dollar isn't a fiat currency, I just didn't pay attention to who in particular had opened the RfC, thus didn't deduce the intent of it.  So, sorry if I "shot" you by accident.  Of course, it being a WP:NAC, someone who wants to keep blathering about their pet economics hypotheses could reopen it, but we can hope not.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ &gt;ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ&lt;  06:46, 30 September 2017 (UTC)

Fauna titles seastar

 * Oh, thank you!  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ &gt;ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ&lt;  01:14, 1 October 2017 (UTC)

Precious
 four dimensions player

 Thank you for quality articles such as Jasmin Ouschan and William A. Spinks, for service in 12 years, for thoughts about policy, style and consistency, for an initiative for clarification, - Stanton, cat lover in four dimensions, you are an awesome Wikipedian! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:41, 1 December 2017 (UTC)


 * Grazie! PS: I really didn't do much on the Ouschan article, though the Spinks one is about 95% my work. Some non-trivial articles I created (not from splits/mergers) are Persian onager, Turkmenian Kulan (over a redirect ), "Pool Hall Blues", Valley-Dynamo, Valley National 8-Ball League Association, IBSF World Snooker Championship, Five-pin billiards (a progressive WP:TNT, over what was originally a useless machine translation of the it.wikipedia stub: ), Crystalate Manufacturing Company,  and a TNT rewrite  of Three-ball.  Something in the system just partial-credited me with the Ouschan GA, probably based on number of edits or something, but it was mostly cleanup work.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ &gt;ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ&lt;  00:01, 2 December 2017 (UTC)

A beer for you!

 * {burp} Thankee verr mush!  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ &gt;ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ&lt;  10:25, 17 December 2017 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

 * Thanks. I do what I can to push for some WP:AE and WP:AC/DS reform, but it's very, very slow-going.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ &gt;ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ&lt;  13:41, 10 January 2018 (UTC)

Thank you ...
... for improving article quality in January 2018! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:06, 30 January 2018 (UTC)
 * I do my best!  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  02:54, 31 January 2018 (UTC)

[This one seems to be recurrent; the also precious Gerda drops one off every month. :-) As long as I'm active, anyway.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  11:22, 16 July 2018 (UTC)]

A 2nd User Page Barnstar for you

 * Thanks. :-) I consider it kind of a mess; some other editors have done a lot of fancy CSS work to make theirs better, but I don't like to spend a lot of time on userpage stuff unless it's directly geared at productivity. So, it's kind of a feature dump of tools I use, and to-dos, and proposals and their results, plus a bunch of infoboxes that I hope help explain my proclivities, skill sets, interests, and hot buttons to other editors.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  15:32, 2 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Well, if it really is a mess, then it would seem to be a very useful and informative mess Tlhslobus (talk) 02:22, 3 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Glad it's been helpful. :-)  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  12:07, 7 March 2018 (UTC)

There is a mop reserved in your name
I am certain that if you succeeded an RfA, you'd be an excellent administrator. It's possible that the quorum attending your RfA will fail to recognize your gifts, but I think it's worth the endeavor and hope you will give it a go. I understand if you decide against a run, but hope that you'll read the linked essay, and know that it does speak of you.--John Cline (talk) 13:29, 22 May 2018 (UTC)

Perhaps it's time...
Hi SMcMcandlish. As someone who as bumped into you in various spaces over the years with a generally positive impression resulting, I decided to take a closer look at the scope and caliber of your contributions over the last few days because it has occurred to me that your experience and facility with nuanced policy might make you a good candidate for adminship, especially now that we are seriously hurting for skilled mops. I see from looking into the matter that you had a failed run about eight years back, but it seems as if a majority of the opposes came from concerns about the way in which the discussion was promoted rather than fundamental issues with your qualifications. In any event, you have eight extra years of experience and a truly massive amount of edits to your name in the interim. I wonder if I might encourage you take another run? I can well imagine why you were not in a hurry to go through that again, but I suspect you would be good with the bit. Thoughts? S<b style="color: #66c0fd">n</b><b style="color: #99d5fe;">o</b><b style="color: #b2dffe;">w</b> <b style="color: #d4143a">let's rap</b> 07:40, 16 July 2018 (UTC)

A Baker Barnstar

 * Thank you!  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  00:50, 9 November 2018 (UTC)

The Industrial Barnstar

 * Thanks. I"m still sore from that one. Took hours and hours. There's still stuff that can be extracted from the interview, and I just found another source.  Now someone needs to create a Deathline International page. It's been prodded or speedied twice and this will not do. I can't take that one on (CoI – I know people in the band).  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  23:06, 3 December 2018 (UTC)
 * PS: Regretfully, I had to replace the non-free image with the stock Industrial Barnstar one; we're not allowed to use a non-free image for stuff like this, only to illustrate the article to which it pertains, so some drive-by admin might have just reverted the whole post.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  23:14, 3 December 2018 (UTC)

DYK for William Hoskins (inventor)
– Amakuru (talk) 00:02, 12 February 2019 (UTC)

DYK for Ground billiards
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:01, 26 March 2019 (UTC)

Star

 * Glad it was a useful wringer. >;-) Thank you for making a good case and doing the leg-work.  I think her article is pretty tight, despite my initial skepticism of a bio article on her.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  05:39, 27 October 2019 (UTC)

Invitation to join the Fifteen Year Society
Dear ,

I'd like to extend a cordial invitation to you to join the Fifteen Year Society, an informal group for editors who've been participating in the Wikipedia project for fifteen years or more. &#x200B;

Best regards, Chris Troutman  ( talk ) 14:11, 11 August 2020 (UTC)


 * Thanks. I am now officially a WikiFossil. Heh.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  12:03, 12 August 2020 (UTC)

Trouted
You have been trouted for: having a kick-ass profile. :D Ivario (talk) 02:17, 24 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Schweet. Pan-seared, fresh-caught trout, with hashed-browns and an egg on the side is the best breakfast ever.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  02:23, 24 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Bon appetit! Ivario (talk) 16:39, 24 November 2020 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

 * Thanks! It has indeed been strange. I know someone who became a follower of this guru), though this did not color my approach to the content.  I've tried hard (before giving it a rest and letting others do it for a year or so) to keep it pruned of both ranty and insufficiently sourced attacks by detractors, and wild promotional/miraculous claims by adherents.  Given the state of the media in India, it's difficult to ferret out exactly what is going on legally.  The fact that he's been accused of various things doesn't make him guilty, but fleeing the country as more charges pile up doesn't look good either.  I'm a bit reminded of John McAfee (and I'm not sure our article on him even covers all the stuff he's allegedly gotten up to).  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  19:53, 24 December 2020 (UTC)

Happy Valentines! A kitten for you!
You get the Loyalty Award! Please accept this cute little kitten as token of appreciation for being loyal to values, and standing by other editors in need like me! Thank you!

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