User:SamCordes/About

Hi, I'm SamCordes.

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 by Gaius Cornelius.

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 by ClueBot and Andonic, respectively. The Samatoid article was speedily deleted by PhilKnight.

After that unfortunate stint, I made a couple constructive edits, but was overall 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 WP:CLEANSTART. In any case, I don't even remember my SWCordes login information and don't intend to use that account again.

Since that edit, I dove into expanding the Israel Football League and its related articles and have since bounced around creating and editing articles covering various interests of mine. I also enjoy STiki and patrolling recent changes and I find de-orphaning articles and adding short descriptions fun as well. Overall, I find contributing to Wikipedia to be quite rewarding.

Thanks for reading! (I'm probably taking this way too seriously and spent too much time writing this... :) SamCordes Talk 22:40, 7 July 2019 (UTC)