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Sometimes I like to challenge myself with an odd topic that you wouldn't expect a hockey obsessed writer to cover. Some of these might not get done for years, if at all. Sometimes it takes me a very long time to reach the end goal.
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Quite by accident, I seem to have achieved a tertiary focus on cancer-related topics. Terry Fox's name will never be forgotten given his efforts, while former hockey player
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I like to focus on other Canadian topics from time to time, both to challenge my writing ability and to learn about my country. My personal favourite contribution is the
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that I had no reason to ever think many would ever read. Just goes to show that even obscure topics are worth writing about. I've taken both the Flames and the junior
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had been used on 17 Wikipedias and 36 articles across all languages. For all its warts, Wikimedia Commons carries considerable value to the project.
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article. I volunteer for the latter event and encourage anyone who is capable to donate towards this cause, because cancer sucks.
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player bios and articles related to Calgary's history with the sport. One of my favourite articles is that of the 1920s
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Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
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As of February 12, 2014, I was ranked 926 by number of edits on the English Knowledge with 47,849 edits according to
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Sometimes we fail to understand exactly what the words we write actually mean. The results can be interesting...
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for that. You may note that my adminship is the very last thing I mention here. I do so because, as a
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per month. I've improved several articles specific to Alberta, notably the featured
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player..." (He stopped being a hockey player. He didn't stop being American.)
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lacrosse team at the same time and a new sporting interest was kindled.
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articles to featured status and was the primary writer of the
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is terrible) but I'll never understand how that article gets
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series (except, ironically, of the main article itself!)
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and though it is stalled in progress, the blowing in of
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