User:Rockchalk717

COI declarations
IMPORTANT!!!! Due to me knowing these people outside of Wikipedia, I’m declaring the following COIs. Despite me editing these pages in the past, I will leave these pages alone, other than reverts for vandalism. My exact relationships with these people are listed in the Fun facts about me section of this page. An assistant coach for Southeast Missouri State Redhawks football was a high school coach of mine, Ricky Coon who does not qualify for an article yet but I will not make any edits related to him. These are the only COI’s I’m aware of, if I discover someone else I personally know outside of Wikipedia has a page, I will immediately declare them here. Skinny Hightower attended my high school at the same time I did and graduated the same year as a sibling of mine, but I have no recollection of him at my high school.

State repping

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A little about me
I was born and raised in Wichita, Kansas, but currently live in an unincorporated part of Pima County, Arizona just outside of Tucson. I have professional experience in multiple industries. I also contribute to a small sports blog, HOWEVER I am not here to promote it and I do not get paid to edit Wikipedia for them and the website wouldn't pass GNG. I typically will edit after work or on my days off. I attended high school at Wichita South High School in Wichita, Kansas, where I played football, I wrestled, and threw discus on the track team. After high school I had a football scholarship to Hutchinson Community College were I played for one season. I also have briefly attended Cowley Community College. I will be attending Pima Community College beginning in August. I briefly played semi-pro football for a small level team based in my hometown. I’m a fan of the Kansas City Chiefs, Cincinnati Bengals, Kansas Jayhawks, and the Los Angeles Lakers. I also like watching the UFC, my favorite current fighter is Cain Velasquez, I’ve also recently gotten partial to Derrick Lewis and Francis Ngannou.

Fun facts about me

 * I was a high school wrestling teammate of current UFC fighter Tim Elliott
 * My uncle is former NFL player Tony Barker
 * I briefly trained in mixed martial arts learning Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu under the instruction of 2nd (now 3rd) degree blackbelt Marcio LaSelva, the highest ranking BJJ practitioner in Kansas, as well as two other black belts in the martial art. I also learned Kickboxing under the instruction of former ISKA world champion kickboxer and retired professional mixed martial artist Marcio Navarro.
 * I have met Papa John's founder John Schnatter, Pro Football Hall of Fame tight end Tony Gonzalez, former Chiefs fullback Anthony Sherman, former Chiefs kick returner Tamarick Vanover, rapper Bow Wow, former T-Mobile CEO John Legere, current T-Mobile CEO Mike Sievert (COO when I met him), and basketball player Oumar Ballo.
 * My 10x-great-grandfather was a passenger on the Mayflower.
 * I’m married to a distant relative of Israel Bissell.
 * I'm one of millions of Americans and one of a little under 2 million residents of Arizona who have contracted COVID-19. Tested positive January of 2022 and had a mild case.
 * One of my high school football coaches, Ricky Coon, is an assistant coach for Southeast Missouri State.

Sporting Events I've attended
I’ve attended 41 live college and professional sporting events in my life and countless semi-pro games. Below are a list of major pro and college sporting events I’ve attended.

