I'm a historian in Brisbane, Queensland specialising in the contemporary Middle East. I hold a First-class Honours degree from the University of Queensland, awarded under the supervision of Renee Worringer (who is sadly not notable yet) and Bob Elson. My thesis was on Turkish political history, a topic which never fails to make family and friends roll their eyes. That might be my specialty, but I edit pretty much anything and everything that moves around here. As of March 2007, I'm also your friendly neighbourhood admin. The pay's lousy and I get shouted at a lot, but it's an opportunity to help this website even further. I tend to edit in "waves", at the moment, as I've recently started working for Westpac, one of Australia's largest banks.
If you're wondering why a page you created or worked on was deleted, please read this page first before posting on my Talk page. Your question may well be answered therein, or at least it will help you frame the question in such a way as to get a good answer.
As a note to those who insist on "erasing" or "obliterating" either my Userpage or my User Talk page, just remember that any and all actions on Wikipedia are both reversible and traceable.
[edit] Interests
[edit] Middle East
[edit] Languages
[edit] Places
[edit] Popular Culture
[edit] Influences
[edit] Awards
Feel free to drop me a line on my Talk Page if you want to take something up with me. I'm not averse to constructive criticism.
[edit] Big Projects
[edit] Current Status of Eurovision Work
Articles created for all winning songs which had not been previously marked as such (or flat-out had not existed). Status: Completed: Links now exist from one year's winner to the next. Most of these were newly-created articles.
- Next Stage: Creation of articles on all competing songs in each Contest, with links to the next entry from that country and (where applicable) the next song performed in the relevant Contest.
- Current Status: Armenia, Andorra, Bulgaria, Albania, Moldova, Belarus, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Monaco, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania completed. Russia in progress.
- Stage Three: Change links in each ESC page from external links to internal links to the relevant pages (where applicable). Additionally, re-order the table to show running order, rather than alphabetical order
- Second Project: Writeups of all ESCs, featuring information from reliable sources on odd events happening in them.
Since everyone seems unhealthily obsessed with the Eurovision DYKs every now and then, I present:
[edit] Useful Links
[edit] Places I've Been
