User:Notorious4life
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Notorious4life is the name I use on Wikipedia, where I have been active since March 20, 2005. I am just a freelance editor and try to avoid any involuntary responsibility or lengthy discussions. If it’s doesn't interest me or feel it's worth my time, I’m not going to do it. If it’s something that interests me, there’s no limit to the amount of time and effort I’ll put toward accomplishing my goal (if I know it's a goal I can accomplish). I was most prolific on Wikipedia from 2008–2012 and most recently since mid-2017. I have a pretty good understanding of article creation, photo uploading, and Wikipedia policies. I have created or significantly contributed the majority of content to over 190 articles. I have uploaded 1,574 pictures and created uncounted hundreds of image maps within the state of Michigan.
Biography
I was born in Monroe, Michigan in 1983 and grew up in Detroit Beach. I attended Jefferson Schools and graduated from Jefferson High School in 2001, Monroe County Community College with an associate degree in 2004, and Eastern Michigan University with a bachelor of science in 2008. I graduated with a teaching degree, emphasizing in social studies, history, and geography.
I have lived in Frenchtown Charter Township, Woodhaven, Brownstown Charter Township, Taylor, Canton Charter Township, and currently Sumpter Township. I am not religious but do hold strong conservative political ideologies. I am a strong supporter of Donald Trump. I detest liberals, modern hipsters, freeloading government moochers, and have a general disdain toward stereotypical Millennials and a dumber, technology-addicted society. I am a fan of the Detroit Tigers, The Simpsons, The Three Stooges, Nintendo, fishing and nature, camping, and drinking a lot of Budweiser (Bud Ice).
Wikipedia history
I joined Wikipedia in early-2005 and soon made my first article, Sandy Creek (original version), which is a small waterway near where I lived at the time. I'm surprised the poorly constructed article survived its infancy at a time when Wikipedia had only 750,000 articles. In my early years, I bounced around various interests, such as sparring in the AfD, CSD, and the now defunct RfD. I combated vandalism and argued adamantly in the debate of notability versus verifiability in article creations, especially after finding several flaws and conflicts in the AfD criteria that seemed to water down the Wikipedia inclusion process when terrible articles squeezed through the cracks. I am no longer involved in any of those discussions, although I make rare appearances in AfD to nominate local articles that should be deleted.
It took awhile to learn the processes of Wikipedia, and I began mass-creating articles of my own personal interest around 2009—particularly articles in my area of Monroe County, which seemed to lack many suitable articles of local importance, such as the George Armstrong Custer Equestrian Monument, River Raisin National Battlefield Park, and the Battle of Frenchtown. Using my interest in history and photography, I created or expanded the sub-articles for the National Register of Historic Places listings in Monroe County. I soon traveled to other counties for the same purpose: Lapeer, Lenawee, and St. Clair. I promoted the Michigan State Historic Preservation Office in order to recognize Michigan State Historic Sites—paving the way for the creation of numerous articles of local importance that otherwise may not have had the notability to have their own article unless labeled with a historic designation.
In 2010, I joined WikiProject Michigan and categorized thousands of articles, focusing much of my attention on Michigan's geography. I created the physical geography department in an attempt to standardize guidelines across the spectrum, but there seemed to be no other user involvement in the WikiProject and soon left to carry on work on my own. I expanded numerous articles and infoboxes relating to islands, rivers, lakes, and protected areas. I notably created or significantly expanded the articles for the Detroit River, List of islands in the Detroit River, Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge, and the exhaustive List of islands of Michigan and many sub-articles within. I also worked on island projects for other states, such as Arizona, Hawaii, and Wyoming. I bounced around through other interests, such as Major League Baseball, in which I created the articles for Shutouts in baseball and List of Major League Baseball annual shutout leaders—a highly underrated baseball statistic. I also spent a lot of time driving around Detroit and photographing various schools and blight (mostly from photo requests), but not so much anymore since it seems to be overplayed by other self-professed urban explorers with more time and better cameras.
From around 2013–2016, I was a rarer contributor to Wikipedia and made only sporadic and brief edits—sometimes going months without making an edit—but I have recently returned with newfound focus on improving articles within the state of Michigan.
Current activity
In the past few years, my focus has been to improve municipality and geography-related articles within the state of Michigan. Many articles contain outdated information, are poorly written and not sourced, and contain a lot of unprofessional tone (e.g. articles that read like they were written by a sixth grader who edited Wikipedia for the first time). I have traveled to most places within the state of Michigan (except western Upper Peninsula).
