User:Cavanaughs

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!

Message for anniversary of first edit (for July 20)
''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
GRAND TOTAL: 118 By category, articles are listed in order from least recent (at the top) to most recent (at the bottom)

NASCAR articles
GRAND TOTAL: 111

Racing series
TOTAL: 2
 * eNASCAR iRacing Pro Invitational Series
 * NASCAR Brasil Sprint Race

Racing seasons
TOTAL: 24
 * 2020 NASCAR Xfinity Series (the most recent version)
 * 2021 NASCAR Xfinity Series (the article itself, a redirect was added earlier)
 * 2021 ARCA Menards Series East
 * 2021 ARCA Menards Series West
 * 2020 eNASCAR iRacing Pro Invitational Series
 * 2021 eNASCAR iRacing Pro Invitational Series
 * 2021 NASCAR PEAK Mexico Series
 * 2022 ARCA Menards Series
 * 2022 ARCA Menards Series East
 * 2022 ARCA Menards Series West
 * 2023 NASCAR Cup Series
 * 2022 NASCAR Mexico Series
 * 2023 NASCAR Xfinity Series
 * 2023 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series
 * 2023 ARCA Menards Series
 * 2023 ARCA Menards Series East
 * 2023 ARCA Menards Series West
 * 2023 SRX Series
 * 2024 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series
 * 2023 NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour
 * 2023 NASCAR Mexico Series
 * 2024 ARCA Menards Series
 * 2024 ARCA Menards Series East
 * 2024 ARCA Menards Series West

Race teams
TOTAL: 12
 * Chad Bryant Racing
 * Our Motorsports
 * Empire Racing
 * CR7 Motorsports
 * Josh Williams Motorsports
 * Sam Hunt Racing
 * Mike Affarano Motorsports
 * Cram Racing Enterprises
 * Mike Harmon Racing
 * Bret Holmes Racing
 * Big Machine Racing
 * Legacy Motor Club

Drivers
TOTAL: 39
 * Tom Hessert III (initially created it, then edited pretty much all of it after it was moved to draftspace, it was moved back to mainspace by User:NASCARfan0548)
 * Travis Braden
 * Mike Affarano
 * Drew Dollar
 * Bret Holmes
 * Tommy Vigh Jr.
 * Eric Caudell
 * Brady Boswell
 * Sarah Cornett-Ching
 * Matt Kurzejewski
 * Tim Richmond (racing driver, born 1998)
 * Toni Breidinger
 * Keith McGee
 * Matt Wallace
 * Brandon Grosso
 * Grant Quinlan
 * Armani Williams
 * Blaine Perkins
 * Howie DiSavino III
 * Robb Brent
 * Dominick Casola
 * Nick Tucker
 * Taylor Gray
 * Jerick Johnson
 * Wes Burton
 * Ricky Gonzalez
 * Jesse Love
 * Garrett Liberty
 * Robby Benton
 * Ryan Seaman
 * Bobby Hillis Jr.
 * Nick Sanchez
 * Jack Wood (User:Uwikpi initially created it in mainspace, then it became a draft, and then I expanded the article and moved it back to mainspace)
 * Sammy Smith
 * Luke Fenhaus
 * Stephen Mallozzi
 * Ryan Unzicker
 * Lavar Scott
 * Brenden Queen

Crew chiefs
TOTAL: 3 (previously 4, 1 is now a draft)
 * Todd Gordon
 * Jeremy Bullins
 * Chris Gabehart

TV analysts and media members
TOTAL: 3
 * Dave Burns
 * Kelli Stavast
 * Hannah Newhouse (also a driver)

Team executives
TOTAL: 1
 * Travis Geisler (also a driver and crew chief)

Tracks
TOTAL: 4
 * Meridian Speedway
 * Douglas County Speedway
 * Chicago Street Course
 * I-55 Raceway

Races
TOTAL: 16
 * Pensacola 200 (now Pensacola 150)
 * Music City 200 (now Music City 150)
 * Southern National 200
 * Zinsser SmartCoat 200 (Lebanon)
 * Dawn 150 (Kansas) (now Tide 150)
 * Sprecher 150
 * Enjoy Illinois 300
 * Pacific Office Automation 147
 * O'Reilly Auto Parts 150 at Mid-Ohio
 * DoorDash 250 (Truck Series)
 * Kansas Lottery 200
 * Grant Park 220 (now Grant Park 165)
 * DoorDash 250 (Xfinity Series) (now Zip Buy Now, Pay Later 250)
 * Tyson 250 (now Wright Brand 250)
 * The Loop 121 (now The Loop 110)
 * Pennzoil 150 (article split from Pennzoil 250)

Lists
TOTAL: 3 (previously 4, 1 is now a draft)
 * List of NASCAR on NBC broadcasters
 * List of Hispanic NASCAR drivers (now List of Hispanic and Latin American NASCAR drivers)
 * List of African-American NASCAR drivers

Events
TOTAL: 1
 * NASCAR Awards Banquet

Awards
TOTAL: 2
 * Squier-Hall Award
 * Landmark Award

TV coverage
TOTAL: 1
 * NASCAR on The CW

Other articles
TOTAL: 7
 * New Jersey Senate, 2020–21 term (was later merged into 219th New Jersey Legislature)
 * New Jersey General Assembly, 2020–21 term (was later merged into 219th New Jersey Legislature)
 * 2025 New Jersey gubernatorial election (although another user moved it to mainspace, I created the article as a draft)
 * 220th New Jersey Legislature
 * Susan Cole (reading clerk)
 * 221st New Jersey Legislature
 * Dawn Fantasia

Templates that I've created
TOTAL: 2
 * NASCAR on The CW
 * NASCAR on Amazon
 * 2025 NASCAR Hall of Fame

Article drafts or previous articles (that have since been deleted) that I've created
TOTAL: 10 Drafts are listed in order from least recent (at the top) to most recent (at the bottom) by category

Account fun facts
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