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About Me

This user lives in the state of New Jersey.

I have a particular interest in local area and New Jersey governmental topics. I have been gathering information about New Jersey and its municipalities, and I am looking to create a structure to load expanded information into pages for all of New Jersey's 566 municipalities, as well as consolidating other encyclopedic information about New Jersey.

Words of wisdom from our leader

Let me make my point more clear: arguments about what we ought to if someone really starts to abuse[REDACTED] with thousands and thousands of trivial articles do not prove that we ought to delete any and every article that's too trivial today.
Put another way: if someone wants to write an article about their high school, we should relax and accomodate them, even if we wish they wouldn't do it. And that's true *even if* we should react differently if someone comes in and starts mass-adding articles on every high school in the world.
Let me make this more concrete. Let's say I start writing an article about my high school, Randolph School, of Huntsville, Alabama. I could write a decent 2 page article about it, citing information that can easily be verified by anyone who visits their website.
Then I think people should relax and accomodate me. It isn't hurting anything. It'd be a good article, I'm a good contributor, and so cutting me some slack is a very reasonable thing to do.
That's true *even if* we'd react differently to a ton of one-liners mass-imported saying nothing more than "Randolph School is a private school in Huntsville, Alabama, US" and "Indian Springs is a private school in Birmingham, Alabama, US" and on and on and on, ad nauseum.
The argument "what if someone did this particular thing 100,000 times" is not a valid argument against letting them do it a few times.
--Jimbo (dated November 7, 2003)

Barnstar

The Original Barnstar

I hereby award you this barnstar for your extensive edits to East Brunswick and East Brunswick High School. Keep up the good work! GorillazFan Adam 00:43, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

	I have always been a firm beleiver in giving credit where credit is due. MR. Sohn I'm also a Teaneckian and have watched your work on Misplaced Pages with wonder and amazement. I give you this tirless worker barnstar for dedicated editing to all information concerning New Jersey history and government.	The Tireless Contributor Barnstar

		The Editor's Barnstar
		I am giving you this barnstar for working hard on creating and editing articles about schools, and even for helping me with the Ho-Ho-Kus Public School and Allendale School District articles. Amos Han 20:11, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

		The Editor's Barnstar
		Another barnstar for catching my errors in my edits and helping me with the articles about schools, train stations, and rivers in Bergen County, New Jersey. Amos Han 01:17, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

	I saw how hard you worked to prevent the deletion of NorthChurch Cemetary, Hardyston,NJ; but sadly, your endless work didn't work out. However, I award you for giving up a fight to not lose the article. Congrats! Meldshal42 14:39, 6 September 2007 (UTC)\|style="font-size: x-large; padding: 0; vertical-align: middle; height: 1.1em;" \| The Tireless Contributor Barnstar

		The Editor's Barnstar
		Great job working on New Jersey related articles. It's also hard to believe that you know the name of the principal in my old school. NHRHS2010 talk 00:26, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

Areas of Focus

Municipalities in New Jersey: The pages exist, but 80-90% are only a few steps beyond mere stubs. The ones that have been updated have a melange of useful and useless information with no standardization whatsoever. As part of WP:NJ, I would like to identify kindred spirits who would coordinate each individual county (and the municipalities therein) in an agreed upon format. My idea is to send this template to local libraries and public schools, with the goal of encouraging local resources to do the mind-numbingly tedious task (for an outsider, but not a native) of data gathering and entry tasks.
New Jersey Forms of Government: See Faulkner Act (New Jersey) for a starting point into a web of pages that describes New Jersey's 11 forms of government (5 traditional and 6 modern). There are still two outstanding pages in this ring, for City (New Jersey) and Town (New Jersey) that I will get to when I have a chance.
Template:New Jersey is an effort to tighten up the template for the State of New Jersey and make it more similar to the Template:United States found on each of the individual state pages.
Board of Chosen Freeholders was a page referenced in many places that just didn't exist. I went through web pages for all 21 counties and found almost all of the relevant information. I will follow up to verify what I have found and fill in any missing details.
New Jersey Legislature has been updated to list all 40 legislative districts and the municipalities included in each one. This may not be the best place, but it does allow for a link to view what is included in each district.

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References

Partial solution to rampant deletionism, Wikimedia, November 7, 2003. Accessed September 25, 2007.

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