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About MelbourneStar
Hello, and welcome to my user page!
I live in the capital city of Victoria, Australia — Melbourne (hence my username!)
I've been a proud volunteer on Wikipedia since 21 November of 2010.
A great deal of my time here is spent on reverting vandalism, utilising tools such as Rollback, Twinkle, STiki and Huggle. They work as a perfect gem in combating the endless vandalism attempts on the project – and I most definitely enjoy keeping Wikipedia vandalism-free. My response to vandalism is simple: reversion and warning. The former and latter, when employed together, not only rectify unconstructive edits, but rather aim to remedy unconstructing editing. I always try not to burn down bridges and I believe in second chances. As a focul point of my time here has been spent on anti-vandalism, I've found that a lack of understanding of general guidelines and policies is an "editor-killer"; Indeed, this area needs more of our attention because at the end of the day: there is a person behind each and every account and IP.
Assuming good faith is a cornerstone of Wikipedia policies, and everyone deserves to be treated with respect and civility. Wikipedia after all, is not a school yard for bullies – it's a place of etiquette; it's a professional encyclopedia. There is no excuse for personal attacks – none whatsoever. They are wrong and disruptive and completely unacceptable. What should fill in the void of personal attacks, is now and then constructive criticism and scrutiny, politely addressing the editor's edits.
I always advocate edit summary usage. I can't stress out how vital it is to 'briefly describe the changes you have made' to any page on the project. This feature not only tells the community what you are doing – but avoids potential edit warring, vandalism errors and totally confusing other editors. The feature is there for a reason – you don't lose anything, other than a few seconds, from plugging in a few words into a box. If you don't use it, I really recommend you start doing so!
To balance out the anti-vandalism work, I take interest in editing Australian topics – people, places, events and companies; Television topics - mostly, but not limited to, drama series and reality series; Biographical topics – actors, politicians and other personalities.
Finally, I do my absolute best here, always. Wikipedia is a special place to me, and I'm sure that is the case for you too. I try and be active as much as I possibly can – and that usually is a couple hours every day of the week. My talk page is open to everyone, and you may also email me.
Regards, —MelbourneStar☆talk
Awards
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For reverting vandalism on my User page. Alexroller (talk) 04:46, 29 November 2011 (UTC) |
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The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar | |
Patient and Kind to Newbies! Petersontinam (talk) 07:10, 9 January 2012 (UTC) |
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Thank you for fixing up my errors. Happy editing! Shuipzv3 (talk) 07:00, 22 February 2012 (UTC) |
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The Worm That Turned Adoption Course Barnstar | ||||||||||
It's taken me a little while, because I've been thinking about whether or not to give you a "final test", but looking at your edits and knowing your skills - you've done a fantastic job here and I think you absolutely deserve to graduate. Congratulations MelbourneStar, you can officially consider youself finished on the adoption course and a fully qualified wikipedia by Worm That Turned's standards WormTT · (talk) 13:06, 27 February 2012 (UTC) |
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The Original Barnstar |
It's not often that I believe a barnstar is appropriate for someone who hasn't done something, but I believe your lack of comment on the second nomination of Zyzz has shown great restraint and I believe you deserve this. Congratulations WormTT · (talk) 09:15, 28 March 2012 (UTC) |
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The Adoptee Graduation Barnstar | |
With a score of 83%, you can certainly state that you have passed the final test with flying colours. Congratulations! |
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The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar |
Awesome job on RCP!! <3 ♥ Solarra ♥ ♪ Talk ♪ ߷ ♀ Contribs ♀ 09:12, 20 June 2012 (UTC) |
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The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar |
Diligence on RCP Cntras (talk) 07:15, 5 July 2012 (UTC) |
i love kittens...:) Ayoomikun (talk) 19:13, 13 July 2012 (UTC)
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i love cheesebugers Ayoomikun (talk) 19:14, 13 July 2012 (UTC) |
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The Special Barnstar |
Thanks for your contributions! SwisterTwister talk 05:43, 14 July 2012 (UTC) |
