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By Ryan Cornell
Behind every town is its citizens.
Behind every town's Wikipedia page is a devoted editor(s), continually crafting the page and adding changes to reflect its growth and history.
Wikipedia.org is an online encyclopedia, popular due to the fact that anyone can edit it anonymously.
For a town with fewer than 2,000 residents, Stephens City boasts a Wikipedia page that could instill envy in larger cities. After being recognized as a featured article in 2010, appearing on the front page of Wikipedia, it's remained one of the best sourced and updated pages in the region.
So it may come as a surprise that it's nearly all the work of one man: Dayton Tybois (pronounced "Tobias") Uphold.
Originally from Norfolk, Uphold, 33, has lived in Stephens City for 22 years.
His meticulous nature when it comes to the articles he curates -- mostly the town of Stephens City and radio stations such as WINC-AM, another featured article -- can be traced back to a form of autism he has called Asperger Syndrome.
"And everybody who has autism or Asperger's," Uphold said, "knows a lot about one subject, and mine is radio stations."
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