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Moserjames79
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Name
James Moser
Born
Sheboygan, Wisconsin
NationalityAmerican
CountryUnited States
Current locationMadison, Wisconsin
Hobbies, interests, and beliefs
HobbiesWikipedia, hiking, travel, being a hockey dad, Wisconsin high school sports history
ReligionCatholic
Account statistics
JoinedOctober 22, 2024
First editOctober 22, 2024
Edit count← click on the blue words
SignatureJames Moser (talk)

Oh, didn't see you come in. Welcome to my user page!

I've been an active editor since October 2024, and a keen interest in the history of Wisconsin high school athletics was my gateway into creating content for the site. After seeing the level of documentation for the high school athletic histories for other states (especially Indiana), I was inspired to make the history of Wisconsin high school athletics as complete and as thorough as I can make it. I've either created new articles or edited existing ones for over 130 high school athletic conferences in Wisconsin, along with creating articles for two organizations that existed prior to merging with the WIAA.

Ultimately, I would love to see somebody inspired by this project as I was to create it; to see what I worked on for Wisconsin and want that for their home state.

Articles created or edited (as of 23 April 2025)

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Current research priorities (as of 23 April 2025)

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  • An article for the Indian Trails Conference: The Indian Trails Conference is a conference of small high schools (mostly private, one state-run) in southeastern Wisconsin, and it has been particularly difficult to research due to the near annual changes to conference membership and lack of media coverage. I've been able to verify to the 1980s so far, and I've been picking away at it for the past few months. It was my original white whale when I started this project, and I want to make sure I do it justice.
  • Conference histories for northwestern Wisconsin: There seems to be a donut hole of documentation for some of the northwestern counties of Wisconsin, and it's the region I've found the least information for. Fellow Wisconsin sports history enthusiast Badgeractuary has been an enormous help with figuring out the histories of some of the conferences that I have been able to successfully document, but there is still more to be done here.
  • Continued standardization of articles: Slowly but surely I've been developing a documentation style for these articles, and there's still work to be done to make everything more cohesive.
  • Documentation of football-only conferences: My research has been basketball-focused for the most part, as it is usually a good indicator of all-sport membership in a conference. However, some smaller conferences did not sponsor football and some sponsored 6-man football, especially in the first half of the 20th century. I would like to document these alongside their all-sport counterparts.
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