I have moved my barnstars and other awards from my user page or talk page to this page because the user page was getting too long and especially too long to save easily. I have omitted some that were added my new users that were for minor or trivial reasons or which I suspect may have been meant sarcastically.
I have also moved the list of barnstars that I have awarded, some of which I customized, from my user page.
I thank User:Bullmoosebell, a brave defender of our nation and our liberties and energetic Wikipedia contributor for the following barnstars. His contributions to our country far outweigh my meager contribution to Wikipedia. I express here my admiration for him and his work and display these awards with pride because he bestowed them. Introduction added to this award as copied from my talk page.
The Barnstar of Diligence
You edit with passion & adequate references, and your extensive service to Wikipedia speaks volumes of your tenacity to keep Wikipedia credible & fortuitous as a reference source. Your edits are in keeping with the proper Manual of Style of Wikipedia, the Policy on Good Faith Edits, and the heritage of the United States Military. Keep up the great work! Bullmoosebell (talk) 07:28, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar
You've gone through much toil and hard work to keep the integrity of Wikipedia, while associating the proper channels and adherence to good faith edits. Seemingly overdue, you've earned the Barnstar of Defense. Bullmoosebell (talk) 07:26, 29 December 2011 (UTC)
On your second Wiki-birthday, thank you for your collaborative reviewing for DYK, unafraid of a triple nom, seeking contact with all editors, commenting with precision, - you are an awesome Wikipedian! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:02, 18 July 2012 (UTC)
Thank you for promptly responding to the inappropriate edit on the Summary Execution page. You are a very diligent editor! Netrogeractor (talk) 22:36, 6 February 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for being a vandal fighter.--I dream of horsesIf you reply here, please leave me a {{Talkback}} message on my talk page. @ 22:42, 26 March 2013 (UTC)
Thanks to Amit for this one:
The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
For the quick anti-vandal reverts Amit (talk) 03:25, 31 May 2013 (UTC)
Thank you for protecting the Salem, MO from vandals. How can we report or block IP 108.239.141 for vandalism? Thank you again! Taram (talk) 07:46, 3 June 2013 (UTC)
hero of reviewing
On your second Wiki-birthday, thank you for your collaborative reviewing for DYK, unafraid of a triple nom, seeking contact with all editors, commenting with precision, - you are an awesome Wikipedian!
Great to meet another vandal-fighter on this wiki. It's my tradition to give barnstars to random vandal-fighters and excellent editors that I run into. I noticed that you aren't a rollbacker yet. Have you considered nominating yourself for rollback permission? I'm sure you'll make very good use of the tool! K6ka (talk | contribs) 03:24, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
Thank you for being one of Wikipedia's top medical contributors!
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The Cure Award
In 2013 you were one of the top 300 medical editors across any language of Wikipedia. Thank you so much for helping bring free, complete, accurate, up-to-date medical information to the public. We really appreciate you and the vital work you do!
We are wondering about the educational background of our top medical editors. Would you please complete a quick 5-question survey? (please only fill this out if you received the award)
Thank you for all the time you have invested here. Regards, [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Yamaguchi%E5%85%88%E7%94%9F&action=edit§ion=new Yamaguchi���生] 21:28, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
thank you for reverting my mistake Jonnymoon96 (talk) 03:37, 13 November 2015 (UTC)
Thanks. I have deleted my original message on your talk page since you obviously made a mistake (also shown by past history). The barnstar is appreciated although I must say that a simple thanks and explanation would have been enough. Happy editing. Donner60 (talk) 03:52, 13 November 2015 (UTC)
Looks like I beat you to the revert, and in return you beat me to the report. (Though, to be fair, you've beaten me to more than one report or revert today...) AddWittyNameHere (talk) 02:14, 30 March 2016 (UTC)
I have omitted further barnstars or other awards which were placed along with simply a series of comments, questions, requests or seem to have been placed at primarily as attention getters or facetiously. Donner60 (talk) 09:36, 19 January 2016 (UTC) I am puzzling about whether to include two others. I think they were sincerely placed but seem to have been based on only one or a few rather routine actions. Donner60 (talk) 05:26, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
Congratulations on reaching 100000 edits. You have achieved a milestone that only 357 editors have been able to accomplish. The Wikipedia Community thanks you for your continuing efforts. Keep up the good work!
