User:Steve Farrell

Wikipedia:Babel en This user is a native speaker of English. sco-3 This uiser can contreibute wi a heich level o Scots. fr-2 Cet utilisateur peut contribuer avec un niveau intermédiaire en français. no-1 Denne brukeren/brukaren kan litt norsk. Search user languages Background & Education This user is male. This user is married. This user is a native of the United States of America This user lives in or hails from the U.S. State of California. This user is proud to be British. Gael This 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. This user is of Scottish ancestry. This user is of Irish ancestry. UK This user uses British English. This user is interested in his or her family history. This user loves knowledge. This user is a professional musician. HNC This user has a Higher National Certificate. This user considers themselves self-educated. This user is autodidactic. LJ This user maintains a LiveJournal  as stevefarrell. Wikipedia This user is a member of the WikiProject Electronic Music. This user is a member of 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. This user believes that a user's edit count does not necessarily reflect on the value of their contributions to Wikipedia. Interests and hobbies This user enjoys chess. This user enjoys playing draughts. S1 This user is a Scrabble player. XD This user is interested in comedy, and may enjoy writing or performing it. ALL This user is a fan of all kinds of comedy. fan-2 This user is a big fan of the comedian Bill Bailey. This user is interested in his or her local history. This user is interested in ancient civilizations. This user is interested in the ancient Celts. This user is interested in astronomy. This user is interested in linguistics. This user supports the Three Lions - ENGLAND This user supports the Scotland national football team. LFP This user is a fan of Liverpool, and He or She will Never Walk Alone. This user is interested in maps. This user is interested in drama and acting. This user enjoys reading non-fiction. Er... This user is (cont. page 94) Music This user is a music composer. This useriplays the bass guitar. This user is a synthesizer player. This user plays the piano. This user enjoys electronic music. This user enjoys R&B and soul music. This user enjoys classical music. IDM This user enjoys Braindance. Computing & Internet This user uses Google as a primary search engine. This user uses Wikipedia as a primary point of reference. This user contributes using Mozilla Firefox. This user contributes using Microsoft Windows XP. This user still enjoys playing games on the ZX Spectrum. CIV This user plays one or more versions of Civilization. SC This user plays SimCity. Random stuff ?met? This user prefers metric units and cannot figure out why Americans 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 embarassment. 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 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 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 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 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. Astronomy Cheshire (the county I live in) Electronic music Film Football Gnosticism Linguistics particularly Etymology Music in general, and Music Theory Mysticism Paganism particularly the Celtic and Mesopotamian kind. Parapsychology Philosophy Retrogaming, particularly on the ZX Spectrum Television 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. ---