User:K50 Dude/What I do on Wikipedia

WHAT K50 DUDE DOES ON WIKIPEDIA!  

IT'S LIKE AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY!  

Welcome to my "Autobiography" here on Wikipedia! I created this page to try to clean up some junk on my main page and organize it a little bit better. This particular page shows what I do on wikipedia, and a bit about me (and not much else!). If you want to see more information about me, you may want to go to the page with all of my lovely userboxes!

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''' A bit about me... '''



Well...I got a wikipedia account some time in the early fall of 2008. Don't call me new, because I have explored Wikipedia for a long time. I live in the Tri-County Area which I have lived in most of my life. I work with many articles regarding Portland, OR such as the Caruthers Bridge, Portland International Airport and other areas as well. My family and extended family own a house in the Valley of the Sun which is also a great place to be. I have tried to do stuff with articles down there regarding Wikiproject Airports but when I tried to get a nighttime image of Stellar Airpark, the runway lights were turned off (isn't that strange?) but I still managed to get a photograph of Terminal 3 from Terminal 4. If you haven't been to the Sky Harbor, it is a beautiful (and huge) airport.

For a family reunion in Branson, Missouri, I also had to fly thru many airports. From American Airlines, we got a flight from PDX to DFW. Again, a huge airport. I didn't get my account yet though, but I still went to Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport. A big airport relative to it's location (and the Wal-Mart headquarters of the world! WOO HOO!!!) When I went to the Kirby Van Burch show, I got my account soon after to write a little stub about him and his show (which was truly amazing). I showed his significance, I put inline citations on the article... next thing I know, I have a new message. This isn't the welcome message, this is more of a BITE message, since I hadn't known 100% how to create things. Follow this link to see what this person "told" me. I kind of got rabies from that bite. Made me mad! I had a very difficult start on Wikipedia.

However, as my birthday present to myself, and as I planned, in early February 2009, I recreated the article. It was a single paragraph but that was all that was needed. Three citations; external link to the official page; wikified best to my ability. Now the article is expanding nicely and I don't think it can meet any WP:AFD or WP:CSD criterias. Ahhh....so happy. In the same week, I got two nice things; a "pixel cake" for my birthday, and my very first barnstar. I also got a compliment on my recreated talkback template:

Beautiful, huh? :-]

In late November, I also tried myself as an admin. But I noticed a wee bit too late I had about 200 edits. Whoops! I got a ton of moral support which was very thoughtful, but there was quite an amount of opposition (What did you expect...), particulary about NOTNOW. That is understandable. Over the course of the next couple of months, I plan to try again. I now vote in several requests for adminship, even creating my own criteria to !vote. I am a very slow editor, so it may be a while until I run again, but that's ok.

Again, if you want to see more about me, feel free to check out my Userbox page. I have some more information about me there.

Thank you. I'll add some cool new stuff here when it happens to me.

 K50  Dude   ROCKS!