User:JW-Archives

About me
I work in engineering, for a high-tech industry in Silicon Valley. My educational background is in physics and math, both of which I have forgotten more of than I care to admit.

My hobbies include collecting antique and vintage objects, and restoring, re-purposing, or displaying them. These collections often tie in to my other hobbies. like creating original artwork, or doing historical research. I've done a lot of ancestry research, and from there have learned I have a passion for 'digging up' the past (finding things long-forgotten, and connecting stories of people or objects to events from days gone by). I have often shared my findings with people in ancestry.com to help them fill in missing info in their family trees.

During my attempts to gather information on new items in my collections, I found that certain web searches lead to dead ends, which I had always relied on wikipedia to avoid. Unless I eliminated these dead ends, the information I needed would also be missing for the next person who looked. Thus, I started creating wiki-pages of my own.

I'm very detail-oriented, so I'll check for all possible information on my subjects, and as a result may get a little wordy. Plus, you can consider me a member of the grammar police, so cheers to you if you catch me making mistakes there.

Wiki Goals
My goal is to write original articles to fill in missing gaps in history, and thus tell stories of people, events, or eras that have been forgotten.

Wiki Activities
I'm a fairly new user, and started editing in Wikipedia in March of 2019. I've made over 120 edits, and have created two articles on forgotten vaudeville entertainers that I've run across while adding to my collections. In my articles, I typically get dinged for putting too many emotionally-charged words that do "not appear to be written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article", so what you read from me is typically toned down from my initial drafts.
 * Gorman Brothers - I found an old autographed photo of them, so needed to know their story
 * J. Walter Leopold - he was linked to the Gorman brothers, and his life story was too colorful not to pass along