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==The true Hoary revealed!==

Hoary is:

:the personification of everything that is wrong with wiki and the internet in general, one person who has a bee in his bonnet about something and won't listen to consenus [sic] and people with more experience and knowledge

-- as [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk%3AManual_of_Style_%28Japan-related_articles%29&diff=119726418&oldid=119717280 divulged] by [[User:Brettr|Brettr]] on 2 April 2007.

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==What I've been up to here==

Perhaps some people would like to know what I've been up to here.

One day, I might start to do something or other systematically. But as it is I enjoy working on whatever I please. Articles I've started include:

* [[Michael Andrews (artist)|Michael Andrews]]

* ''[[Asahi Camera]]''

* [[Francis Barlow (artist)|Francis Barlow]]

* [[Roy Brown (blues musician)|Roy Brown]]

* ''[[Camera Mainichi]]''

* ''[[Carrousel (booklet)|Carrousel]]''

* [[Celestion]]

* [[Cosina]]

* [[Karel Cudlín]]

* [[Dandelion Records]]

* [[Doi (retailer)|Doi]]

* [[Dōjunkai‎]]

* [[Domon Ken Award]]

* [[The Establishment (club)|The Establishment]]

* [[exhibition catalogue]]

* [[FED (camera)|FED]]

* [[Sadayoshi Fukuda|Fukuda Sadayoshi]]

* [[David Gentleman]]

* [[Abel Gower]]

* [[Anthony Green (painter)|Anthony Green]]

* [[Hatfield and the North]]

* [[Tadahiko Hayashi|Hayashi Tadahiko]]

* [[Takanobu Hayashi|Hayashi Takanobu]]

* [[Michael Heath (cartoonist)|Michael Heath]]

* [[Higashikawa Prize]]

* [[Ismo Hölttö]]

* [[Ina Nobuo Award]]

* [[Japan Advertising Photographers' Association]]

* [[Bishin Jumonji|Jūmonji Bishin]]

* [[Kensuke Kazama|Kazama Kensuke]]

* [[Hiroh Kikai|Kikai Hiroo]]

* [[Ihei Kimura|Kimura Ihei]]

* [[Kimura Ihei Award]]

* [[Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts]]

* [[Seiji Kurata|Kurata Seiji]]

* ''[[Croissant (magazine)|Kurowassan]]''

* [[Kineo Kuwabara|Kuwabara Kineo]]

* [[Shisei Kuwabara|Kuwabara Shisei]]

* [[Sir Lancelot (singer)|Sir Lancelot]]

* ''[[Lilliput (magazine)|Lilliput]]''

* [[Nicholas Luard]]

* [[Musashino Art University|MAU]]

* [[John Minton (artist)|John Minton]]

* [[Munesuke Mita|Mita Munesuke]]

* [[Harumi Miyako|Miyako Harumi]]

* [[Micro Precision Products|MPP]]

* [[John Nash (artist)|John Nash]]

* [[Midori Nakano|Nakano Midori]]

* ''[[Nippon Camera]]''

* [[Optique & Précision de Levallois|OPL]]

* [[Photo City Sagamihara|PCS]]

* ''[[Japan Photo Contest Monthly|Photo Contest]]''

* [[Photographic Society of Japan|PSJ]]

* [[David Rees (cartoonist)|David Rees]]

* [[Ross (optics)|Ross]]

* [[Jonathan Routh]]

* [[Bridget St John]]

* [[Enzo Sellerio]]

* [[Shep and the Limelites]]

* [[George Smith (bishop)|George Smith]]

* [[Vytautas Stanionis]]

* [[Kęstutis Stoškus]]

* [[Issei Suda|Suda Issei]]

* [[Akihide Tamura|Tamura Akihide]]

* [[Sakae Tamura (photographer)|Tamura Sakae]]

* [[Sakae Tamura (nature photographer)|Tamura Sakae]]

* [[Shigeru Tamura (photographer)|Tamura Shigeru]]

* [[Suehiro Tanemura|Tanemura Suehiro]]

* [[Tokyo College of Photography]]

* ''[[Tokyojin|Tōkyōjin]]''

* [[Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography]]

* [[Shōmei Tōmatsu|Tōmatsu Shōmei]]

* [[Walter Trier]]

* [[Cooke Optics|TTH]]

* [[Makoto Ueda (architecture critic)|Ueda Makoto]]

* [[Vivo (photography)|Vivo]]

* [[Voigtländer]]

* [[James Ward (artist)|James Ward]]

* [[Christopher Wood (English painter)|Christopher Wood]]

* [[Shōji Yamagishi|Yamagishi Shōji]]

* [[Hiroshi Yamazaki|Yamazaki Hiroshi]]

* [[Yang Sok-il]]

* [[Stanislovas Žvirgždas]]

Many of them are extremely feeble by any standard. Some are mere stubs. Sometimes I start an article about something of which I know little, hoping that better-informed people will make intelligent additions to it. When I look for information about somebody and find that his or her name has been appropriated for an article on somebody unrelated, irritation often impels me to start an article on the person I wanted to read about. I don't think of these as "my" articles (and some are very different from and much better than the state they were in when I last touched them); some are of much less interest to me than are other articles to which I've contributed but which I didn't start. The list is here just for my amusement and perhaps for yours too.

[[User:Hoary/Images|a]]|[[User:Hoary/Misc|b]]|[[User:Hoary/Minima|c]]|[[User:Hoary/Not_feeding_trolls|d]]

==Gongs==

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Image:Exceptional_newcomer.jpg|Hoary is an exceptional newcomer, according to [[User:Chmod007]] and [[User:JRM]]. [[User:Hoary|Hoary]] has not even started his/her user page, and has already jumped into the every-day maintenance of Wikipedia by listing an article (a joke) on VfD! Excellent start, and you show a great desire to learn more. To encourage this, I hereby present you with the newly-invented [[:Image:Exceptional_newcomer.jpg|Exceptional Newcomer]] award. You may now use this award image on your user page, talk page or where-ever you like.

Image:Barnstar.png|I award Hoary this barnstar for wonderful editing and patience during the VfD, save and redevelopment of the [[Sollog | Sollog]] article! [[User:Wyss|Wyss]] 04:29, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Image:Barnstar.png|I,Tan Ding Xiang,hereby award you with this honourable award...THE BARNSTAR,for your contributions and tip to Wikipedia! [[user:tdxiang|tdxiang]]

Image:Obake Karuta 2-05.jpg|Ceci n'est-pas un ''barnstar''. Here, have a strange flying thing. [[User:Jkelly|Jkelly]] 21:24, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

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==Wikipedia links I find useful==

*[[Wikipedia:Template messages|Template messages]]

*[[Wikipedia:Navigational templates|Navigational templates]]

*[[Wikipedia:Village pump (assistance)|Requests for assistance]]

==Userboxes and the urge for self-classification==

This user imagines that you have already seen quite enough userboxes elsewhere, and incidentally wonders why so many people feel the urge to classify themselves and to broadcast the results.

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