user:SyG

I was born in :Sélestat. I have lived in :La Vancelle, :Thanvillé, :Strasbourg, :Zoufftgen, :Courbevoie, :Paris, :London, :Munich, :Lausanne, :Lugrin.

I've been to:

• {{flagicon|Austria}} Austria
• {{flagicon|Belgium}} Belgium: :Brussels
• {{flagicon|Cyprus}} Cyprus: the Greek part
• {{flagicon|Czech Republic}} Czech Republic: :Prague, one of the most beautiful cities I have seen in the world
• {{flagicon|Ecuador}} Ecuador: whole country including :Amazonia apart from the west coast
• {{flagicon|Egypt}} Egypt: down the :Nile
• {{flagicon|England}} England: the whole country, but mostly :London
• {{flagicon|France}} French exotic islands: :La Réunion, :Martinique
• {{flagicon|Germany}} Germany: :Munich, :Düsseldorf, :Berlin, :Frankfurt
• {{flagicon|Greece}} Greece: :Athens
• {{flagicon|Israel}} Israel: :Tel Aviv
• {{flagicon|Italy}} Italy: whole country, especially :Rome, :Sicily, :Elba, :Milan
• {{flagicon|Luxembourg}} Luxembourg
• {{flagicon|Monaco}} Monaco
• {{flagicon|Morocco}} Morocco
• {{flagicon|Madeira}} Madeira
• {{flagicon|Netherlands}} Netherlands: :Amsterdam and :Rotterdam
• {{flagicon|Portugal}} Portugal
• {{flagicon|Senegal}} Senegal
• {{flagicon|Spain}} Spain: :Barcelona and :Alicante
• {{flagicon|Switzerland}} Switzerland
• {{flagicon|Tunisia}} Tunisia
• {{flagicon|Turkey}} Turkey: mostly :Istanbul
• {{flagicon|USA}} United States: {{flagicon|Washington, D.C.}} Washington D.C., {{flagicon|California}} California, {{flagicon|Nevada}} Nevada, {{flagicon|Arizona}} Arizona
• {{flagicon|Vietnam}} Vietnam

• I believe Wikipedia should not include all the information available in the universe.
• I believe 90% of articles currently on Wikipedia are not really notable from an encyclopaedic viewpoint.
• I believe Wikipedia should allow commercial advertisements.
• I believe Wikipedia is currently not efficient, as the gigantic work of millions of people has only resulted in about 5000 articles of quality, and most of them are on unimportant topics.
• I believe I should not engage actions based on the beliefs above.

• Number of edits of a user; see also Wikipedia:Kate%27s_Tool#List_of_counters

• Dispenser's tools, including a check on links, disambiguation, readability, ...
• [http://stats.grok.se/ View count of each page]
• Wikipedia:Featured article tools, to be used with the format "{{Wikipedia:Featured article tools|1=NAME_OF_THE_ARTICLE}}"
• [http://vs.aka-online.de/cgi-bin/wppagehiststat.pl Builds an edit history page for a given article]

• User activity is a tool from Wikimedia DE that checks the time of inactivity of the members of a WikiProject
• User:WP 1.0 bot : the bot that consolidates all the quality/importance assessments

• Wikipedia:Mirrors and forks
• Wikipedia:Standard CC-BY-SA violation letter
• My subpages (useless for anyone but me): User:SyG/Sandbox, User:SyG/Sandbox archived, User:SyG/Archive Budapest

{{icon|GA}} Budapest Gambit

15px King's Indian Defence, Four Pawns Attack

15px List of chess books

• Café gourmand
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Chess/Review
• Portal:Chess/Selected article list

Here are the pages I have helped to bring to a class of quality (meaning {{icon|FA}} FA-class, {{icon|A}} A-class or {{icon|GA}} GA-class) one way or another, usually by doing some reviews on it and/or bringing it to the appropriate review.

{{icon|FA}} First-move advantage in chess

{{icon|FA}} George H. D. Gossip

{{icon|A}} Bughouse chess

{{icon|A}} Ashot Nadanian

{{icon|GA}} Alexander Alekhine

{{icon|GA}} Budapest Gambit

{{icon|GA}} Emanuel Lasker

{{icon|GA}} Howard Staunton

{{icon|GA}} Rules of chess

{{Wikipedia policies and guidelines}}

Hereunder are the barnstars I have given, for the great work these guys have performed:

• The Minor Barnstar to User:ZeroOne at 11:41, 15 August 2007 [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:ZeroOne&diff=prev&oldid=151369271 here]
• The Special Barnstar to User:Henrik 09:57, 9 February 2008 [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Henrik&diff=prev&oldid=190148972 here]
• The Working Man's Barnstar to User:SunCreator at 20:29, 7 March 2008 [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:SunCreator&diff=prev&oldid=196605071 here]
• The Content Creativity Barnstar to User:Krakatoa at 08:08, 3 May 2008 [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Krakatoa&diff=prev&oldid=209866635 here]
• The Content Creativity Barnstar to User:Philcha at 21:44, 28 May 2008 [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Philcha&diff=prev&oldid=215593795 here]
• The Working Man's Barnstar to User:Voorlandt at 18:32, 13 August 2008 [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3AVoorlandt&diff=231731796&oldid=231532546 here]
• The Half Barnstar to User:Philcha and User:Krakatoa at 08:30, 1 September 2008 [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3APhilcha&diff=235550995&oldid=235423613 here] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3AKrakatoa&diff=235551249&oldid=235390519 there]
• The Writer's Barnstar to User:Bubba73 at 18:35, 29 November 2008 (UTC) [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3ABubba73&diff=254825916&oldid=254749570 here]

Image:Bronzewiki 2.png to FA.Cheers, Casliber 05:45, 27 June 2008 (UTC)]]

{{The Barnstar of Diligence | You certainly deserve this for being so patient and helpful in the A-class review of Howard Staunton, as well as the work you did tying up the loose ends in Alexander Alekhine. Many thanks! Philcha (talk) 19:25, 6 July 2008 (UTC)}}

{{Barnstarofpeace|You certainly deserve this for your recent efforts. The "Quotes" thread was a brilliant safety valve. -- Philcha (talk) 22:43, 18 August 2008 (UTC)}}

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