User:Brockert
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[edit] Me
I'm Ben Brockert. I live in Iowa, previously Kossuth, Iowa (near Mediapolis (north of Burlington)), now in Ames. I was a student of Computer Engineering at Iowa State University, currently I work full time for one of the industries in town. I am an urban explorer, a photographer, a hobbyist jet propulsion researcher, giant space geek, and I'm not good at any of it. I write a blog on urban exploration, the UE News.
I made my first logged-in edit on April 6, 2004, my 2000th edit on 20 November 2004, and my 4000th on 20 May 2005. I have 4608 as of 08:01, 3 February 2007 (UTC). My user page has been vandalized twice. I sometimes take wiki vacations for the sake of my sanity. If you ever start to feel that everything will fall apart if you leave, it's imperative that you leave immediately.
On December 15, 2004, the fine bureaucrat Cecropia promoted me to administrator (or custodian) per the will of 17 kind users, with no dissenting votes. I nominated myself as a birthday present to myself. If you see me misuse any of my powers, please call me on it.
[edit] Most edited articles
An interesting look into what the heck I'm doing here.
- 40 Iowa
- 22 Urban exploration
- 14 X
- 12 Aggregate series
- 10 Douglas Adams
- 10 Mississippi
- 9 John Vincent Atanasoff
- 9 Gunpowder
- 9 Atanasoff–Berry Computer
[edit] Transwiki
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"Man, is it ever going to suck when I change my last name."
See also: the list of languages on the left for which I have Wikipedia accounts.
[edit] Stuff
[edit] ...to read:
- Stats
- Usage stats
- RTFM: Alphabetical index
[edit] ...to do:
- User:Brockert/Correct_date_project
- Deadend_pages
- Disambiguation pages with links
- Wikipedia:Undisambiguated abbreviations/CIA World Factbook
- User:Topbanana/Reports/This is a broken redirect page
- User:Topbanana/Reports/This is one of the most linked to stubs
- Last but not least, User:Topbanana/Reports
[edit] Wikipedians
[edit] Assets to Wikipedia:
Pete/Pcb21 Cyrius Angela
[edit] People I know from elsewhere, who may also be assets to Wikipedia:
Wikipedia:Teeming Millions people from the SDMB Till from alt.fan.douglas-adams Mouser from twin cities urban exploration
[edit] Temporary for me
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lawrence%2C_Kansas&diff=prev&oldid=50668977
[edit] Speedy cleanup]
Idea: Wikipedia:Speedy cleanup. In essense, "if this isn't fixed soon, I'm going to put it up on VFD." Occasionally an article could possibly be worthwhile, but malingers in a deletion-worthy state until someone puts it up for deletion.
Examples of articles that became worthwhile (or at least undeleteable) once they were listed on VFD:
[edit] Other stuff to do
- Wikipedia:VfD votes in the Template namespace -check for re-creation
- Timeline of telescopes, observatories, and observing technology -standardize units