User:Philippe

Page based on a design by Phaedriel. I stole it from User:Malleus Fatuarum.

Announcement     I was previously an employee of the Wikimedia Foundation, but my employment ended on 9/15/15. I'm now just another editor and administrator here. I welcome comments on my talk page. I declare a conflict of interest with regards to all edits about Wikipedia or the Wikimedia projects during the period of my employment, and about Reddit.com and Reddit, inc. during the period of my employment there (2016-2017). I further have a conflict around Atlassian as of 2017 and VIPKid in 2019, and Stack Exchange in 2021 and forward.

About me

I was the Director of Community Advocacy for the Wikimedia Foundation. In my volunteer capacity, I can usually be found on en:Wikipedia or meta, where I am an elected administrator. I previously was, by virtue of my job, a bureaucrat on the Wikimedia Strategic Planning wiki. I was a member of the election committee for the Board of Trustees in 2007, 2008, and 2009, and the staff liaison to the committee for 2011 and 2013 elections. I also sat on the first permanent standing election committee, for 2016. On IRC, my username is usually Philippe. Follow me on Twitter! My username is philippe_in_sf there, or on reddit I am u/AchievementUnlockd. On en:Wikipedia, I am an administrator (and very much appreciate the support that the community showed in my RfA), a former Checkuser and oversighter, and a former member of the OTRS team. If you run across an OTRS edit of mine, I request that you contact me before reverting or changing it - there may be privacy concerns involved or other reasons that the edit needs to stay as it is, but I'm happy to talk to you about it (without divulging any confidential information) if you have a question. Unrelated to my on-wiki stuff, the important thing to know, I suppose, is that I'm in San Francisco, California and I am the Vice-President of Community for Stack Exchange. I was formerly Director of Community at reddit and Atlassian, and was the community strategist at VIPKid. I have two favorite mottos, which I have stolen from others and have printed on various things: A domino factum est istud et mirabile in oculis nostris. (from Elizabeth I) and Plus est en vous (from various sources in Bourgundy). Non nobis solum. Admin statistics Action Count Edits 15599 Edits+Deleted 19088 Pages deleted 4780 Revisions deleted 7 Logs/Events deleted 1 Pages restored 68 Pages protected 492 Pages unprotected 41 Protections modified 58 Users blocked 1609 Users reblocked 9 Users unblocked 71 User rights modified 14 Users created 2 My own "links to remember": Great welcome template at: {{User:KNM/Welcome}} PPG's Admin toolbox is at: User:Persian Poet Gal/AdminToolbox. Fascinating peer reviews at: Wikipedia:External_peer_review. Some userboxes I'm an awesome Wikipedian! This user has been identified as an Awesome Wikipedian and was awarded his own day. enThis user is a native speaker of the English language. This user is a participant in WikiProject LGBT studies. Talk | To do | Alerts | Watchlist This user performs administrator tasks in the blink of an eye with Twinkle! This user has created a global account. This user scored 10941 on the Wikipediholic test. According to The Political Compass this user is: Economic Left (−1.88) and Social Libertarian (−5.28) This user is a member of the 2009, 2008, and 2007 Election Commission.

The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar Thank you, Philippe, for always being kind, encouraging, and helpful to me ever since I met you, and I'm glad I ever met you. You're a great admin and person for that matter. And for that, I award you "The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar"! -- RyRy5 (talk ♠ Review) 21:34, 10 May 2008 (UTC) The Real-Life Barnstar For handling a crazy election with grace & aplomb. And all the other reasons :) phoebe / (talk to me) 21:57, 12 August 2009 (UTC) The Tireless Contributor Barnstar Your work as an admin is invaluable to the Wikipedia community. Keep up the good work! Eustress (talk) 00:26, 22 April 2008 (UTC) The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar For reverting vandalism a couple of times on my userpage, and for continued efforts to stop vandalism here on Wikipedia, I - Milk's Favorite Cookie hereby award you this barnstar. Congrats! - Milk's Favorite Cookie 23:33, 28 February 2008 (UTC) The Barnstar of Good Humor I see that you semi-protected the article Halloween with the reason "Here we go again". This made me smile and laugh. NHRHS2010 talk 23:04, 30 October 2007 (UTC) The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar I'm awarding you this RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar for your great contributions to protecting and reverting attacks of vandalism on Wikipedia. Wikidudeman (talk) 22:18, 18 August 2007 (UTC) The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar Thank you all for helping out. Becuase I (probably) suffered the most from that IP address, I,Goodshoped35110s, give you all the RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar! (yay.) :) --Goodshoped35110s 04:23, 16 October 2007 (UTC) The Working Man's Barnstar For all your hard work at RFPP. Should I just take it off my watchlist, since you seem to answer every request anyway? :) ~ Riana ⁂ 04:50, 13 September 2007 (UTC) The Real-Life Barnstar For handling a crazy election with grace & aplomb. And all the other reasons :) phoebe / (talk to me) 21:57, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

