Background & Education

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♂This user is male.
This user is married.
This user is a native of the United States of America.
This user is proud to be British.
GaelThis person is proud of the blood of the ancient Gaelic clanna which flows through their veins, and is a modern Gael.
This user is of English ancestry.
ScotlandAlba
This user is of Scottish ancestry.
This user is of Irish ancestry.
UKThis user uses British English.
This user is interested in their family history.
This user is a professional musician.
HNCThis user has a
Higher National Certificate.
This user considers themselves self-educated.
This user is autodidactic.
LJThis user maintains a LiveJournal  as @stevefarrell.


Wikipedia

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This user is a participant in
WikiProject Football.
This user is not a Wikipedia administrator but would like to be one someday.

Wikipedian since 28 June 2004

This user finds copyright paranoia disruptive.
Quality, not quantity.This user believes that a user's edit count does not necessarily reflect on the value of their contributions to Wikipedia.


Interests and hobbies

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This user enjoys chess.
This user enjoys playing draughts.
S1This user is a Scrabble player.
XDThis user is interested in comedy, and may enjoy writing or performing it.
ALLThis user is a fan of all kinds of comedy.
fan-2This user is a big fan of the comedian Bill Bailey.
This user is interested in their local history.


This user is interested in
ancient civilizations.
This user is interested in the ancient Celts.
Eagle Nebula This user is interested in astronomy.
This user is interested in linguistics.
This user supports
The Three Lions
This user supports the
Scotland national football team
This user is a fan of Liverpool, and they will Never Walk Alone.
This user is interested in maps.
This user is interested in drama and acting.
This user enjoys reading non-fiction.
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Music

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This user is a music composer.
This user plays the bass guitar.
This user plays the synthesizer.
This user plays the piano.
This user enjoys electronic music.
This user enjoys R&B and soul music.
This user enjoys classical music.
IDMThis user enjoys braindance.


Computing & Internet

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This user uses Google as a primary search engine.
This user uses Wikipedia as a primary point of reference.
This user contributes using Firefox.
This user contributes using Microsoft Windows XP.
This user still enjoys playing
games on the ZX Spectrum.
CIVThis user loves to play Civilization.
SCThis user plays SimCity.


Random stuff

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?met?This user prefers metric units and cannot figure out why Americans and Brits have such a hard time with them.
This user prefers warm weather.
This user doesn't care whether Pluto is a planet or not – but IAU's 2006 redefinition of planet was a linguistic-philosophical embarrassment.
This user is a carnivore.

Hello.

I am, as my username might suggest, Steve. I have always been Steve, or, more properly, Steven, except for about three days after I was born during which I was called Jonathan, for some reason.

This information is trivial, but there you go. The following information is also of little significance. I am 30 years old and a keyboardist/composer and sometime sales associate, living in San Martin, California with my wife Crystal, her mother, her brother, five cats, an African Grey parrot, a bearded dragon and a plecostomus. I am originally from Ellesmere Port in Cheshire, England, where I spent my formative years, later moving to Perth, Scotland, initially to go to university but then to live, before making the move to the United States in order to get married on a K-1 visa three years ago next February.

At one point, when I used to edit things more than twice a year, I received a 'barnstar', whatever one of those does. I feel quite proud, anyway.

Barnstar

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The Original Barnstar
I present to you your first barnstar for your hard work on the Your Sinclair article! — Wackymacs 13:02, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

Articles I started

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  • Your Sinclair - my first article, written before I had a username. By far the article I'm most proud of. It hasn't been worked on in a while but there's not much more that needs doing to it. I'm probably going to submit it for another peer review soon.
  • The Dreamstone - also started pre-username. For a few months in 2007, it kept being vandalised by idiots obsessed with the words 'mouse' and 'police'. I think they've gone now, though.
  • SFX magazine - the first article I started after acquiring a username. It now has a properly sourced fair-use image of the magazine's cover which I would prefer not to see deleted this time, thanks everso.
  • The Combination - not quite as impressive as the others, but at least it didn't get speedily deleted.

I also started the List of multi-instrumentalists, but that doesn't really count, especially since it's been deleted now.

To work on some time

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  • The Keyboardist article needs a serious rewrite and cleanup. I also want to expand it to include things like, examples of famous albums/singles including electronic keyboards, a brief history of the use of synths in bands, and something on the keyboardist's roles within a band. I also want to entirely remove the list and replace it with a line like 'Some notable examples of electronic keyboard players are (list of about ten names)'.
  • I'd still like to see the Your Sinclair article reviewed and classed as a good article. It's been worked on quite a lot by myself and others since I submitted it for peer review, and it might be worth submitting it again.

Subject areas I know things about and have either contributed on in the past or intend to contribute on in the future

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Basically. I haven't changed this list for over a year.

Some of these subject areas I have worked on, some I haven't as much, or at all. These are fairly broad subject areas, rather than individual articles within the subjects. Actually, if I listed individual articles within each subject, the list would be very very long indeed.

Some of this stuff I just like to read about, but most of them I either have been, or will be, contributing to.

Recently I have started to watch the Recent Changes log, though I don't consider myself a 'recent changes patroller', although I have reverted more vandalism recently than ever before. I've also been putting up a lot of pages for speedy deletion, because people seem to think they can use Wikipedia as their personal web space and write articles about their girlfriend, or their dog, or their girlfriend's dog.

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