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[edit] Interests

Subjects pertaining to the social sciences, especially those with particular relations to the fields of economics, sociology, and political science. As a multi-national person I also take an especially great intrest in world affairs. A perhaps less scholarly pursuit of mine are luxury automobiles.

While I do my best to stay objective and neutral, I like all other human beings am prone to exhibiting my personal bias at one point or another. My personal viewpoint tends to be that of a Globalist, European-American, secular, upper middle class, liberal, pluralist. I do, however, accomodate all facets of the subject matter I discuss in my articles and provide Wikipedia's readers with the factually most correct and up-to-date information. Thus, I sincerely beleive that I am helping to provide the world with what is, now more than ever before, the world's most precious commodity: knowledge.

[edit] Mission statement

“

I joined Wikipedia for a simple reason. I believe in education. Ignorance and misunderstanding are, in my humble opinion, the greatest sources for the difficulties and struggles mankind faces in this day and age. I strongly believe in the idea of people sharing their knowledge in an easily accessible, neutral, fact-based forum such as Wikipedia. The internet has presented us with a new tool to make this world a better place. Wikipedia presents an essential step in using this great global resource to improve the human condition. I, like many people, not only have a craving for knowledge but also a perhaps equally strong desire to share at least part of the knowledge which I have acquired. I strive to add useful, educational and wholesome information to Wikipedia. I believe that no credible belief or theory should be excluded. Furthermore I believe that we must be as thorough as possible in our attempts to educate those who come to Wikipedia in the search for information. For me, Wikipedia is a place where the internet has full-filled a part of its promise, to provide a place where people can come together and share their expertise.

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That said my favorite Wikipedia rule is BE BOLD!.

[edit] Notable contributions

Notable contributions by Brendel
Userpage
Flagship articles

 Affluence in the United States •  Household income in the United States •  American middle class •  Average Joe • Educational attainment in the United States • Crime in the United States • Homeownership in the United States • Professional and working class conflict in the United States • Wealth in the United States • Social class in the United States^^ • Passenger vehicles in the United States • Personal income in the United States •  Lincoln Town Car^ • Luxury vehicles^^
Small articles
Real estate pricing • Landyacht • American upper class • American lower class • GMC Denali • Monterey Peninsula • Lincoln MK9 • Lincoln Navicross • El Paseo • Lower middle class •
Stubs
Native born Americans • Foreign born Americans • Bachelor's degree or higher • Professional class • Managerial Class • Bentley Brooklands • Wixom Assembly Plant • Designer label
Templates
Demographics of the United States • Class in America • Lincoln vehicles
Categories
Full-size vehicle • Wealth in the United States • Prestige vehicles
The above represent my most notable contributions, omitting minor stubs and edits. ^Articles of which I only authored 75% or more; ^^Articles which I authored to more than 95%

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[edit] User Statistics

Languages

de Dieser Benutzer spricht Deutsch als Muttersprache.
en This user is a native speaker of English.
<html> This user can write HTML.

Interests

This user is a luxury sedan enthusiast.
This user is the proud owner of a Lincoln Town Car.

Wikipedia Affiliations

This user is a member of WikiProject Automobiles.


This user is a member of WikiProject United States.
This user is a member of WikiProject Sociology.
10 000 This user has over 10 000 edits on the English Wikipedia.
☺ This user is part of the
Welcoming Committee.

National affiliations

This user is a Citizen of the World (Terra, ⊕).
This user is a
German-American.
Dieser Benutzer ist ein Deutsch-Amerikaner.

Location(s)

Heidelberg City Seal
 This user lives in or hails from the city of Heidelberg.
This user lives in or hails from the state of California.
This lives in or hails from the greater San Francisco Bay Area.

Political Beliefs

This user believes that both the European Union and the United States are superpowers
DEM This user supports the U.S. Democratic Party.*
This user supports the Christian Democratic Union.
M-lib This user is political moderate-liberal.
This user supports the European Union.

Ancestry

This user is of Saxon ancestry.
Slavic This user is of Slavic ancestry.
This user is of Frankish ancestry.