User toolbox     This is nothing but a stolen toolbox that contains some of the tools that I use most often (and have used most often since long before I was an admin). The credit goes to User:Fuhghettaboutit. T O O L B O X Delete: {{db|...}} • {{db-nonsense}} • {{db-empty}} • {{db-userreq}} {{db-attack}} • {{db-bio}} • {{db-test}} • {{db-notenglish}} • {{db-repost}} {{db-band}} • {{db-club}} • {{db-copyvio|url=url of source}} • {{db-vand}} {{db-redirtypo}} • {{db-redirnone}} • {{db-blanked}} • {{db-talk}} • DLog AfD: {{subst:afd1}} {{subst:afd2 | pg=PageName | cat= | text=Reason for deletion--~~~~}} {{subst:afd3 | pg=PageName}} AfDCat • Precedents • AfD NOTE ~ Bio • Books • CB • Corp • Fict • Music • Neo • NFT • Prof • Web CV: {{copyvio | url=insert URL}}--~~~~ {{subst:article-cv | PageName}} from [insert URL]--~~~~ CP {{nothanks}} • {{nothanks-drm}} • {{nothanks-sd}} • {{nothanks-add}} Warn (old): {{test0}} • {{test}} • {{test2}} • {{test2a}} • {{blatantvandal}} {{verror2}} • {{verror3}} • {{spam}} • {{drmafd2}} • {{drmafd3}} • {{selftest}} {{blank}} • {{ConflictOfInterest}} • {{mess2}} • {{nn-warn}} • {{nn-test}} {{comment2}} • {{RPA}} • {{defwarn}} • {{PRODWarning}} {{polite-afd}} • {{Edit summary personal}} • {{summary}} • {{nn-notice}} Warn (new): • {{uw-vandal1}} • {{uw-delete1}} • {{uw-test1}} • {{uw-upv1}} {{uw-tpv1}} • {{uw-error1}} • {{uw-npa1}} • {{uw-joke1}} • {{uw-biog1}} {{uw-defamatory1}} • {{uw-npov1}} • {{uw-spam1}} • {{uw-copyright1}} {{uw-creation1}} • {{uw-image1}} • {{uw-move1}} • {{uw-agf1}} {{uw-mos1}} • {{uw-notcensored1}} • {{uw-unsourced1}} • {{uw-afd1}} {{uw-speedy1}} • {{empty-warn}} • {{spam-warn}} • {{nn-warn}} {{recreated}} • {{test1article}} • {{test-self}} ∞ testtemplates↔WP:UTM Article tags: {{advert}} • {{tone}} • {{verify}} • {{Citation needed}} • {{Cleanup}} {{Confusing}} • {{Context}} • {{disputed}} • {{POV}} {{Wikify}} • {{Diagram needed}} • {{Expert}} • {{Hoax}} • {{Inappropriate person}} • {{Notability}} • {{Inappropriate tone}} • {{Inuse}} {{Intro length}} • {{Not verified}} • {{Unreferenced}} Category and stub: categories • Stubcats • Stubs • Templates Policy/useful: WP:CSD • WP:TEMP • WP:MOS • WP:MWS • WP:MWA WP:NOT • WP:CB • WP:CR • WP:HD • WP:CP • New • Cpydt • Prefix MyEdits • Edits • Interiot's • GSearch • Correct • CProd • Hme • WP:DPL External: Alexa • Google • GoogleWiki • Google Images • IMDB • Dictionary OneLook • World Maps • Music • ConvertRef • MetaTable • Page hits Cite: Cite • CiteEx • {{Cite web}} • {{Cite journal}} • {{Cite book}} • CITET Requests: adminship • arbitration • checkuser • comment • de-adminship deletion • expansion • investigation • mediation • move • protection translation • undeletion • Block • FAC • GAC • CSurvey • PLib • SpTrans

On the nature of Wikipedia: Fantastic blog post