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I first started editing Wikipedia in July 2007, and became a sysop in January 2008. Being a sysop means that I can do a few extra things that other editors cannot do: e.g. block and unblock users, protect and unprotect pages, delete pages, and edit fully protected pages, among others. A record of my administrative actions can be found here. I was also selected as a Trainee Arbitration Committee Clerk in January 2010.

I was elected as a Coordinator of the Military History WikiProject in September 2008 and re-elected in March 2009, September 2009, March 2010, and September 2010. The project coordinators are generally responsible for maintaining all of the procedural and administrative aspects of the project, and serve as the designated points-of-contact for procedural issues. I am also involved with a few other WikiProjects that relate to my interests to varying extents, although I spend most of my time at MILHIST and WikiProject Ships.

Significant Contributions

• I'm not a big article writer, but I have improved some and have a few articles that I make the effort to maintain and I have a few articles I'd like to expand at some point in the future. My strengths lie in my ability to do the little fixes that a WikiGnome is capable of; those things that may be monotonous to some are enjoyable to me.
• / Nominated USS Texas (BB-35) for Good Article status and A-Class with the author TomStar81.
• Article development on USS Illinois (BB-65) from Stub to A-class, but did not pass FAC, was revamped twice by TomStar81 and is now a Featured Article.
• List of United States Military Academy alumni (Astronauts) - I must thank Rlevse for his invaluable assistance.
• Compilation of all alumni for List of United States Naval Academy alumni (Astronauts) in collaboration with Rlevse.
• Creation of missing Timeline of spaceflight articles: 1989, and 1990

