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History
I am always under the pseudonym of 'Jaguar' on everything on the internet, whether it be the actual noun or a slight variation. My first ever edit on Wikipedia was in April 2008 as an IP. My compulsion to make an account came in June 2009, when I discovered an astonishing lack of coverage in the area I was interested in. I don't remember what I was doing then (I was 13 at the time), but judging from my contributions, I seemed to have completely forgot about Wikipedia until I rediscovered the place and started editing properly in April 2010. That was when I became a fully fledged contributor and started creating over two hundred stubs on various settlements. My work in mid 2010 was somewhat seclusive; I was still confined to expanding or creating a lot of articles related to that area.
I was initially put off because I had a lack of knowledge of Wikipedia's guidelines and my article-building skills weren't very admirable in my early teens, so I disengaged for a while. In a spare of the moment decision in September 2010, I founded WikiProject Wiltshire (the last county to have its own project). In January 2011, I got influenced with the Somerset project and improved content on a much larger scale, which ultimately helped me become a better editor. In late 2011 I got acquainted Dr. Blofeld, who inspired me to take a new line of editing, which I did throughout the rest of that year. I left Wikipedia briefly in November 2011 to focus on my last year of school and dealing with changes, but perhaps regrettably returned a few months later. Due to a dramatic experience in May 2012, I was compelled to leave Wikipedia and subsequently retired in July 2012. I became embittered by it all, but came back to life in early 2014, with still no idea why. I re-acquainted myself with old friends and focussed almost wholly on content.
My interest used to be video games. I enjoyed the simplicity of writing them, but have since moved on to topics of a more grandeur scope. These range from history (particularly the early 20th century; Pax Britannica, imperial Germany, and the Russian Revolution) to sociopolitical figures (particularly less blasé thinkers), old computer hardware, and most importantly - Hampshire villages. My general disillusionment with Wikipedia will never wane, but I believe that a difference can be made, if trod carefully.
Stuff done
Featured articles promoted
→ Jumping Flash! (
30 March 2016)
→ Nights into Dreams ( 5 July 2016) → Super Mario Galaxy ( 1 November 2017)
→ Burning Rangers ( 2 March 2017) → Wipeout 2048 → Nights: Journey of Dreams ( 13 December 2017) → Sonic Spinball ( 9 January 2018) → Super Mario World ( 21 November 2020) → PlayStation (console) → Donkey Kong Country (with TheJoebro64)
Good articles promoted
→ 
Cheddar - with Rodw → Nailsea - with Rodw → Somerton - with Rodw → Bentworth - with Dr. Blofeld → Jumping Flash!
→ Basingstoke → Pokémon Black and White - with Tezero → Sonic the Hedgehog 2 - with Tezero → Jumping Flash! 2 → Wipeout (video game) → Wipeout 2097 → Jungle Strike → Sonic the Hedgehog 3 - with Tezero → Sonic & Knuckles - with Tezero → Banjo-Tooie → Wipeout 64 → MediEvil → Donkey Kong Country → Syphon Filter → MediEvil 2 → Star Fox Adventures → MediEvil: Resurrection → Atic Atac → Grabbed by the Ghoulies → Jetpac → Lunar Jetman → Jetpac Refuelled → Blackwyche → Cookie (video game) → Gunfright → Solar Jetman → Digger T. Rock → Tranz Am → The Staff of Karnath → Battletoads (video game) → Alien 8 → Pssst → Entombed (video game)
→ Falklands '82 → Battle of Britain (video game) → Battlefield Germany → Shalden → Iwo Jima (video game) → Nights into Dreams... → Bismarck (video game) → Tobruk (video game) → Theatre Europe → Navy SEALS (video game) → The Battle For Midway → Miami Vice (video game) → Austerlitz (video game) → Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest → Swords and Sorcery (video game) → MediEvil (series) → Diddy Kong Racing - with Lucia Black → Pegasus Bridge (video game) → Champion of the Raj → Steep, Hampshire → Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts → Nightshade (1985 video game) → Resident Evil 6 → Wipeout Pure → Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble! → Viva Piñata (video game) - with czar → Super Mario Galaxy → Portsmouth (probably my best work) → Burning Rangers → Sonic Jam → Bug! → Oakhanger, Hampshire → Winslade → Medstead → Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine → Wipeout Pulse → Wipeout Fusion → Sonic Spinball → Binsted → Wipeout HD → Wipeout 2048 → Wipeout (series) → Bradley, Hampshire → Nights: Journey of Dreams → Super Mario World → Wipeout Omega Collection → Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games → PlayStation (console)
Good topics promoted
MediEvil series (4 articles) Rare Replay - with czar (32 articles) Wipeout series (10 articles)
WikiProjects founded
Future projects
A rough list to keep my future projects orientated. The order is not definite:
Doing...
