I hereby confirm my

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	You're in before me half the time right now. Nice to know someone else is watching right now. Jerod Lycett (talk) 19:07, 20 September 2018 (UTC)

		Thank You
		Thank you for reviewing articles during the 2018 NPP New Year Backlog Drive. Always more to do, but thanks for participating. — Insertcleverphrasehere (or here) 05:16, 31 January 2018 (UTC)

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Articles per year

The records can be verified at wmflabs.org

2002

1. Birger Nordholm

2003

1. Jumbo
2. Victoria of Baden
3. Abul-Abbas
4. Canute II of Sweden
5. Valdemar, King of Sweden
6. Eric XI of Sweden

2004

1. Folkung

2005

1. Pantera foundation

2009

1. SS Orion

2014

1. Kampot Zoo
2. Bayap Zoo
3. Koh Kong Safari World
4. Paul Matte
5. Kolmarden Tropicarium
6. Tiergarten Walding
7. Alpenzoo Innsbruck
8. Furuviksparken
9. Frösö Zoo
10. Ystad Djurpark
11. Parken Zoo
12. Lycksele Zoo
13. Ölands Djur- och nöjespark
14. Gutezoo
15. Grönåsens Älgpark
16. Junsele Djurpark
17. Slottsskogens Djurpark
18. Skandinavisk Dyrepark
19. Tropicario
20. Escurial Zoo and Flower Park
21. Brno Zoo
22. Děčín Zoo
23. Grodno Zoo
24. Planckendael Zoo
25. Ostrava Zoo
26. Liberec Zoo
27. Plzeň Zoo
28. Zlín-Lešná Zoo
29. Jihlava Zoo
30. Chleby Zoo
31. Hodonín Zoo
32. Herberstein Zoo
33. Schmiding Zoo
34. Lovech Zoo
35. Varna Zoo
36. Pleven Zoo
37. Plovdiv Zoo
38. Stara Zagora Zoo
39. Chomutov Zoo
40. Olomouc Zoo,
41. Augsburg Zoo

• Otidiformes
  (later redirected)

2016

1. Réserve Africaine de Sigean
2. Zoo de Cerza
3. Zoo de Doué
4. Zoo de la Flèche

2017

1. Dessau Zoo
2. Kaiserslautern Zoo
3. Cottbus Zoo
4. Etelsen Tierpark

2018

1. Moälven (ship)
2. Jonas Nordin
3. Will Travers
4. Ang Non II
5. Norodom Ekcharin
6. Outey II
7. Norodom Yukanthor

2019

1. Airavata Elephant Foundation
2. Elephant Research Foundation

2020

1. Niels Bolwig
2. Elephant Managers Association

2021

1. Hugo Schmitt

(created articles, articles I created during the last 60 days)

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Template Zoos of Germany

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== See also ==
* [[List of zoos in Germany]]

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Africa

Source: Wikipedia:Requests_for_page_importation

23 Imported files

1. 2015-01-14: Heidelberg Zoo diff 1
2. 2015-01-16: Rostock Zoo diff 2
3. 2015-01-18: Krefeld Zoo diff 3
4. 2015-01-18: Osnabrück Zoo diff 4
5. 2015-03-03: Laurent Koehl diff 5 (Uploaded by Chichbyaccident)
6. 2015-03-03: Émile Koehl diff 6
7. 2015-03-15: Pierre Carbonnier diff 7
8. 2015-03-30: Ditmar Koel diff 8
9. 2015-03-30: Alfred Brazier Howell diff 9 (never translated)
10. 2017-01-24: Safari de Peaugres 10
11. 2017-01-25: Parc animalier de Sainte-Croix 11
12. 2017-01-25: Lyon Zoo 12
13. 2017-01-26: Ohrada Zoo 13
14. 2017-01-28: Vyškov Zoo 14
15. 2017-01-28: Zájezd Zoo 15
16. 2017-01-28: Magdeburg Zoo 16
17. 2017-01-30: Münster Zoo 17
18. 2017-02-03: Opel_Zoo 18
19. 2017-02-03: Saarbrücken Zoo 19
20. 2017-02-04: Chemnitz Zoo 20
21. 2017-02-04: Görlitz Zoo 21
22. 2017-02-04: Ströhen Zoo 22
23. 2017-02-04: Zittau Zoo 23

Since I uploaded my first picture, a photo of a African forest elephant in 2002, it would last many years until I uploaded more pictures. 2014 became the turning point.

