I'm a Wikipedian based in the UK. My contributions here are primarily to articles on video games and scientists, you can find a list of the articles I've created or done any major work on below. I edit an assortment of articles which take my interest in addition to these. As an admin I tend to contribute at AfD, CSD, and on edit filters.

I also work on The Wikipedia Library and Moderator Tools (where we are currently working on Automoderator) at the Wikimedia Foundation, for which I may edit from Samwalton9 (WMF). Edits, statements, or other contributions made from this account are my own, and may not reflect the views of the Foundation.

If you want to ask me a question or otherwise speak to me please feel free to post on my talk page. If you think there is an obvious (policy based!) reason to revert an admin action I've taken then go ahead - don't feel required to ask me first, but please let me know if you've done so.

I have some alternative accounts which I use(d) for various testing purposes, a currently inactive bot account SW9Bot, and a doppelgänger account Sam Walton.

Articles I started

An orange tick denotes that another editor was responsible for the Did You Know/Good Article/Featured Article.

Video Games Scientists Other
Article DYK GA FA Article DYK GA Article DYK GA
Ben Brode Anne Briscoe Alok Kanojia
Black Girl Gamers Antal Ruprecht Andrew Pearce
Cart Life Carl Benedicks Arthur Bulley
Code Hero Caroline Herzenberg Aweng Ade-Chuol
Cube World Catherine Raisin Camp Quest UK
Curve Studios Deborah Persaud Clearsprings Ready Homes
DayZ (video game) Doris Kuhlmann-Wilsdorf Eunice Hilton
Dropsy (video game) Emory Ellis Frank (film)
FAR: Lone Sails Frances Acton Gina Martin
Flirtboat Frank Leverett Girls Who Code
Girls Make Games Harriet Richardson GenePeeks
Gorogoa Isabelle Stone Good Thinking Society
Her Story (video game) Jocelyn Gill GreenWood Forest Park
Jeffrey Shih Johann Benzenberg Henry (2015 film)
Make Something Unreal June Downey Jahkara Smith
Memory of a Broken Dimension Mary Ann Booth Johnnie Mae Chappell
Might and Delight Mary Bidwell Breed Juno Dawson
Receiver (video game) Mary M. Crawford Letters Live
Proteus (video game) Mary Pocock List of the Lost
Robot Roller-Derby Disco Dodgeball Robert W. Farquhar Loan Exhibition of Women's Industries
Sasha Hostyn Rosalie Slaughter Morton Loot Crate
Shelter (video game) Rose Stoppel Massdrop
Shelter 2 Ruth Strang Mikey Neumann
Sir, You Are Being Hunted Ștefania Mărăcineanu National Association for Women in Education
Solar 2 Sophia Eckerson Ntsiki Biyela
Tampon Run Susan Leeman Persaud
TASBot Patrick Cunningham (inventor)
The Foo Show Radiotopia
The Forest (video game) Root (board game)
The International 2014 Ruth Medjber
The International 2015 Slow watch
Yukio Futatsugi Slow Ways
Spirit Island (board game)
SteamOS
Stellar halo
Stop Funding Hate
Surf Snowdonia
Tanya DePass
The Guilty Feminist
The Principle
The Sunday Assembly
Thomas Covell
Tilly Lockey
Who Gives A Crap
Yo (app)

Other contributions

These are articles or pages that I feel I contribute(d) to significantly.

Barnstars and other nice things

Conferred for superlative work in clearing large portions of the WP:VG/R backlog. Kudos to you, Samwalton9! -Thibbs (talk) 15:00, 29 June 2013 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar
Thanks for fulfilling my requests for Make Something Unreal and Proteus (video game). - hahnchen 16:14, 11 August 2013 (UTC)


Valued Picture Barnstar
For your contribution that may very well prove to be the final piece in the Dota 2 GAN puzzle, I award you the Valued Picture Barnstar. After creating and editing the article for two years, I believe we may be at that impasse we have only hoped for. Thank you. DarthBotto talk•cont 22:47, 15 September 2013 (UTC)


Barnstar of Awesome
You are hereby awarded the Barnstar of Awesome for your amazing work alpha-testing The Wikipedia Adventure. Over 180 bugs were identified and 143 of them have been fixed already! (The rest are catalogued as known bugs).

You. Are. Awesome. Check out your name in the game credits here: WP:TWA/About.


