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Hi, Hellknowz! Thank you for your great contributions to Wikipedia!
I wanted to explain why I performed this edit, which you reverted. I performed the first edit because, on a previous occasion, I had noticed that the Bravery Barnstar 2.0 (which is now the Bravery Barnstar 1.0) had a white background, making it not comply with Wikipedia:Barnstars 2.0/Guidelines. For this reason, I moved it to the Barnstar 1.0 column. Also, since the only problem that I noticed with it was that the background was white and not transparent, I made one with a transparent background and added it (in the edit that you reverted). More information on my reasoning can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject Wikipedia Awards/Current Projects (the text of which is also displayed at WP:WPWPA).
I hope that this explanation is useful. If there is something more to the matter which I haven't seen, please let me know.
Thanks!
Noah Kastin ( talk) ( 🖋) 20:00, 18 July 2017 (UTC)
How would you feel about a "Scholarly Barnstar", awarded in recognition of contributions based on high-quality academic sources, perhaps with a star wearing a graduation cap? There's a small but special class of editors who make the effort to read the best scholarly publications on the subject they're working on. I'd like to have a barnstar to show my appreciation. Eperoton ( talk) 02:07, 18 July 2017 (UTC)
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@ Eperoton, PaleoNeonate, and RileyBugz: I have now created the Scholarly Barnstar template (located at Template:Scholarly Barnstar). I have also added the Scholarly Barnstar to the list of general barnstars at Wikipedia:Barnstars (in this edit). Please let me know if any improvements on this barnstar or anything relating to it need to be made. Thanks! Noah Kastin ( talk) ( 🖋) 02:19, 25 July 2017 (UTC)
@ Eperoton, RileyBugz, and PaleoNeonate: I just swapped out the graduation cap icon on the Scholarly Barnstar image from File:Graduation cap.png (the one with the blue corner) to File:Sciences humaines.svg (the one without the blue corner), as requested earlier in this discussion. I hope that this helps! Noah Kastin ( talk) ( 🖋) 04:46, 25 July 2017 (UTC)
How would you guys feel about having a "Real Life Barnstar", awarded in recognition to contributions made for the benefit of Wikipedia, in real world ? I have created a template at Template:Real Life Barnstar. P.S. this page is not in my watchlist therefore please ping. -- Saqib ( talk) 18:14, 6 August 2017 (UTC)
I noticed that we both have the Rescue and Recovery barnstars. My impression when reading their description is that they both are to award those who manage to improve articles when they are undergoing a deletion discussion. The Rescue one appears to be associated to the Article Rescue Squadron project, however. Input welcome on if those are really redundant or not. If they are and we decide to phase out one, we'd have to make sure that all existing uses have been substituted (they normally should be) and to not delete the image. Thanks, — Paleo Neonate – 23:11, 19 August 2017 (UTC)
A lot of work has been done over the past several months by many editors to expand and improve articles on the Presidents of the United States and their presidencies. I've created (and uploaded to Wikimedia commons) a barnstar—the POTUSbarnstar—to recognize those making significant contributions to these articles, and wanted to share it with you, and ask that it be added to the barnstar list. Cheers. Drdpw ( talk) 20:05, 8 August 2017 (UTC)
{{
The United States Presidents Barnstar|1=Message}}
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The U.S. Presidents Barnstar | |
Message |
Any objections to adding Template:The Running Woman Barnstar to the list? It is based on the alt version of Template:The Running Man Barnstar. Hmlarson ( talk) 07:45, 9 September 2017 (UTC)
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The Writer's Barnstar | |
For your tireless work on expanding our encyclopedia. Borsoka ( talk) 10:36, 22 September 2017 (UTC) |
[1] does not seem to be the intended use, is it? -- Hob Gadling ( talk) 07:26, 16 October 2017 (UTC)
Do you post in the user talk page or in the user page? Thinker78 ( talk) 21:09, 23 November 2017 (UTC)
I noticed that {{ New Page Reviewer of the Year}} is orphan. There's probably a relevant place where it could be listed (I've not seriously looked yet, but this is a reminder, and others may know). It is still in use. Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Reviewers may be a candidate. — Paleo Neonate – 01:45, 24 November 2017 (UTC)
Here's an example:
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The Tropical Cyclone Barnstar | |
{{{1}}} |
Here's the general form:
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The Tropical Cyclone Barnstar | |
{{{1}}} |
Care to differ or discuss with me? The Nth User 20:54, 8 January 2018 (UTC)
People (especially from this wikiproject) bureacratize way, way too much at Wikipedia:Barnstars and its talk page. I haven't created a barnstar in years, and the sole reason is the difficulty of getting any kind of consensus there, and the revert-happy zeal employed by people who stalk that page, which is actually in contravention of WP:EDITING policy (editors have a right to make improvements as they see fit, and reverts are used when the result is clearly not an improvement, not on some WP:IDONTLIKEIT basis or "you didn't get our permission first" one. WT:BARNSTAR is kind of the last vestige of an WP:Esperanza-style private club left on Wikipedia, and it really needs to stop. Just the fact that Wikipedia talk:Barnstars and even Wikipedia talk:Personal user awards now redirect to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Wikipedia Awards is not cool. That's not appreciably different from redirecting Wikipedia talk:Systemic bias to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Women in Red or something.
There is no practical reason that the various topical barnstars created by wikiprojects, and the various more imaginative user awards on the other page (aside from those controlled as So-and-so User's private award) cannot be merged into
WP:BARNSTAR, those created by
WP:WikiProject Kindness Campaign, and various others added; they're scattered all over the place. Have you all not noticed that the frequency with which people give each others barnstars has fallen through the floor? Guess why. No one wants to have to deal with something that feels like FAC or a drama noticeboard just to add a template to a page. Precisely zero of our other template index pages operate that way, for good reason. I'm of half a mind to start an alternative page without the "police squad", and then after it proves to be 10× more popular, MfD the old one as obsolete and either to be merged or to be wikiproject-spaced.
