Fyddlestix

Hello, I'm Fyddlestix! If you have any issues or questions about my edits, friendly advice, or just want to say hello please visit my Talk Page.

Note: If you get a "thanks" notification from me that doesn't make sense, please ignore it with my apologies. I often read/edit wikipedia on mobile and it is way too easy to hit that big "thank" button by accident!

About Me

This user comes from Canada.

PhDThis user has a Doctor of Philosophy degree in History.

This user believes that many articles on Wikipedia are poorly written and NEED fixing.

This user is a runner.

This user reverts vandalism in the blink of an eye with Twinkle!

My Contributions

Articles Created

Sam McBratney
The Truth About Hansel and Gretel (book)
Donald E. Abelson
Carmen Tafolla
Death of William Chapman
Paul Kivel
Paula S. Fass
Kevin M. Kruse
Douglas Smith (writer)

Stubs Expanded

The Church Mice series
John Richard Patterson

Major Cleanups

Jerry Speziale
Project for the New American Century
Death of Kirill Denyakin

Current Projects/To Do

Grigory Rasputin
Rape myths
Red River Rebellion
Subcommander Marcos
Liberal bias in academia
Margaret Sanger
Irish slaves myth
Irish indentured servants
Southern Strategy
Enrique Pena Nieto

Lower Priority

Irish immigration to Barbados
Katherine K. Young
Legal status of tattooing in the United States
Justin Trottier
Sexism
Canadian Association for Equality
Continue cleanup of Venona related articles
Christina Hoff Sommers
Sexism
Political correctness
Kern County child abuse cases and related. Big mess...

Nice stuff

		The Barnstar of Diligence
		For great detail work and Verification efforts the PNAC article. Capitalismojo (talk) 03:18, 24 March 2015 (UTC)

		The Editor's Barnstar
		To Fyddlestix, for an excellent write up. This is really well written - clear, precise, concise, scholarly. Please enjoy a well deserved barnstar award. Best wishes. FeatherPluma (talk) 02:23, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

	The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar
	Nice work on Jerry Speziale. Thanks. Drmies (talk) 01:24, 26 July 2015 (UTC)

	The Barnstar of Diplomacy
	Thanks for not digging the GlobalSecurity hole any deeper than it had got. Andy Dingley (talk) 04:11, 30 November 2016 (UTC)

Gallery of Horrors

Avert your eyes, children! These are some of the worst page versions/revisions I've encountered on wikipedia:

Jacob Truedson Demitz

• Under "awards:" Formally, Jacob Truedson Demitz wears The Beverly Hills Hotel's five-year gold pin, from work 1976–1984 as Front Desk Manager and Duty Manager there. Cause that's totally an encyclopedia-worthy "award." You get a gold star if you can figure out what the "formally" adds to that sentence. Bonus for the pictures-of-me-with-famous-people overkill. (now deleted, thanks to this train wreck of an AFD)

Jerry Speziale

• One sub-section of this mess alone had 28 subheadings - gems like Speziale Receives Catalyst for Change Award

Death of Kirill Denyakin

• Extensive editorial comments IN CAPS and strong pro-cop bias, eg the jury rightly refused to indict the officer on criminal charges... (Creepily, the same officer later shot someone else, and was found guilty of manslaughter).

Dimitri Soudas

• See the "quoteable quotes" section - cause all encyclopedia articles need one of those right?

Subcomandante Marcos

• Second sentence of the lede: Subcomandante Marcos, the character, the constructed persona, the hologram, the "colorful ruse," was created by the Clandestine Revolutionary Indigenous Committee of the Zapatistas, because "[the outsiders] can only see those who are as small as they are. Let's make someone as small as they are, so that they can see him and through him, they can see us." Determined by the Zapatistas to have become a distraction, the figure announced it to be destroyed in late May 2014.

Jean-Yves Béziau

• Check out the Controversy: Logical Pluralism section for copy-pasted shenannigans.