User:Dennis Brown

User ID: 94,871

Stewards & Checkusers: I typically must use a VPN, so my source IP rotates frequently and could be one of many countries. This is why I require global-IPBE. Most of the time, there will be traffic on my IPs that is not me. To prevent issues, I hereby grant permission to run checkuser on my IP/this account (or those of my alts) out of process and without my prior permission. My primary alt (mobile), User:Farmer Brown has IPBE at enwp only. I also have the alt User:Pharmboy, which was my original name when I joined, and I recaptured when my account was moved to my real name. I use multiple user agents. My time zone is +8 UTC/Philippines Standard Time.

To say that I am constantly disgusted with the WMF is an understatement.

My philosophy
One of the most influential and profound things I have ever read at Wikipedia is found on the user page of my friend and mentor : I do not attempt to convert my opponents--I aim at converting their audience. While I have yet to master this skill, it is my goal. In deletion and policy discussions, it is helpful to not bludgeon others or dilute their opinions. It reminds me that it isn't necessary to convince every person as we are a consensus community. The most important person at Wikipedia is the reader. Everyone else is secondary. Everything we do should be to give that reader an experience that is free from bias, propaganda and rumor. Accuracy is more important that completeness. “I'd far rather be happy than right any day." - Douglas Adams

"My patience is formidable.... But it is not infinite." - Scorpius (Farscape)

Who I am
My real name is Dennis Brown. I was born in the 1960s. I'm an American who has lived in 7 US states over the years, and has visited about half of all US states. I moved to the Philippines in 2023. I'm semi-retired and work part time for a (non-notable) business I founded years ago in the ultraviolet industry. I sometimes edit articles related to UV but not in a way that benefits me. I avoid editing in contentious topics, and instead I focus on gnome-like cleaning up and shepherding of core articles. I like editing automobile related articles and food articles, and some local culture topics, and expect to update many of our articles relating to the Philippines, my new home, as time allows. I also try to do my share of admin tasks in many areas, to reduce the load for everyone. I played guitar (and other instruments) in small local bands for years. I like fishing, camping, walking/hiking, traveling, and other ordinary things. I'm moderately active on Wikipedia, but often absent for many days at a time.

Accountability
I started editing as a registered user on Sept. 6, 2006, although I had edited unregistered some time before that. I became an administrator on April 25, 2012.

Admin are free to revert or modify any admin action that I have taken if it is to better the encyclopedia and not likely to be controversial, ie: it is not likely I would argue against it. No prior permission is needed, but I do request a note afterwards.

For the purpose of security, I have two alternate accounts that I use. User:Farmer Brown is my alternate account when I'm on a mobile device. User:Pharmboy is an alternate that is seldom used. Very rarely, I may have to edit as an IP, but due to VPN usage, that IP is never consistent.

Articles achievements

 * WP:DYK
 * Yadkin-Pee Dee river basin
 * Pigs in the City
 * Knight's Spider Web Farm
 * RV/MH Hall of Fame
 * 1950s American automobile culture
 * GA
 * 1950s American automobile culture
 * American automobile industry in the 1950s
 * FA / TFA
 * Sunbeam Tiger
 * Sunbeam Tiger (July 12, 2013)

