Userboxes This editor is a Veteran Editor and is entitled to display this Iron Editor Star. This user is a participant in WikiProject Good Articles. talk | Changes log | GAN report This user values the quality of Wikipedia articles over the quantity and thus supports the merging of related content and deletion of articles that violate policies and guidelines. This user has been on Wikipedia for 17 years, 9 months and 17 days. This user participates in WikiProject Chess. UTC+1 This user's time zone is UTC+1. Dad This user is a father and proud of it!

We are in week 20, month 05 of year 2024

Places

I was born in Sélestat. I have lived in La Vancelle, Thanvillé, Strasbourg, Zoufftgen, Courbevoie, Paris, London, Munich, Lausanne, Lugrin.

I've been to:

• Austria
• Belgium: Brussels
• Cyprus: the Greek part
• Czech Republic: Prague, one of the most beautiful cities I have seen in the world
• Ecuador: whole country including Amazonia apart from the west coast
• Egypt: down the Nile
• England: the whole country, but mostly London
• French exotic islands: La Réunion, Martinique
• Germany: Munich, Düsseldorf, Berlin, Frankfurt
• Greece: Athens
• Israel: Tel Aviv
• Italy: whole country, especially Rome, Sicily, Elba, Milan
• Luxembourg
• Monaco
• Morocco
• Madeira
• Netherlands: Amsterdam and Rotterdam
• Portugal
• Senegal
• Spain: Barcelona and Alicante
• Switzerland
• Tunisia
• Turkey: mostly Istanbul
• United States: Washington D.C., California, Nevada, Arizona
• Vietnam

Provocative thoughts

• I believe Wikipedia should not include all the information available in the universe.
• I believe 90% of articles currently on Wikipedia are not really notable from an encyclopaedic viewpoint.
• I believe Wikipedia should allow commercial advertisements.
• I believe Wikipedia is currently not efficient, as the gigantic work of millions of people has only resulted in about 5000 articles of quality, and most of them are on unimportant topics.
• I believe I should not engage actions based on the beliefs above.

Tools

Analyse a user

• Number of edits of a user; see also Wikipedia:Kate's_Tool#List_of_counters

Analyse an article

• Dispenser's tools, including a check on links, disambiguation, readability, ...
• View count of each page
• Wikipedia:Featured article tools, to be used with the format "((Wikipedia:Featured article tools|1=NAME_OF_THE_ARTICLE))"
• Builds an edit history page for a given article

Analyse a WikiProject

• User activity is a tool from Wikimedia DE that checks the time of inactivity of the members of a WikiProject
• User:WP 1.0 bot : the bot that consolidates all the quality/importance assessments

Others

• Wikipedia:Mirrors and forks
• Wikipedia:Standard CC-BY-SA violation letter
• My subpages (useless for anyone but me): User:SyG/Sandbox, User:SyG/Sandbox archived, User:SyG/Archive Budapest

Pages I have managed (almost) entirely

Budapest Gambit
King's Indian Defence, Four Pawns Attack
List of chess books

• Café gourmand
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Chess/Review
• Portal:Chess/Selected article list

Pages I have helped to bring to quality

Here are the pages I have helped to bring to a class of quality (meaning FA-class, A-class or GA-class) one way or another, usually by doing some reviews on it and/or bringing it to the appropriate review.
First-move advantage in chess
George H. D. Gossip
Bughouse chess
Ashot Nadanian
Alexander Alekhine
Budapest Gambit
Emanuel Lasker
Howard Staunton
Rules of chess

Awards I have given

Hereunder are the barnstars I have given, for the great work these guys have performed:

• The Minor Barnstar to User:ZeroOne at 11:41, 15 August 2007 here
• The Special Barnstar to User:Henrik 09:57, 9 February 2008 here
• The Working Man's Barnstar to User:SunCreator at 20:29, 7 March 2008 here
• The Content Creativity Barnstar to User:Krakatoa at 08:08, 3 May 2008 here
• The Content Creativity Barnstar to User:Philcha at 21:44, 28 May 2008 here
• The Working Man's Barnstar to User:Voorlandt at 18:32, 13 August 2008 here
• The Half Barnstar to User:Philcha and User:Krakatoa at 08:30, 1 September 2008 here and there
• The Writer's Barnstar to User:Bubba73 at 18:35, 29 November 2008 (UTC) here

Awards I have received

		What a Brilliant Idea Barnstar
		For your idea of creating an infobox for chess openings I award you this barnstar. Voorlandt 21:55, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

		The Barnstar of Diligence
		You certainly deserve this for being so patient and helpful in the A-class review of Howard Staunton, as well as the work you did tying up the loose ends in Alexander Alekhine. Many thanks! Philcha (talk) 19:25, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

		The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar
		For several things, (1) almost singlehandedly doing list of chess books, (2) rating (at least) hundreds of chess articles, and (3) a lot of other stuff! Bubba73 (talk), 22:54, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

		The Barnstar of Diplomacy
		You certainly deserve this for your recent efforts. The "Quotes" thread was a brilliant safety valve. -- Philcha (talk) 22:43, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

		The Chess Barnstar
		For many useful contributions to chess articles. Bubba73 (Who's attacking me now?), 01:50, 21 December 2009 (UTC)