User:HJKeats/Whatiedit

 Certainly it's not very difficult to figure out my passion. When I first discovered Wikipedia I found it lacking in the topics I was interested to learn about, everything Newfoundland and Labrador!! So, I set out to help correct that and wherever possible solicit the aid of others in achieving that gold. The articles I write, edit and de-vandalize are for the most part about Newfoundland and Labrador; those who have shaped its history and direction both past and present, its many colourful communities and the events that got us here.

There is a lot of history in this wonderful province of ours yet to be written for Wikipedia, encompassing the many interesting facts that would serve to enlighten, frown and outright make you bust-a-gut. Some of those articles I wrote (seven last count) has made it all the way to the front page of Wikipedia in the "Did You Know" section. There are many more to be included; similar to the one about John Rut, the first European to ever send a letter from the new world, at St. John's, Newfoundland on August 3, 1527. Then there was poor Catherine Snow, the last woman in Newfoundland to be hung for her alleged crime of plotting and killing her abusive husband, John William Snow. Which, brings me to my other passion, genealogy; and low-and-behold wouldn’t you know it, there is Snow in my ancestry. Twenty-three thousand individuals later and I'm still researching!

Presently I monitor 4,100+ articles via my Watchlist. I do not profess to be an expert in any nor all of them, but when I do spot blatant vandalism it gives me a chance correct it. Interestingly, 95% of those 4,100+ articles have a Newfoundland and Labrador connection.