User:CastAStone

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First, I am not an Administrator, look somewhere else.
Second, I have an awful user page. Feel free to spruce it up a bit.
Trust me, you can only improve it.

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Hi, I'm CastAStone. In 2008 I turn 24, I'm from Buffalo, New York, by way of Wooster, Ohio and Washington, DC. They are all fantastic places.

I typically do no major edits to US political pages, as it would be a Conflict of Interest; I am a Democratic Operative by profession.*.



I'm sorry if I tagged your page for deletion. Click Why was my page deleted? for an explanation. I have been known to make mistakes with articles with very little context. I patrol very quickly (125+ pages/hour), so if your page lacks sufficient context for me to make sense of it in 2-3 minutes of reading and googling, I'll be forced to tag it for whichever of our deletion methods is most appropriate.

My best advice to you - if I tagged your page for deletion and you think that your page had potential - create and edit the page in your userspace (I'd be happy to help) and once the page is good enough for the encyclopedia, transfer it there (which I'd also be happy to help with)



I once attempted to do constructive work on the George W. Bush page, because it was so long I couldn't load it on my 8 year old PC, but people yelled at me.
Some people said I was giving it a Liberal bias.
Others said I was obviously a pawn of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy.
But no one actually reverted anything I did.
I just wanted to be able to read the whole article. But now the article is even longer.
So I don't do US political edits anymore.



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I still might do Canadian political edits, because I get CBC here in Buffalo and the whole Canadian political system fascinates me. Especially the NDP.

And the articles are shorter (see above story).

I'd probably make a bad Canadian, but I like Canadians a lot. Especially that chick from Scrubs. I hope that doesn't make me too biased to do a political article.



I think AfD is one of the parts of Wikipedia that functions the best. But no one seems to agree with me.

I have over 2400 edits to Wikipedia, including deleted edits. My 2000th edit was to add an expand tag to Kazakhstan at the 2008 Summer Olympics[1] I had previously contributed at least 150 edits as a variety of dynamic IP addresses. If you're wondering why my edit count shows so many edits in the Winter and so few in the summer remember: Buffalo is the second snowiest major US city in the winter, but has the second longest days (as long as 19 Hours and 57 Minutes between twilights!) in the summer.

I was the 86th Wikipedian granted the rollback feature. It's no big deal.



I have created a few pages on Wikipedia. Not all of them are bad:

And a few Mayors of Buffalo, New York:


My Other musings on Wikipedia


*I'd be happy to provide proof in the wake of the Essjay scandal, but I doubt anyone cares.

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