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10:40, 9 January 2018 (UTC); revised 10:50, 9 January 2018 (UTC)
The issue here to me is that several WP-wide template index pages are as heavily regulated by this project as stub templates and their categories are by
WP:WikiProject Stub sorting. That thing is a very strange animal: being a formalized process since the early 2000s (e.g.
WP:CFD and
WP:TFD will not accept nominations of stub categories and templates, and they must go to
WP:WSS), so it should no longer be at a "WikiProject" name. Having it there sends a very bad signal to other wikiprojects to behave in the same manner, even though WP:WSS is completely unique in having been adopted as an official process page. This project, WP:WPWPA, has no such imprimatur from the community to tightly regulate a series of templates. Doing it with this series in particular seems downright counter-productive.
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SMcCandlish
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19:37, 9 January 2018 (UTC)
Inspired by the current events:
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You are "like, really smart" and indeed, a "very stable genius" {{{1}}} in dealing with with the issue of
fake news on our platform.
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Proposed: {{subst:Current Events|recipient's username|~~~~}}
Poeticbent
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20:57, 9 January 2018 (UTC)
The Current Events Barnstar may be awarded to editors who make substantial contributions to current events articles, helping accurate information get through when it is most needed.
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The Current Events Barnstar | |
You are "like, really smart" and indeed, a "very stable genius" in dealing with with the issue of
fake news on our platform.
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The Trump Barnstar | |
You are "like, really smart" and indeed, a "very stable genius" {{{1}}} in dealing with with the issue of
fake news on our platform.
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{{subst:Trump Barnstar|recipient's username|~~~~}}
Hi everyone! I have a proposition to make, but first I have to provide some relevant background.
About four months ago, a discussion (viewable here) occurred. Rather than paraphrasing, I'll simply quote the whole discussion here:
Any objections to adding Template:The Running Woman Barnstar to the list? It is based on the alt version of Template:The Running Man Barnstar. Hmlarson ( talk) 07:45, 9 September 2017 (UTC)
- @ Hmlarson: Thanks for asking!
- My personal opinion would be to avoid adding The Running Woman Barnstar to the list, for the following reasons:
- The Running Man Barnstar already exists as a barnstar for sports in general, so making a barnstar for sports specifically related to women seems somewhat redundant. (If sports actually is a large enough category that it should have sub-category barnstars like the proposed one, I would suggest adding this barnstar as well as one for sports specifically related to men, but I don't think that sports is a large enough category to warrant sub-category barnstars, so I would rather not add this one.)
- If the reason for making a new barnstar is that The Running Man Barnstar contains the word "man", and that that somehow excludes women, then I would suggest the following: Rather than making a new barnstar just to have a different name, Template:The Running Man Barnstar should gain a gender parameter like the one at Template:The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar, allowing The Running Man Barnstar to be written alternatively as The Running Woman Barnstar or The (gender-neutral equivalent) Barnstar.
- Please let me know if you have any questions about my comment.
- Thanks again for asking!
- Noah Kastin ( talk) ( 🖋) 09:38, 9 September 2017 (UTC)
As you can see here, [a] there was no response to the above discussion.
About a month ago, SMcCandlish added Template:The Running Woman Barnstar to the barnstars list (in this edit), with an edit summary reading "Gender neutrality". However, I still hold my former opinion regarding this:
Rather than making a new barnstar just to have a different name, Template:The Running Man Barnstar should gain a gender parameter like the one at Template:The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar, allowing The Running Man Barnstar to be written alternatively as The Running Woman Barnstar or The (gender-neutral equivalent) Barnstar.
As such, I think that gender neutrality can be achieved simply by adding this parameter, rather than by having two nearly identical barnstars existing in tandem.
I also noticed that there is a third Running-related barnstar, called simply Template:Running Man Barnstar (as opposed to Template:The Running Man Barnstar). This template seems to act exactly like Template:The Running Man Barnstar, except that 1) Template:Running Man Barnstar cannot create a 2.0 Barnstar, just a 1.0 Barnstar, and 2) the entire description of Template:Running Man Barnstar is included with the barnstar picture itself.
Due to all of this, I propose the following changes:
If no one objects to the changes that I proposed directly above this line of text, I will put them through. If anyone has any objections, however, feel free to mention them, and I will try to find some way that we can find consensus. Also, if anyone has any other questions, feel free to mention them here.
Thanks!
Noah Kastin ( talk) ( 🖋) 09:13, 9 January 2018 (UTC)
Hi, SarekOfVulcan! Thank you for editing Wikipedia!
I noticed that you added a new barnstar, The Eastern Barnstar, to the list of barnstars at Wikipedia:Barnstars. This is a perfectly fine barnstar, except for one thing: Barnstars usually have templates so that users can simply and easily place the barnstars on pages via the template without having to find the barnstar image in question and figure out what to do with them; however, this barnstar does not have an associated template. Would you mind if I created a template for this barnstar, so that it can have one and, therefore, potentially be more useful to other editors?
Thank you again for editing Wikipedia!
Noah Kastin ( talk) ( 🖋) 18:40, 24 January 2018 (UTC)
I created a barnstar that can be sent to users who contribute to existence related articles, or more humorously, to send to users who exist (after all, you can't contribute without existing).— Preceding unsigned comment added by ZLEA ( talk • contribs) 17:50, 2 February 2018 (UTC)
Hi, Paul2520, and thank you for adding the Minnesota Barnstar to the the topical barnstars list!
I noticed that you entered File:Seal of Minnesota-alt.png as an alternate image for the barnstar. While this is perfectly fine, placing the image in the Barnstar 2.0 column seems misleading, as the seal is not a barnstar. Therefore, I would like to propose that we find some way to place the seal in some more convenient area of the table (if there is one) and/or create a Minnesota Barnstar 2.0.
