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(Born March 10, 1968, in Englewood, New Jersey,USA) Daniel Case lives in the Hudson Valley region of upstate New York with his wife and son. Previously, they have lived in the Greater Cleveland area and Western New York. He received a bachelor's degree in English and geography from Syracuse University in 1990, and a master's degree in English from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1997.
After having gradually discovered Wikipedia and its possibilities late in 2004, he began editing articles, particularly those devoted to the Catskill Mountains, which he has come to love while hiking extensively and serving on the board of the Catskill Mountain 3500 Club, and which he found to be deeply in need of extension and revision.
[edit] Barnstars
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The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar |
| For simultaneously upholding WP:NOT and WP:BITE. Joe 05:48, 22 April 2006 (UTC) |
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The Photographer's Barnstar |
| For putting forth the time and effort to take great pictures and improve countless articles on New York towns, roads, and landmarks, I award you the Photographer's Barnstar. Kafziel 13:41, 22 June 2006 (UTC) |
[edit] Deletion
If you've come here because my name was on the history as having listed on AFD, or putting a speedy-deletion notice, an article you created or want to keep, go here
[edit] Milestones
My 5000th edit. First milestone I've really gotten to notice in time celebrate. Who could have imagine it would have been something so minor as adding the FA star to any article I otherwise had nothing to do with?
6000th edit. Again, relatively minor, but at least connected to a WikiProject:New York State Roads, which I'm more involved in than any other WikiProject I've added my name to.
7000th edit. I thought it would come from the highways project, but it was a little interlude on a train station that did the trick this time.
8000th edit. Took some time to find this due to problems with the tool. A message to another user about an edit he made to a Catskill article.
9,000th edit. Merely adding the {{unsigned}} template to a talk page comment. How lame!
10,000th edit The biggie: Five figures. This was actually something substantive, the addition of a further reading section (i.e., works I came across while researching the subject that I could not physically or virtually get a hold of, so I'm putting them here so the work doesn't go to waste) to an article about a Supreme Court case.
11,000th edit A talk page message to someone else ... first time I've made note of an editing milestone in the edit itself.
[edit] Stories behind some of the articles
[edit] The Catskills and Hiking
Explained above. I created Category:Catskills and created or added in significant part to almost all of them. And there's a lot more to come. Sometime.
Hiking, too, is another area still not covered very well here. This led to creating Category:Hiking equipment and Category:Hiking organizations, taking the photo of hiking boots. I have worked on, and created, a bit in both. I would start a WikiProject:Hiking for this but I really don't have time, and I tend to range all over the place, anyway. (For one thing, a trail construction and maintenance article could be split from trail, and trail blazing (which I expanded and added a lot of images to, could really do with not only a cleanup (it looks like someone dropped their photos all over it) but perhaps a renaming and expansion to include signage as well.
Trails is probably the best thing we've got going. Check out the project page, which has been established since I first wrote that there wasn't a project. (I like that it uses a picture I took in the userbox)
. Probably we'll have to really get far along on WikiProject:Mountains first, though (and speaking of which, I've done and continue to do most of the work on Slide Mountain, which I hope to take to peer review and FA someday.
I'm very proud of Long Path, a creation of mine that is probably the most thorough of any hiking trail article on Wikipedia.
As I mentioned on the article's talk page, color me sacrilegious but I finally started drinking soda thanks to New Coke. It still seems, in hindsight, like the perfect medium between the tastes of Pepsi and Coke. I would love just one more can of Coke II.
So I looked this one up in summer 2005, and found it a disparate collection of facts. One of the external links tells the whole story of how Coke made its decision (which you can really understand) and I decided to rewrite the article to tell that story.
That storytelling, which has since been, as I knew it would be, edited down, got a lot of praise, which pleasantly surprised me. Its structure is still intact in the final article, even if the narrative twists have been hammered out. The article got linked from the Main Page on the anniversary of Classic Coke's reintroduction, perhaps because of the work I'd done on it in the weeks before, and still seems to draw a lot of interest (which means vandalism, too ... of all the articles I've put my stamp on, it gets the most).
On September 7, 2006, all the work I've put into it was rewarded when it received good article status. I hope eventually to improve it further, take it to peer review and then FA.
