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Cavanaughs

Joined 20 July 2019

Hello, and welcome to my page!

I live in New Jersey and graduated college in May 2023 with a political science major. I am a NASCAR and Philly sports fan. I also like to follow events/happenings in my town, and I read my town's newspaper and watch my district's Board of Education meetings on YouTube.

Having read Wikipedia for many years growing up, plus taking a journalism elective in High School, it felt like a nice idea to start editing pages on Wikipedia where my help would be valued and appreciated. I started editing in July 2019 and I look forward to continuing to contribute as often as I can. I mostly edit NASCAR articles but also edit articles relating to government and politics (such as elections, lists of politicians in a certain office, as well as school districts in New Jersey). I made my 10,000th edit in June 2022!

Feel free to let me know your thoughts on any edits I make on my talk page. You can track my edits here.

Thank you so much, and have a great day!

Quick notes from me

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Editing in the summer

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I will be on a vacation from Tuesday, August 19 through Wednesday, August 27 so it's highly unlikely that I will be editing during that time.

Message for anniversary of first edit (for August 7)

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I will keep this message up for around a week after the 7th so people can read it if they didn't see it on the 7th. This is essentially the same message that I've posted in previous years for my anniversary as a Wikipedia editor.

 
Chris Dyson

I don't really post any "fun" stuff on my user page like many others do, but I will on this day, August 7th, because it marks 6 years since I made my first edit to a NASCAR article on Wikipedia! Like I did with my first Wikipedia edit on July 20th, I will share what it was:

Just like when I first joined as an editor on July 20, 2019, I didn't remember the exact date from memory because I never thought that I'd get hooked into editing on a frequent basis. So, after looking back through the list of my edits, it appears that the first NASCAR page I edited was the 2019 Xfinity Series season article. The exact edit I made (the best way to specifically find out is by using Wikipedia on your phone- it's the only version that I've seen that gives the green and red backgrounds/crossouts for text and other things removed and added in the pages that you edit) was adding Chris Dyson and Aaron Quine to the full-time teams chart (in the No. 90 DGM and No. 74 Harmon cars, respectively), as both road course ringers were making their first starts of the season (and debuts in NASCAR for that matter) in the Mid-Ohio race that weekend. I guess I saw the article before anybody had added them to the chart and I had read Jayski which had the entry list up, so I decided to do that since I had the chance to.

According to my user contributions list (click here), for the rest of that day, it looks like I edited the 2019 Truck Series article next, and then the 2019 Cup Series article after that. It does say I made that edit to the 2019 Xfinity season article on August 8 (at 1:09), but as I live in New Jersey, which is in EST (the time zone for the east coast of the USA essentially), that means I made that edit at 9:09 PM my time. After midnight, which in the time zone Wikipedia uses (which I'm guessing is maybe for Europe) is 4:00, I also edited the 2007 Cup Series article as well. And again, I didn't remember/know any of the above is what I edited on my first day editing NASCAR Wikipedia articles until I searched through my contributions/edit list.

Like I said on my message for July 20th (the day I made my first edit to any page on Wikipedia), I look forward to seeing what my seventh year as a Wikipedia and NASCAR page editor brings. It's so hard to believe I've been doing this for 6 years now! I had graduated high school a month before I started as a Wikipedia editor and 2 years ago, I graduated college! I can't wait to see what my seventh year brings! Who knows where I'll be as an editor (and what the world and the United States will be like, especially my home state of New Jersey as we have a gubernatorial election this year) 1 year from now on August 7, 2026?

Pages that I've created

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GRAND TOTAL: 124
By category, articles are listed in order from least recent (at the top) to most recent (at the bottom)

NASCAR articles

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 This user is a member of WikiProject NASCAR.




GRAND TOTAL: 117

Racing series

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TOTAL: 2

Racing seasons

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TOTAL: 25

Race teams

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TOTAL: 13

Drivers

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TOTAL: 41

Crew chiefs

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TOTAL: 4 (1 additional article was previously in mainspace but is now a draft)

TV analysts and media members

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TOTAL: 3

Team executives

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TOTAL: 1

Tracks

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TOTAL: 4

Races

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TOTAL: 16

Lists

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TOTAL: 3 (1 additional article was previously in mainspace but is now a draft)

Events

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TOTAL: 1

Awards

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TOTAL: 2

TV and radio coverage

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TOTAL: 2

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TOTAL: 7

Templates that I've created

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TOTAL: 2

Article drafts or previous articles (that have since been deleted) that I've created

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TOTAL: 10
Drafts are listed in order from least recent (at the top) to most recent (at the bottom) by category

Article title Note/description
2020 ARCA Menards Series The first version which was published but then moved to become a draft but later recreated by User:Willsome429... credit to him!
Draft:Chuck Buchanan Jr. Another user created this article in 2018, but it was later deleted due to lack of sources. I added the article back as a draft after its deletion and am trying to get it back into mainspace.
Draft:Sioux Chief Showdown Needs more info and sources before going into mainspace. Others are more than welcome to help me out and edit this draft!
Brandon Lynn Previous articles I created in January 2020, but which were deleted in April 2020. You can see what they looked like on Web Archive by typing in their names in the URL. (I did not add them back as drafts because these two drivers were not currently competing and had been without a ride for multiple years. However, other users re-created their articles in January 2025.)
Eddie Fatscher
Draft:List of NASCAR on ESPN broadcasters These articles were previously in mainspace before moving to draftspace due to lack of sources. Hopefully they'll all be back in mainspace soon.
Draft:Randall Burnett
Draft:Memphis Villarreal Initial article was created by another user and previously deleted due to lack of sources. I re-created his article as a draft in May 2024 and another user submitted it to mainspace in October 2024 where it was accepted but then was nominated for deletion again and is now gone.
Dude Teate Now a redirect to JD Motorsports, the team he ran his 1 Xfinity Series race for in 2003
NASCAR Racing Network Now a redirect to Motor Racing Network. The MRN collaborates with the Performance Racing Network to run the NRN.

Templates that I've created that have since been deleted

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TOTAL: 2

  • NASCAR on The CW
  • NASCAR on Amazon

Account fun facts

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Account created: July 20, 2019
First page edited: Hillsborough Township School District

1,000 edits reached: August 20, 2019
2,000 edits reached: November 20, 2019
3,000 edits reached: January 14, 2020
4,000 edits reached: March 17, 2020
5,000 edits reached: May 13, 2020
6,000 edits reached: July 24, 2020
7,000 edits reached: January 8, 2021
8,000 edits reached: May 18, 2021
9,000 edits reached: November 6, 2021
10,000 edits reached: June 1, 2022
11,000 edits reached: December 15, 2022
12,000 edits reached: July 12, 2023
13,000 edits reached: April 19, 2024
14,000 edits reached: May 16, 2025

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