User:Fairsing

Wikibreak
This user has grown tired of the ever-increasing bureaucracy on Wikipedia. In particular, this user notes with dismay the growing number of "contributors" who generate no actual content, but rather resemble Dolores Umbridge and/or Barney Fife in their zealous enforcement of their own personal interpretation of Wikipedia policies and guidelines. These self-appointed guardians of The One True Way (their own way, of course) appear to take great satisfaction in hectoring those contributors who do add content to the enclyclopedia. More and more the focus of Wikipedia is therefore evolving toward wikilawyering rather than expanding and improving the encyclopedia itself. The experience of editing Wikipedia is beginning to resemble being nibbled to death by a herd of rabid guinea pigs. In other words, it just doesn't seem to be much fun anymore, so this user has decided to go on indefinite Wikibreak as of September 30, 2007.

This user therefore may not respond to e-mails or notes placed on talk pages, but wishes the best of luck to those who remain and are actually focused on improving the content of the encyclopedia.

Greetings
My handle is a word in the Irish Language that translates into English variously, but 'extensive', 'ample', and and 'plentiful' are three interpretations. (I do not speak Irish, although I am of Irish descent and would love to learn the language someday). The handle indicates my interest in making contributions to a wide range of articles on Wikipedia.

Please feel free to share your comments, suggestions, compliments or constructive criticism regarding my performance on Wikipedia on my talk page. If you prefer, you can e-mail me. Either way, in most cases I will reply on your talk page.

My edits and interests
You can see my contributions summary for this username here. Before registering this username on April 3 2006, I made 367 edits anonymously, which you can see here. My first Wikipedia edit was to the Single-stock futures article on February 3 2006, and you can see that edit here.

My focus so far has primarily included topics related to:
 * The city of Chicago, the Chicagoland metropolitan area, and the state of Illinois
 * Business, Finance and Economics
 * Topics relevant to the Science Fiction and Fantasy genres of literature and film, especially:
 * The author C. J. Cherryh and her works
 * The fantasy role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons and the World of Greyhawk campaign setting for the game

I am interested in just about everything, however, so my edits tend to be pretty wide-ranging. I also fix broken links, disambiguate, wikify, revert vandalism and do other minor cleanup work as I encounter problems that need to be addressed.

Pages I have originated
This list excludes the numerous redirects and User talk pages I have created.

C. J. Cherryh

 * Alliance-Union universe
 * Alternate Realities (Cherryh)
 * Azi (clone)
 * Brothers of Earth
 * Category:C. J. Cherryh book covers
 * Cuckoo's Egg (novel)
 * Devil to the Belt
 * Ealdwood Stories
 * Faery in Shadow
 * The Fortress Series
 * Forty Thousand in Gehenna
 * The Gene Wars universe
 * The Goblin Mirror
 * Hestia
 * Heroes in Hell
 * Hunter of Worlds
 * Lois & Clark: A Superman Novel
 * The Merchanter novels
 * Merovingen Nights
 * The Morgaine Stories
 * The Paladin
 * The Russian Stories
 * Serpent's Reach
 * The Sword of Knowledge

Dungeons & Dragons

 * Against the Cult of the Reptile God
 * Border Watch
 * Castle Greyhawk (module)
 * City of Skulls
 * Crypt of Lyzandred the Mad
 * Danger at Dunwater
 * Die Vecna Die!
 * The Doomgrinder
 * Dwellers of the Forbidden City
 * Expedition to the Ruins of Greyhawk
 * The Final Enemy
 * Five Shall Be One
 * Frank Mentzer
 * From the Ashes (Dungeons & Dragons)
 * The Gauntlet (module)
 * Greyhawk: The Adventure Begins
 * Howl from the North
 * Iuz the Evil
 * Jim Ward (game designer)
 * The Marklands
 * Mazes and Monsters (novel)
 * Nyr Dyv
 * Paizo Publishing
 * Patriots of Ulek
 * Queen of the Spiders
 * Return of the Eight
 * Return to the Keep on the Borderlands
 * Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil
 * Return to the Tomb of Horrors
 * Return to White Plume Mountain
 * Robert J. Kuntz
 * The Sentinel (module)
 * Tom Moldvay
 * Treasures of Greyhawk
 * Vecna Lives!
 * World of Greyhawk Fantasy Game Setting

Others

 * Anova Books
 * Barclay Shaw
 * Category:Animal attacks
 * Don E. Schultz
 * Don Maitz
 * Fantasy television
 * Fred Reichheld
 * Gary Ruddell
 * Janet Morris
 * Kevin Lane Keller
 * List of fantasy television programs
 * Loire Valley wine
 * Interservice rivalry
 * Montepulciano d'Abruzzo
 * Phantasia Press
 * Ronald S. Burt
 * Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists
 * Trixie (woman)
 * Winston & Strawn
 * Vino Nobile di Montepulciano

Dungeons & Dragons

 * ‎Bothered About Dungeons & Dragons
 * Castle Greyhawk
 * Dungeons & Dragons
 * Dungeons & Dragons controversies
 * Dungeons & Dragons related products
 * Free City of Greyhawk
 * Greyhawk
 * ‎List of Dungeons & Dragons adventures
 * ‎List of Dungeons & Dragons modules
 * Steam tunnel incident

Others

 * Bill Watrous
 * C. J. Cherryh
 * C. J. Cherryh bibliography
 * Carl Fontana
 * ‎The Collected Short Fiction of C. J. Cherryh
 * Fantasy film
 * General manager
 * Marketing management
 * Science fiction film
 * Themes of C. J. Cherryh's works

Pages to work on in the future

 * Axe of the Dwarvish Lords
 * Chicago architecture
 * Cyteen
 * Downbelow Station
 * Management
 * Marketing
 * OneChicago, LLC

Other to-dos

 * Fix Cherryh short fiction listings?
 * Redirects w/ possibilities for Cherryh main characters
 * Questions regarding Zagyg's rise to power
 * Adding Cherryh stuff to categories and lists:
 * List of lists of fictional things
 * Check and update User:Fairsing/Fair use

Wikipedia Commons stuff

 * My user page on Wikipedia Commons