User:Toll Booth Willie

Toll Booth Willie, formerly called Wiki Wistah, is a journalist and family man in Worcester, Massachusetts.

About

This user assumes good faith. This user has been on Wikipedia for 5 years, 3 months and 8 days.

<ref> This user recognizes the importance of citing sources. en This user is a native speaker of English.

This user thinks that registration should be required to edit articles. es-2 Este usuario puede contribuir con un nivel intermedio de español.

This editor is a Grognard and is entitled to display this Wikipedia Little Red Book. de-1 Dieser Benutzer hat grundlegende Deutschkenntnisse.

• Willie joined Wikipedia in 2006, though he spent several years on Wikibreak, partly out of disillusionment with the project but mostly because of a hectic work schedule. He got better, but who knows when Wikibreak will strike again.

• Willie has started more than 170 pages on English Wikipedia, plus about a dozen navbox templates and eight userboxes.

• Willie used to keep a list of pages he'd started or edited heavily on his user page. It got long. Now it's on a separate page.

• Willie enjoys talking about himself in the third person.

• Willie's main editing interests are:

Massachusetts

This user is a participant of WikiProject Massachusetts. This user is a member of Massachusetts Routes Task Force.

This user is a citizen of the U.S. Commonwealth of Massachusetts HC This user is proud to be a Holy Cross Crusader "... and a Chu-Chu Rah-Rah!"

• Willie enjoys finding citations of items of local interest in the electronic databases of local (Boston-Worcester-Springfield-Pittsfield) newspapers. Have a fact from the past 30 years in Massachusetts that you need verified? Let Willie know!

• Willie is, in fact, the original editor of the Toll Booth Willie article. He regrets not having more verifiable sources. He also regrets gettin' outta da BOOTH!

• Willie can say "Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg" (whether you want him to or not) and thinks it's criminal that Wikipedia doesn't use the full name in its article title.

Newspapers

This user is a participant in WikiProject Journalism. This user is a professional writer or journalist.

• Willie tries to keep circulation figures current in the infoboxes of major daily newspapers of New England, Canada and Spain. You can help! Most American and several Canadian major daily newspapers are audited by the Audit Bureau of Circulations, which has reports accessible for free at www.accessabc.com/products/freereports.htm. Most other major Canadian papers are audited by Canadian Circulations Audit Board, a division of BPA, which publishes its reports at Circulation Report www.bpaww.com/Bpaww_com/Pages/CirculationReports.aspx Circulation Report (free registration required).

• Willie wrote a proposal, once upon a time, for a standard style guide (a la WP:MOS) and notability guideline (a la WP:NOTE) for Wikipedia articles about newspapers. Give your thoughts at WP:NART.

International

This user is a member of WikiProject Spain. This user is a member of the Antarctica Highways WikiProject.

• Willie has translated articles from the Spanish Wikipedia about politicians, futbol teams and newspapers. It's a project to which he may return someday. He keeps an eye out for vandalism on articles about the Spanish Civil War.

• Willie occasionally contributes to articles of Caribbean interest. He likes it there.

• Willie thinks the United States is #1, but Canada is definitely #1-eh.