Thanks for your anti-vandalism work on Top Model-related articles! :D Linguist 111talk 04:04, 23 June 2016 (UTC)
Ping removed. Thanks! It has been a busy night since AIV is backed up and one or a few IP vandals have been persistently vandalizing these articles. Since I signed off Huggle a short time ago, I hope this problem is over and perhaps the vandal (or vandals) has been blocked. Donner60 (talk) 04:12, 23 June 2016 (UTC)
{{ping|Gerda Arendt}} Thank you. You have made many wonderful contributions to the project. I always have appreciated the recognition from you and am flattered to receive this further notice. Donner60 (talk) 06:00, 18 July 2016 (UTC)
Donner60! How are you?!! It's been awhile since we've said 'Hello'! I'm leaving you this barnstar to express my sincere appreciation for your dedication towards reverting vandalism, as well as the time you spend towards this project. Your time and experience keeping Wikipedia protected is absolutely valuable and it should not go unnoticed. Thank you. :-) ~Oshwah~(talk)(contribs) 07:11, 3 February 2017 (UTC)
{{ping|Oshwah}} Thanks. I am always glad to hear from you. BTW, I see your administrative work almost every time I am on line and you are doing a fine job, as I was sure you would. I will be on vacation and offline for about 11 or 12 days at the end of the month, as I have already noted on the top of the page. So I will have a period of inactivity later in the month until about March 1 or 2. Donner60 (talk) 22:05, 3 February 2017 (UTC)
I saw you take some personal attacks in your anti vandalism work tonight. Please have another barnstar to let you know you're appreciated. Ifnord (talk) 04:12, 27 January 2018 (UTC)
{{ping|Ifnord}} Thank you! Nice to be recognized by a long time editor. As you know, this comes with the territory. BTW, I have that Prisoner user box and the other one on my user page in the collapsed section "Thank you veterans and current military; Quotations." Donner60 (talk) 04:21, 27 January 2018 (UTC)
On behalf of the Milhist coordinators, you are hereby awarded these stripes for your efforts during the April 2018 MILHIST Backlog Drive. Thank you for your contributions. AustralianRupert (talk) 09:08, 4 May 2018 (UTC)
This is for your tireless work reverting vandalism tonight. Thanks for all that you're doing to make Wikipedia a better encyclopedia! OhKayeSierra (talk) 02:47, 24 May 2018 (UTC)
For longstanding high-quality contributions to the improvement and expansion of American Civil War articles. ...GELongstreet (talk) 16:55, 4 July 2018 (UTC)
(Removed talk page ping) GELongstreet: Wow! Thank you. I think this is quite an honor coming from someone with such a great record of consistent, high-quality contributions to such articles. Not only do you make the substantive contributions but you are tireless in noticing and fixing the errors and omissions, including formatting, that many would not catch. Also, you keep an eye out for vandalism and other disruptions. This is a morale boost and an encouragement. Thanks again. I look forward to working with and communicating with you in the future. Donner60 (talk) 22:12, 4 July 2018 (UTC)
For always being right on top of the crazy amount of vandalism that constantly exists on Wikipedia. Thank you for your work! SkyGazer 512Oh no, what did I do this time? 23:04, 12 August 2018 (UTC)
{{ping|Abelmoschus Esculentus}} Thank you. This is very meaningful to me since it comes from a great contributor, not just to vandalism reversion, but to other areas of the project, especially noting your technical skills. Donner60 (talk) 03:07, 17 August 2018 (UTC)
You're welcome and thanks for your kind words. I'm not experienced as you ~ Abelmoschus Esculentus (talk to me) 03:12, 17 August 2018 (UTC)
In 2018 you were one of the top ~250 medical editors across any language of Wikipedia. Thank you from Wiki Project Med Foundation for helping bring free, complete, accurate, up-to-date health information to the public. We really appreciate you and the vital work you do! Wiki Project Med Foundation is a user group whose mission is to improve our health content. Consider joining here, there are no associated costs.
Comments on my talk page show the message, though not the barnstar, was a joke. I have noticed that a vandal posted the same text with a picture of a goat in the preceding edit. I had removed some of Boothsift's good edits, mostly or entirely vandalism reverts, when I restored an earlier version of an article due to multiple vandalisms by several users.
...That was fast...which is a really really good thing
As I am going though the RC and find vandalism of any kind to tackle, you already have done it. Your efficiency and persistence at cleaning Wikipedia may be admirable, but the actions you take to fix all vandalism right before I can do anything is very impressive. Very good job so far at fixing vandalism fast! UtopianPoyzin (talk) 04:02, 17 May 2019 (UTC)
(Removed ping) UtopianPoyzin. Thank you. You will find others that are faster. The important thing is to get it right, of course - or to quickly correct a wrong revert if possible. I have been around for awhile so I may recognize some common types of vandalism quickly. I also have suspicions about certain types of edits but will spend at least a little time trying to get confirmation, which slows down progress. Even if a person is careful, all of us make mistakes at least occasionally and can be grateful for a quick correction or a little help. Unfortunately vandalism and other types of disruptive editing are a constant problem and none of us can spend more that a little time on it occasionally. So many people need to be alert in order to keep Wikipedia reliable and well written. Keep up your good work and happy editing! Donner60 (talk) 04:28, 17 May 2019 (UTC)
I'd like to extend a cordial invitation to you to join the Ten Year Society, an informal group for editors who've been participating in the Wikipedia project for ten years or more.
