User:Resolute
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This user believes onions are the work of the devil. Blech! |
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Were this admin to act in a foolish, trollish, or dickish way, he is open to being slapped with a large trout. |
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Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
Nice shot!
About me
I'm an avid sports fan, born, raised and living in Calgary, Alberta, and my contributions to Wikipedia to date are mainly related to sports in Western Canada.
My primary focus is to develop the hockey history of Calgary and area, and on a wider scale, that of western Canada as a whole. Far too many people believe that the history of hockey begins and ends with the National Hockey League. In a year where the Montreal Canadiens are celebrating their centennial (for the third year, but I digress), the Calgary Flames and Edmonton Oilers are very young teams, having completed their 30th and 31st NHL seasons respectively. Very few people realize that the history of the sport is as rich and vibrant in the west as it is in eastern Canada. If you are a hockey fan, consider this trivia question: Name the future Hall of Fame goaltender whose performance helped lead the Canadiens to the championship the first time they faced Calgary in the Stanley Cup Finals. Most people would state it was rookie Patrick Roy, who led the Habs to a five game victory over the Flames in 1986. They would be wrong, however. It was actually Georges Vezina, who surrendered only one goal in a two game sweep of the Calgary Tigers in the 1924 Stanley Cup Final. This is but one piece of trivia from a history of hockey that extends back to the first games played in Alberta in the 1880s.
And yet, despite this argument, my most significant project thus far has been in writing the history of the National Hockey League itself in four parts. This was a project that took nearly a year to write from scratch, to the point where the first three parts are now featured articles, and the fourth is a good article. I have had the help of a great many people within the hockey project and in all of the reviewers who have aided this goal of documenting the history of the world's top hockey league. Beyond these topics, the expansion of western Canada's junior hockey history, in particular the Western Hockey League has been a priority of mine since I joined the project in 2006.
In the face of this overwhelming focus on hockey, it is thus ironic that two of my major editing milestones related instead to baseball. My first article was the Calgary Cannons, an already nearly forgotten AAA baseball team, and my 250th new article was on Darryl Brinkley, who became the first Northern League ball player to bat .400. I have also written on Calgary's most recent baseball team, the Vipers, lacrosse's Calgary Roughnecks, and even the long defunct and completely forgotten Rad'z roller hockey team. I periodically write about various topics important to the city and country, including a national hero, major festival and a vile drink.
As of March 14, 2012, I was ranked 991 by number of edits on the English Wikipedia, with 37,602 edits, according to this list. I am one of the seven. I am also an Administrator. If you are here because you disagree with anything I have done, blame this guy for that. Otherwise, feel free to complain on my talk page. I will try to address your concern.
My Projects
I have attempted to improve the information available for several amateur and minor-pro sports leagues that operate in and around Alberta.
- Ongoing projects
- In progress, planned or delayed projects
- Sometimes I like to challenge myself with an odd topic that you wouldn't expect a hockey obsessed writer to cover. Some of these might not get done for years, if at all. Sometimes it takes me a very long time to reach the end goal. Calgary Stampede took two years to reach FA!
Want to know what I am working on? see:
Mangled English
Sometimes we fail to understand exactly what the words we write actually mean. The results can be interesting...
- From Pat Burns: "Burns himself talked to both English and French media about the incident, denying that he had died and asked for the situation to be rectified immediately." (Sadly, the situation was rectified, as Burns died two months later)
- From 2010 AAA 400: "...Allmendinger remained the leader, but Johnson lost three positions to fifth." (I don't know who fifth is, but he sure showed Johnson who's boss!)
- From Craig Conroy: "...is a former American professional ice hockey player..." (He stopped being a hockey player. He didn't stop being American.)
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