For your reconition of WikiGnome travels to find a glorious photo of the decendent of the Supreme Leader. -- Geraldshields11 (talk) 14:09, 30 October 2012 (UTC)

For your relentless composure in the Energetically modified cement incident. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 22:12, 30 March 2014 (UTC)

...is presented to Snow for keeping (ice)cool during the Energetically modified cement incident, and providing a heroic example of how to work within the system to put-out a fire, and not throw gasoline on it. An honor to present them with this honour... -- Azx2 18:15, 31 March 2014 (UTC)

Dear Snow, it has been a great privilege reading your rational and penetrating commentaries surrounding the sordid "Jews & Communism" article at various forums. Your accurate summaries and incomparable logic set the tone for a high caliber debate. I was immensely struck by your uncanny ability to almost "read the minds" of the protagonists and to call a spade a spade correctly from which they could not escape. Your commitment to Wikipedia and to help it is inspiring, even at the cost of entering into controversial turf where you have nothing to gain except the goal of ensuring that Wikipedia remain a respectable and responsible source of human knowledge and not a cesspool of pseudo-scholarship. Thank you so much for your dedication to and love of Wikipedia. -- Yours sincerely, IZAK (talk) 10:24, 18 May 2014 (UTC)

"collaboration is more than half the fun"
Thank you, editor with "a thorough understanding of how this little project of ours operates", for quality contributions to articles on life sciences, perception, and their people such as Steven Pinker and a revision of Pathology, for work on the reference desk, and requesting the community to comment where "misinterpretation conflicts with many policies, accepted discussion guidelines and broad community consensus", for the image of a username and for "collaboration is more than half the fun. :) ", - you are an awesome Wikipedian! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:10, 30 May 2014 (UTC)

You are the cooler head that prevails. I'm sure there are other diffs I'm overlooking. --Chris Troutman (talk) 05:11, 22 January 2015 (UTC)

For challenging people to epic rap battles! Had a good laugh at that. --Cowlibob (talk) 17:40, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

Here's an awesome Barnstar (to keep all the others in the attic company). I'm giving this to you for arguing with me in a civil tone free of insinuation, something so astonishingly rare these days that it merits recognition. -- Pax (talk) 06:31, 6 May 2015 (UTC)

For a particularly diligent - and very good humoured - response at the Humanities Ref Desk, as well as generally being a good egg. --Dweller (talk) 09:49, 7 July 2015 (UTC)

A wise man said "man is the master of everything and decides everything". Reflecting the single-hearted unity of our editors, I have decided to send these Leader's Greetings to you – Snow Rise – a masterful Wikipedian professing indomitable independence, creativity and consciousness in editing. May the popular masses and world progressive people enjoy your contributions next year, too! --Finnusertop (talk) 05:46, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

Thank you very much for your contributions. --Xinheart (talk) 00:12, 18 January 2016 (UTC)

A barnstar of groaning sounds accompanied by crickets singing from the rafters for this pun. --Edaham (talk)12:01, 4 July 2018 (UTC)

For being superior to every other Wikipedian I've interacted with so far in your willingness to help me think through nuanced issues, to give clear and complete explanations (not just links), to point me towards new resources I didn't know about, your friendliness, and for your excellent communication skills. Sincerely, --Shashi Sushila Murray (talk) 22:47, 1 December 2018

Thanks for helping me with the Italian-to-English translations. You've been a great help. --Bennv3771 (talk) 22:47, 1 December 2018

...for your extraordinary patience and lucid new-editor pedagogy at Talk:Scientific racism. That's the kind of work that truly builds an encyclopedia. You are seen and appreciated. --Generalrelative (talk) 19:20, 29 May 2023

I was looking for a barnstar for editors who help with understanding others but I guess a helping hand is a good way to think of it. --Springee (talk) 20:17, 28 August 2023 (UTC)