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Hi, Cam here! I've been active on Wikipedia since March of 2007. Most of my contribution to Mainspace Wikipedia comes in the form of article-creation & writing; I've created 19 articles since my beginnings here, ranging from extremely small stub-articles all the way up to GA and FA-class. I was one of the Coordinators of the Military History Wikiproject from September 2008-March 2010, when I stepped down due to Real Life priorities. I reapplied for Coordinatorship in September 2010, and am currently one of the editors of The Bugle - Milhist's monthly newsletter. I was the first Administrator appointed in the year 2009. If I do anything stupid in that capacity, you may beat me with a trout.
Most of my actual content work falls under the broad category of 20th Century Military History, with an obsessive interest in Canada's involvement in the Second World War, the Imperial Japanese Navy (particularly the battleships), and the Attrition battles of 1916-1918. I occasionally delve into areas such as the Eastern Front, Maritime Warfare (non-IJN), American Foreign Policy during the Cold War, and basically anything to do with political historiography.
I tend to focus most of my wikignoming around the review departments at the ACR and FAC levels. I've also become involved with The FA-Team, a group of editors aiming to provide technical support to articles trying to achieve FA, specializing in footnote formatting and fact-checking. In the administrator world, you'll find me mostly at WP:AIV and WP:RCP tracking vandalism and abusive accounts.
In actuality, I'm 20, living in Ottawa, the capital of Canada, and in my third year of a Combined Honours Degree in International Politics and History at Carleton University. At this point, my degree takes up virtually all of my time, along with competitive debate in the Canadian University Society for Intercollegiate Debate. I'm a vocal and dedicated Social Democrat, a topic area on which I welcome debate and discussion (so long as it remains civil). I read voraciously - always having at least three good books on the go - and keep a large research book list found here. In my spare time (which is surprisingly scarce), I'm either reading, writing, skiing/cycling and walking in the winter/summer, listening to music (primarily classical Baroque - the Bach Organ Works in particular), writing, or spending time with friends.
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|align="right"|Places I've Lived in: |align="left"| {{flagicon|Canada}} |
align="right"|Places I've Spent 7 days or more in:
|align="left"| {{flagicon|Italy}} {{flagicon|France}} {{flagicon|US}} {{flagicon|Dominican Republic}} {{flagicon|Germany}} {{flagicon|Spain}} |
align="right"|Places I've Visited for 1 to 6 days:
|align="left"| {{flagicon|Belgium}} {{flagicon|San Marino}} {{flagicon|Vatican City}} {{flagicon|Cuba}} {{flagicon|Czech Republic}} |
align="right"|Places I've Visited for up to 24 hours/passed through:
|align="left"| {{flagicon|UK}} {{flagicon|Netherlands}} {{flagicon|Gibraltar}} |
align="right"|Places I want to visit:
|align="left"| {{flagicon|Mexico}} {{flagicon|Netherlands}} {{flagicon|Turkey}} {{flagicon|Austria}} {{flagicon|UK}} {{flagicon|Portugal}} {{flagicon|Poland}} {{flagicon|Russia}} {{flagicon|Egypt}} {{flagicon|Costa Rica}} {{flagicon|Jamaica}} |
align="right"|Idea and layout stolen from:
|align="left"|Parsecboy via Kjet via Errabee via Sebastiankessel via White Cat via Guettarda via Ëzhiki via Petri Krohn |
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{{A-Class}} | {{FA-Class}} | Kongo class battlecruiser | {{Doing}} |
{{A-Class}} | {{FA-Class}} | Japanese battleship Kirishima | {{Doing}} |
{{A-Class}} | {{FA-Class}} | Japanese battleship Hiei | {{Doing}} |
{{A-Class}} | {{FA-Class}} | The Moro River Campaign | {{Doing}} |
{{B-Class}} | {{A-Class}} | Operation Atlantic | {{Doing}} |
{{A-Class}} | {{FA-Class}} | Juno Beach | {{Doing}} |
{{Start-Class}} | {{FA-Class}} | Operation Spring | {{Doing}} |
{{A-Class}} | {{FA-Class}} | Japanese battleship Kongo | {{Doing}} |
Started and/or significantly contributed to content-wise:
- Battle of Verrieres Ridge 16px
- Operation Tractable16px
- 2nd Canadian Infantry Division16px
- Yamato class battleship16px
- Operation Charnwood16px
- IJN Yamato16px
- IJN Haruna16px16px
- List of battlecruisers of Japan16px16px
- IJN Musashi16px
- Kongo class battlecruiser16px16px
- IJN Kirishima 16px16px
- IJN Kongo16px
- Operation Lüttich16px
- Operation Totalize16px
- The Moro River Campaign16px
- '''Operation Windsor16px
- IJN Hiei16px16px
- Fusō class battleship16px16px
- Juno Beach16px
- Battle of Messines16px
- IJN Shinano16px
- Battle of Mont Sorrel 16px
- Second Battle of Passchendaele16px
- Operation Atlantic16px
