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MatthewVanitas

Joined 25 February 2008
This editor is a
Master Editor IV
and is entitled to display this
Orichalcum Editor Star.
This user participates in
WikiProject Africa.
This user is a participant in
WikiProject India.
This user is a member of
WikiProject Military history.
[[Image:|45px|WikiProject Musical Instruments]] This user is a member of WikiProject Musical Instruments.

My primary focuses include:

  • Central and South Asian Islamic history, particularly in terms of rendering existing and new articles into NPOV
  • Improving sourcing and academic accuracy of Indian articles on castes and social groups; the subject is woefully prone to puffery and pseudo-history
  • Military history, particularly translating articles on conflicts not generally covered in English-language publications
  • Militancy and paramilitary organisations, to include sectarian and revolutionary groups
  • Folk music topics, particularly bagpipes and improving and organising coverage of highly localised musical traditions

Awards edit

  The Indian Barnstar of National Merit
For your tireless contributions and constant monitoring on the article Kalwar (caste), I hereby award you this barnstar.Kailasher (talk) 06:28, 21 August 2014 (UTC)
  The Articles for Creation barnstar
Thanks for having the dedication and patience to put up with a newbie Wikipedian like me. I am extremely grateful for your assistance, advice and research to help me get my article accepted. Nathan121212 (talk) 14:25, 12 October 2013 (UTC)
  The Rosetta Barnstar
For translating so many articles from Russian, I'd like to give you this ;-) Pattont/c 20:25, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
  To show appreciation of your many additions to the currently labeled List of members of the United States Congress killed or wounded in office‎, I present you with the Senate gavel... just don't tell the senate I gave it to you.

Now get back in there and make it even better!

--Found5dollar (talk) 15:01, 14 January 2011 (UTC)
  The Photographer's Barnstar
For creating and adding this excellent image of a Khyber Pass Copy Webley Pocket Revolver, adding a much needed visual boost and information addition to the Webley Revolver and Khyber Pass Copy articles Commander Zulu (talk) 06:03, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
  The Helping Hand Barnstar
For responding to my plea for help at WP:Requests for feedback more enthusiastically that I could have dreamed of, and responding to forty-seven requests in ten days! --Physics is all gnomes (talk) 20:48, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
  The India Star
For the Indian bagpipe instrument articles. keep up your great work. AshLin (talk) 13:32, 24 April 2011 (UTC)
  The Cleanup Barnstar
For your incredible clean up work on Indian caste related articles. —SpacemanSpiff 05:57, 28 April 2011 (UTC)
 
Golden Wiki Award
You are among the top 5% of most active Wikipedians this past month! 66.87.7.126 (talk) 23:29, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
  The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar
for work above and beyond the call of duty on India related articles. SH 15:46, 11 April 2012 (UTC)
  The Special Barnstar
For bringing public domain resources to notice of the Project. AshLin (talk) 12:52, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
  WikiProject Japan Barnsensu Award
This Barnsensu is awarded to User:MatthewVanitas for spearheading the effort to create the Ainu Task Force for WikiProject Japan. Good work! Boneyard90 (talk) 21:48, 15 June 2012 (UTC)
  The Content Review Medal
Congratulations, you have earned The Content Review Medal for having performed the highest number of reviews during the WikiProject Articles for creation December 2013 - January 2014 Backlog Elimination Drive. Thanks for contributing to the backlog elimination drive!
Posted by Northamerica1000 (talk) on 11:18, 26 February 2014 (UTC), on behalf of WikiProject Articles for creation
  The Gold Wiki Award
Congratulations, you have earned The Gold Wiki Award for having performed the highest number of reviews during the WikiProject Articles for creation December 2013 - January 2014 Backlog Elimination Drive. Thanks for contributing to the backlog elimination drive!
Posted by Northamerica1000 (talk) on 11:18, 26 February 2014 (UTC), on behalf of WikiProject Articles for creation
 
The AFC Backlog Buster Barnstar
  

Congratulations, MatthewVanitas! You're receiving the The Articles for Creation Barnstar because you got more than 175 points during the recent AFC Backlog elimination drive in June 2014! Thank you for you contributions to Wikipedia at-large and helping to keep the backlog down. We hope you continue reviewing submissions and stay in touch at the talk page. Thank you and keep up the good work! (t) Josve05a (c) 23:50, 31 July 2014 (UTC)

To-Do edit

Further information: User:MatthewVanitas/hotmail draft list

Expand edit

Cleanup edit

Caste cleanup edit

Rewrite edit

Find images edit

Add refs edit

Mine edit

Mine for articles edit

Mine for translation edit

Mine for cites edit

Mine for pics edit

India pics edit

Translate edit

Portuguese edit


From English edit

Articles to write edit

Secondary to-write edit

Extremist groups edit

Political liberation groups edit

Drafts edit

Others' drafts for rescue edit

To be published if the originator never shows back up.

Small world edit

Useful tools edit

Interacting and reviewing edit

Fix linkrot edit

Appendices edit

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