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This page provides a collection of awards created by individual Wikipedians. Some of them originated from here, and some of them are copied and collected from various user's pages.
These awards are in addition to barnstars and the Other Related Awards. While barnstars are generally reserved for a long-standing pattern of excellence, the following awards are more often given to honor specific actions or events - or to spread good cheer!
Each award picture will come with a few lines of explanation about who should get this award.
Topic-related awards
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The Star Trek Award is awarded to those who had done hard work and efforts in Star Trek articles. Introduced by AllyUnion.
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The Vexillology Star
Awarded to those who make many contributions to flag stubs or any other flag-related articles.
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The Pokéstar may be awarded to those who contribute to Pokémon related articles. Introduced by Almafeta on 13 August 2005.
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The IL DIVO Star is awarded in recognition of an individual's special interest or contributions to Il Divo related articles. Introduced by Rosa on March 12, 2006.
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The Apple With A Bite Taken Out Of It may be awarded to individuals who contribute greatly to Apple Computer and Apple Macintosh-related articles. Introduced by grm_wnr on January 10, 2006.
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The Con Safos Jalapeño is used in awarding people Chicano awards as part of the Kindness Campaign.
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The Huelga Award, a Chicano/Mexican-American award.
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Astronomy Award Entire Pluto family for people who contribute to astronomy related articles. If it is going to be a barnstar it might as well be extraterrestrial. posted by White Cat designer went afk.
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Star of Life For commendable contributions to medical articles. Introduced by White Cat and designed by Leo R. Schwartz in 1973.
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Paper star
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Pencil and paper games Star
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Created to recognize those editors who tirelessly contribute in a genuine fashion to Christianity-related articles. by Aiden
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The Computing Barnstar, intended to be given in relationship to edits in computing articles. Created by Linus M. on January 23, 2007.
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The Army Men Star: This cheap, plastic, mass-produced barnstar is intended to be awarded to editors for work on articles related to classic toys. First awarded to Jcbutler by Kafziel on February 1, 2007.
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The Medal of Pactagonal KnightHood and Bad Puns, should be given only to editors who make large contributions to any article pertaining to Artix Entertainment whether they are in the Wikiproject or not. This medal signifies their symbolic induction into a brotherhood of editors,and reconizes their contributions. This can also be given to an editor who makes a lot of bad puns. Usage: place {{Pactagonal}} on the user's page.
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Awarded in recognition of diligent attention to duty during the LottClone Wars of 2005. Designed by User:Gzuckier
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The Mullet Pierced: Award for exceptional editing related to Heraldry. {{subst:Mullet Pierced|put your citation here ~~~~}}
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The Comics Communication Barnstar: For speaking up for the truth, educating fellow editors, explaining project guidelines and goals, striving to resolve differences while keeping a level head, and generally facilitating communication about comics-related articles and between their contributors. Usage: See Template:Comicscom. Created by Doczilla.
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Awarded for good edits, or other work on articles related to Cal Poly Pomona.
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The Manga and Anime BarnSakura Award can be awarded to those who have made significant contributions to Manga and Anime related articles. Introduced by Ynhockey, and designed by Mitsukai on 28 March 2006.
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The Guitar Barnstar is awarded to those who contribute exceptionally to guitar-related articles. Introduced and designed by Opa from the Hungarian Wikipedia.
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The Automotive Star may be awarded to an editor who contributes significantly to expand or improve Wikipedia's coverage of Automobiles. The award was proposed and designed by SteveBaker 2006 following a suggestion by Bravada.
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The Gandhi Barnstar may be awarded to an editor who contributes, spreads, or posts helpful information about the life of, or ispirational writings of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. This award was introduced on December 27, 2007 by Rbpolsen
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The Indian Cinema Barnstar is awarded to Wikipedians with great contribution to articles related to Indian cinema. Designed and introduced by Zora and Ekantik.
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The South Indian Cinema Barnstar is awarded to Wikipedians with great contribution to articles related to South Indian cinema. Designed and introduced by AppleJuggler and Ekantik.
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The Heron Marked Barnstar Award for those individuals who show an editmaster's skill while working on Wheel of Time related articles. Tai'shar Wikipedia!! Introduced and designed by Nutiketaiel on August 28, 2008.
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Geographic
The WikiProject Japan Barnsensu Award can be awarded to those who have made outstanding additions and/or improvements to Japan-related related articles. Introduced by Nihonjoe, and designed by Tangotango on 28 July, 2006 as part of WikiProject Japan.
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The Libyan Award awarded for exceptional edits to a Libyan related article.
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WikiProject India Awarded to users, who have made significant contributions to India-related articles.
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The Dutch Award is given to people making outstanding edits to Dutch-related articles.
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The Barnstar of Iran's Merit of Excellence
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The Pittsburgh Star is an award made with the purpose of recognizing efforts made to improve Pittsburgh on Wikipedia, and introduced within the scope of Wikipedia:WikiProject Pittsburgh. Created and designed by Chris Griswold on 7 December 2006.
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- See also: Wikipedia:Barnstars/Barnstar of National Merit
General awards
The PSI is awarded to polite, courteous, and helpful users as a blessing for good mental health. Introduced by Psy guy.
