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Dan Koehl
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Name	Dan Albert John Koehl
Born	Stockholm, Sweden
Nationality	Swedish
Country	Sweden
Current location	Ljusterö
Languages	English, German, Swedish
Time zone	UTC+02:00
Blood type	O−
Family and friends
Marital status	single
Children	4
Siblings	4
Education and employment
Occupation	Zookeeper, elephant trainer consultant, webprogrammer
Employer	Kolmarden Tropicarium
Education	Zookeeper (1976-1979)
High school	Enskede Gård, Stockholm
University	Stockholm University
Hobbies, favourites and beliefs
Hobbies	Boating, genealogy
Aliases	User:Koehl
Interests
Biology, animals and Zoos, History, Archeology and Genealogy, travel, ships and boating. I am member in Swedish Naval Volunteers
Contact info
Website	www.aumpage.net
Blog	dankoehl.blogspot.com
ICQ	4046787
Skype	DanKoehl
IRC	DanKoehl
Facebook	dan.koehl
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LinkedIn	dankoehl
Twitter	dankoehl
YouTube	DanKoehl/
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Account statistics
Joined	2002-09-30
First edit	2002-09-30
Reviewer	2014-12-12
Rollbacker	2014-11-22
Autopatrolled	2015-03-03
Edit count	+ 4000
Permissions	AutoWikiBrowser and OTRS
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Thank you
Thank you for your interest reading to this point Jumping Irrawaddy dolphin pictured in Mekong river, Kratie, Cambodja, during my visit in 2011. Policies and guidelines Principles Five pillars Ignore all rules Core content policies Content policies Neutral point of view Verifiability No original research Biographies of living persons Article titles Image use What Wikipedia is not (Not a dictionary) Conduct policies Civility No personal attacks Harassment No legal threats Consensus Dispute resolution Username policy Clean start Vandalism Editing policy Edit warring Ownership of articles Other policy categories Deletion Enforcement Legal Procedural Directories List of policies List of guidelines Manual of Style contents

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Swedish man, elephant trainer, php-programmer and website developer. Born 28 October 1959 in Östermalm, Stockholm, and living on the island of Ljusterö, 70 km from Stockholm, Sweden.

Wikipedian since 30 September 2002. My main interests has since then been biology, taxonomy and animal related articles such as freshwater aquarium fish species, as well as genealogy and ancestry for Middle Ages biograpies of knights, kings and other Nobility, mostly on the Swedish Wikipedia.

I am also user since 2004 at Wikispecies, where I am sysop and bureaucrat, user and patroller at commons since 2005, and sysop at Swedish Wikivoyage since 2015.

Interest on Wikipedia

Swedish Wikipedias increase after 21 november 2002

This editor is a Master Editor III and is entitled to display this Bufonite Editor Star.

In 2002, I discovered Wikipedia and has been active since then, but mostly on the Swedish Wikipedia. During summer 2002, I started to contribute to Nupedia and another Swedish wiki, called Susning.nu, since the Swedish Wikipedia was more or less inactive. I made my first edit on the english Wikipedia 30 September 2002 on my user page User:Koehl, and made my first article edit 11 October 2002 as User:Koehl on the article Proboscidea.

Swedish Wikipedia

After a commercial banner was exposed on Susning.nu, where I was one of the major contributors, the 20th November 2002, I moved over to Swedish Wikipedia, where I became one of its "Founding fathers". I also made my first edit here 21st November 2002 as User:Dan Koehl. Although Jimmy Wales had mentioned advertisment on Wikipedia earlier in 2001, I trusted that Wikipedia would remain a non-profit organization, and I liked the Wikipedia:Five pillars.

Back in 2002 Swedish Wikipedia was still the perl interface UseMod at sv.wikipedia.com, I helped to translate the perl script to PHP MediaWiki and became member nr 3 and the first sysop on Swedish Wikipedia, and I started to implement species factbox on the swedish Wikipedia 15 December 2002, and since then I have been active submitting new species to the project, and updating existing.

I have created over 2000 articles since then with accounts Koehl, Dan Köhl and Dan Koehl.

English Wikipedia

I founded Wikipedia:WikiProject Genealogy 9 December 2002‎.

In 2014 I incresed my activity on the english Wikipedia, I started to create templates, upload on Commons, and make interwikilinks on Wikidata as well as starting articles, and reached number 50 in December. (created articles, articles I created during the last 60 days)

In December 2014 I became rollbacker, pending changes reviewer, started to use Twinkle, Huggle and was granted right to use AutoWikiBrowser. 2015 I became Autopatrolled and increased patrolling with Wikipedia:RTRC.

