User:Big iron

This Canadian Barnstar of National Merit is awarded for your exceptional contributions to articles pertaining to Canada. Please keep up the excellent work! – Editor at Large

I've been wandering around in

• National parks (Canada)
• Ducks, Waders and other Birds that visit Canada
• Arvicolinae, mainly Canadian-based species
• assorted Canadian provinces.

July 26 is "Big Wet Rodent Day", a day to celebrate beavers, muskrats, nutrias, capybaras and other rodents that live in wetlands.

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I agree to multi-license all my text contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

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		The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar
		In honour of completing the lists for each Ontario Legislative Assembly to date. Dl2000

		The da Vinci Barnstar
		Thanks for plodding through the DCB link updates! DoubleBlue

		The Minor Barnstar
		I see You've been already given one, but it needs to be outlined just how incredibly useful it is (and it,s got to be frustrating work). Circeus

The Red Maple Leaf Award This award is being given to you in recognition of your hard work in Canada related articles.--Skr15081997 (talk)

		Mary Wollstonecraft Award
		The Mary Wollstonecraft Award is awarded to contributors who have helped improve the coverage of women writers and their work on Wikipedia through content contributions, outreach, community changes and related actions. In particular, thank you for your efforts with the WikiProject Women writers start-up; your ideas and contributions are much appreciated. --Rosiestep (talk) 23:30, 29 November 2014 (UTC)

		The Articles for Creation barnstar
		For all your efforts in creating articles about notable and contemporary Women writers! Dkriegls (talk to me!)

blue-winged teal and women writers
Thank you, wanderer in Canada's National parks, for quality articles such as blue-winged teal, for politicians and "lighting a candle" for women writers such as Sugako Hashida, Julia Gjika, Chen Xuezhao and Zhao Luanluan, for redirects and your mantra "add source & expand", - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:53, 26 April 2015 (UTC)

	The Writer's Barnstar
	Hi, nice to meet you! I wanted to congratulate you for writing the 100th article for the Women in Red Women in Science Edit-a-thon! You've made some amazing contributions to women scientist articles, and I'm super impressed. Thank you! *high-five* Keilana (talk) 03:47, 15 November 2015 (UTC)

Barnstar for your active paricipation in the Women in Music edit-a-thon
	January 2016 More than 250 articles were created Hosted by Women in Red --Ipigott (talk) 08:04, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

Thank you for participating in the Black Women's History edit-a-thon
	February 2016 More than 170 articles were created Hosted by Women in Red --Ipigott (talk) 14:12, 18 February 2016 (UTC)

A Barnstar to thank you for your contributions Over 800 new articles were created in connection with Art and Feminism
	Women's History Month worldwide online edit-a-thon Host: Women in Red Sponsor: Art+Feminism March 2016 --Ipigott (talk) 13:04, 5 April 2016 (UTC)

The Mary Wollstonecraft award for all your contributions on Women Writers Almost 400 new articles were created
	Women Writers worldwide online edit-a-thon Hosts: Women in Red, Women writers April 2016 --Ipigott (talk) 07:23, 7 May 2016 (UTC)

A barnstar for your contributions 55 new articles were created including Lulwah Al-Homoud, Sarah Mohanna Al Abdali, Larissa Sansour, Rula Halawani, Malekeh Nayiny etc. It wasn't a competition but if it was then YOU won it.
	MENA Women Artists worldwide online edit-a-thon Host: Women in Red May 2016 --Victuallers (talk) 22:41, 3 June 2016 (UTC)

		The Silver Maple Leaf Award
		This maple leaf is awarded to Big iron for creating 129 new articles and improving Wikipedia's coverage of Canadian women's biographies during the second year of The 10,000 Challenge of WikiProject Canada. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Reidgreg (talk) 19:47, 2 November 2018 (UTC)

This user has been on Wikipedia for 21 years, 6 months and 4 days.

Notes

• Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness
• Sometimes you need to colour outside the lines.