Hi, I am Matthewedwards. Thank you for visiting my page time and reading my profile.
About me
I am a thirty-one year old Englishman living in California. I was born in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, and I attended The Kingstone School, until my family left England and moved to Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. I then attended The Read School, a boarding school in Drax, Selby, North Yorkshire. After living in Gran Canaria for a year, my family moved to Whangarei, New Zealand. I stayed on at Read School, returning to New Zealand in the school holidays.
After leaving school, I spent a year living in New Zealand before returning to Barnsley, where I took up an apprenticeship at Armstrongs Restaurant, which was listed in The Good Food Guide, the Michelin Guide, and the AA Restaurant Guide. When the restaurant was sold, I worked for the Formula 1 team Jordan GP via Sodexho (with the h) as a team chef. It wasn't entirely like this; it seems more professional now. When I did it there'd be days where we would just go to the local McDonalds and buy 60+ burgers and fries! But for two seasons I got to travel all around the world. I had my own yellow racesuits, got to watch each race trackside, met numerous Formula 1 drivers, team principals, technical directors, the fabulous commentator Murray Walker, and – oh yes – the Formula 1 Girls!
In 2000 I returned to Barnsley again and began working as a pastry chef at Brookland's Hotel, home of the famous Barnsley Chop. Two years later I moved to Chevin Country Park Hotel & Spa in Otley, West Yorkshire. After that I worked at Bagden Hall Hotel in Scissett, West Yorks, then the Old Swan Hotel in Harrogate, North Yorks. Coincidentally, both are now part of the Classic Lodges group, although neither were when I worked for them.
In 2006 I emigrated to the United States, and began living permanently with my son and girlfriend (now wife). Spending obscene amounts of money on airfare every two months wasn't really the smartest idea! Since living in the US I have owned an ice cream truck and a hot dog cart, moved back into the hotel industry and transferred from back of house to front of house becoming a conference and banqueting manager; however, I am now a stay-at-home dad with two sons, an 8-year-old and a seven-month-old.
What I do here
I created my account on May 10, 2007, although I had been editing Wikipedia as an Anon for about a year prior to that. In 2008 I was asked to be a director of Wikipedia:Featured lists, which meant that I maintained that page and many others associated with it, including Wikipedia:Featured list candidates and Wikipedia:Featured list criteria. My primary function was determining whether or not there was community consensus to promote a nominated WP:List, and close the nomination accordingly. I stepped down from that position in 2009 when real life meant I couldn't commit the time needed to spend on the project. I occasionally participate at WP:Good article nominations, WP:Featured picture candidates, WP:Featured article candidates and WP:Peer review, usually picking out something which interests me no matter what the subject matter is. If I have no real knowledge in it I will usually only point out WP:Manual of style breaches. Upon request, I will try to carry out any other review or if I'm feeling particularly generous, copy edit. Additionally, if you need an image to be mapped, I'm happy to do that, too.
After spending the last two years not editing Wikipedia much, I'm trying to get back into it but looking after two boys makes it hard! I've noticed that a lot of editors who were here before have now left the project , and things seem to operate a lot differently nowadays. The majority of my editing was centered around list-type articles, but I've written a few regular articles as well, and I often end up doing cleanup on the articles I happen to be reading. Although I don't vandal patrol, I do revert whenever I see vandalism to a page on my watchlist. I probably should do more, but all those counter-vandalism programs such as Vandalproof, VandalSniper, WikiBench and Huggle just annoy me.
With regards to my editing, I am usually doing something within the scope of the WP:WikiProject Television, though I quite often venture into something entirely different. If you look through my contribs, it's likely that you'll see I don't edit in the mainspace a lot; instead I write my edits down on paper, then type them out into my sandbox, and then make one large edit to an article. This is especially true for new articles or complete article re-writes.
When I get writer's block, I try to help out with behind-the-scenes stuff that isn't usually noticed by the average editor. There are a number of backlogs which always need attention. I tend to go for redundant media, merging and splitting articles, cleanups, renaming images, orphaned articles and images, and the occasional French to English translation.
I'm also an administrator, although to be fair I've never done much administrative tasks. I stay away from WP:ANI, WP:Deletion discussions, Wikipedia:Requests for page protection, Wikipedia:Requests for permissions, Wikipedia:Requested moves, Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets, and Wikipedia:Usernames for administrator attention. I infrequently go through Category:Candidates for speedy deletion and Category:Proposed deletion.
Some other things that keep me busy from time to time are
- CAT:SHORTFIX (Replacing
{{shortcut|[[WP:A]]}} with {{shortcut|WP:A}} , and {{shortcut|[[WP:A]]<br>[[WP:B]]}} with {{shortcut|WP:A|WP:B}} in {{shortcut}} and its sister templates)
- WP:NOWRAP (Replacing
{{nowrap|Entry 1}}{{·}} {{nowrap|Entry 2}} with {{nowrap begin}}Entry 1{{·w}} Entry 2{{nowrap end}} , and {{·}}{{wrap}} and {{·wrap}} with {{·w}} in Navboxes)
- I need to create a new list for this
When I'm bored of all that, User:Sardanaphalus and User:Davidgothberg often have a list of things that need to be done.
