User:Rfl

The original version of this page is located at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rfl and makes sense only in the context of Wikipedia.

Penrose Tribar

Rafał Pocztarski

Administrator of the English Wikipedia since 2004 (original nomination)

My Contributions: All · Articles · Talk · User talk · Wiki · Wiki talk · Page Deletions · Current rights

Quick links

• Watchlist
• New Pages
• Recent Changes: Article, Anon, Anon Article

Shortcuts

Rules

Simplified ruleset: WP:SIMPLE · Policies and guidelines: WP:PG WP:POLICY WP:GUIDELINE · Five pillars: WP:FIVE WP:5P WP:FIVEPILLARS

Neutral point of view: WP:NPOV WP:NPV · Verifiability: WP:V WP:VERIFY WP:SOURCE · No original research: WP:OR WP:NOR WP:ORIGINAL

What Wikipedia is not: WP:! WP:NOT WP:WWIN

Sources

Primary, secondary and tertiary sources: WP:PSTS WP:PRIMARY WP:SECONDARY Third-party sources: WP:THIRDPARTY WP:3PARTY WP:INDEPENDENT

Identifying reliable sources: WP:IRS WP:RS WP:RELY WP:RELIABLE WP:RELIABLESOURCES · Wikipedia:Notability: WP:N WP:NN WP:NOTE

Abuse

Vandalism: WP:VAN WP:VAND WP:VNDL WP:VANDAL · Warning templates · Administrator intervention against vandalism: WP:AIV WP:AIAV WP:RVAN

Abuse response: WP:ABUSE WP:AbRep · Cleaning up vandalism: WP:CUV · WikiProject Vandalism studies: WP:WPVS

Requests for page protection: WP:RFPP WP:RFP WP:RPP WP:PADLOCK · Protection policy: WP:PP WP:PROTECT

Misc

Special:WhatLinksHere

Picture of the day

Featured pictures · visible · candidates

Picture of the day

Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826) was an American statesman, planter, diplomat, lawyer, architect, philosopher, and Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809. He was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence. Following the American Revolutionary War and before becoming president in 1801, Jefferson was the first United States secretary of state under George Washington, and then the second vice president under John Adams. Jefferson was a leading proponent of democracy, republicanism, and natural rights, and he produced formative documents and decisions at the state, national, and international levels. This line-engraved portrait of Jefferson was produced by the United States Department of the Treasury's Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP) as part of a BEP presentation album of the first 26 presidents. The same portrait appears on the obverse of the two-dollar bill.Engraving credit: Bureau of Engraving and Printing; restored by Andrew Shiva

Selected anniversaries

April 13

Van Cliburn

• 1777 – American Revolutionary War: British and Hessian forces conducted a surprise attack against a Continental Army outpost at Bound Brook, New Jersey.
• 1829 – The Roman Catholic Relief Act received royal assent, removing the most substantial restrictions on Catholics in the United Kingdom.
• 1958 – In the midst of the Cold War, American pianist Van Cliburn (pictured) won the inaugural International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow.
• 2009 – Twenty-three people died in a fire at a homeless hostel in Kamień Pomorski; it was Poland's deadliest fire since 1980.
• 2017 – War in Afghanistan: In an airstrike in Nangarhar Province, the U.S. military dropped the most powerful conventional bomb used in combat.

• Henry De la Beche (d. 1855)
• Annie Jump Cannon (d. 1941)
• Günter Grass (d. 2015)

More anniversaries:

• April 12
• April 13
• April 14

In the news

Current events:

Azzi Fudd

• A nightclub roof collapse in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, kills 226 people.
• In basketball, the UConn Huskies win the NCAA Division I women's championship (Most Outstanding Player Azzi Fudd pictured) and the Florida Gators win the men's championship.
• In the National Hockey League, Alexander Ovechkin breaks Wayne Gretzky's record for most goals scored.
• In horse racing, Nick Rockett, ridden by Patrick Mullins, wins the Grand National.
• South Korea's Constitutional Court removes Yoon Suk Yeol as the president of South Korea, following his earlier declaration of martial law.

Ongoing:

• Gaza war
• M23 campaign
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • timeline
• Sudanese civil war
  • timeline

Recent deaths:

• Roberto De Simone
• Amara Essy
• Ray Shero
• Peter Geiger
• Titiek Puspa
• Peter Stuhlmacher

Wikipedia is written by volunteer editors and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization that also hosts a range of other volunteer projects:

• 
  Commons
  Free media repository
• 
  MediaWiki
  Wiki software development
• 
  Meta-Wiki
  Wikimedia project coordination
• 
  Wikibooks
  Free textbooks and manuals
• 
  Wikidata
  Free knowledge base
• 
  Wikinews
  Free-content news
• 
  Wikiquote
  Collection of quotations
• 
  Wikisource
  Free-content library
• 
  Wikispecies
  Directory of species
• 
  Wikiversity
  Free learning tools
• 
  Wikivoyage
  Free travel guide
• 
  Wiktionary
  Dictionary and thesaurus