The Userpage Shield | ||
Thank you for keeping vandalism away from my page, regards DBigXray 14:21, 11 August 2012 (UTC) |
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The Chilling Effects Award |
For boldly and effectively getting a legal threat twit dealt with. Well done! I just love the vicious incompetence of "We will have your page traced by the end of the week." I could explain to them how to turn off their computer ... by the end of the week. --Demiurge1000 (talk) 05:35, 17 August 2012 (UTC) |
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The Anti-Vandalism + STiki Barnstar
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Congratulations, MelbourneStar! You're receiving this barnstar because you recently crossed the 1,000 classification threshold using STiki. We thank you both for your contributions to Wikipedia at-large and your use of the tool. We hope you continue your ascent up the leaderboard and stay in touch at the talk page. Thank you and keep up the good work! West.andrew.g (talk) 05:50, 20 August 2012 (UTC) |
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The Original Barnstar |
Great reversion of edits made by an anonymous user on keeping a talk page blank. Keep it up and have a nice day! Mediran talk to me! 11:05, 15 November 2012 (UTC) |
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The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar |
For your awesome dedication in the fight against Vandalism! Thanks for reverting the vandal edits to my user page! Dreadstar ☥ 16:19, 8 January 2013 (UTC) |
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The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar |
And the same to you. Well done and thank you! :)
(If only they'd get the message). Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 06:56, 4 May 2013 (UTC) |
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The Resilient Barnstar |
Well, haven't you just taken a ton o' crap this afternoon? Chin up, anyone who gets this much abuse in the course of an hour must be doing something right - have a barnstar to correct the balance a little. Yunshui 雲水 13:50, 7 May 2013 (UTC) |
and discovered your work undoing vandals at three different articles on my watchlist, which suggests to me that there were many more that had not shown up there. Wikipedia can only maintain its standards with folks such as you, out in the trenches everyday, doing this sort of work. You are noticed and appreciated. So for that (and more) you have been awardd the seldom coveted THUMBS UP AWARD. It is a very small way of saying "Thank you." Einar aka Carptrash (talk) 16:33, 7 May 2013 (UTC)
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The Surreal Barnstar |
I, Garion96 I award you the surreal Barnstar For this Since it was quite surreal to me. :) Thanks again Garion96 (talk) 12:53, 30 May 2013 (UTC) |
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Revitalizes anti-vandals who have to read shitty vandal text while reverting it :-). Thanks for the reverts.... Amit (talk) 13:46, 31 May 2013 (UTC) |
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The Anti-Vandalism |
Because I keep bumping into you on my Vandal Hunting Expeditions. Keep it up! See you there. Yintan |
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The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar |
Keep up the great work of keeping Wiki articles. Vandalism free. DBigXray 08:20, 15 April 2014 (UTC) |
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The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar |
Thank you for your great work fighting vandalism. Chillum (Need help? Ask me) 08:27, 25 June 2014 (UTC) |
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The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar |
Stop reverting everything before me! :( Vacation9 14:04, 1 July 2014 (UTC) |
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The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar |
For all your hard work reverting vandalism on the Neighbours and Home and Away articles. 5 albert square (talk) 17:31, 28 August 2014 (UTC) |
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The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar |
After the attack on my page a few hours ago, I greatly accept your courage to fight against vandalism! I keep track of all vandal edits on my page and it's a thanks to have you monitor my page! DSCrowned(Talk) 03:01, 9 October 2014 (UTC) |
The Userpage Shield | ||
Hahaha thanks for mopping up my talk page, the shit that can happen while I'm gone for ten minutes. Deadbeef 11:28, 11 November 2014 (UTC) |
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The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar |
Thanks for the look out on my talk page. Step out to have a smoke and all holy heck breaks loose! John from Idegon (talk) 08:44, 29 January 2015 (UTC) |
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