I could spend my time editing this into a "snazzy" userpage (with tables, columns, different colors, and useless "disclaimers"), but I'd rather spend my time contributing to actual articles. You won't see some long list of "look how great I am", because in the long run, it ISN'T that important. However, you may see me post any awards people have given me and a few userboxes, but that's about it. The fact it took a year to do anything but revert an instance of vandalism speaks for itself. If that's something you want to do or like to do, fine.
Other than that, I've been editing articles since September 2005, and finally registered in December 2005. So generally I actually know what I'm doing when it comes to general edits to differing articles. I edited heavily for quite some time, being an unemployed college-grad helped quite a lot with that, but now that I'm employed I plan to continue to contribute, even if it's only 10% of what I used to do.
As for the number of edits I've made, don't totally trust that number. A great many of them were minor edits done while cleaning up the merge backlog, I'd probably have to say at least 5000 edits have been based on my cleanup of the Wikipedia backlog. I can't stress it enough that probably the most important task for Wikipedians is not adding more information, but helping strengthen the current content both in references, but also in general quality.
I'm also now living with a roommate who occasionally vandalizes this website. Immature to say the least.
This barnstar is in recognition of your tireless effort to enhance Wikipedia, particularly in the area of merging and redirecting articles. You recently did this for Hitachi, Ltd., an article I had tagged and would have eventually merged myself. Your work helps to keep Wikipedia concise, uncluttered and more useful. JonHarder 15:18, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
The Working Man's Barnstar
Awarded to Radagast83 for his tireless efforts in repetitively sorting articles to be merged by date. theProject 18:21, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
