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[[Image:Adam cuerden shoemakers holiday.jpg|thumb|300px|left|Adam Cuerden]]

'''Adam Cuerden''' edits Wikipedia under the name '''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Shoemaker%27s_Holiday Shoemaker's Holiday]'''. He formerly edited Wikipedia as an administrator under his real name, Adam Cuerden. He functions as an extreme skeptic of fringe ideas.

Cuerden, a former farmer, lives in Edinburgh where he is a biology student.  Cuerden was raised in the United States<ref name=journal>http://farmercuerden.livejournal.com/ "I came to an article about how the falling apart of New Orleans was because Americans are all idiots only held together by a belief in bureaucracy that lets them be led like sheep.... The sad thing is that summary can't even begin to compare to the amount of bashing in the original. Evidently we (for I was born and raised there) are so stupid we barely have the instincts to eat and attack, nothing else.</ref>as a Fundamentalist Christian<ref name=journal />

According to the historical archives of a case brought before Wikipedia's Arbitration Committee, Cuerden abused his administrative tools by using them against editors who opposed his point of view on articles such as Homeopathy. He was removed as a Wikipedia administrator by the Committee but not banned, and almost immediately started editing as Shoemaker's Holiday. The Committee later withdrew the case findings on appeal insofar as they reflected adversely on Cuerden, after an agreement was reached in which Cuerden would consult the Committee before he tried to regain administrative powers.  After further appeals, the Commitee made a further statement saying that the case was nullified, yet still not returning Curden's administrative powers, which were removed in the case.<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Matthew_Hoffman/Proposed_decision&oldid=186720651#..._RfA_possible_too Adam Cuerden's administrative privileges are revoked. He may apply to have them reinstated at any time, either through the usual means or by appeal to the Committee.]</ref><ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration&diff=252027404&oldid=252025546</ref><ref>[http://rocr.xepher.net/weblog/archives/000219.html picture of Shoemaker's Holiday]</ref>

During his hearing before the Arbitration Committee, proceedings were suspended so that Cuerden could undergo one of the formalities of Wikipedia, the Request for Comment. This constituted a chance for Cuerden to convince the committee that its findings in the Arbitration case were wrong, but the Committee was not convinced (see [[Adam Cuerden's RfC]] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Matthew_Hoffman/Evidence&oldid=186866535 this evidence page]).