User:R. fiend

I'm R. fiend.

From Sept. 2005 until Jan. 2008 I was an admin here. I resigned to spend more time being an asshole.

So it goes.

This little experiment may be one of my more significant contributions to Wikipedia. It was eons ago and is dated, but not irrelevant.

I had nothing to do with it, but this is one of the most intelligent things I've seen here in a while.

This sums up so much of what is wrong with Wikipedia.

For those who care, these are pages I started or wrote most of (more for my own purposes than anyone else's) (Okay at one point most of the content may have been mine, after many years I'm glad to see many have been greatly expanded by others):

Irish topics (no, I'm not Irish)

 * Tom Clarke (Irish republican)
 * Sean MacDermott
 * Eamonn Ceannt
 * Thomas MacDonagh
 * Joseph Mary Plunkett
 * Willie Pearse
 * Thomas Kent
 * Denis McCullough
 * Cornelius Colbert
 * Liberty Hall
 * Sean Heuston
 * Michael O'Hanrahan
 * Michael Mallin
 * Edward Daly
 * George Noble Plunkett
 * National Volunteers
 * Kevin Barry
 * St. Enda's School
 * Saint Enda of Aran

Music topics

 * Radio-ballad
 * The Dubliners
 * Citizen Fish
 * Child Ballads
 * Sandinista!
 * A.L. Lloyd
 * Patrick Clancy
 * Tom Clancy (singer)
 * Deems Taylor
 * John Alden Carpenter
 * Foggy Dew
 * Sir Patrick Spens
 * Fifth Beatle
 * Barry Sadler
 * The Daemon Lover
 * Andy Irvine (musician)
 * The Bonny Earl of Murray
 * Lamkin
 * Below the Salt
 * The Baltimore Consort
 * The Cherry-Tree Carol
 * No One Is Innocent
 * Hell's Ditch
 * The Wife of Usher's Well
 * Rock the Casbah
 * Prosperous
 * Brass Monkey (band)
 * Seven Drunken Nights
 * Jambalaya (On the Bayou)

A few topics I'm a bit surprised no one got to before me

 * The Clancy Brothers
 * Tawana Brawley
 * Solid South
 * Wall Drug
 * Ivan Albright
 * Harry F. Byrd
 * Kitchen Debate
 * Sidney Street Siege
 * (OK, not too surprised about a bunch of them)

Some films

 * Straight to Hell
 * The Warriors (film)
 * Tunes of Glory
 * Run Ronnie Run

I guess I can take credit for the Dolemite article too, not that there's much credit to be given.

Peanuts

 * Charlie Brown
 * Snoopy
 * Linus van Pelt
 * Lucy van Pelt
 * Peppermint Patty
 * Sally Brown
 * Pigpen
 * Franklin (Peanuts)
 * Violet (Peanuts)
 * Patty (Peanuts)
 * Roy (Peanuts)
 * Frieda
 * Shermy
 * Spike (Peanuts)

Actually I think there are a few of these I had little to do with.

Other stuff

 * Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
 * Bible errata
 * Great Books of the Western World
 * Icicle hitch
 * The Burghers of Calais
 * Yitzhak Zuckerman
 * Peekskill Riots
 * Michael Malloy
 * Checkers speech
 * Childe Rowland
 * Classic Malts of Scotland
 * Campbeltown Single Malts
 * Springbank Distillery
 * McClelland's Single Malt
 * Skewball
 * Darcy Lever (author)
 * Sable (television show)
 * HQ Trivia
 * Blue wall (politics)

And my only article ever to appear on VfD (twice!...well, VfD and AfD)

 * Watson and Crick
 * Not the most useful article, but you can't make a redirect to 2 separate pages.


 * I guess I can include Belsen Was A Gas too, as it was mostly mine.

Look! My verbosity actually got me a barnstar!--->

shorter articles and stubs; some could be expanded
...a bunch of others too, I'm sure.
 * Peter the Painter
 * Fianna Eireann
 * River Kwai
 * Clifford Irving
 * Jeff Nelson (musician)
 * The Mescaleros
 * Boz
 * Rote
 * Yacht people
 * Poulter's measure
 * Pork pie hat
 * Halve Maen
 * David Rappaport
 * Guantanamera
 * Churchill Downs
 * Ciaran Bourke
 * Thomas A. Watson (initially on the Watson disambiguation page, but later moved to its own article.)
 * Christy Moore (made a stub from a subsubstub)
 * Abadan Crisis
 * Eero Aarnio
 * Lycidas
 * Barry Moser
 * Henry Foster (doctor)
 * Lowland Single Malts
 * Boris the Sprinkler
 * Montague Dawson

Other articles I've added a lot to

 * Easter Rising
 * Irish Volunteers
 * Irish Republican Brotherhood
 * Patrick Pearse
 * James Connolly (nationalist)
 * Thomas the Rhymer
 * Charles Atlas
 * Roger Casement
 * Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa
 * Bulmer Hobson

F.E.C.E.S.
With people constantly complaining about the use of the word "fancruft" as belittling, I have come up with a new term. Fiction and Entertainment Compiled with Extreme Specificty (not the best acronym, but it'll do). If people think this is worse, well, I guess that's the point. I call it as I see it.