These statistics are available from SJ's tool for any user here: [1] All of the statistics below pertain to my account on the English-language Wikipedia and do not include contributions from my German Wikipedia account. Also see my gallery on the commons: [2]

[edit] Complete Statistics

Edit count by nature of contribution as of 2007-03-28
Nature of edits Number Percentage
Total edits 13,464 100.00%
Unique articles 2,046 (X)
Mainspace 7,343 54.54%
Talk 2,488 18.48%
User 543 4.03%
User talk 1,349 10.01%
Wikipedia 441 3.27%
Images 268 1.99%
Image talk 54 0.40%
Template 273 2.03%
Tamplate talk 68 0.49%
Category 66 0.51%
Category talk 7 0.05%
Portal 6 0.04%
Portal talk 2 0.01%
Percentage of edit summaries given[3]
Major edits 91%
Minor edits 77%
Monthly averages
Average edits per month 792
Edits last month 793
Highest number of edits/month June, 2006 1,275
Lowest number of edits/month May, 2006 352

[edit] Summary

Summary of main contribution as of 2007-03-28
Articles written 26
Stubs written 26
Images uploaded 268
Templates created 9
Categories created 6
Wikiprojects founded 1

[edit] Edits over the past year

Distribution of my edits with yellow dots marking the creation of significant texts.
Distribution of my edits with yellow dots marking the creation of significant texts.

[edit] 2006 short summary

The place where it all takes place (at least a glimpse ;-))
The place where it all takes place (at least a glimpse ;-))

As seen in the graph above my edits reached their all-time low while in late spring and early summer, while peaking during the late winter and late summer months. In late winter 05/06 I wrote several articles pertaining to my personal areas of interest, mentioned above. My montly edit count reached its record low I was vacationing in Hawaii in May. In June, July, and August I wrote among others, the American middle class, Household income in the United States, and Educational attainment in the United States articles. Even though I took another vacation in August during which I did not conduct any major edits, my work during the remaining period of the month brought the August average to exceed the one-thousand edits per month mark.

[edit] January 2007

In January I authored the article, Affluence in the United States, which become a GA roughly two weeks after its creation, as well as the Average Joe article. I also re-wrote the remaining sections (except for the Agriculture section) of the Social structure of the United States article which I then nominated for GA status. I added the lower middle class section to the American middle class article and created several graphs to illustrate America's social structure on various relating articles.
On January 25th I conducted edit No 12,000.

[edit] February 2007

Significantly expanded the American upper class article and wrote the American lower class article. I also re-wrote over 80% of the Standard of living in the United States article. Dicussions I was involved in include those regarding the GA nomination of the Social class in the United States article which was moved there from it's previous title, after another preceeding discussion. The article Six figure income was merged into the Affluence in the United States article I wrote in January.
On February 28th I conducted edit No 13,000.

[edit] March 2007

March was one of my least busiest month on Wikipedia with me making less than 500 contributions. Through most of the month I only conducted minor edits, intended towards maintaing the quality of articles on my watchlist. In late March, however, I re-wrote the economy section of the United States article and wrote the stub on Bourgeois personality.

[edit] Time Zone

Pacific Time UTC-7 (DST), see the time zone converter here: [4]
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[edit] Created

Please note that some of the listings below are not complete and may unintentioanly omit some of my contributions.

[edit] Graphics

The following is a roughly 70%-80% complete list of the graphs currently in use on various Wikipedia article, many are used in my "Flagship" articles. The images to the right serve as examples of my graphis' apperance.

