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        Hello, I am Thaddeus from Columbus, Ohio (USA). I have been editing Wikipedia for a while now (and reading it longer), and have dabbled a little in many different areas. I have done some [[WP:RC patrol|vandalism fighting]], done a little [[WP:New page patrol|New page patrol]], offered a few [[WP:3O|third opinions]], [[:Category:Articles_that_need_to_be_wikified|wikified]] some articles, [[Wikipedia:ORPHAN|de-orphaned]] a few pages, and participated in many [[WP:AfD|AfDs]]. Of course, I have worked some on content creation and consensus building too. In most everything I have done, I have tried to "get it right" and handle the hard cases where help was most needed rather than just doing what was easier and quicker.

Overtime, I have found that the three areas I enjoy contributing the most are [[WP:TYPO|correcting spelling & grammar errors]], [[Wikipedia:WikiProject proposed deletion patrolling|patrolling proposed deletions]] to find article worth saving or transwiking, and writing [[WP:BOT|bots]] to automate tedious tasks.

On July 29, 2009 I was [[Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/ThaddeusB|promoted to administrator]] by a 117-2-7 vote. I am truly honored and humbled by the outpouring of support and look forward to serving the community in my new role.

A log of my proposed deletion activity can be found at [[User:ThaddeusB/PROD Log]].

I have made over 200 improvements to [[Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Typos|RegExTypoFix]] and have written three bots:

*[[User:DeadLinkBOT|DeadLinkBOT]] which updates external links that have [[linkrot|"rotted"]]

*[[user:WebCiteBOT|WebCiteBOT]] which helps prevent link rot of citations by submitting most newly added links to [[Webcitation.org]] for permanent archival.

*[[User:WikiStatsBOT|WikiStatsBOT]] which keeps track of Wikipedia statistics requested by WikiProjects and such.

If you have a task you'd like to see automated, [[User_talk:ThaddeusB|drop me a line]].

[http://toolserver.org/~soxred93/count/index.php?name=ThaddeusB&lang=en&wiki=wikipedia View my edit count]

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==Useful Stuff==

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* [[Wikipedia:Manual of Style|Manual of Style]]

* [[Wikipedia:Avoid weasel words|Weasel Words]]

* [[List of English words with disputed usage]]

* [[List of commonly misused English words]]

* [[Wikipedia:Lists_of_common_misspellings|List of common misspellings and typos]]

* [[:Meta:Help:Table|Creating Tables]]

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* [[Wikipedia:Recent_changes_patrol#Patrolling_edits_to_existing_pages|Recent changes patrol - warning templates]]

* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Stub_sorting/Stub_types|Full list of stub types]]

* [[Wikipedia:Template messages|List of templates]] / [[Wikipedia:Template_messages/Cleanup|Cleanup tags]]

* [[Template:Opentask|List of tasks in need of attention]]

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==Awards==

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[[File:Admin_T-shirt.svg|thumb|left|I'm shocked that you haven't recieved this yet. <small>([[User:X!|<span style="color:gray">X!</span>]]&nbsp;·&nbsp;[[User talk:X!|<span style="color:gray">talk</span>]]) &nbsp;·&nbsp;[[Swatch Internet Time|@232]] &nbsp;·&nbsp;</small> 04:34, 30 July 2009 (UTC)]]

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{{User Good Article|PokerTracker}}

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|style="font-size: x-large; padding: 0; vertical-align: middle; height: 1.1em;" | '''The Minor Barnstar'''

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|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | For your excellent work helping to keep wikipedia clean of typos! [[User:QueenCake|QueenCake]] ([[User talk:QueenCake|talk]]) 19:48, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

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|style="font-size: x-large; padding: 0; vertical-align: middle; height: 1.1em;" | '''The da Vinci Barnstar'''

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|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | For creating a bot that will single-handedly prevent a whole slew of dead reference links. Great job! [[User:Anomie|Anomie]][[User talk:Anomie|⚔]] 01:25, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

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|style="font-size: x-large; padding: 0; vertical-align: middle; height: 1.1em;" | '''The Barnstar of Diligence'''

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|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | For keeping a watchful eye on the [[2009 swine flu]] related articles, and the even-keeled sensibility you bring to the hourly "emergencies" that arise at the article/template talk pages. Regards. [[User:Abecedare|Abecedare]] ([[User talk:Abecedare|talk]]) 00:50, 2 May 2009 (UTC)

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|style="font-size: x-large; padding: 0; vertical-align: middle; height: 1.1em;" | '''The Article Rescue Barnstar'''

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|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 3px solid gray;" | Thank you so, so much for providing the reliable sources that saved [[nigahiga]] from deletion and, in other words, one of the articles I most wanted to get created. I was tempted to give you a cookie but this barnstar is far more appropriate. (Sorry for not formatting this properly; I'm still a wiki formatting dunce.) [[User:Clem cowsie|Clem]] ([[User talk:Clem cowsie|talk]]) 04:43, 5 July 2009 (UTC)

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|style="font-size: x-large; padding: 0; vertical-align: middle; height: 1.1em;" | '''The Original Barnstar'''

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|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | I award this [[Wikipedia:Barnstars on Wikipedia|Barnstar]] to ThaddeusB for their great efforts in maintaining deletion quality standards and helping new users. --[[User:Hell in a Bucket|Hell In A Bucket]] ([[User talk:Hell in a Bucket|talk]]) 18:43, 5 July 2009 (UTC)

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