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This user has been on Wikipedia for 21 years, 1 month and 2 days.

I am a newspaper reporter in New Hampshire. (I am not the NY Times' David Brooks.) I came to Wikipedia in January 2003, following a media storm when it hit 100,000 articles. I became an administrator in 2004, when not much was required to become an administrator.