Photoshop graph
Photoshop graph
Photoshop info-insert
Photoshop info-insert
Standard Office graph
Standard Office graph
  1. Image:Class US.png
  2. Image:American Income.png
  3. Image:Households vs Individuals Income.png
  4. Image:2 more income earners.jpg
  5. Image:Occupation Educational attainment.jpg
  6. Image:America Class.jpg
  7. Image:Income-curve-$10k.jpg
  8. Image:Class Thompson Hickey copy.jpg
  9. Image:American Society.jpg
  10. Image:Income groups.jpg
  11. Image:Income quintiles.jpg
  12. Image:Personal Household Income U.png
  13. Image:Income Strata 2005.jpg
  14. Image:Income Race.jpg
  15. Image:Education Income.jpg
  16. Image:Income Education 91 to 03.jpg
  17. Image:Income 1967.jpg
  18. Image:Median Household Income International.png
  19. Image:Personal income.png
  20. Image:Personal Income Age25.png
  21. Image:Personal Income high rise copy.png
  22. Image:Age personal income.png
  23. Image:Personal income race.png
  24. Image:Income profession.png
  25. Image:Education median income.png
  26. Image:Race 6 figure household and.png
  27. Image:Race Six Figure Household Income.png
  28. Image:Top-1%.png
  29. Image:Homweownership by race.jpg
  30. Image:Homeownership race 1994 to 2005.jpg
  31. Image:Homeownership by household type.jpg
  32. Image:Educational attainment copy.jpg
  33. Image:Education gender.jpg
  34. Image:Education race.jpg
  35. Image:Education Income Sex.jpg
  36. Image:Education Income Race.jpg
  37. Image:Prof-Mang White Blue collar.jpg
  38. Image:Occupation Educational attainment.jpg
  39. Image:US Violent Crime Rate.jpg
  40. Image:US Property Crime Rate.jpg
  41. Image:Homicide Rate 04.jpg
  42. Image:Six figure income.png
  43. Image:Families US.png
  44. Image:Race Income.png
  45. Image:Families US Historical.png
  46. Image:US Occupations.png
  47. Image:Income quintiles.jpg
  48. Image:Income inequity US.png
  49. Image:Class distribution US.png
  50. Image:Class USA.png
  51. Image:Gilbert model.png
  52. Image:Income America.png

[edit] Categories

  1. Created Flagship vehicles category
  2. Created Wealth in the United States category
  3. Created Income in the United States category
  4. Created Full-size vehicle category

[edit] Stubs

  1. Created Mercedes-Benz W180 stub
  2. Created Lincoln 1970 template
  3. Created Auto Project template
  4. Created Lincoln K-series stub
  5. Created Lincoln Lido stub
  6. Created Lincoln Sport stub
  7. Created Jerry Flint stub
  8. Created Association of the German Automotive Industry stub
  9. Created Gas guzzler stub
  10. Created US Bureau of Transit Statistics stub
  11. Created Lincoln Cosmopolitan stub
  12. Created Lincoln Premiere stub
  13. Created Lincoln Custom stub
  14. Created Lincoln Capri stub
  15. Created Lincoln Navicross stub
  16. Created El Paseo stub
  17. Created El Paseo Gradens stub
  18. Created Bentley Brooklands stub
  19. Created Wixom Assembly Plant stub
  20. Created Flagship vehicles article
  21. Created Del Monte Center stub
  22. Created Valley Fair Valley Fair stub
  23. Created Northridge Mall stub

[edit] Articles

  1. Created Monterey Peninsula article
  2. Created Lincoln Mark article
  3. Created Luxury Car article
  4. Created Lower middle class article
  5. Created Landyacht short article
  6. Created List of largest passenger vehicles in the United States article
  7. Created Professional class short article
  8. Created Managerial Class short article
  9. Created Census family short article
  10. Created Real estate pricing article
  11. Created Six figure income short article
  12. Created Median income per household member short article
  13. Created Income quintiles short article
  14. Created Wealth in the United States short article
  15. Created Bachelor's degree or higher short article
  16. Created Foreign born Americans short article
  17. Created Native born Americans short article
  18. Created Class in America template
  19. Created WikiProject United States
  20. Created Professional and working class conflict in the United States article
  21. Created American middle class article
  22. Created Household income in the United States article
  23. Created Educational attainment in the United States article
  24. Created Template:Demographics of the United States
  25. Created Designer label short article
  26. Created Passenger vehicles in the United States article
  27. Created Crime in the United States article
  28. Re-wrote completely Social structure of the United States article
  29. Created Affluence in the United States article
  30. Created Personal income in the United States article
  31. Created Reference group short article
  32. Created White Christian male short article
  33. Created Average Joe article
  34. Created GMC Denali article
  35. Created Lincoln MK9/Mark X joint article

[edit] Other

  1. Created Volvo model line-up template Added template into each article of the vehicles originally mentioned in the template
  2. Created several userboxes
  3. Created the Lincoln template table and posted it at the bottom of every Lincoln article. User Sfoskett then helped by making my makeshift template into a real template so I don't have to post the entire table every time.
  4. Created Engine Specification Listing Box, "Blue box." lightblue box for U.S., lightgreen box for Europe, orange box for Asia, and lightgrey box for Autralia
  5. Created Techninical Specification Lisitng table, replacing the Blue Box
  6. Created Lincoln Model timeline (1970 - present)