Started articles on English Wikipedia

The records can be verified at wmflabs.org

Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Total
2002												1	1
2003		3				3							6
2004	1												1
2005		1											1
2009							1						1
2014			3	2							1	34	40
2015	2				2								4
Total	2	4	3	2		3	1				1	36	55

Wikimedia

Im also active:

• since 2004 at Wikispecies, where I am sysop since 2005, and bureaucrat since 2014
• Since 2005 on commons, where I have uploaded some 105 pictures
• since 2014 sv.wikivoyage where I became sysop 2015 and started to further develop SvVoy, where I was almost the only user until spring 2015.
• Since 2014 I also spend some time at wikidata.

OTRS

Since 2015 I am also a member of the Volunteer Response Team

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Awards

The Barnstar of Diplomacy

For stepping in to help mediate an edit war between two IP users. Your messages were an example of helpfulness, civility, and good faith, and rendered administrator intervention unnecessary. Efforts such as these really help to foster the collaborative environment that we strive for here, and for that, I award you the Barnstar of Diplomacy. Thanks, and keep up the good work! Swarm X 03:32, 24 March 2015 (UTC)

		The Cambodian Barnstar of National Merit
		I, Ʋaaŋsieŋsaroeung hereby award the Barnstar of National Merit in recognition of your contributions to Cambodia. Ʋaaŋsieŋsaroeung (talk), 16 August 2014 (UTC)
		this WikiAward was given to Dan Koehl by User:Ʋaaŋsieŋsaroeung (talk), 16 August 2014 (UTC)

Planned Zoo articles

Lists from List of zoos and Liste zoologischer Gärten und Aquarien in Europa

Europe

Czech Republic

Hluboká nad Vltavou Zoo,Zoopark Vyškov,Zoopark Zájezd

France

Jardin Zoologique de la Tête d'Or, Parc Animalier de Sainte-Croix, Parc des Oiseaux, Parc Zoologique de Lunaret, Réserve Africaine de Sigean, Safari de Peaugres, Zoo de Cerza, Zoo de Doué, Zoo de la Flèche, Zoo de Vincennes