If you have any questions, please let me know.
Thank you!
Noah Kastin ( talk) ( 🖋) 17:49, 20 February 2018 (UTC)
I would like to see such a thing as ‘The a Feminist Barnstar’, which should be awarded for making edits to articles about women. There is a graphic that I have created.
Thank you. ——— Peppa Pig the Second ( talk) 10:43, 26 February 2018 (UTC)
Hi, I created a new edition of the Template Barnstar, for the old one is low resolution. But I couldn't learn the words in the old editon (for its low resolution). Is it applicable to Template Barnstar?-- HFWMan ( talk) 09:02, 1 March 2018 (UTC)
I've taken upon myself to extend the qualifications of the Purple Barnstar: awarded to those who have endured undue hardship (e.g., incessant harassment, personal issues, etc.) on or outside Wikipedia but still remain resolute in their commitment to the project and its ideals. Recently I have given this award to two seperate Wikipedians who have disclosed that they suffer from health issues and still make tremendous efforts here. I think this falls into the scope of what this Barnstar is truly about: acknowledging the virtue of a dedicated editor who faces tremendous hardship and still contributes on. Just like the real-world equivalent, the US Purple Heart, the expanded-definition Purple Barnstar rewards sacrifice and dedication. Double Plus Ungood ( talk) 08:38, 25 March 2018 (UTC)
We created the graphic for an Art+Feminism barnstar, but never went through this process of formally creating the barnstar and template. This barnstar is to be given to editors who make contributions about art and feminism. I don't know how to create the actual template, or if I was supposed to do that prior to this request... but if not, can someone help me, or point me in the right direction in how to create that template.
-- Theredproject ( talk) 23:12, 19 February 2018 (UTC)
I propose these be added to the page:
Jjjjjjdddddd ( talk) 09:13, 24 March 2018 (UTC)
This is a barnstar specifically for users who find hidden subpages on user pages.There is no image for this barnstar yet,so can I have help w/that?I was thinking like the top half of a barnstar sticking out of a dresser drawer.
Do you like it?Plzplzplz consider it!NOTE: There was a barnstar that served that purpose,but it seems to have vanished overnight.
Me at my happiest!
11:30, 25 March 2018 (UTC)
There's almost no more tedious and thankless task than fixing link-rot, filling in missing citation details, and normalizing citations to a single style, yet it's vital (well, maybe not the normalizing part) to the health of our articles. All the existing cite/ref/source-related awards (on all the awards pages) are for adding new citations. And the cleanup barnstar's a bit generic and over-used. And the Gnome PUA is kind of ugly, and also generic. I don't have a clear idea for graphics. Title-wise, maybe the Citation Maintenance Barnstar? — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 00:32, 25 July 2018 (UTC)
So, I was thinkinğ that, because there's already a Minnesota Barnstar, there should be a barstar for Wikiproject Michigan with the same requirements. Michigan specifically, as opposed to any other Midwestern state, because it's my homeland, and I don't see why not. I'm a bit unfamiliar with the processes and templates used for creatinğ a barnstar, which is why I'm asking for it here. I also haven't created the image file(s) necessary yet, but I plan to have those soon if someone else doesn't already; I don't know if I should make it as a Barnstar 2.0, or otherwise, and I probably lack the photo-editing software & expertise used for making one. Anyway, thank you for considerinğ this! - User:Учхљёная ( talk, philosophy, edits). 03:02, 4 May 2018 (UTC)
WP:Other awards should merge to WP:Barnstars, WP:User awards, and perhaps in a few cases WP:Awards by WikiProject. Everything on that page is either a barnstar or a non-barnstar user award, maybe a couple of project awards. Ergo, that page no longer has a reason to exist. It should just be merged, then redirect to WP:User awards.
See also Wikipedia talk:Barnstars 2.0#Merge. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 00:04, 25 July 2018 (UTC)
WP:STAR is already a hefty 124kB and you want to add another 10kB? Should probably look at slimming that page down, now bulking it up even further. jmho - wolf 12:52, 26 September 2018 (UTC)
I propose two barnstars:
Luístro ☎️ 21:43, 24 August 2018 (UTC)
Comment: WP Topicons was deleted at MFD pythoncoder ( talk | contribs) 20:59, 18 October 2018 (UTC)
I would like to propose an award for community members who volunteer their time (and sometimes their sanity) to help others test new features. Whether a someone is building a new gadget or skin, working on redesigning a special page, or coming up with another type of new feature entirely, we (as designers and developers) rely on each others' feedback and collaboration. Looking through the WP:Awards page I am unsure if this type of award should be a type of WP:*, WP:PUA, or something else? I also played around with the "Make your own" option in the Wikilove widget, but that seems like more of a one-time solution.
The idea for this award came about through my work at the foundation, since I rely on community collaboration in order to design useful things, and am therefore often asking community members for feedback. However I imagine it being used by any type of community member (not just foundation designers).
