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I first contributed to Wikipedia as a registered user in September 2004. (It's cute that I signed my first article, which is a reminder to be kind to newbies.) I did my small part on a relatively narrow range of topics, usually having to do with the American Revolution and the history of the Ohio Country. Wikipedia in those early days was the Wild West. On a whim in 2005 I created the "quote box" template, which is now used in three-quarters of a million articles. That should probably get mentioned in my obituary. More substantively, I worked with others to improve the referencing requirements for featured articles. Back in those olden days, I caught the featured article bug and created some of my best work:
I stopped writing featured articles after that, but I enjoyed bringing the odd article up to snuff. My highlight reel includes the Illinois campaign, the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence, the United States Declaration of Independence, the Townshend Acts, list of delegates to the Continental Congress, John Hancock, Samuel Adams, Madame Montour, Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet, Molly Brant, the Winnebago War , and the Whiskey Rebellion. After not contributing much for a decade or so, in 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, I returned to work on more articles, including:
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