User:ArcAngel



Personal life
I was born and raised in Columbus, Ohio. As a teenager, I played two years of organized softball. A loner in high school, I earned the nickname/handle Speedy as I ran through the halls between periods (as traffic allowed). Later, I was known as Computer Wizard for my apparent mastery of computer programming without any formal training. In 1990, I won a national championship in Putt-Putt by winning the Novice Match Play tournament at the Georgesville Road Putt-Putt course in Columbus, Ohio. From the early 1980's to 1992, I was involved in bowling and was in several leagues over the years. I also tried the local Amateur Bowler's Tour. In 2006, I tried to get back into bowling, and even joined a summer league. Unfortunately, on Father's Day in 2006 I suffered a major arm injury during a backswing and was unable to do any significant lifting with that arm for over two years, and I was forced to miss the last few crucial weeks in the league as we were fighting for first place at the time. On September 9. 1995, I got married and honeymooned in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. I have a son and daughter who are fifteen months apart and have a very fierce sibling rivalry. Unfortunately, because of my computer addiction, I was divorced on June 10th, 2005. Coincedentally, that was the twentieth anniversary of my entering the U.S. Navy.

My Wikistory
I first became aware of Wikipedia in 2005. For awhile, I was content just reading, and sometimes found myself so "drawn in" that I spent entire nights at times just...reading. :)

I made | my first article edit on September 24, 2006. | My second edit occurred almost one month later on November 20, 2006.

Then, disaster struck (or so I thought) with my third edit on January 22, 2007. What happened was I encountered my first reversion of an edit. At that point I kind of "soured" for a bit as I thought "how could anyone dispute that edit?"

I was then content on "lurking" until November 27, 2007, at which point I made more edits, and the number increased since then. In February 2008 I really got going, so you might say I was hooked! Yes, the Wikibug hit me hard and heavy. :)

Somewhere around April of 2008, I felt I had a good enough handle on editing that I decided to see where I stood, as far as admin material went. So I took the first step in undergoing an editor review and based on how that turned out that would tell me if I was ready or not.

Unfortunately, I never got the chance as real life took strong hold of me in June of 2008, and I never really could get back into editing, let alone Wikipedia.

After a forced wikibreak due to real life issues, I made my return on January 21, 2009 to something I so dearly love doing! :0

Upon returning, I found that some of my Wikiknowledge had left me, so I made the decision to not pursue an adminship at the present time, as I need to build my Wikiknowledge back up before I attempt another run at the mop.

However, on September 14, 2009, I reversed that decision and thought why the hell not?. It's not like I'm going to break anything by trying, and the worst that could happen is not getting a single support, so off I went! The next day, given the direction my RFA was going, I decided it would be best to withdraw given the concerns over my CSD work. I will try again in a few months.

On December 28th, 2009 I underwent another editor review.

On January 17th, 2010, I was granted access to the account creator tool, after thinking about what area I could assist in.

On April 14th, 2010, I made my 10,000th edit!

On July 8th, 2010, I again attempted another RFA, which failed worse than my first one. Again, I will learn from it and improve enough to be trusted with the tools at some future point in time. Shortly thereafter, I decided it was time for another wikibreak.

On January 1st, 2011, I made another return to editing after a 5-month long absence.

Why am I here?
When I saw the vast amounts of vandalism occurring, along with some grammatical and spelling errors, I thought that I could be an asset by helping to revert the vandalism, and correct the spelling mistakes I saw.

Today, I am primarily a vandal fighter, but I am also starting to create and expand articles, and hope to one day create an article and see it up to FA status. I also welcome new users and have participated in the WP:RFA, XfD, WP:CSD, WP:ARV, WP:AIV and WP:UAA areas.

In the summer of 2014, I added my name to the AfC participants list and I started taking on the task of moving pages from the WT:AFC namespace to the draft namespace as per the village pump proposal.

Pages that I have created (oldest to newest)
Frank Browne (Photographer) (Source: Erickfp (talk) - initially a stub that I significantly expanded through an (Afc request) and since redirected. Robert G. Carter (Source: 72.74.215.62 (talk) (Afc) Mason Carter (Source: 72.74.215.62 (talk)(Afc) William Harding Carter (Source: 72.74.215.62 (talk) (Afc) Star Transport - First solo creation Currently up for deletion. Holiday Man - (Source: 67.84.163.17 (talk) (Afc) Freedom High School (North Carolina) - Source 152.17.56.18 (talk) (Afc) Isaac Ruddell - Source 72.74.218.126 (talk) (Afc) Rowdy Herrington - From scratch. Cristy's Pizza - From scratch. Currently up for deletion. Ice Queen - Disambiguation page Angelia (disambiguation) - From scratch. Mark Davis (fisherman) - From scratch. 400R - Disambiguation page; from scratch. She's So Huge - From scratch. Got You (Where I Want You) - From scratch; related to Holiday Man In the Night (disambiguation) - From scratch, while doing research on the Cheryl Lynn song of the same name. Oscar Randolph Fladmark, Jr. - From a userspace draft. Template:User browser:Nightly - From scratch, after downloading the application looking for a 64-bit browser. V scale (model railroading) - From scratch. Sarah Bedi - From a userspace draft

= Wikipedia Awards =

Barnstars
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