Thank you again :) --User:Ocaasi 17:34, 23 October 2013 (UTC)

Second Secret Truly Special Barnstar of Awesome
You are hereby awarded the Second Secret Truly Special Barnstar of Awesome for your invaluable second attempt at testing The Wikipedia Adventure. Do you even know how helpful you are? You are Extremely helpful. You've helped make the project complete, and for that, I thank you.


--Ocaasi 14:26, 2 November 2013 (UTC)


The AFC Backlog Buster Barnstar

Congratulations, Samwalton9! You're receiving a Brownie because you reviewed 27 articles during the recent AFC Backlog elimination drive! Thank you for you contributions to Wikipedia at-large and helping to keep the backlog down. We hope you continue reviewing submissions and stay in touch at the talk page. Thank you and keep up the good work! --Mdann52talk to me! 19:28, 13 November 2013 (UTC)


The Brilliant Idea Barnstar
Thanks for finding the archived version of the site, that was immensely helpful! Matty.007 11:51, 5 January 2014 (UTC)


The Special Barnstar
For your great help @ Wiki Webchat..! Joseph 09:56, 13 March 2014 (UTC)


The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar
A barnstar to you for reviewing 75 or more submissions during the WikiProject Articles for creation March 2014 Backlog Elimination Drive. Thanks for your work to improve Wikipedia!
Posted by Northamerica1000 (talk) on 10:20, 12 April 2014 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk), on behalf of WikiProject Articles for creation


The Well Said Award
Just wanted to say that I had noticed your response to the woman whose daughter created a neologism at the Teahouse and was particularly impressed with your clarity and kindness. :) Thanks for making us all look good! Maggie Dennis (WMF) (talk) 12:29, 15 August 2014 (UTC)


The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
Thanks for everything! URDNEXT (talk) 22:31, 23 August 2014 (UTC)


The Real-Life Barnstar
Brilliant work today! Hope to see you again soon! PatHadley (talk) 20:56, 8 March 2015 (UTC)


Thank you for your copyedits on Dilek Peninsula-Büyük Menderes Delta National Park. They have increased the quality of the article and have brought it one step closer to Good Article status. Just thought I would show some appreciation! Coderenius (talk) 00:52, 22 July 2015 (UTC)


The Edit Filter Barnstar
I would like to present to you this highly specialized barnstar. You began clearing out the years old requested filters backlog, initiated the edit filter mailing list, and made the long-overdue guideline a reality. Thank you for all of your considerable efforts to improve edit filter management across the project. — MusikAnimal talk 17:41, 16 October 2015 (UTC)


The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
Thank you for being a helpful and thoughtful editor. And Adoil Descended (talk) 20:03, 28 December 2016 (UTC)


Outstanding Contributions Award
Sam, your efforts at motivating and nominating editors for RfA are absolutely commendable.

While others editors talk, you're walking the talk. For these nomming efforts and much more, you're an outstanding contributor.

Keep up the great work Sam! :)

Lourdes


The Civility Barnstar
For your patience in helping with WikiHow516 on IRC =) Nerd1a4i (talk) 16:15, 29 January 2017 (UTC)


The Writer's Barnstar
Nice job writing Mary M. Crawford! Very interesting article. What an impressive and exemplary woman. Glad it made it to the Main Page! ComputerJA (☎ • ✎) 16:32, 30 May 2017 (UTC)


The Barnstar of Diligence
For your perseverance with Alexander Street! Thank you! Megalibrarygirl (talk) 20:13, 3 March 2018 (UTC)


The Special Barnstar
When I couldn't find anyone else to help. You did so - gracefully and generously. You are a paradigm of being a great person and a wonderful editor. MaskedSinger (talk) 15:24, 3 September 2019 (UTC)


The Video game Barnstar

...for getting a shiny star on Proteus (video game) Cheers, Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 23:21, 6 November 2019 (UTC)


Four Award
Congratulations! You have been awarded the Four Award for your work from beginning to end on Proteus (video game). « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @ 15:06, 12 November 2019 (UTC)


The Invisible Barnstar

This award is given to Samwalton9 for collecting more than 20 points doing redirect reviews, in the May 2023 NPP backlog reduction drive. Thank you for your help in bringing down the backlog. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 01:40, 5 June 2023 (UTC)

Recall

If the community thinks I've done something so wrong that I can no longer be trusted with the administrator toolset (through the consensus of a well participated discussion at an appropriate noticeboard such as WP:AN or WP:ANI), then I will happily resign my sysop rights.

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