User:Scartol

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This user guided Louis Lambert to Featured Article status.
This user guided Le Père Goriot to Featured Article status.
This user guided Emma Goldman to Featured Article status.
This user guided Harriet Tubman to Featured Article status.
This user guided Chinua Achebe to Featured Article status.
This user guided Honoré de Balzac to Featured Article status.
This user guided Indonesian occupation of East Timor to Good Article status.
This user guided Les Chouans to Good Article status.
This user guided Cripple Creek miners' strike of 1894 to Good Article status.
This user guided Lowell girls to Good Article status.
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About Me

"I always feel that I've just started. The work to be, the work that's yet to come … it will remain there, to be done, no matter what happens. If the reviews of a play of mine are the best in the world, my work remains to be done. If a book of mine wins all the prizes in the world, the work remains to be done."

Maya Angelou (1973)

I'm currently working on:
My t-shirt is from the Tour de Timor
My t-shirt is from the Tour de Timor

I am Eric S. Piotrowski, a high-school English teacher and writer living in Madison, Wisconsin USA. For more details please read my life story.

My Wikipedia work revolves mostly around working to make imperfect pages (usually about people) into Featured Articles, and copyediting others' work. You can read my fascinating insights about the Wikipedia experience at my wikithoughts page. Although I can't imagine why anyone else would want to see them, I also have a sandbox and another sandbox and a drawing board and a canvas. If you'd like to leave me a message, click here.

I also do some video-mashing in my spare time. One of my better works is I, Neo, which mixes together Massive Attack, Mos Def, and The Matrix.

I designed this page – with lots of trial and error – using tables. Feel free to swipe code if you like, but a link is appreciated.
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Significant Contributions

Userboxing Ring

Honoré de Balzac

People Who Are Not Honoré de Balzac

East Timor

Organized Labour

Other

Templates

Miscellaneous Junk of Interest to No One
This editor is a Journeyman Editor, and is entitled to display this Service Badge. He has been a Wikipedian since August 2007.
en This user is a native speaker of English.
fr-2 Cet utilisateur peut contribuer avec un niveau intermédiaire en français.
{{t|3}} This user contributes to the template namespace with confidence.
incl This editor is an inclusionist.
1RR This user prefers discussing changes on the talkpage rather than engaging in an edit war.
This user is part of the Honoré de Balzac WikiProject.
This user is a member of the Feminism Task Force.
This user is a member of WikiProject East Timor.
This user is a member of WikiProject Literature.
This user is part of the 1FAPQ Project.
This user is part of the Organized Labour Project.
This experienced editor is seeking to adopt new users. (Users requesting adoption)
This user has adopted Bwthemoose (t c).
This user has adopted Anunezsanchez (t c).
AGF This user took the AGF Challenge.
d'oh! This user thinks The Simpsons is simply...excellent.
This user is interested in the History of East Timor.
This user believes in the power of nonviolence.
This user is a feminist.
This user believes that capitalism is an inherently unjust system, and that humans can do better.
This user is a teacher.
This user enjoys writing.
This user will show you the life of the mind.

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 This user tweets on Twitter as Skath.
This user maintains a blog at Deviant Synapse.
As an English teacher, this user reads Wikipedia with a red pen in hand.
its & it’s This user understands the difference between its and it’s. So should you.
RUN DMC This user enjoys rap music and hip hop culture.
This user makes electronic music on a home computer. Listen here.
This user is a Go player.
This user is interested in
Zen Buddhism.
This user is addicted to video games.
LIVE
This user plays on Xbox Live, with the gamertag DukeSkath.
V This user is a vegetarian.
This user is a bowler.
This user's entire personality can be summed up in a few userboxes.
This user prefers fair trade coffee.
This user is a Monty Python fan.
This user is covered in bees!
MN Ooh, chimpanzee that! This user stays informed with Monkey News.
This user likes all types of music.
This user is fascinated by chaos theory.
x′ This user hasn't eaten since later this afternoon.
This user is a bibliophile.
This user enjoys comics.
This user wants to move to Ankh-Morpork
This user contributes to the Librivox project.

This user flings poo at MonkeyFilter under the name Scartol.
This user has become a WikipediAddict.
wiki-2 This user is an intermediate Wikipedia editor.
This user has absolutely no interest in becoming an admin. S/he is a scholar, not a cop.
.css This user can write Cascading Style Sheets.
<html> This user can write HTML.
NCF This user is a Novocollegiate.
UF  This user is a Gator.

