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The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar

This barnstar is awarded to an editor who has consistently made an impressive effort at being kind, respectful and thoughtful to his fellow editors - even when the reverts, blocks, personal attacks and vandalism are flying. Many thanks to Nescio! User:RyanFreisling @ 00:03, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
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MDThis user has a Doctor of Medicine degree.
This user supports the United Nations.
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This user believes that the death penalty should never be used.
This user is against the War on Drugs.
This user believes in the separation of church and state.
This user is interested in politics.
This user knows that there are
654,965 reasons why the
2003 invasion of Iraq was wrong.
This user is a bibliophile.
This user enjoys reading the newspaper.
NewspaperThis user reads The Guardian.
NewspaperThis user reads The Times.
NewspaperThis user reads NRC Handelsblad.
NewspaperThis user reads de Volkskrant.
This user is a fan of
The Lord of the Rings.
MP This user is a fan of Monty Python.
This user is a fan of Blackadder.
This user enjoys backpacking.
agnThis user is interested in agnosticism.
This user understands biological evolution.
This user is a member of Wikipedians against censorship.
This user is opposed to online censorship.
This user supports the inclusion of sex education in school systems.
I would say I'm a cynic but I bet you just wouldn't believe me.
This user is a skeptic.
This user supports the use of wind power, solar power, and electric vehicles.
This user supports public transit.
This user detests tobacco smoke.
1RRThis user prefers discussing changes on the talk page rather than engaging in an edit war.
gtr-3This user is an advanced guitarist.
bass-1This user is a novice double bassist.
This user contributes using Firefox.
CarThis user has their full car licence, and can drive without colliding and crashing.
This user is a polyglot, yet has no knowledge of Cahuarano, Icelandic, Old English,, Ömie, Scottish Gaelic, Tagalog, Tyap, Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau and Visayan. Which are documented by Ethnologue: Languages of the World
AmE-0 This user does not understand the American English language and bloody well doesn't want to.
they
he or she
This user considers the singular they to be substandard English usage.

Nescio is Latin for 'I don't know.' Experience tells me that to most of us that "seems to be the hardest word." Feel free to suggest or comment. Always happy to learn.

Number of Wikipedia articles to date 6,915,117

The current date and time is 24 November 2024 T 04:08 UTC.

Intro

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Nescio is my way of saying: 'don't be arrogant you are not the keeper of the truth.' It of course refers to Socrates who demonstrated the principle some time ago, Manuel from Fawlty Towers and Nescio the Dutch writer.

Committed identity calculated here and first used on this page on July 9, 2007 at 10:32h.[1]

Coincidence does exist

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Disruptive editors that made me lose my cool in the past and who oddly enough in some way or other knew each other:

Started by me

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My contributions

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  • Preparing Wikipedia

Regarding sources Regarding sources (old) Preparing edits

  • Cities

Landmarks of Hoboken, New Jersey, Rotterdam,

  • Film

Cinema of the Netherlands, Dark Skies, The Vanishing (1988 film)

  • Games

Far Cry, Half-Life, Halo: Combat Evolved, Halo (video game series), IGI (game), IGI-2: Covert Strike,

  • Legalities

Combatant Status Review Tribunal, Commander-in-Chief, Extraordinary rendition, Guantanamo Bay, International Criminal Court, Military Commissions Act, NSA electronic surveillance program, NSA warrantless surveillance controversy, State Secrets Privilege, Ticking time bomb scenario, Torture, Unitary Executive theory, United Nations Convention Against Torture, Unlawful combatant, Verschärfte vernehmung, War of aggression

  • Literature

Edgar Allan Poe, Sherlock Holmes

  • Medical

Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome, Adrenal insufficiency, Roberto Assagioli, Cardiac arrest, Cardiac arrhythmia, Cardiogenic shock, Cardiothoracic surgery, Carotenodermia, Coronary artery bypass surgery, Erasmus Universiteit, Gastroenteritis, Heart, Hospital-acquired pneumonia, Ileus, Infectious disease, Intensive care medicine, Intra-aortic balloon pump, Ischemic colitis, Lung, Mechanical ventilation, Medicine, Multiple organ dysfunction syndrome, Jayant Patel, Ogilvie syndrome, Pulmonary artery catheter, Pulmonary edema, Shock, Systemic inflammatory response syndrome, TGN1412, Toxic shock syndrome, Tropical disease

  • News

Fox News, News, Streaming media

  • Politics and other Dubious Undertakings

Bush White House e-mail controversy, Carlyle Group, Ethical arguments regarding torture, Invasion of Iraq, Iraq and weapons of mass destruction, Iraq Resolution, Plame affair, Rationale to impeach George W. Bush, Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda, Valerie Plame, Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, Yellowcake forgery

  • Science and stuff posing as

Brown's gas finally, HHO gas finally, Intelligent design, Mucoid plaque

News

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Yoav Gallant in 2023
Yoav Gallant

Wikipedia

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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. -- Bertrand Russell