User:Sabine's Sunbird

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This user is a biologist.
I'm here. You're not. This user is currently in the field. Between the 11th and the 17th of May 2006 access to teh interweb will be non-existent, so questions might take a while to be answered. Please be patient, Sabine's Sunbird will be back.
This user page is a bunch of tree-hugging hippie crap.
Please see the relevant discussion on the talk page.


I'm a trans-national bum who is currently doing a PhD on island birds in Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. I'm not sure how much time this will leave me for Wikipedia, but I've been away too long and the articles are calling me strongly now. My major kick at the moment is improving the standard of bird family articles. Quite frankly most of them are a disgrace.

I have yet to decide if I'm an inclusionist, deletionist or simply apathetic. I suspect I'm a mergeist. Keep it but don't split it endlessly. I object strongly to fiction not labeled correctly, and don't think that every name in fiction deserves a mention, anymore than any person in life deserves a mention. I have yet to see one convincing argument why every school ever is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia, but I don't actually care enough to fight about it. If enough people care about it (and by God don't they just), I'm content to let it slide. It's not like I come across schools very often pressing random button, and to be honest they are usually better articles than average.

Also, it's Sabine's Sunbird, not Sabine Sunbird. The Sunbird of Sabine, as it were, or possibly named after said Sabine.

500th edit: Seabird 1000th edit: Farallon Islands 2000th edit: Talk:Albatross 3000th edit: Storm-petrel 4000th Edit: Bird flight 5000th edit: Wikipedia:Peer review/Mammal/archive1 6000th edit: Asity

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Bird was a colaborative work but I put more work into it than I did my other FAs so I'm listing it here.

I discovered Wikipedia in late October 2004. The authorities have been warned. They weren't impressed, however, and are still eating doughnuts.

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The Bio-Barnstar
For your contributions to bird-related topics I present you this barnstar. Joelito (talk) 17:17, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
The Working Man's Barnstar
I award this Barnstar to Sabine's Sunbird for carrying Wikiproject Birds. cheers, Cas Liber 12:44, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
The Featured Article Medal
To SS for his 3 Featured birdies....cheers, Casliber (talk · contribs) 23:38, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ongoing projects


Featured Topic Goal.

Article Title Current Class Target Class
Procellariiformes B FA
Albatross FA Y Done
Procellariidae FA Y Done
Storm-petrel Good article FA
Diving-petrel Start GA

Impossible, but going to try anyway.

Article Title Current Class Target Class
Seabird FA Y Done
Penguin B FA
Albatross FA Y Done
Procellariidae FA Y Done
Storm-petrel Good article FA
Diving-petrel Start GA
Pelican Start GA
Sulidae Stub GA
Cormorant B GA
Frigatebird Start GA
Tropicbird Start GA
Skua Start GA
Gull Start FA
Auk B FA
Tern Start FA
Skimmer Start GA

[edit] Stuff I've Messed Up

[edit] Stuff I've Made Up

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