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Obituary

JamesR

A photo of a callistemon uploaded by James in May 2007.

JamesR, from Brisbane, joined Wikipedia in October 2006 as Extranet. Under that name he wrote six articles for the Signpost, covering features and admins for a little over a month in 2007 (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6). In mid-2007, he changed his username to E, and was known as a "nice, friendly IRC guy"; he passed a request for adminship in December 2007. He also created a few articles, like 1998 Women's Hockey World Cup and Greenslopes Private Hospital. In 2008 he became JamesR. His most active years were from 2007 to 2010, but for a long time afterward, he remained an administrator and member of the bot approvals group, and operated two bots — AdminStatsBot (for generating admin stats) and HBC AIV helperbot5 (for clerking on the administrator intervention against vandalism (AIV) page) — which ran from 2008 until his passing in July 2024.