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I first started my journey on Wikipedia on May 29, 2006 when I both created my account, and made my first contribution... adding the "School" section to my hometown's article, Temple City.
Sadly however, Summer arrived, school was out, and consequently I turned off my brain, completly forgeting about Wikipedia just so my brain could relax for a short bit. Very stupid move on my part.
I would have forgotten about my account to, and not mention about Wikipedia itself, if it weren't for one of my school acquaintances shouting to his friends as I walked past them, "Hey, I just created a Wikipedia account!" For no reason at all (the brain is weird this way), I immediately blurted out, "Me too!" After the expected 'So?'s, I decided that once I got home, I would return to Wikipedia, a great site that I just happened to have forgotten temporarily.
At home, I tried to access my Wikipedia account, but I had forgotten my password! However, after about ten minutes of in depth pondering, I finally figured it out, and accessed my account.
Warm memories flew through me as I thought about all the things I had done, but suddenly all of that stopped. What should I edit first after my long, long wikibreak? I decided to type in 'Jack Taylor' into the search bar (he's a friend of mine) and almost chuckled when I found this. The article at the time was completely infected with POV statements that it was unbelievable (very scary stuff), so I decided to look at the talk page to see if it was being discussed. There was one entry, a person who couldn't understand why this was an encyclopedia article, so I explained to him that it was POV statements. That can be considered my first contribution after my wikibreak, although my first article contribution was adding the Simple Plan album to Live in Japan (disambiguation).
Even with the contributions I had before wikibreak (there weren't many), I was still a "wikinoob". Luckily, Wehwalt helped me get off on the right foot, so I'd like to give a big shout out to him/her.
Since then, I've been editing normally, and I guess that kind of brings us today. Horray!!!
The following is just some stuff about me, and my good 'ol pal Wikipedia.
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[edit] To Do List
This is a list of things I want to do on Wikipedia.
In order of priotiry
- Make articles for various theorms in geometry
- Make Oak Avenue Middle School more in the format of an encyclopedia
- Clean up Temple City Unified School District
- In general, make Simple Plan related articles better
- Add reviews to Simple Plan's album's infoboxes
- Write article for Cupid (Sam Cooke song)
- Write article for Bob Ricci Band, a comedic band that parodies songs similar to "Wierd Al" Yankovich
- Write article for Ken Oak Band, an acoustic rock band that features a cello
- Write article for Garfield Medical Center, the place I was born
[edit] Favorite Wikipedia Articles
As the title suggests, these are some articles that I thought really stood out to me while I was reading them... or I just love the subject matter of them.
In ABC Order
- .999, explained very thoroughly and a very understandable article overall
- Death erection, just 'cause
- Exploding whale, it lightened my day
- John Kerry, such an honest guy in the first place, and very thorough, not much more to say
- Mathematical jokes, lol...
- Simple Plan, not such a great article, but the band's so good, it's still one of my favorite articles
- Wikipedia, extremely thorough, and explains the topic so perfectly
[edit] Wikipedia Friends
These are some friends I have on Wikipedia. Check out their userpages!
In ABC Order
[edit] Articles I Regularly Contribute To
I don't really think we need an explanation to what this section is about, so...
In ABC Order'
- Oak Avenue Middle School
- Simple Plan, and related pages
- Temple City
- Temple City Unified School District
[edit] Wikipedia Milestones
These are some milestones for me here at Wikipedia.
| Wikipedia Milestones | ||
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| Type | What? | Date |
| Edit Count | 20 Edits | January 17, 2007 |
| Edit Count | 50 Edits | February 12, 2007 |
| Edit Count | 100 Edits | February 15, 2007 |
| Invite | Convinced first friend, Bernard Wiki, to create an account | February 16, 2007 |
| Edit Count | 250 edits | February 26, 2007 |
| Invite | Influenced second friend, Tom Lian into joining Wikipedia | March 1, 2007 |
