Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2024-07-22/Obituary

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.