Bando26

evenThis editor is an eventualist. This user thinks that registration should be required to edit articles. LE-0This individual still maintains a shred of dignity in this insane world by adhering to correct spelling, grammar, punctuation and capitalization. This user lives in the great state of Washington. This user does NOT live in Washington State, which is a university. This user does not reside in Washington, D.C., either. This user enjoys jelly beans. My Sandbox

My name is Brandon Dilbeck. Some of my favorite things include jelly beans, satire, Pokémon, photography, and the Internet. I'm 36 years (13385 days) old. I reside in and have grown up in Lynnwood, Washington (a cold, rainy place with a lot of strip malls), but was born in Mission, Kansas. We moved from there when I was four years old, and I love it here near Seattle and would only move away for warmer weather. It's not the frequent rain that's giving me problems; it's the ten-month-lack of sun that upsets me. I'm attending the University of Washington, which seems to be a nice place. Go Huskies!

I've been an editor on Wikipedia since January 11, 2006. My first edit dealt with the Turtle Comms from the Ninja Turtles cartoon. I have several favorite topics that I tend to hover above, but I also like to copyedit pages that sorely need it. I figure I'm a good copyeditor—I'm a real stickler for grammar—so let me know if you have a rotten stinky article you'd like me to take a look at. I find that the main types of edits I make to articles aren't hugely influential, and I'm not really a very heavy editor. I've mostly been tidying up a articles and templates here and there. Indeed, I rarely seem to introduce any new content to the articles themselves; I just clean up whatever's there and talk about whatever needs to be done on the talk pages.

I signed up for the Pokémon Collaborative Project (now WikiProject Pokémon) on August 28, 2006; this seemed like a good project for me because I love the Pokémon games and know just about anything there is to know about them. Some of my biggest contributions to the project's articles consisted of copyediting articles and reverting the endless vandalism. I left the project on September 12, 2007 because people started merging the articles into boring, stub-like lists.

I'm a Wikipedia eventualist, which is weird because I can be one of the most impatient people I know. I think I'm more of an eventualist because I'm still young and can see myself being able to use Wikipedia ten, twenty, maybe even thirty years from now. I wonder how many edits I'll have by then! (But then again, people's edit counts don't represent how good their edits are.) In the past, I joined a group of eventualist inclusionists (I'm also rather inclusionist and hate to see articles go without a fighting chance), but decided I can be what I am without having to add my name to a list, especially because I figured that I wouldn't actually do anything as a member of the group. My supposition is that if we give articles a good, long chance to grow, then they will all become terrific resources and everybody will love Wikipedia.

I have a website, Brandon's Website, where I try to write and collect funny stuff. I've written multiple pages, including a guide of as many Jelly Belly jelly bean flavors as possible, a tally of Sweethearts candy messages, and a count of Halloween costumes. My Animal Crossing Diary seems to be popular too. It's been a while since I made a serious update to my website; I'm concerned that I've stopped caring about it.