About me

I've been at Wikipedia for a while (I retired for a bit, but I couldn't stay away, so I created this account in Nov. 06), and I do lots of miscellaneous work, occasionally adding new articles. I do a lot of work on American Civil War biographies, and I've added more than 150 public domain images. I only go by GhostPirate on Wikipedia, so if you see the name somewhere else, it isn't me. I used to do a lot of work on the new pages patrol, and in the course of that work, I pissed off my share of vandals, hoaxsters and general malcontents. You can read their bizarre and unintentionally hilarious comments at the bottom of this page. My personal pet peeve about Wikipedia is "trivia" and "X in popular culture" sections. Whenever I see one, I want to burn it with a flamethrower. If you want to look at the userboxes, you can find out more about me.

Awards

		The Wiki Wiffle Bat
		For staying cool in the face of insults and angry trolls, and for your dedication in marking inappropriate pages, here is a Wifflebat! Strangerer (Talk | Contribs) 17:28, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

		Civility Award
		For turning insults into a joke. Way to ward off any unwanted issues! I wuz here 23:37, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

Useful Tools

Who, me? This user is an American This user is a politics junkie This user is a skeptic. Beware! This user is a hopeless cynic. This user opposes racism and admires Martin Luther King. This user enjoys rock music This user is a bibliophile ATS This User thinks Trivia and pop culture sections should be banished to the land of wind and ghosts. vn-16 This userpage has been vandalized 16 times This user is a member of the Missing article WikiProject. en This user is a native speaker of English. es-4 El nivel de este usuario corresponde al de un hablante casi nativo del español zh-1 該用戶能以基本的中文進行交流。

These are some very useful pages, especially for anyone who wants to fight vandalism and inappropriate page creation.

Pictures I've uploaded

Articles I've created

I'm part of Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles.

• Generation of Swine
• San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)
• Songs of the Doomed
• Cloud rat
• Coalition for the Defence of the Republic
• Contingency plan
• Confiscation Acts
• John Tomkins
• Mullah Obaidullah Akhund
• Battle of Summit Point
• Al-Shaheed Monument
• Bibliography of Hunter S. Thompson
• Shuguang spacecraft

What people are saying about GhostPirate:

• "GhostPirate sucks and should rot in a pile of dead mice."
• "wanker."
• "YOU HAVE NO HEART."
• "You are obviouly not doing your job, if in fact it is your job. I hope that this will be the last time I have to contact you. The next time you interrupt my page, I will personally report you to Wikipedia and my lawyers for slander and defamation of character."
• "You deleting the entry I just made."
• "You heartless bastard, you are t3h suck."
• "Die, i hate you!"
• "Ghost Pirate is a knob"
• "What a cock"
• "Fuck off GHOST PIRAte"
• "I have reason to believe you are a nobhead"
• "Does anyone see a pattern here?" -Sadistiko
• "I respect GhostPirate and hopes he continues doing a great job. So shut the fuckin' hell up assholes