Buaidh

This editor is a **Vanguard Editor** and is entitled to display this **Unobtainium Editor Star** with the Neutronium Superstar hologram.

The Gàidhlig noun "buaidh" means victory, triumph, and success.

The Wikimedian Buaidh is a public advocate for liberal democracy, egalitarianism, environmental protection and conservation biology; a retired Professional Engineer and Expert Witness, a pioneer coder, an amateur historian and geographer, a rosarian, cartophile, velophile, decorated and disabled combat veteran, cancer survivor (so far), and loveable (?) curmudgeon.

Like many other English language Wikipedia editors, this editor:

Is a native anglophone.
Lives in a predominately anglophone country.
Lives in a predominately Christian country .
Lives in a predominately prosperous country.

Unlike many other Wikipedia editors, this editor:

Is a septuagenarian.
Is a humanist and a secularist.
Is an engineer and a scientist.
Prefers American spelling, British punctuation, Canadian manners, Mexican food, long scale billions, the serial comma, and the International System of Units.

Despite the above, this editor endeavors to be as objective as humanly possible. I try to encourage new users to contribute to the English-language Wikipedia, especially users in developing countries and non-English speaking regions. I currently coordinate WikiProject Colorado, the Wikimedians of Colorado User Group, and the Wikimedians of the U.S. Mountain West. I'm a member of the North American Hub Advisory Committee.

My Wikipedia interests are quite diverse. My recent focus has been on history, geography, geodesy, and mountains. Despite a lethal and incurable illness, I still rank among the 200 most prolific Wikipedians by number of edits to the English-language Wikipedia.

Please feel free to leave me a message at User talk:Buaidh, or e-mail me at Special:EmailUser/Buaidh.

Yours aye,
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Awards


		The Wikipedian known as Buaidh is hereby recognized by his peers as a Wikipedia World Developer, for his exemplary and extensive work on the outline articles of every country of the world and of every state of the United States (including the creation of a historical outline for every state), and for greatly improving Wikipedia's Outline of Knowledge. Presented on this, the 4th day of August 2009, by — The Transhumanist , penubag , Willscrlt, NW, Gimme danger, Minnecologies, Stefan, Sswonk, –Juliancolton, MacMed, +sj +, Highfields, Tarheel95, Rich Farmbrough, The Earwig, Quiddity, and at-210

An Original Barnstar for contributions to articles about the U.S. State of Colorado
A WikiProject Barnstar for contributions to WikiProject Colorado
A Mississippi Barnstar for contributions to WikiProject Mississippi
An Oklahoma Cookie for contributions to WikiProject U.S. states
An Iowa Barnstar for the creation of the Historical outline of Iowa
A Template Barnstar for work on Wikipedia templates
A Tireless Contributor Barnstar for contributions to the State of Colorado
A Barnstar of Diligence for work on the geographical tables.
A Tireless Contributor Barnstar for contributions to India
A Portal Barnstar for improvements to portal templates
An Original Barnstar for creation of regional user templates.
A Userbox Barnstar for userbox documentation.
An Award for Excellent Hospitality for hosting a wiknic.
A Wiknic Barnstar for hosting a wiknic.
An Eternal Salute for senescence.
An Abbas Kiarostami Award for Mastery for perseverance.
A WikiUserboxer Award for work on Userboxes pages.
A Tireless Contributor Barnstar for userbox template modernization.
A Copyeditor Barnstar for persistance.
A Pizza for Portal:Colorado.
A Surreal Barnstar for userbox template creation.
A Tireless Contributor Barnstar for userbox template organization.
A Tireless Contributor Barnstar for maintaining long complex tables of information about mountains.
A Hot Spring Award of Honor for the List of hot springs in Colorado.

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Some quotations

If any one take over a field to till it, and obtain no harvest therefrom, it must be proved that he did no work on the field, and he must deliver grain, just as his neighbor raised, to the owner of the field. — Code of Hammurabi #42 about 1754 BCE

He made the sea of cast metal, ten cubits from rim to rim, circular in shape and five cubits high; a cord thirty cubits long gave the measurement of its girth. — 1 Kings 7:23 — Biblical proof that π=3, about 620 BCE

Do not do to others what you do not want done to yourself. — Confucius about 500 BCE

Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets. — Matthew 7:12 — Jesus of Nazareth about 29 CE

Pay, Oh Children of Adam, as you would love to be paid, and be just as you would love to have justice! — Quran 83:1-6 — The Prophet Muhammad about 630 CE

Blessed are those who endure in peace. — Francis of Assisi 1224

Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise. — The Fool to King Lear, William Shakespear 1603

All mortals are equal; it is not their birth,
But virtue itself that makes the difference. — Ériphyle by François-Marie Arouet 1732

Courage is the fear of being thought a coward. — Horace Smith 1826

Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, Rage against the dying of the light. — Dylan Thomas 1947

We have met the enemy and he is us. — Pogo April 22, 1970

Get your head out of your ass and smell the roses. — Matt Douglas 1987.

Wisdom comes from those mistakes from which we learn. — Buaidh mac Eanruig April 1, 1998

No wall can stand against the yearning of justice, the yearnings for freedom, the yearnings for peace that burns in the human heart. — Barack Obama June 19, 2013

The Continental Army suffered a bitter winter of Valley Forge, found glory across the waters of the Delaware, and seized victory from Cornwallis of Yorktown. Our army manned the air, it rammed the ramparts, it took over the airports, it did everything it had to do, and at Fort McHenry, under the rockets’ red glare, it had nothing but victory. — Donald Trump July 4, 2019

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Parkville, Colorado, the original county seat of Summit County, Colorado.
San Miguel, Colorado, the original county seat of Costilla County, Colorado.

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