User:Dale Arnett

Hello, everyone! Dale Arnett at your service.

Hi Dale - great work on NBA contracts page, appreciate it! Mouthwash15 (talk) 10:33, 13 July 2017 (UTC)

Basic data

Date of birth: 9 December 1961
Birthplace: Louisville, Kentucky
Current residence: Louisville

Education

High school: Paducah Tilghman High School, Paducah, Kentucky, 1979
College:

Other facts

I spent a good chunk of my childhood in Chicagoland, both in the city of Chicago and in Berwyn, but I spent my teenage years in Paducah. After a convoluted path from my bachelor's to my master's degree, and an excruciating job search, I started working for Union Carbide in South Charleston, West Virginia (living in Dunbar) in 1990. I got "Dow-sized" in 2002, as I was one of the many people let go not long after Dow bought Union Carbide in 2001. After about a year working for a Dow contractor doing much the same work I had always been doing, I wound up in law school.

I briefly worked for the United States Patent and Trademark Office as a patent examiner in 2008, which turned out to be a disaster for me. I've returned to Kentucky to try to "rebuild" my life... and I did succeed in one major task, passing the USPTO registration examination. However, I am NOT registered yet.

Articles I've created

It's hard for me to keep track... but here's a sampling. Note that I may add more to this list as I discover them. Of course, the current versions don't necessarily look anything like my original creations. ;)

DYK = Successful Did you know? self-nomination.

Sports

Other successful DYK nominations

1983 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament - 2008 Music City Bowl (expanded beyond stub status) - 2009–10 Kentucky Wildcats women's basketball team (major expansion) - DeJuan Blair — Andy Dalton (expanded beyond stub status) - Mike Davis - Edward Gal (expanded beyond stub status) - Josh Heytvelt (expanded beyond stub status) - Kentucky High School Athletic Association (expanded beyond stub status) - Corné Krige - Jim Larranaga - James Laurinaitis - Michael R. Matz - Miami-FIU brawl - Patrick Mills (expanded beyond stub status) - Dirk Minniefield (expanded beyond stub status) - Ken Niumatalolo - Tom Prydie (expanded) - Sam Young (major expansion) - George Zidek

Articles I've worked on

Too many to count! The last time I looked, I'd made at least one edit to over 11,000 articles. Granted, most of those edits were minor fixes (spelling, grammar, typos), adding categories, and the like.

WikiProject Memberships

This user is a participant in
WikiProject Kentucky.

NBA Team Categories

Hey there! Thanks for adding the Royals team category and putting a few players in there. I did some adjustments with the Warriors and Lakers, giving them distinct Philadelphia/San Francisco and Minneapolis categories, so I'm grateful I don't have to do the Royals adjustment alone. ;)

ekedolphin 05:55, Feb 9, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for cleaning up posterized. Very nice job.

Thanks for adding to the Frankfort article.

Thanks for your excellent work in French rugby, always reliable and outstanding.

Lists of schools

Hey. While I love all of the work you're doing, I need to point out one (possible?) problem: The Manual of Style recommends avoiding links within headings Wikipedia:Manual of Style (headings). Apparently is screws up things for some users (much as I agree than linking to each county article would be a nice thing).

Thanks... Flyers13 21:05, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Masters

I contacted Ivan Maisel in the Spring regarding the proper way to render the name of golf's first major, and he said that ESPN's style editors had been told that the first reference to the event should be "Masters Tournament," and not "The Masters." I see you just changed it so I thought I'd let you know that.

Barnstar

		The Editor's Barnstar
		This is my Wiki gift to you, for helping me out in editing the 2014 in sports page. Rockies77 (talk) 06:36, 2 August 2014 (UTC)

DYK

Did you know? has been updated. A fact from the article Adam Morrison, which you recently created, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.

A Barnstar!

The Reynald Pedros' Barnstar

I present you this original sport man's barnstar in recognition
and appreciation to your tireless efforts in the improvement
of football (soccer) articles. Just like Reynald, you've struggled
to make this football world a better place. Abdelkweli^Talk

		The DYK Medal
		For your numerous contributions to the Did You Know section on the main page, I award you this long overdue "DYK Medal". Congratulations! Royalbroil 13:45, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

		The Copyeditor's Barnstar
		Thank you for fleshing out the baseball section I created in the Cross-dominance article. I knew something didn't sound right. Keep up the good and helpful work. Thanks again! Geeky Randy (talk) 05:17, 20 June 2010 (UTC)

100,000 Edit Star

awarded to Dale Arnett for being a member of an exclusive Wikipedia club
Vjmlhds (talk) 12:27, 16 May 2014 (UTC)

Basic data

Education

Other facts

Articles I've created

Sports

American football

Baseball

Basketball

Football (soccer)

Ice hockey

Rugby union

Other

Professional wrestling

Law

Highways

Geography

Schools

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