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Hello, and welcome to my page!

I live in New Jersey and graduated college in May 2023 with a political science major. I am a NASCAR and Philly sports fan. I also like to follow events/happenings in my town, and I read my town's newspaper and watch my district's Board of Education meetings on YouTube.

Having read Wikipedia for many years growing up, plus taking a journalism elective in High School, it felt like a nice idea to start editing pages on Wikipedia where my help would be valued and appreciated. I started editing in July 2019 and I look forward to continuing to contribute as often as I can. I mostly edit NASCAR articles but also edit articles relating to government and politics (such as elections, lists of politicians in a certain office, as well as school districts in New Jersey). I made my 10,000th edit in June 2022!

Feel free to let me know your thoughts on any edits I make on my talk page. You can track my edits here.

Thank you so much, and have a great day!

Quick notes from me

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Message for anniversary of first edit (for July 20)

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I will keep this message up for around a week after the 20th so people can read it if they didn't see it on the 20th. This is essentially the same message that I've posted each of the past 4 years for my anniversary as a Wikipedia editor.

I don't really post any "fun" stuff on my user page like many others do, but I will on this day, July 20th, because it marks 5 years since I started as a Wikipedia editor! Like I did with my birthday message for July 7th, I will sort of share a little story as part of this. Many other users like to post things like that/personal fun facts (through userboxes)/other "fun" stuff on their user pages, but that doesn't seem interesting to me/I'm not big on that.

Scroll to the bottom of this page (this is where you can track my edits for those who don't already) and then click on "oldest". You will see that the first edit I made is on the page Hillsborough Township School District, which is the K-12 school district I went to and at the time had just graduated from. On my first day as an editor, I edited that page that day as well as Hillsborough Township, New Jersey (the town where I live). I wanted to edit the page about my school district because one of the principals at an elementary school in town had just retired after the previous school year (in NJ school district articles, the names of the principals of each school and the district superintendent are listed in the article). Her replacement had been announced and I made that edit. I also thought carefully on whether I wanted to edit at all, and decided that I would do it. I had just turned 18, so I thought in terms of online safety, it would be OK and I could "defend myself" if something problematic between me and someone else were to arise. I wasn't sure whether to make that edit without creating an account or to create an account and then make it. After briefly thinking it through, I decided to create my account because then I would be able to contribute whenever I wanted if I noticed anything I wanted to edit or that needed to be edited (mistakes, updates, typos, etc). Soon after making that edit, I noticed that on the Wikipedia article about my town (Hillsborough, NJ), the name of the mayor was wrong. They had the person who was in that role in 2018, and nobody updated it for 2019. So, boom... there was my next edit to make already! It appears as though for the rest of that day (7/20/2019), I edited/updated articles about the school districts in the neighboring towns to Hillsborough (Montgomery, Bridgewater and Franklin). I don't really remember that day because there's no way I would've thought then I'd get hooked into editing so often (and quickly become a prominent editor on NASCAR articles)!

I didn't start editing NASCAR articles until a few weeks later. I will have another special message similar to this one after this one on the anniversary of my first edit on a NASCAR article, so stay tuned for that!

It's so hard to believe I've been doing this for 5 years now! I had graduated high school a month before I started as a Wikipedia editor and last year I graduated college! I can't wait to see what my sixth year brings! Who knows where I'll be as an editor (and what the world and the United States will be like, especially since there's a presidential election this year) 1 year from now on July 20, 2025?

Pages that I've created

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GRAND TOTAL: 118
By category, articles are listed in order from least recent (at the top) to most recent (at the bottom)

NASCAR articles

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This user is a member of WikiProject NASCAR.




GRAND TOTAL: 111

Racing series

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TOTAL: 2

Racing seasons

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TOTAL: 24

Race teams

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TOTAL: 12

Drivers

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TOTAL: 39

Crew chiefs

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TOTAL: 3 (previously 4, 1 is now a draft)

TV analysts and media members

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TOTAL: 3

Team executives

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TOTAL: 1

Tracks

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TOTAL: 4

Races

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TOTAL: 16

Lists

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TOTAL: 3 (previously 4, 1 is now a draft)

Events

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TOTAL: 1

Awards

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TOTAL: 2

TV coverage

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TOTAL: 1

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TOTAL: 7

Templates that I've created

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TOTAL: 2

Article drafts or previous articles (that have since been deleted) that I've created

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TOTAL: 10
Drafts are listed in order from least recent (at the top) to most recent (at the bottom) by category

Article title Note/description
2020 ARCA Menards Series The first version which was published but then moved to become a draft but later recreated by User:Willsome429... credit to him!
Draft:Chuck Buchanan Jr. Another user created this article in 2018, but it was later deleted due to lack of sources. I added the article back as a draft after its deletion and am trying to get it back into mainspace.
Draft:Connor Hall This article was originally in mainspace before it was nominated for deletion. It then became a draft and will be for the time being, but hopefully it will be back in mainspace at some point.
Draft:Sioux Chief Showdown Needs more info and sources before going into mainspace. Others are more than welcome to help me out and edit this draft!
Brandon Lynn Previous articles I created, but which were deleted. You can see what they looked like on Web Archive by typing in their names in the URL. (I did not add them back as drafts because these two drivers are not competing right now because they have been without a ride for at least a year.)
Eddie Fatscher
Draft:List of NASCAR on ESPN broadcasters These articles were previously in mainspace before moving to draftspace due to lack of sources. Hopefully they'll all be back in mainspace soon.
Draft:Randall Burnett
Draft:NASCAR on Amazon
Draft:Memphis Villarreal

Account fun facts

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Account created: July 20, 2019
First page edited: Hillsborough Township School District

1,000 edits reached: August 20, 2019
2,000 edits reached: November 20, 2019
3,000 edits reached: January 14, 2020
4,000 edits reached: March 17, 2020
5,000 edits reached: May 13, 2020
6,000 edits reached: July 24, 2020
7,000 edits reached: January 8, 2021
8,000 edits reached: May 18, 2021
9,000 edits reached: November 6, 2021
10,000 edits reached: June 1, 2022
11,000 edits reached: December 15, 2022
12,000 edits reached: July 12, 2023
13,000 edits reached: April 19, 2024

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