User talk:Beland/Praise

The advice in the song goes:

Remember compliments you receive. Forget the insults. If you succeed in doing this, tell me how. Keep your old love letters. Throw away your old bank statements.

I usually delete personal messages from the current page after I've replied to them. If anyone, including myself, cares to read them, they are in the edit history. But I've decided to keep some of the random praise I sometimes get, in a transparent attempt to make myself feel better and make myself look good.

Don't let this quirky affectation dissuade you from posting critical comments on my personal talk page. I want to know if you have a problem with my writing or my behavior, so I can explain myself, fix it, or apologize as needed. I just prefer to delete requests and criticism after I've made a satisfactory reply, lest all of it clutter up my personal space too much. Clutter prevention is also why these comments are on a page of their own.

Mary Schmich, please take note.

Love,

Beland

Praise

Hey, thanks for your work cleaning up the LGBT categories. They've been a mess for a while, and I think at one point I even promised to do it, but spaced the whole thing. Anyhow, just wanted to let you know that your efforts are appreciated. -Seth Mahoney 06:26, Feb 16, 2005 (UTC)

Your improvements on my first attempt at "bisexual culture" were excellent. Thanks. Jliberty 14:00, Feb 18, 2005 (UTC)

I'm glad to see you're working on cleaning up the Wikipedia: namespace.

This is just a small note of thanks and congrats to you for continuing to work on cleaning up the Wikipedia namespace. I just came across your updates to the Wikipedia Namespace WikiProject, and wanted to thank you. I havn't been able to put much time into that recently, so it's good to see it's still being worked on. JesseW 20:52, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

lots of edits, not an admin

Hi - I made a list of users who've been around long enough to have made lots of edits but aren't admins. If you're at all interested in becoming an admin, can you please add an '*' immediately before your name in this list? I've suggested folks nominating someone might want to puruse this list. Thanks. -- Rick Block (talk) 23:02, Jun 11, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for your work on Wikipedia!

I noticed that you have done an incredible amount of work on Wikipedia doing a lot of corrections, fixes, and cleanup. I hereby award you the Working Man's barnstar for your hard work performing chores and duties on Wikipedia. Thanks! — Stevey7788 (talk) 21:22, 19 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hey there

I saw your request on WP:RFPP (which I did, by the way) and thought to myself: That's odd. I mean, why is Beland, one of our best janitors, not an admin? Do you know why Beland is not an admin? Because if it's just to do with a nomination, I'd be pleased to nominate you myself. Please :) Dmcdevit·t 06:27, August 26, 2005 (UTC)

Yay! Dmcdevit·t 01:03, August 28, 2005 (UTC)

Admin nomination

Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Beland. How embarassing. -- Beland 20:29, 28 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Congrats

It's kind of traditional for the promoting bureaucrat to congratulate their newly minted admin and thereby impart some sagely advice. Or at least notify them they've been promoted. I don't know where Ed's head is, but let me be the first to congratulate you then. That RFA was just what I expected it would be. Feel free to ask me if you have any questions about your new admin tools! Dmcdevit·t 19:58, September 4, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for your congratulations, and thanks for your nomination. I'm already finding my new powers surprisingly handy. "Hey I can do that myself now!" -- Beland 04:48, 5 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Congrats

Sorry for the lateness of this, but congrats on becoming an admin! --Kbdank71 16:15, 9 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

End of the World

Hey, great work there. I added those Native American, Islamic and Zoroastrian prophecies way back when. I hope you liked them. Anyway, have a Working Man's Barnstar for you work:

Take care, Molotov (talk) 19:25, 16 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Templates with red links

.

Thank you - your efforts are much appreciated! We'll surely be putting in fair labor to eliminate template redlinks, so these tools show what we've got rather than what we're missing! -- BD2412 ^talk 03:32, 5 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

What is wrong with you?

Dear Beland, you look like a perfect wiki guy - the best janitor, run the most helpful Pearle, created my beloved maintenance colab, now you are going to reorganize community portal (according to my ideas)... You seriously sound and look too good to be true. So before I complete fall in wiki-love, what is wrong with you? ;) Renata3 03:00, 25 October 2005 (UTC

Nudge, nudge :-)

Check back here - you are awesome!! --HappyCamper 03:40, 21 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

DYK

Did you know? has been updated. A fact from the article Rumor Control Center, which you recently created, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

I am impressed

What a great way to keep your talk page uncluttered and current. And then the really wonderful advice on only keeping the love letters and praise! I love it!!! I've copied your explanations at the top of each talk page and set my talk page(s) up the same way. Remember: The greatest compliment is imitation! (Not much there on mine yet, but hey: What isn't yet, is bound to happen!) --Mmounties 21:15, 31 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Barnstar!

