Flyguy649

This user is from Canada.

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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To do

Flagged revs test

User:Flyguy649/1954 Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan crash

Vietnam Airlines Flight 815 - add to it
Bill Weaver - SR-71 pilot

WP:SACU

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

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 Chaza 93 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! ^Ariel♥Gold 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

I currently have over 13,000 edits at en.wikipedia.

Quotes

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

Tools etc.

Van

Sand

Wikipedia:WikiProject Resource Exchange

RFAs on the go:

Requests for adminship and bureaucratship update
No current discussions. Recent RfAs, recent RfBs: (successful, unsuccessful)

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