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BoonDock
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Name
John
Born (1966-11-13) November 13, 1966 (age 58)
Current locationPedasí, Los Santos, Panama
Family and friends
Marital statusMarried
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WikiProject Orders, decorations, and medals.
This user is a proud resident native citizen of South Africa.
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White South African.
This user lives in Durban.
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South Africa.
This user lives in Panamá.
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This user has been on Wikipedia for 19 years, 3 months and 22 days.
This user has been awarded the Pro Patria Medal (South Africa).
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About BoonDock

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Who am I

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  • I am a South African who has a passion for my country. I am mostly interested in the Military in the Wikipedia.
  • I am a Reserve Force Officer

Service

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Awards

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Postnominals: RD

I have been awarded:

Proficiency badges
Badge for Reserve Voluntary Service
(Service Award)
 
Five Years Voluntary Service
Black on Thatch beige, Embossed
1st Class Shot – Rifle
(Proficiency)
 
1st Class Marksman
Black on Thatch beige, Embossed
Black (Black rifle), with a black rectangle surrounding the rifle
Demolitions
(Qualification)
 
Level 1 (DEMS1)
Black on Thatch beige, Embossed
The badge uses the traditional 9 flames exploding grenade which is superimposed over one lightning bolt diagonally (top right to bottom left) across the exploding grenade


I have been cited for, but not yet awarded:

with   Tshumelo Ikatelaho (General Service Medal) (Humanitarian Aid clasp) and either the   Tshumelo Ikatelaho (General Service Medal) (Peace Support clasp) or a possible new clasp   Tshumelo Ikatelaho (General Service Medal) (Force Intervention Brigade clasp)

Wikipedia Contributions

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Backlog status (Purge)
Category Pages Current status
Pages with broken reference names 1953   Not done
Pages with duplicate reference names 743   Not done
Pages with incorrect ref formatting 74   No backlog
Pages with missing references list 13   Done
Total 2783

Medal Categories

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  Medal Recipients
Medal Categories (Purge)
Category Pages Current status
Obsolete Medal Display 0   Done
Recipients of the Pro Patria Medal (South Africa) 93
Recipient of the Order of the Star of South Africa 0
Recipients of the Southern Cross Decoration 61
Recipients of the South African Police Star for Outstanding Service 12
Recipients of the Southern Cross Medal 127
Recipients of the Military Merit Medal (South Africa) 110
Recipient of the Order of the Cloud and Banner 0
Recipients of the iPhrothiya Medals 11
Recipients of the Operational Medal for Southern Africa 30
Recipients of the MK South Africa Service Medal 30
Total 154

Civilian life

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I used to own and run a small publishing company. Now I do private security and consulting.

Templates created

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MilAwards

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I wrote a Lua module called {{Module:MilAward}} which holds all the data I can find for medals in {{Module:MilAward/data}}. This module impliments a variety of functions which draw the data from that stored in {{Module:MilAward/data}} to present it in different ways. I have created the following templates to present that data:

To be created:

  • {{Template:MilAward Ribbon}}  Done - display the award ribbon linked to the medal information page
  • {{Template:MilAward Desc}}  Done - display the ribbon and alongside it the medal name with a link to the medal's page
  • {{Template:MilAward Stats}} - A template which can be used to list all the data in the database. Currently active on {{Template talk:MilAward}} It can be invoked (#invoke) by anyone on any page, and if needed I will create a template for it.  Done If I do create the template, I will remove the stat table.   Yet Depends on someone making a use case.
  • {{Template:MilAward PostNom}} -   Done a replacement for the {{Post-nominals}} template drawing from the same database.
  • {{Template:MilAward Stack}} -   Done This will allow for a list of medal codes, similar to the current Post-nominals template, which would then display all the ribbons specified in a long horizontal stack, similar to how the {{Template:MilAward Ribbon}} works now with individual ribbons.

As I go, I will also add extra features:

  • Country=yes -   DoneAdd the display of country to the medal description. WIll have to figure out if I display just what's in the data or do an ISO lookup for a country name. (specify the recipient's country and any OTHER country will be added to the description)
  • Class=no - Allow the turning off of the addition of what's in the "Class" field to the medal description
  • TextSize=xx - Allow the specification of the size of the text. Probably a percentage.   Done for PostNom not for anything else.
  • Org=yes - Allow the turning on of the display of the contents of the "Org" field
  • Notes=no - Allow the turning off of the display of the contents of the "Notes" field

Test

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  National Order of the Southern Cross (Grand Cross) [a]

Major Jack De Valance Greeff (SA Army Retired)

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Proficiency badges
SA Special Forces Operator's Badge
(Qualification)
 
Gold, 10 Years
Black on Thatch beige, Embossed
Dagger enclosed with a laurel wreath. Exclusion to indicate diamond on Dagger blade.
Free Fall Paratrooper
(Qualification)
 
Advanced, Freefall
Black on Thatch beige
Small Black wings
Sniper
(Qualification)
 
Black on Thatch beige, Embossed
Black rifle and laurel wreath
1st Class Shot – Rifle
(Proficiency)
 
1st Class Marksman
Black on Thatch beige, Embossed
Black (Black rifle), with a black rectangle surrounding the rifle
Assistant Physical Training Instructor
(Qualification)
 
Assistant PTI
Black on Thatch beige, Embossed
Crossed sabres
  1. ^ Portuguese: Ordem Nacional do Cruzeiro do Sul – Grã-Cruz
  2. ^ Only the Cunene clasp was awarded, to members who served in Angola during Operation Savannah in 1975 and 1976. Recipients of the clasp wear a button, with the letter C encircled by a wreath, on the ribbon bar.

Wiki Awards

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Award of WikiChevrons

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  The WikiChevrons
This is in recognition of your creation of Durban Regiment and 19 Field Engineer Regiment (as well as your much more ambitious SA project off-wiki!!) Keep it up! Great work!! Buckshot06 (talk) 08:15, 18 December 2014 (UTC)

The South African Barnstar of National Merit

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  The South African Barnstar of National Merit
Awarded to BoonDock for his hard work in creating and contributing to SANDF related articles. Well Done and Thanks! Gbawden (talk) 06:49, 9 December 2014 (UTC)

Seconded. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 13:35, 21 December 2014 (UTC)

Category:South African military officers