User:Sportsdude820
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- I feel like I'm obligated to write something in this space...so I will.
Hello. My name is Siobhan Reisdorf and I'm a 24-year-old transgendered person with Asperger syndrome from Tacoma, WA who has nothing better to do than to post at Wikipedia. I joined in 2003 when I actually liked my username, sportsdude820, and prefered to go by James because I wasn't TG yet. Now, 3 years later, I am disillusioned with sports (thanks in no small part to Jason McElwain and ESPN's portrayal of him, because you are not a hero just because you make consecutive three-point shots in a game as a publicity stunt and then sell yourself out to Cure Autism Now and whatever movie studio is making a film of your life) and prefer using the nickname transaspie. Ironically, most of the articles I will post are nonetheless sports related. I still have an interest in following sports online or in print, and have a particular interest in sports history.
So far, I have had four new articles featured in the "Did You Know" section. I initially got featured for an article on the International Basketball League, which I was interested in due to the fact that it had a Tacoma franchise. An article on NASCAR pioneer Herb Thomas was also featured, as was an article on Mr. Irrelevant-turned-Pro Bowler Bill Kenney. Incidentally, I used an image without fair use on Kenney's page that has since been deleted. In September 2006, I got DYK'd again with an article on closer Terry Forster, which featured my first usages of inline citations and fair use images, which you pretty much have to you on the page of a person once referred to as a "fat tub of goo". :)
Several Wikipedia articles on prominent athletes in the US, such as A-Rod, Nomah!, and Mr. November were started by me...and I can safely say they were all CRAP. Articles I started on Yao and King James were equally crap. In fact, I think most of the articles I wrote in my first years were pathetic. I do think I'm improving, though. If I wasn't, I'd have never written a halfway-decent article on Forster.
Most of my articles are usually recognizable by the fact they are long...ish. I don't like stubs, and I go to great lengths to avoid them. My hope is that the people reading them don't mind that I devote lots of space to a player's career statistics.
I don't really do anything outside of Wikipedia. I don't connect with aspies in Tacoma (because you really can't in this town) and I haven't found LGBT people that I truly relate with here. I'm unemployed, somewhat broke, lonely, and sad most of the time. I don't talk to people online either. It's not that I don't want to...it's just that nobody is worth talking to at the moment.
I can't end this suitably...so I'll just end it abruptly instead.
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I want to use this section to remind me of what I need to create. My current idea is that I want to give a Wikipedia page to every baseball player with 1,000 hits. Over 1,100 players have done this, and I'm amazed that there are as many red-linked players as there are. I'm putting a list of them on this page to remind myself what all I need to do, even though most of the players on this list are blue-linked (it's for the sake of completeness, though it could also be used to remind me which players need expanded articles), though others can certainly help out. Players with ambiguous names are not properly linked...I don't have the motivation to do that yet. I equally don't have the motivation to put the players who earned their 1,000th hit in 2006.