Articles I have created

 * Not including disambigs or redirects. Not in any order.
 * 1) Pork jowl
 * 2) Dressed weight
 * 3) North Carolina Music Hall of Fame
 * 4) Yadkin-Pee Dee river basin Was a redirect, now an article.
 * 5) D.H. Griffin Companies
 * 6) North Carolina Wine Festival
 * 7) Red slaw
 * 8) Barbecue in North Carolina
 * 9) Bob Timberlake (artist)
 * 10) North Carolina Barbecue Society
 * 11) Pigs in the City
 * 12) Lexington Barbecue Festival
 * 13) The City of Beautiful Nonsense (book)
 * 14) Zingbot 3000
 * 15) Cambria (company)
 * 16) How I Survived Middle School
 * 17) Falls Reservoir
 * 18) Full pond
 * 19) Stratos Boats
 * 20) High Rock Lake Association
 * 21) List of geographical regions in Texas
 * 22) Matco Tools
 * 23) Ove Johansson
 * 24) Tanning addiction
 * 25) Rough fish
 * 26) Mud cat
 * 27) Ameiurus
 * 28) Abbotts Creek, North Carolina
 * 29) 44th Missile Wing
 * 30) Buck–boost transformer
 * 31) Indoor tanning lotion
 * 32) Browns Summit, North Carolina
 * 33) Tanning lamp
 * 34) Kirby Lake
 * 35) Santa Ana Drags
 * 36) Knight's Spider Web Farm
 * 37) Tri-Five
 * 38) Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1952
 * 39)  1950s American automobile culture
 * 40) List of river basins in the United States
 * 41) Siblings Day
 * 42) Lawry's Seasoned Salt
 * 43) American automobile industry in the 1950s
 * 44) Ian Garrad
 * 45) Boone's Cave Park
 * 46) Yadkin Valley Wine Festival
 * 47) Dinah the Pink Dinosaur
 * 48) RV/MH Hall of Fame
 * 49) Eliphante
 * 50) Glore Psychiatric Museum
 * 51) Witch History Museum
 * 52) Muncie SM420 transmission
 * 53) Fahrenheit 212
 * 54) Uakitite
 * 55) Childress Vineyards
 * 56) List of advocates of universal basic income
 * 57) Pheasant under glass
 * 58) Fayetteville Dogwood Festival
 * 59) List of festivals in North Carolina
 * 60) The House of Yahweh: My Side of the Story
 * 61) Fender Cabronita Telecaster
 * 62) Chicken Bone Beach
 * 63) Susan Brown (mathematician)
 * 64) List of alternative names for currency
 * 65) List of people from Greensboro, North Carolina
 * 66) Food Act 2006 (Sweden)
 * 67) Western Electric (tube manufacturer)

Essays I've created

 * Don't bludgeon the process (WP:BLUDGEON)
 * Communication is required (WP:ENGAGE)
 * Dealing with sockpuppets (WP:SOCKHELP)
 * IP addresses are not people (WP:NOTHUMAN)

Countries
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Personal notes (not interesting to anyone but me)

 * Jim Liberman is a mess. Need article on his partner, Jungle Pam
 * List of Medknow Publications academic journals is mainly non-articles, seems problematic.
 * "Texas dozen" - can't find the etymology to include in Dozen. Lot of use, no RS
 * User:Dennis Brown/Colored fair
 * User:Dennis Brown/Articles/American automobile industry in the 1960s (maybe ask Sandy to help at the end)
 * User:Dennis Brown/Articles/American automobile industry in the 1970s not really starting yet, but can dump here.
 * User:Dennis Brown/American Hot Rod Association (was AFD for copyvio, need to clean write and likely DRV)
 * User:Dennis Brown/Articles
 * Greshun De Bouse‎ may need RM
 * Schumacher Electric Corporation
 * Colloidal silver need to change redirect to an actual article.
 * Terry Blade serious cite concerns

afc Feli Ferraro Bridge City Sinners‎

Need to add to:
 * Sampaloc (dab)
 * National Center for Automated Information Research

WP:

 * User:Maxim/ArbCom and desysops
 * All admin stats/ranks (slow)
 * Global Acct Info
 * Non-EC editors shouldn't participate in AFD of CT topics


 * User:Trappist the monk/HarvErrors Harvard citations

Patrol

 * Special:AbuseLog
 * User Creation Log
 * Special:NewPages
 * UTRS
 * Pageviews per editor
 * Cat:speedy delete

User talk:Edimap 6001
 * Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi Needs gutting due to now blocked SPA spamming it.

Other Wikis

 * Tagalog Wikipedia (Filipino)
 * Cebuano Wikipedia (Bisaya)
 * Simple Wikipedia (English)

shortcuts

 * (see template for options)
 * AE log
 * xxx
 * Template:Administrator note - several handy templates/icons
 * CSD for CT / EC violations?
 * ₱ = Philippine peso / &amp;#8369; /


 * might be using a script, refused to engage.