User:Dekema

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18Y This Wikipedian joined Wikipedia on March 19, 2006 (18 years, 4 months, 3 weeks and 5 days ago). This user has pending changes reviewer rights on the English Wikipedia. (verify) This user has created 42 articles on Wikipedia. This user has helped promote 2 good articles on Wikipedia. This user has been a major contributor to 5 articles featured in the Did you know... section on the Main Page. 7,000+This user has made more than 7,000 contributions to Wikipedia. This user account is secured with a unique committed identity. This user has access to JSTOR through The Wikipedia Library. MUSEThis user has access to Project MUSE through The Wikipedia Library. NEWSThis user has access to Newspapers.com through The Wikipedia Library. This user believes that many articles on Wikipedia are poorly written and NEED fixing.

WikiProjects
This user is a member of WikiProject Western New York This user is a member of WikiProject New York State. This user participates in WikiProject Cities. This user edits articles about New York State Routes. This user is a participant in WikiProject United States. This user shares at the Resource Exchange.

Skills
This user contributes using Inkscape. This user contributes using Darktable. P-3This user is able to take high-quality photographs. This user is a WikiDragon: making massive, bold edits everywhere.

Travels

This user has visited 34 of the 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. This user drove I-80 from San Francisco to New Jersey. This user has hiked in the U.S. State of California. This user has traveled throughout the Northern Mariana Islands. This user has visited Guam. This user has visited the Bahamas. This user has visited Bermuda. This user has visited Canada. This user has visited the Cayman Islands. This user has visited Jamaica. This user has visited Japan. This user has visited México.

Personal & interests

This user is a railfan. This user is a roadgeek. This user was born and lives in the U.S. State of New York. This user takes photographs with Sony equipment This user is a rower. This user proudly lives in or hails from Buffalo. This user proudly lives in or hails from Utica BUFThis user is a fan of the Buffalo Bills. BUFThis user is a fan of the Buffalo Sabres Because of real life, this user will be editing on and off.

Miscellaneous
This user regrets that every local idiot can post a comment on the Internet.

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I am a native of the Buffalo metro area. In my spare time, I frequent BuffaloRising, SkyscraperCity, and AARoads, where I post pictures of local projects.

In fact, many of the pictures I take for these sites can be found on my Commons profile as I only take them for public use with attribution.

Here on Wikipedia, the scope of my content creation is somewhat limited to Upstate New York and the Buffalo area, but I am open to exploring new things. That's what this project is all about.

In reality, I've been on here since 2006, but primarily in the form of test accounts for childish edits before 2010.

If you want to know what books and resources I edit with, take a look at my WorldCat profile here. Each article has its own list.

Philosophy

Pictures

• I don't agree with those who say Instagram has more value than Flickr; I use both, too. One is akin to a Polaroid instant camera for special moments, and the other is for showcasing, examining analyzing every pixel in an image.
• I do agree with the concept of freely licensed images reigning king on Wikipedia. There is always a way to document a subject without sacrificing quality or encroaching upon copyrights.

Editing

evenThis editor is an eventualist.

mesoThis editor is a mesopedian.

?This user likes to browse random articles, and make helpful edits whenever they can.

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Current projects

This is also a to-do list for myself so I stay organized over time.

Articles

• Bring Buffalo, New York to WP:FA status  Working
• Rewrite and expand Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus

• Expand Buffalo General Medical Center
• Rewrite Jacobs School of Medicine
• Rewrite and take pictures of Roswell Park Cancer Institute

Future projects

Cities, towns and villages

• Rewrite Amherst, New York
• Rewrite Hamburg, New York
• Rewrite Williamsville, New York
• Take new images of all Buffalo Metro Rail stations
• Featured topics: The major cities of New York (Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, Utica, Albany, NYC, possibly more). By 2020.
• Redo Erie County Fair

Buildings

• Expand and flesh out del Lago Resort and Casino

Roadways and infrastructure

• Interstate 790 to GA
• New York State Route 400 to GA
• US Route 219 in New York to GA
• US Route 62 in New York to GA
• Possibly create articles on major Buffalo thoroughfares

• Elmwood Avenue

• Improve Buffalo Niagara International Airport
• Improve Interstate 86 (Pennsylvania–New York)
• Improve Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad

New pictures

• Taste of Buffalo, a street level photograph. This event is huge. It's great there's an overview image there, but one or more street level views would be nice.
• Allentown Art Festival; Ok, not as big of an event, but still notable. It'd be nice to have a photo.
• Medaille College; no image of the Buffalo campus.
• Sisters of Charity Hospital (Buffalo); no modern photograph.
• Kleinhans Music Hall; there's exterior shots, but nothing interior.
• Koessler Athletic Center; no picture at all there.
• Interstate 990; oddly, there's no image of the highway itself, except for the rather poor image at the terminus that doesn't really show the highway.
• Buffalo Niagara International Airport; no photograph from inside the terminal.
• Amherst State Park; no photo
• Villages Alden (village), New York, Depew, New York, East Aurora, New York, Orchard Park (village), New York, and Sloan, New York are all missing images.

Past projects

• Helped bring Buffalo, New York to good article status (2021)
• Helped bring Utica, New York to good article status (2015)

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• Created Erie Basin Marina (2018)

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• Created (hard to prove but technically true), rewrote and expanded Frontier Central School District five-fold (2021)

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• Created West Side Rowing Club (2021)

• DYK

• Reviewed Fort Wayne, Indiana
• Reviewed Valley, West Virginia

Barnstars, accolades, ribbons and badges

Barnstars

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  The Original Barnstar — For excellent work on the (surprisingly) difficult article on Utica, New York, and handling the occasional nonsense there with aplomb. Herostratus (talk) 11:50, 6 April 2015 (UTC)
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  The Reviewer Barnstar — Buffaboy, I hereby award you The Reviewer Barnstar for your thorough and most appreciated Good Article review of Valley, West Virginia. Thank you for your continued service to Wikipedia, and for shining a spotlight on this forgotten populated place. -- West Virginian (talk) 23:53, 16 July 2015 (UTC)
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  The Writer's Barnstar - This is for your outstanding edits for Upstate New York. Keep up the awesome work!! TheTexasNationalist99 (talk) 01:39, 17 April 2020 (UTC)

Ribbons

Awards

An image Buffaboy created

Buffaboy

Editor of the Week for the week beginning June 7, 2015

He has solid body of positive participation at Utica, New York in spite of a hostile work environment, and has singlehandedly taken the article to file for a GA review. He is also working on Fort Wayne, Indiana to achieve a similar goal.

Recognized for

creating quality articles and then overseeing their quality.

Notable work(s)

Ongoing article edits at New Buffalo Bills Stadium, Niagara Falls, New York, Buffalo, New York and Erie Canal Harbor.

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