NFL

 * 1999 Kansas City Chiefs vs Oakland Raiders, Derrick Thomas's final game before his untimely death.
 * 2004 Kansas City Chiefs vs San Diego Chargers, during future hall of famer Antonio Gates breakout season
 * 2008 Kansas City Chiefs vs Miami Dolphins, Tony Gonzalez's final game in Arrowhead Stadium as a member of the Chiefs also he broke (what was at the time) the record for most 1,000 yard seasons by a tight end, at the time, coldest game in Miami Dolphins history (9 degrees -10 wind chill, until the 2023-24 wildcard playoff game)
 * 2009 Kansas City Chiefs vs Buffalo Bills, Terrell Owens only season with the Bills
 * 2010 Kansas City Chiefs vs Denver Broncos, Heisman trophy winner Tim Tebow’s rookie season
 * 2010–11 NFL playoffs Kansas City Chiefs vs Baltimore Ravens
 * 2012 Kansas City Chiefs vs Atlanta Falcons, Tony Gonzalez return to Arrowhead as a member of the Falcons
 * 2015 Kansas City Chiefs vs Buffalo Bills, Hall of Famer Will Shields received his Ring of Excellence
 * 2016 Kansas City Chiefs vs New York Jets, Tony Richardson's induction into the Ring of Honor
 * 2017 Kansas City Chiefs at Dallas Cowboys, last game Ezekiel Elliott played before his controversial suspension, also was the game where the Hill Mary happened
 * 2018 Kansas City Chiefs vs Cincinnati Bengals, Patrick Mahomes first season as starter when he rewrote the record books, Marvin Lewis’s final season as Bengals head coach
 * Chiefs training camp in St. Joseph, Missouri every year from 2015 to 2019
 * 2021 Kansas City Chiefs at Arizona Cardinals (preseason)
 * 2022 Kansas City Chiefs at Arizona Cardinals, Chiefs Super Bowl LVII championship season
 * 2023 Kansas City Chiefs at Arizona Cardinals (preseason)
 * 2023 Cincinnati Bengals at Arizona Cardinals
 * 2023 Kansas City Chiefs vs Los Angeles Chargers, Dante Hall inducted into Ring of Honor, the season the Chiefs repeated as Super Bowl champs after winning Super Bowl LVIII.

College basketball

 * 1996–97 (?) Wichita State vs Northern Iowa
 * 2012–13 No. 6 Kansas vs Temple
 * 2018 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament Midwest Regional 1st round Wichita, KS No. 4 Kansas vs Penn, Seton Hall vs NC State (Kansas win officially vacated by the NCAA)
 * 2021–22 No. 7 Arizona vs No. 19 USC
 * 2024 Men's Final Four No. 1 UConn vs No. 19 Alabama and NC State vs No. 3 Purdue, Zach Edey's consensus National Player of the Year season
 * 2024 NCAA Division I men's basketball championship game No. 1 UConn vs No. 3 Purdue, UConn became the first team to repeat since Florida in 2006 and 2007.

College Football

 * 2004 No. 13 Kansas State vs Western Kentucky, Darren Sproles senior year when he entered the season as a Heisman Trophy candidate
 * 2004 Kansas vs Texas Tech 2008 Heisman finalist Graham Harrell’s freshmen year
 * 2005 Kansas vs Oklahoma in Arrowhead Stadium Future Pro Football Hall of Famer Adrian Peterson’s sophomore year
 * 2005 Kansas vs Iowa State By winning this game KU became bowl eligible
 * 2005 Fort Worth Bowl Kansas vs Houston, KU's first Bowl victory since 1995
 * 2009 Kansas vs Missouri in Arrowhead Stadium, KU's All-Time leading passer Todd Reesing's final game at Kansas, and he also broke (what was at the time) the Kansas single game passing record as well.
 * 2010 Kansas vs New Mexico State Turner Gill’s first year as KU’s head coach
 * 2019 Texas Tech vs Arizona
 * 2019 Arizona Bowl Wyoming vs Georgia State
 * 2022 No. 10 USC at Arizona, Caleb Williams Heisman Trophy winning season
 * 2023 No. 17 Arizona vs No. 22 Utah
 * 2023 Guaranteed Rate Bowl Kansas vs UNLV

College baseball

 * 2009 Wichita State vs an opponent I cannot remember
 * 2010 Wichita State vs an opponent I cannot remember

UFC

 * UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. dos Santos, the UFC’s first ever trip to Kansas

NBA

 * 2019-20 Los Angeles Lakers at Phoenix Suns, Anthony Davis first year with the Lakers, the same season that was postponed for 4 months because of COVID-19, the season when Kobe died, and the season the Lakers won their 17th championship
 * 2022-23 Los Angeles Lakers vs Utah Jazz, the season LeBron James broke the career scoring record

