User: Akaza

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Akaza

Hello. I am an author and maritime historian from the United Kingdom. I mostly find myself gravitating towards creating content of a historiographical nature, usually towards the maritime history of the Great Lakes, a region which has captivated me for over a decade.

I joined Wikipedia under the name GreatLakesShips on 26 November 2017, when I was 13-years-old, initially to correct a single error on an article I had recently viewed a documentary about. Upon diving further into the contents of Wikipedia, I learned about the dearth of content covering my field of interest, and decided to rectify it.

Editing since 26 November 2017 · 23,000+ edits · global account

Featured picture, promoted 14 August 2026

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Profile and recognition

On-wiki profile

Basics

This user has been on Wikipedia for 8 years, 8 months and 30 days.

This user is Male.

This user is English.

en-gb

This user is a native speaker of British English.

hu-5

Ez a felhasználó szakértői szinten beszéli a magyar nyelvet.

de-4

Dieser Benutzer hat Deutschkenntnisse auf muttersprachlichem Niveau.

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Cet utilisateur peut contribuer avec un niveau avancé de français.

nl-2

Deze gebruiker heeft een middelmatige kennis van het Nederlands.

ja-1

この利用者は初級の日本語ができます。

prog-1

This user is a beginning programmer.

Life and interests

20+

This user is a vicenarian.

This user is a gay man.

This user is a bear. Grr!

This user is ambidextrous.

This user is autistic.

This user has depression.

Metal

This user is a metalhead.

^_^

This user watches anime
and reads manga.

This user is a weightlifter.

This user plays the bass guitar.

Wiki-related

This editor is a Senior Editor II and is entitled to display this Rhodium Editor Star.

29,500+

This user has made more than 29,500 contributions to Wikipedia.

150

This user has created 150 articles on the English-language Wikipedia.

This user helped promote
2 featured articles on Wikipedia.

This user has helped promote 27 good articles on Wikipedia.

This user has reviewed 12 Good Article nominations on Wikipedia.

This user has written or expanded 34 articles featured in the Did You Know section on the Main Page.

This user received the Editor of the Week award.

This user was identified as an awesome Wikipedian on 2 February 2026.

This user has received
2 Four Awards.

This user has been awarded a Standard Triple Crown.

This user has received
1 Bronze W Award.

This user has been awarded
6 Barnstars on Wikipedia.

This user is a WikiDragon: making massive, bold edits everywhere.

WikiProjects

This user is a participant in WikiProject Ships.

This user participates in WikiProject Shipwrecks.

This user participates in
WikiProject National Register
of Historic Places.

This user participates in
WikiProject Michigan.

This user is a participant in
WikiProject Minnesota.

This user invites you to join
WikiProject Ontario.

This user participates in
WikiProject Wisconsin.

This user is a participant in The 50,000 Challenge.
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This user is a participant in
QAI
(Quality Article Improvement).

Selected recognition

Editor of the Week for the week beginning 9 August 2026
Precious recognition, received 2 February 2026
Two Four Awards, received for the promotion of SS Choctaw and SS Edward L. Ryerson
Featured Article Medal, received after the promotion of SS Choctaw on 19 December 2021
Various barnstars and other awards for content creation, mostly related to maritime history

Every award and message is preserved at this page.

Kudos from other editors

The complete barnstar, award and kind-message archive is below.

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	Whaleback
	Always good to see another Great Lakes history editor! Happy editing! Howicus (Did I mess up?) 21:36, 8 January 2018 (UTC)

	A goat for you!
	Great job on ships. Darkunicorn321 (talk) 22:12, 26 April 2018 (UTC)

		The Ships Barnstar
		An impressive body of work, well done. Fishplates (talk) 18:04, 26 January 2021 (UTC)

		The Bronze Maple Leaf Award
		This maple leaf is awarded to Akaza for writing the good article 115 (barge) during the fifth year of The 10,000 Challenge of WikiProject Canada. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Reidgreg (talk) 15:48, 8 November 2021 (UTC)

		The Featured Article Medal
		By the authority vested in me by myself it gives me great pleasure to present you with this special, very exclusive award created just for we few, we happy few, this band of brothers, who have shed sweat, tears and probably blood, in order to be able to proudly claim "I too have taken an article to Featured status". Gog the Mild (talk) 23:10, 19 December 2021 (UTC)

		Four Award
		Congratulations! You have been awarded the Four Award for your work from beginning to end on SS Choctaw. — Bilorv (talk) 20:12, 24 December 2021 (UTC)

		Four Award
		Congratulations! You have been awarded the Four Award for your work from beginning to end on SS Edward L. Ryerson. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:53, 19 May 2022 (UTC)

		The Red Maple Leaf Award
		This maple leaf is awarded to Akaza for writing SS Howard S. Gerken during the eighth year of The 10,000 Challenge of WikiProject Canada. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Reidgreg (talk) 15:50, 8 December 2024 (UTC)

		Bronze W Award
		Congratulations! You have been awarded the Bronze W Award for your contributions to each long-time section of the Main Page: a Featured Article at Today's Featured Article and 5 articles listed at Did You Know. Your contributions to Wikipedia put you in a class of prolific, highly skilled editors. Cowboygilbert - (talk) ♥ 00:25, 17 July 2025 (UTC)

		The Ships Barnstar
		Well done on getting SS William C. Moreland to Good Article status Coldupnorth (talk) 14:32, 20 October 2025 (UTC)

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Great Lakes ships

Thank you for quality articles around Great Lakes ships such as SS Edward L. Ryerson, SS Choctaw, SS S.R. Kirby, SS James Gayley and SS D. M. Clemson (1903), for "Let the spread of maritime history continue!", - better late than never: you are an awesome Wikipedian!

You are recipient no. 3017 of Precious, a prize of QAI. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:05, 2 February 2026 (UTC)

	The Barnstar of Diligence
	To Wikipedia's resident expert about ships in the Great Lakes! GGOTCC 01:39, 13 May 2026 (UTC)

		Editor of the Week
		Your ongoing efforts to improve the encyclopedia have not gone unnoticed: You have been selected as Editor of the Week in recognition of your great contributions! (courtesy of the Wikipedia Editor Retention Project)

User:GGOTCC submitted the following nomination for Editor of the Week:

I nominate Akaza to be Editor of the Week. Akaza is, without a doubt, one of our community's foremost experts in the maritime history of the Great Lakes. As of writing, he has two featured articles, 35 DYK hooks, and 27 Good Articles, all in his area of expertise. His brilliant prose (my favorite is SS D. M. Clemson (1903)) makes articles he writes easily identifiable while being both engaging and informative. Beyond his writing, Akaza's sincerity, politeness, and good conduct help build WP:SHIPS and the English Wikipedia into the collaborative project we all aspire to be apart of. Always an enjoyable editor to work with. This nomination seconded by Vanderwaalforces.

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Thanks again for your efforts! Buster Seven Talk (UTC) 13:54, 8 August 2026 (UTC)

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