Favorite Quotes

Recognition

Primary user sub-page: /Awards

Awards
For great initiative and a great contribution to the Military history WikiProject in tagging over 1,000 maritime military history articles prior to Tag & Assess 2007 commencing, I hereby award you the Military history WikiProject WikiChevrons. --ROGER DAVIES TALK 20:32, 11 November 2007 (UTC) (November 2007)	In recognition of your outstanding efforts during the project's assessment drive, I award you the WikiProject Ships Barnstar! You sir, are a regular assessment machine! Keep up the fantastic work! Kralizec! (talk) 20:06, 17 December 2007 (UTC) (December 2007)
For tagging and assessing 1000 articles in Tag & Assess 2007, by order of the coordinators I hereby present you with this Military history WikiProject Service Award. --ROGER DAVIES talk 09:57, 2 January 2008 (UTC) (January 2008)	For your outstanding effort to help make the battleship Illinois a featured article I hereby award you the WikiChevrons. TomStar81 (Talk) 06:40, 22 January 2008 (UTC) (January 2008)
By the order of the coordinators of the Military history WikiProject, you are hereby awarded the WikiChevrons with Oak Leaves in recognition of your outstanding effort to improve our compliment of naval ships by updating infoboxes, replacing deprecated infoboxes, and locating sources for ships in the employment of their respective countries navies. For the coordinators, --ROGER DAVIES talk 13:06, 29 February 2008 (UTC) (February 2008)	For switching all original ship links on the current Montana-class battleship article to the template ship links version I hereby award you The Editor's Barnstar. Keep up the good work! TomStar81 (Talk) 01:45, 25 March 2008 (UTC) (March 2008)
By order of the coordinators, for your excellent work assessing B-class military history articles, I hereby award you this this Military history WikiProject Service Award. --ROGER DAVIES talk 18:43, 17 April 2008 (UTC) (April 2008)	By order of the coordinators, for your good work tagging and assessing military history articles in Tag & Assess 2008, I hereby award you this Military history WikiProject Service Award. --ROGER DAVIES talk 09:55, 1 August 2008 (UTC) (August 2008)
Be it known to all members of Wikipedia that MBK004 has corrected my god-awful spelling on the page United States Naval Gunfire Support Debate, and in doing so has made an important and very significant contribution to the Wikipedia community, thereby earning The Copyeditor's Barnstar and my deepest thanks. Keep up the good work! TomStar81 (Talk) 05:06, 8 August 2008 (UTC) (August 2008)	For contributing to the Iowa class battleship FAR and helping the article maintain its bronze star I hereby award you the WikiChevrons. Thanks for your help, I appreciate it. TomStar81 (Talk) 00:23, 20 August 2008 (UTC) (August 2008)
For your help with improving future Milhist drives at the 2008 Tag & Assess workshop, please accept this WikiProject Barnstar. --ROGER DAVIES talk 07:39, 30 August 2008 (UTC) (August 2008)	Coordinator of the Military history Wikiproject, October 2008 — March 2009 Congratulations on your election as Coordinator of the Military history Wikiproject. In honor of your achievement, I present you with these stars. I wish you luck in the coming term. -- TomStar81 (Talk) 01:09, 1 October 2008 (UTC) (September 2008)
For service above and beyond the call of duty as part of Operation Silent Sentry, the October 15, 2008, effort to keep the mainpage article USS New Jersey (BB-62) vandal free and address any talkpage related question, I hereby present you with The WikiChevrons. Semper Fi! TomStar81 (Talk) 00:51, 16 October 2008 (UTC) (October 2008)	For cleaning up wikilinks in general, and specifically the mess I caused when I implemented the rocketry title cleanup proposal and forgot to bypass certain redirects. --GW_SimulationsUser Page | Talk 22:08, 1 November 2008 (UTC) (November 2008)
For your outstanding efforts during Operation Trailblazer, culminating in the 2009 Featured Topic nomination for the Iowa-class battleships, the passage of which resulted in the first ever Wikipedia Featured Topic concerning ships exclusively, I herby present you with The Teamwork Barnstar. Thanks for all of your help, this is as much your Featured Topic as it is mine. TomStar81 (Talk) 22:20, 20 February 2009 (UTC) (February 2009)	For your leadership of The Military History WikiProject from September 2008–March 2009, please accept this WikiProject Barnstar. Cam (Chat) 00:46, 17 March 2009 (UTC) (March 2009)
Coordinator of the Military history WikiProject, April 2009 — September 2009 Congrats on your re-election as a Coordinator of the Military history Wikiproject! In keeping with the tradition of the project and in honor of your achievement, I present you with these stars. TomStar81 (Talk) 00:50, 29 March 2009 (UTC) (March 2009)	By order of the Military history WikiProject coordinators, for your devoted work on the WikiProject's Peer and A-Class reviews, I am delighted to award you this Content Review Medal.  Roger Davies talk 13:50, 12 April 2009 (UTC) (April 2009)
By order of the Military history WikiProject coordinators, for your devoted work on the WikiProject's Peer and A-Class reviews April to June 2009, I am delighted to award you this Content Review Medal.  Roger Davies talk 12:13, 5 July 2009 (UTC) (July 2009)	For filling out the long tables at User:the_ed17/Sandbox2 quite early in the morning, I award you this barnstar. Thank you! —Ed (Talk • Contribs) 10:20, 25 July 2009 (UTC) (July 2009)
For sustained superior performance in the area of Scouting topics in support of the ScoutingWikiProject. — Rlevse • Talk • 10:12, 11 August 2009 (UTC) (August 2009)	For crunching numbers for the FAC rate in the August newletter I present you with the Working Man Barnstar. Keep it up! TomStar81 (Talk) 06:12, 3 September 2009 (UTC) (September 2009)
Coordinator of the Military history WikiProject, October 2009 — March 2010 Congratulations on your re-election as a Coordinator for the Military history Project. In honor of your achievement, I present you with these stars. TomStar81 (Talk) 00:17, 27 September 2009 (UTC) (September 2009)	In gratitude for your coordination services to the Military history WikiProject, from March 2009 to September 2009, please accept this barnstar. --TomStar81 (Talk) 02:21, 27 September 2009 (UTC) (September 2009)
For watching my talk page while I was away I hereby award you the Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar. TomStar81 (Talk) 15:07, 8 December 2009 (UTC) (December 2009)	For your extensive contributions to the Military history WikiProject, as evidenced by your nomination in the 2009 "Military Historian of the Year" awards, I am delighted to present you with this WikiProject Barnstar. TomStar81 (Talk) 11:16, 8 January 2010 (UTC) (January 2010)
For keeping me sane during the Fourth Battle of the International Space Station, and, in doing so, preventing me from giving up on the Wikipedia project altogether. You've no idea how encouraging it is to have someone watching your back. :-) Colds7ream (talk) 20:21, 12 January 2010 (UTC) (January 2010)	For fixing up the MLB Awards FTC and putting the proper template on all those article talk pages! Staxringold talkcontribs 02:20, 21 January 2010 (UTC) (January 2010)
Coordinator of the Military history WikiProject, March 2010 — October 2010 Congratulations on your re-election as a Coordinator for the Military history Project. In honor of your achievement, I present you with these stars. TomStar81 (Talk) 00:10, 29 March 2010 (UTC) (March 2010)	In gratitude of your service as a coordinator for the Military history Project from September 2009 to March 2010, I hereby award you this WikiProject Barnstar. TomStar81 (Talk) 00:20, 29 March 2010 (UTC) (March 2010)
To MBK004, for your extremely helpful offer to take care of FAC and FAR "paperwork". Your efforts are truly appreciated. Karanacs (talk) 02:07, 14 April 2010 (UTC) (April 2010)	For your tireless efforts in thankless behind-the-scenes work for OMT, MILHIST, and Ships as described here. bahamut0013wordsdeeds 21:56, 7 May 2010 (UTC) (May 2010)
The Titan's Cross in Bronze For your work to inform us of newly opened GA, A, and FACs for our articles, your constant checking and reverting of non-constructive edits, and your assistance in DYK work and suggestions for article improvement I have the honor of awarding you this Bronze Titan's Cross to you. You are a unique and precious asset to our ongoing operation, and we are honored to have you with us. Congratulations! TomStar81 (Talk) 23:22, 31 May 2010 (UTC) (May 2010)