- Operation Goodwood16px
- 272nd Grenadier Infantry Division16px
- Battle of Ortona16px
- Operation Husky16px
- World War I16px
- Operation Spring16px
- Battle of the Canal du Nord16px
- Battle of Cambrai (1918)16px
- 25th Canadian Infantry Brigade16px
- 102nd SS Heavy-Panzer Battalion16px
- Josh Key16px
- LXXVI Panzer Corps (Germany)16px
- 5th Battalion Canadian Mounted Rifles16px
- Supplementary Order of Battle16px
- Battle of Walcheren Island16px
- '''XLVII Panzer Corps (Germany)16px
- '''8th Canadian Infantry Brigade16px
- Free World Military Forces16px
- The Saskatchewan Border Regiment16px
- The Weyburn Regiment16px
- Convoy PQ 13 (the original one) -now deleted since it was extremely short
Articles I have Copyedited
- Operation Varsity16px
- Brian Horrocks16px
- USS Iowa (BB-61)16px
- Armia Krajowa16px
- Hill 26216px
- Vilna offensive16px
- Battle of Marion16px
Articles I have provided Technical Assistance on
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| 60px | The Special Barnstar - For asking perceptive questions, that get me thinking .... Roger 21:33, 28 May 2007 (UTC) |
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|50px | The Content Review Medal of Merit - In recognition of your much appreciated reviews of military history articles, I am delighted to award you this Content Review Medal. --ROGER DAVIES talk 06:14, 28 March 2008 (UTC) |
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|60px |The WikiChevrons - By order of the Coordinators, For your oustanding work assessing B-class military history articles, I hereby award you the Military history WikiProject WikiChevrons. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 22:40, 14 April 2008 (UTC) |
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|60px |Military History WikiProject Spring 2008 - By order of the Coordinators of the Military History WikiProject, for your exemplary work in BCAD, I award you this Golden Wiki. Blnguyen (bananabucket) 22:40, 14 April 2008 (UTC) |
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|60px | The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar - To Cam, for all the help he's given me in developing the articles on airborne divisions and airborne warfare I've been writing! Skinny87 (talk) 17:10, 23 May 2008 (UTC) |
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|50px | The Working Man's Barnstar - For working so hard and for so long to get Battle of Verrières Ridge to FA Status! Skinny87 (talk) 08:08, 15 June 2008 (UTC) |
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|60px |The WikiChevrons - For significant article improvement in May 2008, particularly on Battle of Verrières Ridge, Operation Tractable and 272nd Grenadier Infantry Division, and winning the May monthly contest, I hereby award you the Military history WikiProject WikiChevrons. --ROGER DAVIES talk 02:42, 1 July 2008 (UTC) |
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|50px |The Writer's Barnstar - For significant improvements to Operation Tractable, The Moro River Campaign and Hill 262, and for coming second in the June article improvement contest, I hereby award you this Writer's Barnstar, --ROGER DAVIES talk 20:56, 1 July 2008 (UTC) |
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|50px |Military history service award - By order of the coordinators, for your excellent work tagging and assessing military history articles in Tag & Assess 2008, I hereby award you this Military history WikiProject Service Award. --ROGER DAVIES talk 09:51, 1 August 2008 (UTC) |
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|50px | The Tireless Contributor Barnstar - By order of the coordinators, for your fine work tagging and assessing military history articles in Tag & Assess 2008, I hereby award you with this Tireless Contributor's barnstar. --ROGER DAVIES talk 09:51, 1 August 2008 (UTC) |
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|50px | The WikiProject Barnstar - For your help with improving future Milhist drives at the 2008 Tag & Assess workshop, please accept this WikiProject Barnstar. --ROGER DAVIES talk 07:34, 30 August 2008 (UTC) |
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|50px | The Content Review Medal of Merit - In recognition of your help improving Military history articles through the Military history review process in June, July and August 2008, please accept this Content Review Medal of Merit, --ROGER DAVIES talk 13:15, 14 September 2008 (UTC) |
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|50px |The Invisible Barnstar - In recognition of your important behind-the-scenes work, reviewing nominations for the Military history section of Release Version 0.7, please accept this Invisible Barnstar, --ROGER DAVIES talk 07:42, 30 September 2008 (UTC) |
