User:Shanes

This user is an administrator on the English Wikipedia

This user lives in Norway.

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This user can contribute with a near-native level of English.

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Dieser Benutzer hat fortgeschrittene Deutschkenntnisse.

This user maintains a strict policy condemning all personal attacks.

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I'm just one of the many thousand people editing here and who want wikipedia to be as complete, accurate and trust worthy as possible. I hope many more will join the project, become wikipedians and have fun contributing.

I started editing here in November 2004, and became an administrator in April 2005. I live in Oslo, Norway and have a Master's degree in theoretical physics from some 12 years back.

Rant

I detest many of the dominating boxes and tags being placed in various articles for self centered reasons and wrote a rant about it (now slightly out of date in some respects, but I'm too lazy/busy to update it).

I wish we could keep articles as clean as possible, follow the style manual, and stop starting articles with big distracting boxes and messages meant for editors. If we want to say something to the editors of an article, we should do it on the talk page. That's what talk pages are there for. The articles should be about the article topic, not about Wikipedia or the people editing it. We are here for the readers.

Barnstars

Wikipedians don't get money for their work, but sometimes they get a Barnstar. I've received 4 (you've now got 5) myself. Thanks!

I, Flcelloguy, do hereby present this Barnstar of Reversion to Shanes for his tireless work in deleting non-sensical pages and for his effort in reverting vandalism.
I, FireFox hereby award you this Minor Barnstar for all your brilliant minor edits!

For keeping focus Well done for reminding people what we're all here to do. Rob Church

Barnstar of Diligence Award, from Encyclopedist

		The Original Barnstar
		I am awarding you this barnstar in recognition of your tireless work - like a bright barnstar against a dark barnnight

Handy links to spot tests, vanity and vandalism

Main page

State leaders

Norwegian politicians

Birth day vanity

edit tests 1

edit tests 2

Travels

I like traveling. Here are the countries I've lived in or visited so far.

AND	BEL	BUL	CAN	CH	CPV
CZE	DEU	DNK	ESP	EST	FIN
FRA	GRC	HRV	HUN	ITA	LUX
MCO	NLD	NOR	POL	POR	RUS
SWE	TUR	GBR	USA	VAT	SVN	Soviet Union

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. -- Bertrand Russell