GA Reviews
Awards
villages, reviews and love of ideas
Thank you for quality articles such as Bentworth and Sonic the Hedgehog 3 and for your reviews, winning the last GA Cup and serving as a judge on the next, for townships and villages, for a collections of moments and thanks, even to a god, for recognition of the 90s and your love of ideas, - you are an awesome Wikipedian!
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:43, 18 June 2015 (UTC)
Precious again, your flashing game!
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100000 Edits | |
| Congratulations on reaching 100000 edits. You have achieved a milestone that only 345 editors have been able to accomplish. The Wikipedia Community thanks you for your continuing efforts. Keep up the good work! |
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Editor of the Week | |
| Your ongoing efforts to improve the encyclopedia have not gone unnoticed: You have been selected as Editor of the Week for serving on GA Cup judging team. Thank you for the great contributions! (courtesy of the Wikipedia Editor Retention Project) |
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The Serbian Barnstar of National Merit | |
| For numerous articles of populated places in Serbia. Keep up the good work. | ||
| This WikiAward was given to Jaguar by WhiteWriter speaks on 12:28, 27 September 2011 (UTC) |
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The Serbia Barnstar of National Merit | |
| For fantastic work about Serbia in wikipedia. Thank you. WhiteWriter speaks 12:28, 27 September 2011 (UTC) |
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The Good Article Barnstar | |
| Thanks Jaguar for helping to promote Somerton to Good Article status. Please accept this little sign of appreciation and goodwill from me, because you deserve it. Keep it up, and give some a pat on the back today. --Sp33dyphil © • © 23:54, 11 November 2011 (UTC) |
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The Tireless Contributor Barnstar | |
| Thanks for your run of new China-related articles. A significant contribution that truly improves the encyclopaedia. Northamerica1000(talk) 12:03, 11 February 2012 (UTC) |
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The Writer's Barnstar |
| Great Job creating stubs, Keep it up Solomon7968 (talk) 16:19, 20 April 2012 (UTC) |
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The Special Barnstar |
| Thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia! SwisterTwister talk 20:37, 18 May 2012 (UTC) |
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The Tireless Contributor Barnstar |
| Don't leave! Just put ANI behind you. Maybe a WP:CLEANSTART would be good. Thine Antique Pen (talk • contributions) 17:34, 27 May 2012 (UTC) |
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The St Michael's and All Angels' Gong |
| Here is your encouragement award. This tiny parish church really is a Cathedral, the seat of the Bishop of Wollongong. Architect Edmund Blacket. |
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The Special Barnstar |
| You are fantastic to have promoted so many articles. You truly deserve. Shane Cyrus (talk) 14:52, 2 May 2014 (UTC) |
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The Special Barnstar |
| You truly deserve! Shane Cyrus (talk) 14:53, 2 May 2014 (UTC) |
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The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar |
| Much appreciate what you did. And it goes to show how many editors watching Kubrick have also become annoyed with his vendetta. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:39, 18 November 2014 (UTC) |
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The Reviewer Barnstar | |
It's not exactly easy to find errors or improvements in a well written and already thoroughly reviewed article; however, since you did and the changes were useful (they were applied to 3 other articles as well in some cases), here's a little something to show my appreciation.  Seppi333 (Insert 2¢ | Maintained) 00:33, 6 December 2014 (UTC)
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The Running Man Barnstar | |
| Thank you for all you have done to help me with the Boat Race articles. Tonight we hit a landmark, over 50% of the race articles are now Good or Featured Articles, which is a monumental achievement considering that none of the articles even existed eight months ago. Thanks again. The Rambling Man (talk) 21:34, 3 January 2015 (UTC) |
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The Tireless Contributor Barnstar |