Here are two versions of the design:
— Preceding unsigned comment added by AHollender (WMF) ( talk • contribs) 20:30, November 5, 2018 (UTC)
I propose adding the Submarine barnstar to the topical list. Any thoughts? L293D ( ☎ • ✎) 16:29, 25 October 2018 (UTC)
There's the E=MC^2 barnstar, but given there is a biology and chemistry barnstar, is there one for math articles? Wqwt ( talk) 04:24, 8 November 2018 (UTC)
I would like to add a barnstar to reward editors who are great at responding to questions or debates on multiple talk pages across multiple topics A 10 fireplane ( talk) 17:51, 9 November 2018 (UTC)
Those with an interest in Wikipedia awards may wish to know about the research proposal being discussed at Wikipedia:Village_pump_(miscellaneous)#Research_project:_The_effects_of_specific_barnstars : Noyster (talk), 08:41, 20 December 2018 (UTC)
I'd like the {{ WikiProject Viruses Barnstar}} to be added to the list at Wikipedia:Barnstars#Topical barnstars, please. -- Nessie ( talk) 16:55, 15 March 2019 (UTC)
Hi there! I made a Pending Changes Barnstar 2.0! Please give me feedback. If you think it's ready, can somebody put it into the template? (I'm very bad at template code. Sorry!) (Please ping me) – Ben79487 ( talk contribs) 03:16, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
Maybe we could have an Outstanding Barnstar for editors whose participation in events is just off-the-charts (for example copyediting a lot more words than the rest in a GOCE drive). What do you think? Also, can you give any suggestions for possible icons? (P.S. Please ping me; I don't check my watchlist at all.) – Ben79487 ( talk contribs) 02:58, 27 March 2019 (UTC)
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The Tireless Contributor Barnstar | |
message puggo ( talk) 14:40, 27 March 2019 (UTC) |
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The Special Barnstar | |
message puggo ( talk) 14:40, 27 March 2019 (UTC) |
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All-Around Amazing Barnstar | |
message puggo ( talk) 14:40, 27 March 2019 (UTC) |
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The Modest Barnstar | |
message puggo ( talk) 14:40, 27 March 2019 (UTC) |
I've created an image and template for a Numismatics barnstar:
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Numismatics Barnstar | |
{{{1}}} |
Would it be possible to get it added to the list of topical barnstars? - ZLEA Talk\ Contribs 15:39, 27 March 2019 (UTC)
A new Newsletter directory has been created to replace the old, out-of-date one. If your WikiProject and its taskforces have newsletters (even inactive ones), or if you know of a missing newsletter (including from sister projects like WikiSpecies), please include it in the directory! The template can be a bit tricky, so if you need help, just post the newsletter on the template's talk page and someone will add it for you.
I was recently the victim of Wikibullying and another wikieditor stood up for me on more than one occasion. For this, I think it would be appropriate to create a barnstar dedicated to anti-Wikibullying. I don't have any design ideas, however, so I'm open to suggestions. Any thoughts on this idea? werewolf ( talk) 02:44, 9 June 2019 (UTC)
You don't need to update the image, as the new image was uploaded as a new version of the old file under the same name. - ZLEA T\ C 23:24, 11 June 2019 (UTC)
I have a friend who does this a lot, I think there should be a barnstar for it. ★Trekker ( talk) 19:38, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
*Treker and Noah Kastin, I've created a new version of the Short Descriptions Barnstar. The most obvious change I've made is the color, as the original brown color might be mistaken for the Minor Barnstar. I've also down-sized the barnstar as the original kind of looks like a barnstar with a big center rather than short arms. I haven't uploaded the image as a new version of File:Short Description Barnstar Hires.png yet as I want to know what you think. - ZLEA T\ C 21:09, 12 June 2019 (UTC)
I think there should be more of these, there are many people who spend most of their time working on projects within a specific WikipediaProjects and I think it would be nice to have barnstars for those. I have a friend who does amazing jobs on horror fiction articles and I think he's really earned recognition for that. There are some peoject specific ones at Wikipedia:Barnstars 2.0/Awards by WikiProject but I think we can expand it.
Among others. How do you feel? ★Trekker ( talk) 16:08, 16 June 2019 (UTC)
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The Biography Barnstar | |
This is a great barnstar but... a standardised white male icon can be problematic. There are, for instance, quite a few editors trying to address systemic bias by creating bios of women. Is it possible to create a parallel {{ The Biography Barnstar-W}}? Grutness... wha? 03:42, 19 May 2019 (UTC) |
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Goddess Barnstar | |
The Goddess Barnstar is given to those individuals who have helped reduce systemic bias by increasing the number or visibility of Wikipedia articles about women. |
Grutness... wha? 11:51, 20 May 2019 (UTC)
I created a new award for Wikipedia:WikiProject Numismatics. My plan is to replace the current barnstar with this and create other versions of the "WikiDollar" for more specific awards. - ZLEA T\ C 23:41, 18 June 2019 (UTC)
Hello, I've created the Padlock Barnstar. I'm requesting consensus to add the Barnstar to WP:BARN. I've added the critera to the template via "Awarded to any administrator who secures Wikipedia by placing a padlock." — JudeccaXIII ( talk) 18:11, 28 July 2019 (UTC)
Out of curiosity, I got back into png/svg editing again, and I'm really starting to enjoy it this time. Here's my first barnstar:
I also made an alternative image for Account creators:
File:Accountcreatoruser2019.png
— JudeccaXIII ( talk) 01:46, 23 July 2019 (UTC)
— JudeccaXIII ( talk) 22:25, 23 July 2019 (UTC)
Recently an inactive task force at project Environment woke up and converted itself into a standalone project, WP:WikiProject Climate change. We would like to submit a topic/project barnstar for approval. This barnstar is intended for anyone - not just project participants - who make outstanding contributions to the project, articles within the project's scope, or increase global warming and climate change awareness in the Wikipedia community. I tried to follow the Barnstar 2.0 guideline. So.... there you go. Now what? NewsAndEventsGuy ( talk) 23:56, 13 August 2019 (UTC)
I've made the Anarchist Barnstar to cover anything related to Anarchism. — JudeccaXIII ( talk) 00:22, 31 August 2019 (UTC)
Is there a barnstar for assuming good faith? Benjamin ( talk) 04:28, 4 September 2019 (UTC)
Made this Barnstar to cover Thelema. — JudeccaXIII ( talk) 23:10, 5 September 2019 (UTC)
★Trekker I had reduced the ring as you requested, but it was no longer visible once I uploaded. I reuploaded the Barnstar again but without the ring this time. — JudeccaXIII ( talk) 18:24, 6 September 2019 (UTC)
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Hi, Hellknowz! Thank you for your great contributions to Wikipedia!
