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User:Flyguy649

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I was an administrator here on Wikipedia (RfA), although real life responsibilities prevent me from spending as much time here as I used to. As an editor, I am a generalist. I like to try to improve articles for readability and style – sometimes called wikignoming. I also revert any vandalism I find.

Although I contribute to a variety of article types, I am a member of the following Wikiprojects: Aircraft, Anatomy, Aviation, Aviation accident task force, Medicine, and Molecular and Cellular Biology. I helped create Wikipedia:WikiProject Short article clean-up, but real life has prevented me from working on this as much as I'd like.

Why "Flyguy649"? Although I have an interest in aviation, "Fly" refers to the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster. I used be a researcher use the fruit fly as a model system to study mechanisms of intracellular transport (I then moved onto other systems to study problems in cell biology, but now work in a hospital). I am a guy. And the 649 is a number to distinguish me from the multitude of other Flyguys out there. Truth be told, it's the size (in amino acids) of a protein I once studied. Yes, a bit geeky.

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Awards/barnstars

This user has been recognized as a
Big Boss Award recipient.
This user has been recognized as a
Big Boss Award recipient.


For you Flyguy649 the Working Persons' Barnstar for all the hard work you do around here.--Kukini hablame aqui 18:08, 20 March 2007 (UTC)


The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
Reporting an impersonator of me Chaza93 19:10, 15 July 2007 (UTC)


The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar
For jumping in and helping out with that severely prolific and diversive WP:SPA, you deserve this! ArielGold 05:52, 4 October 2007 (UTC)


The Working Man's Barnstar
For being one of the regular admins who help keep AIV clean, I award you this. It's a star. It's shiny. :) KnowledgeOfSelf | talk 05:59, 8 November 2007 (UTC)


The Barnstar of Reversion
For reverting so many unhelpful edits and vandalism on Wikipedia I User Swirlex award you this Barnstar. 23:46, 14 December 2007 (UTC)


My edits

Quotes

"The important thing is, Wikipedia is NOT a trivia collection." -- User:Jimbo Wales 20:00, 27 July 2007 (UTC)" (From here)

Tools etc.

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Resource Exchange

RFAs on the go:

Requests for adminship and bureaucratship update
RfA candidate S O N S % Status Ending (UTC) Time left Dups? Report
Hog Farm 131 9 6 94 Open 02:47, 22 December 2024 4 days, 11 hours no report
Committed identity: e1ae54a8b674b41db46493bbb95bd70a383d941268a56709196cd7eaae326a32a51d9113bfcbbdb027ea368a2d26fcb863c583e8a78ec8a417c3be0cf70a4b15 is a SHA-512 commitment to this user's real-life identity.