User:Quetzal1964
I am interested in biology, I am a birder, used to play rugby at a very slow and low level, like music and watching sports. Politically I am a trade unionist and a member of the Labour Party. I have been on Wikipedia since 2012 and mainly create articles, these usually contain a lot of typos so thanks to all the other editors who clean up after me. My main interests are in natural history and biology and most of the articles I create or edit will be in that area. Why do I do it? It keeps the brain working and I am continually learning. This week I have mostly being putting Automatic taxoboxes on Percomorpha articles.
Some Favourite Quotes
"I hate wasps! They sting ye! Wasps are the skinheads of the insect world!" Bing Hitler
"How is he?"
Physio "He's got a head injury, he disnae ken who he is."
"Well send him back on and tell him he's Pele!"
Work in progress
Countries visited
{{flagicon|Albania}}{{flagicon|Angola}}; {{flagicon|Botswana}};{{flagicon|Canada}}; {{flagicon|Costa Rica}}; {{flagicon|Cuba}}; {{flagicon|Cyprus}}; {{flagicon|Czech Republic}};{{flagicon|Denmark}}; {{flagicon|England}}; {{flagicon|France}}; {{flagicon|Germany}}; {{flagicon|Greece}}; {{flagicon|India}}; {{flagicon|Republic of Ireland}}; {{flagicon|Italy}}; {{flagicon|Kenya}}; {{flagicon|Malawi}}; {{flagicon|Mexico}}; {{flagicon|Mozambique}}; {{flagicon|Namibia}}; {{flagicon|Netherlands}}; {{flagicon|Nicaragua}}; {{flagicon|Northern Ireland}}; {{flagicon|Panama}}, {{flagicon|Portugal}}, {{flagicon|Scotland}}; {{flagicon|South Africa}} {{flagicon|Spain}}; {{flagicon|Swaziland}}; {{flagicon|Switzerland}}, {{flagicon|Tanzania}}; {{flagicon|Thailand}}; {{flagicon|Tunisia}}; {{flagicon|Turkey}}; {{flagicon|United States of America}};{{flagicon|Wales}}|; {{flagicon|Zambia}}; {{flagicon|Zimbabwe}}
Achievements
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=Barnstars=
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| style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 3px;" | Great work on Pepsis grossa. You are doing great work on building that article, and I would greatly encourage writing more content: we need more editors like you around the community. Sadads (talk) 03:01, 25 September 2016 (UTC) |
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| style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 3px;" | An impressive body of work today, excellent stuff! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:04, 15 October 2016 (UTC) |
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| style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 3px;" | Amazing how consistent and hard working you are. You've contributed a massive amount to improving quality for wildlife-related articles on Wikipedia! Thanks for everything you do! We'll have another Destubathon contest sometime.... † Encyclopædius 17:00, 18 October 2021 (UTC) |
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| style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | For your great work on expanding fish species stubs. Keep up the good work! QuicoleJR (talk) 18:25, 18 May 2023 (UTC) |
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| style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | Brilliant work expanding all those fish stubs! AryKun (talk) 17:45, 2 October 2023 (UTC) |
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| style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | Congratulations on winning the second edition of the Tree of Life Monthly Rolling Contest! Great work expanding all of those stubs and redirects on marine fish into nice, comprehensive articles. 43 articles in a month is absolutely insane, and I'd like to let you know that your work is greatly appreciated. AryKun (talk) 12:44, 1 November 2023 (UTC) |
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| style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | Congratulations on winning the January Tree of Life Monthly Contest! Very nice work expanding fish stubs, your efforts are much appreciated. AryKun (talk) 14:11, 3 February 2024 (UTC) |
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| style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | Congratulations on winning the April 2024 edition of the Tree of Life Monthly Rolling Contest! Great job yet again writing a lot of very high quality articles on fish (I especially liked sea toad, oddly cute fish those). AryKun (talk) 01:51, 1 May 2024 (UTC) |
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| style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | For your incredible work and dedication to Lophiiformes stubs! RossEvans18 (talk) 12:28, 23 August 2024 (UTC) |
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| style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | For your contributions to Biology❤️ Codonified (talk) 20:48, 4 February 2025 (UTC) |
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| style="vertical-align:middle; border-top:1px solid gray;" | For your creation of articles such as Charybdis hellerii, Zosimus aeneus, and Parhippolyte back in 2017. TheTechnician27 (Talk page) 21:49, 7 March 2025 (UTC) |
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=Competition won=
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|rowspan="2" style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 5px;" | 100px |style="font-size: x-large; padding: 3px 3px 0 3px; height: 1.5em;" | WINNER of The March 2020 Great Britain and Ireland Destubathon |
| style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 3px;" | 25px WINNER of the The Great Britain and Ireland Destubathon with all 137 counties covered. Incredible achievement, you've been amazing!! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:32, 30 March 2020 (UTC) |
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