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Hello, and welcome to my page!

I live in New Jersey and graduated college in May 2023 with a political science major. I am a NASCAR and Philly sports fan. I also like to follow events/happenings in my town, and I read my town's newspaper and watch my district's Board of Education meetings on YouTube.

Having read Wikipedia for many years growing up, plus taking a journalism elective in High School, it felt like a nice idea to start editing pages on Wikipedia where my help would be valued and appreciated. I started editing in July 2019 and I look forward to continuing to contribute as often as I can. I mostly edit NASCAR articles but also edit articles relating to government and politics (such as elections, lists of politicians in a certain office, as well as school districts in New Jersey). I made my 10,000th edit in June 2022!

Feel free to let me know your thoughts on any edits I make on my talk page. You can track my edits here.

Thank you so much, and have a great day!

Quick notes from me

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Birthday message (for July 7)

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I will keep this message up for around a week after the 7th so people can read it if they didn't see it on the 7th. This is essentially the same message that I've posted each of the past 5 years for my birthday.

I don't really post any "fun" stuff on my user page like many others do, but I will on this day, July 7th, because it is my birthday! I am turning 24, so I was born in 2001.

Yes, that means I happen to be born on a pretty cool day in NASCAR history: Dale Jr. used "lessons learned from his father to go from sixth to first to score the victory in the Pepsi 400" at Daytona on this day 24 years ago! I was actually probably born during that Daytona July race in 2001, because I believe I was born around 8:30 PM Pacific time which is 11:30 PM EST. That's because my family and I lived in Arizona when I was a toddler and we moved to New Jersey in 2005.

Also on this day 6 years ago (July 7th, 2019), Justin Haley pulled off one of the biggest upset wins in NASCAR history (I love a good underdog win and whenever there's a chance one can happen, I hope for it!) in the final 4th of July weekend race at Daytona. He was driving the No. 77 car for Spire Motorsports (not the Spire Motorsports of today, the underfunded Spire Motorsports in their first season as a team!) and was a full-time Xfinity Series driver making only his third Cup Series start, and this was when there wasn't as much parity in the Cup Series field as there is today! I didn't get to see all of the race, because my family and I were in a 2 hour car ride returning home to Central Jersey from the Jersey Shore (Long Beach Island) after our yearly 4th of July vacation there (we didn't do it in 2020 due to COVID). I checked my phone in the car and saw on the NASCAR.com leaderboard that Haley was in the lead during in the rain/lightning delay and was happy when I checked again a little later and found out that him winning was the outcome!

On this day 7 years ago (July 7th, 2018), Erik Jones won his first Cup race in that year's Coke Zero 400. I remember watching that 2018 race from LBI and enjoying it a lot because there were a lot of big wrecks and all of the usual winners/top drivers had crashed out of the race in the big one. It was about time for a new winner, particularly a first time or upset/underdog winner, in the year of "the big three" (Kyle Busch, Kevin Harvick and Martin Truex Jr. who won almost all the races that year) and it happened! The other notable race that happened on July 7th was the 2007 Daytona July race, when Jamie McMurray beat Kyle Busch in a photo finish at the line. I just barely missed this race, though, as I didn't become a NASCAR fan until 2008.

I share a birthday with DeLana Harvick (born on July 7, 1973), Landon Cassill (born on July 7, 1989) and Mason Maggio (born July 7, 2004). Also, with so many young drivers in the Xfinity, Truck, and ARCA Series that were born in the 2000's decade, I wondered who was the closest driver to being born on July 7, 2001, and after searching on Racing-Reference, the answer appears to be Raphaël Lessard on July 5, 2001, who's just two days older than me. The next closest is Hailie Deegan on July 18, 2001, and she is eleven days younger than me.

Pages that I've created

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GRAND TOTAL: 126
By category, articles are listed in order from least recent (at the top) to most recent (at the bottom)

NASCAR articles

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This user is a member of WikiProject NASCAR.




GRAND TOTAL: 119

Racing series

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TOTAL: 2

Racing seasons

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TOTAL: 25

Race teams

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TOTAL: 13

Drivers

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TOTAL: 42

Crew chiefs

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TOTAL: 4 (1 additional article was previously in mainspace but is now a draft)

TV analysts and media members

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TOTAL: 3

Team executives

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TOTAL: 1

Tracks

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TOTAL: 4

Races

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TOTAL: 16

Lists

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TOTAL: 3 (1 additional article was previously in mainspace but is now a draft)

Events

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TOTAL: 1

Awards

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TOTAL: 2

TV and radio coverage

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TOTAL: 3

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TOTAL: 7

Templates that I've created

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TOTAL: 2

Article drafts or previous articles (that have since been deleted) that I've created

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TOTAL: 8
Drafts are listed in order from least recent (at the top) to most recent (at the bottom) by category

Article title Note/description
2020 ARCA Menards Series The first version which was published but then moved to become a draft but later recreated by User:Willsome429... credit to him!
Draft:Chuck Buchanan Jr. Another user created this article in 2018, but it was later deleted due to lack of sources. I added the article back as a draft after its deletion and am trying to get it back into mainspace.
Draft:Sioux Chief Showdown Needs more info and sources before going into mainspace. Others are more than welcome to help me out and edit this draft!
Brandon Lynn Previous articles I created in January 2020, but which were deleted in April 2020. You can see what they looked like on Web Archive by typing in their names in the URL. (I did not add them back as drafts because these two drivers were not currently competing and had been without a ride for multiple years. However, other users re-created their articles in January 2025.)
Eddie Fatscher
Draft:List of NASCAR on ESPN broadcasters These articles were previously in mainspace before moving to draftspace due to lack of sources. Hopefully they'll all be back in mainspace soon.
Draft:Randall Burnett
Draft:Memphis Villarreal Initial article was created by another user and previously deleted due to lack of sources. I re-created his article as a draft in May 2024 and another user submitted it to mainspace in October 2024 where it was accepted but then was nominated for deletion again and is now gone.

Templates that I've created that have since been deleted

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TOTAL: 2

  • NASCAR on The CW
  • NASCAR on Amazon

Account fun facts

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Account created: July 20, 2019
First page edited: Hillsborough Township School District

1,000 edits reached: August 20, 2019
2,000 edits reached: November 20, 2019
3,000 edits reached: January 14, 2020
4,000 edits reached: March 17, 2020
5,000 edits reached: May 13, 2020
6,000 edits reached: July 24, 2020
7,000 edits reached: January 8, 2021
8,000 edits reached: May 18, 2021
9,000 edits reached: November 6, 2021
10,000 edits reached: June 1, 2022
11,000 edits reached: December 15, 2022
12,000 edits reached: July 12, 2023
13,000 edits reached: April 19, 2024
14,000 edits reached: May 16, 2025

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