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Welcome,

I am a Dutchman but have been living, since 2006, in County Clare, Ireland, Ireland. I'm interested in local history, mainly from county Clare (Ireland) and Groningen (The Netherlands), Irish traditional music and genealogy.

File:Armoured Car, Passage West, Cork (6652701421).jpg, POV-pushing, Spamming and bad faith edits]]

It is remarkable that Wikipedia is claiming not to be a site for advertising and promotion, but on the other hand it is extremely difficult to remove articles that are plain advertising or promotional. This is due to the many editors who claim that normal editing should do the trick but fail to improve these articles they say can be improved. This seriously undermines Wikipedia's stance against advertising and promotion. The fact that WikiProjects become increasingly powerful with settings the rules is also a threat to the reliability, independence and quality of Wikipedia.

Unfortunately for many people, I do not discriminate. I treat everybody exactly the same, no matter how important somebody is (or thinks they are) or how inexperienced somebody is. I do not care about personal hobbies or local consensus when that is detrimental to the encyclopaedia....

The Banners Law

The more truth or freedom is in the username of an editor, the bigger the chance on a lack of truth and freedom in the edits of that editor.

Writing articles is fun, but...

...sometimes a bit dull and boring. Pictures can solve a lot of that. You can find loads of pictures in [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page The Commons Picture Archives]!

... how do I find coordinates for an article. [http://tools.wmflabs.org/locator/coordinates.php The Coordinates tool] is very handy for this.

... sometimes you want to know what articles you have created. Simply check that [https://tools.wmflabs.org/xtools/pages/index.php here].

... sometimes you just want to know how much you have done. Simply check that [https://xtools.wmflabs.org/ec?sections=all here].

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{{The Disambiguator's Barnstar|For clearing out the templates with disambig links, a feat the rest of us assumed would never get done. JaGa^talk 15:28, 12 October 2011 (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 efforts on Dutch restaurants. Restaurants are a poorly developed part of wikipedia. Keep it up! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:46, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

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

style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 3px;" | Thanks for your work preventing point-of-view problems in the Margaret Sanger article. Noleander (talk) 19:48, 26 November 2012 (UTC)

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style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | For taking care of all those bad template edits by DPL bot caused by the bad data on Toolserver. Your cleanup work saved me from a lot of annoyed editors, and I appreciate your help. JaGa^talk 08:11, 17 December 2013 (UTC)

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

style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 3px;" | I do lots of aviation accident edits. If I had seen those templates in aviation articles, I would have nominated them for deletion. Based on my own experience, some members of the Aviation Wikiproject think WP policies don't apply. ...William 15:41, 19 July 2014 (UTC)

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Thank You for all the work you have done to repair and monitor pages with disambiguation links. It is much appreciated! Robert4565 (talk) 23:04, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

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style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 3px;" | Superb work Ratel (talk) 23:22, 17 May 2016 (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 all your pageant related work. The ANI thread is mostly balderdash from people who don't understand the level of pageant article garbage there is around here. ...William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 00:37, 2 July 2016 (UTC)

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style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 3px;" | Thanks for your unflagging (no pun intended) efforts amid the tedium and repetition. Happy Holidays and a Prosperous 2017. Quis separabit? 17:39, 24 December 2016 (UTC)

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Een klus die al jaren gedaan moest worden! † Encyclopædius 10:47, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

Project page

=Abandoned projects=

Michelin project. Too much spamming, non-ENWP-editor following me around for harassing, changes in the Michelin procedures that makes maintaining the articles more difficult. To top it off: editors thinking that many trivial and/or spammy mentions proves notability.

=Running projects=

Rework articles County Clare. (See: User:The Banner/Clare) To do: Bodyke (stub) - Bridgetown (stub) - Broadford (stub) - Clarecastle (refs) - Connolly (pictures) - Doonbeg (refs) - Inagh (update) - Kildysart (refs) - Kilmihil (pictures) Lisseycasey (stub, refs) - Murroogh (update) - Newmarket-on-Fergus (refs) - Doonaha (stub, pictures) - Bunratty (rewrite) - Cross, County Clare (stub, pictures).
Willy Keane - P.J. Hayes - Feakle International Traditional Music Festival - Sharon Shannon (album) - Josie Hayes - Paddy Galvin (fiddle player) (Quilty) - Michael Downes (fiddle player) - Pat Kelly (bodhran player) - Michael Sexton Sr. - Michael Sexton Jr

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Foto's

[http://www.anpfotoarchief.nl/ ANP historisch foto-archief]
[http://www.geheugenvannederland.nl/ Geheugen van Nederland]
[http://www.spaarnestadphoto.nl/ Spaarnestad Fotoarchief]
[http://beeldengeluidwiki.nl/index.php?title=Speciaal%3AVoorvoegselindex&from=Gallery&namespace=0 Archief van 'Beeld en Geluid'] ([http://beeldengeluidwiki.nl/index.php/Afbeeldingen_in_de_Beeld_en_Geluidwiki licentie)]

Oude nieuwsbronnen

[http://kranten.kb.nl/ Div. kranten KB-archief]
[http://www.digibron.nl/search/ Reformatorisch kranten]
[http://kranten.archiefalkmaar.nl/ Kranten regio Alkmaar]
[http://archiefeemland.courant.nu/ Kranten regio Amersfoort]
[http://kranten.streekarchiefbommelerwaard.nl/index.php Kranten regio Bommelerwaard]
[http://www.dekrantvantoen.nl/ Archief Leeuwardercourant]
[http://rjb.x-cago.com/kranten/searcha.do Krantenarchief Rotterdamsch Nieuwsblad 1929 - 1946]
[http://www.hetutrechtsarchief.nl/collectie/kranten/zoeken Utrechts Nieuwsblad 1893 - 1967]
[http://www.rhczuidoostutrecht.nl/aw_kranten.php Kranten zuidoost provincie Utrecht]
[http://leiden.courant.nu/ Digitale Krantenarchief Leiden]
[http://waterland.courant.nu/ Digitale Krantenarchief - Waterlandsarchief]
[http://zoeken.krantenbankzeeland.nl/ Krantenbankzeeland]

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