User:SamCordes

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A brief history of my time on Wikipedia which I probably took too seriously and spent too much time researching
My first edit was an IP edit to Baseball in 2006 when I was 11. I remember trying to clarify that little league games only had six innings but it took some digging years later to find the exact diff.

In 2007, I created the account SWCordes. My first edit was to Pilum, a good faith edit which was quickly and correctly reverted.

With SWCordes, I regret to say that I later made some joke edits (1 2) to Scrimshaw and then created a patent nonsense new article (Samatoid, about a creature I allegedly discovered in my middle school science class). The Scrimshaw edits were quickly reverted and the Samatoid article was speedily deleted.

After that unfortunate stint, I made a couple constructive edits, but was overall very, very, very inactive (only 13 total mainspace edits in the account history ranging from 2007 to 2014).

In 2018, I created my current account SamCordes. I was watching a Seattle Mariners game and Colby Lewis was one of the commentators which I was surprised to see as I thought he was still playing professional baseball. After looking him up on Wikipedia, I realized he had retired but then noted that the Hiroshima Toyo Carp article needed to be updated to reflect his current status. So I created an account and made this edit, which, upon later review, I suppose qualifies as a clean start? In the moment, I think I forgot I even had an existing account. In any case, I don't even remember my SWCordes password and don't intend to use that account again.

Since that edit, I dove into creating/expanding articles relating to the Israel Football League and have since bounced around creating and editing articles covering various evolving interests of mine. I've also found cleaning up vandalism, de-orphaning articles and adding short descriptions to be fun and rewarding as well. I've also dabbled in Articles for Deletion. 

I'm most likely a sloth.

DYKs

 * ... that Howard J. Green 's screenplay for I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang led to the elimination of the chain gang system in the U.S. state of Georgia in 1937? (4 January 2019)
 * ... that members of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce stole the Pioneer Square totem pole from a Tlingit village in 1899 and gifted it to the City of Seattle? (19 February 2019)
 * ... that Charity Lamb was the first woman convicted of murder in the Oregon Territory? (24 August 2019)
 * ... that the City of Seattle was built in Philadelphia? (31 May 2020)