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The Crackpot Mouse has been genetically modified to detect hotheadedness, political spin, and crackpottery. He will eat you if you fail to edit with humility, care, and impartiality. Otherwise, he is quite pleasant. Note that the mouse on the right is a trained ninja mouse, tasked to protect newcomers from being bitten.
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A {{WikiCookie}} is a general reward that can be given for a number of tasks, from helping a new user to improvements to an article. First used in this form by Mark.
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The Plenary Indulgence can be awarded to anybody whom you appreciate. Introduced by Essjay and shamelessly stolen by Xiong Chiamiov.
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The Mouldy Sandwich is awarded to those who tirelessly work on bettering Wikipedia. Introduced by Maestrosync.
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The Ed Poor Award is given to those who boldly and humbly help in improving the wikipedia. Introduced by Phroziac.
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The Back Scratching Award is designed to be awarded to any user that a wikipedian trusts to be an excellent person. If you are awarded this, then it is expected that you reciprocate with a similar award to the giver, thus encouraging a sense of giving by wikipedia users. Introduced by spankthecrumpet.
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The zOMG star!!! zOMG!!! Introduced by SPUI.
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The Golden Wiki Award created by Hill, from the Italian Wikipedia, originally for exceptional contributions to the wiki.
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The Flaming Wiki Award
Created by Casliber from an image made by Debivort, for Featured Articles listed here. A new use for Wikipedians who've been through wiki-hell was initiated by Gimmetrow in December 2007, and thought a good idea by Casliber too
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The Upholder of Wiki is awarded to exceptional and distinguished contributors on wikipedia. Introduced by Jcw69.
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The Outspoken Stars are given to users who defend the freedom of political expression in the Wikipedia community, on talk pages and in debates regarding deletion of articles, categories and templates.
This barnstar was introduced on December 25th, 2005 by Larix.
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The Sandwich of Exceptional Excellence The Sandwich of Exceptional Excellence (Potato Salad of Congeniality cluster, 1st. class) In Panis, Veritas. Award created by Hamster Sandwich.
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The Whirly World Award User:Linuxerist introduced this award on March 27, to give to people with a missing barnstar milk carton on their user page. This can be used to say that you believe the user deserves an award.
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Rescue From Deletion Award Awarded to editors who rescue a stub or an article from deletion with excellent writing. Award introduced by Grutness and designed by Sango123 on April 13, 2005.
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You 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. May be awarded to any person who consistently brightens your day, but especially where their involvement in something that is bothering you lightens your load. Thatcher131 13:47, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
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The Blurred Star Award. An award created from the exsisting Cscr-featured.png image that can be given to an editor who is near to making a FA article. Blurred the star significantly to show that it is still out of reach, like a mirage. Created by User:Spawn Man.
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The Bright Idea Award for editors that make commendable proposals and suggestions. Suggested by User:Gray Porpoise
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The disco ball of knowledge certifies that editors are among the finest contributors in the world of Wikipedia, and help it to never stop turning. Created by Highway Return to Oz...
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The Strive banner is an award given to anyone that strives; for any reason. Created by: User:Dfrg.msc
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A round of applause. For when someone does something that simply makes you want to stand up and clap. Created by User:Hiding on the 16:52, 14 January 2007 (UTC) in order to applaud User:Dragons flight.
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I hereby award you a tiger! For patient, controlled strength applied to a task. Best at 600 px size. It was devised for TonyTheTiger for his work on Campbell's Soup Cans by Tyrenius 00:22, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
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The Wise Old Owl Award – for when a few words of wisdom change the course of events for the better. First given to Yanksox.[1] Devised by Tyrenius.
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{{WikiHaggis}}. For people who are spicy, a bit nutty, and resemble stuffed pig intestines! Introduced by Kennedy.
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Special circumstantial awards
The Vandal Whacking Stick is given to users who have been attacked, and didn't lose their cool. Image created by MathKnight and first given as an award by Essjay to Redwolf24.
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The Optimistic's Star is for those who have had to put up with so much but still believed that there was light at the end of the tunnel. Created by Leon2323. It may be handy to use the User:Leon2323/Optimistic template.
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The Abusive Admin Award can be awarded to admins who demonstrate a keen ability at offending or otherwise dominating vandals and trolls with an iron fist. A good indicator of eligibility for this award is a user page that has been repeatedly vandalized over the course of an admin's time on Wikipedia.
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The Public Domain Astronaut goes to anyone who helps Wikipedia by killing off copyvios. Introduced by Redwolf24.
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The Order of the Flaming, Dancing Hellpot is awarded by victims of egregious and malacious harrassment or vandalism, to those sending the offenders where they belong. It was first awarded on 9/11/05 by paul klenk to Bishonen, who declared it a "rockin'" and "prestigious" award (which is actually true). (The photo is of a float in New York's Village Halloween Parade.)
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The Babel Award for Translation by paul klenk. Inspired by the many translations provided to paul klenk by Wikipedians all over the world, of his many user pages in non-English wikis, some translated minutes after being first created (e.g., de:User:Paul Klenk). Click on photo to enlarge.