Articles
The following articles are ones which I created or expanded considerably.
- Concert for Diana
- Jock Jams, Volume 1
- Weddings, Parties, Anything (D:TNG episode) (now a redirect)
- Quantum suicide and immortality
- List of Degrassi: The Next Generation episodes
- List of Degrassi: The Next Generation web series episodes
- List of Degrassi: The Next Generation miniseries episodes
- Degrassi: The Next Generation (season 1)
- Degrassi: The Next Generation (season 2)
- Degrassi: The Next Generation (season 3)
- Degrassi: The Next Generation (season 4)
- Degrassi: The Next Generation (season 5)
- Degrassi: The Next Generation (season 6)
- Degrassi: The Next Generation (season 7)
- Degrassi: The Next Generation (season 8)
- List of 7th Heaven episodes
- Degrassi: The Next Generation
- Manny Santos
- School's Out (film)
- List of awards and nominations received by the Degrassi franchise
- List of sovereign states and dependent territories in Africa
- One Tree Hill DVD releases
- One Tree Hill (season 1)
- One Tree Hill (season 2)
- One Tree Hill (season 3)
- One Tree Hill (season 4)
- List of One Tree Hill episodes
- Lost DVD releases
- Scripps National Spelling Bee
- List of Scripps National Spelling Bee champions
- Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office
- List of Los Angeles Police Department officers killed in the line of duty
- List of Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department officers killed in the line of duty
- List of The Sopranos episodes
- World Rally Championship
- U2 discography
- List of Blue Peter presenters
- Girls Aloud discography
- Avatar: The Last Airbender (season 1)
- Avatar: The Last Airbender (season 2)
- Avatar: The Last Airbender (season 3)
- The Boys from Baghdad High
- Sheila Graber
- Degrassi: The Next Generation (season 8)
- Tokio Hotel
- Musical road
- 1984 MTV Video Music Awards
- Flywheel, Shyster, and Flywheel
- List of Flywheel, Shyster, and Flywheel (1990 radio series) episodes
- List of 24 episodes
- List of Flywheel, Shyster, and Flywheel episodes
- Tokio Hotel discography
- List of First Ladies of the United States
- List of Presidents of the United States
- Sierra Highway
- Oath of office of the President of the United States
- Inauguration of Barack Obama
- Invitations to the inauguration of Barack Obama
- United States presidential inauguration
- California State Route 14
- List of FIFA World Cup finals
- The Million Dollar Homepage
- US Airways Flight 1549
- Sigur Rós discography
- Rihanna discography
- List of Law & Order: Criminal Intent episodes
- Not All Dogs Go to Heaven
- Law & Order: Criminal Intent (season 1)
- Popstars: The Rivals
- List of Beverly Hills, 90210 episodes
- The Best Years (season 1)
- The Best Years (season 2)
- List of 2point4 children episodes
- Jamelia discography
- Basement Jaxx discography
- List of winners of the London Marathon
- Law & Order: Criminal Intent (season 8)
- Desperate Housewives (season 1)
- Stuart Woods
- List of 2000 Summer Olympics medal winners
- FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives
- List of 2004 Summer Olympics medal winners
- Already Gone (Kelly Clarkson song)
- Antipodes Islands
- List of The Transformers episodes
- Ashlee Simpson discography
Good article nominations
I have nominated a handful of articles at WP:GAN, and I have reviewed a large number of articles, too
GAs
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Article
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Page
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Reviewer
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Date started
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Date ended
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Status
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1
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Degrassi: The Next Generation
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(GAN)
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Albacore
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March 15, 2008
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March 15, 2008
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2
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"Mother and Child Reunion"
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(GAN)
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97198
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August 15, 2008
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August 17, 2008
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3
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Flywheel, Shyster, and Flywheel
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(GAN)
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Mitchazenia
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January 17, 2009
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January 17, 2009
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4
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The Million Dollar Homepage
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(GAN)
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Mitchazenia
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February 8, 2009
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February 8, 2009
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5
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Law & Order: Criminal Intent (season 1)
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(GAN)
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Chzz
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May 30, 2009
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June 12, 2009
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6
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"Already Gone" (Kelly Clarkson song)
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(GAN)
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HJ Mitchell
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November 28, 2009
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December 7, 2009
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7
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"Not All Dogs Go to Heaven"
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(GAN)
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Hunter Kahn
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February 16, 2010
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February 24, 2010
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8
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The Boys from Baghdad High
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(GAN)
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SMasters
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April 17, 2010
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April 21, 2010
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GA reviews
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Article
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Review
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Nominator(s)
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Date started
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Date ended
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Result
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1
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Sierra Highway
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(GA1)
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Moabdave
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January 5, 2009
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January 13, 2009
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2
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Clay Aiken
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(GA1)
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Maria202
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October 16, 2009
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October 16, 2009
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3
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Eric McCormack
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(GA1)
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ThinkBlue
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October 15, 2009
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October 18, 2009
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4
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"Señorita" (song)
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(GA1)
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ThinkBlue
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October 20, 2009
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October 22, 2009
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5
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Javine Hylton
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(GA1)
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Judo112
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October 20, 2009
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October 20, 2009
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6
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SexyBack
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(GA1)
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ThinkBlue
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October 22, 2009
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October 26, 2009
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7
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"The Best of Both Worlds" (song)
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(GA1)
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ThinkBlue
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October 22, 2009
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October 26, 2009
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8
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Betty Williams (Coronation Street)
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(GA1)
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Frickative
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April 1, 2010
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April 3, 2010
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9
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Body piercing
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(GA1)
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Moonriddengirl
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April 1, 2010
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April 6, 2010
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10
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"Lovely" (Desperate Housewives)
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(GA1)
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Hunter Kahn
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April 1, 2010
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April 10, 2010
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11
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"Bang" (The Good Wife)
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(GA1)
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Hunter Kahn Opark 77
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April 1, 2010
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April 11, 2010
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12
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Fox Sports Detroit
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(GA1)
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TomCat4680
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April 1, 2010
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April 11, 2010
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13
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Gordonstoun
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(GA1)
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RudolfSchmidt