Wikipedia is not paper. But that doesn't stop people from wiping their asses with it.

A note on deletion
I'm sure many people have noticed that I tend to vote "delete" considerably more often than "keep" on VfD. Some might be inclined to call me a "deletionist" for this, but I'd consider that somewhat misleading. While I tend to vote delete more often on VfD, if one were to put all articles on wikipedia up for deletion, I'd vote overwhelmingly for keep. Most (but certainly not all) entries that appear on VfD are legitimately posted as being of dubious value; pigeonholing someone as a deletionist because they tend to vote to delete many of this minute fraction of wikipedia articles is ridiculous. Last count shows something like three quaters of a million articles in wikipedia. I've voted to delete...maybe 800(?). You do the math. It's true I tend to have a slightly higher bar for what should be in an encyclopedia than many, but it is still substantially lower than the bar for inclusion in probably any other encyclopedia. Also, with so many people having lower inclusion standards, and with the deletion process being weighted towards inclusion anyway, most articles I would vote to keep would stand little chance of deletion whether I vote or not. Since I cannot vote on every article, I tend to skip over these, unless it's something I have a particular interest in, or requires comment. With many users pa-trolling VfD voting keep on just about anything that appears to contain real words, deleting all but the most egregious of vanity and nonsense can be difficult. Some wonder why we "deletionists" don't work to improve wikipedia, rather than working to delete articles, and to them I can only say that flushing the toilet when necessary will certainly only improve the value of one's house, considering the alternative. Such is true of wikipedia. Besides, I think I have a pretty decent output of articles under my belt, which have worked to "improve" wikipedia. Add to this the hundreds of articles I've done both major and minor work on and I'd like to think my presence here has been beneficial. You are, however, prefectly free to disagree.

Smerge
If I ever leave a lasting footprint on this site, I suppose it will be the use of the term "smerge", which has now been reverse abbreviated to "selective paste merge" apparently. Anyway, I came up with the term many years ago, here's how:


 * So I've invented a new term I will start to use in VfD's: "smerge". This is a portmanteau of "slight" (or maybe "small" or something) and "merge". This is for when a topic deserves mention in another article, but not to the extent and detail that is already included. Too often a "merge and redirect" becomes a cut-and-paste job of the entire contents of one article very inelegantly tossed at the end of another. A smerge involves the inclusion of only the most important information when merged, not every insignificant detail. Of course, what is "the most important" is open to interpretation, but it can usually be discerned through the practice of common sense, if that exists in wikipedia anymore.

Critical response
See what the critics have to say about User:R. fiend!


 * "...a rather unpleasant, pisstaking deletionist..."
 * -User:Grace Note, R. fiend's RFA


 * "...extremely hostile..."
 * - User:Everyking, R. fiend's RFA


 * "...self-aggrandizing..."
 * -User:Xiong, R. fiend's RFA


 * "A "fiend," by the way, according to my dictionary is, "an evil spirit," a demon", "the devil" or "a very wicked or cruel person," how fitting."
 * -User:Pitchka, Fever Pitch talk page


 * "...R fiend calling someone an ass is like Elton John calling someone gay."
 * -User:Boycottthecaf, Left Overtures AfD (second nomination)


 * "Deletionist who deletes articles without understanding how 'notable' a person is in a different country."
 * User:Hunterd, Note left on R. fiend's user page


 * "... a self serving ass."
 * User:Rcknight, Note left on R. fiend's talk page


 * "Editors like [R. fiend] make it unpleasant to edit here..."
 * User:Squeakbox, Note left on R. fiend's talk page


 * "...irresponsible and should have [his] power stripped away"
 * User:64.132.59.83, Note left on R. fiend's user page


 * "...would vote to delete his own user page if it were nominated for deletion."
 * User:RussNelson


 * "... may u die the most horrid way possible! you have deleted a dead army officer's band page! "
 * User:Uknowitzdlove123 (more of a curse than a critical response, but it'll do)


 * "The guy is out of control"
 * User:Vintagekits, WP:AN3RR


 * "Not very polite"
 * User:Domer48, WP:AN3RR


 * "...rude, arrogant and dismissive..."
 * User:Alison, WP:AN/I


 * "...unnecessarily hostile..."
 * User:BrownHairedGirl, R. fiend's RfC


 * "Ugh.."
 * User:Rjd0060, WP:AN/I

Someone did once refer to him as "brilliant", but crossed it out less than a minute later.

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