Gidonb

Joined 29 November 2003
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Engaged in geography, political science, economy, history, sociology, arts, sports, technology, and transportation. At Wikimedia, I have made 103k edits in 18 years of editing. I have lived on 3 continents and have visited 36 countries and territories in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America. In North America, I have visited 30 US states +DC, 2 Canadian provinces, and a Caribbean island. Mexico is hopefully my next destination!


Awards and honorsEdit

Miscellaneous awards and permissionsEdit

BarnstarsEdit

  • I, Ramallite, hereby award you this Barnstar for your efforts at revamping Jerusalem. (KC) 20:50, 17 February 2006

  • Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar – For your service and dedication to helping Wikipedia grow and improve. Your work on the Hitler page is most notable. Keep up the good work! Sharkface217 01:48, 31 October 2006

  • The Rescue Barnstar – I, Eco Lee Tage, award User:Gidonb with this star for saving Farris (mineral water) from deletion. Ecoleetage (talk) 00:14, 24 May 2008

  • The Editor's Barnstar
    for your help breaking a new user into Wikipedia. Katrinpark (talk) 16:06, 18 February 2014

  • A barnstar for you! The Editor's Barnstar For creating wonderful articles on notable works of architecture and design E.M.Gregory (talk) 10:39, 29 May 2018 (UTC)

  • A barnstar for you! Helping users barnstar Thank you for your help and burn my fire En.wikipedia again ! Đông Minh (talk) 07:55, 29 November 2018 (UTC)

  • The Teamwork Barnstar
    Awarded to all editors who contributed to creating such a fine article on the Notre-Dame de Paris fire so quickly. Well done! Mjroots (talk) 05:21, 16 April 2019

  • A barnstar for you! The Citation Barnstar Your work on Daniella van Graas was exceptional. Over and above the norm. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 15:39, 1 May 2019 (UTC)

  • The Civility Barnstar
    You were right and polite. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 18:05, 1 April 2021 (UTC)

Honors in the 2000sEdit

Honors in the 2010sEdit

Honors in the 2020sEdit

  • Omroep Zeeland
    "Keep per WP:HEY. The article has been significantly improved by Gidonb since the nomination. If some of the 25 sources now cited in the article are independent and reliable, then GNG is met." Toughpigs 08:01, 25 February 2020 (UTC)
    The result was keep. buidhe 23:45, 28 February 2020 (UTC)

  • Marijn Backer
    "Significant effort expended and good sourcing changes made to the article. I would ask the other reviewers on this thread to revisit for another evaluation." Concertmusic 19:54, 7 December 2020 (UTC)
    "After article improvement, consensus is keep." Onel5969 23:57, 14 December 2020

  • Chris Arlman
    "At the time of the nomination the article was in a terrible state but Gidonb has done an excellent job here on not only greatly improving the article but creating a decent enough article which shows more than enough sources to press GNG." Govvy 13:38, 11 January 2021
    The result was keep. The Aafī (talk) 17 January 2021

  • Jan Geersing
    "Keep Meets WP:GNG, multiple secondary sources about the person." SportsOlympic (talk) 18:01, 9 April 2021 (UTC)
    "Keep. Per Gidonb's improvements of the article." KittenKlub (talk) 07:20, 11 April 2021 (UTC) The result was keep. ~ Aseleste (t, e | c, l) 06:26, 17 April 2021 (UTC)

GratitudeEdit

  • Hey Gidonb thank you! I have put this additional information in the Indonesian Wikipedia! Meursault2004 12:40, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

  • Thank you very much for your attention and help in correcting the spelling in the Indonesian article! Meursault2004 15:51, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

  • Yeaboy2
    [T]hank you for doing the original tracking and marking work. Herostratus 18:52, 25 May 2007

  • TRFA/ Haham hanuka
    Hi Gidonb. Thank you for alerting me to TRFA/ Haham hanuka and his disturbing activities. I will remain alert and I salute you for your vigilence. Dogru144 13:35, 28 October 2007

  • Barnstar thanks
    I recognize you as a creator of quality, reliably sourced content, which makes your positive feedback all the more meaningful. --Orlady (talk) 18:26, 6 July 2008

  • Integrative Intelligence
    @Gidonb: Thank you for your in-depth reply. This is by far the best argument for deletion here and I thank you for the research you made for it. Fixuture (talk) 16:13, 11 June 2017

  • Thank you
    for starting a page on Elsie Ames – it's long overdue!! Therealfyuzhe (talk) 19:15, 23 October 2017 (UTC)

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