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Notorious4life is the name I use on Wikipedia, where I have been active since March 20, 2005. I am a freelance editor and usually avoid any involuntary responsibility or lengthy discussions. If it’s doesn't interest me or feel it's worth my time, I’m not going to do it. If it’s something that interests me, there’s no limit to the amount of time and effort I’ll put toward accomplishing my goal. I have a strong understanding of article creation, photo uploading, and Wikipedia policies. I have created or significantly contributed the majority of content to over 200 articles. I have uploaded 1,145 pictures and created uncounted hundreds of image maps within the state of Michigan.
Biography
I grew up in Detroit Beach and currently live in Sumpter Township. I have lived in various other nearby places but have lived my entire life in the state of Michigan. I am a graduate of Eastern Michigan University with a teaching degree in social studies with an emphasis on history and geography. I am not religious but do hold strong conservative political ideologies, and I am a strong supporter of Donald Trump. However, I do not engage in discussions or editing of any articles related to politics, as I am very familiar with Wikipedia's left-leaning political narrative. My other primary interests include the Detroit Tigers, The Simpsons, The Three Stooges, Nintendo, photography, fishing, camping, exploring nature, and drinking beer (Bud Ice).
I spend a lot of time traveling around Michigan, and at some point, I would like to try to visit every place. I even created a map to list the places I have been. I enjoy visiting state parks, beaches, historic locations, and small communities. Outside of Michigan, I have taken trips to numerous other places, such as Boston, Chicago, Florida, Honolulu, Toronto, and three trips to Macau.
Wikipedia history
I joined Wikipedia in early-2005 and soon made my first article, Sandy Creek (original version), which is a small waterway near where I lived at the time. I'm surprised the poorly constructed article survived its infancy at a time when Wikipedia had only 750,000 articles. In my early years, I bounced around various interests, such as sparring in the AfD, CSD, and the now defunct RfD. I combated vandalism and argued adamantly in the debate of notability versus verifiability in article creations, especially after finding several flaws and conflicts in the AfD criteria that seemed to water down the Wikipedia inclusion process when terrible articles squeezed through the cracks. I am no longer involved in any of those discussions, although I make rare appearances in AfD to nominate local articles that I feel don't meet Wikipedia standards.
It took awhile to learn the processes of Wikipedia, and the vast majority of my earliest edits and image uploads were deleted over time. Around 2009, I took an interest in creating numerous articles for Monroe County, which seemed to lack many notable topics, such as the George Armstrong Custer Equestrian Monument, River Raisin National Battlefield Park, the Battle of Frenchtown, as well as other National Register of Historic Places. I soon traveled to other nearby counties for the same purpose: Lapeer, Lenawee, and St. Clair. I created the article and promoted the Michigan State Historic Preservation Office in order to recognize state historic sites, which paved the way for the creation of numerous articles of local importance that otherwise may not have had the notability to have their own article unless labeled with a historic designation.
In 2010, I joined WikiProject Michigan and categorized thousands of articles, focusing much of my attention on Michigan's geography. I created the now-abandoned physical geography subpage in an attempt to standardize guidelines across the spectrum, but there seemed to be no other substantial user involvement in WikiProject Michigan. I soon left to carry on work on my own, while sometimes ignoring previous guidelines with no discussions or consensus—essentially adopting the "be bold" concept to make articles read and appear the way I wanted. Throughout the state, I expanded numerous articles and infoboxes relating to islands, rivers, lakes, and protected areas. I notably created or significantly expanded the articles for the Detroit River, List of islands in the Detroit River, Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge, and the exhaustive List of islands of Michigan (which remains incomplete) and many sub-articles within. I bounced around through other interests, such as Major League Baseball, in which I created the articles for Shutouts in baseball and List of Major League Baseball annual shutout leaders. I also spent a lot of time driving around Detroit and photographing various schools and blight, which was mostly done for photo requests, but driving around pretending to be an urban explorer was unappealing.
Current activity
Since at least 2019, my focus has been solely to improve municipality and geography-related articles within the state of Michigan. Many articles contain outdated information, are poorly written and not sourced, and contain an unprofessional tone with unencyclopedic information. My intent is to create a standardized format for all Michigan locality articles (cities, townships, villages, CDPs, and unincorporated communities), especially concerning article structure, infobox information, and categorization. This task is approximately half finished, as I ultimately desire for every Michigan locality article to have an infobox image and updated location map. I have drawn the infobox location maps and included my own photos to hundreds of articles, and I have also created dozens of unincorporated community articles. Essentially, I want every article to read and appear in the same format. This is easy for remote counties and municipalities that are rarely viewed or edited, but it can become a problem with some of the larger cities. I will never understand how a user can make an edit to a major city's infobox and format without realizing that it goes against the format of thousands of other Michigan articles.
Some of my more notable recent lists include the articles for state game and wildlife areas and census-designated places in Michigan, while most of my newer article creations are for notable unincorporated communities, which are largely neglected in content on Wikipedia. There are thousands of unincorporated communites in Michigan, and many of them are far too insignificant to have their own article. Although, they are still deserving to be mentioned in the communities list in their respective township article, as well as being categorized. I have created my own standards on unincorporated communties, which is still somewhat flexible. My current project is creating the "unincorporated communities in Michigan" article, which is being drafted at User talk:Notorious4life/sandbox and several other subpages. I have slowly been working on this for at least four years, but the entire project is around 90% complete but still unpublished.
