User:Dawnseeker2000

— Wikipedian ♂ —
Country	United States
Current location	Portland, Oregon
Sexuality	Yes
Family and friends
Pets	Budgies
Hobbies, favourites and beliefs
Politics	Center-left ; Thin blue line
Movies	A Patch of Blue, Days of Heaven, The Good, the Bad, the Weird, and the trilogy of death from Alejandro Iñárritu
Account statistics
Joined	June 1, 2006
Administrator	No
Edit count	300K (suggested interpretation: higher edit counts may indicate a more advanced level of insight)
Userboxes
	This user lives in Portland.
	This user lives in the U.S. State of Oregon.
	It is approximately 7:43 PM where this user lives.
	This user is hopelessly addicted to editing Wikipedia.
	This user has created 72 articles on Wikipedia.
del	This editor is a deletionist.
	This user thinks that registration should be required to edit articles.
What did you do?	This user includes edit summaries in their contributions and thinks that everybody should use them as well.
	This user has soloed a Cessna 172.
	This user has helped promote 16 good articles on Wikipedia.
	This user edits with the gadget wikEd.
	This user is willing to be slapped with a trout, should he need it.
	This user uses AutoWikiBrowser to quickly make repetitive edits.

I've been editing for a little over ten years, and I must admit that it's somewhat of a weird thing being involved with this project. No one else that I know IRL does this, so that makes the activity one that I do in solitude. Only rarely do I share what I'm doing with non-Wikipedia people. Are there other activities or hobbies that people do that are so sequestered? Probably, but I can't think of any off the top of my head.

I would say that as time has progressed, I've gotten more and more involved in editing. I guess you could say that my interests in the different aspects of the website has matured or developed over time. As a person, I've done the same. Maybe that's not saying much (or maybe it is) but I'm certain that I'm a vastly different person now than I was in 2007. That may not be your experience, but it certainly is mine.

Since July 2019 I've expanded my use of AWB quite a bit and that is pretty much all I do now. I'm working through all the articles that are tagged with dmy dates and running a module that verifies all dates are consistent. Boring, I know, but using, creating, and finding bugs in existing or freshly-developed regex scripts is satisfying and fun. There's an artistic quality to it that I've gotten to love. So, given the very large volume of articles that use dmy, I will be doing this activity for the next couple of years unless I burn out. That's a likely possibility. In that case, I would love to return to creating and modifying the earthquake articles and lists. More on that later.