Just someone who finds vandalism on this site funny, but never attempts to do it himself.
I'm Brian Liew (born 8 May 2003), or BriDash9000, (a portmanteau of my name, somepony else's, and a number reminiscent of a certain meme), a Malaysian who lives with four others in Subang Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia. Some of the things I do most of the time include playing Brawl Stars, watching videos on YouTube, and reading (and since 2025, editing) Wikipedia.
I've known Wikipedia since at least 2018, and it, along with some other wikis out there, is where I've been gaining knowledge particularly about the video game and film/television genres. I've always been impressed about how fast a page can be edited in a matter of time to always reflect the latest information. I had been wondering for quite a while: who has been editing all this?
Around 2022 or 2023, I started to get familiar to Wikipedia's protection policy, after noticing that certain pages have various padlock icons on the top-right corner. Upon reading the protection policy page, that's when I learnt that anyone can edit Wikipedia, but also discovering the site's dark side which caused the protections: Vandalism? Disruptive editing? Sockpuppetry? Edit warring? How could some users be so horrible? Later in 2023, I got familiar to the protection log, and noticed that one page had been protected temporarily a couple of times, until it is eventually protected indefinitely. What now, I was thinking. Protected permanently?
In 2024, I saw a case of another indefinitely protected page having its protection removed as an unprotection trial, debunking my theory that "indefinite" means "permanent". Around that time was also when I became aware of the request for page protection (RFPP) page, the source of many page protections. As I browsed through the RFPP archives, I started to notice that something wasn't right: some pages which were intended to be protected temporarily were somehow not set to expire. Also, when paying attention to the protection log, I saw cases where multiple pages were protected for the same temporary duration, except for at least one, which was set to indefinite. Was it an oversight by the administrators, or did they intend to protect those pages indefinitely?
I finally created this account on 8 May 2025 at 01:15 MST (or 7 May 2025 at 17:15 UTC), after I continued to see cases of other indefinitely protected pages, mainly about high-profile common subjects, having their protections removed or downgraded, only for the previous protections to be reinstated soon afterwards. After making this discussion about the issues I noted above and informing the administrators on their talk pages, it turned out, most of those indefinite protections were a false alarm, and I appealed most of them. Since then, I've been trying to ensure that most pages are protected with the correct duration as intended, all while learning that some pages should be left indefinitely protected the way they are.