Wikipedia has become hopelessly politicized, as evidenced most recently by the unwarranted persecution of
User:Jayjg. This coupled with the recent rampage by deletionist cadres whose idea of enhancing the project is deleting the hard work of others based on their own limited notions of notability, has convinced me that this project is no longer a good use of my free time. I may continue to make minor adjustments to existing articles but do not intend to add any new content. I will not be checking my talk page regularly but invite those with whom I've developed correspondences to continue to contact me via email.
Wikipedia editor
This is a Wikipediauser page. This is not an encyclopedia article or the talk page for an encyclopedia article. If you find this page on any site other than Wikipedia, you are viewing a
mirror site. Be aware that the page may be outdated and that the user whom this page is about may have no personal affiliation with any site other than Wikipedia. The original page is located at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Briangotts.
I once played a game of
Go with a guy who claimed to have a
Shusaku number of 14. Since I'm not very good at Go, and understand very few of its rules, the game lasted about ten minutes and I was horribly defeated. Nonetheless, my shusaku number is 15...
For past and continued hard work illuminating (pre)historical territory in historical context, via numerous
top-quality maps.
Xaxafrad 21:48, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
The Black Cross of St. Declan
You,
Briangotts, are awarded the Black Cross of St. Declan for going medieval on our asses with your excellent work on articles of
Dark Ages and
Middle Ages interest. De réir a chéile a thógtar na caisleáin - "It takes time to build castles"
Ciarán of Clonmacnoise 05:27, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
Germanic WikiProject award
I, Odin Rex, hereby grant you the Snorri Award for your work in Germanic articles . 09 April 2007.
King Óðinn The Aesir 20:08, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
The Epic Barnstar
Awarded to Brian for superlative work on historical articles. Blnguyen (
bananabucket) 02:46, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
The Varangian Guard Award
I have been thinking of giving you an award for a long time because of your extensive quality work on articles relating to the middle ages in both Northern and Eastern Europe. Þú ert manna mestr óníðingr.--
Berig (
talk) 17:52, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
Norse history and culture
Thank you for donating quality articles such as
Rus' Khaganate and
Kylfings, for starting the project
Norse history and culture, for covering Israelite and Jewish history, for related images, - repeating: you are an
awesome Wikipedian!
See
User:Briangotts/Wiglaf Norse articles for links to Norse myth and history articles by
User:Wiglaf, who has now left Wikipedia. I keep them for reference in case I need to use or improve one of them.
Something as monumental as Wikipedia could only be possible through the efforts of thousands of dedicated editors. For me, it's been a pleasure to work with a number of people on various articles. Check out their user pages, listed here in alphabetic order:
Wikipedia has become hopelessly politicized, as evidenced most recently by the unwarranted persecution of
User:Jayjg. This coupled with the recent rampage by deletionist cadres whose idea of enhancing the project is deleting the hard work of others based on their own limited notions of notability, has convinced me that this project is no longer a good use of my free time. I may continue to make minor adjustments to existing articles but do not intend to add any new content. I will not be checking my talk page regularly but invite those with whom I've developed correspondences to continue to contact me via email.
Wikipedia editor
This is a Wikipediauser page. This is not an encyclopedia article or the talk page for an encyclopedia article. If you find this page on any site other than Wikipedia, you are viewing a
mirror site. Be aware that the page may be outdated and that the user whom this page is about may have no personal affiliation with any site other than Wikipedia. The original page is located at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Briangotts.
I once played a game of
Go with a guy who claimed to have a
Shusaku number of 14. Since I'm not very good at Go, and understand very few of its rules, the game lasted about ten minutes and I was horribly defeated. Nonetheless, my shusaku number is 15...
For past and continued hard work illuminating (pre)historical territory in historical context, via numerous
top-quality maps.
Xaxafrad 21:48, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
The Black Cross of St. Declan
You,
Briangotts, are awarded the Black Cross of St. Declan for going medieval on our asses with your excellent work on articles of
Dark Ages and
Middle Ages interest. De réir a chéile a thógtar na caisleáin - "It takes time to build castles"
Ciarán of Clonmacnoise 05:27, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
Germanic WikiProject award
I, Odin Rex, hereby grant you the Snorri Award for your work in Germanic articles . 09 April 2007.
King Óðinn The Aesir 20:08, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
The Epic Barnstar
Awarded to Brian for superlative work on historical articles. Blnguyen (
bananabucket) 02:46, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
The Varangian Guard Award
I have been thinking of giving you an award for a long time because of your extensive quality work on articles relating to the middle ages in both Northern and Eastern Europe. Þú ert manna mestr óníðingr.--
Berig (
talk) 17:52, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
Norse history and culture
Thank you for donating quality articles such as
Rus' Khaganate and
Kylfings, for starting the project
Norse history and culture, for covering Israelite and Jewish history, for related images, - repeating: you are an
awesome Wikipedian!
See
User:Briangotts/Wiglaf Norse articles for links to Norse myth and history articles by
User:Wiglaf, who has now left Wikipedia. I keep them for reference in case I need to use or improve one of them.
Something as monumental as Wikipedia could only be possible through the efforts of thousands of dedicated editors. For me, it's been a pleasure to work with a number of people on various articles. Check out their user pages, listed here in alphabetic order: