User:SamCordes

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This user is a software engineer.

This user is a fan of the
Israel Football League

A brief history of my time on Wikipedia which I probably took too seriously and spent too much time researching

My first edit was an IP edit to Baseball in 2006 when I was 11. I remember trying to clarify that little league games only had six innings but it took some digging years later to find the exact diff.

In 2007, I created the account SWCordes. My first edit was to Pilum, a good faith edit which was quickly and correctly reverted.

With SWCordes, I regret to say that I later made some joke edits (1 2) to Scrimshaw and then created a patent nonsense new article (Samatoid, about a creature I allegedly discovered in my middle school science class). The Scrimshaw edits were quickly reverted and the Samatoid article was speedily deleted.

After that unfortunate stint, I made a couple constructive edits, but was overall very, very, very inactive (only 13 total mainspace edits in the account history ranging from 2007 to 2014).

In 2018, I created my current account SamCordes. I was watching a Seattle Mariners game and Colby Lewis was one of the commentators which I was surprised to see as I thought he was still playing professional baseball. After looking him up on Wikipedia, I realized he had retired but then noted that the Hiroshima Toyo Carp article needed to be updated to reflect his current status. So I created an account and made this edit, which, upon later review, I suppose qualifies as a clean start? In the moment, I think I forgot I even had an existing account. In any case, I don't even remember my SWCordes password and don't intend to use that account again.

Since that edit, I dove into creating/expanding articles relating to the Israel Football League and have since bounced around creating and editing articles covering various evolving interests of mine. I've also found cleaning up vandalism, de-orphaning articles and adding short descriptions to be fun and rewarding as well. I've also dabbled in Articles for Deletion. [1]

I'm most likely a sloth.

Articles I have started

DYKs

... that Howard J. Green's screenplay for I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang led to the elimination of the chain gang system in the U.S. state of Georgia in 1937? (4 January 2019)
... that members of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce stole the Pioneer Square totem pole from a Tlingit village in 1899 and gifted it to the City of Seattle? (19 February 2019)
... that Charity Lamb was the first woman convicted of murder in the Oregon Territory? (24 August 2019)
... that the City of Seattle was built in Philadelphia? (31 May 2020)

Barnstars

	The Anti-Vandalism + STiki Barnstar
	Congratulations, SamCordes! You're receiving this barnstar because you recently crossed the 1,000 classification threshold using STiki. We thank you both for your contributions to Wikipedia at-large and your use of the tool. We hope you continue your ascent up the leaderboard and stay in touch at the talk page. Thank you and keep up the good work! West.andrew.g (talk) 14:00, 2 December 2019 (UTC)

		The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to SamCordes for copy edits totaling over 4,000 words (including rollover words) during the GOCE December 2018 Copy Editing Blitz. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Reidgreg (talk) 18:06, 24 December 2018 (UTC)

		The Minor Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to SamCordes for copy edits totaling between 1 and 3,999 words (including bonus and rollover words) during the GOCE January 2019 Backlog Elimination Drive. Congratulations, and thank you for your contributions! Reidgreg (talk) 03:13, 4 February 2019 (UTC)

Copied and pasted: 87
Needs context: 2,734
Needs coordinates: 86,703
Too technical: 3,339
Uses improper non-free content: 79
Uses in-universe perspective: 1,145
Plot summary needs attention: 6,952
Has trivia sections: 343
Of unclear notability: 58,043
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Logos that should be in SVG format: 3,051
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Has watermarks: 75
Has borders: 18

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