| I've done an awful lot of GA reviews recently, but the sheer volume and determination you have put in just leaves me seriously impressed. Keep it up and you'll win the GA cup, but more importantly clear the backlog of articles that people want to see at a higher quality. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 21:23, 5 January 2015 (UTC) |
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The GA Cup |
| Congratulations! You are the winner of the 2014-2015 GA Cup! Thank-you for being part of the success and we hope to see you next year!--Dom497 (talk) 15:41, 28 February 2015 (UTC) |
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The Copyeditor's Barnstar |
| For conducting a c/e on Mayabazar, making my job easy to go through its GA Review. Thank you! Pavanjandhyala (talk) 01:46, 13 March 2015 (UTC) |
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The Good Article Barnstar | |
| Hey Jaguar, I don't think I do it enough, so I'd like to express my appreciation for all of your reviews over the last year+. I really enjoy receiving your feedback—it's a big part of what keeps me writing for WP. czar ⨹ 20:27, 17 March 2015 (UTC) |
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The Special Barnstar | |
| You may have got an award for this film earlier, but consider this as a token of my gratitude for bringing Mayabazar to GA status. This barnstar is also for all the GARs you have done for me. — Ssven2 Speak 2 me 11:46, 12 April 2015 (UTC)
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The Running Man Barnstar | |
| Hey Jaguar, just a quick barnstar to say thanks for the many reviews of Boat Race articles you've conducted over the past year. As of this morning, I completed my (initial) goal of ensuing that every Boat Race had, not only its own article, but one that was either of GA or FA status: we now have 158 GAs and 3 FAs that we can all be proud of! It doesn't stop here, for me at least, I'm going to keep up with improving the quality of the GAs and look for more FA opportunities. Plus, there's the small matter of 70 Women's Boat Race articles to get up and running! But thanks again, I couldn't have done it without your help. The Rambling Man (talk) 15:38, 16 April 2015 (UTC) |
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The Tireless Contributor Barnstar |
| For reviewing 200 Good article nominations of varying subjects till date, and reaching this number with something like New York, a place of great significance across the globe. Pavanjandhyala (talk) 02:45, 30 April 2015 (UTC) |
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The Copyeditor's Barnstar |
| For copy-editing Pathala Bhairavi, now a GA, upon my request. Your contributions helped me a lot during its GAR. Pavanjandhyala (talk) 15:05, 2 June 2015 (UTC)
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The Good Article Barnstar | |
| Thank you for all of the work that you put into your reviews. I've had the great pleasure of working with you on more than one occasion now, and they have all been very pleasant and helpful. It's those kinds of interactions that encourage me to keep editing here. Keep up the fantastic work! -- Rhain1999 (talk to me) 09:49, 6 June 2015 (UTC) |
| The "£200 for passing GA" award | |
| For approving Park Lane to good article status, and rolling a 3, collect £200 salary as you pass GA. Keep it up, and why not have a go at improving one yourself? (please note this currency is fictional and cannot be used as legal tender) Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 13:14, 6 July 2015 (UTC) |
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The Original Barnstar |
| For your fantastic work on the Battletoads (video game) article. ThomasO1989 (talk) 19:06, 28 September 2015 (UTC) |
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The Barnstar of Diligence |
| Many thanks for the work you do with reviewing on here!! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 22:50, 11 December 2015 (UTC) |
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The Special Barnstar | |
| Out of my four GAs, three were reviewed by you. I never told you how grateful I am to you for those reviews. Thank you! :) -- Frankie talk 11:17, 21 December 2015 (UTC) |
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The Copyeditor's Barnstar |
| Impressive work on reducing overlinking, one of my pet hates. More editors need to read WP:OVERLINK. Edwardx (talk) 19:26, 23 January 2016 (UTC) |
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The Hard Worker's Barnstar |
| A barnstar for great work removing overlinking Hogyn Lleol (talk) 08:02, 25 January 2016 (UTC) |
