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 [1]

• 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.

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

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

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: