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This is a Wikipedia user page
This is not an encyclopedia article or the talk page for an encyclopedia article. Nor is it a ham sandwich, an interpretive dance troupe, a rusted-out surplus aircraft carrier crewed by a collection of mutinous and homicidal (yet strangely attractive) woodland creatures, or that ineffable high chrome-melancholy feeling that you get when you look out the window and see the first snowflakes of winter drifting down from a slate-gray sky. If you find this page on any site other than Wikipedia, you should probably ask yourself "Why am I looking at a site other than Wikipedia, as everything a person could ever want may be found there?"

I'm Herostratus, I'm a Wikipedia editor and have been since 2005. My user name was taken in ironic memorialization of the original Herostratus, the greatest vandal of all time, who destroyed the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

I created the Wikipedia Service Awards, which I conceived, wrote, made the images for, published, and shepherded thru deletion attempts. (Other talented editors and better artists have since expanded and improved the awards, of course.)

If I should ever abruptly stop editing, the explanation is probably related to this.

I have no particular focus and perform a number of random tasks depending on fancy: translating articles from the Russian Wikipedia, writing articles, article cleanup, watching pages, participating in discussions, closing an occasional RfC, and other stuff. I have no areas of content expertise, and write, translate, and edit articles on a wide variety of subjects.

I've written or started about 330 articles. 320, 340, something like that.

I've translated 120 articles from the Russian Wikipedia.

I've drawn or patched together a few article graphics, and graphics for internal use such as vandal-warning templates. I mean I'm no artist (I have been informed) and some of them were made in PC-Paint, but still, I made them and I might as well own up to them I guess.

(In the last one, I only added the dollar bill and the "no" circle-slash to an existing graphic of a handshake.)

Former administrator[edit]

I'm a former administrator on the English Wikipedia. I was made an admin in 2006 but I was recalled for cause in 2010, which is how it's supposed to work ya mooks. My admin logs: block, deletion, protection.

I guess was an OK admin... I don't believe I got any complaints for any of my blocks, discussion closes, page protections, or any other admin actions, or for being uncivil. If I am recalling correctly, which possibly not. I was never taken to deletion review or (if I recall correctly) WP:ANI for any admin actions I don't think. I was removed basically because of my uh Little Problem, which is legit I suppose. The admin corps does seem to be managing well enough without me.

Modo aliquid addere debebam ut insigne not tatam paginae format, sic hic accedit.

Solus editor sum, qui se sponte obtulit ad revocandum et processum usque ad finem secutus. Unicus. Sperabam fore ut haec praxis interdum regularus fieret et auxilium impediret vel saltem tardaret, ah processu cui omnes humanae consociationes subiciuntur.

Certe nigrum novum non fiebat, quod dissapointum sed non miror, et non est futurum etiam si vellemus. Vides ergo ubi sumus, aut fortasse non. Alioqui homines, et de eo nimium solliciti esse non potes.

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I've had the good fortune to have been awarded 45 barnstars.

To clarify, this is stuff I find useful in my work. I'm not saying that these are necessarily useful to anyone else.

Quick templates Images[edit]

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About[edit] (This page is about USE1. For other uses, see About (disambiguation).)

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Interwiki links[edit] Wiki Shortcut Wikimedia Commons [[commons:]] Wikipedia [[w:]] Wiktionary [[wikt:]] Wikibooks [[b:]] Wikisource [[s:]] Wikispecies [[species:]] Wikiversity [[wv:]] Metawiki [[m:]] MediaWiki [[mw:]] Vandalism response templates[edit]

 * {{subst:uw-vandalism1|PageName}} ~~~~ (unintentional vandalism/test)
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Page citations[edit]

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Round robin page move

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