I'm Realkyhick, short for "Real Kentucky hick," a nickname someone hung on me in my current home of Birmingham, Alabama. I'm a retired journalist.
Around Birmingham I'm sometimes known as "The Loudest Man in High School Sports" because of my work with various schools as a public address announcer for their football, basketball and other sports games, primarily for the now-closed Garywood Christian School.
On Labor Day 2007 I founded the Wikipedia Intensive Care Unit. It's a place to "heal" articles about subjects that are probably notable, but the article themselves face imminent deletion for other reasons. The project has since become inactive and tagged as "historical."
I spend much time on new-page patrol, where I've tagged for speedy-deletion a seemingly infinite number of articles about just-formed garage bands. I guess you could call me a confirmed deletionist. I recently removed a part of the article Hoover High School (Alabama) about a non-notable alumnus (actually he did not attend the school, but played for a lacrosse club associated with the school), even though it had a reference — for an article that I wrote! Pretty sad, I suppose.
I'll decorate this page with more stuff when I get a chance.
