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Hi, Cam here! I've been active on Wikipedia since March of 2007. Most of my contribution to Mainspace Wikipedia comes in the form of article-creation & writing; I've created 19 articles since my beginnings here, ranging from extremely small stub-articles all the way up to GA and FA-class. I was one of the Coordinators of the Military History Wikiproject from September 2008-March 2010, when I stepped down due to Real Life priorities. I reapplied for Coordinatorship in September 2010, and am currently one of the editors of The Bugle - Milhist's monthly newsletter. I was the first Administrator appointed in the year 2009. If I do anything stupid in that capacity, you may beat me with a trout.
Most of my actual content work falls under the broad category of 20th Century Military History, with an obsessive interest in Canada's involvement in the Second World War, the Imperial Japanese Navy (particularly the battleships), and the Attrition battles of 1916-1918. I occasionally delve into areas such as the Eastern Front, Maritime Warfare (non-IJN), American Foreign Policy during the Cold War, and basically anything to do with political historiography.
I tend to focus most of my wikignoming around the review departments at the ACR and FAC levels. I've also become involved with The FA-Team, a group of editors aiming to provide technical support to articles trying to achieve FA, specializing in footnote formatting and fact-checking. In the administrator world, you'll find me mostly at WP:AIV and WP:RCP tracking vandalism and abusive accounts.
In actuality, I'm 20, living in Ottawa, the capital of Canada, and in my third year of a Combined Honours Degree in International Politics and History at Carleton University. At this point, my degree takes up virtually all of my time, along with competitive debate in the Canadian University Society for Intercollegiate Debate. I'm a vocal and dedicated Social Democrat, a topic area on which I welcome debate and discussion (so long as it remains civil). I read voraciously - always having at least three good books on the go - and keep a large research book list found here. In my spare time (which is surprisingly scarce), I'm either reading, writing, skiing/cycling and walking in the winter/summer, listening to music (primarily classical Baroque - the Bach Organ Works in particular), writing, or spending time with friends.
Articles I've started & contributed to
Started and/or significantly contributed to content-wise:
Operation Tractable
2nd Canadian Infantry Division
Yamato class battleship
Operation Charnwood
IJN Yamato
IJN Haruna
List of battlecruisers of Japan
IJN Musashi
Kongo class battlecruiser
IJN Kirishima
IJN Kongo
Operation Lüttich
Operation Totalize
The Moro River Campaign
Operation Windsor
IJN Hiei
Fusō class battleship
Juno Beach
Battle of Messines
IJN Shinano
Battle of Mont Sorrel
Second Battle of Passchendaele
Operation Atlantic
Operation Goodwood
272nd Grenadier Infantry Division
Battle of Ortona
Operation Husky
World War I
Operation Spring
Battle of the Canal du Nord
Battle of Cambrai (1918)
25th Canadian Infantry Brigade
102nd SS Heavy-Panzer Battalion
Josh Key
LXXVI Panzer Corps (Germany)
5th Battalion Canadian Mounted Rifles
Supplementary Order of Battle
Battle of Walcheren Island
XLVII Panzer Corps (Germany)
8th Canadian Infantry Brigade
Free World Military Forces
The Saskatchewan Border Regiment
The Weyburn Regiment
Convoy PQ 13 (the original one) -now deleted since it was extremely short
Articles I have Copyedited
Articles I have provided Technical Assistance on
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The Special Barnstar - For asking perceptive questions, that get me thinking .... Roger 21:33, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
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The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar - To Cam, for all the help he's given me in developing the articles on airborne divisions and airborne warfare I've been writing! Skinny87 (talk) 17:10, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
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The Tireless Contributor Barnstar - By order of the coordinators, for your fine work tagging and assessing military history articles in Tag & Assess 2008, I hereby award you with this Tireless Contributor's barnstar. --ROGER DAVIES talk 09:51, 1 August 2008 (UTC)
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Coordinator of the Military history Wikiproject
October 2008 — March 2009 - Congratulations on your election as Coordinator of the Military history Wikiproject. In honor of your achievement, I present you with these stars. I wish you luck in the coming term. -- TomStar81 (Talk) 01:07, 1 October 2008 (UTC)
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The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar - To Cam, for all the help given to me with my articles, and putting up with a dozen different questions! Skinny87 (talk) 08:15, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
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The WikiChevrons - For service above and beyond the call of duty as part of Operation Silent Sentry, the October 15, 2008, effort to keep the mainpage article USS New Jersey (BB-62) vandal free and address any talkpage related question, I herby present you with The WikiChevrons. Semper Fi! TomStar81 (Talk) 00:51, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
