User:AlanM1

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Hardware, food, or even fish, gratefully accepted

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AlanM1

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5	This user has set foot on 5 of the 7 continents of the world (excluding, oddly, the closest to his home).

This user contributed to OpenStreetMap until the license change caused an inexcusable amount of damage.

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	The Special Barnstar
	You certainly deserve it due to your sensitivity. Egeymi (talk) 22:02, 27 July 2012 (UTC)

	The Original Barnstar
	For your work in maintenance. We need more dedicated editors like you in that topic. Keep it up! LlamaAl (talk) 00:50, 29 December 2012 (UTC)

	原星章
	To-siā! Thanks for your incredible and information packed response! It was 'mida' after all [1] [2]. Thanks for offering to reach out to UT on this issue. Geographyinitiative (talk) 08:28, 21 November 2019 (UTC)

	The Original Barnstar
	Thank you for the information and the direction. I'm working to correct content and citations. Thanks for the links, very helpful! That is the kind of direction I need to get this thing right! Harpmom39 (talk) 02:15, 17 February 2020 (UTC)

	The Copyeditor's Barnstar
	For your awesome copyedits to several iOS articles YuMa NuMa ^Contrib 11:00, 24 January 2013 (UTC)

		The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
		Thank you for removing that redundant "WP:HlTLER" shortcut from WP:DV which some fuckers tended to abuse for the purpose of making an intentional insults, I really appreciate that! 173.68.110.16 (talk) 19:20, 21 June 2013 (UTC)

	The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
	For replying in Teahouse. RIT RAJARSHI (talk) 05:12, 29 August 2020 (UTC)

		The Special Barnstar
		There was no barnstar that seemed perfect, so I am using this one to thank you for being such a stand up guy. Thank You. Jenhawk777 (talk) 17:32, 12 September 2020 (UTC)

Ten Year Society

Dear AlanM1,

I'd like to extend a cordial invitation to you to join the Ten Year Society, an informal group for editors who've been participating in the Wikipedia project for ten years or more.

Best regards, Gogo Dodo (talk) 07:23, 6 September 2018 (UTC)

Someone pretending to be me has been soliciting money on various social media sites to approve Wikipedia articles. It is not me. Please ignore and/or report them to that site's abuse address.

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