User:OGdasky

Just an average guy who, after many years of reading and learning from Wikipedia (this amazing resource of peer-created information about the world revised by dedicated individuals who must really care about the dissemination of information), and not to mention several dozen (at least?) anonymous contributions -- most of which I believe have been deemed adequate and not been deleted.

His first great moment of sharing some information that might otherwise have been lost in the ether for most people was an edit to the Greenville, Texas page at the age of thirteen. The addition was to make note of the somewhat underground (or at least low-key) craft of saddle production. This is a fact that I was aware of as a local at that time; but it wasn't necessarily the being local part for which I had come by this information. Nope, it was that my Dad had run into a German fellow who was in town to make a very large purchase of very high-quality saddles for horseback riding -- something my Pops was unaware of. He learned that, apparently, and according to this German guys report, Greenville Texas is known internationally as a source of quality saddles. Turned out there was a saddle shop just down the street from us, and several others in town besides. I now see that that information was deemed at some point as erroneous -- I assure the world that it was not. However, I suppose since it is technically "original research", it's par for the course.

In any case, I will do my utmost to make sure I am only contributing meaningful and relevant (and sourced) information. I really think Wikipedia is, simply, the bee's knee's.