Animals

• 
  Irrawaddy_dolphin. Mekong river, Kratié, Cambodia, 2011.
• 
  Frankfurt Zoo

  , 1975
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  Lion enclosure and Zoo Office, Karlsruhe Zoo, 2010
• 
  Stockholms län

  , November 2013.
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  Blacktip reef shark (Carcharhinus melanopterus)

Stockholm

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  Hedvig Eleonora School, Skeppargatan crossing at Riddargatan, Östermalm, Stockholm.
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  Main entrance Hedvig Eleonora School, Östermalm, Stockholm.
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  Kungsträdgården, Norrmalm, Stockholm.
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  Styrmansgatan 8, Östermalm, Stockholm.
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  Styrmansgatan 8, Östermalm, Stockholm.

Ljusterö

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  The manor Marum's farm, on the island Ljusterö, Sweden.

Wikipedia should be NPOV and not POV push for a antropogene global warming (AGW) in relevant articles. I believe it is important to inform about strong opinons and agendas on Wikipedia. My two agendas are, that apart from that the earth has repeatedly changed climat during its entire existing, the heavily marketing regarding the global warming during the eighties, has no origin in human activities at all, and since 18 years there has been no global warming at all, in spite of the highest levels of C02, why I regard the C02-theory debunked. I never actually saw the C02-theory a result of scientist, but merely a political manipulation by a few, like

I want biased

Vikings were, and is, only the old English, and Norse word for pirats and nothing more, and nothing less

What the experts say

The term ”Viking” appears in Anglo-Saxon or Norse sources in the so-called Viking Age. Here it simply denotes pirates, no more, no less. It had no geographic or ethnic connotations that linked it to Scandinavia or Scandinavians. By contrast, in these sources we find it used anywhere about anyone who to an Anglo-Saxon or a Scandiniavian appeared as a pirate. Therefore we find it used about Israelites crossing the Red Sea; Muslims in Galleys* encountering Norwegian crusaders in the Mediterranean; Caucasian pirates encountering the famous Swedish Ingvar-Expedition, and Estonian and Baltic pirates attacking Scandinavians in the Baltic Sea. Thus the term was never used to denote Scandinavians as such. Therefore, if we wish to maintain Viking-Age studies on a scholarly level, we must stop acting as an appendix to the tourist industry by using the term Viking as if it was synonymous with Scandinavian and Scandinavians.

Source: doctor in History, Copenhagen University, https://www.academia.edu/8906219/_Vikings_and_the_Viking_Age

Swedish History Museum writes on their Web: Ordet viking finns på några få runstenar från perioden och verkar oftast betyda ungefär ”sjörövare”. Det var alltså inte namnet på ett folk eller en grupp.

In English: "The word viking is known from a couple of rune stones from the period, and ssems to mean sea rover (pirate). It was not name for a people or a group."

Source: Swedish History Museum, https://historiska.se/upptack-historien/artikel/vilka-var-vikingarna/

The website for the archeology museum at Birka, has the following explanation for the word viking: "I både det anglosaxiska och de skandinaviska språken betydde viking sjörövare. Det hade ingenting med just nordbor att göra. Att ordet idag används allmänt om människor som levde på vikingatiden är totalt felaktigt. Vikingatida människor eller människorna på vikingatiden är mera korrekt att använda."

In English: " In both Anglo Saxic and the Scandinavian languages viking meantsea rover (pirate). It did not have any specific affiliation with Norsemen. The common use today for about people living during viking time, is totally wrong."

