User:Richwales

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Editing Philosophy

This user has a pro-Wikipedia bias.

This user tries to do the right thing. If he makes a mistake, please let him know.

1RR

This user prefers discussing changes on the talk page rather than engaging in an edit war.

<sum>:1

This user believes that every edit should have a summary.

This user uses the "Show preview" button so as to avoid making a great number of useless, successive edits.

This user believes that a user's edit count does not necessarily reflect on the value of their contributions to Wikipedia.

This editor is a WikiGnome.

Tools

This user contributes using Linux.

This user is an administrator on the English Wikipedia. (verify · RfA)

This user is an oversighter on the English Wikipedia. (verify)

This administrator is willing to handle revision deletion requests.

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This user can be reached by email.

This user has both RedWarn and Twinkle, and may use them together!

RW

This user has an alternative account named Rich Wales sans superpowers.

Milestones

This user has been editing Wikipedia for more than twenty years.

18,000+

This user has made over 18,000 contributions to Wikipedia.

This user helped promote
two featured articles on Wikipedia.

Two of this user's featured articles have appeared on Today's featured article.

This user has helped promote nine good articles on Wikipedia.

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

This user has successfully nominated or updated 1 article featured in the In The News section on the Main Page.

This user performed his first administrative action on 25 September 2011.

This user helped clean up Wikipedia by making his first non-admin closure on 19 August 2011.

This user saved Wikipedia by making his first vandalism reversion on 27 July 2006.

Nationalities

This user has lived in the Canadian province of Ontario.

This user lives in the U.S. State of Utah.

This user is a dual-citizen of the United States and Canada.

This user is as Canadian as possible, under the circumstances.

Languages

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This user is/was a native speaker of American English but has lost his ability to speak it fluently.

en-ca
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This user has a near-native understanding of Canadian English.

CA

This user uses
Canadian English spelling.

fr-2	Cet utilisateur dispose de connaissances intermédiaires en français.

ro-2	Acest utilizator poate contribui cu un nivel intermediar de română.

de-1	Dieser Benutzer beherrscht Deutsch auf grundlegendem Niveau.

es-1	Este usuario tiene un conocimiento básico del español.

ka-1	ამ მომხმარებელს შეუძლია წვლილი შეიტანოს ქართული ენის ცოდნის ელემენტარულ დონეზე.

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This user has an advanced understanding of the International Phonetic Alphabet.

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This user has an advanced understanding of the Hebrew alphabet.

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This user has an intermediate understanding of the Cyrillic script.

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This user has an intermediate understanding of the Greek alphabet.

Geor-2
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This user has an intermediate understanding of the Mkhedruli (Georgian) script.

Hang-2
가

This user has an intermediate understanding of the Hangul.