The Barnstar of High Culture
Awarded to Thomas Paine1776 for fine cultural contributions to Metro Detroit area related articles. Hu12 (talk) 04:01, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
The Editor's Barnstar
For a great deal of helpful cleanups and edits to geography articles including Atlanta, Georgia among others. Todd Vierling (talk) 19:46, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
The Teamwork Barnstar
@Thomas Paine1776: Special recognition and appreciation: for your diligence and cooperation in working to prevent biases, slanted POV, & all-too-frequent vandalism in articles for which we share a common interest. Professor JR (talk) 11:25, 10 July 2015 (UTC)

User:Thomas Paine1776 has been identified as an Awesome Wikipedian,
and therefore, I've officially declared today as Thomas Paine1776's day!
For being such a beautiful person and great Wikipedian,
enjoy being the Star of the day, dear Thomas Paine1776!

Peace,
Rlevse
00:11, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

A record of your Day will always be kept here.

ThomasPaine1776 is awarded this barnstar for fully sourcing the Detroit article - WhisperToMe (talk) 16:19, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
John Trumbull's Declaration of Independence, showing the five-man committee in charge of drafting the Declaration in 1776 as it presents its work to the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia

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I'm creating a user page for Mr. Paine so that his name no longer appears in red ink. Not that red is a bad color, especially for Thomas Paine, but it bugs me, so it goes. This section is NOT composed by the User Thomas Paine 1776 but by one Carptrash 03:29, 30 January 2007 (UTC) who shares at least some of Paine's interests.

Maybe Eric J. Hill knows who he is. Tomcool 06:15, 9 June 2007 (UTC)