User:BigrTex/Old

I have known about Wikipedia for years. I've used it frequently over the past couple of years, especially when looking for information from my BlackBerry.

I first heard about the concept of a wiki about ten years ago, and wasn't impressed at the time. I went to work for a new company in September 2006 and they established an internal wiki soon after. That was my first exposure to editing a wiki.

I created an account here in order to post a comment on Xylitol without showing my work IP address on 2-Oct-6. I started making minor edits that afternoon.

I like to organize things, and quickly found myself Disambiguating pages. Within a week I had also worked on the Find-A-Grave (Project page) and Red Link Recovery projects.

I can see where I could become a WikiGnome or even a Wikipediholic (score is from 14-Oct-6, and doesn't count the 1000 points for realizing you were close to the end - I felt that quadrupaling my score was a little extreme).

Links I keep looking for:

 * Disambiguation pages with links
 * Category:Lists of ambiguous human names
 * WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types
 * Categorical index
 * Redirects
 * Contributing to Wikipedia
 * WikiProject Spoken Wikipedia
 * WikiProject Fix common mistakes
 * WikiProject Texas State Highways
 * Cleanup resources
 * Dead-end pages
 * Possibly unfree images
 * User:Interiot/Tool2
 * Template:TestTemplates
 * Bureaucrats' noticeboard/RfA Report

Pages that I'm thinking about making stubs for
As I disambiguate, I find red links that I think are notable people whom I could find enough information to make a stub about, such as:
 * James Avery, Craftsman
 * Steve Young (NASCAR) - There is a auto racer named Steve Young, but he hasn't made it up to ARCA yet, much less NASCAR. The NASCAR site only goes back to 1975, so it isn't clear if there was a historic Steve Young who participated prior to 1975.
 * James Avery (sailor) - Someone got to it before I did.