I wanted to explain why I performed this edit, which you reverted. I performed the first edit because, on a previous occasion, I had noticed that the Bravery Barnstar 2.0 (which is now the Bravery Barnstar 1.0) had a white background, making it not comply with Wikipedia:Barnstars 2.0/Guidelines. For this reason, I moved it to the Barnstar 1.0 column. Also, since the only problem that I noticed with it was that the background was white and not transparent, I made one with a transparent background and added it (in the edit that you reverted). More information on my reasoning can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject Wikipedia Awards/Current Projects (the text of which is also displayed at WP:WPWPA).
I hope that this explanation is useful. If there is something more to the matter which I haven't seen, please let me know.
Thanks!
Noah Kastin ( talk) ( 🖋) 20:00, 18 July 2017 (UTC)
How would you feel about a "Scholarly Barnstar", awarded in recognition of contributions based on high-quality academic sources, perhaps with a star wearing a graduation cap? There's a small but special class of editors who make the effort to read the best scholarly publications on the subject they're working on. I'd like to have a barnstar to show my appreciation. Eperoton ( talk) 02:07, 18 July 2017 (UTC)
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Test Test |
@ Eperoton, PaleoNeonate, and RileyBugz: I have now created the Scholarly Barnstar template (located at Template:Scholarly Barnstar). I have also added the Scholarly Barnstar to the list of general barnstars at Wikipedia:Barnstars (in this edit). Please let me know if any improvements on this barnstar or anything relating to it need to be made. Thanks! Noah Kastin ( talk) ( 🖋) 02:19, 25 July 2017 (UTC)
@ Eperoton, RileyBugz, and PaleoNeonate: I just swapped out the graduation cap icon on the Scholarly Barnstar image from File:Graduation cap.png (the one with the blue corner) to File:Sciences humaines.svg (the one without the blue corner), as requested earlier in this discussion. I hope that this helps! Noah Kastin ( talk) ( 🖋) 04:46, 25 July 2017 (UTC)
How would you guys feel about having a "Real Life Barnstar", awarded in recognition to contributions made for the benefit of Wikipedia, in real world ? I have created a template at Template:Real Life Barnstar. P.S. this page is not in my watchlist therefore please ping. -- Saqib ( talk) 18:14, 6 August 2017 (UTC)
I noticed that we both have the Rescue and Recovery barnstars. My impression when reading their description is that they both are to award those who manage to improve articles when they are undergoing a deletion discussion. The Rescue one appears to be associated to the Article Rescue Squadron project, however. Input welcome on if those are really redundant or not. If they are and we decide to phase out one, we'd have to make sure that all existing uses have been substituted (they normally should be) and to not delete the image. Thanks, — Paleo Neonate – 23:11, 19 August 2017 (UTC)
A lot of work has been done over the past several months by many editors to expand and improve articles on the Presidents of the United States and their presidencies. I've created (and uploaded to Wikimedia commons) a barnstar—the POTUSbarnstar—to recognize those making significant contributions to these articles, and wanted to share it with you, and ask that it be added to the barnstar list. Cheers. Drdpw ( talk) 20:05, 8 August 2017 (UTC)
{{
The United States Presidents Barnstar|1=Message}}
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The U.S. Presidents Barnstar | |
Message |
Any objections to adding Template:The Running Woman Barnstar to the list? It is based on the alt version of Template:The Running Man Barnstar. Hmlarson ( talk) 07:45, 9 September 2017 (UTC)
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The Writer's Barnstar | |
For your tireless work on expanding our encyclopedia. Borsoka ( talk) 10:36, 22 September 2017 (UTC) |
[1] does not seem to be the intended use, is it? -- Hob Gadling ( talk) 07:26, 16 October 2017 (UTC)
Do you post in the user talk page or in the user page? Thinker78 ( talk) 21:09, 23 November 2017 (UTC)
I noticed that {{ New Page Reviewer of the Year}} is orphan. There's probably a relevant place where it could be listed (I've not seriously looked yet, but this is a reminder, and others may know). It is still in use. Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Reviewers may be a candidate. — Paleo Neonate – 01:45, 24 November 2017 (UTC)
Here's an example:
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The Tropical Cyclone Barnstar | |
{{{1}}} |
Here's the general form:
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The Tropical Cyclone Barnstar | |
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Care to differ or discuss with me? The Nth User 20:54, 8 January 2018 (UTC)
People (especially from this wikiproject) bureacratize way, way too much at Wikipedia:Barnstars and its talk page. I haven't created a barnstar in years, and the sole reason is the difficulty of getting any kind of consensus there, and the revert-happy zeal employed by people who stalk that page, which is actually in contravention of WP:EDITING policy (editors have a right to make improvements as they see fit, and reverts are used when the result is clearly not an improvement, not on some WP:IDONTLIKEIT basis or "you didn't get our permission first" one. WT:BARNSTAR is kind of the last vestige of an WP:Esperanza-style private club left on Wikipedia, and it really needs to stop. Just the fact that Wikipedia talk:Barnstars and even Wikipedia talk:Personal user awards now redirect to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Wikipedia Awards is not cool. That's not appreciably different from redirecting Wikipedia talk:Systemic bias to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Women in Red or something.
There is no practical reason that the various topical barnstars created by wikiprojects, and the various more imaginative user awards on the other page (aside from those controlled as So-and-so User's private award) cannot be merged into
WP:BARNSTAR, those created by
WP:WikiProject Kindness Campaign, and various others added; they're scattered all over the place. Have you all not noticed that the frequency with which people give each others barnstars has fallen through the floor? Guess why. No one wants to have to deal with something that feels like FAC or a drama noticeboard just to add a template to a page. Precisely zero of our other template index pages operate that way, for good reason. I'm of half a mind to start an alternative page without the "police squad", and then after it proves to be 10× more popular, MfD the old one as obsolete and either to be merged or to be wikiproject-spaced.
