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I started editing in late 2005. I was an admin here from [[Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/A. B.|December 2007]] to October 2014 and an admin on Meta from [[:meta:Meta:Requests for adminship/A. B.|January 2008]] to October 2011. I became mostly inactive from 2013 to 2022 due to a pressing workload. My admin tools on both wikis automatically lapsed as a result of inactivity.^{[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:A._B.&diff=prev&oldid=627803332][https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:A._B.&diff=prev&oldid=2957212]} Several editors have suggested I [[User talk:A. B.#I thought you were still an admin.|consider standing for admin]] [[User talk:A. B.#An encouragement|again]], so here I am. I'm not standing for admin in the July 2024 elections since I'll be traveling while they're underway.

Comments:

*Most of my prior admin work was:

**Link spam removal and blacklisting

**Blocking chronic vandalism IPs

*I've made about 8,000 edits in the last 30 months

**I may spend 5-15 minutes between edits looking stuff up.

*Currently most of what I do is try to fix up troubled articles by digging for references in places other may overlook using Google Scholar, Google Books, the Wikipedia Library, articles on other Wikipedias, and search engines in the countries where the article's subject is located.

*Many editors want to see Featured Article experience. I've been too busy working in the junkyard. I'm just as proud of what I do, though; I enjoy making stuff more reliable.

--<span class="nowrap"><span style="font-family:Futura">[[User:A. B.|A. B.]] ^{([[User talk:A. B.|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/A. B.|contribs]] • [[Special:CentralAuth/A._B.|global count]])}</span></span> 18:58, 4 July 2025 (UTC)