My background on Wikimedia is fairly unexciting. I first started editing in February 2006: myfirst edits from this account essentially mark the start of my editing career: I have rarely deliberately edited as an IP. I became a bot operator in 2007, an admin in 2008, and was an oversighter from 2009 to 2011. Along the way I discovered an interest in template coding and 'backstage' work. Notwithstanding that, I have made occasional substantial article contributions.

Since 2009 I began to take more interest in the MediaWiki software itself, filing a number of bugs and patches to bugzilla. I held SVN commit access, which allowed me to help develop the MediaWiki software directly. I was an administrator atmediawiki.org, the documentation site for MediaWiki, and Ihave a few minor rights scattered across a number of projects. I have about 27,000 edits across all projects.

Although I can be a creative person, and I enjoy writing, I do a lot ofgrunt orfairy work, as I rarely have the perseverance to complete any major projects. That said, I do have a few green and gold shiny things to my name: I notched up a 75-edit streak onThe Colour of Magic (TV film), which madeStart → GA. Ihelped bringList of poker hands toFL,Wicked (musical)toGA, andEmma Watson toFA. I mainly work with templates on Wikipedia: I designed or help design theRequests listing system for the lateLeague of Copyeditors, the completeoverhaul of theCSD template system around{{Db-meta}}, the{{pp-meta}} and{{WPBannerMeta}} meta-templates for page protection andWikiProject banners. I regularly patrolCategory:Protected edit requests andCategory:Candidates for speedy deletion, am active onTemplates for deletion, and consider myself anexpert template coder. Most importantly for the encyclopedia, however, I can never resist the urge to edit any page I happen to visit which looks like it needs it:D.

I rarely create new articles - we have enough of those already.

Awards

WikiProject Mixed Drinks Barnstar TheWikiProject Mixed Drinks Barnstar is hereby award byWillscrlt toHappy-melon for his ongoing dedication and participation with our WikiProject and tireless tagging of articles with infoboxes. --Willscrlt (Talk·Cntrb) 14:27, 6 February 2007 (UTC) The Special Barnstar In recognition of your really useful edits to Wikipedia, especially Harry Potter-related articles, I award you theSpecial Barnstar. Keep up the excellent work!Lradrama 09:47, 4 September 2007 (UTC) The Project-Improvement Barnstar For past, present, and ongoing efforts to improve the structure and flow of the League of Copy-editors Requests project and page.Unimaginative Username (talk) 22:44, 19 November 2007 (UTC) The Barnstar of Good Humour I saw your comments regarding yourself atWikipedia:WikiProject Mixed Drinks#Participants. Speaking as one basically brain-dead bot boy to another who describes himself as such, it's nice to know that there's someone else out there who can do the same sort of thing and actually admit it.John Carter (talk) 01:19, 7 February 2008 (UTC) Barnstar of Intrepidity I,Coppertwig, would like to award you,Happy-melon, this Barnstar of Intrepidity for leadership and syntaxcraft in templatiferous territory during the development and implementation of the new versions of the CSD templates. The da Vinci Barnstar For his enhancement ofWikipedia WikiProjects through his work with{{WPBannerMeta}}, I hereby awardHappy-melon the da Vinci Barnstar. --GregManninLB (talk) 14:53, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar TheRandom Acts of Kindness Barnstar: You deserve to be recognized for the work you've done recently to improve the HP WikiProject participants section. It is appreciated. Thanks!Faithlessthewonderboy 05:02, 25 August 2007 (UTC) The Order of Merlin (Second class) TheOrder of Merlin, theWikiProject Harry Potter Barnstar, is awarded byFbv65edel toHappy-melon for tireless efforts in revitalizing the WikiProject and progressing articles in a forward direction after the end of the series. His work on theEmma Watson article, especially throughout her FAC, has also been unwearying. The Copyeditor's Barnstar you for your hard (and mostly thankless) work doing all of the administrative tasks behind the scenes for the League of Copyeditors.Trusilver (talk) 22:48, 5 January 2008 (UTC) The Order of the Bath MasterBlacksmith Happy-melon: you, and your trusty apprentice MelonBot, are hereby awarded theorder of the bath for your sterling efforts to clean up Wikipedia:Peer review. (Or should that be Wikipedia:Peer review/archive1?)Geometry guy 19:29, 20 February 2008 (UTC) The Minor Barnstar For all your work on Wikipedia, such the minor and monotonous edits that you make, you are awarded with this Minor Barnstar. -DiligentTerrier(and friends) 17:04, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

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The Barnstar of Good Humor Forthis (which I liked so much I plagiarized it on mymain userpage) andthis edit summary, which I'm still laughing about.J.delanoygabsadds 02:05, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

The Special Barnstar This is to thank you (Happy Melon, in specific, not any other random reader) for clearing the final obstacle towards finally standardising the documentation for succession boxes. I took my time, it is true, but I never forget those who have helped me. Should you need anything, anything at all,the members of SBS will be happy to help you.Waltham,The Duke of 09:02, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

The Tireless Contributor Barnstar Thankyou for your efforts and quality contributions on creating the code for the bot for theconversion of the Template:Infobox rugby league biography. It was much appreciated by me and all users in theWikiProject Rugby league. Thankyou very much. The Windlertalk  22:48, 23 August 2008 (UTC)•Florrie•leave a note• 01:33, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

The Original Barnstar This was a piece of sheer genius. Many thanks! ➨❝ЯEDVERS❞takes life at five times the average speed 10:59, 19 December 2008 (UTC)

The Whole Barn For shepherding the discussion that got rid of that awful "Create a Book". That's worth the whole barn. - Dank (push to talk) 12:52, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

• 19 December 2007 – Botstatus granted toMelonBot
• 1 February 2008 – Admin bitgiven following a successfulRfA
• 29 August 2009 –Granted Oversight afterelection

By popular demand, the smiley green alien remains...

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To-do list for Happy-melon: edit · history · watch · refresh · Updated 2009-03-24 Stalwarts {{WPBannerMeta}} Currentplates {{class}} {{mbox}} {{side box}} .mbox-empty-cell {{italictitle}}