User:Groggy Dice

I edit subjects like military history, wargaming, and science fiction. A major focus is articles on Nicaragua and Central America during the civil wars of the 1980s. If you're wondering if you can trust Wikipedia's articles on the Central American crisis, no! They're full of bias and misinformation. I'm doing my best to improve them, but I can't fix everything right away.

I'm back from a long wikibreak, and my current underemployment leaves me with free time to contribute. Besides article writing, I plan to participate more in metadiscussion, because I'm concerned about the direction Wikipedia is headed.

Created articles
Here are my created articles (excluding redirects), though some are currently still stubs:


 * 1) Viet Nam Quoc Dan Dang
 * 2) Can Lao Party
 * 3) Robert Komer
 * 4) Khmer Serei
 * 5) Son Ngoc Thanh
 * 6) Duchy of Andurien (later redirected)
 * 7) Lynn Willis
 * 8) BattleForce
 * 9) The Succession Wars
 * 10) BattleSpace
 * 11) BattleTroops
 * 12) List of BattleTech games
 * 13) AeroTech
 * 14) Free Rasalhague Republic
 * 15) sf-tv-stub
 * 16) babylon5-stub
 * 17) Alfonso Robelo
 * 18) Arturo Cruz
 * 19) Arturo Cruz, Jr.
 * 20) Witness for Peace
 * 21) Los Doce
 * 22) Fernando "El Negro" Chamorro
 * 23) Aristides Sánchez
 * 24) Jorge Salazar
 * 25) José Francisco Cardenal
 * 26) Fernando Agüero
 * 27) Orbis Books
 * 28) Sigifredo Ochoa
 * 29) Sandinista Popular Army
 * Category:Nicaraguan Contras (renamed from Contras)
 * 1) Uriel Molina
 * Category:Nicaraguan Roman Catholic priests
 * 1) José Coronel Urtecho
 * 2) Central America (game)
 * 3) Andrew Krepinevich
 * 4) Nicaraguan Resistance
 * 5) Central American Crisis
 * 6) /Memoirs of a Counterrevolutionary (user subpage)
 * 7) Nguyen Lac Hoa
 * 8) KISAN
 * 9) 15th of September Legion
 * 10) /Nicaragua Chronology (user subpage)
 * 11) Dwarfstar Games
 * 12) Pablo Antonio Cuadra
 * 13) MILPAS

Significant Contributions
Here are some articles where I consider myself a major contributor, either in absolute amount or proportion of the article:


 * Adolfo Calero
 * Battle of Guilford Court House
 * Democratic Revolutionary Alliance
 * Enrique Bermúdez
 * Nicaraguan Democratic Force
 * United Nicaraguan Opposition
 * Joaquín Cuadra
 * Junta of National Reconstruction
 * Miguel D'Escoto
 * José Dolores Estrada
 * José Madriz
 * Edgar Chamorro
 * Nicaraguan Democratic Union
 * Santa María de Ostuma
 * Abby Abadi
 * Gerak Khas

Other articles where I feel that I've made significant edits:


 * Guilford Courthouse National Military Park
 * List of guerrillas
 * Contras
 * Edén Pastora


 * Chamorro (family)
 * Bomani Armah

Deletion debates
One of my created articles, Lynn Willis, got put up for AfD, but he survived!

That got me involved in looking at other articles listed on AfD. Some cases where I believe my research may have made a difference:


 * Articles for deletion/William Bradford (professor)
 * Articles for deletion/The Dayton Family
 * Articles for deletion/Shivani
 * Articles for deletion/James W. Walter (3rd nomination)
 * Articles for deletion/Douglas E. Harding
 * Articles for deletion/Bomani Armah

It also got me involved in watching proposed deletions. Some de-PRODs:


 * Fucked Company - AfD closed as keep
 * Jeanette Dimech
 * Eugenia Loli-Queru - later speedied but revoked
 * Domai - later speedied but revoked; speedied again but recently recreated
 * Dannion Brinkley - AfD closed as keep
 * William Guy Carr - AfD closed as no consensus
 * Daniel Odier
 * Emilia Attias - AfD closed as keep
 * Model Warship Combat - AfD closed as keep
 * Poison Elves
 * The Adrenaline Vault - AfD closed as no consensus, second nomination as delete
 * Parents Just Don't Understand
 * Louise Mandrell
 * Eliza Lucas
 * Amy Wesson
 * Shred metal
 * EMILY's List
 * Manuel Jiménez (musician)
 * Tracey Cox
 * Farooq Sattar

Some dicier de-PRODs:


 * Freckle fetishism - turned out freckle fetishism wasn't as common as I thought it was
 * Lauren Wolfe - AfD sentiment: "These types of organizations are shams run by cliques or one person so that all members can put it on their resume."
 * List of rappers that have been shot - I knew when I de-prodded that there was a strong anti-list tide at AfD
 * Neda Ulaby
 * Proud as a Peacock - AfD closed as keep
 * Thottal Poo Malarum