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Hawkeye7 RfA Appreciation award |
| Thank you for participating in and supporting my RfA. It was very much appreciated. One word: thanks. Hawkeye7 (talk) 22:08, 1 February 2016 (UTC) |
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The 50 Good Article Barnstar | |
| For getting 50 articles to Good Article status! Well done!♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:01, 2 February 2016 (UTC) |
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The Barnstar of Diligence |
| For all the efforts you made in bringing 50 articles to GA status. A rare feat indeed, and wish you continue the good work to further milestones. Pavanjandhyala (talk) 13:20, 2 February 2016 (UTC)
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Peacemaker67 RfA Appreciation award |
| Thank you for participating and supporting at my RfA. It was very much appreciated, and I am humbled that the community saw fit to trust me with the tools. Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 03:35, 6 February 2016 (UTC) |
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The reviewer of the streak award |
| Today, i have 24 GAs and one GA-turned-FA, and my GAN success streak stands at 25-0! Thanks for reviewing ten of these 25, Jaguar! Yours friendly, Pavanjandhyala (talk) 02:29, 25 February 2016 (UTC)
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Congratulations on getting Jumping Flash! to FA! Your dedication to content on Wikipedia is consistently noticed and strongly appreciated, and this is just further evidence of that. You should be very proud of what you have accomplished, both with this FA and otherwise. Well done. – Rhain ☔ 22:55, 27 February 2016 (UTC)
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The Editor's Barnstar |
| Wow, I am so happy that you had your first FA--finally--with Jumping Flash!. My heartiest congratulations to you! Frankie talk 13:04, 28 February 2016 (UTC) |
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The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar |
| For your help on the peer review of Lips Are Movin, and continued action against people vandalising others' talk pages. MaranoFan (talk) 10:20, 23 March 2016 (UTC) |
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The Anti-Vandalism + STiki Barnstar
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Congratulations, Jaguar! You're receiving this barnstar because you recently crossed the 1,000 classification threshold using STiki. We thank you both for your contributions to Wikipedia at-large and your use of the tool. We hope you continue your ascent up the leaderboard and stay in touch at the talk page. Thank you and keep up the good work! West.andrew.g (developer) and Dcirovic (talk) 17:44, 24 March 2016 (UTC) |
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The Editor's Barnstar |
| Hi Jaguar. Can I just say thank you so much for your hard work on Good Article reviews? It's been a long time since I've been writing articles and over the past few months I've been a little concerned about my articles. Having someone read and enjoy the articles we've been writing, as well as giving such positive reviews has really meant a lot to us. I really just wanted to say, thank you. WormTT(talk) 13:01, 10 April 2016 (UTC) |
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The Reviewer's Barnstar | |
| In acknowledgment of your meritorious efforts to clear the Good Article Nominations Backlog, in particular for articles under the Video Game subtopic, I hereby award you the Reviewer's Barnstar. May your work be an example to others that reviewing is just as important as nominating! Judgesurreal777 (talk) 19:38, 12 April 2016 (UTC) |
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The Brilliant Idea Barnstar |
| For your outstanding review on "Dear Future Husband" and so much more!! You are a great editor on here.. :D MaranoFan (talk) 15:30, 22 April 2016 (UTC) |
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The Editor's Barnstar |
| For bringing Jumping Flash! to FA status. I know I'm a little late here. It's just that I never got the chance to congratulate you. :) Yashthepunisher (talk) 10:58, 2 May 2016 (UTC) |
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The Wales Barnstar of National Merit | |
Congratulations on finishing 10th in the April 2016 Awaken the Dragon contest!! Thankyou for the hard work you've put in during this, particularly with the GA reviewing!!, it is much appreciated! :-) ♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:16, 3 May 2016 (UTC) |
