User:Shanes

I detest many of the dominating boxes and tags being placed in various articles for self centered reasons and wrote a rant about it (The examples are now out of date in many respects).

I wish we could keep articles as clean as possible, follow the style manual, and stop starting articles with big distracting boxes with either trivial information or messages meant for editors.

Wikipedians don't get money for their work, but sometimes they get a Barnstar. I've received 5 myself. Thanks!

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  I, Flcelloguy, do hereby present this Barnstar of Reversion to Shanes for his tireless work in deleting non-sensical pages and for his effort in reverting vandalism.
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  I, FireFox hereby award you this Minor Barnstar for all your brilliant minor edits!
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  For keeping focus Well done for reminding people what we're all here to do. Rob Church
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  Barnstar of Diligence Award, from Encyclopedist

		What a Brilliant Idea Barnstar
		For articulating an idea that others had either never brought to the fore or had not even begun to formulate—the problem of the Plague of Tags—and for the impact that this idea has had on this Project. No, the battle is not won, and may never be, but because of your truly great rant, we know for what we struggle. Unschool (talk) 07:19, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

I like traveling. Here are the countries I've lived in or visited so far.

AND	BEL	BUL	CAN	CH	CPV	CZE
DEU	DNK	EGY	ESP	EST	FIN	FRA
GRC	HRV	HUN	ITA	LUX	MLT	MCO
NLD	NOR	POL	POR	RUS	SWE	Soviet Union
GBR	USA	VAT	SVN	TUR

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