User:ChrisO

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This user has been a member of Wikipedia since 21 October 2003.

This user has been on Wikipedia for 6 years, 4 months, and 25 days.

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Welcome to my user page. I'm ChrisO, an editor on the English Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Commons.

I've been a Wikipedian since October 2003 and an administrator from February 2004 (when Wikipedia was much smaller than it is now) to June 2009, so I suppose I could be called one of the old-timers.

I edit a wide range of topics, but the ones I keep finding myself coming back to tend to be those relating to the Balkans, classical antiquity and contemporary politics. I also have an eye for the ridiculous, which you can see in some of the articles I've edited! I've also been involved over the years in developing various aspects of Wikipedia policy and guidelines; Wikipedia:Naming conflict is one of mine, for instance.

A selection of some articles I've written:

• Alaska Mental Health Enabling Act - featured article, did you know?
• Crushing by elephant - featured article
• Battlefield Earth (film) - featured article
• Inner German border - featured article, did you know?

• Quneitra - good article, did you know?
• Monte Testaccio - good article, did you know?

• Military career of L. Ron Hubbard - good article

• 1928 Thames flood - did you know?
• Dimmock v Secretary of State for Education and Skills‎ - did you know?
• Fjuckby - did you know?
• Fox tossing - did you know?
• Israel-United States military relations‎ - did you know?
• Minute Women of the U.S.A. - did you know?
• Piraeus Lion‎ - did you know?
• Montreux Convention Regarding the Regime of the Turkish Straits - did you know?
• Japanese submarine I-176 - did you know?

• Colosseum
• Gazimestan speech‎
• House demolition
• Infamy Speech
• Inner German border
• Martello tower
• Massachusetts School Laws
• Of Pandas and People‎
• Pyramid of Cestius‎
• Thames Tunnel
• Via Egnatia

My other contributions can be seen here.

[edit] Barnstars

For your work on scientology and NPOV in passionate national disputes I Secretlondon am amazed that you've never previously been awarded a barnstar (KC)

ChrisO is hereby awarded this pile of Barnstars as late recognition for all his contributions, in the form of writing articles or otherwise, to Wikipedia. !מזל טוב from Izehar

For negotiating a ceasefire acceptable to both sides in the heated "Operation Medak Pocket" article. You really deserve this barnstar. From --P-Chan 00:21, 6 April 2006 (UTC) (KC)

		The Oddball Barnstar
		For all your efforts in restoring what is possibly WP's oddest article, Crushing by Elephant to its rightful status as Featured Article! Borisblue 22:26, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

		The Barnstar of Diligence
		For your superb achievement of converting the stub of Quneitra into a well-deserved featured article. –-Al Ameer son (talk) 04:43, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

		The Original Barnstar
		For your article on Development of the inner German border. Great job keep up the good work!- BennyK95 - Talk 23:12, October 22 2009 (UTC)

		The Content Creativity Barnstar
		Please accept this barnstar for the skilled man-months you have poured into WP, specifically at Inner German Border. Brilliant job tackling this difficult topic with sensitivity, perfect adherence to NPOV, great style and lots of hard work. Lastly, well done staying calm and motivated in the face of calls for major rewrites during FAC. I look forward to the featured topic that will come from your contribution. Dhatfield (talk) 00:44, 25 October 2009 (UTC)

		The Content Creativity Barnstar with added WikiProject Germany barnstar
		With congratulations on the promotion of Inner German border to FA status! A superbly researched, superbly written, superbly illustrated article that has added so much outstanding material about a key part of European history to Wikipedia that I fully expect it to spawn several additional FAs and a featured topic. You have done most of the work already. Kudos! --JN466 19:04, 28 October 2009 (UTC)