User:Iadmc/old user page

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'''My name is Iain McIntyre. I am a male 30something and live in the UK. I am also a musician with a Bachelor's Degree in Music, but I no longer work in music. I have composed several works — including a concerto for piano and alto flute, and a large-scale work for wind instruments — all of which remain unpublished. My poem "Unaccompanied" won an award after I submitted it on Poetry.com and was published in a compilation in 2004. I presently live here (as a carer for my father), though I was born here (of parents from here) and have lived here, here, here, here and here, among other places. I am not an Australian rock star (unfortunately).'''

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I became a Wikipedian with a named account in 2008. I had never previously edited as an "IP user" as I felt it was important to establish my identity rather than just edit anonymously. I was adopted by, to whom I am very grateful: he pointed me in the right direction at the start of my WP life. Although in the past I contributed widely, at present I concentrate on articles related to Classical music. To that purpose, I am a member of various projects, including WP Classical music, WP Contemporary music, and WP Composers. WP Biography is also pertinent to this and other interests highlighted above. I am the co-ordinator of WP Contemporary music for 2010. I am also a member of the Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons project.

Talkpages
Talkpages are such a crucial part of the Wiki process, that I often find myself participating in these for days without actually editing any articles. This includes discussions in article talk pages, as well as in project talkpages, usertalk pages and process talkpages (eg WP:AfD and WP:RM). This is a good thing, I believe, since edits need to be justified and certainly need to be discussed fully if they are controversial. Often, I will take an apparently oblique position that I don't actually agree with. This is to help move the discussion on and highlight issues that have not yet been considered. I also knowingly put forward flawed arguments, on occasion. I don't do this to trip people up, rather I do it either to help highlight flaws elsewhere in a discussion or, again, to highlight issues that have not yet been considered. A good example is found here and, especially, in the the follow up in which I go off at a tangent to suggest that Felix Mendelssohn is not a great composer. I later explain both why I did this and my true feelings about his music. In this case, the strategy was justified and helped focus the discussion. On other ocassions, the strategy can backfire! Feel free to comment on my way of approaching discussions on my talkpage.

My major contributions
All my most important contributions are found here: User:Jubileeclipman/Major contributions. All my subpages are here
 * audit copy of Music MoS
 * audit copy of MUSTARD
 * /Manual of Style (Record Charts)
 * /Content Guide (Record Charts)
 * /Summary of POTD RfC
 * /Notability (music)

Other

 * /To do
 * my personal sandbox
 * /Sandbox 2
 * A joke version of the now deleted Template:Pieces-style
 * Silly version of List of sovereign states to find others like Englandland
 * /List of problematic 21st-century composer articles -Composers with problematic articles found in List of 21st-century classical composers
 * /CTM – WP:CTM-related work
 * the ligher side of WP and other silliness
 * paid and unpaid care[-rs, -givers], articles, issues and thoughts
 * /Experimental redirect 1
 * /Experimental redirect 2
 * /Articles to source – articles I am currently attempting to source
 * /WP Earthquakes copy
 * /Ironbox
 * /User carer

Userboxes


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Barnstars
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Templated
Probably one of the most useful templates in all of WP:

Another piece of genius: [ Monobook] which becomes [ Monobook] but when clicked... It looks like this, without the brackets:

Pages

 * MSGJ Talk (my adopter)
 * The Sandbox
 * The Heymann Standard
 * The Wikipediholism test
 * The five pillars of Wikipedia
 * Tutorial
 * How to edit a page
 * How to write a great article
 * Manual of Style
 * Wikipedian
 * sign
 * discussion pages
 * tildes
 * Questions
 * A timely poem
 * Various "Laws"
 * User:Antandrus/observations on Wikipedia behavior
 * User:Jorge Stolfi/Templates that I sorely miss
 * Voceditenore's infoboxes for classical and opera personnel
 * "Goodbye"
 * Parkinson's Law of Triviality
 * Sayre's Law
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A bit of fun in Googlish
Babelfish leads and two times translates, but is it what?

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Committed identity
Publish a commitment to your real-life identity. Instructions here.

Jubilee♫ clipman


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