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10:40, 9 January 2018 (UTC); revised 10:50, 9 January 2018 (UTC)
The issue here to me is that several WP-wide template index pages are as heavily regulated by this project as stub templates and their categories are by
WP:WikiProject Stub sorting. That thing is a very strange animal: being a formalized process since the early 2000s (e.g.
WP:CFD and
WP:TFD will not accept nominations of stub categories and templates, and they must go to
WP:WSS), so it should no longer be at a "WikiProject" name. Having it there sends a very bad signal to other wikiprojects to behave in the same manner, even though WP:WSS is completely unique in having been adopted as an official process page. This project, WP:WPWPA, has no such imprimatur from the community to tightly regulate a series of templates. Doing it with this series in particular seems downright counter-productive.
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Inspired by the current events:
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You are "like, really smart" and indeed, a "very stable genius" {{{1}}} in dealing with with the issue of
fake news on our platform.
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Proposed: {{subst:Current Events|recipient's username|~~~~}}
Poeticbent
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20:57, 9 January 2018 (UTC)
The Current Events Barnstar may be awarded to editors who make substantial contributions to current events articles, helping accurate information get through when it is most needed.
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The Current Events Barnstar | |
You are "like, really smart" and indeed, a "very stable genius" in dealing with with the issue of
fake news on our platform.
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The Trump Barnstar | |
You are "like, really smart" and indeed, a "very stable genius" {{{1}}} in dealing with with the issue of
fake news on our platform.
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{{subst:Trump Barnstar|recipient's username|~~~~}}
Hi everyone! I have a proposition to make, but first I have to provide some relevant background.
About four months ago, a discussion (viewable here) occurred. Rather than paraphrasing, I'll simply quote the whole discussion here:
Any objections to adding Template:The Running Woman Barnstar to the list? It is based on the alt version of Template:The Running Man Barnstar. Hmlarson ( talk) 07:45, 9 September 2017 (UTC)
- @ Hmlarson: Thanks for asking!
- My personal opinion would be to avoid adding The Running Woman Barnstar to the list, for the following reasons:
- The Running Man Barnstar already exists as a barnstar for sports in general, so making a barnstar for sports specifically related to women seems somewhat redundant. (If sports actually is a large enough category that it should have sub-category barnstars like the proposed one, I would suggest adding this barnstar as well as one for sports specifically related to men, but I don't think that sports is a large enough category to warrant sub-category barnstars, so I would rather not add this one.)
- If the reason for making a new barnstar is that The Running Man Barnstar contains the word "man", and that that somehow excludes women, then I would suggest the following: Rather than making a new barnstar just to have a different name, Template:The Running Man Barnstar should gain a gender parameter like the one at Template:The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar, allowing The Running Man Barnstar to be written alternatively as The Running Woman Barnstar or The (gender-neutral equivalent) Barnstar.
- Please let me know if you have any questions about my comment.
- Thanks again for asking!
- Noah Kastin ( talk) ( 🖋) 09:38, 9 September 2017 (UTC)
As you can see here, [a] there was no response to the above discussion.
About a month ago, SMcCandlish added Template:The Running Woman Barnstar to the barnstars list (in this edit), with an edit summary reading "Gender neutrality". However, I still hold my former opinion regarding this:
Rather than making a new barnstar just to have a different name, Template:The Running Man Barnstar should gain a gender parameter like the one at Template:The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar, allowing The Running Man Barnstar to be written alternatively as The Running Woman Barnstar or The (gender-neutral equivalent) Barnstar.
As such, I think that gender neutrality can be achieved simply by adding this parameter, rather than by having two nearly identical barnstars existing in tandem.
I also noticed that there is a third Running-related barnstar, called simply Template:Running Man Barnstar (as opposed to Template:The Running Man Barnstar). This template seems to act exactly like Template:The Running Man Barnstar, except that 1) Template:Running Man Barnstar cannot create a 2.0 Barnstar, just a 1.0 Barnstar, and 2) the entire description of Template:Running Man Barnstar is included with the barnstar picture itself.
Due to all of this, I propose the following changes:
If no one objects to the changes that I proposed directly above this line of text, I will put them through. If anyone has any objections, however, feel free to mention them, and I will try to find some way that we can find consensus. Also, if anyone has any other questions, feel free to mention them here.
Thanks!
Noah Kastin ( talk) ( 🖋) 09:13, 9 January 2018 (UTC)
Hi, SarekOfVulcan! Thank you for editing Wikipedia!
I noticed that you added a new barnstar, The Eastern Barnstar, to the list of barnstars at Wikipedia:Barnstars. This is a perfectly fine barnstar, except for one thing: Barnstars usually have templates so that users can simply and easily place the barnstars on pages via the template without having to find the barnstar image in question and figure out what to do with them; however, this barnstar does not have an associated template. Would you mind if I created a template for this barnstar, so that it can have one and, therefore, potentially be more useful to other editors?
Thank you again for editing Wikipedia!
Noah Kastin ( talk) ( 🖋) 18:40, 24 January 2018 (UTC)
I created a barnstar that can be sent to users who contribute to existence related articles, or more humorously, to send to users who exist (after all, you can't contribute without existing).— Preceding unsigned comment added by ZLEA ( talk • contribs) 17:50, 2 February 2018 (UTC)
Hi, Paul2520, and thank you for adding the Minnesota Barnstar to the the topical barnstars list!
I noticed that you entered File:Seal of Minnesota-alt.png as an alternate image for the barnstar. While this is perfectly fine, placing the image in the Barnstar 2.0 column seems misleading, as the seal is not a barnstar. Therefore, I would like to propose that we find some way to place the seal in some more convenient area of the table (if there is one) and/or create a Minnesota Barnstar 2.0.
