User:Brian Kendig

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Hacker, engineer, philosopher, secular humanist, small-l libertarian, occasional writer, alumnus of Princeton University and the Princeton Triangle Club and Quadrangle Club, formerly with Netscape Communications Corporation and Apple Computer. Currently living in Celebration, Florida right next to Walt Disney World Resort.

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This user [1] an administrator on the English Wikipedia.

I asked my friends to edit this for me and they added: All-around cool guy. Good listener, introspective. Collector of small fox plushes and old Macintosh and Apple computers. Really good friend. Thanks, y'all. :-)

[edit] Help me help you

I am a Wikipedia administrator, which means that I have a mop and bucket with which to help keep Wikipedia sparkling clean. If I can help you out with anything, please let me know on my talk page. (An archive of my RfA page is at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Brian Kendig.)

[edit] It's not personal

If I make an edit you don't like, it's not because I don't like you. I will not waste time on pointless drama and I will not respond to personal attacks. I do my best to assume good faith. However, I am human, I screw up sometimes, so if you feel I've screwed up then please let me know and let's talk things over calmly.

If you have a problem with edits I've made to a particular article, I prefer to discuss that on the article's Talk page (rather than over IM or email) so that other Wikipedians can share in the discussion and offer suggestions.

[edit] About links to fansites

I am working on a policy proposal regarding this; my scratch page is at User:Brian Kendig/Fansite links.

[edit] Did you know?

If you want to remove the parenthetical part of any link - like, say, you want to link to the Galactic Republic (Star Wars) without having "Star Wars" appear in the link - then you don't need to spell out [[Galactic Republic (Star Wars)|Galactic Republic]]. Just put the pipe character with nothing following it, like [[Galactic Republic (Star Wars)|]], and it'll remove anything in parentheses from the link, turning it into Galactic Republic.

[edit] Articles

I edit boldly. These are some of the articles I've put work into, many of which I've created or completely rewritten.

[edit] Disney

[edit] Technology

Netscape Communications Corporation
Apple Computer:
- Apple Macintosh
- PowerBook
- Mac mini
- iPod
- iPod shuffle
- Mac OS
- Mac OS X
- Apple Newton
Microsoft
- Common criticisms of Microsoft
- United States v. Microsoft
- Windows Me
- Windows XP (featured article!)
Code name
Eat one's own dog food
Trojan horse (computing)
System/36
Roomba

[edit] Video games

Atari Adventure
Atari Flashback
Golden age of arcade games (featured article!)
Pac-Man
Ridge Racer (series)
Samba de Amigo
Banjo-Kazooie, Banjo-Tooie
Pokémon
Karaoke Revolution
Tribes (video game)

[edit] Anime

[edit] Star Trek

[edit] Other

[edit] Categories

These are some of the general categories in which I consider myself knowledgeable. I keep track of this so I can find more articles to work on. Not a complete list yet - I need to go through some articles and gather more categories.