Source: Birka archeology museum, https://www.birkavikingastaden.se/ordet-viking/

A deeper insight in research on the word viking, can be obtained from an article by Christine Fell, professor in history at University of Nottingham, her online article can be found at https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/2349/72p295.pdf

What the prime written sources say

1. Vikings, as any pirate, could origin from anywhere: The first documented use of the word viking is made by

2. in Njals saga about Norwegian Gunnar from Lidarände, there is to read about vikings from Scotland, who attacks Gunnars fleet. While Gunnar and his crew is never called vikings. Source: https://sagadb.org/brennu-njals_saga.se

3. Then we can read about Arab muslim pirates from Northafrica, who was mentioned as vikings in the saga about Sigurd Jorsalfare (while Sigurd and his crew are never mentioned as vikings) : "Så gjorde han seg ferdig til å reise derifra og seilte langs med Spania. Da kong Sigurd seilte langs Spania, hendte det at noen vikinger som var ute etter hærfang, kom imot ham med en galeiflåte. Men kong Sigurd la til strid med dem, og dette var det første slaget mot hedninger, og han tok åtte galeier fra dem. Source: https://www.olhov.net/m_sons.html

4. King Haakon Haraldsson of Norway (c. 920–961), also Haakon the Good (Old Norse: Hákon góði, Norwegian: Håkon den gode) and Haakon Adalsteinfostre was a famous viking hunter and killer of vikings, some of those vikings were Vends from Vindland, a historical name for Slavs who inhabited present-day northeast Germany: Then Hakon steered southwards with his fleet to seek the vikings, and so on to Sealand. He rowed with two cutters into the Eyrarsund, where he found eleven viking ships, and instantly attacked them. It ended in his gaining the victory, and clearing the viking ships of all their men. "". "Then Hakon proceeded along the coast of Skane, pillaging everywhere, levying taxes and ransome from the country, and killing all vikings, both Danish and Vindish."

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/598/598-h/598-h.htm

5.Vikings, as any pirate, can not be labelled as tradesmen, (or any civil profession) because tradesmen doesnt perform piracy: Snorri Sturlusson writes in

https://www.wisdomlib.org/scandinavia/book/heimskringla/d/doc5036.html

Regarding "vikings"in America, not one single viking is mentioned in Vinland in Saga of the Greenlanders

Source: https://vidforul.wordpress.com/the-saga-of-the-greenlanders/

Regarding "vikings"in America, not one single viking is mentioned in Vinland in Saga of Erik the Red Source: https://sagadb.org/eiriks_saga_rauda.en

Please also understand that a Norse organised army, looting and plundering, is no different from other armies from other regions, an army looting and plundering is not a viking activity. And no vikings invaded England, or established cities there or on Ireland, it was just Norse people. "Viking kings"never existed, and vikings never ruled any kingdom. Not one single "viking ship" exhibited in museums, has any proven connection with viking acitivity, they are NOT viking ships, just Norse longships. Other things which people speak about, but which never existed is: Viking women, viking villages, viking fortresses, viking runes, viking horses, viking swords, viking shields, viking society, viking culture. Nothing of this ever existed, according to historical written sources. Rus people and Varyangians were not vikings, and not one single written source mention that they were vikings. Vikings never served as body guards of the roman emperors in Bysanz, it was Norse warriors. In 99% of cases when uneducated people speaks about vikings , they were NOT vikings. And in most cases when the written sources really speaks about vikings, they didnt come from Scandinavia. Fiction is not history, history is a scientific discipline, based on written prime sources. What some old guys wrote in encyclopedias long time ago, without reading the written sources, is NOT history. Opinions are not facts, and not history. Only what is written in historical sources is history.

Pejorative term about a people

I have an agenda: As a scandinavian, I object to that all my Scandinavian ancestors, although belonging to "

I strongly believe that he word, and the article Viking should reflect the historical persons who were really vikings, and not my forefathers. Its time that also in the english language, the word Viking gets a modern definition, and not belong in the same box as

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