User:MONGO

 MONGO

MONGO in the flesh!

The setting sun illuminates the top of a classic anvil-shaped thunderstorm cloud, eastern Nebraska

Bald eagle picture taken in Nebraska

The Salamander Glacier in Glacier National Park, Montana

My username is from a character in the movie Blazing Saddles...though some here may disagree, I have little in common with this character...anyway, check out MONGO in action here...I actually have more in common with this critter. I am not from nor was Mongo, Indiana named after me, though that locale is likely quite incredible.

I have an essay about why linking to harassment is BAD...please read it only if you have plenty of free time available.

I was once an administrator...but was desysopped by the Arbitration Committee in 2006.

I have pages on Commons where I usually upload my images and release them to the public domain and Meta which I rarely use.

I was born at 07:17 on January 18, 2005...before that, I did not exist. Since my birth I have made over 75,000 edits...and only one that was automated...for what that is worth... and have started over 1223 articles and have collaborated on 13 Featured Articles....I am one of the primary editors who reinitiated the effort to get semi-protection implemented...though earlier efforts had failed to get the featured adopted, by July 2005 the rate of "drive-by vandalism" had increased so much, the effort was renewed....by December 2005, administrators had the new ability to semi-protect pages and the rate of vandalism dropped to almost zero in some cases where the semi-protection was applied.