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| The Socratic Barnstar | ||
| IN ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF YOUR SCHOLARLY, PATIENT, COURTEOUS, INCISIVE AND ELOQUENT CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE FASCISM-RELATED TALK PAGES Writegeist (talk) 23:49, 28 June 2009 (UTC) |
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The LGBT Barnstar | |
| because that's how you roll. |
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The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar |
| For cleaning up and categorizing politics related articles. LK (talk) 14:36, 30 October 2009 (UTC) |
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The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar |
| For hard work and fearlessness in jumping into the fray. CarolMooreDC (talk) 02:57, 8 March 2011 (UTC) |
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The Burkie Barnstar | |
| For your many efforts to improve articles on Conservatism-related articles, I give you the Edmund Burke Barnstar. Keep up the good work. Will Beback talk 04:02, 12 April 2011 (UTC) |
| The Barnstar of Diplomacy | ||
| In honor of your disagreeing without being disagreeable and your turd-polishing expertise. V7-sport (talk) 21:25, 3 August 2011 (UTC) |
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The Golden Wiki | |
| Dear TFD, Wikipedia owes you a huge collective thank you for researching the origins of the horrid "Jews & Communism" article and bringing about its well-deserved final demise. Thank you so much!! Your consistent rejection of its premises and clear recognition that it was pseudo-scholarship and your fearless first nomination of it for deletion and never wavering from your highly principled reasoning served as an intellectual and moral beacon in what at some points became an "insane world" by those defending the indefensible. May you go from strength to strength. Your sincerely, IZAK (talk) 11:02, 18 May 2014 (UTC) |
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The Barnstar of Diligence | |
| Thank you for your contribution to a successful mediation. Sunray (talk) 06:39, 8 August 2015 (UTC) |