User:Modest Genius

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Modest Genius is taking a short wikibreak and will be back on Wikipedia in late April

Hello and welcome to Modest Genius's user page. Please use my talk page for any comments you wish to leave me.

Biographical details

I used to have my full name on here, but people started getting this as the top hit when they

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I have a

declare a potential conflict of interest

on all those topics.

Hobbies and interests

I have a professional interest in

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Wikipedia interests

I've been editing Wikipedia since summer 2005, when I got annoyed by finding minor mistakes in my favourite online reference and just had to fix them. I signed up for an account in November 2005. To begin with, I mostly just fixed mistakes in pages I was looking at anyway, and didn't go out of my way to add anything. Over the years I've become more involved in the running of the place, particularly the Main Page, and done some content creation.

I can mostly be found hanging around

user rights, though I don't tend to use either of them very often.

Licensing

In general, I am averse to anyone using my work for commercial gain without permission. I'm not a fan of Wikipedia's licenses allowing this, although if I want to contribute here I don't have much choice. However, I am a great fan of releasing content to others to use, so long as they don't make money from my time and effort. Similarly, I don't like anyone claiming someone else's work as their own or without proper attribution, and try not to do so myself.

In order to allow others to make use of content they created, and to reduce the problems created with multiple licences, I hereby release any edit I mark as 'minor' into the public domain.

Barnstars

• The "Barnstar of Fighting USA Electioncruft" 65.190.89.154 (talk) 22:50, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

		The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
		For being diligent in spotting our poor spelling and grammar on the main page I award you this barnstar. Keep up the awesome work! :) Master of Puppets Call me MoP! :D 09:42, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

		The In The News Barnstar
		For your seemingly never-ending and always useful efforts at WP:ERRORS. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 02:10, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

		The Original Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to everyone who - whatever their opinion - contributed to the discussion about Wikipedia and SOPA. Thank you for being a part of the discussion. Presented by the Wikimedia Foundation. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Philippe (WMF) (talk • contribs) 20:26, 21 January 2012‎

	The Minor barnstar
	I made this change with haste unbecoming of the edit's importance. Thank you for fixing it. This barnstar recognises the importance of wiki-gnoming and of users, like you, who have at one point courteously and quietly fixed the edits of people in far too much of a rush. Happy editing! [•] 22:26, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

		The Main Page Barnstar
		Awarded to Modest Genius for becoming only the fourth editor to make 1,000 edits to BencherliteTalk 10:13, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

	The Editor's Barnstar
	Re. your assistance, thanks very much for digging out that page for me, it's much appreciated. I'd been searching for ages and had nearly given up. Cheers! ——SN54129 16:22, 6 November 2019 (UTC)

Articles

This is a list of some of the articles I've worked on which have been been promoted to

, or that I originally created. On top of these, there are a whole load of ITN blurbs, OTD items etc. that I've either proposed or improved; I've limited this list to articles I've contributed substantial content to.

Wow that's a much shorter list than I thought it would be. Either I've forgotten some of them, or I don't write much content...

I've also reviewed a few articles for

status:

• James E. Boyd (scientist) - promoted after minor changes. Later promoted to FA.
• Pleione (star) - promoted after major changes.
• Nicholas Mayall
  - promoted after minor changes.
• Epsilon Eridani - promoted after minor changes. Later promoted to FA.

Images

Images I have uploaded (either locally or to Commons):

• File:David Southwood RAS.jpg
• File:STEREO EUV Feb10 rotating.gif
• File:Stanislav Smirnov.jpg
• File:August 2010 CME SDO.jpg
• File:ACS FOC swap.jpg
• File:Advanced Camera for Surveys 2.jpg
• File:Advanced Camera for Surveys.jpg
• File:Squircle rounded square.png (created, since superseded by vector File:Squircle rounded square.svg)
• File:Squircle.png (created, since superseded by vector File:Squircle2.svg)
• File:Squircle circle square.png (created)
• File:Nott logo.gif

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