BillTunell

BillTunell

This user has been on Wikipedia for 16 years and 10 or 11 months.

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This user has written or significantly contributed to 1 Featured article on Wikipedia.

enThis user is a native speaker of the English language.

This user attends or attended
the University of Pennsylvania

This person attends or attended the University of Notre Dame.

LAW

This person attends or attended
Notre Dame Law School.

MENDOZA

This person attends or attended the Mendoza College of Business.

This user studies or studied at the University of Salamanca

This person attends or attended Bishop McGuinness Catholic High School

This user is a lawyer.

This user lives in the U.S. State of Oklahoma.

OKCThis user is a fan of the
Oklahoma City Thunder

This user is a
Philadelphia Phillies phanatic.

This user is a Roman Catholic.

This user is an Eagle Scout.

This user has visited 38 of the 50 United States.38

This user is of multiple ancestries.

This user is of Irish ancestry.

This user is of English ancestry.

This user is of German ancestry.

This user is of French ancestry.

I've been editing on Wikipedia since May 2007. My main areas of interest include theology, sports, all things Notre Dame, and Oklahoma history.

Editorial contributions

Pages created

• Truman Gibson
• Mike Jacobs (boxing)
• Pei Plan (Oklahoma City)
• George H. Shirk
• Johnny Wright (baseball player)

Upgrades/Featured Articles

• Jackie Robinson – As a tribute to Robinson leading up to Jackie Robinson Day, April 15, 2009, I revamped a rather lackadaisical, vandalized, and inaccurate article on Robinson (previously rated "Good"). This is where I cut my teeth in terms of coding and wikipedia policies. Attendant to these changes were some stub expansions for Bullet Rogan, Chet Brewer, Marques Haynes, and others. I sheparded this through peer review and FAC nominations, and after a few attempts was finally successful (in conjunction with Peregrine Fisher) in elevating this to FA status.

• Joe Louis - While updating the Jackie Robinson article, I noticed the Joe Louis article was even more substandard – less content than the Robinson article, and lots of unattributed statements (rated "C-Class"). In a way this made it easier to revise. I substantially rewrote this article with about 60 unique references, and placed it in peer review. I'll also nominate this for FA status at some point. The revision included updates and new sources for the ancillary Joe Louis versus Max Schmeling article as well.

Additions

• History of baseball in the United States - I originated the Racial integration in baseball section.

Barnstars

See here.

Essays

I've wrtitten an essay on the subject of Wikipedia's usage rules regarding copyrighted versus trademarked images here.