User:Worm That Turned/Awards

Hi Worm That Turned!

I am hereby awarding you the Executive Director's Barnstar, to celebrate your many contributions to the English Wikipedia!

You were recommended for the award by Maryana Pinchuk, who nominated you for being a "marvelous mentor" on the English Wikipedia. Maryana says that you've been an active adopter of new users in the Adopt-a-user program, you've been helpful at the Teahouse, and that you also work to sort through problems with people who've landed at AN/I or have otherwise gotten into conflicts in the community. She describes you as patient and kind and says you've spent countless hours composing lesson plans for Wikipedians-in-training (complete with barnstars for completing sections), including rewriting a lot of our garbled policy pages from scratch so that they're actually useable (for example, this page on copyright. I think Maryana first met you in person at a London meetup: she says you're just as lovely in person as you are on the wikis :-)

The Executive Director's Barnstar is an award that I give out every now and then, created for me by my colleague Frank Schulenberg to celebrate and honour editors who are making a particularly significant contribution to the projects. In addition to the work that Maryana describes above, since joining the projects in 2007, you've made more than 13,661 edits on 11 projects, according to the user contributions page on the toolserver. Thank you so much for your contributions!

If you, or anyone reading this, wants to nominate an editor for the ED Barnstar, please feel free to do it on my talk page. And thanks to Maryana at the Wikimedia Foundation, for making this nomination. Sue Gardner (talk) 20:01, 1 October 2012 (UTC)

It should take a few weeks for everything to get coded and tested, and once that is done the community will be presented with a mock up to assess on aesthetic appeal.

Finally, I invite all of you to participate in the featured sounds process itself. Whether you're a performer, an uploader, or just come across a sound file you find top quality, and that meets the featured sound criteria, you can nominate it at Wikipedia:Featured sound candidates. Featured sounds is also looking for people to help assess candidates (also at Wikipedia:Featured sound candidates.)

Thanks again for such a strong showing of support, and I hope to see you at featured sounds in the future.
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Adam Cuerden ^(talk)
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Dear Worm That Turned,

Congratulations! As for being a great and helpful contributor to this project, you have been identified as a hero or heroine of Wikipedia. Thanks alot for all your good and helpful work to this project. You are an awesome Wikipedian to the project.

Your username has appeared on this list.

Good luck and happy editing.

-Porchcrop ^{(talk|contributions)} 22:51, 11 March 2011 (UTC)

I honestly did not think too much of it at the start - did not really think it would help me too much either. I was very wrong. Dave, I'd like to thank you for finally adopting me, yes, it's taken a whole year and a month but I feel like I have finally achieved something, and that's being adopted by an experienced editor, and learning so much about the policies and guidlines of Wikipedia! I cannot say how much sorry I am that it took this long...I'm a slow learner, as you may have noticed, and procrastination does not help at all. I believe I am (maybe?) your youngest adoptee to have passed and graduated, which is an honor (and just think, if you've adopted me, you can adopt anyone! ) -- MST☆R ^{(Chat Me!)} 13:04, 18 April 2012 (UTC)

Something that I should have given you ages ago, but now is just fine. You Dave, are a model editor - an editor that everyone should look up to, even take a page from you. You have an impeccable, admirable and impressive integrity and honor. -- MST☆R ^{(Chat Me!)} 13:04, 18 April 2012 (UTC)

I hope this barnstar hasn't been overused for you, but, I'd like to just remind you, that yes, your hard work is seen and is always appreciated. -- MST☆R ^{(Chat Me!)} 13:04, 18 April 2012 (UTC)

Have a beer and get back to your wonderful editing-work! -- MST☆R ^{(Chat Me!)} 09:09, 31 January 2012 (UTC)

My name is arun kumar sharma. I am an INDIAN. I am highly interested in the military and military aviation and i am also very knowledgeable about it. So i want to become an administrator in wikipedia to get some essential rights which are required for me to editing and doing some other task. I swear that i will help to increase the reputation of the wikipedia. So sir, please nominate me for adminship and i will provide my 100 % efforts to improve the wikipedia. Thank You Sir. Please eat these strawberries these tastes good. Thank You again Sir. Arun sharma 101 17:10, 16 August 2012 (UTC)

With over 120 supporters, you have got to be proud!

Keep up the excellent work! You will do great as an administrator, as you have always done as an editor. -- MelbourneStar☆ ^{(talk to me)} 12:29, 6 July 2011 (UTC)