User:1brianm7
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Hello and welcome to my page! I edit when I'm reading and I see something that could be better. My interests are legion and varied, as are my edits. Have a good day.
I made my account and first contribution on September 5, 2022. I eventually got it into my head that creating a Wikipedia article would be a fun exercise and began keeping an eye out for a subject. At 4 AM on December 21, 2024, I was reading 1928 United States presidential election and I stumbled across a red link.
Who the hell is Webb?
[edit]Frank Elbridge Webb was the Farmer–Labor Party's nominee for president. That was all the article had and I could find precious little else. I stumbled across an old Time article, and... it wasn't exactly the revelation I was hoping for.
The tragedy of minorities usually is that their leaders are unknown men whom the minority has neither the wit nor the money to publicize. And usually a minority is no greater than its biggest man. Bravely facing this fact, Nominee Webb has been issuing leaflets headlined: "Who the hell is Webb?"[2]
My question of "Who the hell is Webb?" was answered with "Nobody knows who the hell Webb is, so he's publishing pamphlets headlined 'Who the hell is Webb?'" Not a great start. I looked further, hoping to find more about him than the fact that nobody knew who the hell he was. Of course, I next found the San Francisco Chronicle praising Webb for the brilliancy of baiting Senator James A. Reed into asking "Who the hell is Webb?". Ok... so I guess that was a frequent question.[b] The pamphlets didn't work. Webb was never elected president and died "forgotten". I eventually figured out who the hell Webb was and on March 13, 2025, an article I created was accepted through WP:AFC. As first efforts go, I think it was pretty decent. Still, I have improved it a lot; first assessed as start-class, it is now B-class. Will he go higher? Maybe if I get my act together. He got on the main page through WP:DYK without a hitch.[c]
Frank Elbridge Webb Cinematic Universe (FEWCU)
[edit]I have been working on articles surrounding Webb. Due to uneven focus, only one such article is directly related to Webb: Henry Quincy Alexander was so outraged when he heard "Who the hell is Webb?" that he decided to run for vice president. The other articles are results of cosmic flukes or from a relation of a relation of Webb, etc.
It is nearly impossible to guess how almost all of those articles are related to Webb.
Funnies
[edit]I find it easier to work on articles where I can find something amusing about them. Sometimes that amusement is carried on throughout the article, and sometimes it's only enough to get me to the edit window:
- I improved Maru (cat)
- I created The Highest Court in the Land, the U.S. Supreme Court's basketball court
- I created the terrifically named Unterrified Democrat, as featured on The Technical Difficulties
- I improved Isiah Whitlock Jr., who knew his sheeeeeeeee-it
- I de-stubbed Shorty Gallagher, an utterly unremarkable baseball player who hated photography
- I created Kazuo Ueda (linguist), Japan's leading Yiddishist.
- I created The Life of Pope John Paul II, as presented by Marvel Comics
- I created Jono (video game),
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VTubers
[edit]I have also created articles related to VTubers:
I'd be willing to bet that the American politics[e] → VTuber pipeline is much more natural than it looks. I have also done a lot of work on improving Neuro-sama, compiling a list of every reliable source and doing the legwork to add Bilibili to Template:Infobox social media personality, which entailed making a list of every notable person on Bilibili.
Other work
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Tom Pritchard (restaurateur), Filipino fried chicken, it's finger lickin' good — an article I created and am proud of that doesn't fit into the above categories
Other articles I have worked on that are (much) smaller efforts or unsorted |
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Thoughts
[edit]| Editing milestones |
Editing milestones[edit]
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| Words of wisdom from Neuro-sama |
Words of wisdom from Neuro-sama[edit] Wikiquote has quotations related to Neuro-sama.
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| A list of stuff I'm writing |
A list of stuff I'm writing[edit]FEWCU[edit]
Not FEWCU[edit]
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| Goodbye! |
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This is just here to let me make some jokes.
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| Article | Exhausted | Notes |
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| Josiah_Mtekateka | Yes | N/a |
| Esther_Swirk_Brown | ||
| Pope_in_the_White_House | ||
| Charles_Goldstein | ||
| Jakobus_Onnen | ||
| Thora_Thersner | ||
| Kenneth_D._McCullar | ||
| Pallas_Athena_(Rembrandt) | ||
| Sing_the_50_United_States | ||
| Helen_Essary | ||
| Chris_Jackson_(oncologist) | ||
| Dale_Berry | ||
| Nick_McKenzie | x2, I think | |
| Velký_vlastenecký_výlet | N/a | |
| Krispy_Kream_Drive-In | No | |
| Kate_Nambiar | ||
| Remilia | ||
| Oshikatsu | ||
| Nobuhiko_Jimbo | ||
| List_of_people_who_use_their_middle_names_as_their_first_names | Courtesy of theleekycauldron, proof | |
| 1966_United States_House_of_Representatives_election_in_Delaware | ||
| Lorenzo_Dow_Thompson_(legislator) | N/a | |
| The_Other_America_(speech) | ||
| Waiting_for_the_Messiah_(album) | ||
| The_Whisky_Distilleries_of_the_United_Kingdom | ||
| Lucie_Stern | ||
| Toby_Fox | ||
| Axolotl | Yes | Exhausted ahead of schedule because I felt it semi-likely that they would eventually not count as QPQs. |
| iPhone_18_Pro | ||
| iPhone_Duo | ||
| Ginga_no_Uo_Ursa_Minor | No | N/a |
