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Find me hanging at pantherlair.com or pantherdigest.com. Homepage at CrazyPaco.com. My sandbox and book
I've uploaded over 250 images to Wikipedia and the Commons in order to illustrate various articles. When you add in the Flickr images I've pulled over, it's even more. A picture is worth a 1000 words or something like that, right? To see the photos that I took myself, or older images that have fallen into the public domain that I've uploaded, visit my gallery here.
[edit] Contributions and pages
I have a special interest in the University of Pittsburgh and the city of Pittsburgh in general, especially its history, as well as the architecture and the history of college football and basketball. I've created many major additions to the content of Pitt's main page, including most of the content in the history section (which now has its own page). I'm particularly proud to have found an additional conference title in men's basketball that is not listed in Pitt's media guide (now corrected), as well as early records for long forgotten early 20th century women's teams. (these have been forwarded on to the athletic department).
I have also made major revisions to Pitt's template. I have to stress, that there are many others that have made hugely important contributions and it needs more contributions from the Pitt community to be the great wikipedia entry it should be.
I've also had a special interest in researching the history of Pitt's campus and buildings, many of which are local and national landmarks. Unfortunately, I'm somewhat limited, being located outside the Pittsburgh area, to conducting research on the internet. However, I've think I've been able to compile some interesting information about Pitt's many historic buildings...info that I had never known prior to researching their origins, architecture, historic designations, etc. The sources for this information were scattered far and wide throughout the web, and as far as I know, the wikipedia entries relating to Pitt's historic and major buildings now provide the single best collection of information available on this topic in one place.
[edit] Created pages
Below are the 100+ articles I've started myself. Some I've been able to elaborate more than others.
I've created these pages:
Biographies
Architecture and buildings (*Locally designated historic landmark or NRHP listed or contributing property)
Lists
List of University of Pittsburgh buildings
List of Pennsylvania state historical markers (and all lists for each of the 67 individual counties)
List of Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation Historic Landmarks
Sports (†created article to replace a redirect page)
Pittsburgh & university life
Portals (†created portal to replace a redirect page)
Portal:Pittsburgh†
Portal:University of Pittsburgh
Created categories/templates:
Category:Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation Historic Landmarks, Category:Pittsburgh Panthers women's basketball coaches, Category:University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown, Category:University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown alumni, Category:University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg, Category:University of Pittsburgh at Bradford, Category:Pittsburgh Panthers women's basketball players, Category: Pittsburgh Panthers track and field, Category: Pittsburgh Panthers track and field athletes, Category: Pittsburgh Panthers soccer, Template:University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Category:Beaux-Arts architecture in Pennsylvania, Category:Westminster College (Pennsylvania), Category:Pittsburgh Panthers baseball, Category:Pittsburgh Panthers baseball players, Category:Pittsburgh Panthers baseball venues, Category:Pittsburgh Panthers volleyball, Category:Pittsburgh Panthers volleyball coaches
see my Sandbox for my current projects.
[edit] Major contributions
Most of the major additions I have added to existing pages includes the fleshing out of the history of the topic. These include additions or rewrites of the following articles. I'm also fond of illustrating articles. After all, a picture is worth a 1,000 words.
University of Pittsburgh (e.g. most of these early group of edits)
History of the University of Pittsburgh (most)
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (e.g. most of these)
Pitt football (complete revamp)
Pitt basketball (here and here)
Pitt Rep (major expansion)
NCAA Division I FBS National Football Championship (among others, addition of this table)
Stephen Foster Memorial (major expansion most of these edits)
William Pitt Union (most of these)
and many more...
[edit] Thanks!
I have to vigorously thank everyone that has helped put together Pitt's entries so far, and has added valuable information and editing to both the entries I started and ones I contributed to. You'll notice, though, a lot of these entries have holes in their information, and we need help flushing out the details and making the pages better. It would be especially helpful for those in the Pittsburgh area with access to libraries to help, but if I may be so bold to take the liberty of thanking everyone who has contributed to Pitt related entries, I would like to do so here.
[edit] My thoughts on what is needed
Pages I think are in greatest need of additional material:
Pages I think are needed:
[edit] Awards
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The Hail to Pitt Star |
| To Crazypaco for outstanding work expanding, refining, and protecting Pitt articles. Further felicitations for outstanding research skills.--Protocop (talk) 00:20, 1 February 2009 (UTC) |
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The Pittsburgh Star |
| For your tireless contributions to Pittsburgh-related articles, particularly those pertaining to the University of Pittsburgh. Keep it up! —Notyourbroom (talk) 23:58, 10 June 2010 (UTC) |
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The Portal Barnstar |
The Portal Barnstar is awarded to Wikipedians who have made significant contributions to topic portals.
Awarded for resurrecting a long-dead draft portal for Pittsburgh and swiftly populating it with excellent content. —Bill Price(notyourbroom) 00:19, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
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The Technology Barnstar |
| Thanks for your good work on this article. You pipped me in adding material about Fleming &c. but it's interesting to see our parallel writing. Feel free to merge as you see fit. Colonel Warden (talk) 19:21, 14 October 2010 (UTC) |
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