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|50px |Coordinator of the Military history Wikiproject |
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|50px |The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar - To Cam, for all the help given to me with my articles, and putting up with a dozen different questions! Skinny87 (talk) 08:15, 13 October 2008 (UTC) |
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|50px |The WikiChevrons - For service above and beyond the call of duty as part of Operation Silent Sentry, the October 15, 2008, effort to keep the mainpage article {{USS|New Jersey|BB-62}} vandal free and address any talkpage related question, I herby present you with The WikiChevrons. Semper Fi! TomStar81 (Talk) 00:51, 16 October 2008 (UTC) |
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|50px |The Featured Article Medal - Congratulations for the recent promotion of 2nd Canadian Infantry Division, giving you your third bronze star. You are extremely deserving of the featured article medal. Keep up the good work! JonCatalán(Talk) 23:03, 16 December 2008 (UTC) |
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|50px |The Admin T-Shirt - Congratulations! It is my great pleasure to inform you that your Request for Adminship has closed successfully and you are now an administrator! Additional congrats on WP:100! — Rlevse • Talk • 23:49, 11 January 2009 (UTC) |
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|50px |The MilHist A-Class Medal - By order of the coordinators of the Military history WikiProject, you are hereby awarded the Milhist A-Class medal for your excellent work on 2nd Canadian Infantry Division, Operation Lüttich and {{Sclass|Yamato|battleship|2}}, which were promoted to A-Class between September 2008 and January 2009. Great job, and keep it up! :) |
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|50px |The Content Review Medal of Merit - In recognition of your contribution in improving Military history articles through A-Class and Peer Reviews, during the fourth quarter of 2008, please accept this Content Review Medal. -MBK004 04:07, 1 February 2009 (UTC) |
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|50px |The Teamwork Barnstar - For your oustanding efforts during Operation Trailblazer, culminating in the 2009 Featured Topic nomination for the Iowa-class battleships, the passage of which resulted in the first ever Wikipedia Featured Topic concerning ships exclusively, I herby present you with The Teamwork Barnstar. Thanks for all of your help, this is as much your Featured Topic as it is mine. TomStar81 (Talk) 22:18, 20 February 2009 (UTC) |
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|50px |The MilHist A-Class Medal - For prolific work on – Operation Totalize, {{Ship|Japanese battleship|Yamato}} and {{Ship|Japanese battleship|Musashi}} – promoted to A-Class between January and February 2009, by order of the coordinators of the Military history WikiProject, you are hereby awarded the Milhist A-Class medal. -MBK004 06:08, 26 February 2009 (UTC) |
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|50px |The Guidance Barnstar - For writing an essay offering advice to new coordinators and to those of us with tenor I hereby present you with The Guidance Barnstar. Keep up the good work! TomStar81 (Talk) 06:16, 5 March 2009 (UTC) |
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|50px |Your majesty, it gives me great pleasure to bestow the Triple Crown upon Climie.ca for your contributions in the areas of WP:DYK, WP:GA, and WP:FC. Cirt (talk) 21:31, 11 March 2009 (UTC) |
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|50px | The Special Barnstar - Happy 2 year anniversary! Here's to many more to come, Cam. Lord R. T. Oliver The Olive Branch 22:17, 14 March 2009 (UTC) |
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|50px | The WikiProject Barnstar - For your leadership of The Military History WikiProject from September 2008–March 2009, please accept this WikiProject Barnstar. Lord R. T. Oliver The Olive Branch 00:49, 17 March 2009 (UTC) |
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|50px |The Airborne Warfare Barnstar - For extraordinarily hard work editing, maintaining and generally helping out on articles about airborne warfare. Skinny87 (talk) 16:25, 31 March 2009 (UTC) |
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|50px |The WikiChevrons - By order of the Military history WikiProject coordinators, for your devoted contributions to the WikiProject's Peer and A-Class reviews, I am delighted to award you this WikiChevrons. Roger Davies talk 13:41, 12 April 2009 (UTC) |