Germany

Euregiozoo Animal Park, Aachen, Lower Bavarian Bird Park, Abtsdorf Wildlife Park, Ahlen-Langst Animal Enclosure, Rabenstein Castle Falconry, Alb Aquarium, Allensbach Wildlife and Leisure Park, Alsdorfer Weiher Zoo, Altenburg Island Zoo, Altenweddingen Zoo, Altlußheim Bird Park, Oderbruch Zoo, Amelinghausen Owl Garden, Ammerbuch Wildlife Park, Angermünde Zoo, NABU Information Centre, Blumberger Mühle, Anklam Animal Park, Wildlife Park am Pöhlberg, Zoo Fasanerie, Aschersleben Zoo, Saxon Eagle and Hunting Falconry, Aulendorf Wildlife Park, Mountain Zoo, Greifenstein Castle Falconry, Damhirschgehege Bad Driburg, Kurpark-Gehege Bad Dürrenberg, Wildlife Park am Merkur, Aviaries in the Kurpark Bad Griesbach, Bad Harzburg Wildlife Park, Wildlife Park in the Dobeltal, Klaushof Wildlife Park, Bad Kösen Zoo, Bad Köstritz Animal Park, Bad Liebenstein Zoo, Bad Marienberg Wildlife Park, The Little Zoo am Krater, Spessart Wildlife Park, Bad Pyrmont Zoo, Bad Saarow Pheasant and Wildlife Park, Animal Park in the Bad Salzuflen Kurpark, Ostrauer Scheibe Schaustellung, Bad Soden Wildlife Park, Tannenbühl Wildlife Park, Bad Wiessee Aquadom, Franconian Open Air Museum, Bad Wurzbach Alpaca Farm, Plettenberghof Zoo, Niederelbe Natureum, Johannismühle Wildlife Park, Petermoor Zoo, Röhrensee Zoo, Elferstaler Teiche Wildlife Park, Beckum Wildlife Park, Hohenbeilstein Castle Falconry, Bensheim Bird Park, Eagle Enclosure at Obersalzberg, Manfred Kranzin School Zoo, Berliner Bärenzwinger, Wildlife Park am Auerberg, Bernburg Zoo, Buchet Deer Park, Bescheider Mühlen-Forellenhof Wildlife Park, Biebesheim Bird Park, Olderdissen Heimat-Zoo, Birkenfeld Zoo, Birkenheide Zoo, Gut Hirschaue Wildlife Park, Bischofswerda Zoo, Bobenheim-Roxheim Bird Park, Bochum Zoo and Fossilium, Braunfels Wildlife Park Zoo, Noah’s Ark Zoo, Brunswick, Zoo am Meer, Klüschenberg Zoo, Chemnitz Zoo, Stromberg Wildlife Paradise, Coburg-Neuses Sealife Aquarium, Cottbus Zoo, Darmstadt Vivarium, Daun Wildlife and Experience Park, Nadermann Zoo, Delitzsch Zoo, Dessau Zoo, Berlebeck Eagle Observatory, Detmold Bird Park and Gardens, Heiligenkirchen, Tannenbusch Wildlife Park, Dortmund Zoo, Löbbecke Museum Aquazoo, Grafenberg Wildlife Park, Eberswalde Zoo, Edersee Wildlife Park, Eichert Heidenheim Wildlife Park, Eilenburg Zoo, Eisenberg Zoo, Thuringian Zoo, Pet Zoo in the Grugapark, Heissiwald Wildlife Park, Falkenstein Zoo, Mundenhof Animal Park, Freisen Nature Wildlife Park, Friedrichskoog Seal Station, Butterfly Garden, Thüle Zoo and Leisure Park, Fulda HeimatZoo, Fürstenwalde HeimatZoo, Fürth-Erlenbach Mountain Zoo, Finsterwalde Zoo, Gangelt Wildlife Park, Gera Zoo, Gerolstein Eagle and Wolf Park, Gersbach Park in the South Black Forest Nature Park, Gersfeld Wildlife Park, Gettorf Zoo, Eifel Park, Göppingen Zoo, Görlitz Zoo, Gotha Zoo, Wildfreigehege Bend, Gronau Zoo, Schorfheide Wildlife Park, Fasanerie Groß-Gerau, Natur- and Umweltpark Güstrow, Zoo Halberstadt, Halle Zoo, Schwarze Berge Wildlife Park, Hamm Zoo, Alte Fasanerie Wildlife Park, Hanover Animal Park,Helgoland Aquarium, Hellenthal Wildlife Park, Herborn Bird Park, Herford School Zoo, Herford Zoo, Hof Zoo Sababurg Zoo, Hoyerswerda Zoo, Herzberg (Elster) Zoo, Animal Park am Großen Teich, Animal Park am Baggersee, Wasserstern Kleinzoo Irgenöd Bird Park, Anholter Schweiz BiotopWildlife Park,Jaderpark, Kaiserslautern Zoo, Kalletal Zoo, Niederrheinpark Plantaria Kiel Aquarium, Projensdorfer Gehölz,Panorama-Park Sauerland Wildlife Park, Kleve Zoo, Köthen Zoo, Krefeld Zoo Opel Zoo, Landau in der Pfalz Reptilium,Lauenbrück LandPark, Ketteler Hof, Essehof Zoo, Lelkendorf Haus Zoo Leipzig Wildlife Park, Reuschenberg Wildlife Park,Limbach-Oberfrohna Zoo, Löffingen Black Forest Park, Bavarian Forest Zoo, Lorsch Bird Park Lübeck Zoo, Magdeburg Zoo,Marlow Bird Park, Merzig Wolf Enclosure, Metelen Aventure Zoo, English Garden Wildlife Park, Eulbach Mönchengladbach Zoo, Moritzburg Wildlife Park,Münster Allwetter Zoo, Müritz Bear Forest, Jura Zoo, Neumünster Zoo Neunkirchen Zoo, Kunsterspring Zoo,Neustrelitz Zoo, Neuwied Zoo, Niendorf Bird Park, Nordhorn Zoo Animal Park in the Kaisergarten, Oberhof Exotarium,Ortenburg Wildlife Park, Osnabrück Zoo, Ludwigslust Zoo, Perleberg Zoo Pforzheim Wildlife Park, Pfungstadt Zoo,Landsberg am Lech Wildlife Park, Poing Wildlife Park, Regensburg Reptile Zoo, Reichshof-Eckenhagen Monkey and Bird Park Frankenhof Wildlife Park, Rheinberg TerraZoo,Hochwildschutzpark, Rheine Nature Zoo, Riesa Heimat Zoo, Rotfelden Camel Farm, Saarbrücken Zoo,Salem Monkey Hill, Schwaigern Leintal Zoo, Schwerin Zoo, Solingen Bird Park and Zoo Staßfurt Zoo, Stendal Zoo,Stralsund Zoo, Straubing Zoo, Suhl Zoo, Thum Zoo Ulm Zoo, Ströhen Zoo,Weißwasser Zoo, Sylt Aquarium, Wismar Zoo, Wolgast Zoo Worms Zoo, Zabakuck Zoo,Zittau Zoo

