User:Kevmin

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Hi! I have been contributing to Wikipedia since a little before March 20, 2006. My interests lie mainly in the geology areas of science with a focus in Paleontology, specifically paleobotany and paleoentomology. For the past eight plus years I have concentrated on creating and expanding the wikipedia coverage of Tertiary fossil plants from western North America, and the overall coverage of fossil insect taxa.

My other interests are microphotography, vulcanology, minerology and general geology.

Oddments

(Master Editor IV Globally)

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For your recent string of articles on extinct bugs. Abyssal (talk) 02:43, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

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|style="font-size: x-large; padding: 3px 3px 0 3px; height: 1.5em;" | The Original Barnstar

style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 3px;" | For your hard work on Acer articles. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:23, 22 December 2011 (UTC)

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style="vertical-align: top; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | You deserve a biostar for your recent work on paleobotany articles. Keep up the good work! Smartse (talk) 15:20, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

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|style="font-size: x-large; padding: 0; vertical-align: middle; height: 1.1em;" |The Wikiproject Lepidoptera Barnstar

style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" |For all the time you spent working, writing, and improving Prehistoric Lepidoptera, I present you this barnstar. Keep up your great work! AshLin (talk) 07:35, 25 July 2011 (UTC)

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|style="font-size: x-large; padding: 3px 3px 0 3px; height: 1.5em;" | The Fossilized Barnstar

style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 3px;" | For your contributions to our articles on paleontology! -- OBSIDIAN†SOUL 12:39, 20 August 2012 (UTC)

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style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | This spiny Spondylus Barnstar is awarded to you Kevmin, in recognition of all your 2012 work on the subject of bivalve mollusks as part of Wikipedia:WikiProject Bivalves, including many articles on fossil bivalves. All of your efforts are much appreciated! Invertzoo (talk) 18:25, 1 January 2013 (UTC)

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style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | For all your meticulous taxonomic work here and on Commons! FunkMonk (talk) 09:50, 6 April 2013 (UTC)

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|style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 3px;" | Thanks for creating Metasequoia foxii! —hike395 (talk) 02:03, 19 November 2011 (UTC)

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|style="font-size: x-large; padding: 0; vertical-align: middle; height: 1.1em;" | The 50 DYK Creation and Expansion Medal

style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | Fifty? .... well you are well on your way to seventy. I have been impressed by not only the articles, but the photographs too. So many extinct animals ... until we get the "Jurassis Park" technology working on ancient DNA then I think we will have to rely on Kevmin to bring these bugs and plants alive! Well done, You deserve the barnstars you have gathered. Thanks from me and the wiki Victuallers (talk) 10:13, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

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style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | My sincere congratulations with writing 100+ articles for DYK. I personally appreciate the topic you are writing on and the quality of you work, and wish you good luck with keeping it up! Materialscientist (talk) 04:37, 9 August 2011 (UTC)

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style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | Oh, it seems like its only 150 articles ago since I gave you your award for 50. There used to be an advert on UK TV where the aunt says "ooo! you've got an 'ology". That reminded me of your talk page. :-) Its always the pictures that inspire me with your numerous articles on extinct insects and stuff. Well done. Victuallers (talk) 20:56, 29 October 2012 (UTC)

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|style="font-size: x-large; padding: 0; vertical-align: middle; height: 1.1em;" | The Ant Barnstar

style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | For your solid contributions to fossil ants – especially ants related to the subfamily Sphecomyrminae of which
half of the articles are now start-class or higher – you are hereby awarded the first Ant Barnstar ever.
Keep up the good work! P.S. You may recognize the pictured ant ;)
jonkerz ♠talk 01:48, 21 October 2013 (UTC)

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style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray; color: black" | I hereby award you, Kevmin, the paleontology barnstar for an exceptional series of DYK submissions on extinct ants and other insects.--Gilderien Chat|List of good deeds 23:21, 13 December 2013 (UTC)

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|style="font-size: x-large; padding: 3px 3px 0 3px; height: 1.5em;" | The Tireless Contributor Barnstar

style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 3px;" | You might well be one of the most prolific paleoentomological writers out there. Abyssal (talk) 18:23, 3 January 2014 (UTC)

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|style="font-size: x-large; padding: 3px 3px 0 3px; height: 1.5em;" | The Writer's Barnstar

style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 3px;" | For your sustained work on fossil taxon, a fascinating area that you write so much on. Keep it up! :) Acather96 (click here to contact me) 14:24, 11 January 2014 (UTC)

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|style="font-size: x-large; padding: 3px 3px 0 3px; height: 1.5em;" | The Tireless Contributor Barnstar

style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 3px;" | Awarded for your continuous creation of high-quality articles about paleontology and extinct organisms. Spirit of Eagle (talk) 03:48, 18 September 2014 (UTC)

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style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | For your dedicated work on this year's Halloween on Wikipedia at DYK. Well done. ≈ Victuallers (talk) 11:50, 31 October 2014 (UTC)

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style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 3px;" | For writing 50* DYKs on fossil ants, uploading tons of images and for getting stuff done! jonkerz ♠talk 03:47, 4 September 2015 (UTC)

*actually 56 official DYKs

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|style="font-size: x-large; padding: 0; vertical-align: middle; height: 1.1em;" |The Bronze Maple Leaf Award

style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | This maple leaf is awarded to Kevmin for writing a dozen biology articles during the fifth year of The 10,000 Challenge of WikiProject Canada. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Reidgreg (talk) 15:55, 8 November 2021 (UTC)

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|style="font-size: x-large; padding: 0; vertical-align: middle; height: 1.1em;" |The Silver Maple Leaf Award

style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | This maple leaf is awarded to Kevmin for for creating nine new articles focusing on palaeontology during the sixth year of The 10,000 Challenge of WikiProject Canada. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Reidgreg (talk) 22:34, 4 December 2022 (UTC)

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|style="font-size: x-large; padding: 0; vertical-align: middle; height: 1.1em;" |The Bronze Maple Leaf Award

style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | This maple leaf is awarded to Kevmin for writing 4 articles related to British Columbia palaeontology during the seventh year of The 10,000 Challenge of WikiProject Canada. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Reidgreg (talk) 14:30, 19 November 2023 (UTC)

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|style="font-size: x-large; padding: 3px 3px 0 3px; height: 1.5em;" | The Teamwork Barnstar

style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 3px;" | For taking the time to come up with a new hook idea for Cyrtodactylus santana in addition to carrying out its DYK review. CMD (talk) 14:17, 24 March 2023 (UTC)

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style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | Thanks so much for writing Anticlea elegans and Progradungula barringtonensis and for helping out with this year's Halloween DYK set! Di (they-them) (talk) 15:30, 31 October 2024 (UTC)

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|style="font-size: x-large; padding: 0; vertical-align: middle; height: 1.1em;" |The Bronze Maple Leaf Award

style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | This maple leaf is awarded to Kevmin for writing a half-dozen articles on paleobotany during the eighth year of The 10,000 Challenge of WikiProject Canada. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Reidgreg (talk) 16:07, 8 December 2024 (UTC)

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style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | For your contributions to Biology and being an inspiration to me Codonified (talk) 23:11, 12 December 2024 (UTC)

Kevmin