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User:SyG

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We are in week 52, month 12 of year 2024

Places

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I was born in Sélestat. I have lived in La Vancelle, Thanvillé, Strasbourg, Zoufftgen, Courbevoie, Paris, London, Munich, Lausanne, Lugrin.

I've been to:

Provocative thoughts

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  • I believe Wikipedia should not include all the information available in the universe.
  • I believe 90% of articles currently on Wikipedia are not really notable from an encyclopaedic viewpoint.
  • I believe Wikipedia should allow commercial advertisements.
  • I believe Wikipedia is currently not efficient, as the gigantic work of millions of people has only resulted in about 5000 articles of quality, and most of them are on unimportant topics.
  • I believe I should not engage actions based on the beliefs above.

Tools

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Analyse an article

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Analyse a WikiProject

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  • User activity is a tool from Wikimedia DE that checks the time of inactivity of the members of a WikiProject
  • User:WP 1.0 bot : the bot that consolidates all the quality/importance assessments

Others

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Pages I have managed (almost) entirely

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Budapest Gambit
King's Indian Defence, Four Pawns Attack
List of chess books

Pages I have helped to bring to quality

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Here are the pages I have helped to bring to a class of quality (meaning FA-class, A-class or GA-class) one way or another, usually by doing some reviews on it and/or bringing it to the appropriate review.
First-move advantage in chess
George H. D. Gossip
Bughouse chess
Ashot Nadanian
Alexander Alekhine
Budapest Gambit
Emanuel Lasker
Howard Staunton
Rules of chess

Awards I have given

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Hereunder are the barnstars I have given, for the great work these guys have performed:

Awards I have received

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I hereby award SyG the Bronze Wiki Award for great work on bringing First-move advantage in chess to FA.Cheers, Casliber 05:45, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
What a Brilliant Idea Barnstar
For your idea of creating an infobox for chess openings I award you this barnstar. Voorlandt 21:55, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
The Barnstar of Diligence
You certainly deserve this for being so patient and helpful in the A-class review of Howard Staunton, as well as the work you did tying up the loose ends in Alexander Alekhine. Many thanks! Philcha (talk) 19:25, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar
For several things, (1) almost singlehandedly doing list of chess books, (2) rating (at least) hundreds of chess articles, and (3) a lot of other stuff! Bubba73 (talk), 22:54, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
The Barnstar of Diplomacy
You certainly deserve this for your recent efforts. The "Quotes" thread was a brilliant safety valve. -- Philcha (talk) 22:43, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
The Chess Barnstar
For many useful contributions to chess articles. Bubba73 (Who's attacking me now?), 01:50, 21 December 2009 (UTC)