Background & Education

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♂This user ismale.
This user ismarried.
This user is a native of theUnited States of America.
This user is proud to beBritish.
GaelThis person is proud of the blood of the ancientGaelic clannawhich flows through their veins, and is a modernGael.
This user is ofEnglishancestry.
ScotlandAlba
This user is ofScottishancestry.
This user is ofIrishancestry.
UKThis user usesBritish English.
This user is interested in theirfamily history.
This user is aprofessionalmusician.
HNCThis user has a
Higher National Certificate.
This user considers themselvesself-educated.
This user isautodidactic.
LJThis user maintains aLiveJournalas@stevefarrell.


Wikipedia

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This user is a participant in
WikiProject Football.
This user isnota Wikipediaadministratorbutwould like to be onesomeday.

Wikipediansince 28 June 2004

This user findscopyright paranoiadisruptive.
Quality, not quantity.This user believes that a user'sedit countdoes not necessarily reflect on thevalueof their contributions toWikipedia.


Interests and hobbies

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This user enjoyschess.
This user enjoys playingdraughts.
S1This user is aScrabbleplayer.
XDThis user is interested incomedy,and may enjoy writing or performing it.
ALLThis user is a fan of all kinds ofcomedy.
fan-2This user is a big fan of the comedianBill Bailey.
This user is interested in theirlocal history.


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ancient civilizations.
This user is interested in theancientCelts.
Eagle Nebula This user is interested inastronomy.
This user is interested inlinguistics.
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The Three Lions
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Scotland national football team
This user is a fan ofLiverpool,and they will Never Walk Alone.
This user is interested inmaps.
This user is interested indramaandacting.
This user enjoys readingnon-fiction.
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Music

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This user is a musiccomposer.
This user plays thebass guitar.
This user plays thesynthesizer.
This user plays thepiano.
This user enjoyselectronic music.
This user enjoysR&Bandsoul music.
This user enjoysclassical music.
IDMThis user enjoysbraindance.


Computing & Internet

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This user usesGoogleas a primary search engine.
This user usesWikipediaas aprimarypoint of reference.
This usercontributesusingFirefox.
This user contributes usingMicrosoft Windows XP.
This user still enjoys playing
gameson theZX Spectrum.
CIVThis user loves to playCivilization.
SCThis user playsSimCity.


Random stuff

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?met?This user prefersmetricunits and cannot figure out why Americans and Brits have such a hard time with them.
This user preferswarm weather.
This user doesn't care whetherPlutois a planet or not – butIAU's 2006 redefinition of planetwas a linguistic-philosophicalembarrassment.
This user is acarnivore.

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 istrivial,but there you go. The following information is also of little significance. I am 30 years old and akeyboardist/composerand sometimesales associate,living inSan Martin, Californiawith my wife Crystal, her mother, her brother, fivecats,anAfrican Grey parrot,abearded dragonand aplecostomus.I am originally fromEllesmere PortinCheshire,England,where I spent my formative years, later moving toPerth, Scotland,initially to go touniversitybut then to live, before making the move to theUnited Statesin order to get married on aK-1 visathree 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 theYour Sinclairarticle! —Wackymacs13:02, 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 theList 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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  • TheKeyboardistarticle 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 toentirelyremove 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 theYour Sinclairarticle 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 forspeedy 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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