If you have any questions, please let me know.
Thank you!
Noah Kastin ( talk) ( 🖋) 17:49, 20 February 2018 (UTC)
I would like to see such a thing as ‘The a Feminist Barnstar’, which should be awarded for making edits to articles about women. There is a graphic that I have created.
Thank you. ——— Peppa Pig the Second ( talk) 10:43, 26 February 2018 (UTC)
Hi, I created a new edition of the Template Barnstar, for the old one is low resolution. But I couldn't learn the words in the old editon (for its low resolution). Is it applicable to Template Barnstar?-- HFWMan ( talk) 09:02, 1 March 2018 (UTC)
I've taken upon myself to extend the qualifications of the Purple Barnstar: awarded to those who have endured undue hardship (e.g., incessant harassment, personal issues, etc.) on or outside Wikipedia but still remain resolute in their commitment to the project and its ideals. Recently I have given this award to two seperate Wikipedians who have disclosed that they suffer from health issues and still make tremendous efforts here. I think this falls into the scope of what this Barnstar is truly about: acknowledging the virtue of a dedicated editor who faces tremendous hardship and still contributes on. Just like the real-world equivalent, the US Purple Heart, the expanded-definition Purple Barnstar rewards sacrifice and dedication. Double Plus Ungood ( talk) 08:38, 25 March 2018 (UTC)
We created the graphic for an Art+Feminism barnstar, but never went through this process of formally creating the barnstar and template. This barnstar is to be given to editors who make contributions about art and feminism. I don't know how to create the actual template, or if I was supposed to do that prior to this request... but if not, can someone help me, or point me in the right direction in how to create that template.
-- Theredproject ( talk) 23:12, 19 February 2018 (UTC)
I propose these be added to the page:
Jjjjjjdddddd ( talk) 09:13, 24 March 2018 (UTC)
This is a barnstar specifically for users who find hidden subpages on user pages.There is no image for this barnstar yet,so can I have help w/that?I was thinking like the top half of a barnstar sticking out of a dresser drawer.
Do you like it?Plzplzplz consider it!NOTE: There was a barnstar that served that purpose,but it seems to have vanished overnight.
Me at my happiest!
11:30, 25 March 2018 (UTC)
There's almost no more tedious and thankless task than fixing link-rot, filling in missing citation details, and normalizing citations to a single style, yet it's vital (well, maybe not the normalizing part) to the health of our articles. All the existing cite/ref/source-related awards (on all the awards pages) are for adding new citations. And the cleanup barnstar's a bit generic and over-used. And the Gnome PUA is kind of ugly, and also generic. I don't have a clear idea for graphics. Title-wise, maybe the Citation Maintenance Barnstar? — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 00:32, 25 July 2018 (UTC)
So, I was thinkinğ that, because there's already a Minnesota Barnstar, there should be a barstar for Wikiproject Michigan with the same requirements. Michigan specifically, as opposed to any other Midwestern state, because it's my homeland, and I don't see why not. I'm a bit unfamiliar with the processes and templates used for creatinğ a barnstar, which is why I'm asking for it here. I also haven't created the image file(s) necessary yet, but I plan to have those soon if someone else doesn't already; I don't know if I should make it as a Barnstar 2.0, or otherwise, and I probably lack the photo-editing software & expertise used for making one. Anyway, thank you for considerinğ this! - User:Учхљёная ( talk, philosophy, edits). 03:02, 4 May 2018 (UTC)
WP:Other awards should merge to WP:Barnstars, WP:User awards, and perhaps in a few cases WP:Awards by WikiProject. Everything on that page is either a barnstar or a non-barnstar user award, maybe a couple of project awards. Ergo, that page no longer has a reason to exist. It should just be merged, then redirect to WP:User awards.
See also Wikipedia talk:Barnstars 2.0#Merge. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 00:04, 25 July 2018 (UTC)
WP:STAR is already a hefty 124kB and you want to add another 10kB? Should probably look at slimming that page down, now bulking it up even further. jmho - wolf 12:52, 26 September 2018 (UTC)
I propose two barnstars:
Luístro ☎️ 21:43, 24 August 2018 (UTC)
Comment: WP Topicons was deleted at MFD pythoncoder ( talk | contribs) 20:59, 18 October 2018 (UTC)
I would like to propose an award for community members who volunteer their time (and sometimes their sanity) to help others test new features. Whether a someone is building a new gadget or skin, working on redesigning a special page, or coming up with another type of new feature entirely, we (as designers and developers) rely on each others' feedback and collaboration. Looking through the WP:Awards page I am unsure if this type of award should be a type of WP:*, WP:PUA, or something else? I also played around with the "Make your own" option in the Wikilove widget, but that seems like more of a one-time solution.
The idea for this award came about through my work at the foundation, since I rely on community collaboration in order to design useful things, and am therefore often asking community members for feedback. However I imagine it being used by any type of community member (not just foundation designers).
