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This barnstar is awarded in recognition of your outstanding contributions to Virginia Highways articles, and new or improved info boxes for several groups of articles about Virginia. - Vaoverland
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This barnstar is awarded in recognition of your outstanding contributions to Virginia State Highways and Hampton Roads area articles. August 23, 2006 -
User:Vaoverland
Hello, welcome to the online home for no1lakersfan, a new Wikipedian. I am from Newport News, Virginia, and like to write and work with articles for the Hampton Roads area.
I like to work with other users to make quality articles for the site. I try to be helpful to other contributors, and appreciate comments and communications. If you would like to contact me, use my talk page. Make sure you sign it so that I am able to respond if necessary.
[edit] About me
My name is Willie H. from Newport News, Virginia. I have lived here all my life. I enjoy living on the Virginia Peninsula, and have no real desires to live anywhere else. Maybe that is because I have never lived anywhere else.
The name no1lakersfan is derived from I used to believe that I like the Los Angeles Lakers much more than anybody else. I knew this wasn't true, but wanted people to know who my favorite sports team was. This dated back to when both Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O'Neal were both playing for the Lakers and won three straight NBA titles from 2000-2002. Now, I don't watch basketball as much, for various reasons, not just because Shaq and Kobe are not on the same team anymore.
I am also a fan of the New York Yankees baseball club, not just because they are such a good team, but because they are able to piece together players from many different teams and have them work together well in order to win.
Since I am from the Hampton Roads area, I am also of New York Mets 3rd baseman David Wright, who grew up in Chesapeake. I liked watching him play for the Mets' AAA minor league baseball farm team, the Norfolk Tides of the International League.
[edit] Interests and Contributions
I am an avid sports fan, and I like to play fantasy sports. I am also very interested in computers and how they work, and how the Internet works.
For the most part, I have been writing or adding to articles related to Hampton Roads, the Virginia Peninsula, and Virginia itself. Growing up in Newport News, Virginia, I grew up going to Newport News Public Schools. Currently, I am a student at Woodside High School, and I helped to create the information for the article about that school. I also created a page about the AAA Peninsula District, the Peninsula's High School sports mainstay.
I like to participate in sports at the school, namely basketball and baseball. I was able to watch history unfold with Woodside's Boys Basketball team winning two straight Virginia High School League AAA titles. I was also a good friend of the basketball coach, as he was one of the teachers at my elementary school, which was located in front of Woodside.
I am also involved with the Boy Scouts since I was a Cub Scout. I am now an Eagle Scout, which is something very important to me.
One way that Scouting has changed me is that I like to help out others. This is one of the reasons why I have decided to join Wikipedia, so that I can share my knowledge with others in order to help them find information about a wide variety of subjects.
While writing for Wikipedia, I have learned more about sports and other subjects that are interesting to me. I have found a lot of history about certain things as a result of my time spent here. I do not know that there is another site out there that has such a wide variety of information.
[edit] Suggestions
Like I said, I am new to the site, so all I can do for the moment is simple tasks, such as adding new pages or editing existing ones. I am not experienced at the moment with all the formatting techniques employed here, as they are different from HTML. However, as I learn the different aspects of formatting, I hope that I can provide state of the art articles.
If you feel that you can be of assistance, feel free to contact me. I am open to all suggestions, as that is what helps me make what I do better.
[edit] My Contributions
Right now, I have written a few articles, and edited or expanded other ones that I had more information for. I have also made sure that all links in articles that I have written are accurate. I have had to change a few, only to make the site better. I want the site to be as truthful as possible, and good links are also part of that.
[edit] Articles I have written
[edit] Articles I have edited
Numerous other articles in order to help in categorizing pages
[edit] People who I have helped
These people have either asked me for help, orthat I spotted using the {{helpme}} tag on their userpage.
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The Original Barnstar |
| I award you this Barnstar for kindly helping me with my user page. Thank you. Húsönd 16:07, 2 September 2006 (UTC) |
[edit] In a Nutshell
I like to write articles for Wikipedia in my spare time. If you have any suggestions, feel free to contact me.