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The Barn Award is awarded by Karmafist to anyone who he votes support for in WP:RFA, since administratorship is a great responsibility, and taking it on should be rewarded with something bigger than just a star on a barn, it deserves the entire barn. Please feel free to copy this tradition.
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The Son of Jimbo Award is given to anyone who does an excessive amount of tasks in advancing Wikipedia or basically has the last name of Wales. The award was introduced by Karmafist.
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The Thinking Outside the Box award, for users with an unorthodox take on policy or project, but which works. Introduced by Smurrayinchester.
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The "YOU! YOU ANONYMOUS PERSON! SIGN UP! NOW!" award for being convincing enough to turn anonymous users into registered users.
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The Cluestick is awarded to people who, in fact, have a clue. Introduced by Katefan0.
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The Rouge Admin award is granted to any administrator who has been called a rouge administrator. Introduced by Katefan0.
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The Barnstar Star is awarded to users who are bold in creating awards for the community. Introduced by cyde, designed by Sango123 and WillMak050389. Was re-done by F9T.
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The Enigma Rotor is awarded to those who solve difficult problems on Wikipedia.
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The Admin's Mop & Bucket is for the newly created administrators.
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The Lots of Barnstars Award. is for the person who has lots of barnstars.
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Designed for those special Wikipedians who accept newcomers with open arms, exhibiting endless reserves of patience and kindness, and helping Wikipedia become a better place. Introduced by Master of Puppets.
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The re-use of image as an award to reward someone for creating a particularly good image by describing it as some award or another and slapping it on their userpage. Introduced by User:BD2412.
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The Sherlock Holmes Deductive Reasoning Award is awarded for complex investigations that sleuth down sneaky vandals. First created by WAS 4.250 for Durova.
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The struck through barnstar goes to Wikipedians who retract their words at the right times and for the right reasons.
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The Reformed Barnstar can be given to users who have rectified their originally-unpleasant behavior. Introduced by Merovingian.
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The Curveball Award for asking a particularly curly but probably necessary and altogether thought-provoking and enlightening question, first thought up by casliber after witnessing one in an interesting RfB...
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Gears of Loud is a giant machine that makes a lot of noise. It is so big that people do not see it up close. This close-up shot of the Gears of Loud is awarded to people who have no chance of seeing this machine up close otherwise—in other words, to people who keep cool and stay the heck away from the most dangerous parts of the pointless drama wars. Beware this machine! Stay ever vigilant, as you have before, lest the Gears may crush you! (Brought to you by wwwwolf (barks/growls))
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The Ka-Ching Ka-Ching Citation of the Monied and Munificent Order of Wikipedian Patrons of Civilization barnstar created by Noroton and under the authority invested in him by his wallet awarded to EconomicsGuy for having coughed up his own $$$ to expose a faulty reference hiding behind a $10 wall on an articles for deletion debate. A pimped out version of a simular barnstar awarded to Noroton for a simular deed. Live long and prosper! We salute you!
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The John Winthrop Award This award recognizes outstanding citizens who vigourously and harshly suppress non-Protestants and non-conformists ( Note the irony of the terminology . ) . Frank Trampe established this award in 2008 by giving it ( posthumously ) to John Hathorne . Past awardees , Mayflower descendants , John Calvin , and Jesus can also give the award at their discretion .
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The Fearsome Jursassic thesaurus thanks Wikipedians for great copyediting.
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WikiProject Kindness Campaign and Dispute Resolution
[] Peace doves
The Peace Doves are a peace offering, or truce, that you offer to someone whom you've had an argument with recently. An apology or note equipped with one of the Peace Dove images presented on a user talk page can easily make someone's day, resolve disputes, and quickly dissipate harsh feelings.
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Another version of the Peace Dove, also logo of Kindness Campaign
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The Olive Branch of Peace may also be given as a sign that a user wants to reconcile a long-standing difference.
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A nice cup of tea and a sit down is a place to publicly declare what it is that you like about other members of the community, or their contributions. The goal is to create goodwill, and perhaps assist the dispute resolution processes that occurs on other pages, or if we're lucky avoid disputes at all. Introduced by Borofkin
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Spreading kindness
These other images can also be useful for spreading kindness, recognizing those who do so, and comforting those who need it. You don't need to be told how and when to use them. This is not a bureaucracy.
The Purple Star given to Wikipedians who have been hurt by others, for example by having their user pages vandalized, being mistakenly blocked (for too long, or affected by range blocks), being personally attacked, etc.
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The Mediation Award, awarded to Cabalists, Mediators and Arbitrators who do an excellent job on a specific job, or just a great job in general. Created by Sango123
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The WikiGnome award
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For your small (but still useful!) wikignome edits without clamoring for attention, the WikiGnome award is hereby awarded. -- Jreferee 01:34, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
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The Good Heart Barnstar given to Wikipedians who clearly demonstrate a good heart, showing kindness and courage, making their fellow Wikipedians feel good about themselves even if they disagree.
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Wikipedian Red Cross given to Wikipedians who have helped "heal" articles (by correcting mistakes, fixing its layout, undoing vandalism etc.).
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