MLB

 * 2023 Kansas City Royals vs San Diego Padres Cactus League spring training
 * 2023 Kansas City Royals vs Texas Rangers, Rangers World Series winning season
 * 2024 Los Angeles Dodgers vs Cleveland Guardians Cactus League spring training, Shohei Ohtani's first season with the Dodgers, unfortunately he did not play
 * 2024 Kansas City Royals vs Los Angeles Angels Cactus League spring training

Semi-pro teams I’ve seen

 * Wichita Thunder
 * Wichita Wranglers (now known as Northwest Arkansas Naturals)
 * Wichita Wild (now defunct)
 * Wichita Wingnuts (now defunct)
 * Wichita Force (now defunct)
 * Tucson Roadrunners
 * Tucson Sugar Skulls

Concerts
I've seen the artists and bands listed below in concert
 * Nick Lachey
 * Chingy
 * Paul Wall
 * Daughtry
 * Rock Fest KC 2015
 * Crobot
 * Halestorm
 * Papa Roach
 * Tech N9ne
 * The High Kings
 * 2022 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony featuring:
 * Inductees
 * Eminem
 * Dolly Parton
 * Lionel Richie
 * Duran Duran
 * Eurythmics
 * Judas Priest
 * Pat Benatar
 * Performing guest stars
 * Dave Grohl
 * Steven Tyler
 * Ed Sheeran
 * Sara Bareilles
 * P!nk
 * Bruce Springsteen
 * Olivia Rodrigo
 * Sheryl Crowe
 * John Mellencamp
 * Zac Brown Band
 * Non-performing guest stars
 * Robert Downey Jr.
 * Dr. Dre
 * Janet Jackson
 * Lenny Kravitz

Comedians

 * Jeff Dunham
 * Gabriel Iglesias

Notable landmarks and places visited

 * Audubon Aquarium of the Americas in New Orleans, Louisiana
 * Biloxi Beach
 * Tabasco’s factory in Avery Island, Louisiana
 * McConnell Air Force Base near Wichita, Kansas
 * Fort Riley Army Installation near Junction City, Kansas
 * Elvis Presley’s Graceland
 * CNN studios in Atlanta, Georgia
 * Naval Station Mayport Navy base near Jacksonville, Florida
 * Jacksonville Beach
 * Grand Canyon
 * Gates Pass in the Tucson Mountains
 * Mount Lemmon in the Santa Catalina Mountains
 * Saguaro National Park near Tucson, Arizona
 * Odysea Aquarium in Scottsdale, Arizona
 * Catalina State Park in Tucson
 * Hollywood Sign
 * San Buenaventura State Beach in Ventura, California
 * Hollywood Walk of Fame
 * Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood
 * Dolby Theater in Hollywood
 * Rialto Theatre (Tucson, Arizona) (National Register of Historic Places listing #03000909)
 * Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio
 * Santa Monica State Beach (Santa Monica, California)
 * Santa Monica Pier

Presidential Libraries

 * Dwight Eisenhower in Abilene, Kansas
 * Ronald Reagan in Simi Valley, California
 * Richard Nixon in Yorba Linda, California
 * Harry Truman in Independence, Missouri

