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User:RobDuch

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I have been editing Wikipedia since August 2013. I am primarily a content creator, and lean towards inclusionism. I am interested in the US Armed Forces, primarily the US Navy and the US Army's coast defense history. I have a decent reference library in these areas, including most of Norman Friedman's US Navy design history books. My specialties have been US coast defense forts, along with US Navy cruiser, destroyer, and submarine class articles. In general I work on what I want, when I want to. My goal is to create a large number of Class B or C articles rather than produce higher-quality articles. With the articles I feel I can contribute a lot to I'm a WikiPuma. Paradoxically, I think I'm a WikiHobbit as well, since I prefer to edit in non-controversial areas. When I don't have time to do major work in Wikipedia I sometimes act as a WikiGnome. I am an American Civil War buff, though I haven't done much on that subject in Wikipedia. I am a member of the Coast Defense Study Group (www.cdsg.org), which encompasses all coast defenses but specializes in US fortifications 1885-1945.

I frequently take unannounced WP:Wikibreaks, but since I usually monitor my talk page during them it may not count as a wikibreak.

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WP:Sofixit "So fix it"; I try to practice and preach this concept.

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Articles I have created or contributed significantly to

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  • As of 1 August 2020: 345 articles with significant contributions, of which I created 66.
  • I helped discover a 9-year-old WP:HOAX, Conchobar Mac Con Raoí, allegedly a 280-year-old resident of Galway, Ireland who died in 1580 (now deleted and on Wikipedia:List of hoaxes on Wikipedia).
  • Op-ed piece in the August 2021 Bugle, in which I explain why and how I gradually did a lot of work on US coast defenses, followed by a brief history thereof.

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==Submarine class articles==

==Other submarine-related articles==

==Destroyer class articles==

==Cruiser articles==

==American Civil War articles==

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The US fort articles are arranged in the traditional geographical order of US Army reports, which the CDSG has continued to use. The list starts in Down East Maine and goes clockwise around CONUS.

==Maine==

==New Hampshire==

==Massachusetts==

==Rhode Island==

==Connecticut==

  • Fort Trumbull - Updated Neighborhood section from another article (later moved to New London city article by another editor), added info to 19th century and 20th century

==New York==

==New Jersey==

==Delaware==

==Virginia==

==Other states==

==Overseas==

;Newfoundland

;Bermuda

;Philippines

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==Other Coast Defense and Big Gun articles==

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