User:Flyguy649
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.
To do
- Vietnam Airlines Flight 815 - add to it
- Bill Weaver - SR-71 pilot [1]
- Invertebrate photoreceptor - fix, it ain't ocelli
Pages I've created/substantially rewrote
Major
- Mannose 6-phosphate receptor (changed from redirect)
- Insulin-like growth factor 2 receptor - rewrote, added a lot
Minor
- Ileal vessels - very short, based on other pages
- List of musical works in 5/4 or 5/8 time split out of main article
- List of musical works in 7/4 or 7/8 time split out of main article
- List of musical works with unusual time signature combinations split out of main article
- FlyBase
- December 17 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- December 18 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- Gamma secretase
Pages I've recently made significant changes to
Awards/barnstars
My edits
I currently have over 13,000 edits at en.wikipedia.
- My 1st edit, December 10, 2005
- My 500th edit, January 14, 2007
- My 1,000th edit, January 27, 2007
- My 1,500th edit, February 9, 2007
- My 2,000th edit, Febuary 16, 2007
- My 2,500th edit, February 21, 2007
- My 3,000th edit, February 26, 2007
- My 4,000th edit, March 12, 2007
- My 5,000th edit, March 25, 2007
- My 7,500th edit, June 9, 2007
- My 10,000th edit, August 15, 2007
- My 15,000th edit, March 17, 2008
Quotes
"The important thing is, Wikipedia is NOT a trivia collection." -- User:Jimbo Wales 20:00, 27 July 2007 (UTC)" (From here)
Tools etc.
RFAs on the go:
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