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I was en.wiki's 9th Bureaucrat, a status I held from 28 Feb 2004 to 1 March 2019. Busy family life took time away from Bureaucrat activities, so I was phased out because of lack of activity.
Origin story
I discovered Wikipedia the evening of February 27, 2003 while searching for information on the internet to fatten a lecture I was writing on prohibition for my U.S. History class. By discovery I mean, I had come across Wikipedia a few times while doing Google searches, but it was that night that I took a closer look and realized what it really was. The discovery of Wikipedia matched love-at-first-sight. For years, I've been collecting old almanacs and encyclopedia. I bandied about different ideas regarding sharing and documenting the information revealed in these discarded sources, but Wikipedia was by far the best idea out there. I had also been working on a system within Word Docs to compile Afghan history. That system was cumbersome, and clunky. To stumble on a thriving community devoted to sharing information gave me a tremendous thrill and a curious sense of relief. Thank heavens you're all out there!
Quotes
"A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way." Mark Twain
"Develop your legitimate strangeness." - Rene Char
"People think it's a cluster of junk. I see it as a cluster of possibilities. Each object gives a direction; each is a line picked up here and there - indeed, gleaned - and which become my paintings. The aim of art is to tidy up one's inner and exterior worlds." - Louis Pons discussing his paintings, but I think it applies to our work here at Wikipedia.
"There is such a thing as a free lunch. You just have to offer it." - Kingturtle
"I long to accomplish some great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble." - Helen Keller
"Foreigners, because they never have enough words to express their ideas, often invent remarkable new modes of expression. Poets are all foreigners." - Denis Diderot
"Me fail English? That's unpossible." - Ralph Wiggum
"I'm not here for rage; I'm here for revenge!" - George Costanza
"Maintaining one's own dignity hangs on maintaining the dignity of others." Kingturtle
"Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing" - Theodore Roosevelt
Images I've uploaded from other sources that are in use
FDR & LBJ
Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp
Queen Mary ship
Marine Raiders
Chief Bender
Recruit training
SS Savannah
Daniel Burnham
Johann Heinrich Lambert
Innoko National Wildlife Refuge
Russian River (Alaska)
American Avocet
Lucretia Mott
William Allen (Congressman)
Hazel Carter
Platt Adams
USS Wyoming
Voisin brothers
USS Utah
Left Louie & Gyp the Blood
James Aloysius O'Gorman
John Schrank
X-ray of TR
Rochester parade
Rochester parade
Wilson inauguration preparations
The center of the U.S. population
De Wolfe Hopper
Mike Gibbons
Ernestine Rose
Marion Mann (singer)
Turner's Landing
Eltac Səfərli
Michael Adams
Adibans Bāškarans
Evgeny Alekseev
Bassem Amin
Alexander Areshchenko
Max Judd
Hidden pictures
Images I've uploaded from other sources that are not in use
Grey Plover
Photos I've taken that are not in use
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