4		 This user has set foot in 4 continents of the world.
This user is one of the handful of actual natives of the state of Florida.
This user is a cheesehead.
This user lives in a mad, mad, mad, Madtown.
☢ This user is an escaped genetic experiment.
This user has created the following userboxes
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Wikilove

I thank Awadewit and JayHenry for their continuing support and guidance, particularly with regard to Honoré de Balzac. I also thank Bookandcoffee for help and wisdom at WP:UNION. Qp10qp is another fine editor, and WillowW is my best friend. To spread the 'love, I like to give people donuts.
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Egoboo

I, Durova, am pleased to thank Scartol's exceptional mainspace contributions to Wikipedia with these imperial triple crown jewels. May you wear them well. DurovaCharge! 02:50, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
The Barnstar of Diligence
For diligently moving all their userboxen properly into their userspace. xenocidic (talk) 15:20, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
For Scartol, master of copyediting
Thank you for your massive copyediting skills in To Kill a Mockingbird. I would not have been able to feature it without your support, suggestions, and help. --Moni3 (talk) 22:15, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
The WikiProject Gender Studies Award
I hadn't complimented you on your rather excellent design for User:Scartol/ubx/FemTaskForce and your improvements to Template:WikiProject Gender Studies so well done and thank you for helping improve the project and Feminism Task Force!--Cailil talk 02:20, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
Image:CopyeditorStar7.PNG The Copyeditor's Barnstar
Thank you, Scartol, for swooping in and saving my laptop from certain disposal out the window and into a nearby body of water out of frustration in the FAC process for Everglades National Park. --Moni3 (talk) 17:08, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
Image:CopyeditorStar7.PNG The Copyeditor's Barnstar
For your patience and outstanding precs preserverence perseverance in helping me through my first foray into the world of Wikipedia academia, I offer you this shiny Barnstar. As Emily said, "The Brain — is wider than the Sky". That goes for your kindness, as well. María (habla conmigo) 13:23, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
Image:CopyeditorStar7.PNG The Copyeditor's Barnstar
This Copyeditor's Barnstar is a token of my appreciation for your willingness to copy edit Jimmy McAleer at the height of the holiday season. Thanks for your help! Best, twelsht (talk) 03:49, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
The Featured Article Medal
In recognition of your troika of transcendence: Honoré de Balzac, Chinua Achebe and Harriet Tubman. Oh my, the rest of us need to pick up the pace! --JayHenry (talk) 02:52, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar
Turning the Harriet Tubman article from embarrassingly bad to amazingly good in two weeks was a spectacular feat of editing. Keep up the fantastic work! -- Hemlock Martinis (talk) 19:09, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
Image:CopyeditorStar7.PNG The Copyeditor's Barnstar
I award you this barnstar for your precision and professionalism in copyediting the Yasser Arafat article and bringing it to a higher level of reading. Cheers! --Al Ameer son 03:20, 15 November 2007 (UTC)
Ruby Pen
I, Awadewit, hereby bestow this Ruby Pen upon Scartol for his superb copy editing of Jason Priestley. Awadewit | talk 02:11, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
The Barnstar of Peace
Please accept this both as laurels for your Chinua Achebe piece and as an olive branch. --ROGER DAVIES TALK 15:55, 27 October 2007 (UTC)
The Template Barnstar
What a wonderful template tutorial! I am so happy that it is being featured on the community portal - now more editors can benefit from your excellent teaching skills! Awadewit | talk 03:17, 27 October 2007 (UTC)
The Template Barnstar
Awarded for the extremely useful {{GAList2}} template. VanTucky Talk 00:54, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
The Barnstar of High Culture
Wikipedia thanks you for all of the hard work you lavished on the now-featured Honoré de Balzac. Your wonderfully readable article will inform millions! Awadewit | talk 02:43, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
For your excellent work on articles such as Cripple Creek. Well done :) Pursey Talk | Contribs 08:34, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

Did you know? has been updated with facts from the following articles, which you created or substantially expanded:
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My Pictures at Wikimedia Commons
4 May 2008A composite panorama of Venice, seen from the top of St. Mark's Campanile
4 May 2008
A composite panorama of Venice, seen from the top of St. Mark's Campanile
9 March 20081901 edition of The Works of Honoré de Balzac
9 March 2008
1901 edition of The Works of Honoré de Balzac
7 February 2008A collection of tais from around East Timor
7 February 2008
A collection of tais from around East Timor
23 January 2008Gravestone of Sebastião Gomes in the Santa Cruz cemetery, site of the Dili massacre
23 January 2008
Gravestone of Sebastião Gomes in the Santa Cruz cemetery, site of the Dili massacre
15 November 2007A map of significant locations in the life of Harriet Tubman
15 November 2007
A map of significant locations in the life of Harriet Tubman
6 October 2007The Stoughton, Wisconsin Opera House and City Hall
6 October 2007
The Stoughton, Wisconsin Opera House and City Hall
3 October 2007A spiral stack of the 1994 Anchor Books edition of Chinua Achebe's novel Things Fall Apart
3 October 2007
A spiral stack of the 1994 Anchor Books edition of Chinua Achebe's novel Things Fall Apart
20 September 2007A barnstar book, for this award
20 September 2007
A barnstar book, for this award
15 September 2007The Arco di S. Antonio, leading into the Italian town of Maida
15 September 2007
The Arco di S. Antonio, leading into the Italian town of Maida
17 August 20071901 edition of The Works of Honoré de Balzac
17 August 2007
1901 edition of The Works of Honoré de Balzac
17 August 2007The Works of Honoré de Balzac Volume XV
17 August 2007
The Works of Honoré de Balzac Volume XV
18 October 2006An image from 3DGo, used on WP for Cat:Go stubs
18 October 2006
An image from 3DGo, used on WP for Cat:Go stubs
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Pages I Will Attack Someday
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