User:Dennis Brown

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 {{noping|DGG}}:

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)

My real name is Dennis Brown. I was born in the 1960s. I'm an American who has lived in several parts of the USA, and has visited about half of all US states. I moved to the Philippines in 2023, living on different islands and I travel here a lot. 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 edit automobile related articles, food articles, some military stuff, and some local culture topics and the like. I used to participate here heavily, but now I'm not very active on Wikipedia, and often absent for many days or weeks at a time. I sometimes edit with one of my alts or as an IP, as I find that is a very different experience.

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.

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• {{classicon|DYK}} Yadkin-Pee Dee river basin
• {{classicon|DYK}} Pigs in the City
• {{classicon|DYK}} Knight's Spider Web Farm
• {{classicon|DYK}} RV/MH Hall of Fame
• {{classicon|DYK}} 1950s American automobile culture

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• {{classicon|GA}} 1950s American automobile culture
• {{classicon|GA}} American automobile industry in the 1950s

;FA / TFA

• {{classicon|FA}} Sunbeam Tiger
• {{classicon|TFA}} Sunbeam Tiger (July 12, 2013)

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• Not including disambigs or redirects. Not in any order.

1. Pork jowl
2. Dressed weight
3. North Carolina Music Hall of Fame
4. {{classicon|DYK}} 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. {{classicon|DYK}} 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. {{classicon|DYK}} Knight's Spider Web Farm
37. Tri-Five
38. Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1952
39. {{classicon|GA}} {{classicon|DYK}} 1950s American automobile culture
40. List of river basins in the United States
41. Siblings Day
42. Lawry's Seasoned Salt
43. {{classicon|GA}} 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. {{classicon|DYK}} 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)
68. Sage Wall

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

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: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

• Sage Wall, new, need to flesh out when I have time.

Need to add to:

:Sampaloc (dab)

:National Center for Automated Information Research

:User:Maxim/ArbCom and desysops

:[https://xtools.wmcloud.org/adminstats/en.wikipedia.org/2022-08-03/2023-08-02 All admin stats/ranks (slow)]

:[https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAuth Global Acct Info]

:Non-EC editors shouldn't participate in AFD of CT topics [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Clarification_and_Amendment/Archive_126#Clarification_request:_Extended_confirmed_restriction]

:User:Trappist the monk/HarvErrors Harvard citations

:Special:AbuseLog

:[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Log?type=newusers&user=&page=&wpdate=&tagfilter=&wpfilters%5B%5D=newusers User Creation Log]

:Special:NewPages

:[https://utrs-beta.wmflabs.org/review UTRS]

:[https://pageviews.wmcloud.org/userviews/ Pageviews per editor]

:[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Candidates_for_speedy_deletion Cat:speedy delete]

• [https://tl.wikipedia.org Tagalog Wikipedia (Filipino)]
• [https://ceb.wikipedia.org Cebuano Wikipedia (Bisaya)]
• [https://simple.wikipedia.org Simple Wikipedia (English)]

:{{subst:AE sanction| (see template for options)}}

:AE log

:{{subst:alert|xxx}}

:Template:Administrator note - several handy templates/icons

:{{db-gs}} CSD for CT / EC violations?

:₱ = Philippine peso / ₱ /

• List of car brands keeps getting non-notables spammed to it