Africa

Algiers Zoo, Jijel Zoo, Oran Zoo, Ouagadougou Zoo, Jardin Zoologique et Botanique d'Eala, Parc Zoologique de Lubumbashi, Zoo National de Kinshasa, Abidjan Zoo, Qariyet El Assad (Lions' Village), Addis Ababa Lion Zoo, Croc Farm, Madagascar Exotic, Parc Endemika,Blantyre Zoological Gardens, Bamako Zoo,Abuja Children's Zoo, Audu Bako Zoo, Enugu Zoo, Ibadan University Zoo, Jos Wildlife Park, Sanda Kyarimi Zoo,Parcs Forestier et Zoologique de Hann,Bester Birds and Animals Zoo Park,Bloemfontein Zoo,East London Zoological Gardens,Emerald Zoo Vanderbijlpark,Hartebeesport Dam Snake and Animal Park,Lory Park Zoo,The Elephant Sanctuary Plettenberg Bay,The Elephant Sanctuary Hazyview,Khartoum Zoo,Saa Nane Museum and Zoo, Zoo du Parc de Belvedere, Friguia Park,Uganda Wildlife Education Centre,Munda Wanga Zoo

Asia

Badaling Safari World,Bifengxia Wild Animal Park,Chengdu Zoo,Dalian Forest Zoo,Harbin Northern Forest Zoo,Guangzhou Zoo,Guangzhou Panyu Chime-long Night Zoo,Guangzhou Xiangjian Safari Park,Jinan Safari Park,Kunming Zoo,Nanning Zoo,Qingdao Forest Wildlife World,Qingdao Zoo,Shanghai Wild Animal Park,Shenzhen Safari Park,Shijiazhuang Zoo,Suzhou Zoo,Tbilisi Zoo, Aizawl Zoo,Birsa Deer Park, Indore Zoo, Jhargram Zoo,Kankaria Zoo,Ranchi Zoo,Sarthana Zoo,Tata Steel Zoological Park,Thim Park,Bali Zoo,Gembira Loka Zoo,Vakil Abad Zoo,Amol Zoo,Bandar Abbas Zoo,Darabad Museum of Wildlife,Isfahan Zoo

Some of my uploaded pictures on Commons

Since I uploaded my first picture, a photo of a African forest elephant in 2002, it would last many years until I uploaded more pictures. 2014 became the turning point.

Animals

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  Irrawaddy_dolphin. Mekong river, Kratié, Cambodia, 2011.

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  Forest elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis), Frankfurt Zoo, 1975

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  Lion enclosure and Zoo Office, Karlsruhe Zoo, 2010

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  Moose eating apples in Kårboda, Ljusterö, Stockholms län, November 2013.

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  Blacktip reef shark (Carcharhinus melanopterus)

Stockholm

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  Hedvig Eleonora School, Skeppargatan crossing at Riddargatan, Östermalm, Stockholm.

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  Main entrance Hedvig Eleonora School, Östermalm, Stockholm.

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  Kungsträdgården, Norrmalm, Stockholm.

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  Styrmansgatan 8, Östermalm, Stockholm.

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  Styrmansgatan 8, Östermalm, Stockholm.

Ljusterö

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  The manor Marum's farm, on the island Ljusterö, Sweden.

Agendas

Wikipedia should be NPOV and not POV push for a antropogene global warming (AGW) in relevant articles. I believe it is important to inform about strong opinons and agendas on Wikipedia. My two agendas are, that apart from that the earth has repeatedly changed climat during its entire existing, the heavily marketing regarding the global warming during the eighties, has no origin in human activities at all, and since 18 years there has been no global warming at all, in spite of the highest levels of C02, why I regard the C02-theory debunked. I never actually saw the C02-theory a result of scientist, but merely a political manipulation by a few, like IPCC, of the public.

Vikings were, and is, only the oldenglish word for pirats and nothing more

I have an agenda: As a scandinavian, I object to that all my Scandinavian ancestors, although belonging to "Norseman" and "Northmen" during the Viking Age, are on the english wikipedia described as vikings, when most probably 99% of Northmen were not, and reliable sources claim that at least most Swedes were defending their country against vikings..

