This user believes in the use of semi-protection for all Biographies of living people. This user demands flagged revisions NOW and refuses to do vandal fighting.

I recognize that this user page belongs to the Wikipedia project and not to me personally. As such, I recognize that I am expected to respectfully abide by community standards as to the presentation and content of this page, and that if I do not like these guidelines, I am welcome either to engage in reasonable discussion about it, to publish my material elsewhere, or to leave the project.      (from User:Mindspillage/userpages)

• I am extremely proud that User:Josette is my wife.
• My real name is Larry Pieniazek and I am probably not notable. I like LEGO ® Brand building elements. The WMF has seen validation of my identity (see credentials box at right). I have means to validate my identity and credentials independently if necessary. Contact me if for some reason you have a valid need to do this. Be prepared to explain the need in great detail or for me to decline to validate for you, because I've already done so with the WMF.

Roles:

• I served on the WMF Ombudsman commission for the 2010 tern. (While serving, I was temporarily suspended from all Checkuser roles. These suspensions were noted with strikeouts)
• I was an English Wikipedia administrator and checkuser but I stepped down in April 2011.
• I was also an administrator on Wikisource, the wiki for making source text available but I stepped down in October 2008.
• I was also an administrator, bureaucrat, and checkuser on Commons, the multiwiki media repository but I stepped down in April 2011.
• I was also an administrator, bureaucrat, and checkuser on Meta, the wiki for coordination of Wikimedia projects.
• I was formerly (for two "terms" in 2008 and 2009) a steward, which gave me certain roles and responsibilities on every WMF wiki. After the early 2010 confirmation process, marked by controversial secret proceedings that went against apparent steward consensus, I no longer hold those rights.

Let me know if you have any questions or issues with any of these roles or wikis, and I'll do what I can to help.

Other things:

• Other accounts I openly acknowledge having: User:Larbot (for rote edits), User:Larpersona, User:Larzilla (both for fun) User:Larry_Pieniazek (anti-impersonation) ... did I forget any? LMK!, preferably by leaving me a note on my talk or email.
• I have userids at various non WMF wikis. For some of them, see my wiki matrix.
• I am "Lar" at Wikipedia Review. For why I participate there, see [1].

OR...

You can help with Wikipedia's most pressing problem:

• Categorize: WP:UBLP
• Check new BLPs: WP:NEWBLP
• Participate in AFDs: BLP AFDs
• Help resolve content issues: WP:BLP/N
• Monitor recent changes to BLPs: BLP watchlist
• Remove BLP vios: WP:BLPFIX, Unsourced statements, All unreferenced BLPs, BLPs lacking sources
  Possible vandalism or libelous edits, as detected by edit filters 39 and 189. Removal of Category:Living people (filter 117)

• I'm a LEGO community activist, I guess you could say, getting involved in lots of LEGO related projects... some might say more to the detriment of the project than the benefit! In the past, I've been involved in BrickWiki a MediaWiki based wiki concerned with LEGO, LEGO fans, and LEGO creations. My personal website is Milton Train Works. (yes I realise that the WP:MoS says LEGO isn't to be written in all caps. I'll do my articles that way, but this is my user page!!! Deal!)
• I'm a gamer. Board games, computer games, fusball.
• I like trains. Real ones, and models (especially LEGO ones)
• I like cars. At one time we had 8 in our family but we're doing better now.
• I like planes. Always wanted to get a license, don't have one, but am always willing to spring for gas or rental if you'll take me up in yours.
• I like music. Especially live music. All kinds but especially blues, rock, classical, and things that mix one or more of those together.

Professionally I am a System architect, working on data and application integration projects and I travel for work a lot (most of the states and countries below are due to work related travel). I live in Michigan with a wife, 2 kids, 0-2 exchange students depending on season, 4 cats, 1 dog, 3 cars and a horse that doesn't live with us.

I believe in WP:NPOV so these beliefs are listed so you know how I feel about stuff and (VERY IMPORTANT) you should call me on any editing that looks like I'm POV pushing!!!! Seriously. Please do if you see it. Mostly I edit technical stuff so hopefully it's not that big an issue, but if you see it, call me on it.

• Politically I'm a libertarian, or a freedom advocate. I come out in the far upper right on the Nolan Chart almost to anarchy. I don't think government is good socially for much of anything except protecting our individual liberties. I've belonged to the ACLU on and off for years.
• Economically I'm a libertarian too, or a free market capitalist if you prefer. I don't think goverment is good economically for much of anything except protecting people from fraud and theft and suchlike.
• I'm pro choice on *everything*. Legalise everything and expect people to do the right thing, or suffer the consequences.
• I'm an atheist, or at best a very skeptical agnostic. Personally I think religions as a whole have done more harm than good, overall, to society since we've been civilised. I oppose any sort of state imposition of a particular religion, but if you want to have one, by all means, be my guest. Just don't impose your views on me and mine.

I'm a Wikipedia novice apprentice journeyman administrator, -holic with only a few a few hundred less than just over two three four five nine eleven fourteen I don't know how many thousand edits to my credit, mostly typos I spotted and WP related advocacy in Wikiproject space, but I have created a few articles here and there.

• I am an inclusionist but not enough to join an association.
• User:Karmafist identified me as a metawikipedian. He's probably right.
• I may (see above) have a bit of editcountitis (d'ya think??).
• When I get too proud of my edits, I need to go look at WP:1000

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Some comments:

• Feel free to mail me with comments or concerns, my mail link should work.
• One annoying habit I have, I forget to hit preview before save, or preview, but miss some typo causing multiple edits. I hate that!

If you need access to a Wikipedia article that has been deleted, ask me. If it's not a copyright violation, libel, or personal information, and has not been deleted as a suspected biographies of living persons violation, I will userfy the article for you.

Note that using the text to recreate any deleted article may automatically qualify them for speedy deletion, and copies of previously deleted content that are being used solely for long-term archival purposes may be subject to deletion because Wikipedia is not a free web host. We have a list of alternative sites which may be used to host your content.

Other Wikis... I have the ID "Lar" on many other places. See my WikiMatrix for details on many of them. (Note: Since that matrix has links to all of my accounts, and since I link to it from here, and since only I edit it, it fulfills the requirement for a "link to my account on wiki X" for any wiki X that I have listed there, by transitive closure, for any page of mine that links to it on any wiki. This reduces the N squared problem to 2N)

• Wikipedia:Wikiproject Lego

Note: I'm not very active in any of these and will not be upset if my name is moved to the inactive list or removed.

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Status

Unified login: Lar is the unique unified login of this user for all public Wikimedia projects.

This user has been on Wikipedia for 19 years, 8 months and 11 days.

This user was once an administrator and checkuser on the English Wikipedia (verify)

This user was once an administrator on Wikisource (verify)

This user was once an administrator, bureaucrat and checkuser on Commons (verify)

this user was once an administrator, bureaucrat and checkuser on Meta (verify)

This user is a member of the Wikimedia OTRS team.

Article space

This user has written or significantly contributed to at least 1 Featured articles on Wikipedia.

This user has helped promote more than 3 good articles on Wikipedia.

This user has written or expanded more than 36 articles featured in the Did You Know section on the Main Page.

Languages

en This user is a native speaker of the English language.

de-1 Dieser Benutzer hat grundlegende Deutschkenntnisse.

(or less)

No other useful spoken languages, but I've used a lot of programming languages in the last 30 years or so...

Media

BG-2 This user is able to contribute at an intermediate level using bitmap graphics (PNG,...).

VG-2 This user is able to contribute at a good level using vector graphics.

PH-2 This user is able to take good-quality photographs.