[edit] Revisions

This editor is a Veteran Editor, and is entitled to display this Iron Editor Star
This editor is a Veteran Editor, and is entitled to display this Iron Editor Star

Articles I substantially revised:

  • Germany; US German relations
  • Full-Size Car article; Added "Decline and Renaissance" section, revised list of full-size vehicles.
  • Lincoln Town Car; Added sections (History, Trim Levels, Lincoln template, 1995, Timeline, tables) & photographs (all 1998 through 2002 model photographs) and extensively revised existing article.
  • Lincoln LS Added sections, and categories as well as expanded content significantly.
  • Lincoln Added model timeline, and Lincoln model table. Revised list of Lincoln vehicles by dividing it into three sections: Current vehicles, Recent vehicles, and Historical vehicles.
  • Mercury Grand Marquis Divided article into sections and added descriptions of redesignes.
  • Ford Crown Victoria Expanded and revised article.
  • Nissan Sentra Added sections, and rewrote almost completely.
  • Cadillac DeVille Expanded article.
  • Cadillac SeVille Added blue boxes, and categorizations. Expanded article.
  • Cadillac Eldorado Added Sections and expanded the article
  • GMC Yukon Added Denali Section
  • Limousine Created Gallery
  • Flagship Added Automotive section
  • Lincoln MKS Added Gallery and all pictures, revised template
  • Salinas, CA Added Housing Section and all photographs
  • Lincoln Versailles Reorganized entire article, moved paragraphs, added sections and infobox, removed POV
  • German Lincoln article Significantly added to the text, added model sections and tables.
  • German Lincoln Town Car article Significantly added to the article
  • Lexus LS Added generation infoboxes, revised sections, added content
  • Personal luxury car Added Europeans and Japanese vehicles
  • Fiat Panda Merged Old and New Fiat Panda articles, removed HTML table, added infobox, and corrected text
  • Monterey County Added home prices section
  • Cadillac timeline revised descriptions
  • Upper middle class Rewrote article, added "American upper-middle class section with link to the corresponding article, and added all images
  • Middle class Added "Subdividing of the middle class" section, American middle class section w/ link to corresponding article, and all images
  • Upper class Rewrote many sections and reogranized entire article and added all images
  • Millionaire Rewrote and reorganized the entire article and added all images
  • Poverty in the United States reporganized entrie article, rewrote many sections, added "Poverty overstated" section and image
  • Mass affluent in the United States added mention of class, templates, see also section, references, and categories
  • Social Structure of the United States rewrote the vast majority of article (except last three section w/o refs)
  • Added median household income and rank to the infoboxes of all 50 US states

[edit] Other edits

  • Added New Infobox to all Full-size car, Lincoln, Cadillac, BMW, Mercedes as well as many other articles
  • Added Lincoln Template to all Lincoln articles
  • Added Blue Boxes to all Lincoln and Cadillac as well as other articles
  • Added parent companies to several car manufacturer's articles
  • Categorized several articles as Prestige car and articles
  • Categorized Full-size vehicles as Full-size
  • Replaced Blue Boxes on appropriate articles
  • Added Metric to Lincoln articles where apropriate
  • Added US topics template on all articles on the Life in the US template

[edit] Peer recognition

The Society Barnstar
I, zzuuzz, award you this barnstar for your considerable efforts on improving articles related to socio-economics with particular reference to the United States. -- zzuuzz (talk) 03:20, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
The Original Barnstar
For your work on making and maintaining the Lincoln Town Car article at A class! Karrmann 23:30, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
I, OMEN, hereby award you this barnstar for you attempts to clean out POV at United States article. Keep up the good work.
I, OMEN, hereby award you this barnstar for you attempts to clean out POV at United States article. Keep up the good work.
I hearby award Gerdbrendel the The Technology Barnstar for his hard work and dedication to car transport articles (especially luxury and prestige cars) and the Automobiles Wikiproject! Thank you for your awesome work! - Bobo is soft 00:10, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
I hearby award Gerdbrendel the The Technology Barnstar for his hard work and dedication to car transport articles (especially luxury and prestige cars) and the Automobiles Wikiproject! Thank you for your awesome work! - Bobo is soft 00:10, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
Apple Pie Award
Brendel, I would like to award you this Apple Pie for your tireless creating, expanding, enhancing, illustrating and digging out references for an massive number of important articles pertaining to the Unisted States of America.
Bravada 12:32, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
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