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|50px |The Military history A-Class medal - For excellent work on Japanese battleship Haruna, Moro River Campaign and Operation Charnwood, all promoted to A-Class between March and April 2009, by order of the coordinators of the Military history WikiProject, you are hereby awarded the Milhist A-Class medal. Cheers, Eurocopter (talk) 16:24, 22 April 2009 (UTC) |
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|50px | The WikiProject Ships Barnstar - For your hard work in getting Yamato-class battleship up to FA status I hereby award you the WikiProject Ships Barnstar. Outstanding work, Cam. Keep it up! TomStar81 (Talk) 22:10, 16 June 2009 (UTC) |
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|50px |The WikiChevrons - For writing 1 academy page during the academy writing contest I hereby award you The WikiChevrons. TomStar81 (Talk) 02:08, 9 July 2009 (UTC) |
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|50px |Coordinator of the Military history Project: September 2009–March 2010 - Congrats on your election as Coordinator for the Military history Project. In honor of your achievement, I present you with these stars. TomStar81 (Talk) 00:19, 27 September 2009 (UTC) |
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|50px | The WikiProject Barnstar - In gratitude for your coordination services to the Military history WikiProject, from March 2009 to September 2009, please accept this barnstar. --TomStar81 (Talk) 02:24, 27 September 2009 (UTC) |
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|50px | The Sesquipedalian Barnfish - For an extremely fine contribution, way above and beyond the call of duty, I award you this prestidigious limited edition barnstar. Roger Davies talk 12:24, 14 October 2009 (UTC) |
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|50px |The Golden Wiki - Thank you very much, Cam, for your two-year stint as a coordinator of you know what. I've enjoyed and appreciated your bubbly sense of humour, keen intelligence, and considerable common sense, in equal measure. That we share similar tastes in foreign travel destinations has merely been the icing on the cake. You have a great future ahead of you and you are absolutely right to concentrate now on making it happen. Thanks once again for your many valuable contributions. With best wishes, Roger Davies talk 17:28, 2 March 2010 (UTC) |
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|50px |The WikiProject Barnstar - In gratitude of your service as a coordinator for the Military history Project from September 2009 to March 2010, I hereby award you this WikiProject Barnstar. TomStar81 (Talk) 00:18, 29 March 2010 (UTC) |
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|50px | The Original Barnstar - To Cam, for excellent work on Japanese battleship Yamato. The article was a true pleasure to read. Karanacs (talk) 01:52, 14 April 2010 (UTC) |
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|60px |The Wikipedia Triple Crown - G'day, it gives me great pleasure to bestow the Triple Crown upon Climie.ca for your military contributions in the areas of WP:DYK, WP:GA, and WP:FA. cheers, Casliber (talk · contribs) 11:44, 16 May 2010 (UTC) |
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|50px | The Titan's Cross in Bronze - For your effort to improve our battleship articles for some time now, and for being the driving force behind the improvement of the {{sclass|Yamato|battleship}}s to their current FT stats, I hereby award you the Bronze Titan's Cross. Congratulations! For the members of Operation Majestic Titan, TomStar81 (Talk) 21:19, 31 May 2010 (UTC) |
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|50px |The Military history A-Class medal - For prolific work on Operation Windsor, Kongō class battlecruiser and Japanese battleship Kirishima; promoted to A-Class between January and September 2010, by order of the coordinators of the Military history WikiProject, you are hereby awarded the Milhist A-Class medal. -MBK004 07:29, 16 September 2010 (UTC) |
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|50px |Coordinator of the Military history Project, September 2010-September 2011 - Congrats on your election as Coordinator of the Military history Project! In honor of your achievement, I present you with these stars. TomStar81 (Talk) 00:04, 29 September 2010 (UTC) |
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|50px |The Military history A-Class medal with oak leaves - For prolific work on List of battlecruisers of Japan, Japanese battleship Kongō, and Japanese battleship Hiei promoted to A-class between September and December 2010, by order of the coordinators of the Military history WikiProject you are hereby awarded the A-Class medal with Oak Leaves. Congratulations! AustralianRupert (talk) 09:02, 13 December 2010 (UTC) |
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