Our work together here should be our armor, not some sharp, angry, burning sword. I would strongly recommend that everyone here find an article to work on for a while; not the cliche "random article", but something that gives you a nice tug at the heartstrings. It feels great to be out there doing work on something you genuinely care about, and I assure you it'll help you regain the sense of why you're here.
You'll notice the articles I've written have mostly gotten better over time. The little icons by the name of each article are the quality rating, assigned by other people. They are, in order:
Stub: very short/incomplete (but most of the articles on the Wikipedia are in this category); Start: just the bare minimum; : C; B; Good article (1/200); A (rarely used); Featured Article: one of the best on the project (1/1000). My early articles, at the tops of the lists below, are mostly start and stub class, while my more recent ones, usually at the bottoms are mostly Bs. None of the last grades yet, but eventually! The numbers following are the average daily page views for each.
Barnstars
Informal awards, when editors liked something I did. Appreciated! Actual awarding thereof may generally be found in my talk page archives.
Extended content
I Angelbo award you this Barnstar for your game and RPG related contributions Angelbo 04:14, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for such a practical choice on the C shell article. Msnicki (talk) 22:06, 26 August 2013 (UTC)
What a Brilliant Idea Barnstar
Your idea to look at FA nomination was clever. While not the whole story, it is an interesting way to gather some relevant information. S Philbrick(Talk) 14:03, 8 September 2014 (UTC)
(That's referring to the study I did for WikiProject Countering systemic bias/Gender gap task force when someone asked whether it really mattered to Wikipedia article content that only 16% of us editors were female? I showed that at least for one reasonably sized subset of Wikipedia:Featured Articles biographies, women wrote about women 2x as often as about men, and men and undeclared editors wrote about men 5x as often as about women.)
The Original Barnstar
Thanks for protecting my Photo and Others from Copyright Infringement. I have corrected my name name on Panaramio. Thanks ChuckBerglund (talk) 14:09, 9 February 2016 (UTC)
This is for your valuable efforts for reviewing articles under pending changes protection. Thank you PATHSLOPU 14:28, 14 June 2019 (UTC)
Valued Picture Barnstar
For your timely addition of the photo to María José Cristerna while the DYK entry was still on the main page. This is one case where a picture was worth more than a thousand words. Nick Number (talk) 18:38, 13 September 2019 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar
For stepping up at RfA. Ad Orientem (talk) 23:50, 9 November 2019 (UTC)
Valued Picture Barnstar
That's a great pic you added to Tanitoluwa Adewumi I hadn't seen that one before - and everything I had found is in copyright. Narky Blert (talk) 22:50, 5 May 2020 (UTC)
The Special Barnstar
For your careful, detailed, continuing review of 2channel. Thanks! By the way, the Barubora (2005) source contains more than enough for a whole Ayashii World and an actually coherent Futaba Channel article! Plan to write/DYK both of those this year. Hopefully 2channel too if it passes GA! Psiĥedelisto (talk • contribs) please alwaysping! 02:16, 3 June 2020 (UTC)
The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
Dear GRuban: This barnstar is long overdue! Thank you for your continual availability and willingness to help us copyright-ignorant editors improve the visual look of our articles. Thank you for your incredible patience as you explain exactly what needs to be done, and often go ahead and just do it for us! Your kindness makes Wikipedia a much nicer place to spend our free time. Thanks again! Yoninah (talk) 22:06, 5 September 2020 (UTC)
Phone a friend award
You make this a better place! Thank you for trying to get the message out there at DYK! Bruxton (talk) 19:35, 18 June 2022 (UTC)
One of the best things about Wikipedia is the ability to work with the other dedicated editors. These are articles that I wrote based on starts or ideas by other Wikipedia editors.
User:SusunW is the real author of these articles about historical women, mostly Wikipedia:Good articles, that she gave me joint DYK credit for, which I don't really deserve. For most of these I only uploaded an image or two (which Susun usually found herself), occasionally translated, consulted, helped with research ... in short, my contribution is under 10% of any of these, under 1% of most. But she gave me that credit, so I'm taking it!
Vera Gedroits 10- Russian Princess (княжна; arguably Duchess), novelist, first Russian woman: military surgeon; professor of surgery; physician to the royal court.
From another Articles for deletion discussion where the claim was made that winners of this award aren't notable. So far - well, as I look into it, some were, and some weren't. These are some that were. Also expanded article on the society and award. The article in question was deleted anyway, but restored eight years later.
Stub: very short/incomplete (but most of the articles on the Wikipedia are in this category); 
Start: just the bare minimum; 
: C; 
B; 
Good article (1/200); 
A (rarely used); 
Featured Article: one of the best on the project (1/1000). My early articles, at the tops of the lists below, are mostly start and stub class, while my more recent ones, usually at the bottoms are mostly Bs. None of the last grades yet, but eventually! The numbers following are the average daily page views for each.
6 (and stubbed Worlds of Wonder (toy company) 
34 - RPG supplement, Origins Award winner, and political parody. DYK was a lead for April 1, 2021, and got 24,992 page views, the second most for the month, though only up for half a day.
35 - child Magic: The Gathering player
3 - very large scale hex wargame
Utah & Ether graffiti
Shoshong in 1881
Aluminum plant at Tursunzade
William Shatner at Belle Reve Farm
126- American scientist, inventor, activist
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