I am moved to give you this barnstar after hearing about Wikipedia:Neglected articles. You do so much great work, I just thought it should be recognized. Feel free to move the award template wherever you like. JesseW, the juggling janitor 08:45, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

		An Award
		I award User:Beland this Original Barnstar for his astonishing, great and remarkably timely work on creating various Wiki Fixup Projects, particularly Wikipedia:Neglected articles Wow! JesseW, the juggling janitor 08:45, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

Help portal

Looks promising; a definite improvement to the existing page. Keep up the good work! Dan100 (Talk) 13:24, 13 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Tundra

Thanks for the helpful edits. This is exactly the medicine that Wikpedia needs.

—-- That Guy, From That Show! ^(talk) 2006-03-05 08:02Z

Featured picture nomination successful

Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted

Your nomination for featured picture status, Image:Lütt-Witt Moor-2.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates.

Thanks for the contribution! --PS2pcGAMER (talk) 10:18, 27 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thank You

Thanks for your thoughtful comments on the clothing and fashion articles. It's nice to know that someone out there is interested beyond the handful of us writing them. :-) - PKM 02:28, 10 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Arbitrary thanks!

I just wanted to drop off a quick thanks for operating Pearle. I can see it's saved a lot of people a lot of tedious effort; not only does that free up editors for what they're supposed to be doing (editing), it increases the overall accessibility of Wikipedia, which I think is more important than most people would guess. Per your backlog, feel free to ignore this indefnitely; I'm just hoping it'll brighten your day, even if only a bit, when you eventually do get to it. Anyway, thanks! Luna Santin 11:17, 14 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the information

Regarding User_talk:Huji#How_can_I_help_more.3F, and as you didn't mention if you are watching my talk page, I would like to thank you very much, for your help.

huji—TALK (not watching yours)

Barnstar

		The da Vinci Barnstar
		The da Vinci Barnstar goes to you for building the incredibly helpful Pearle Wisebot. Gray Porpoise 16:16, 19 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Congrat! NCurse_work 08:17, 22 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Genetics

You're most kind, thanks. :) It's a great help for us at Medical genetic wikiproject. I try to work as useful as I can. We'll see, I can't count on too many participants, it's a tight topic. But this List of pages needing attention section lets us work harder. Thanks. :) NCurse_work 08:21, 22 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you

...for your welcome improvements to the Minuteman Bikeway article. I think you have deftly finessed the distance ambiguity issue, which needed to be put to rest once and for all. Cheers, Hertz1888 (talk) 03:49, 17 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Transportation in the United States

Thanks for rationally reorganizing and improving this article. It is so much more readable and approachable. :)Synchronism (talk) 22:28, 20 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar

		The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
		I, Smeelgova, award this barnstar to Beland for Beland's kind attitude and professional demeanor. Thank you. Smeelgova 02:35, 10 October 2006 (UTC).[reply]

(feel free to add to your user page if you like). yours,Smeelgova 02:35, 10 October 2006 (UTC).[reply]

Barnstar

		The da Vinci Barnstar
		For outstanding achievement in the field of bot operation. Pearle is a brilliant bot. Here's to you, Beland. Sharkface217 01:53, 31 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You've earned it.

Economy of the United States - BARNSTAR

I don't know how much has been edited by you exactly but it looks pretty neat. SSZ (talk) 20:34, 23 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

homosexuality and Catholicism

Thanks for starting that section! –Roscelese (talk ⋅ contribs) 18:44, 31 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia: Neglected articles

Thanks for the update. Maurreen (talk) 08:01, 2 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Judicial system of the PRC

I was just looking at the talk page history for Talk:Judicial system of the People's Republic of China, and saw your (very old) comment. This is likely the longest article I've found that cites no references. It's strange how these barren deserts emerge on Wikipedia, and on top-importance articles no less. In any case, I'm thinking of having a crack at reordering the page. If you have an ongoing interest in the topic, please partake! Regards, Homunculus (duihua) 06:15, 26 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	For Pearle ;-) Eurobas (talk) 16:46, 14 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Barnstar

		What a Brilliant Idea Barnstar
		For your creation of Wikipedia:Typo Team/moss. If only I had the time to work on them all... John of Reading (talk) 08:19, 8 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Happy 13th Wiki-Birthday Beland

For all of the many known and generally unknown good things you have done here, here is to wishing you a very happy 13th Wiki-Birthday today Beland. I speak for myself, and for many others no doubt. Hope you have a good one. Scott P. (talk) 17:13, 5 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for being one of Wikipedia's top medical contributors!

please help translate this message into your local language via meta

The 2016 Cure Award

In 2016 you were one of the top ~200 medical editors across any language of Wikipedia. Thank you from Wiki Project Med Foundation for helping bring free, complete, accurate, up-to-date health information to the public. We really appreciate you and the vital work you do! Wiki Project Med Foundation is a user group whose mission is to improve our health content. Consider joining here, there are no associated costs.

