vices straight away. How can you go wrong, a medium which covers just about every topic you can think of, nothing to purchase, no fees to pay for just looking and reading and best of all, if you can't find what you're looking for, then write it yourself...Utopia!!! One big difference my Utopia is for real, it's not a fictional island in the Atlantic, it’s an actual island sitting on the edge of the Atlantic. Welcome to my ideal community and paradise Newfoundland. Shucks that's laying it on a bit thick and heavy, but I do love this windswept land
.
I contributed my first article on May 16, 2005, an article about Sir Richard Goodwin Keats. I'm no historian and obviously I didn't come up with the original research; I use existing research from many sources. I merely started the article which was embellished and edited by many others. When last I checked the article, it still requires a lot more work to bring it to good article and ultimately feature article status. Such is the way with Wikipedia, no one can claim ownership, simply contribute freely for the benefit of all. Since that first article I have written nearly 350 others of varying topics and subject matter. For the most part they have been about this wonderful corner of the earth, Newfoundland and Labrador, its people, culture, places, history and events.
Hopefully I have stimulated your interest to spend a little time with Wikipedia and add to it, either by generating new articles on topics that interest you or simply editing/fixing existing articles. The information you add or the article you create may qualify the article for
front page
billing in the Did you know... section. This is where we get a chance to let the whole world know about this wonderful place.
What I write/edit
Certainly it's not very difficult to figure out my
events
that got us here.
There is a lot of history in this wonderful province of ours yet to be written for Wikipedia, encompassing the many interesting facts that would serve to
new world, at St. John's, Newfoundland on August 3, 1527. Then there was poor Catherine Snow, the last woman in Newfoundland to be hung for her alleged crime of plotting and killing her abusive husband, John William Snow. Which, brings me to my other passion, genealogy; and low-and-behold wouldn’t you know it, there is Snow in my ancestry
. Twenty-three thousand individuals later and I'm still researching!
Presently I monitor 4,100+ articles via my Watchlist. I do not profess to be an expert in any nor all of them, but when I do spot blatant
vandalism
it gives me a chance correct it. Interestingly, 95% of those 4,100+ articles have a Newfoundland and Labrador connection.
Image of the day
Another great feature of Wikipedia is
images
that has struck a chord with me. Check back again tomorrow for a fresh one!!!
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