Here are two versions of the design:
— Preceding unsigned comment added by AHollender (WMF) ( talk • contribs) 20:30, November 5, 2018 (UTC)
I propose adding the Submarine barnstar to the topical list. Any thoughts? L293D ( ☎ • ✎) 16:29, 25 October 2018 (UTC)
There's the E=MC^2 barnstar, but given there is a biology and chemistry barnstar, is there one for math articles? Wqwt ( talk) 04:24, 8 November 2018 (UTC)
I would like to add a barnstar to reward editors who are great at responding to questions or debates on multiple talk pages across multiple topics A 10 fireplane ( talk) 17:51, 9 November 2018 (UTC)
Those with an interest in Wikipedia awards may wish to know about the research proposal being discussed at Wikipedia:Village_pump_(miscellaneous)#Research_project:_The_effects_of_specific_barnstars : Noyster (talk), 08:41, 20 December 2018 (UTC)
I'd like the {{ WikiProject Viruses Barnstar}} to be added to the list at Wikipedia:Barnstars#Topical barnstars, please. -- Nessie ( talk) 16:55, 15 March 2019 (UTC)
Hi there! I made a Pending Changes Barnstar 2.0! Please give me feedback. If you think it's ready, can somebody put it into the template? (I'm very bad at template code. Sorry!) (Please ping me) – Ben79487 ( talk contribs) 03:16, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
Maybe we could have an Outstanding Barnstar for editors whose participation in events is just off-the-charts (for example copyediting a lot more words than the rest in a GOCE drive). What do you think? Also, can you give any suggestions for possible icons? (P.S. Please ping me; I don't check my watchlist at all.) – Ben79487 ( talk contribs) 02:58, 27 March 2019 (UTC)
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The Tireless Contributor Barnstar | |
message puggo ( talk) 14:40, 27 March 2019 (UTC) |
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The Special Barnstar | |
message puggo ( talk) 14:40, 27 March 2019 (UTC) |
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All-Around Amazing Barnstar | |
message puggo ( talk) 14:40, 27 March 2019 (UTC) |
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The Modest Barnstar | |
message puggo ( talk) 14:40, 27 March 2019 (UTC) |
I've created an image and template for a Numismatics barnstar:
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Numismatics Barnstar | |
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Would it be possible to get it added to the list of topical barnstars? - ZLEA Talk\ Contribs 15:39, 27 March 2019 (UTC)
A new Newsletter directory has been created to replace the old, out-of-date one. If your WikiProject and its taskforces have newsletters (even inactive ones), or if you know of a missing newsletter (including from sister projects like WikiSpecies), please include it in the directory! The template can be a bit tricky, so if you need help, just post the newsletter on the template's talk page and someone will add it for you.
I was recently the victim of Wikibullying and another wikieditor stood up for me on more than one occasion. For this, I think it would be appropriate to create a barnstar dedicated to anti-Wikibullying. I don't have any design ideas, however, so I'm open to suggestions. Any thoughts on this idea? werewolf ( talk) 02:44, 9 June 2019 (UTC)
You don't need to update the image, as the new image was uploaded as a new version of the old file under the same name. - ZLEA T\ C 23:24, 11 June 2019 (UTC)
I have a friend who does this a lot, I think there should be a barnstar for it. ★Trekker ( talk) 19:38, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
*Treker and Noah Kastin, I've created a new version of the Short Descriptions Barnstar. The most obvious change I've made is the color, as the original brown color might be mistaken for the Minor Barnstar. I've also down-sized the barnstar as the original kind of looks like a barnstar with a big center rather than short arms. I haven't uploaded the image as a new version of File:Short Description Barnstar Hires.png yet as I want to know what you think. - ZLEA T\ C 21:09, 12 June 2019 (UTC)
I think there should be more of these, there are many people who spend most of their time working on projects within a specific WikipediaProjects and I think it would be nice to have barnstars for those. I have a friend who does amazing jobs on horror fiction articles and I think he's really earned recognition for that. There are some peoject specific ones at Wikipedia:Barnstars 2.0/Awards by WikiProject but I think we can expand it.
Among others. How do you feel? ★Trekker ( talk) 16:08, 16 June 2019 (UTC)
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The Biography Barnstar | |
This is a great barnstar but... a standardised white male icon can be problematic. There are, for instance, quite a few editors trying to address systemic bias by creating bios of women. Is it possible to create a parallel {{ The Biography Barnstar-W}}? Grutness... wha? 03:42, 19 May 2019 (UTC) |
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Goddess Barnstar | |
The Goddess Barnstar is given to those individuals who have helped reduce systemic bias by increasing the number or visibility of Wikipedia articles about women. |
Grutness... wha? 11:51, 20 May 2019 (UTC)
I created a new award for Wikipedia:WikiProject Numismatics. My plan is to replace the current barnstar with this and create other versions of the "WikiDollar" for more specific awards. - ZLEA T\ C 23:41, 18 June 2019 (UTC)
Hello, I've created the Padlock Barnstar. I'm requesting consensus to add the Barnstar to WP:BARN. I've added the critera to the template via "Awarded to any administrator who secures Wikipedia by placing a padlock." — JudeccaXIII ( talk) 18:11, 28 July 2019 (UTC)
Out of curiosity, I got back into png/svg editing again, and I'm really starting to enjoy it this time. Here's my first barnstar:
I also made an alternative image for Account creators:
File:Accountcreatoruser2019.png
— JudeccaXIII ( talk) 01:46, 23 July 2019 (UTC)
— JudeccaXIII ( talk) 22:25, 23 July 2019 (UTC)
Recently an inactive task force at project Environment woke up and converted itself into a standalone project, WP:WikiProject Climate change. We would like to submit a topic/project barnstar for approval. This barnstar is intended for anyone - not just project participants - who make outstanding contributions to the project, articles within the project's scope, or increase global warming and climate change awareness in the Wikipedia community. I tried to follow the Barnstar 2.0 guideline. So.... there you go. Now what? NewsAndEventsGuy ( talk) 23:56, 13 August 2019 (UTC)
I've made the Anarchist Barnstar to cover anything related to Anarchism. — JudeccaXIII ( talk) 00:22, 31 August 2019 (UTC)
Is there a barnstar for assuming good faith? Benjamin ( talk) 04:28, 4 September 2019 (UTC)
Made this Barnstar to cover Thelema. — JudeccaXIII ( talk) 23:10, 5 September 2019 (UTC)
★Trekker I had reduced the ring as you requested, but it was no longer visible once I uploaded. I reuploaded the Barnstar again but without the ring this time. — JudeccaXIII ( talk) 18:24, 6 September 2019 (UTC)