Thanks again :-) -- Doc James along with the rest of the team at Wiki Project Med Foundation 18:08, 3 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

14 years of editing, today

Hey, Beland. I'd like to wish you a wonderful First Edit Day on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee!
Have a great day! Chris Troutman (talk) 06:27, 6 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Hey - I just wanted to say thanks for all of your amazing work on Wikipedia! You've personally helped me and hundreds of thousands of other people out, and I really appreciate it. You're personally making a huge contribution to keeping the world's information clear, accessible, and high-quality. Thanks so much for what you do!

Ameobea (talk) 22:31, 19 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

	The Technical Barnstar
	For your quality and tireless work at WP:Typo Team/moss and in numerous other bot-related tasks LittlePuppers (talk) 22:08, 28 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for all your hard work!

		The Barnstar of Diligence
		Thanks for all the work you do. I appreciate your work merging Guilt-Shame-Fear spectrum of cultures. I know such merging is cumbersome and thankless. In addition, I have noticed your countless edits for MOS compliance, typo handling, and all the little things that improve the quality of everyday Wikipedia content. Thank you! Daask (talk) 20:08, 6 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Editor of the Week

		Editor of the Week
		Your ongoing efforts to improve the encyclopedia have not gone unnoticed: You have been selected as Editor of the Week in recognition of your great contributions and hard work! (courtesy of the Wikipedia Editor Retention Project)

User:Darylgolden submitted the following nomination for Editor of the Week:

I nominate Beland to be Editor of the Week. He is a prolific editor, having made over 69000 edits, mostly gnomish in nature. Their work in setting up Wikipedia:Typo Team/moss is particularly commendable. This is a project that automatically finds typos on Wikipedia through a database search. Since its inception, the project has led to thousands of typo corrections and numerous entries added to Wiktionary. Beland's technical skills and general editing is truly invaluable to the project, and they're definitely deserving of this award.

You can copy the following text to your user page to display a user box proclaiming your selection as Editor of the Week:

{{User:UBX/EoTWBox}}

Cleaning Wikipedia

Beland

Editor of the Week
for the week beginning November 4, 2018

A prolific editor with over 69000 mostly gnomish edits. Set up Wikipedia:Typo Team/moss, a project that automatically finds typos on Wikipedia through a database search leading to 1000's of typo corrections and entries. Invaluable technical skills and general editing ability.

Recognized for

setting up Wikipedia:Typo Team/moss

Submit a nomination

Thanks again for your efforts! ―Buster7 ☎ 00:30, 4 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Oh hurray, thanks! -- Beland (talk) 01:23, 4 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

14 years of adminship

Wishing Beland a very happy adminship anniversary on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Chris Troutman (talk) 17:17, 4 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	For daring to cut through this Gordian knot at Early Christianity-related articles. Highly appreciated! Joshua Jonathan -Let's talk! 06:02, 31 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

	The Writer's Barnstar
	For turning a problematic page into an encyclopedia article by removing inappropriate content. Thank you. WhatamIdoing (talk) 06:23, 22 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

A cup of coffee for you!

Thanks for your development of Hospitalized cases in the vaping lung illness outbreak. Blue Rasberry (talk) 12:41, 23 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for being one of Wikipedia's top medical contributors!

please help translate this message into your local language via meta

The 2019 Cure Award

In 2019 you were one of the top ~300 medical editors across any language of Wikipedia. Thank you from Wiki Project Med for helping bring free, complete, accurate, up-to-date health information to the public. We really appreciate you and the vital work you do! Wiki Project Med Foundation is a thematic organization whose mission is to improve our health content. Consider joining here, there are no associated costs.

Thanks again :-) -- Doc James along with the rest of the team at Wiki Project Med Foundation 18:35, 5 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Happy First Edit Day!

Have a very happy first edit anniversary!

From the Birthday Committee, CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 00:08, 6 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

A cup of coffee for you!

Appreciate the moss project, awesome work! Mindfulsheep (talk) 23:50, 16 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

The Admin's Barnstar

For the closure at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Biography#RfC: Changing MOS:DEADNAME on how to credit individuals on previously released works, a very detailed and thorough assessment that must have taken a long time to compose. I know people can be reluctant to close such RfCs because it will usually only end in negative feedback, never positive feedback, so here's a barnstar to counteract that. :) — Bilorv (talk) 13:29, 4 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Happy Adminship Anniversary!

Have a very happy adminship anniversary on your special day!

Best wishes, CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 19:44, 4 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Barnstar for MOS:FRAC

		The Original Barnstar
		On 9 September 2021 (UTC)‎, a discussion was initiated (archived) regarding MOS:FRAC. This has resulted in MOS clarification, and the standardization of those articles impacted by it. I hereby award Beland a barnstar in recognition of these improvements to Wikipedia. Thank you. — CJDOS, Sheridan, OR (talk) 07:54, 8 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Unit names

Thanks for your work on cleaning up lower-cased symbols for litre. XAM2175 ^(T) 11:23, 11 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]