I strongly belive that he word, and the article Viking should reflect the historical persons who were really vikings, and not my forefathers. Its time that also in the english language, the word Viking gets a modern definition, and not belong in the same box as Nigger, Nazi, and other term that people has used for groups of people. I am a scandinavian, and so were my ancestors in Scandinavia between 800 and 1066. Most probably, only a very few percent of them were vikings.

I want biased POV articles like Viking to become NPOV; so that you can read about true, documented Vikings, on the page about vikings, and not read myths, fantasies, or a lot of stuff that refer to norse people in general. Now the article Norseman is even redirected to viking article, which is not correct: Viking is an oldenglish word that means pirat, and the latin word piratae is directly translated to viking in numerous documents, during medevial time. I argue that the article Viking, should supply information about vikings and not about a late misinterpreted ideas about who Vikings were, or any fantasies people may have. I object to that article viking expands the original meaning, including more or less every Norseman during viking time; (people of north Germanic descent, people of the Norse culture, scandinavians, scandinavian kings, tradesmen, settlers, founder of cities, explorers of America), since viking has only one meaning: it means pirat. A pirat can be from just anywhere. And a Norseman, or scandinavian person during medevial time who didnt perform piracy should not be refered to as a viking.

1. Vikings, as any pirate, could origin from anywhere: The first documented use of the word viking is made by Orosius, written in latin, and translated into old english. There is to read about Alexander the Great´s father, Philip II of Macedonia: Philippus vero post longam obsidionem, ut pecuniam quam obsidendo exhauserat, praedando repararet, piraticam adgressus est. translated into: ac he scipa gegaderade, and i vicingas wurdon. In this time the word pirat was not used in the english language, the latin piraticam was directly translated to vicingus.

2.Vikings, as any pirate, can not be labelled as tradesmen, (or any civil profession) because tradesmen doesnt perform piracy: Egil Skallagrimsson: Björn var farmaður mikill, var stundum í víking, en stundum í kaupferðum; Björn var hinn gervilegasti maður. (english: Björn was a great traveller; sometimes as viking, sometimes as tradesman.)

3. Vikings, as any pirate, can never be used as a label for someone who is not viking, like a scandinavian who defend his land against viking raids, or a king who chases away vikings from his land: Harald I of Norway At last, Harald was forced to make an expedition to the West, to clear the islands and the Scottish mainland of some Vikings who tried to hide there.. (the original text says in english translation:

King Harald heard that the vikings, who were in the West sea in winter, plundered far and wide in the middle part of Norway; and therefore every summer he made an expedition to search the isles and out-skerries (1) on the coast. Wheresoever the vikings heard of him they all took to flight, and most of them out into the open ocean. At last the king grew weary of this work, and therefore one summer he sailed with his fleet right out into the West sea. First he came to Hjaltland (Shetland), and he slew all the vikings who could not save themselves by flight. Then King Harald sailed southwards, to the Orkney Islands, and cleared them all of vikings. Thereafter he proceeded to the Sudreys (Hebrides), plundered there, and slew many vikings who formerly had had men-at-arms under them.

-King Harald would never agree that he was a viking-king, he was, like probably 99% of scandinavians were, fighting vikings.

My Ancestors

Michel Koehl born in Hoenheim, Alsace

Louis Xavier Joseph Koehl born in Hoenheim, Alsace

Barbe Wintz born in Souffelweyersheim, Alsace

Jules Albert Koehl born in Strasbourg, Alsace

Nicholas Gresse

Caroline Gresse born in Robertsau, Alsace

Salome Schulz

Gösta Albert Köhl born in Stockholm

Daniel Nordlander born in Norrland, Lugnvik

Per Nordlander born in Norrland, Lugnvik

Anna Stina Jansdotter born in Sollefteå

Carolina Nordlander born in Härnösand

Johan Persson Gerdin born in Gärde, Nordingrå

Carolina Gerdin born in Gärde, Nordingrå

Lisa Ullström born in Ulvvik, Nordingrå

Dan Koehl born in Stockholm

Per Gustaf Nordholm born in Sölvesborg

Per Gustaf Nordholm born in Sölvesborg

Nilla

Birger Nordholm born in Stockholm

Per Modig

Elna Persdotter born in Hässleholm

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Margot Nordholm born in Berlin

Carl Johan Johansson born in Gullspång

Johannes Carlsson born in Gullspång

Anna Charlotta Svensdotter born in Gullspång

Alice Carlsson born in Stockholm

Carl Siegmund Friedrichs Lachs b. Grünberg bei Altdorf, Nürnberg

Alice Sofia Fredrika Lachs born in Örebro

Fredrika Lorentzon born in Halmstad

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