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My Awards

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The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
The Australian Barnstar of National Merit
for your efforts with Australian articles Gnangarra 00:22, 26 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
This is for your tireless contributions and work on the Recent Deaths section. I stride to make my edits like yours. Keep up the good work! Chandlerjoeyross (talk) 22:38, 5 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Death Star
This Death Star award is again for all your hard work on the Recent Deaths pages. Kiwipat (talk) 23:12, 10 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
The Barnstar of Recovery
I am honored to award you this barnstar for your work in improving the article Kelley Abbey in the face of pending deletion. Your diligent WP:AFTER improves the project for all its readers. Great job! Schmidt, MICHAEL Q. 19:45, 9 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
The Original Barnstar
For your excellent speedy deletion tagging :). Ironholds (talk) 11:57, 20 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
The Original Barnstar
Good catches on the Sandy Hook article Amadscientist (talk) 12:49, 16 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
The Teamwork Barnstar
For excellent work objectively streamlining over-referencing at Victoria Leigh Soto. Jokestress (talk) 12:22, 15 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
The Hard Worker's Barnstar
For formatting the references on the annual "Deaths in XXXX" pages into a less-unwieldy more-efficient format, thus reducing pageload times. — Wyliepedia 03:36, 28 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
Nicos Anastasiades - Well spotted, he created eight such articles before I could get a block in!  Ronhjones  (Talk) 23:48, 27 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
The Special Barnstar
Your userpage is brilliant!,

I had literally laughed out loud & I thought me laughing at 4am would be impossible but seems not :)
Thanks! :),
Regards, -→Davey2010→→Talk to me!→ 03:19, 23 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

HI! THANKS FOR THE FEEDBACK!

JackGann (talk) 07:11, 26 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The Teamwork Barnstar The Editor's Barnstar The Working Man's Barnstar
The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar The Barnstar of Diligence The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
The Multiple Barnstar
Thank you for fixing my linkrot on the Alan Henning page. --108.176.24.195 (talk) 02:05, 5 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
The Original Barnstar
Dylann Ceriani is a very good contribution that also solved an unpleasant problem. Thank you very much for your work on it. BDD (talk) 16:32, 11 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Way to pounce! I went to do this exact edit a minute after you... stop reading my mind!

EvergreenFir (talk) Please {{re}} 01:16, 30 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The Editor's Barnstar
Thank you for correcting the Powers Boothe article. I was going to revert it myself, but I figured I'd discuss it in the Talk page. I'm glad someone did it, though. DTXBrian (talk) 02:24, 15 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
I hereby award you this barnstar for your tireless contributions and upkeep of the Deepak Sathe page which got merged recently ; your efforts are appreciated. Keep up the good work! Jehowahyereh (talk) 06:01, 19 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
The Teamwork Barnstar
Thank you for responding to my call for help on Talk:Grenfell_Tower_fire and your tireless contribution to the page. Gxrneyme (talk) 01:17, 15 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar
Thank you for reverting the recent vandalism on Deaths in 2022! Renewal6 (talk) 11:11, 31 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
The Current Events Barnstar
In recognition of your contributions to the article Killing of Nahel Merzouk. --Cdjp1 talk 15:56, 17 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
This is for your tireless contributions to Deaths in 2024. Pachu Kannan (talk) 15:34, 14 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

A cup of tea for you!

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We all aim at accuracy and edit in good faith :) Varoon2542 (talk) 18:32, 9 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

A fox for you!

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Thank you for your correction on the 2024 Apalachee High School shooting‎ article. I know it's a hot topic and emotions are high but I'm glad there was someone who was willing to make that important correction.

Dr vulpes (Talk) 05:13, 6 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

My DYK

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Updated DYK query On 22 April 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Samantha McClymont, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that at age 18, Australian country music singer Samantha McClymont was crowned Grafton Jacaranda Queen, named Trans-Tasman Entertainer of the Year, and was a Top 118 finalist for Australian Idol? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

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A beer for you!