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The Tireless Contributor Barnstar |
| For your efforts in making Nights into Dreams... a featured article. Remarkable feat! Congratulations! Pavanjandhyala (talk) 11:28, 6 June 2016 (UTC)
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The Original Barnstar |
| Thank you all the help you offered with your edits ad comments on Kalki Koechlin's article. NumerounovedantTalk 14:55, 19 June 2016 (UTC) |
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The Geography Barnstar | |
| Awarded for your good work on the Portsmouth city article. May the heavens light our guide! LordHarris 23:17, 1 September 2016 (UTC) |
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The Rajinikanth Award of Excellence and Bravery |
| Rajinikanth, as an actor, is known for his larger-than-life persona with exceptional confidence and charming optimism. Your efforts to bring Portsmouth to GA status indeed is a notable victory. Though the article's quality was debatable, your efforts were not. I give away this award to you too; I gave this to many exceptional editors in the past who have accomplished such hard tasks. Cheers! Pavanjandhyala (talk) 05:32, 1 October 2016 (UTC) |
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The Resilient Barnstar |
| You did very well, considering the scale of the task and people criticizing your work! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:34, 1 October 2016 (UTC) |
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The Barnstar of Diplomacy |
| For being an awesome mentor and hard working GA reviewer.-- MaranoFan (talk) 15:43, 15 October 2016 (UTC) |
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The Barnstar of Diligence |
| For bringing Portsmouth to GA! — Ssven2 Speak 2 me 07:30, 24 October 2016 (UTC)
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Master Reviewer! |
| Did you think I wasn't going to reward you for reviewing (and passing) my requested five GA nominations in under a week without a blink of an eye!? Now I know where to come when I need a GAN done ;). Thanks again! Regards, Vaselineeeeeeee★★★ 19:36, 23 November 2016 (UTC) |
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The Good Article Barnstar | |
| Thank you for all of your work reviewing the women's soccer good article nominations. Appreciate you taking the time to conduct the reviews! Hmlarson (talk) 20:21, 3 December 2016 (UTC) |
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The Tireless Contributor Barnstar |
| Thanks a million for your review of John E. Corbally and for all your work at GAN! clpo13(talk) 16:36, 5 December 2016 (UTC) |
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Congratulations, it's a... |
| ...Wikipedia Good Article!! Shearonink (talk) 19:45, 13 March 2017 (UTC) |
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The Special Barnstar |
| For getting Wipeout (series) and Wipeout 2048 up to GA status. Well done Jaguar! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:35, 22 March 2017 (UTC) |
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The Cleanup Barnstar | |
| For discovering and cleaning up a large mess of erroneous census related edits. PaleoNeonate (talk) 06:46, 29 March 2017 (UTC) |
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The World Contest Laurels |
| Thankyou for the work you put into judging the Women in Red World Contest!! -♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:05, 4 December 2017 (UTC) |
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The Writer's Barnstar |
| I just wanted to tell you how great I think your work is. Many of your articles (Nights: Journey of Dreams, Super Mario World, etc.) are what I based my GAs/FAs on. Props to you! JOEBRO64 22:12, 9 February 2018 (UTC) |
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The Barnstar of Diligence |
| It's been a hot while since you've been recognized for your constant peer assistance and community work for your GANs. This is to let you know that your hard work is recognized and deeply appreciated. Panini🥪 00:52, 17 February 2021 (UTC) |
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The Good J b! Award
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| I feel you deserve some attention, especially for the unreasonably high amount of GA reviews. How many do you have at this point? 700-something? Hold on... 1, 2, 3, shshsmmssh, 20, 21, mhsrmhsh 70 71 72 mrmrmsmrhs 200 201 202 shsmrmsr Panini!🥪 12:32, 30 November 2021 (UTC) |
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