Stadiums/arenas I’ve seen events in

 * Kansas Coliseum, Wichita, Kansas, No longer used as an arena
 * Lawrence-Dumont Stadium, Wichita, Kansas, demolished
 * Charles Koch Arena, Wichita, Kansas, was named Henry Levitt Arena when I was in it for a game
 * Arrowhead Stadium, Kansas City, Missouri, most frequent stadium I’ve been to
 * Bill Snyder Family Football Stadium, Manhattan, Kansas, was named Wagner Field when I was in it
 * David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium, Lawrence, Kansas, was named Memorial Stadium when I was in it
 * Amon G. Carter Stadium, Fort Worth, Texas
 * Hartman Arena, Wichita, Kansas
 * Eck Stadium, Wichita, Kansas
 * Intrust Bank Arena, Wichita, Kansas, attended many types of events here
 * Allen Fieldhouse, Lawrence, Kansas,
 * AT&T Stadium, Arlington, Texas
 * Arizona Stadium, Tucson, Arizona
 * Footprint Center, Phoenix, Arizona, was named Talking Stick Resort Arena when I was in it
 * Tucson Convention Center Arena, Tucson, Arizona
 * State Farm Stadium, Glendale, Arizona
 * McKale Center, Tucson, Arizona
 * Crypto.com Arena, Los Angeles, California
 * Microsoft Theater, Los Angeles, California
 * Surprise Stadium, Surprise, Arizona
 * Kaufman Stadium, Kansas City, Missouri
 * Chase Field, Phoenix, Arizona
 * Goodyear Ballpark, Goodyear, Arizona

Places I’ve lived

 * Wichita, Kansas (born and raised)
 * Buffalo, Missouri (briefly as a baby)
 * Hutchinson, Kansas (briefly attended college)
 * Tucson, Arizona (since August 2019)

States I’ve visited
List is in order of when I visited for the first time, the 3 states I’ve lived in are excluded for obvious reasons. I have spent at least a single night in each of these states except Alabama, Utah, Kentucky, and Illinois. Those three states I only drove through and I flew into one. I'm only counting states I remember visiting because I was only 3 when I visited Nebraska.


 * Oklahoma
 * Texas
 * Louisiana
 * Mississippi
 * Arkansas
 * Tennessee
 * Alabama
 * Georgia
 * Florida
 * New Mexico
 * Utah
 * Colorado
 * California
 * Indiana
 * Ohio
 * Kentucky
 * Illinois

Airports I've flown in/out of

 * Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport
 * Denver International Airport
 * Indianapolis International Airport
 * George Bush Intercontinental Airport
 * William P. Hobby Airport
 * Phoenix–Mesa Gateway Airport
 * Kansas City International Airport
 * Tucson International Airport
 * Chicago O'Hare International Airport
 * Wichita Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport
 * Dallas Fort Worth International Airport

Wikipedia info
Obviously, by my username I'm a Kansas Jayhawks fan. That's an area of expertise of mine, along with the Chiefs and Bengals. I will occasionally update bio's of musicians and actors I'm a fan of (Eminem T-Pain Daughtry Tech N9ne). Sometimes when I'm mindlessly browsing Wikipedia with no intention to edit, I'll stumble across things that need fixed and I'll go ahead and edit them (primarily grammatical errors, WP:SURNAME violations, or fixing inconsistent dating style on an article). Additionally, I do most of my editing during the NFL offseason just because there’s more to edit during the offseason. I’ll also keep an eye on a player’s page that is involved in a trade, contract, or retirement rumor to ensure it’s not edited before an actual announcement. Blank tables and sections drive me nuts, especially when someone adds the “empty section” tag to it. When I’m involved in a discussion, sometimes I’ll continue to edit before responding to comments in the discussion. If you see a random movie, TV show, or an episode of a TV show, chances are I probably just watched it. I despise the usage of "notes" as a section in a table. I also keep track of my High School's page, which I expanded under an IP address, but kept track of it and made edits under multiple IP addresses and this username. I support the WP essay WP:CITEKILL because I do not believe in needing more then 1 source for a statement unless its a statement like "considered by many to be.........". I also will, occasionally just to do something different, will participate in AFD debates. I despise the use of endashes (–) in place of commas. I have had pending changes reviewer permissions since April 14, 2017, which I rarely use. When I get free time I will check pending changes queue and clear it out. I have only ever been subject to disciplinary action once and that was a Zero revert rule for 72 hours for a 3 revert rule violation which I regret not fighting because I feel like I did nothing wrong I was I was battling the same person over two IP addresses so it seemed as a 3RR violation when in reality it wasn’t.

