User:Brockert

A photo I GFDLed, of my friend Mike. (article: Urban exploration)

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Me

I'm Ben Brockert. I live in Mojave, California where I build rocket vehicles for Masten Space Systems. I moved here from Ames, Iowa, where I was a student of computer Engineering at the university there. It was mostly an excuse to be in the Iowa State Space Society and SEDS. I grew up in Kossuth, Iowa (near Mediapolis (north of Burlington)). Hobbies include urban exploration, photography, hobbyist jet propulsion research (especially pulse jet engines), building stuff, and being a giant space geek.

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.

Most edited articles

An interesting look into what the heck I'm doing here.

1. 40 Iowa
2. 22 Urban exploration
3. 14 X
4. 12 Aggregate series
5. 10 Douglas Adams
6. 10 Mississippi
7. 9 John Vincent Atanasoff
8. 9 Gunpowder
9. 9 Atanasoff–Berry Computer

Transwiki

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"Man, is it ever going to suck when I change my last name."

Wikibooks en:User:Brockert	wiktionary:User:Brockert	Wikiversity en:User:Brockert
Wikinews en:User:Brockert	Wikispecies User:Brockert	commons:User:Brockert
Wikiquote en:User:Brockert	Wikisource en:User:Brockert	m:User:Brockert

See also: the list of languages on the left for which I have Wikipedia accounts.

Stuff

...to read:

• Stats
• Usage stats
• RTFM: Alphabetical index

...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

Wikipedians

Assets to Wikipedia:

Pete/Pcb21
Cyrius
Angela

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

Temporary for me

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lawrence%2C_Kansas&diff=prev&oldid=50668977

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:

• Docent
• Potato pancakes
• Boffin

Other stuff to do

• Wikipedia:VfD votes in the Template namespace -check for re-creation
• Timeline of telescopes, observatories, and observing technology -standardize units