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April 1, 2010
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April 11, 2010
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14
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Murder of Marwa El-Sherbini
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(GA2)
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Mootros
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April 1, 2010
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April 11, 2010
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15
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"Video Phone" (song)
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(GA1)
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Legolas2186
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April 1, 2010
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April 11, 2010
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16
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"Easy" (Sugababes song)
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(GA1)
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Jezhotwells
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April 11, 2010
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April 11, 2010
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17
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"The Chase" (Desperate Housewives)
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(GA1)
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Hunter Kahn
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April 1, 2010
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April 13, 2010
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Featured content
Featured Articles
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Article
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Date of first edit
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Date promoted
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Status
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Main page
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1
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Degrassi: The Next Generation
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October 26, 2007
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April 30, 2008
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Y
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2
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"Mother and Child Reunion"
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August 6, 2008
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September 23, 2008
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Y
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3
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Flywheel, Shyster, and Flywheel
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December 3, 2008
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January 31, 2009
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Y
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4
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The Million Dollar Homepage
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January 29, 2009
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February 24, 2009
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Y
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5
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The Boys from Baghdad High
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August 22, 2009
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August 31, 2010
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N
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Featured lists
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Article
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Date of first edit
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Date promoted
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Status
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Main page
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1
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List of Degrassi: The Next Generation episodes
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September 27, 2007
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October 14, 2007
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N
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2
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Degrassi: The Next Generation (season 1)
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October 12, 2007
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February 14, 2008
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N
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3
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Degrassi: The Next Generation (season 2)
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October 12, 2007
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February 23, 2008
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N
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3
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Degrassi: The Next Generation (season 3)
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October 12, 2007
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March 10, 2008
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N
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4
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Degrassi: The Next Generation (season 4)
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October 12, 2007
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March 8, 2008
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N
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5
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Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office
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March 12, 2008
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March 24, 2008
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N
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6
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List of Scripps National Spelling Bee champions
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March 8, 2008
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March 24, 2008
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N
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7
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Degrassi: The Next Generation (season 5)
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October 12, 2007
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April 15, 2008
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N
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8
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Degrassi: The Next Generation (season 6)
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September 22, 2007
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April 15, 2008
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N
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9
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List of Blue Peter presenters
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July 3, 2008
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July 16, 2008
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N
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10
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Degrassi: The Next Generation (season 7)
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September 23, 2007
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August 14, 2008
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N
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11
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List of 24 episodes
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January 1, 2009
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January 17, 2009
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N
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12
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Tokio Hotel discography
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January 3, 2009
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January 17, 2009
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N
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13
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Girls Aloud discography
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October 26, 2008
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January 20, 2009
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N
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14
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List of First Ladies of the United States
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January 10, 2009
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January 27, 2009
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N
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15
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List of FIFA World Cup finals
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January 29, 2009
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February 18, 2009
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N
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16
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Sigur Rós discography
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February 13, 2009
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February 28, 2009
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N
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17
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Rihanna discography
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February 14, 2009
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February 28, 2009
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N
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18
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Jamelia discography
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April 3, 2009
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April 25, 2009
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N
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19
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List of winners of the London Marathon
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May 12, 2009
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June 2, 2009
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N
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Featured Pictures
- Nominations
Featured sounds
- Own work
Featured topics
Awards
Unfortunately, I think it speaks volumes that I haven't had a barnstar since 2008! lol
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Ray of Sunshine Award
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You, User:Matthewedwards, are a Ray of Sunshine! You know how sometimes you hate checking your watchlist, especially when you see that certain someone or an IP has edited your favorite articles? The Ray of Sunshine is bestowed on that person that, when you see their name at the top of your watchlist, you know that all is right with the world, you can relax, and do something besides cleaning up another mess. I especially appreciate your helpful contributions to all Degrassi-related articles! Thanks again! - Keng - t | c - 18:27, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
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The Reviewers Award
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To Matthewedwards, for your useful reviews of every nomination at WP:FLC. They are much appreciated. Thank you! Crzycheetah 08:56, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
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Languages
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