User:Resolute
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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.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
About me
I'm an avid sports fan, born, raised and living in
I tend to focus on two areas:
I like to focus on other Canadian topics from time to time, both to challenge my writing ability and to learn about my country. My personal favourite contribution is the
Quite by accident, I seem to have achieved a tertiary focus on cancer-related topics. Terry Fox's name will never be forgotten given his efforts, while former hockey player
As of February 12, 2014, I was ranked 926 by number of edits on the English Wikipedia with 47,849 edits according to
My Projects
- Ongoing
- Calgary Flames related articles
- "Hockey Mountain"
- Vital Canadian articles
- User:Resolute/Images
- User:Resolute/Calgary
- In progress, planned or delayed
- 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!
- Calgary to GA
- Lionel Conacher - to GA/FA
- Leduc No. 1 - to FA
- "In Flanders Fields" - to FA as a potential Remembrance Day TFA
- Calgary Tigers - Currently GA, someday FA
- Memorial Cup - to FA (someday)
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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