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The Featured Article Medal - Congratulations for the recent promotion of 2nd Canadian Infantry Division, giving you your third bronze star. You are extremely deserving of the featured article medal. Keep up the good work! JonCatalán(Talk) 23:03, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
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The Admin T-Shirt - Congratulations! It is my great pleasure to inform you that your Request for Adminship has closed successfully and you are now an administrator! Additional congrats on WP:100! — Rlevse • Talk • 23:49, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
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The Content Review Medal of Merit - In recognition of your contribution in improving Military history articles through A-Class and Peer Reviews, during the fourth quarter of 2008, please accept this Content Review Medal. -MBK004 04:07, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
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The Teamwork Barnstar - For your oustanding efforts during Operation Trailblazer, culminating in the 2009 Featured Topic nomination for the Iowa-class battleships, the passage of which resulted in the first ever Wikipedia Featured Topic concerning ships exclusively, I herby present you with The Teamwork Barnstar. Thanks for all of your help, this is as much your Featured Topic as it is mine. TomStar81 (Talk) 22:18, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
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The Guidance Barnstar - For writing an essay offering advice to new coordinators and to those of us with tenor I hereby present you with The Guidance Barnstar. Keep up the good work! TomStar81 (Talk) 06:16, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
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Your majesty, it gives me great pleasure to bestow the Triple Crown upon Climie.ca for your contributions in the areas of WP:DYK, WP:GA, and WP:FC. Cirt (talk) 21:31, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
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Coordinator of the
Military history Project: March 2009 — October 2009 - Congrats on your re-election as a Coordinator of the Military history Wikiproject! In keeping with the tradition of the project and in honor of your achievement, I present you with these stars. TomStar81 (Talk) 00:49, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
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The Airborne Warfare Barnstar - For extraordinarily hard work editing, maintaining and generally helping out on articles about airborne warfare. Skinny87 (talk) 16:25, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
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The WikiProject Ships Barnstar - For your hard work in getting Yamato-class battleship up to FA status I hereby award you the WikiProject Ships Barnstar. Outstanding work, Cam. Keep it up! TomStar81 (Talk) 22:10, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
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Coordinator of the Military history Project: September 2009–March 2010 - Congrats on your election as Coordinator for the Military history Project. In honor of your achievement, I present you with these stars. TomStar81 (Talk) 00:19, 27 September 2009 (UTC)
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The WikiProject Barnstar - In gratitude for your coordination services to the Military history WikiProject, from March 2009 to September 2009, please accept this barnstar. --TomStar81 (Talk) 02:24, 27 September 2009 (UTC)
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The Sesquipedalian Barnfish - For an extremely fine contribution, way above and beyond the call of duty, I award you this prestidigious limited edition barnstar. Roger Davies talk 12:24, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
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The Golden Wiki - Thank you very much, Cam, for your two-year stint as a coordinator of you know what. I've enjoyed and appreciated your bubbly sense of humour, keen intelligence, and considerable common sense, in equal measure. That we share similar tastes in foreign travel destinations has merely been the icing on the cake. You have a great future ahead of you and you are absolutely right to concentrate now on making it happen. Thanks once again for your many valuable contributions. With best wishes, Roger Davies talk 17:28, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
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The WikiProject Barnstar - In gratitude of your service as a coordinator for the Military history Project from September 2009 to March 2010, I hereby award you this WikiProject Barnstar. TomStar81 (Talk) 00:18, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
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The Titan's Cross in Bronze - For your effort to improve our battleship articles for some time now, and for being the driving force behind the improvement of the Yamato-class battleships to their current FT stats, I hereby award you the Bronze Titan's Cross. Congratulations! For the members of Operation Majestic Titan, TomStar81 (Talk) 21:19, 31 May 2010 (UTC)
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Coordinator of the Military history Project, September 2010-September 2011 - Congrats on your election as Coordinator of the Military history Project! In honor of your achievement, I present you with these stars. TomStar81 (Talk) 00:04, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
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