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You probably need one about now. Here's hoping for a better year, in particular, one necessitating fewer new articles on terrorist attacks. E.M.Gregory (talk) 17:28, 1 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Christchurch mosque shootings

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Thanks for keeping the international reactions under control. AIRcorn (talk) 08:51, 17 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I wish to add my thanks as well. We are a country in shock trying to come to grips with the horror. NealeFamily (talk) 08:55, 17 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

A kitten for you!

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For your work on Christchurch_mosque_shootings.

Stuartyeates (talk) 08:21, 5 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

A bowl of strawberries for you!

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Thanks for your work on the GT page! MartiniShaw (talk) 14:47, 29 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Fame at last...

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How does Wikipedia deal with a mass shooting? A frenzied start gives way to a few core editors. No mention of me though:). Nice diagrams, and a quick look at the page histories of shooting incidents will show a core of regular editors.--♦IanMacM♦ (talk to me) 17:30, 19 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

HI WWGB, I'm a researcher at Sydney Uni and would like to contact you. I'm not sure how best to do this and hoping this message somehow reaches you....Doctor 17. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Doctor 17 (talkcontribs) 08:45, 18 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

This initial contact led to this article. WWGB (talk) 02:49, 10 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Were you aware?

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I assume that you have been made aware of this. But, in the event that you were not, I wanted to point it out to you and bring this to your attention. Your name was mentioned in this article: How does Wikipedia deal with a mass shooting? A frenzied start gives way to a few core editors. Thanks. Joseph A. Spadaro (talk) 23:46, 29 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

December 1989

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The person who added those unsourced individuals has also reverted almost all my previous edits where I added inline links. I am happy to accept your reversions if you deal with him also. I am going to have to redo hours of work. Bryan Krippner (talk) 10:45, 28 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Bryan Krippner:Please direct me to articles where your inline links were reverted. Which editor did that? I will gladly restore your work if it was removed inappropriately. Regards, WWGB (talk) 10:52, 28 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Elahi Bux Soomro, Daily Pakistan and mechanisms of death

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Regarding your reversion of 05:38 today, I'd say this isn't a matter of me knowing better than Daily Pakistan or not. We're just in the businesses of relaying different information. Like all Deaths in 20xx contributors, I've been instructed to add a cause of death (if known). That parenthetical is rather important, as cardiac arrest is not a cause of death, rather a mechanism. Roughly as this forensic guide tells us of cardiopulmonary arrest (same thing, but including lungs), it's only telling us that someone is dead, not why. I'm not asking you to revert yourself or anything, but if you could not restore the other four similar instances after learning this, that'd be cool. InedibleHulk (talk) 06:02, 2 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@InedibleHulk: We have had these discussions before, and I think we will have to agree to disagree. You have chosen to hang your hat on the Harris County definition, as is your right. There are other descriptions, however, including the following:
Yale Medicine: "Sudden cardiac arrest occurs when the heart stops pumping, and is a leading cause of death in the United States."[4]
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute: "Cardiac arrest is a common cause of death." [5]
Johns Hopkins Medicine: "Cardiac arrest can lead to death if there is no treatment within minutes. This condition is one of the largest causes of natural death in the United States." [6]
Anyway, at the end of the day, it's all about "verifiability, not truth", no? WWGB (talk) 10:53, 2 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The truth is I keep forgetting which conversations I've had about death stuff went down with which Death Regular and how. I know it was Ref I told last that he was getting cardiac arrest confused with sudden cardiac arrest (SCA). I bet that confuses a lot of people, familiar and not. In the public health/safety sense, SCA is a valid way to label CoDs. I think we're more closely analogous to coroners (or at least their clerks), but admit there's no consensus there and it's totally open to interpretation. In cases of sudden cardiac arrest, I have no issue with you (or anyone) saying so, so long as it's in that whole phrase. There's a fairly noteworthy circumstantial difference between someone suddenly dropping dead and anyone else normally gradually dying, similar results notwithstanding. I think verifiability and truth can coexist. Where they can't, though, yeah, verifiability always wins. Thanks for sharing! InedibleHulk (talk) 20:15, 2 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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