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Yours truly in front of an Erie Railroad caboose, #C178, stationed on a siding behind the depot in Port Murray, New Jersey in December 2011.
Hello the readers of this rather boring userpage. My name is Adam Moss, aka User:Mitchazenia. I am an administrator on the English Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons. I am a photographer and doing research on Wikipedia and write, a lot. I live in New Jersey and for people that know me, know I am a major critic of the state. I was born actually at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New Hyde Park, New York and lived in Whitestone, Queens, a very upscale neighborhood not accessible by the famous subway. (However, it was proposed in the second system to do so.) My family and I moved from Queens to Highland Park, New Jersey, one of the few Republicans in this very democratically-controlled borough of 13,987 people (as of the 2010 Census). I am a student at Middlesex County College, a college all of 3.1 miles (5.0 km) bicycle ride from my house. At Middlesex, I am an undergraduate student of education and history, member of the Educational Resources Task Force since November 2011. Two years after I graduated from high school, I spoke at my alma mater, Nu-View Academy's 11th graduation ceremony. Hopefully once I get my double associate degrees, I intend to pursue Education for High School or College-level History at Montclair State University in Montclair, New Jersey (also partially in Little Falls, New Jersey.) Estimates should get me my bachelors in 2016 - 2017 area, but we'll see. My hope is that before I leave Middlesex to likely be appointed to the College 50th Anniversary Commitee and help run events relating to the big 5-0 coming in 2014.
I do a lot of research and photography on Wikipedia, specifically on my pet project, the Erie Railroad, which once ran from Jersey City, New Jersey to Chicago, Illinois. This research and documentation has netted me three new articles, two good articles, two did you knows and countless Bs. This has also gained me respect among the Wikipedia community for NYC Public Transportation knowledge and using it when needed for situations in my real life. I actually joined Wikipedia on November 2, 2005 (lurking for a great while during that year), and actually almost got blocked for adding information about a falsely-existing storm during the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season. I worked my way out of the noob stage with guiding (or stressing) from great editors of the Tropical Cyclones project, including User:Hurricanehink (who I was grateful to meet in April 2008), User:NSLE and User:Coredesat, who actually does photography of roadways similar to I do. My work in the project (arguably with help) has netted 2 featured articles and several good articles. In late 2006, I joined the U.S. Roads WikiProject, a large clan with several thousand stubs to do work on roads in New Jersey, then eventually branched out to New York where I've had an up and down relationship (in editing, not romance, mind anyone), with User:TwinsMetsFan, who we did a lot of research and article writing for the U.S. Roads Wikiproject, specifically in New York. In late 2009, upon persistence by a published author who also lives in Highland Park, I joined the railroad community doing research on New Jersey Transit Rail Operations, which eventually branched out into my research on Fallen flags railroads, such as the Erie or the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad.
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I am an adminstrator, nominated twice. The first was in 2007, which ended up being a great failure, dying quickly. The second one, started on December 25, 2007 by User:Majorly, passed on January 2, 2008, with 55 supports, 6 opposes and 2 neutrals. I was rather lucky to get such low support, as this was a lull time at RFA, not the way we see RFA now. I actually had a 56th support, but that was posted after the RFA was closed. I am a busy member of the New York City Wikimedia Foundation chapter, and a lot of my work comes at the level of ordering food and helping run things for the conferences and photography events. With my experience, I've been tapped by the Wikimania 2012 crew to design WikiExpedition, a full day photography spree through Washington D.C. and its suburbs. I am a very vocal advocate against the uses of modern day Wikipedia technology, such as Huggle, Twinkle, AutoWikiBrowser, and even to such minor things as Rollback or Single User Login. I just am as one user put it, anti-progression. I am an advocate for people running for adminship to have a nodding knowledge of how to write. Yes, its cool that you can code and stop vandals. However, an admin has to deal with more than stopping vandals. You have to have knowledge in MOS disputes and word usage fights. On November 2, 2011 I celebrated my hexennial on Wikipedia, and can't wait to see #7 come around next November. In my spare time, I am a fan of the New York Yankees, New York Mets, New England Patriots and Edmonton Oilers. I for the last 16 years of my life have been a fan of NASCAR. Yes most people think its just people running around in circles, yet its one of the best sports in the country for excitement. I watch very little TV besides The Price is Right, Jeopardy!, Hell's Kitchen and NASCAR.
Also, for anyone who wonders why my sig has a 32 in it, my username when I started was HurricaneCraze32. I keep it for memories sake. Also, to hear my rare opinion, I have a blog at 151-05 Cross Island Parkway. If you want me to review an article, feel free to ping me.
Reasons to cite that I lack a life
Writing good articles come naturally...
I've worked hard for these ya know...
I have contributed random stuff no one really cares about.
My camera does do someting ya know.
As most people know, I take photos of New Jersey Transit stations, so I have chosen to gallery my work. Thanks for reading.
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