User:Brian McNeil

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Reporter: Brian McNeil
Location: West Lothian, Scotland, Europe
Email: Email via Wikinews | Brian.McNeil@Wikinewsie.org
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My first edit here was on January 15, 2005; it just doesn't seem like I've been at this so long. In addition to the above accreditation I have been granted Administrator, Bureaucrat, and CheckUser status by the community. I serve on the current project Arbitration Committee which is — thankfully — inactive. I'm on the Wikimedia Foundation's Communications Committee. An OTRS volunteer helping manage the press queue, and have over 100 articles to my name.

I have accounts on Meta, Commons, Wikisource, and Wikipedia, as well as a few on other languages for interwiki.

If you want to know some of the more odd things I get up to, give The Credit Crunch Blues a listen, the lyrics are mine.

Useful pages

My Contributions

Here is a list of some of the articles I've done. Those listed are ones where I've started them and done a reasonable amount of the work. I do not list work on articles started by others unless all their contributions were removed. The list has not been consistently maintained, thus some articles may be missing. (FA denotes articles which have been selected as featured articles — i.e. some of the best work on Wikinews.)

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Quotes

"Take your t.v. tube and eat it

And all that phony stuff on sports

And all those unconfirmed reports

You know I watch that rotten box

Until my head begin to hurt

From checkin' out the way

The newsmen say they get the dirt

Before the guys on channel so and so"

  • Frank Zappa, from Trouble Every Day


"There is a minority of intellectual pacifists, whose real though unacknowledged motive appears to be hatred of western democracy and admiration for totalitarianism. Pacifist propaganda usually boils down to saying that one side is as bad as the other, but if one looks closely at the writings of the younger intellectual pacifists, one finds that they do not by any means express impartial disapproval but are directed almost entirely against Britain and the United States"

  • George Orwell


"Internet Explorer's CSS rendering: WYSIWTF"

  • User:6Yankee (597075) on Slashdot.

Trophy Cabinet

I, —MESSEDROCKER (talk), hereby award you the Wikinews Trophy because you archive stories like a **censored**. 21:39, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
I, Amgine, hereby award Brianmc the Wikinews Trophy for Archival Efforts (above and beyond the call of duty but please don't stop now!)
This award is presented to Wikinews reporters upon their 50th published news article.
AnimWIKISTAR-laurier-WT.gif WikiStar
I, Thunderhead, herby award a WikiStar to Brian McNeal. Brian McNeal recieved this award on September 23, 2006
This barnstar is given in thanks to those who have contributed to wikinews! Keep up the editing! --Penubag 06:52, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
I, Steven Fruitsmaak, hereby give this misattribution certificate to Brian McNeil, for his work on OTRS and for being a great Wikimedian and a nice person in general. 20:03, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
Barnstar of National Merit.svg The Barnstar of National Merit
I Anonymous101talk, award Brianmc this barnstar for excellent reporting on Thailand Anonymous101talk 12:00, 30 November 2008 (UTC)
this WikiAward was given to Brianmc by Anonymous101talk on 12:00, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

Miscellaneous stuff

Media mentions

Work in progress-projects

Works elsewhere

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