This user is proud to be Puerto Rican
This user helped promote Ramón Emeterio Betances to featured article status.

Demf are actually the initials in my name, David Enrique Miró Feliciano. I'm a native of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico (particularly Miradero), to where I've returned to live for the first time in nine years. I lived for close to three years in San Jose and Cupertino,California, while working at Apple Inc. Since then I returned to Puerto Rico, not before criss-crossing the United States and living for a while in Orlando, Florida. You'll see who I am and what I stand for in the Userboxes section down below.

I was, for over 12 years, the organizer of the Premios DUH! (or DUH! Awards), a mock award show where Puerto Rican odd news (and odd celebrities) were given awards and immortalized for posterity. Sort of. This was a minor media event in Puerto Rico every December 28th., the local equivalent of April Fools Day in Puerto Rico. I've since moved on and am now contributing with a humor column to a local newspaper, every week. For the time being, the newspaper shall remain nameless...

I used to be an active contributor to Wikipedia, and did contribute to pages that relate to either Puerto Rico or to Puerto Rican culture. I gravitated to pages about Puerto Rican landmarks, famous people (particularly singers and composers), and the one for my birthplace and those of fellow mayagüezanos. However, one article made me change my mind. I tried, unsuccessfully, to raise the Ramón Emeterio Betances artice beyond the paltry "B" rating it used to have a while back. For close to five months I researched the guy, took photos of all landmarks associated to him in Puerto Rico, transcribed podcasts, rewrote the article tons of times... and still didn't get much assistance to have it fixed. Everyone and his brother thought it was my article, so to speak; they would all critique it, but only a few would help. Some Wikipedians' paranoia over quotes and over WP's arcane rules made things worse, and I had quite a few decent Puerto Rico articles removed claiming I had done "original research" (ask a Puerto Rican about a sociological concept such as "Ay, bendito" and he'll tell you it is not a mere phrase in a dictionary, but some bozos here think it is), so I simply gave up.

A few fellow Puerto Rican Wikipedians carried on the torch for the Betances article and had it earn the Featured Article status it now has (and deserves, modesty aside). However, yet again, this place is the only place in the world where a person, in theory, cannot write an autobiography if someone hasn't quoted him or her first... There are also quite a bunch of trolls raising hell around these quarters, far more interested in rules and harassing other people about what they think this WP version should be: an Anglocentric realm of popular culture, where little else deserves more than stub treatment. I simply edit here first because the only language in far more use than English in the world is Chinese, and I know almost no Chinese. A broad worldwide editorial and tech support base made articles about my home country much better known elsewhere, and because of this, I chose English, and not Spanish, as the basis for most of my articles. Yet, I'm sure, some bozo will complain about me even saying this here.

My WP status as an editor is on hold. However, motivated by fellow boricua Wikipedians like Tony the Marine (whom I personally visited in Arizona in February, 2008), I am slowly returning to correct existing articles here and there. Finally, I'm starting a wiki project called Mayawiki, in Spanish. If you're a mayagüezano, feel free to join.

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Places I've been

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Famous people I've met or talked to

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I've also had to slow down while driving to allow Weird Al Yankovic and Steve Jobs cross the street on separate occasions... (For the record, I never worked under Jobs' during either one of his tenures, as was implied in a newspaper article in Puerto Rico recently... I did meet people who worked with the guy, though. What a character...)

OTOH Jacobo Morales lives up the street from me, but doesn't know me (I have no plans to run him over with the car, however. God forbid!) Tego Calderón's daughter was an acquaintance of mine's. Shy guy, excellent father, very respectful dude. Outside of that, I've had the chance to see Prince Charles, Mel Gibson and Mel Tormé (when he was alive) from a distance. I've stood right next to Otilio Warrington, Gilberto Santa Rosa and Victor Manuelle but wouldn't dare to greet them. I also literally walked behind Isabel Allende when she visited the U. of Puerto Rico, for about 60 yards (...them skinny legs!)

David's Userboxes

(Due to inconsistencies in userbox design this section may look sloppy)

☢This user is an escaped genetic experiment.
WikipediaWikipedia
Contribuyo en la Wikipedia en español.
I support the Spanish language Wikipedia with my contributions.
This is a standard size userbox created with Template:Userbox.
It stacks neatly with others of its ilk.
This user finds copyright paranoia disruptive.
This user has a sense of humour and shows it through the use of userboxes.
♂This user is male.
This user is married.
DadThis user is a father and proud of it!
This user is interested in politics.
This user's favourite colour is blue.
This user is for racial equality.
This user is not a pet owner.
This user is interested in Roman Catholicism.
This user is skeptical of the Zodiac.
I would say I'm a cynic but I bet you just wouldn't believe me.
This user is Spanish.
This user supports the European Union.
DEM
This user supports the Democratic Party of the United States.
This user supports democratic secession movements.
This user is a supporter of independence for Puerto Rico.
This user is a Marxist,
with a Groucho tendency.
?met?This user prefers metric units and cannot figure out why Americans and Brits have such a hard time with them.
This user sees nothing wrong with the human form and doesn't view it as something that needs to be hidden.
This user has never left the Northern Hemisphere.
This user has left the planet Earth 0 times.
This user's time zone is UTC-4.
This user does not observe Daylight Saving Time.
This user enjoys skiing.
This user remembers using
a rotary dial telephone.
This user uses Google as a primary search engine.
🎸This user plays the guitar.
This user enjoys
heavy metal music.
VHThis user loves Van Halen.
This user enjoys klezmer.
This user enjoys classical music.
This user loves the music of
Ludwig van Beethoven.
This user can't stand hip hop music.
This user listens to Vallenato and recognizes its part of Colombia’s cultural heritage. ¡Ay Hombre!
This user studies national anthems.
This user has an iPod.
ADHDThis user has ADHD.
MBTIThis user took different MBTI tests and discovered that they had multiple personalities, so they're a bit confused.
This user enjoys reading non-fiction.
This user does not smoke.
Secondhand smoke is one of this user's pet peeves.
"No smoking" sign with text This user supports the ban on smoking in public places.
This user supports recycling.
This user is left-handed.
This user is an omnivore.
CokeThis user believes Pepsi is no match for Coke. Not even close.Pepsi
This user drinks Inca Kola.
This user sleeps, but not for predictable amounts of time.
This user supports public transit.
This user is a graduate from the
UPR at Mayagüez.
Antes, Ahora y Siempre, Colegio!
This user is an engineer.
BSEThis user has a Bachelor of Science in Engineering degree.
MEngThis user has a Master of Engineering degree.
prog-2This user is an intermediate programmer.
vbThis user is a Visual Basic programmer.
C#This user can program in C#.
CThis user can program in C.
WinXPRegretfully, this user contributes using Microsoft Windows XP.
cvg-0This user does not play or is not interested in video games.
This user is a broadcaster.
NTSCThis user's television receives NTSC/NTSC-variant transmissions, or lives in a region where they are broadcast.
? This user doesn't know Whose Line It Is.
This user is Latin American.
This user has visited 28 of the 50 United States.28

15		This user has visited 15 of the 208 countries in the world.
ENDThis user has no more userboxes.

These last four userboxes are outta whack...


Musical influences

Articles

I got sick of maintaining an article list. Just check "User contributions" on the side menu.


Awards(To Moi?)

This Boricua Tireless Contributor Barnstar is presented to Demf for the continous work on Puerto Rican related articles. Presented by Tony the Marine 21:26, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
Puerto Rico National Merit Medal

Last Update: Demf 16:21, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

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