Removed ping: Chris troutman: Thank you. I am glad to enter such esteemed company. I hope my articles and edits have made a worthwhile contribution. Donner60 (talk) 03:46, 21 July 2020 (UTC)
As voted by your peers within the Military history WikiProject, I hereby award you the WikiProject Barnstar for being nominated for the 2023 Military Historian of the Year Award. Congratulations, and thank you for your efforts throughout the year. Hawkeye7(discuss) 00:53, 31 December 2023 (UTC)
On behalf of the Military History Project, I am proud to present the The Milhist reviewing award (1 stripe) for participating in 2 reviews between October and December 2023. Hawkeye7 (talk) via MilHistBot (talk) 00:32, 3 January 2024 (UTC) Keep track of upcoming reviews. Just copy and paste {{WPMILHIST Review alerts}} to your user space
I was curious, seeing as I remembered you reviewing another article I did some work on, William Henry Harrison Seeley, so I decided to check the history of the Military History assessment requests section; of the past 500 edits made there, you contributed 348 of them. That to me is an absolutely incredible figure, and I think you definitely deserve this. CommissarDoggoTalk? 23:36, 3 March 2024 (UTC)
Thanks. Most of the articles put up for manual assessments are easy enough to review due to the many outstanding contributors that we have to the project. Most are interesting as well. Donner60 (talk) 23:43, 3 March 2024 (UTC)
February 2024 WikiProject Unreferenced articles backlog drive – award
This award is given in recognition to Donner60 for collecting more than 5 points during the WikiProject Unreferenced articles's FEB24 backlog drive. Your contributions played a crucial role in sourcing 14,300 unsourced articles during the drive. Thank you so much for participating and helping to reduce the backlog! – – DreamRimmer (talk) 17:56, 8 March 2024 (UTC)
I should take more notice of others' good work and have started this list to keep track. Sometimes I have been reluctant to award barnstars because (1) many of the good contributors already have quite a few and another coming from me, especially if I have not worked with them much or at all, seemed almost presumptuous; (2) it seems to me that the trend of giving these to others has been rapidly declining (maybe because of (1)?); (3) I often have only seen a little of someone's work, a snapshot so to speak and (4) I wonder about whether I am really able to make such judgments. I suppose these are not adequate reasons to refrain completely from placing barnstars. The special barnstar and a few others do seem to have been created to cover number 3 in my short list of possible reasons to ignore barnstars. The list below has the previous barnstars I placed as found by a search of my edit summaries on May 27, 2014, with others added as or near the time when I have "awarded" them. I am not looking for any recognition or reciprocity. I simply realized that I should be a little more generous with occasional praise, as others have been to me.
4 April 2020 User:PINTofCARLING The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
4 April 2020 User:GELongstreet The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
4 April 2020 User:AustralianRupert The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
4 April 2020 User:Peacemaker67 The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
4 April 2020 User:Gog the Mild The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
26 July 2014 User:Gerda Arendt Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
26 July 2014 User:TheVirginiaHistorian Barnstar of Diligence
11 June 2014 User:Hlj The Jedediah Hotchkiss Barnstar of Diligence
4 June 2014 User:Magicpiano The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
30 May 2014 User:Acalamari The Modest Barnstar
28 May 2014 User:Rjensen The Editor's Barnstar
27 May 2014 User:Jim Cartar The White Barnstar
26 May 2014 User:LlywelynII The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
24 May 2014 User:John from Idegon The Special Barnstar
23 May 2014 User:Bgwhite The Special Barnstar
23 May 2014 User:Electric Wombat The Special Barnstar
05 February 2014 User:K6ka Anti-vandalism barnstar
04 October 2013 User:IcarusPhoenix Userpage shield barnstar
27 August 2013 User:Eyesnore Userpage shield barnstar
02 June 2013 User:WikiPuppies Userpage shield barnstar
Thanks for being a vandal fighter.--I dream of horses If you reply here, please leave me a {{Talkback}} message on my talk page. @ 22:42, 26 March 2013 (UTC)
. (Though, to be fair, you've beaten me to more than one report or revert today...) AddWittyNameHere (talk) 02:14, 30 March 2016 (UTC)
~ Abelmoschus Esculentus (talk to me) 03:12, 17 August 2018 (UTC)