Regarding interest in being an admin, I’m unsure. I feel like I have the experience, but I’m not knowledgeable enough in policies to become one. I also need to get better at not taking edit disputes so personally. I'm working on this and have gotten better, but there is still a lot of work to do on this before I can even consider adminship.

I have made edits under multiple IPs prior to creating this account. I also previously used the account Titanfbplayer71 which I haven’t used since 2011 and don’t plan to use to avoid being accused of being sock puppet.

Wikimedia blogs I was mentioned in

 * February 7, 2016 regarding the Super Bowl

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2,631 most active Wikipedian by number of edits as of 7:00 pm Arizona/pacific time on 8/17

The drawback to editing NFL related pages, is when your team releases one of your favorite players and you have to make the edit to make them a free agent, as I did in these edits:

Jamaal Charles Derrick Johnson Dustin Colquitt

Articles Created
To date I have created 37 articles, 9 templates, and 2 lists. They are listed in order of creation. To date I’ve only ever had one article deleted, and that was under my original account and it was for a local rapper from my hometown which was deleted under WP:A7 and that was all the way back in 2008 when it was deleted, though I think I created it in like 2006/2007.

Articles

 * Butch Lewis (American football)
 * Luke Patterson
 * 2012–13 Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball team
 * Tim Elliott
 * Marcio Navarro
 * 2013–14 Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball team
 * 2014 Kansas Jayhawks football team
 * 2014–15 Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball team
 * Toben Opurum
 * Charcandrick West
 * Quality control coach
 * 2016 Wichita Force season
 * Justin March
 * Bryan Witzmann
 * 2017–18 Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball team
 * Fish Smithson
 * 2018 Big 12 Men's Basketball Tournament
 * 2018–19 Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball team
 * Ben Johnson (tight end)
 * Kyle Wilson (linebacker)
 * 2019 Kansas Jayhawks football team
 * Daniel Wise (American football)
 * 2019–20 Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball team
 * Pooka Williams Jr.
 * 2020 Kansas Jayhawks football team
 * Hakeem Adeniji
 * 2020–21 Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball team
 * Tommy Townsend
 * 2021 Kansas Jayhawks football team
 * 2021 Big 12 Men's Basketball Tournament
 * 2021–22 Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball team
 * 2022 Big 12 Men's Basketball Tournament
 * 2022 Kansas Jayhawks football team
 * 2022–23 Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball team
 * Kyron Johnson
 * 2023 Kansas Jayhawks football team
 * 2024–25 Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball team

Templates

 * Template:2012–13 Big 12 men's basketball standings
 * Template:2013–14 Big 12 men's basketball standings
 * Template:2016–17 Big 12 men's basketball standings
 * Template:2017–18 Big 12 men's basketball standings
 * Template:2018–19 Big 12 men's basketball standings
 * Template:2020–21 Big 12 men's basketball standings
 * Template:2021–22 Big 12 men's basketball standings
 * Template:Cincinnati Bengals Ring of Honor
 * Template:2024–25 Big 12 men's basketball standings

Lists

 * List of Wichita State baseball seasons
 * List of American football players who died during their career

Most proud of
The article I’m the most proud of is Pooka Williams Jr., a former running back for my favorite college team, the Kansas Jayhawks. I’m responsible for the overwhelming majority of this article (I’m in no way indicating ownership of the article). I am most proud of this because of the way it’s written and how well it is cited. Every major piece of information in the article is cited and it is well put together layout wise. With this being said, I am open to improvements. I hope this article can turn into one seen by a substantial amount of people if and when he makes it to the NFL. I’m considering putting more work into the article and work on promoted it good article status because of how much work I’ve put into it. Though I’ll probably wait until he plays at least a season so I can expand the article a little more.

Time Zone
I live in Arizona which is officially in the American Mountain Time Zone, however Arizona does not observe daylight savings time. So from the second Sunday in March to the first Sunday in November, I am UTC-7 (22:00 UTC = 3 pm, pacific time basically), but the rest of the year I am UTC-6 (22:00 UTC = 4 PM, actual mountain time)